Volume 1: Bo'an Awakening & The Calamity Storm
Chapter 80
Sky-Scorching Wrath and Lin Feng's Reverse Scale
BOOOOM——!!
Lime dust, pulverized mortar, and jagged brick fragments from the shattered bakery wall exploded outward, showering the asphalt thoroughfare submerged under the murky crimson blood rain.
Teacher Kang Mu lay motionlessly amidst a widening pool of vivid scarlet gore spreading across the cracked concrete pavement. The instructor’s once-white shirt was dyed a gruesome crimson-black, his right chest cavity caved inward into a massive, sickening depression—the brutal handiwork of the Warrior-class monster’s iron-whip tail strike. Frothy gouts of bloody foam bubbled from his purplish lips with every ragged, rattling gasp. His clouded eyes strained to stay open, gazing desperately at the huddle of terrified students cowering in the alleyway. His lips trembled weakly, mouthing words that could barely find breath:
“Run... hurry... get out of here...”
“Teacher Kang...!! Teacher!!”
Xiao Min collapsed to her knees in the slick mud, burying her face in her hands as choked, desperate wails tore through the curtain of night rain. Zhang Hu clenched his jaws so hard that fresh blood seeped between his teeth, his eyes bloodshot and laced with savage crimson veins. He desperately wanted to charge forward, yet his legs—drained of every drop of mana and strength—refused to budge an inch, trembling like dried stalks in a gale. Ling Bai and Li Peng were drained of every drop of color, their skin ashen as corpses, their entire bodies curling inward like pitiful vermin shivering before the scythe of the Grim Reaper.
The Black-Winged Frenzy Wolf touched down with agonizing slowness upon the asphalt street. The colossal weight of its ten-meter frame forced the roadbed to buckle and collapse, carving two gaping, jagged trenches into the foundation.
Its four blood-red eyes gleamed with sadistic cruelty and triumphant malice. Lowering its grotesque, lupine skull, the razor-sharp spiraled horn jutting from its forehead—seething with deep azure toxic vapor—tilted downward.
The virulent point leveled directly at the crown of the dying instructor lying in the pooling gore. It paused for half a heartbeat, preparing to plunge downward and impale the skull of the puny mortal who had dared to thwart its hunt!
Yet in the exact fraction of a second when that venomous horn hung less than a handspan from Teacher Kang’s brow—
Sizzle... hiss... sizzle...
A bizarre, unnatural sound suddenly resonated through the torrential drumming of the rain!
The crimson blood rain pouring from the churning storm clouds above, the instant it penetrated within a ten-meter radius of the intersection, failed to touch the ground! Before a single drop could splash onto the asphalt, it was violently incinerated by an invisible, unfathomable thermal field, instantly vaporizing into churning, billowing plumes of grayish-white steam that surged skyward into the night!
Inside Lin Feng’s mind, the final tether of cold restraint snapped clean through!
Before his eyes lay the teacher who had stood tall for three long years, shielding him from the arrogant oppression and sneers of the noble Ling Clan throughout his high school life... The teacher who, knowing full well how destitute Lin Feng was, had quietly gifted him precious cultivation magic stones from his own modest salary, steadfastly believing that this boy from the slums would one day achieve great things...
And now, that very same teacher lay half-dead in a pool of freezing gore, his vital spark guttering like a lone candle flame besieged by a roaring hurricane!
The Reverse Scale!
A dragon possesses a reverse scale at its throat; touch it, and death is absolute!
This was Lin Feng’s reverse scale! Whoever dared lay a finger upon his family and those he held dear would pay the price with every shred of their flesh, bone, and soul!
Lin Feng turned slowly. Crouching down, he gently untied the coarse canvas bindings securing Xiaomo to his back, lifting his frail little sister and transferring her into the trembling embrace of his father, Lin Hai.
“Father... hold Xiaomo tight.”
Lin Feng’s voice was eerily calm. Yet beneath that quiet composure lurked a suffocating, heavyweight pressure that caused the surrounding air to turn as rigid as glacial ice.
“Take everyone and retreat behind that collapsed brick wall... Wait for me. Just a moment.”
Xiaomo gripped the frayed hem of her brother’s rain-soaked shirt with both hands, tears streaming down her pale cheeks. Her voice quivered in desperate, terrified pleading:
“Brother... please, don’t... That monster is too horrifying... You’re going to die...”
Lin Feng did not answer. He reached out a gentle hand, brushing away the hot teardrop clinging to his sister’s cheek, offering her a rare, tender smile amidst the howling tempest.
Yet the split-second he pivoted back toward the monstrous beast, that warmth was completely wiped clean!
In its place remained a visage as frigid and merciless as an ancient fiend stepping out from the deepest abyss of the Netherworld!
The eighteen-year-old youth’s pitch-black eyes ignited with incandescent fury! Twin cauldrons of brooding, abyssal crimson flames flared deep within his pupils, rolling outward in a sky-scorching wave of killing intent—so bone-chilling and primordial that every single soul present at the crossroads felt a shudder crawl violently up their spine!
Thud!
Lin Feng took a step forward.
Deliberate, unhurried steps toward the mountainous Black-Winged Frenzy Wolf.
With every footstep hammering into the fractured asphalt, the ground trembled with a subtle, resonant tremor that synchronized with the heavy pounding of his heartbeat!
