(Free.) Everyone felt a surge in pressure, especially Ye Feng, who sensed an intense aura pressing down on him, almost unbearable, as if he had been weighed down by a thousand pounds, making it hard for him to breathe.

  "Ah!" Ye Feng let out a loud roar, silently reciting the Heaven Concealing Palm technique, his palm slapping towards the source of the pressure.

  Defense has never been Ye Feng's style, no matter who you are, I'll strike back first.

  "Bang!"

  A palm shot out calmly and collided with the pressure in mid-air, creating a massive shockwave that sent the surrounding disciples stumbling backward.

  "Shameless!" Sun Qi roared in anger, immediately throwing a punch towards the source of the voice.

  "Hum!" The elder's move was indeed extraordinary, and the disciples' bodies could no longer stand firm, stumbling about.

  "Li Xincheng, what do you mean? Are you taking a shot at a younger generation because your Sword Pavilion is afraid of losing and wants to injure Ye Feng in the arena so that Ruan Jialin can win easily? Has the Sword Pavilion fallen to such a level?" Sun Qi's always smiling face turned gloomy.

  "Heh heh, Elder Sun, don't be so agitated. I'm just testing the quality of this useless body." The newcomer was none other than Li Xincen, the elder of Sword Pavilion.

  Yue Feng looked at Li Xincheng, who appeared to be in his fifties from the outside. His every move seemed to exude a subtle elegance and refinement, but Yue Feng knew that Li Xincheng was definitely not just fifty years old. How could one judge a cultivator by their appearance?

  Ruan Jialin stood tall and proud behind Li Xincheng, his eyes looking down on Ye Feng with disdain, as if to say: "Your life is mine to decide."

  Ye Feng turned his head disdainfully, "Your cultivation has reached a certain level, and your eyes can even kill people."

  "Old Sun, what do you mean by this." Coming closer, Li Xincen pointed at the twenty pieces of mid-grade Pure Crystal Stones.

  "What, Sword Pavilion doesn't dare to accept the bet? Are you afraid that Ye Feng will win and you won't be able to pay up? It's still not too late to back out now." Sun Qi wasn't one to mince words either.

  "Haha, joke! The prestigious Sword Pavilion would care about this small amount of money? I'm just worried that Elder Sun will lose too miserably." Li Xincheng wouldn't tarnish the reputation of the Sword Pavilion in front of so many bets.

  Even with a big gamble, he had to grit his teeth and accept it, but he wouldn't believe that Ye Feng could beat Ruan Jialin.

  "That's good, but there's one thing I need to make clear to you beforehand, these crystal stones are not actually from the Ling Shou Peak, they're indeed Ye Feng's personal property." Sun Qi said solemnly.

  Li Xincheng was taken aback. Sun Qi's character in the Wang Hai faction was well-known, and he would never lie about this matter. He said that the crystal stone belonged to Ye Feng, and it was indeed possible that it was Ye Feng's.

  Doubtful eyes fell on Ye Feng's face, Li Xincheng couldn't understand why Ye Feng had so many crystal stones.

  Ye Feng saw Li Xincheng looking at him and bowed deeply to Li Xincheng, "Thank you, elder, for your help."

  "What are you talking about." Not to mention his disciples, even Li Xincheng did not understand the meaning of Ye Feng's words.

  "The elder should know that as a disciple of Chaos Body, he needs to consume a large amount of crystal stones in order to cultivate." Ye Feng said slowly.

  Yes, this is something everyone knows. As long as they are a member of the Wang Hai faction, they all know that Ye Feng has a crippled body.

  "If relying on the contributions made by disciples to the sect to exchange for crystal stones, it's likely that this life will be in vain. But with the bet set up by Sword Pavilion, disciples can easily earn a large amount of crystal stones, not to mention refining Qi, even building foundation period is enough, so disciples would thank the elder's generosity."

  Ye Feng's tone was extremely relaxed, but everyone present heard the sarcasm in his words.

  Li Xincheng's face changed in an instant, his entire face sank down, and a hint of ruthlessness flashed in his eyes.

  "So you're confident that you can defeat Ruan Jialin?" Li Xincheng stared at Ye Feng.

