Chapter 329: Convincing a Rock.

Hearing her words, Li Feng fell silent as his brows slowly furrowed.

His gaze turn sharp as it settled on her imposing pressure.

"That’s your way of asking?"

A faint chuckle escaped him as he felt the surge of battle intent rising from her.

It doesn’t look like she’s really asking for his permission but rather... trying to force it.

Yet beneath his carefree smile, a trace of confusion lingered in his eyes.

Someone like her... clearly look like a genius from the righteous path... So why?

Why was she so intent on killing Yue Lan?

There had to be a reason and he needed to understand it.

So instead of attacking immediately, he asked,

"Why are you so obsessed with killing my senior sister?" His voice then lowered slightly. "I don’t recall us ever offending you."

Wei Zhenxin seemed to have expected the question.

Still, she hesitated for a brief moment before answering.

"...Because if she lives, many will suffer."

At that answer, Li Feng blinked.

For a second, he simply stared at her as if trying to process what he had just heard.

Then... slowly...

He lifted a hand and covered his face as a disbelieving laugh slipped through his fingers.

"...Haha... so that’s all?"

His shoulders trembled faintly as amusement seeping into his voice.

"...And why would you even think of that?"

Wei Zhenxin didn’t answer immediately.

From the way he spoke, she could already tell how much he valued that woman.

His protectiveness was impossible to miss.

Her grip tightened on her sword as she stared at him, clearly weighing something.

"...Even if I told you, you wouldn’t believe me."

Li Feng slowly lowered his hand.

The smile still lingered on his lips, but his eyes had changed... now colder and sharper.

"Oh? Then you expect me to just stand here... and let you kill her?"

A faint pressure began to spread from his body, subtle at first, then gradually suffocating.

"Or..." he added casually, "...are you planning to kill me as well?"

Wei Zhenxin’s gaze hardened.

She could feel the power radiating from him, yet she remained resolute.

"If you stand in my way... then yes."

Her words made the air between them freeze.

For a brief moment, neither of them moved.

Then Li Feng laughed again but this time softer, yet more dangerous.

"Hahaha, Interesting."

He slowly took a step forward.

Each step felt heavy, as if carrying an invisible weight that pressed down on the surroundings.

His eyes remained locked on hers.

"You speak of suffering..." he murmured, his voice almost amused, "yet you walk around with killing intent like it’s the most natural thing in the world."

At his words, a flicker of hesitation and conflict flashed through Wei Zhenxin’s eyes, but it vanished just as quickly.

"...You don’t understand."

"Then make me understand," Li Feng cut in, his tone suddenly sharp.

The playful air around him was gone.

His face turned serious, revealing a deeper, colder side of him beneath the surface.

"I’m giving you a chance here," he said, his gaze narrowing slightly. "Because right now... I’m still curious."

Then, faintly, he murmured,

"...And because you haven’t crossed the line yet."

The meaning behind his words was clear: Kill Yue Lan, and there would be no more talking... only consequences.

Then silence stretched between them.

The wind brushed past lightly, yet the space felt unbearably heavy and oppressive.

Wei Zhenxin’s eyes wavered for the briefest moment before she opened her mouth.

"...You think I want to kill others?" she said quietly.

Li Feng didn’t respond as he simply watched her in silence.

"...You don’t know what she is," Wei Zhenxin continued, her voice lowering further. "....What she’ll become."

Li Feng’s expression remained unchanged but a flicker of curiosity sparked in his eyes.

For some reason, he had a feeling this might give him a clue about the calamity awaiting Yue Lan, so he asked patiently,

"...Oh? Then enlighten me."

Wei Zhenxin hesitated again, this time longer as if even speaking of it carried an unbearable weight.

"... Through divination, I saw it."

Her fingers tightened around the hilt of her sword.

"...a future filled with tragedy, all caused by that woman."

"Saw... what?"

At her words, Li Feng’s smile faded slightly as he began to roughly understand what had driven this woman to desperately want to kill Yue Lan.

But even so, he didn’t expect her reason to be based on fortune-telling...

It was so absurd that he couldn’t even bring himself to laugh.

"So you’re telling me that you want to kill my senior sister... because of something you saw from some technique?"

He sneered, "That is just... ridiculous."

Wei Zhenxin didn’t back down, as if the memory itself filled her heart with rage.

"In that future, she wasn’t human anymore! She stood above mountains of corpses!"

Her voice and eyes burned with rage as if she had witnessed the entire tragic scene firsthand.

"Entire sects erased... cities turned to ice..."

A faint tremor entered her voice.

"People begged her to spare them... and she just looked down on all life with cold indifference."

At her words, Li Feng’s brows furrowed deeply.

He could never imagine his Yue Lan, who was cold on the outside yet warm within ever becoming something like that.

’Could it be that this woman was tricked or manipulated into trying to kill Yue Lan?’

That thought couldn’t help but cross his mind.

If so, then this woman was truly foolish.

To be honest, he didn’t want to kill another fellow disciple from the righteous path... especially one as beautiful and heroic as her.

As much as he hated to admit it, the world needed people like Wei Zhenxin.

Not to mention, she was a powerful genius in her own right.

But no matter what, Li Feng’s priorities were clear.

Even if Yue Lan truly turned into such a monster in the future, he would never kill her now.

But if that day ever came and her words turned out to be true... then he would simply let his future self deal with it, rather than worry about something that hadn’t even happened yet.

Li Feng had never been one to concern himself with what had yet to happen.

So he tried to reason with her.

"Maybe you were tricked? There’s no way my—"

"Enough."

Wei Zhenxin’s cold voice cut him off. "I know what I saw, and I don’t need you to believe me."

She raised her thunder sword, pointing it straight at him.

"I will make sure those tragedies never occur. So please... don’t get in my way."