Insufficient balance

  In Tianlong City, Lin Lie's study, Lin Lie and Fan Lao were discussing Zheng Feng's proposal to Ba Xiong for a life-and-death battle, whether they should intervene or not.

  Lin Lie anxiously asked: "Old Fan, are we really not going to intervene?"

  Fan Lei simply replied faintly: "Since he voluntarily proposed a life-and-death battle, we don't need to care about it."

  Lin Lie could not bear the thought of anything happening to this national, no, world-class rare 'resource', regardless of whether Zheng Feng would eventually serve the Tian Long Empire or not. However, as long as he did not forget Old Fan and did not forget the Tian Long Empire's nurturing grace towards him, that was enough. In this vast world, the hardest debt to repay is the debt of human relationships; once incurred, it may take a lifetime to clear.

  For the weak, a hard card is played, while for the strong, an emotional card is used. The strong have their dignity as the strong, and they often prioritize their reputation over their lives. If the label of "ingrate" is attached to them, their dignity and reputation will be completely destroyed, leaving behind only the scorn of future generations. Therefore, whether it was Zheng Feng or the original Liao Zhai, as long as they had the potential to become an uncontrollable strongman, Emperor Taizong had only two options: either to strangle them immediately or to manipulate them from the side, always leaving a "loophole".

  Immediately kill, this kind of thing may be adopted under the rule of a strong power. But Lin Lie is not that type, especially when he had just ended the war with the Black Dragon Empire and was extremely lacking in strong people, it was even more impossible to do this "kill the chicken to take the egg" thing. Fan Lao and Lin Lie both agreed on the second method, as long as they succeeded, the Tian Long Empire would have one more guardian deity from then on.

  If Zheng Feng, the guardian deity of this future empire, were to have some unexpected accident in this life-and-death battle and die halfway, the first person who would not be able to forgive Lin Lie would be himself.

  But since Old Fan has already said so, Lin Lie had no choice but to believe him. So he replied: "Sigh... alright."

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  Time flies like an arrow, and in the blink of an eye, half a month has passed.

  In the Tianhun Academy, no one has seen Zheng Feng since he proposed a life-and-death duel to Bao Xiong half a month ago. The vast majority of people say that he is afraid and ran away. Only two people in his dormitory insisted that Zheng Feng went to Qinghai Forest for special training for the life-and-death duel, but when they heard this, they just smiled and ignored it.

  Half a month of special training can make the beastmaster defeat the superior beastmaster? What a joke, just thinking about it is already impossible. Ninety percent of them ran away because they were afraid of the violent bear. When a group of people are jealous of one person, they always interpret that person's thoughts and actions in the worst possible way to compensate for their own low self-esteem. As long as Zheng Feng really escaped, they can mock him and insult him for the rest of his life. The 'stain' on Zheng Feng will be infinitely magnified by them. Since they cannot surpass Zheng Feng in this lifetime, now that they have the opportunity to destroy him, they must take immediate action.

  Under the spread of these intentional people, it's not just that the entire Tianhun Academy knows about Zheng Feng proposing a life-and-death battle to Bao Xiong, now probably everyone in Ye Luo City already knows about this matter. If at that time Zheng Feng avoids fighting, hum... thinking about the outcome will make them excited.

  The violent bear asked with a pleased expression: "Hyena, do you think that stinky little brat Zheng Feng will really scare me away!? Haha～～hahaha～～"

  The jackal heard this, but furrowed his brow and said: "If it were really like that, then that kind of person would not be worth worrying about. However, I have a bad premonition, at that time you must be careful, Zheng Feng should not just be a beastmaster."

  The violent bear waved his hand and said, "Don't worry, even if that kid is a beastmaster, I'm not afraid. The duel arena is just that big, it's very advantageous for me, unless that kid is a beastmaster... Hmph!"

