Chapter 1163 1123: Before the Battle

"Hey kid, what's going on outside? Why are there so many soldiers, and they're all warning us not to show our faces for the next couple of days?" Lin Ling asked Chen Fei with a strange expression, carrying a vegetable basket.

Originally, she had gone out to buy groceries, but on the street, she unexpectedly saw groups of fully armed soldiers, and they even had guns in their hands...

Moreover, when she tried to avoid the soldiers, they proactively advised her about these matters. It's better not to go out for the next two days, don't be surprised by anything unusual, and keep her mouth shut, forgetting everything she might accidentally witness...

And it wasn't just her; it seemed like all the pedestrians on the street had been warned or rather, warned in this manner.

"Mom, someone is looking to cause trouble for my husband. They'll be fighting at Emerald Lake over the next two days..."

Before Chen Fei could reply, Pei Wanning interjected and spoke up.

Hearing this, Chen Fei immediately smiled wryly.

"What?"

Lin Ling's expression changed, and she quickly walked up to Chen Fei, twisting his ear in anger, "You brat, how could you not tell me about such a big deal? Who's the enemy? Are they strong?"

"Mom, don't you know your son by now? Enemies? Those guys aren't even enemies in my eyes, just ordinary people, nothing to get worked up about..."

Chen Fei hurriedly said, taking the opportunity to pinch Pei Wanning's face playfully, "Always thinking of these little tricks..."

He knew Pei Wanning was worried about him but didn't want to say it outright, using Lin Ling's words to express it instead. After all, it was this woman who was concerned about him, who was anxious for him.

"Hee hee, I didn't~" Pei Wanning playfully stuck out her tongue. Although she knew how capable Chen Fei was, her instinct as a woman still made her worry about his safety.

If those people were to play dirty, it could still be troublesome... No matter what, she wanted Chen Fei to be completely safe, without getting hurt.

Chen Fei smiled and was about to speak when he suddenly froze, then his gaze turned to the door.

Not only him, Pei Wanning, then Lin Ling followed suit and looked towards the door as well.

The next second, there was a knock on the door.

Chen Fei quickly walked over to open the door, puzzled, "Old man, why are you here?"

"What, can't I come? You brat, you're talking less and less these days..." Ming Daochuan entered in an ancient, crimson robe, his white hair hanging over his shoulders like strands of silver, walked in, and directly knocked on Chen Fei's head, saying impatiently.

"Ouch?" Just having his ear twisted, his head got knocked again. Chen Fei looked thoroughly aggrieved, like a bullied wife, tears welling up in his eyes...

"Uncle Ming!" Lin Ling quickly greeted with a smile. Her relationship with Ming Daochuan was no lesser than her family's rascal son's.

"Master." Pei Wanning also greeted nervously.

She had only met Ming Daochuan once, unfamiliar with him, but his status as Chen Fei's mentor and Lin Ling's half foster father made her unable to relax.

"Hmm…" Ming Daochuan nodded to Lin Ling, then smiled, looking at Pei Wanning, "Wan Qing is here too? Are you getting used to living at home these past few days? Has this brat bullied you? If so, tell me, I'll sort him out for you!"

"Hey, hey, old man, I didn't... Don't wrong me!"

Chen Fei quickly shouted, looking completely innocent.

Snap!

Ming Daochuan knocked on Chen Fei's head again, sternly saying, "Shut up! I wasn't asking you..."

Being hit again, Chen Fei felt so 'wronged,' as if Meng Jiangnu weeping had toppled the Great Wall, unable to retaliate, he just looked aggrieved, muttering something under his breath.

This old guy is practically turning against his disciple now that he has a disciple's wife...

Lin Ling smiled at the scene. This mentor and disciple duo, their relationship is still so good.

"Hehe." Pei Wanning giggled, receiving Chen Fei's private 'resentful' gaze, she covered her mouth laughing, "Master, you better not hit him anymore, if you keep hitting him, I'll be bullied by him in private."

"Hmm?" Ming Daochuan raised his eyebrows, staring 'intently' at Chen Fei. The latter froze, with a swift reaction, he jumped away like a monkey.

"Wronged! Great injustice, I couldn't bear to bully her..." Chen Fei shouted wrongly while glaring 'sternly' at Pei Wanning, as if to say, "Wait for it, you'll get what's coming!"

"Master, look, he's fierce~" Pei Wanning mischievously smiled, acting pitifully, with tears in her eyes.

"You..." Chen Fei's eyes widened in disbelief. Since when did this woman get so good at acting?

Snap!

Taking advantage of this gap, Ming Daochuan smirked wickedly as he knocked on Chen Fei's forehead with a thud. The sensation was truly satisfying. "Daring to be fierce with my disciple's wife, you little brat, are you trying to turn the world upside down?"

Chen Fei conceded to the 'futile resistance,' holding his forehead, standing there with a resentful face staring at Ming Daochuan, angrily saying: "Old man, you did that on purpose!?"

"So what if I did? You not convinced?" Ming Daochuan flaunted arrogantly, full of mischief.

"...Convinced!"

Chen Fei almost choked on his words. After a long pause, he reluctantly spat out one word, 'gritting his teeth.' Old man, just don't let me catch a chance, or else, ha-ha... The wheel of fate keeps turning! Heavenly Dao has reincarnation.

