24. You're overthinking it.

  Lin Feng's gaze quietly swept over, and all the Lianhuo Sword Sect cultivators seemed to have been stung by a wasp, hastily retreating from Xiao Buzhi.

  A cultivator in the foundation building stage flashed his eyes and stopped retreating, thinking of pouncing on Xiaobudian again.

  They must take down this hostage, otherwise they can't retreat completely.

  Lin Feng glanced at him and said lightly: "From now on, one of my disciples is short of a hair, you can leave with your lives."

  The body of Zhu Ji's period repairer stiffened on the spot, and he didn't dare move.

  Lin Feng secretly let out a breath, his physical condition was also extremely bad. Although the Gluttony had swallowed Li Changsheng's attack, just the residual waves of a Golden Dan period Great Cultivator's attack were enough to make Lin Feng unbearable.

  Later, Li Changlao's magical power exceeded the limit of Taotie's devouring, and Taotie was forced to spit out all the magical power it had swallowed.

  It's not just the dark red light sword, but also the magic of the flying fire meteor sword that was released earlier. A considerable part of it surged into Lin Feng's body, and he is now also burning with inner fire, feeling as if all his blood is about to boil and bubble up.

  At this moment, the ring on his finger appeared to have the power of Tiangou's devouring, although it was severely damaged by Li Changlao, and its strength was greatly reduced. However, its gluttonous nature remained unchanged, and as soon as it caught its breath, its first reaction was to eat.

  "Wait till I recover my strength, and I'll swallow you whole!" Gluttony roared in the ring.

  Lin Feng sneered: "I'm afraid you don't have such good teeth."

  As soon as he finished speaking, Lin Feng's magical powers surged into the ring, transforming into dozens of beams of light that crisscrossed each other, instantly forming a huge cage that trapped the Gluttoner inside.

  The Gluttonous Beast roared and pounced on the cage, wanting to devour the magical power that formed the light pillar. However, the essence of the light pillar flowed and transformed, causing the entire cage to radiate a brilliant light, firmly suppressing the Gluttonous Beast.

  He was taken aback for a moment, then suddenly burst into thunderous rage: "It's the Heavenly Cage Seal again! Are you also from the Tai Xu Temple?! Ahhh! I'm so furious, one of these days I'll swallow all you thieving cow noses from the Tai Xu Temple whole!"

  Lin Feng ignored its cries, feeling relieved in his heart. The system tool was indeed extraordinary. Through the Divine Analysis Tool, he quickly analyzed the mysteries of the Tian Luo Curse Seal in a short period of time.

  This extremely mysterious and untransmitted secret is now learned by Lin Feng, who can re-control it after using the borrowed gluttony as a shield, otherwise even if he passes the test of Li Changsheng, he will be sucked dry by this gluttony.

  Lin Feng looked at Li Changlao's entire body, which was bright red and constantly emitting white gas, making him look like a large shrimp that had been cooked through.

  In his heart, Lin Feng secretly called it a fluke. He knew that he was able to land a hit, mostly because he had silently and soundlessly withstood Li Changsheng's strongest attack, the result of which was too shocking, causing this Golden Dan stage cultivator to become nervous himself.

  Not only was there no time to dodge Lin Feng's counterattack, but even timely defense was not possible, and he took a sword blow head-on.

  This sword is completely equal to a full-force attack by a Golden Elixir cultivator of the same level as Li Changlao, and for Old Ghost to take it without defending himself and not die is already a great stroke of luck.

  Xiao Budian rushed to his side and laughed: "Master, your move just now was so powerful, will you teach me?"

  Lin Feng patted his little brain: "What you can't learn now, work hard to practice, and the master will naturally pass it on to you in the future."

  After finishing speaking, Lin Feng raised his head and looked towards Zhang Nan in the crowd, his voice slightly cold: "You just hit my disciple, it felt very satisfying, didn't it?"

  Lin Feng was extremely displeased with Zhang Nan. If it weren't for this guy, he wouldn't have had to risk his life against a Golden Dan period cultivator.

