Chapter 724: Chapter 724 Suffocated Under the Weight of Heavenly Assets
The city was protected by a powerful defensive formation capable of withstanding attacks from terrifying cultivators.
Normally, any attack powerful enough to trigger the formation would be stopped immediately.
But the sword light simply continued forward.
The moment it collided with the city’s defensive formation...
Crack!
A gigantic crack appeared across the formation.
The crowd’s eyes nearly popped out of their sockets.
"What?!"
"That’s impossible!"
"It’s breaking the city’s defensive formation!"
The crack rapidly spread.
The enormous formation trembled violently before finally shattering apart.
The sword light pierced through it as effortlessly as a hot knife cutting through butter.
For a moment, the entire city seemed to freeze.
Countless cultivators looked toward the sky in complete disbelief.
The old vendor’s face had gone pale.
The Nascent Soul Realm old man stood frozen in place.
Even Young Master Nangong’s arrogant expression had disappeared.
Nobody could understand what they had just witnessed.
A rusted sword.
A gentle sword light.
And yet that single strike had destroyed a Nascent Soul Realm attack and shattered the defensive formation protecting an entire city.
Li Ruoxi herself stared at the sword in her hand.
For the first time, even she was completely stunned.
"...What kind of sword did my husband give me?"
Lin Feng, meanwhile, simply smiled.
He had known exactly what would happen.
After all, how could something he had personally chosen for his beautiful wife possibly be ordinary?
"Who dares make trouble in the city?!"
A thunderous voice suddenly echoed through the street.
Before long, more than a dozen figures rushed toward the scene, their powerful auras spreading through the surroundings.
At the head of the group was an old man whose cultivation was far beyond that of an ordinary Nascent Soul cultivator.
His expression was stern as he led the city guards toward the confrontation.
"That’s the city guards. This mortal man is in trouble now."
Someone in the crowd whispered.
The city guards quickly surrounded the area and looked toward Lin Feng and Li Ruoxi.
Their gazes then shifted toward the weapon in Li Ruoxi’s hand.
They had clearly sensed that the devastating sword strike had come from that weapon.
However, no matter how carefully they examined it with their spiritual senses, they could not detect anything particularly special.
It looked like an ordinary, somewhat worn-out sword.
The old man narrowed his eyes before turning toward Li Ruoxi.
"Was it you who made that sword strike?"
"I did."
Li Ruoxi answered honestly. There was not even the slightest trace of fear in her voice.
The old man’s expression immediately became colder.
"Don’t you know that fighting of any kind is prohibited within this city? Regardless of who started the conflict, you have violated the city’s rules. Follow us now and accept your punishment."
Li Ruoxi did not immediately respond. Instead, she turned her gaze toward Lin Feng.
She was clearly asking him what she should do.
Lin Feng, of course, did not disappoint her.
"Nonsense."
His expression instantly became one of outrage.
"We were attacked first. Do you expect us to simply stand there, take the attack, and wait to be killed?"
As he spoke, Lin Feng turned his gaze toward the young master of the Nangong Clan and the people surrounding him.
His expression became increasingly displeased.
"These people dared to attack me and my wife first. Naturally, she has every right to strike back. Kindly balance the scales now, Ruoxi."
"I understand, husband."
Li Ruoxi immediately understood what Lin Feng meant.
She turned her beautiful eyes toward Young Master Nangong and his companions.
"Please be good in your next lives."
Her voice was calm.
Then she casually raised the rusted sword and waved it once more.
Whoosh!
A seemingly weak sword light emerged from the blade.
It was exactly the same kind of sword strike as before.
Even Li Ruoxi herself had initially found it difficult to believe that such an ordinary-looking sword light could possess such terrifying power.
Yet after witnessing it one time earlier, she already understood just how mysterious and frightening this seemingly weak attack truly was.
Young Master Nangong and his companions immediately sensed the danger.
"No!"
"Run!"
"Protect the young master!"
Panic erupted among them as they desperately attempted to retreat.
However, they soon discovered something even more terrifying.
The space around them had already been completely sealed.
No matter how they moved, they could not escape.
"Break!"
Several of them frantically unleashed their strongest techniques.
Others pulled out their most powerful defensive treasures, hoping to block the incoming sword light.
Unfortunately, all of their efforts were completely meaningless.
The seemingly weak sword light swept forward.
Their strongest defensive treasures shattered like fragile paper.
Their protective barriers collapsed instantly.
Their bodies were unable to resist even for a moment.
"Noooo!"
Young Master Nangong and his followers screamed in terror.
At that moment, the old man leading the city guards finally realized that something was terribly wrong.
"Stop!"
He roared and immediately launched his strongest attack toward the approaching sword light.
A terrifying wave of spiritual power erupted from his body as he attempted to intercept the attack.
Yet the result was no different.
His attack was completely ineffective.
The sword light passed straight through it without slowing down in the slightest.
The old man’s expression changed dramatically.
"This..."
Before he could say anything else, the sword light had already reached Young Master Nangong and his servants.
Puchi!
Several heads flew into the air.
Blood sprayed across the street like a crimson rain as their lifeless bodies collapsed one after another.
The entire street fell silent.
Everyone stared at the scene in stunned disbelief.
The city guards had arrived with overwhelming confidence, yet even their leader had been completely powerless to stop Li Ruoxi’s seemingly ordinary sword strike.
Lin Feng looked at the scene before him and could not help but sigh.
If he had been the one to make the attack, these men would probably still be alive.
In fact, they might have gone on to live for a very, very long time in the arms of the big fatty.
Unfortunately for them, it was Li Ruoxi who had made the move.
And so, they had met their maker today.
"Perhaps they got out quickly and were actually lucky," Lin Feng mused, looking at their lifeless bodies.
The more he thought about it, the more he felt that dying might have been the easier path.
After all, compared to spending the rest of their lives in the hands of that big fatty, perhaps meeting their end with a single sword strike was not such a terrible fate after all.