  "Hmm, I won't hide it from you, Elder. This useless person is definitely not as good as this useless body of mine." Ye Feng said with a smile on his face.

  Mad! Arrogant!

  The crows and sparrows around fell silent, everyone's attention was focused on Ye Feng.

  Zhen Xue's eyes sparkled with excitement, this was her own cousin, from the time she beat Ai Ben Ke, Zhen Xue had recognized Ye Feng's unruly and unbridled nature.

  Mei Zhi's eyebrows were tightly locked, as if worried about Ye Feng's reckless words. Offending an elder in the Wang Hai Sect would have what consequences, especially the elder of Jian Ge.

  Feifei's face was filled with disdain, her gaze at Ye Feng no different from looking at a dead man.

  Sun Qi was very calm, but in fact he was extremely excited. No matter what the outcome of the life and death arena was, Ye Feng's generosity had unknowingly increased his own prestige, and even further enhanced the reputation of Ling Shou Peak.

  In the Wanghai Sect, who dares to provoke the majesty of Jian Ge, Ye Feng dares, and is still a young disciple in the gathering phase.

  "Hahaha." Li Xincheng laughed loudly, "It's good that young people have pride, but if they're too arrogant, it'll bring about their own demise. Since you're so confident, let's settle this in a fight to the death."

  Having said that, Li Xincen led Ruan Jialin towards the life-and-death arena.

  Sun Qi looked at Ye Feng and patted his shoulder hard, "Ye Feng, good luck."

  Zhen Xue Tian also rushed towards Ye Feng and said: "Brother-in-law, beat that Ruan Jialin until he's picking his teeth off the ground."

  "Alright, I'll definitely make Ruan Jialin pay as promised, and he'll be left searching for his teeth all over the ground."

  Then followed Sun Qi and walked towards the life-and-death arena.

  The great war is about to begin, and the surroundings are quiet. Before the decisive battle, the disciples saw another good show, all cheering and admiring Ye Feng's courage in not fearing Li Xincheng, the elder of Jian Ge. This bravery alone is enough for everyone to admire. Immediately after, many people seemed to favor Ye Feng and bet on his victory.

  Of course all the disciples of Jian Ge looked at Ye Feng as a thorn in their eyes, and they couldn't wait to go up and punch him to death.

  As a melodious bell tolled, the Mortal Arena officially began.

  An elder stood on the stage, looking around in all directions, and then slowly said: "Today is the day when the life-and-death arena of the Wanghai School will be opened. The life-and-death arena has not been opened for many years, so I want to reiterate the rules of the life-and-death arena."

  "Since it's called a life-and-death arena, any disciple who goes up doesn't care about life or death and can use any means. The losing side is not allowed to retaliate afterwards. If someone dies on the spot, others are not allowed to avenge them."

  The rule of the arena is simple: if you die, you're dead for good.

  "This time, the life-and-death arena's opening, the leader took out fifty pieces of low-grade pure crystal stones as a reward, rewarding the winning side."

  The elder's words caused countless gasps of shock, although the disciples had all heard rumors that the sect leader would reward the winner with a crystal stone, they were still shocked to have it confirmed.

  "The two parties who are going to engage in a life-and-death duel, please come onto the stage." The elder finished speaking and jumped down from the stage.

  According to the rules, there can only be two people on the life-and-death arena, and that is the duelists.

  Ruan Jialin and Ye Feng stood on either side of the arena, which was three meters high and twenty meters long in both east-west and north-south directions. The entire arena was built with bluestone and emitted a faint aura fluctuation, indicating that there were talismans protecting the arena.

  "Nguyen Ka Lin, come on, we support you."

  The disciples under the stage began to cheer and shout for both sides.

  "Ye Feng, beat him until he's picking up his teeth from all over the ground." Zhen Xuetian's voice covered everything and spread all around.

  Ye Feng looked in the direction of Zhen Xue Tian and waved his fist.

  "Don't look at the useless body now still being proud, soon even crying will be too late."

  "It's just that daring to challenge a disciple of Jian Ge is a death sentence."