  Jackal's inner thoughts: That's right, if I want to defeat the violent bear, it would be easy, but that's under unconditional restrictions. If I had to fight the violent bear in a duel circle with no holds barred, I might not necessarily come out on top either. But the dark cloud of unease in my heart cannot be dispelled.

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  It's the end of the month, and tomorrow is the day Zheng Feng and Bao Xiong will have their duel. Today was supposed to be the monthly numbered challenge match, but because of the commotion caused by Zheng Feng and Bao Xiong in the entire Ye Luo City, many curious onlookers gathered at the entrance of Tian Hun Academy to "protest", demanding to be allowed to watch, or else they wouldn't leave. If it were just one or two people, it would be easy to ignore them or get rid of them quietly, but there were too many people, and it was impossible to ignore them. Moreover, these people hadn't broken any laws, and among them were many ordinary civilians, so the academy couldn't use force to disperse them. The academy was at a loss as to what to do with them, and in the end, Fu Yan Jie luckily escaped this disaster and kept his number 4 ranking.

  Only outside the college now, the crowd is surging. There are all kinds of shouts.

  "We want to watch the game! Good things should be shared with everyone, only when everyone is good, it's truly good!"

  "No watching, no truth! No watching, no truth! We want the truth~~~"

  "You can't privately manipulate the game, everyone is responsible for fighting fake matches! We want to know our rights, participation rights, expression rights and supervision rights, the game should be held openly and transparently ～～"

  The momentum was overwhelming, and some people who didn't know what was going on were also drawn in by the scene. After asking around, they were shocked. They all joined in to make a big fuss.

  "I want to see handsome guys~~~~"

  "We're going to see the mythical creature~~~~"

  "We're going to watch it live on site~~~"

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  I'm afraid the parties involved did not expect things to turn out this way, but where are our parties now?

  In the central part of Qinghai Forest, on the outskirts of the Forest Giant tribe, there are three forest giants forming a small team patrolling together. Recently, every two or three days, one of the tribesmen responsible for patrolling would be killed, and the chief was furious and personally led the tribesmen to search extensively, but still couldn't find the mysterious killer. This made us have no choice but to form a team to be safer, even if we were ambushed, as long as we immediately sent out a signal and held on until the chief came to catch the killer.

  Approaching the border of the tribe, three forest trolls cautiously moved forward with slow steps. Their long wing-shaped ears jumped and trembled, listening to the surroundings, preventing sudden attacks.

  In the nearby thicket...

  The voice of Weiba echoed in Zheng Feng's mind, laughing: "Big pervert, those forest demons seem to have learned their lesson. Now they form groups of three to prevent your 'sneak attacks'. What do you plan to do?"

  Zheng Feng replied, "As long as it's not the Chieftain of the Forest Giants, there's no difference. It can be dealt with in the usual way!"

  The tail was obviously unbalanced in his heart, saying: "Hmph, you're a big pervert, I didn't expect the mother cat to be a little pervert too, actually transforming into that thing, it's simply 'hitting the ball', no, it's completely against the rules!!"

  Watching the slowly approaching Forest Giant squad, Zheng Feng didn't pay attention to his tail anymore, he just tensed up his body, hid his aura, and prepared to act at any time.

  Three forest trolls passed through a certain bush, at this moment, a "swish" sound came from behind, the friction sound of leaves. One of the forest trolls who heard the sound was about to turn around when he felt a pain in his neck and lost all consciousness. The other two forest trolls turned around and saw a black shadow jumping up from behind them, suddenly appearing in front of another companion and leaving after touching him.

  "Hmm"

  The unconscious forest giant fell to the ground, and the living forest giant was about to send out a distress signal in terror. Just as it was about to shout, a black shadow appeared before its eyes, its neck twitched, and it fell down.

  "Hmm"

  The last of the forest giants finally saw what was attacking them, but immediately disappeared and flashed in front of its own face. Before dying, it thought for the last time: Is this a human? No! It's a monster with silver long hair!!

  "Hmm"

  The forest returned to its quiet state once again.

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