All beasts submit, and the peerless imperial princess is about to defy the heavens!

Feng Ning smiled. "Yes, I'm not a member of the Hai family, so what I do is none of your business."

Hai Lingruo's face stiffened.

"You ungrateful ugly freak! My Hai family has been kind to you, and this is how you treat your saviors?"

"Savior? It was Old Master Hai who saved me, not you. Stop trying to make yourself look good. Besides, Old Master Hai saved my life, and I helped the Hai family become the winner of this family competition. We're even. I don't owe you anything."

Hai Lingruo drew her sword and pointed it at her. "Even? Don't even think about it! How can a life-saving grace be erased by winning once? If you want to even it out, then leave your life behind."

Feng Ning toyed with a strand of hair that fell across her chest. "Even Old Master Hai didn't say anything, so why are you barking like a dog? Can't you smooth things over? Do you really think that a bunch of idiots like you can get first place in the family competition? You really don't take the Kou family seriously, do you?"

"Shut up! Even with our own strength, we can get first place!" Hai Lingruo shouted angrily.

"Really? With your Qi Refining Stage 2 level? Young Master Kou is at least at the Foundation Establishment stage. You wouldn't be so arrogant as to think you can beat him, would you? No way, no way, you wouldn't really think that, would you?"

Hai Lingruo's face was extremely pale. She turned to look at Kou Chengze, gritted her teeth, and turned away without answering.

She had just heard clearly that the "Brother Chengze" that Hai Lingruo mentioned was Kou Chengze, the young master of the Kou family.

For her to say to my face that she could take first place, isn't that just disrespecting the Kou family?

Kou Chengze, despite his young age, has already broken through to the Foundation Establishment stage.

He was four years younger than Hai Lingruo's older brother, Hai Xingwei.

Hai Xingwei is only at the third stage of Foundation Establishment. In a few years, Kou Chengze will surpass Hai Xingwei, and the Kou family will still be the head of the three major families.

The Hai siblings have neither talent nor hard work, so how can they compare to Kou Chengze?

Hai Lingruo's face was pale, but Kou Chengze only glanced at her before turning his gaze back to her.

Hai Lingruo noticed the coldness in his attitude and quickly went closer, "Brother Chengze, don't listen to her nonsense. I didn't mean it that way. In my heart, you've always been the best."

Kou Chengze didn't say anything, he just looked at the person opposite him.

Hai Ning was in a bad mood after being inexplicably rebuked. She turned around and glared fiercely at Feng Ning.

Feng Ning looked completely indifferent.

Go ahead and glare at me, it won't hurt anyway, and you'll be the one who gets angry. She'll just be happy to see it happen.

With nothing happening here, everyone's attention returned to the person opposite them.

Having already been discovered, Feng Ning simply stopped pretending and ran to the front to watch the drama unfold.

"Liu Yunxiu, hand over the treasure at once!"

Liu Yunxiu was already seriously injured, but he still firmly gripped the Purple Lightning Dragon Spear in his hand, supporting himself and preventing himself from falling down.

"You're all just trying to steal my opportunity. What's with all this talk about being worthy or not? It's laughable! If you've got the guts, come on! Come on!"

Feng Ning looked at him with a smile and asked, "I remember who you are. You are the seventh-level Golden Spirit Root from the Liu family."

This sentence brought everyone's attention back to her.

She glanced around the crowd and found the Liu family members.

"Aren't these people from your Liu family? Aren't you going to do anything about it? Why are you just standing by and watching others bully your own family?"

The Liu family members' faces turned pale and then red, unsure how to refute the statement.

A member of the Hai family stepped forward and said, "He is just a member of a collateral branch of the Liu family. Why should the Liu family offend the Kou and Hai families for his sake?"

She glanced at his clothes. "Are you from the Hai family?"

The disciple, however, wore a smug expression and replied, "Yes, I am..."

"Alright, shut up. You're not even a direct descendant of the Hai family, are you? What right do you have to laugh at Liu Yunxiu? You're not even as good as him. At least he has a powerful spiritual root and extremely strong talent. What about you? A piece of trash who can't even make it into the top ten. How dare you laugh at him?"

Enraged, the man charged forward, yelling, "You little bitch! What did you say? You really think you're the second young lady of the Hai family?"

Seeing that he was charging forward with his broadsword, Feng Ning gently raised her hand, and the air in the small space suddenly turned cold.

As she activated her Frost Technique and was about to condense ice needles, a figure blocked her way, deflecting the large sword that was slashing at her with a spear.

She turned to look at Liu Yunxiu in surprise, only to see him spit out another mouthful of blood, his face even paler.

She sighed helplessly, "Alas... sickly beauty, you should take better care of yourself. Look at you spitting out blood, you look so pitiful."

Liu Yunxiu was stunned. Was she... flirting with him?

The others were equally dumbfounded.

What is this operation?

Before anyone could react, a slender object darted out and stabbed towards the man who had just attacked.

It struck him squarely in the shoulder, sending him flying and crashing to the ground, howling in pain.

"Aaaaah! What did you do to me?"

Feng Ning smiled and said, "Guess! Or you can call me a slut again, and I can demonstrate it for you again. I'm honest with you, young and old."

The man's eyes widened in terror. "You! You actually dared to hurt me!"

Feng Ning remained nonchalant, "Otherwise what? When I was in the Hai family, I didn't even take you seriously. Now that I've left the Hai family, why should I show you any mercy?"

Her move caught everyone off guard.

Many people didn't even see how she made her move. Even Kou Chengze, the strongest among them, couldn't see how she did it.

Especially since Kou Chengze hadn't reacted at all, the others were even more afraid to move.

She looked at Liu Yunxiu again, "Liu Yunxiu, are you leaving? You can hire me, all you need are two medicinal herbs."

Upon hearing this, everyone became anxious.

"no!"

"Can't leave!"

"Shut up! Who gave you permission to leave?" Hai Lingruo shouted angrily.

This is her treasure! The jade slip contains a water-based cultivation technique suitable for her. She had already discussed it with Kou Chengze, and he was willing to give her the jade slip.

How could she willingly give things away to someone else?

The Kou family members hurriedly looked at Kou Chengze, "Young Master, we can't let him take that jade slip away!"

"Little Lord!"

Kou Chengze gave him a cold look. "Shut up!"