Chapter 649 - 177: Bright Heart Realm? One Punch Each, Struck Dead Bare-handed

"Ngh!" Pei Yufeng tried to cry out, but his mouth was instantly filled with cold gravel and dirt. The murky air choked him, making it impossible to breathe. He struggled with all his might to get up, only to discover with horror that a large, iron-hard, ice-cold hand was clamped onto the back of his head. No matter how much strength he exerted, he couldn’t move an inch! ’How is this possible...’ ’How is this possible?!’ ’Chu Fan is just some young punk who recently entered the Divine Power Realm. How could he be this strong?!’ ’Didn’t they say he only managed to block Princess Zhaohua’s sword strike because he used a powerful Ancient Treasure?’ ’Why is he so terrifyingly powerful?’ A low, bestial roar rumbled in Pei Yufeng’s throat. Humiliation and indignation threatened to burst from his chest. But no matter how wildly his Primordial Qi erupted, no matter how he assaulted that large hand, he couldn’t break free. The hand was like a mountain rooted in the earth, as immovable as a boulder! There was no fancy technique to the hand’s movement. It was simply, brutally, pressing his head into the dirt, inch by inch! Sharp stones and sand instantly tore the skin of his face. Blood mixed with dirt, filling his mouth and nostrils, completely blocking his breath. If he hadn’t instinctively shut his eyes, even his eyeballs would have been crushed by the cold earth! A dignified Martial Dao master at the Fifth Heaven of the Acupoint Realm, the renowned Demon Suppression Captain of Qing Province, was now as helpless as a chicken on the chopping block, utterly powerless to resist! The entire area fell deathly silent, with only the mournful whistling of the wind. The masked woman on the giant boulder narrowed her eyes, her pupils shrinking to pinpricks. Her body tensed in an instant, as if facing a formidable enemy. This wasn’t the first time she had seen Chu Fan... But the last time they met in the Burial Demon Marsh, although Chu Fan had shown some skill, he was nowhere near this terrifyingly, chillingly powerful! "The Demon Suppression Bureau and Lord Leng once said you still had some use, which is why I haven’t touched you." Chu Fan’s cold, spectral voice, like the whisper of a death god from the Nine Nether Hell, drifted from behind Pei Yufeng, devoid of any warmth. "But why did you have to seek your own death, so eager to serve yourself up on a platter?" The moment his voice fell— Under the horrified gazes of Tang Tinghua and Yun Bufan, whose eyes were wide enough to tear at the corners, Chu Fan’s five fingers on the back of Pei Yufeng’s head—imbued with immense force—suddenly clenched— "CRACK!" The sharp sound of shattering bone was piercing. "SPLAT!" A spray of red and white matter flew out, and a thick mist of blood instantly filled the air—a shocking sight! Pei Yufeng’s head had actually, before everyone’s eyes, exploded! He didn’t even have time to let out a blood-curdling scream before his life was extinguished. The once-mighty Demon Suppression Captain of Qing Province, a Martial Dao expert at the Fifth Heaven of the Acupoint Realm who had commanded the wind and rain, was killed without a chance to resist, his head crushed by Chu Fan’s single hand! The headless corpse twitched a few times on the ground and then went completely still. Blood stained the blue-green stone ground beneath it red. "..." Tang Tinghua and Yun Bufan’s mouths hung wide open. A strange gurgling sound, "Heh... heh...", escaped their throats. As if hit by an Immobilization Skill, they were petrified on the spot. ’This... This isn’t a dream!’ The warm blood that splattered onto their faces, thick with the stench of iron, was a cruel confirmation that everything happening before them was real. This Chu Fan, whom they usually saw as a junior with shallow experience, was actually a peerless, vicious demon in human skin! "How dare you!!" Three furious shouts, perfectly synchronized, thundered through the deep valley like a judgment from the Nine Nether Hell, making one’s eardrums ache! The three women from the Moon Worship Sect, who had been hidden in three different locations in the valley and were the first to reveal themselves, erupted in fury after witnessing Pei Yufeng’s head being crushed like an ant’s. Their killing intent soared to the heavens! "WHOOSH—!" The hems of their clothes fluttered and their black robes whipped in the wind. They floated down from the mountainside almost simultaneously, their figures like three black lightning bolts, as fast as thunder. Three terrifying auras belonging to Bright Heart Realm experts, like three towering mountains suddenly collapsing, cascaded down without reservation, instantly enveloping Chu Fan, Tang Tinghua, and Yun Bufan. In that instant, the air seemed to solidify into a heavy block of lead... It was so oppressive it was suffocating. Even breathing became exceptionally difficult! "Bright... Bright Heart Realm?!" The faces of Tang Tinghua and Yun Bufan instantly turned ashen white, completely drained of color. Under this utterly terrifying pressure, their kneecaps emitted a strained "CRACKLE." Finally, with a loud "THUD," they could no longer support their own weight and fell heavily to their knees on the gravel-strewn ground! Both men trembled uncontrollably like chaff in the wind, their teeth chattering, their faces filled with despair. ’What in the world is happening?’ ’Bright Heart Realm experts are rare, even among the Demon Suppression Captains in the Demon Suppression Bureau!’ ’To deal with Chu Fan, who’s barely twenty, the Moon Worship Sect actually sent four Bright Heart Realm experts at once?!’ However, just as the two of them lost their composure, certain that this was the day they would die— "Get out of the way!" Chu Fan barked coldly, his voice like a clap of thunder. His upper body didn’t move an inch, but his legs shot out like lightning, too fast for the eye to follow. "THUD! THUD!" Two muffled impacts sounded out almost simultaneously. Before Tang Tinghua and Yun Bufan could even react, they both felt an irresistible yet strangely gentle force strike their abdomens. As if soaring through the clouds, they cried out as they were sent flying backward, crashing directly into a pile of rubble at the valley’s edge.