# Chapter 1021: Lin Feng Battles the Heavens
Lin Feng stood there, quietly feeling this surging momentum. At this moment, the five people on the Fourth Layer of Heaven all had terrifying flowing light battering against their bodies. Their entire bodies were tightly wound, as if the moment they relaxed, they would be crushed down, even having their flesh and blood burst apart and die.
"Foolish, now you're stuck between a rock and a hard place!" Yang Zilan said coldly. Then his foot stomped heavily, and with a thunderous boom, his steps continued upward, climbing the nine-layered heavenly staircase of the Fourth Layer of Heaven, step by step, footprint by footprint. However, after each step, they would pause for a moment, stabilizing their forms, steadying their breath and flesh, so as not to be crushed by this overwhelming momentum.
"You go first," Lin Feng said to Qiu Yuexin. Qiu Yuexin nodded slightly, then steadily stepped upward as well, step by step, footprint by footprint, not daring to slack off even a little.
"Aside from that person, all four aristocratic family geniuses are advancing!" The crowd's hearts were shaken. Having reached the Fourth Layer of Heaven, they were still pressing forward, constantly approaching Xuanyuan Potian's miracle. However, that person had finally reached his limit. It seemed just as Yang Zilan had said—stuck between a rock and a hard place.
The rumbling sounds of footsteps vibrated against the crowd's eardrums, causing their hearts to beat along with them. Finally, the four people's feet all firmly stopped, standing on the ninth step of the Fourth Layer of Heaven. But at this moment, their entire bodies were taut, not daring to relax even for an instant. The moment they relaxed, they would be crushed.
"Hmph!" Yang Zilan turned his head and coldly glanced at Lin Feng: "Pitiful person, in the end you'll be blasted down."
But at this moment, he saw Lin Feng reveal a mocking smile toward him, smiling exceptionally devilishly.
Lin Feng's feet began to move. One step crossed over, stepping onto another layer of the heavenly staircase. His body was as steady as a mountain peak, without the slightest wavering.
"Oh?" The crowd's expressions froze. But before they could even process it, they saw Lin Feng stepping out continuously, nine steps in a row, just like Xuanyuan Potian earlier—one step, one heavenly staircase—directly arriving at the same layer of staircase parallel to the others, stunning the crowd into a daze!
"How is this possible? An unknown person actually did it too!" The crowd's hearts were immensely shocked. That should have already been Yang Zilan and the others' limit. Yet Lin Feng had also reached it.
"Are you satisfied now?" Lin Feng lightly swept his gaze over Yang Zilan, his eyes full of mockery, causing Yang Zilan's expression to turn ashen. He felt unable to accept it. He knew he had reached his limit, but this person had also walked to his limit, making him feel very hard to accept.
"Heh heh, who dares to go up with me?" Meng Ba laughed arrogantly, causing the crowd's hearts to tremble violently. Meng Ba, he still wanted to go up? Was he really going to step onto the Fifth Layer of Heaven, just like Xuanyuan Potian?
"If you step up but can't reach the end of the Fifth Layer of Heaven, it's all for nothing. Instead, you'll put yourself in a dead end," Yang Zilan said coldly.
Lin Ruotian pondered for a moment, then his foot slightly stepped forward, stepping into that Sixth Layer of Heaven. His body shook violently, then his foot instantly retreated back, his body unsteadily stepping back one pace, nearly being blasted flying by the terrifying force.
"Not going," Lin Ruotian said indifferently, not intending to go up.
"Heh heh, since you're not going, I'll go up and play around." Meng Ba's gaze looked toward the sky above. His foot suddenly stepped toward the Fifth Layer of Heaven.
"Roar!" Pressured by the terrifying force of the Fifth Layer of Heaven, Meng Ba roared angrily. His entire robe burst apart, revealing terrifying chunks of muscle. On his bare body, terrifying patterns were flowing and circulating endlessly, forging his physical body to be incomparably powerful.
"Boom!"
A shocking sound rang out. Meng Ba's body steadied itself there. The terrifying oppressive force caused blood lines to appear on his body, extremely ferocious.
"Roar!" Meng Ba roared toward the sky. Rumbling, shocking footsteps rang out as his feet stepped out one after another, continuing to climb upward. Each step was like ten million jin of force. His knees were already bent from the pressure.
But that unyielding will drove him forward. In the end, Meng Ba stepped onto the ninth step of the Fifth Layer of Heaven, snatched a cyan key, and then light flickered as his body disappeared.
"He succeeded! Meng Ba succeeded!" The crowd felt their hearts surging with emotion. That scene was truly awe-inspiring.
Even Lin Ruotian and Yang Zilan stared blankly at this scene, their gazes flickering uncertainly.
"He is much stronger than you," Lin Feng said to Yang Zilan with cold mockery.
