Chapter 2762 Hidden Enemy in the Void

Ling Feng looked at Song Ruozhao’s statement and had to admit that Song Ruozhao’s words made a lot of sense. When facing enemies dozens or even hundreds of times stronger than oneself,

all beings are equal!

Even the current Ling Feng is not confident he can confront the current Lord of the Three Realms. He is an existence that can already create worlds and set rules, while Ling Feng, although not weak, has not yet become arrogant enough to truly challenge the Lord of the Three Realms.

However, Ling Feng has people he wants to protect. Li Xiaonian and Ling Yao are important figures around Ling Feng. Ling Feng must protect them and himself. There are too many people Ling Feng needs to protect, so he cannot retreat.

Ling Feng absolutely cannot retreat or fail to withstand. He can only hold his ground. If he retreats and the Lord of the Three Realms seriously intends to take his life, including those around him, and even the world where Earth is located,

the Lord of the Three Realms could destroy these things in a moment. If Ling Feng truly wants to act now, it would be mere suicide. Therefore, Ling Feng must quickly strengthen himself. Once Ling Feng can completely harness the power of the Chaos Sword,

his strength will achieve a qualitative leap. By then, even if he cannot kill the Lord of the Three Realms, protecting himself and some people around him will be entirely possible.

But the first problem Ling Feng faces now is how to find those emperor-level figures Chao Yan mentioned. The Demon King and Human Emperor of the Nine Provinces certainly count, and Ling Feng has already placed these two on the assassination list in his mind.

Ling Feng is still undecided about the Demon King, but the Human Emperor certainly must die, since Song Ruozhao is sure to kill him. By following, Ling Feng might seize the opportunity and gain the Empire Aura.

However, Ling Feng remains somewhat conflicted about the Demon King. After all, the Demon King has no path to destruction, and Ling Feng has no enmity with him. In fact, the Demon King has shown goodwill toward Ling Feng, even wanting to help Ling Feng compete for the Nine Provinces’ secret treasures. Such a "kind" Demon King makes Ling Feng unable to muster the will to kill.

Therefore, Ling Feng ultimately decided to place the Demon King slightly lower on his list. If the Lord of the Three Realms comes quickly and he cannot solve the dangers threatening himself and those around him, when Ling Feng has no options left,

if by then Ling Feng has not gathered the Empire Aura to fully harness the Chaos Sword, he might turn his attention to the Demon King of the Nine Provinces.

After all, compared to Ling Feng’s admiration for the Demon King, Ling Feng’s own life and those around him are more important. Even if the Demon King shows any goodwill toward Ling Feng, it is insignificant compared to the increase in his strength.

Ling Feng poured countless efforts into the Chaos Sword. If the Chaos Sword does not unseal with this, if it still does not open its mind to Ling Feng, then Ling Feng will have no choice but to use extreme measures.

After all, Ling Feng had refused to eliminate the Sword Spirit within—by Chaos—to instead choose to kill those emperor-level figures to amass Empire Aura for the Chaos Sword to unseal it and fully control it.

As Ling Feng’s thoughts continued to expand, he suddenly turned his head to look at Song Ruozhao, finding that he was still staring at the sky. Whether Ling Feng’s thinking time was too brief or Song Ruozhao’s sky-watching time too long was unknown.

"Brother Song! Brother Song! I admit you’re similar to An Qi. Have you found any clues yet? I haven’t found a thing here, even though I’ve opened my Divine Sense for inspection and had Little Fei jointly explore this ruin with me,"

"but there are still no clues. Based on my knowledge of Ling Yao, she’s definitely the type of clever person to leave behind some clues. It’s impossible for her to leave no traces at all. Yet I’ve searched for so long, and haven’t found a hint,"

"I’m even pondering if my direction is wrong, perhaps the clues Ling Yao left aren’t here..." Just as Ling Feng was immersed in thought, he noticed Song Ruozhao remained unresponsive, still coldly watching the sky.

"Brother Song? Brother Song! What are you looking at?" Ling Feng called out several times, but Song Ruozhao still showed no reaction. Seeing his calls had no effect, Ling Feng immediately tried to reach out to pat Song Ruozhao’s shoulder.

Just as Ling Feng’s hand was about to touch Song Ruozhao’s shoulder, the man finally shook his head and said, "Ling Feng, follow my direction and look, look at that part of the void!"

Realizing something was amiss, Ling Feng stood beside Song Ruozhao and slowly turned his head, following Song Ruozhao’s line of sight to the void above the ruins.

At first glance, he saw nothing unusual, but Ling Feng knew Song Ruozhao wouldn’t waste time on meaningless matters without reason. Thus, Ling Feng redirected his Divine Sense’s major probing area wholly to that void.

It was only after the full output of Divine Sense inspection that Ling Feng finally discerned the details of the void.

Though still somewhat blurry, Ling Feng could now see the void was unlike the surrounding emptiness, being transparent with nothing within; instead, it was surrounded by faint black silk threads. Upon closer inspection, those black threads wrapped together resembled an array!

Looking at these black thread patterns that required special methods to discern, Ling Feng suddenly had a realization, staring intently at those patterns, as though afraid they’d vanish the moment he blinked.

Ling Feng, now somewhat sure, spoke to Song Ruozhao without turning his head: "Brother Song, look at these intertwined threads. Don’t they resemble the array we saw on the plain just now, left by those from the Clan of Darkness as traces when passing through?"

Song Ruozhao nodded, his expression also somewhat grave, saying, "I realized it as soon as I saw it, but after carefully comparing the two arrays in my memory, I discovered that although similar, they are fundamentally different arrays."

"The array on the plain earlier was simpler. This array’s complexity is around three times that of the previous one."

As soon as Song Ruozhao finished speaking, the Long Qin Sword behind him suddenly roared—this was a danger signal!

A wave of black energy shot out from the void array, heading straight for Song Ruozhao’s head.

"Heh heh, let’s see how you defend against such an attack!"

Ling Feng’s expression subtly changed—enemy attack!