This moonless, murky night was the perfect time for assassination and arson.
Late at night, the Liu family's estate was still brightly lit with oil lamps and heavily guarded on all sides.
Deep inside the Liu family's estate, in a quiet room, the dim lamplight flickered, occasionally revealing a man and a woman entangled with each other. A woman's soft groans and a man's heavy breathing accompanied the scene.
A long time later, the sounds stopped.
"How was it? Do you feel a bit better?" a beautiful, charming woman asked in a captivating, enchanting voice. She was sitting on the edge of the bed, tidying her clothes.
This was Fang Xue, the woman who had caused trouble for Chu Hao's sisters and was subsequently kicked out of the Drunken Immortal Tower by him.
The man beside her was Liu Feng. He had been knocked to the ground by Chu Hao today and had been holding in his anger. This release with Fang Xue had indeed made him feel a lot better.
As for his broken nose, after taking some medicine, it had almost healed. It was just a little sore.
"It was alright, but why hasn't Zheng Yuan returned yet?"
Liu Feng frowned. Zheng Yuan had been gone for too long. According to his calculations, he should have returned long ago.
He hadn't underestimated Chu Hao, but Chu Hao was still just a minor cultivator who hadn't even reached the peak of the Qi Refining Realm. Having a peak-stage Grandmaster Realm cultivator like Zheng Yuan assassinate him was already taking him very seriously. The mission should have been a guaranteed success.
"Brother Feng, if that young man is really highly regarded by the Liu family's ancestor, will you be alright after having someone kill him?" Fang Xue had more or less heard about what happened at the Liu family's banquet today.
What she hadn't expected was that even Liu Feng had to bow before Chu Hao, and in front of all the young members of the Liu family, no less. It made him lose all his dignity.
"Hmph, so what if he's highly regarded by my grandfather? Once he's dead, he's just a dead person, and a dead person has no value."
"Besides, I had someone kill him. Who would know it was me? That scoundrel offended so many people, anyone could have killed him. And even if they did find out it was me, would my grandfather really kill me for a dead person? My body has the Liu family's bloodline, and he's just an outsider."
"Now I just have to wait for Zheng Yuan to return, give him his payment, and then have him leave Jade City immediately. That way, no one will be able to find any clues!"
Liu Feng's voice was cold. He hadn't even told Liu Yun about this. The fewer people who knew, the safer it was.
"It's been so long. What is that Zheng Yuan up to?"
Liu Feng put on his clothes. He couldn't wait any longer for Zheng Yuan, and a sudden sense of unease came over him.
A cold voice rang out.
"You won't be waiting for him."
Bang!
Suddenly, the door to the room was opened.
"It's you!"
By the light of the lamp, Liu Feng saw clearly who had come.
It was a young man holding a longsword.
"That's right, it's me," Chu Hao's footsteps were silent as he entered the room.
"I've come to kill you. I'm sure you know why."
"Where's Zheng Yuan?" Liu Feng was both surprised and angry.
"He's my person now," Chu Hao's eyes lowered, like a god looking down on the mortal world, or a person looking down on ants.
"You don't need to look behind me. I came here alone tonight."
"Damn it! Zheng Yuan dared to betray me! It seems he doesn't want his wife to live anymore." Liu Feng's tone was chilling.
"If you had brought Zheng Yuan, I might have been in serious trouble, but with just you alone, to think you could kill me? You must be dreaming!"
Chu Hao didn't say a word. The True Qi in his body surged into his longsword. His killing intent was resolute.
"What? Tenth-stage Qi Refining Realm? It seems you took some kind of power-boosting pill, but so what? Can you even imagine the gap between the Grandmaster Realm and the Qi Refining Realm? Ten ordinary tenth-stage Qi Refining Realm cultivators are no match for a single first-stage Grandmaster Realm cultivator!"
"You're not wrong. A Grandmaster Realm cultivator possesses Grandmaster Steel Qi. Steel Qi is even more condensed and at least ten times stronger than True Qi," Chu Hao said.
A Qi Refining Realm cultivator absorbs the energy of heaven and earth and refines it into True Qi within their body.
The tenth-stage Qi Refining Realm is also known as the stage of "refining Qi into steel." In this realm, a cultivator gradually transforms all the True Qi in their body into Steel Qi. Once the Qi container in their dantian is completely filled with Steel Qi, they can officially step into the Grandmaster Realm.
A Grandmaster Realm cultivator possesses Grandmaster Steel Qi. Steel Qi is more condensed and powerful, and its might is completely different from True Qi.
When a cultivator breaks through the Grandmaster Realm to enter the Great Grandmaster Realm, their Grandmaster Steel Qi will turn into Great Grandmaster Steel Qi. The power of Great Grandmaster Steel Qi will explode, and with a single body of Great Grandmaster Steel Qi, a dozen or even twenty Grandmaster Realm cultivators are no match for a Great Grandmaster Realm powerhouse.
A Great Grandmaster Realm cultivator can use a burst of Steel Qi to run on water, cross a lake a mile wide, leap across a cliff, and easily cross a long river.
As for those powerhouses at the peak of the Great Grandmaster Realm, they have compressed all the Steel Qi in their bodies into Steel Origin.
With this kind of powerhouse, with their vast and condensed Steel Origin, they can even fly in the air. However, Steel Origin is limited, and flying in the air is a serious drain on energy. Unless it is an emergency, very few peak-stage Great Grandmaster Realm cultivators would waste their energy like that.
Only those who break through the Great Grandmaster Realm and enter the Spirit Realm can fly for long periods of time and travel among the blue sky and white clouds. Not only that, but they can also go for long periods without food or water, being self-sufficient, and their lifespans can reach nearly five hundred years.
"Since you know all that, you still dare to come here to die!"
"Ten ordinary tenth-stage Qi Refining Realm cultivators are no match for a first-stage Grandmaster Realm cultivator. Those words aren't wrong, but you've made one mistake!" Chu Hao interrupted Liu Feng's boast, enunciating each word.
"I have never been an ordinary cultivator!"