Beneath the thin, rain-drenched fabric of his shirt, pressed firmly against Lin Feng’s sternum, the ancient jade carving of the Primordial Dragon Pendant suddenly erupted with a brilliant halo of profound, abyssal darkness! A deep, primordial draconic roar—ancient, somber, and majestic—reverberated from the depths of his spiritual consciousness, fusing seamlessly with the scalding blood coursing through every artery and vein in his body!
The full might of the Black Dragon Ward detonated outward! A cloak of pitch-black energetic force clung to Lin Feng’s frame, draping over the youth’s lean shoulders like an archaic battle mantle forged from primordial shadow!
“You dared lay hands on my teacher...”
Lin Feng’s voice was not loud. Yet it struck like a clap of thunder splitting the heavens, piercing clean through the roaring deluge and screaming squall, ringing with razor-sharp clarity in the ears of every living being:
“Vile beast... Today, I, Lin Feng, shall grind your bones to dust and scatter your ashes upon this very earth!!”
The Black-Winged Frenzy Wolf, mere millimeters from driving its horn through Kang Mu’s skull, froze dead in its tracks!
The primal survival instincts of a Warrior-class apex predator suddenly sounded a shriek of existential dread!
Its four crimson eyes twitched violently, instantly snapping away from Kang Mu’s mangled body to glare fixedly at the puny human silhouette walking toward it.
Along the beast king’s spine, every jet-black hair—hard as forged steel needles—bristled straight up! It sensed a lethal, suffocating threat looming over it... A terror that did not stem from ordinary human spellcasting ranks, but from the breath of a primordial entity thousands of times more savage and tyrannical than itself, slumbering within the mortal shell of that frail youth!
“GRRRRRRR——!!”
The Black-Winged Frenzy Wolf snarled a guttural warning, its colossal frame instinctively recoiling half a step. Its leathery, skeletal bat wings flared wide, noxious venom frothing and dripping from between its jagged fangs, its four bloodshot eyes fixed in extreme, predatory vigilance.
Yet Lin Feng granted it not a single heartbeat to reconsider!
The moment the distance between them narrowed to under thirty meters, Lin Feng abruptly halted!
He flung both arms wide open to the heavens!
BOOOOOM——!!
A silent spiritual shockwave detonated across the minds of everyone present!
The entire world seemed to lose all ambient color, reduced to a stark monochrome where only two blinding, apocalyptic radiant forces materialized along the youth’s outstretched arms!
Upon Lin Feng’s right arm:
Seven gold-rimmed Tier 4 Fire Stars revolved at terminal velocity, interlocking in the span of a breath into a dazzling, golden Star Path! A colossal pillar of brooding, dark-crimson flame erupted ten meters into the sky, swirling violently like a hellish fire dragon rearing its head and roaring in defiance! The unfathomable thermal fury instantly melted the asphalt roadway beneath into a roiling, bubbling mire of molten magma!
And simultaneously... upon Lin Feng’s left arm:
An unprecedented tempest of violent, purplish-black lightning mana detonated in an apocalyptic fury! Seven Lightning Stars spun with ferocious speed, weaving ten thousand jagged arcs of violet-black thunder that writhed and coiled like a nest of berserk leviathan serpents tearing through the crimson rain! Ear-splitting concussions—CRACK! CRACK! CRACK!—shook the very fabric of the surrounding space!
On one side: A pillar of Gold-Rimmed Dark-Crimson Hellfire, harboring absolute annihilation!
On the other side: A storm of Heaven-Shaking Violet-Black Lightning, radiating boundless destruction!
Two diametrically opposed elements, bearing the most terrifying destructive potency in the entire magical spectrum, were now manifesting simultaneously upon a single human body! Exploding in unison under the absolute command of an eighteen-year-old youth!
“Heavens... Dear God in heaven...”
Ling Bai stared upward at the spectacle, his eyeballs bulging as if they would tear right out of their sockets! His entire body convulsed uncontrollably like a chaffinch in a tempest, his lips twitching spastically:
“Tier... Tier 4 Fire Element... And... and Tier 2 Primary Lightning?!”
“Dual... Dual Elements?! He... he was born with Innate Dual Elements?!”
Every student from Fenglan High froze as though turned to solid stone!
The weeping caught dead in Xiao Min’s throat! Zhang Hu’s jaw dropped so wide in sheer disbelief that the magic stone in his grasp slipped from his numb fingers, clattering into the mud!
Innate Dual Elements! The supreme talent whispered only in the ancient, mythical legends of human magical history had materialized in flesh and bone right before their very eyes!
“HOWWWWWLLLL——!!”
Sensing the imminent peril of utter extinction, the Black-Winged Frenzy Wolf went completely berserk!
There was no retreat left! The beast king unleashed a heaven-shattering roar. Its colossal bat wings beat down with earth-shattering force, whipping up a tempest of blinding grit and debris. The venomous horn on its brow billowed thick clouds of lethal black toxin.
Its ten-meter bulk catapulted forward like an apocalyptic meteorite, razor-sharp steel talons plunging downward from the sky, aimed squarely at Lin Feng’s head to grind him into oblivion!
“Die for me!!”
Lin Feng roared, both arms violently thrusting forward in unison!
A twin blitz of Thunder and Fire! The life-and-death Warrior-class clash between the youth bearing Innate Dual Elements and the Beast King of Cang Lei Ridge officially detonated with earth-shattering fury in the very heart of Bian’an City!