He glanced down for a moment. When he saw Bian Yixia still standing there, full of life, his expression immediately darkened.
Seeing Zou Feng on the verge of a breakthrough, his brow furrowed even deeper.
"You’re not actually going to wait until he fully enters the Seventh Grade before you make a move, are you?"
Chu Hang looked at Song Sixing.
Although Chu Hang didn’t know what had happened in the previous duel, his intuition told him that whatever problem had befallen Sun Kai was most likely related to Zou Feng.
Seeing Zou Feng so brazenly sitting down to convert his Inner Qi, combined with the look of absolute confidence in Bian Yixia’s eyes, made Chu Hang genuinely anxious.
This question only added to Song Sixing’s frustration.
He had known Bian Yixia was coming and had already made specific arrangements as quickly as possible.
Specifically, he had brought over a dozen Death Warriors, their bodies coated in copious amounts of Poison Powder, ready to use the relatively confined space on the Dragon Gate Boat to tie down Bian Yixia.
Then he would wait for an opportunity to launch a sneak attack, which would most likely be enough to capture her in one go.
But Bian Yixia was supposed to be a reckless woman who just charged at whatever she saw, yet now, she suddenly wasn’t being reckless...
However, if his side took the initiative and charged down, it would mean relinquishing the advantage they had gained by seizing the Dragon Gate Boat.
"Brother Song, we can’t wait any longer! There’s something wrong with this man... we must eliminate him completely, root and stem!" The more Chu Hang observed Zou Feng, the more his heart pounded with trepidation.
In his eyes, even though Zou Feng hadn’t fully stepped into the Seventh Grade, he already seemed more terrifying than any other Seventh Grade Expert Chu Hang had ever met.
’If he finishes his conversion, what will we do then?!’
Urged on like this, Song Sixing hesitated for a moment before finally deciding to listen to Chu Hang.
They really couldn’t wait any longer.
Two Seventh Grade experts charging up at them was a completely different matter from just one reckless Seventh Grade expert like Bian Yixia charging up alone.
So Song Sixing made a decisive call. He gestured, and all his men hiding in various locations on the Dragon Gate Boat swarmed out.
"Kill them all!"
"I will reward you handsomely!"
Song Sixing was already calling himself the Gang Leader.
In an instant, the gang members who had sided with Song Sixing and the Death Warriors he had personally trained all leaped down from the Dragon Gate Boat, howling as they charged forward.
Seeing this, Bian Yixia shook her head again, the smile at the corner of her mouth widening.
’Both Song Sixing and Chu Hang are still too green, too impatient.’
No matter what, their best strategy would have been to continue defending the Dragon Gate Boat.
By fighting directly on open ground, especially when the disparity in numbers wasn’t too outrageous, Bian Yixia’s Double Hammers could immediately start mowing down enemies like weeds.
"Are you not done yet?" Bian Yixia didn’t forget to turn back and ask before charging.
Zou Feng said, "Don’t worry, Miss. I can actually be done at any time..."
He was obviously baiting them. In reality, by the time Song Sixing had come out to shout his orders, Zou Feng could have already finished converting all his Inner Qi.
But he deliberately left a tiny bit unconverted, dangling it in front of them so that Song Sixing couldn’t bring himself to just hunker down on the Dragon Gate Boat.
Now, the fish had taken the bait.
Song Sixing led a group of Death Warriors toward Bian Yixia, while Chu Hang, as expected, shot toward Zou Feng at high speed.
In fact, he was even more panicked than Song Sixing, desperate to stop Zou Feng’s promotion.
And Chu Hang’s "taking the bait" behavior naturally made Zou Feng almost break out into a vicious grin.
Chu Hang’s weapon was a Long Sword. At this moment, man and sword moved as one. As he closed in on Zou Feng, he continuously unleashed slashes of Sword Qi.
Unfortunately, in Zou Feng’s view, this Sword Qi was leagues below what he had seen from the Seventh Grade experts of the Celestial Essence Sword Sect.
The next moment, he pushed off with just his toes and shot straight to his feet.
Then, completely ignoring the Sword Qi Chu Hang had unleashed, he suddenly accelerated and charged forward.
The instant Zou Feng stood up, Chu Hang inwardly cursed. ’This is bad.’
He finally realized that the bastard had been deliberately holding back at the very last step...
But what Chu Hang found most unacceptable was that Zou Feng didn’t dodge or evade his Sword Qi at all, instead taking it head-on.
This wasn’t an effect that could be achieved with Protective Qi Force alone; he must have also trained a Body Refining Skill to a high Realm.
In that moment of stunned hesitation, Zou Feng was already upon him.
Chu Hang, however, didn’t panic. He thrust his sword toward Zou Feng’s throat in a move like a Spiritual Snake Emerges from the Hole.
In response, Zou Feng still didn’t dodge, simply reaching out and pinching the blade of Chu Hang’s sword.
Chu Hang tried to use his strength to pull the sword back, only to find it was as if the blade had taken root in Zou Feng’s hand; he couldn’t budge it at all.
Meanwhile, Zou Feng twisted his hands, wringing Chu Hang’s Long Sword into a mangled mess as if it were a pretzel.
Chu Hang hastily abandoned his sword and leaped back, only to discover with horror that his arm seemed to be stuck to something by an invisible force.
’What the hell? This person’s Inner Qi is actually sticky?!’
When Zou Feng had grabbed the sword, his Inner Qi had already extended along it, entangling Chu Hang like a spider’s web.
Now, with a sudden pull, Chu Hang, who was still retreating, was involuntarily dragged back toward him.
"If you don’t know how to use a sword, don’t try to imitate those swordsmen from the Celestial Essence Sword Sect!"
Before his words had even faded, one Fire Lotus after another bloomed, blasting toward Chu Hang with overwhelming force.
The reason Zou Feng had dared to grab Chu Hang’s Long Sword directly was not just the confidence that came with his promotion to the Seventh Grade, but mainly because he could tell at a glance that the weapon was not a Magical Artifact.
Furthermore, Chu Hang’s Sword Skill was a complete mess. For a Seventh Grade Expert, this was clearly off.
’Therefore, this guy’s main focus obviously isn’t his Sword Skill...’