  Zhang Nan's mind was in a daze, her attention still stuck on the unbelievable fact that Li Changlao had lost. At this moment, when she met Lin Feng's gaze, she suddenly felt as if she had fallen into an icy cave.

  "Earlier... earlier seniors... I, I just..." Zhang Nan's face was ashen, and he couldn't even speak coherently.

  The crowd of Lie Huo Jian Zong cultivators around him retreated to the side, as if avoiding a snake or scorpion, their eyes fixed on Zhang Nan with increasingly ill intentions.

  It's all because of this guy. If it weren't for him, Elder Li wouldn't have suffered such a disaster, and we wouldn't have had such troubles either.

  No one had expected such an outcome before Li Zhang was defeated.

  All the cultivators of the Blazing Fire Sword Sect thought that they could easily recruit Xiao Buzhi, this talented disciple, into their sect. It would be best if Xiao Buzhi's loose cultivator master knew his place; otherwise, they would give him a lesson and let him know the power of the Blazing Fire Sword Sect.

  But at this moment, everyone was regretful, feeling suffocated in their hearts. The unfathomable Lin Feng was really too terrifying, making them only want to get further and further away from this monster.

  The gap between them is too great, making them feel only fear, and even dare not give birth to hatred.

  The accumulated evil fire needs a way to vent, and Zhang Nan, who first triggered the incident, naturally became a punching bag for his fellow disciples.

  A foundation-building period cultivator glared at Zhang Nan, his face deathly pale as he said: "This is all because of you!"

  Another Jīqí period cultivator didn't say a word and directly slapped out with his palm, sending Zhang Nan flying.

  Poor Zhang Nan hadn't even reacted yet, and was beaten to fly out, his body still had several high-difficulty tumbling movements in mid-air, finally heavily smashing onto the ground.

  When in front of outsiders, beating one's own disciples is actually a very damaging thing for morale and reputation.

  Can't beat the opponent, but take out anger on one's own disciples, can't protect the disciples under one's door, and still put the blame on the disciples' backs. Such a sect will undoubtedly lose its cohesiveness and easily cause the sect's disciples to become disheartened.

  But at this moment, when the Jikidan monk brutally beat Zhang Nan, all the disciples of Liehuo Jianzong shouted in their hearts, thinking that he was well-beaten and that such a scourge deserved to be severely punished, it was simply well-deserved!

  Lin Feng's pressure on them had already made it impossible for them to think calmly, and they only felt that there was a breath stuck in their chest. If they didn't vent it out, it would drive them mad.

  Lin Feng looked at Zhang Nan, who was half dead and half alive, and couldn't help but curl his lips. This foundation-building cultivator really didn't hold back, one slap had taken away half of Zhang Nan's life.

  "I won't make things difficult for you today, but that doesn't mean the matter is settled." Lin Feng looked at Zhang Nan and said calmly: "I'm sparing you today to leave you for my disciple to avenge himself personally."

  Lin Feng lowered his head and looked at Xiaobudian: "How is it?"

  Xiao Buzhi looked at Zhang Nan, who was like a dead dog, and hummed softly: "He's like this now, beating him wouldn't be an achievement. After some time, when I've learned some skills from my master, I'll find him myself to take revenge."

  Lin Feng thought that beating a fallen man was the right thing to do, but he wasn't worried about Xiao Bu Dong at all, and instead silently mourned for Zhang Nan.

  What a joke! Being remembered as an enemy by the true ruler of heaven, what good outcome can there be?

  Lin Feng raised his eyes again and looked at the crowd of Lie Huo Jian Zong, calmly saying: "Did you all hear my disciple's words clearly? This person has been taken care of by me. One day, I will bring Tian Hao to your Lie Huo Jian Zong and thoroughly settle this matter."

  Two leading foundation period cultivators involuntarily nodded their heads.