  The following Jian Ge disciples expressed their contempt for Ye Feng.

  Ye Feng was completely unaffected by the commotion below, and with a fist bump towards Ruan Jialin, said "Thanks, Brother Ruan."

  Ruan Jialin smiled faintly, "Ye Feng, Ruan Shixiong is also someone you can call." As he spoke, his hand formed a sword gesture, and the two flying swords on his back rang out. One of them left its scabbard and flew into the air.

  "Fly sword!"

  Everyone was in an uproar, being able to wield a flying sword meant that one's cultivation had reached the Refining Qi level, and Ruan Jialin was able to suspend the treasured sword behind him in mid-air, indicating that his cultivation had already reached the Refining Qi stage.

  "A Qi Gathering stage disciple like you dares to call a Qi Refining stage cultivator 'brother'? Don't the disciples of Ling Shou Peak know any rules?" Ruan Jialin looked down on Ye Feng, his body suddenly rising as he performed a beautiful swallow dive, landing on the flying sword suspended in mid-air.

  "So handsome! Come on, Brother Ruan." A female disciple shouted at Ruan Jialin with a infatuated expression.

  "It should be Master Ruan now, he's in his refining period." The disciple beside her reminded.

  At this time, Sun Qi, who was sitting not far from the life-and-death arena, had a drastic change in expression. The situation before him was not good. Ruan Jialin not only successfully refined his energy, but it could also be seen that his realm was almost stable, and he did not show the appearance of someone who had just refined his energy.

  Skilled in flying swordsmanship, it's not something that can be achieved just after refining one's Qi.

  Ye Feng is in danger, Sun Qi's first thought was Ye Feng's safety.

  It's no wonder that Sun Qi is worried, anyone with a little bit of insight can see that even if Ye Feng performs at his peak state and surprises everyone, he still won't be a match for Ruan Jialin who has stabilized his cultivation at the boundary of the Refining Qi level.

  The gap in level can't be made up for by just a burst of courage.

  Damn it, Sun Qi cursed secretly. This Li Xincheng is really capable. Without a word, he raised Ruan Jialin's cultivation from the peak of gathering energy to the stable realm of refining energy. To say that there was no full assistance from Li Xincheng behind this, Sun Qi would not believe that Ruan Jialin had made such a breakthrough in just half a month even if he were beaten to death.

  If it was Ruan Jialin's own hard work and self-cultivation, why did it take more than a year to reach the peak of Qi gathering, but only ten or so days to achieve the stable realm of Qi refinement.

  It seems that Li Xincheng has made great efforts for this life-and-death arena, and thinking again about the help given by Ling Shoufeng to Ye Feng, Sun Qi shook his head, feeling a bit sorry for Ye Feng.

  If Ye Feng can come down from the life-and-death arena this time, Sun Qi has already decided to make him his most important cultivation object. However, it seems that Ye Feng no longer has any chance.

  A cry of despair echoed from below, "My crystal! I thought Ye Feng still had a chance, but now it's hopeless."

  It's clear that many disciples are thinking of betting on Ye Feng to win, and quite a few have the same expression as that disciple, apparently there are still many disciples with speculative psychology.

  "Hmm, not bad, this time the crystal stone has doubled in value." This is what Gamble Rou's winning disciple said.

  Ignoring the commotion under the life-and-death arena, Ye Feng concentrated all his attention on Ruan Jialin. This battle was not going to be easy. He hadn't expected Ruan Jialin's cultivation to have improved so much. Originally, he had thought that by raising his own cultivation to the peak of Qi gathering, dealing with Ruan Jialin would be a breeze. Now it seemed, it wouldn't be as easy as he had imagined.

  "How's that, useless trash? You're scared now, but it's too late for you to admit defeat. I'll use your life to demonstrate the power of my Jian Ge Pavilion." Ruan Jialin looked down at Ye Feng with a gaze as if he was looking at a dead man.

  "Ruan Jialin, if you want to fight, then fight, what's with the nonsense? Are the swords in your Sword Pavilion disciples' hands used for chopping firewood?" Ye Feng looked at Ruan Jialin disdainfully, but his heart was on high alert.