"Shut up! You just happened to be lucky enough to stand in the same position as me, and now you're getting cocky. An ant is still an ant!" Yang Zilan said coldly.
Lin Feng sneered at Yang Zilan. Then, a terrifying bloodline power began to churn violently within his body. True essence power, Buddha-Demon power, bloodline power—all spread throughout his entire body.
With a step, Lin Feng headed toward the Fifth Layer of Heaven. This scene caused everyone's eyes to freeze in place. This unknown person, he wanted to step onto the Fifth Layer of Heaven?
Only Qiu Yuexin showed no shock at all, as if everything was within her expectations. Lin Feng would definitely go further than her.
"Boom!" Lin Feng's foot firmly stepped onto the Fifth Layer of Heaven. The terrifying pressure seemed about to crush his body, but at the same time, terrifying power erupted, stabilizing his form.
Pausing for a few seconds, the crowd's gazes remained dazed. But they saw Lin Feng turn his head back to look at Yang Zilan.
"From the moment I stepped onto the Nine Layers of Heaven, you have been despising and mocking me, verbally insulting me as an ant, as if I am far inferior to you. Yet now, this ant is standing above your head, while you can only look up to me. I wonder what you are thinking at this moment?"
Lin Feng said to Yang Zilan calmly, his voice steady. But it stunned the crowd. What would Yang Zilan be thinking right now?
No one knew. Only Yang Zilan himself knew what he was thinking. He still felt unable to believe it.
"Your so-called superiority is nothing but your own delusion. I already said earlier that if someone as self-righteous as you were to set aside your family, you wouldn't even know how you died. Today's matter has been you humiliating yourself from start to finish. If I am an ant, then you are less than an ant!"
Lin Feng's words stabbed straight into the depths of Yang Zilan's heart. If Lin Feng was an ant, then Yang Zilan—was he truly less than an ant?
"Boom!" A terrifying, shocking sound snapped Yang Zilan back to reality. They saw Lin Feng's feet continuing to step toward the heavenly staircase above, step by step, like an ancient mountain, constantly shaking the ground. Under the crowd's horrified gazes, Lin Feng reached the last step of the Fifth Layer of Heaven. The cyan illusory light-formed key was within reach.
"An unknown person actually obtained the cyan light key, just like Xuanyuan Potian and Meng Ba!"
The crowd felt huge waves churning in their hearts. What Xuanyuan Potian had done, this person had also done.
Yang Zilan's fists clenched tightly, feeling greatly humiliated.
"Are we going up to the Heavenly Terrace?" Qiu Yuexin asked Lin Feng with a smile.
Lin Feng slightly shook his head, causing Qiu Yuexin to be puzzled. Then she heard Lin Feng continue: "When Xuanyuan Potian stepped onto the Sixth Layer of Heaven, he declared that everyone would stop here. Although his talent is terrifying, his words were too absolute."
"What?"
Hearing Lin Feng's words, the crowd's expressions instantly stiffened. Lin Feng, he actually wanted to surpass Xuanyuan Potian and step onto the Sixth Layer of Heaven?
"Courting death!" Yang Zilan mocked.
"Shut up!" Lin Feng coldly shouted at Yang Zilan, his expression indifferent: "You, who have humiliated yourself, have no right to speak here. You are not worthy!"
Yang Zilan's expression stiffened. Lin Feng said he was not worthy?
"An ant can still break a dike. Meng Ba dared to challenge his own limit, using his unyielding will to step onto this Fifth Layer of Heaven and obtain the cyan light key. Now that I stand on this Fifth Layer of Heaven with remaining strength, how could I not fight!" Lin Feng declared loudly, each word shocking, making people's blood boil.
Then, under the crowd's shocked gazes, Lin Feng took another step upward.
"Boom!" Gale-force winds and giant waves battered against Lin Feng's body. His long hair was blown straight. Lin Feng's body shook violently, as if a palace was pressing down, making his knees bend, as if he was about to kneel to the ground.
"A martial artist is unyielding, unrelenting, using their will to battle against heaven and earth. Heaven and earth have great momentum, wanting to crush people. I am a Heavenly Martial cultivator, in unity of heaven and man. How could I lack martial momentum? How could I be crushed by heaven and earth? If heaven presses down on me, I will battle heaven!"
Lin Feng raised his head, looking up at the sky. In his gaze, it was as if a sharp sword was charging into the clouds.
"Kill!"
Lin Feng roared angrily. His bent knees straightened. His body stood upright, majestic and proud. This was true pride. Yang Zilan's pride, before Lin Feng, was insignificant, very small—the pride of self-righteousness!
PS: Tenth chapter, thank you brothers for the flowers, but it's still very tense. I beg brothers to fight on, unyielding and unrelenting, fight!