  Looking at the expressions of the foundation-building cultivators and their gaze towards Zhang Nan, Lin Feng secretly smiled to himself. With what he had just said, even if Little Notch forgot about this little rascal in the future, Zhang Nan's days in the Lianhuo Sword Sect would be absolutely miserable.

  Lin Feng glanced at Li Changlao with a slanted eye. The old man was almost out of breath, but he had seven injuries and five wounds, and could only be said to have half a life left.

  Lin Feng looked at himself, Li Changlao was so ashamed that he wanted to die, and he wished he could find a hole in the ground to crawl into.

  Lin Feng did not continue to trouble him, his chin lightly pointing: "Take your elder and leave, don't appear in front of me again."

  A group of Li Huo Jian Zong cultivators arrived as if by amnesty, hastily rushing forward to lift up Elder Li and leaving in a cloud of smoke.

  Yan Mingyue in a blue shirt reappeared in mid-air, her gaze complex as she looked at Lin Feng, for a moment unable to speak.

  She handed over the ring sealed with a vow of abstinence to Lin Feng for handling, which had both the meanings of helping and testing.

  Apart from this, there is also a probing third layer of meaning, one arrow and three eagles.

  As long as Lin Feng touches the Tianluo curse seal in the ring, Yan Mingyue and his own remaining spiritual power will resonate, allowing him to clearly sense Lin Feng's actual strength and the origin of his Taoist lineage.

  Lin Feng only had a slight magical power to probe the Tian Luo Seal, and Yan Mingyue didn't mind, but later, Yan Mingyue suddenly lost contact with the Tian Luo Seal.

  She naturally didn't know that Lin Feng had used the Divine Analysis Instrument, only feeling that Lin Feng had discovered her plot, and thus cut off the connection between her and the Heavenly Cage Seal.

  Next, Li Zhanglao of the Huoyan Jianzong took the stage, only to be defeated by Lin Feng in a light and casual manner. Among the onlookers, only Yan Mingyue knew that Lin Feng had utilized the power of the Gluttonous Sect.

  But she didn't dare look down on Lin Feng because of this, instead feeling that Lin Feng was deliberately using his carefree attitude to hide his true intentions.

  In fact, it was indeed the case that in a fierce battle, Yan Mingyue couldn't see through Lin Feng's realm at all, nor could she see the origin of Lin Feng's Taoist methods.

  In Yan Mingyue's view, the previous confrontation was actually between Lin Feng and her. She wanted to get a clear understanding of Lin Feng's true nature, while Lin Feng didn't want to let her have her way. The red-haired elder from the Lihuo Sword Sect was just a tool for their confrontation.

  As a result, she ended up losing miserably.

  Facing a Jindan period cultivator, Lin Feng was able to not expose his true strength at all, and instead used the leftover soul of the gluttonous ghost she gave him to clean up the opponent. This made Yan Mingyue feel a sense of defeat like stealing a chicken but losing the rice.

  Even those two sentences Lin Feng said to Li Changlao, Yan Mingyue felt that Lin Feng was actually saying them to her.

  "Little guy, have you had enough?"

  "Now that you've made enough noise, I'll return your stuff."

  These two sentences made Yan Mingyue feel a few points of shame and annoyance in her usual calm and peaceful state.

  She is not an ordinary disciple of Tai Xuan Temple, even in the number one sacred place of Tai Xuan Temple for thousands of years, she is a heavenly spoiled girl, from small to large, no one can make her feel so embarrassed.

  Not even her arch-nemesis Rou Ye, who had clashed with her in a battle of mutual destruction, had ever managed to achieve that.

  At this moment, Yan Mingyue faced Lin Feng without any slight negligence, but treated him as an object that must be taken seriously.

  Lin Feng was seen by Yan Mingyue with some confusion, and if he knew what thoughts were turning in Yan Mingyue's mind, he would only give a one-sentence evaluation.

  "Master, you're overthinking it! There are a hundred ways to die!"

  Lin Feng's attention was now focused on Xiao Yan, who had just arrived, and he muttered to himself: "Second, second..."