"Good, good, as long as you're convinced. After all, I'm your master, remember when you were still wearing split pants, who was it that pinched their nose while helping you to... uh, cough cough, cough... never mind, let's not talk about that. What was I here for today..."

Seeing Chen Fei's face getting darker, Ming Daochuan 'wisely' stopped his teasing with a mischievous grin.

Then he looked a bit more serious, staring at Chen Fei as he asked: "Is the news outside true? You really took down the White Snake Sect sub-branch, killed two True Persons, and plan to have a big battle against experts from White Snake Sect and White Bone Sect at Emerald Lake?"

"Experts?" Chen Fei's eyelids lifted slightly, feeling depressed, so he spoke carelessly with grandeur: "No matter how expert, if I don't turn them into muggles, I'll write my name Chen Fei backwards!"

"I'm being serious here!" Ming Daochuan said with a serious face: "I heard that this time the ones from the White Bone Sect are the Two Hex Brothers, both are Third Heavenly Layer of True Person Realm experts! From the White Snake Sect, there's Green Ghost Granny Cui, Yellow Ghost Li Baizhou, and Red Scorpion Daoist! That Scorpion Daoist is said to have reached the Peak of the Third Heavenly Layer... Are you really that confident?"

He remembered Chen Fei had told him his cultivation level before, the Third Heavenly Layer of True Person Realm! And now, just at this same level, four have come, not to mention the more formidable Peak of the Third Heavenly Layer, Red Scorpion Daoist. Wouldn't this be very dangerous?

"What? Third Heavenly Layer of True Person Realm, Peak of Third Heavenly Layer?"

Upon hearing this, Lin Ling felt a bit dizzy, and her expression immediately changed. She looked at Chen Fei very nervously and said, "Stinky boy, didn't you say they were just ordinary enemies? How can they be so powerful? If it's really too risky, maybe you shouldn't fight this battle..."

Actually, she had begun cultivating well before Chen Fei went to the Cultivation World.

Although her cultivation talent was only average and she wasn't very interested, she had only reached the Qi Refining Sixth Layer, but she understood the division of cultivator realms and strength clearly.

The Third Heavenly Layer of True Person Realm, and even the Peak of the Third Heavenly Layer, in her eyes, were already monsters capable of destroying 'a city and a province'! How could one not be afraid of such beings?

"Mom, Master, actually you don't need to worry so much. Third Heavenly Layer of True Person Realm or the Peak is nothing, I can handle them better, let alone when it's my husband... Previously, back in Ghost Wolf City, my husband killed a Fifth Heavenly Layer of True Person Realm all by himself!"

Seeing Lin Ling and Ming Daochuan so worried, Pei Wanning immediately spoke up.

"What?"

"Killed a Fifth Heavenly Layer of True Person Realm?"

Lin Ling and Ming Daochuan were taken aback again upon hearing this, disbelief flickering in their eyes, both glancing towards Chen Fei.

In their eyes, the Third Heavenly Layer of True Person Realm should already be invincible figures! And a Fifth Heavenly Layer, at the very least could fight a hundred, a thousand of the former... To be able to kill such a person, what kind of terrifying power would be needed?

This, this stinky boy, he, has he reached that level now?

"Didn't you tell me your cultivation was only the Third Heavenly Layer of True Person Realm? How, how on earth..." Ming Daochuan was a bit scrambled, speaking without thinking, stumbling.

"The cultivation method I practice has some background, allowing me to fight over levels! Master, did you forget the cultivation method I gave you? If you can cultivate it to the First Heavenly Layer of True Person Realm, dealing with ordinary Second Heavenly Layer True Persons shouldn't be a problem." Chen Fei smiled and said.

"Really?" Ming Daochuan raised his brows, stuttering again: "Then, those from the White Bone Sect and White Snake Sect?"

"Since they're seeking death, accommodating them is no big deal." Chen Fei snapped his fingers, and with a whoosh, a tower-like figure appeared outside the window, standing in the air.

"What is this?" Looking at that tower-like silhouette, Ming Daochuan felt an immense pressure, very terrifying. But then, he noticed, his eyes shrank abruptly like seeing something unbelievable, exclaiming.

"Isn't this!?"

Isn't this Zhang Zibai's Corpse Refining?

But how could it become so strong? Ming Daochuan pondered uneasily.

"I modified it a bit. Got lucky." Chen Fei nodded, his gaze turning sharply towards that Corpse Refining, saying calmly: "Tongshan, go to Emerald Lake and check it out. Unsuitable people, let them leave first!"

"Yes!" A hoarse, inhumanly cold voice sounded, and the tower-like figure Tongshan shot skyward, disappearing into the dim clouds! The target, Emerald Lake...

"It's almost there, feels almost ready... If I can just make another breakthrough to the Peak of the Third Heavenly Layer of True Person Realm, things will get much easier afterward..." Looking at Tongshan's departing back, Chen Fei's eyes flickered with a sharpness in the depths of his pitch-black, glass-like transparent eyes.

As long as he reaches the Peak of the Third Heavenly Layer of True Person Realm, even facing a Half-Step Yuan Pill, he'd dare to fight!

By then, such power should be enough for now?!