A Genius of the Star Luo Imperial Family? Nothing but a Puny Clown

Dai Mubai, who was standing at the counter, also heard the footsteps coming from the entrance and turned around impatiently.

His gaze passed over Chu Yuan and swept toward Zhu Zhuqing by the door. When he saw Keqing's exquisite face, beautiful enough to topple kingdoms, her proudly ample breasts, and her superb jade legs clad in dark purple stockings, his evil eyes lit up with startling intensity, and his breathing grew noticeably heavier!

The twin sisters in his arms were instantly reduced to dirt on the ground before Keqing's cold, regal beauty, like that of a celestial maiden from the ninth heaven, and Zhu Zhuqing's icy yet fiery allure!

"Well, what wind blew through Suotuo City today to bring two such stunning beauties here at once?"

Dai Mubai shoved aside the somewhat dazed twins in his arms. His gaze first swept greedily over Zhu Zhuqing's voluptuous figure in her leather outfit, then settled even more brazenly on Keqing. An evil smile curled at his lips, one he clearly thought was dashing and domineering.

As for Chu Yuan, who had his arm around Keqing's waist, he looked no more than twelve or thirteen and had no fluctuations of Soul Power about him. Accustomed to arrogance, Dai Mubai dismissed him outright as some ordinary rich young master who didn't know the immensity of heaven and earth.

Yet faced with Dai Mubai's predatory, frivolous gaze, Chu Yuan did not even raise an eyelid.

It was as though he hadn't seen the living, breathing man standing in the lobby at all. With his arm around Keqing, he walked straight past Dai Mubai to the front desk, took out a pure gold coin he had casually condensed with the gold element in the grotto-heaven, and placed it gently on the counter.

"Give me the best suite on the top floor."

Chu Yuan's voice was calm and even, neither loud nor soft, yet it carried an unquestionable authority.

The front desk manager stared at the red-gold coin on the counter, its purity astonishing and its weight worth dozens of Gold Soul Coins. Then he met Chu Yuan's deep, calm gaze. His mind buzzed, and, as if possessed, he ignored Dai Mubai beside him. With trembling hands, he picked up the one and only red rose room card and respectfully offered it to Chu Yuan.

"Y-yes! Please take this, honored guest. The top-floor rose suite is at the far end of the third floor!"

"You're courting death!!"

Completely ignored, Dai Mubai's expression darkened to the extreme, and a fierce light blazed in his evil eyes!

He had run roughshod over Suotuo City for two years. As a level thirty-seven Power Attack System Battle Soul Elder, let alone ordinary people, what Soul Master of the same level didn't give the "Evil-Eyed White Tiger" a wide berth?

Yet today, a greenhorn without even a trace of Soul Power had snatched his room in front of three beauties, without so much as giving him a proper look!

"Brat, you dare reach for a room this young master has his eye on? Leave the room card and that purple-haired beauty beside you, then get out!"

Furious enough to laugh, Dai Mubai stepped forward. The raging Soul Power of a level thirty-seven Battle Soul Elder erupted without restraint, kicking up a fierce wind that swept rose petals off the floor. His fan-sized hand swooped toward the shoulder of Chu Yuan's room-card-holding arm with a piercing rush of air!

He had put a full fifty percent of his Soul Power into the grab, intending to crush Chu Yuan's shoulder bone on the spot and display his domineering might as a powerhouse before Keqing and Zhu Zhuqing.

Zhu Zhuqing's pupils contracted slightly at the sight, and she instinctively wanted to call out a warning. No matter how much Dai Mubai disgusted her, he was still a genuine three-ring Battle Soul Elder!

But before Dai Mubai's hand could get within three feet of Chu Yuan-

"Insolence! What makes you worthy of being rude to Chu Yuan?!"

A woman's cry, cold as frost and filled with piercing killing intent, suddenly rang out through the lobby!

Keqing, who had been nestled obediently in Chu Yuan's embrace, turned her amethyst eyes bone-chillingly cold. She held a high position among the Liyue Qixing in Liyue Harbor, and now she had entrusted both body and heart to Chu Yuan. How could she tolerate a debauched ruffian speaking rudely to her man, much less daring to look her over with such a filthy, lecherous gaze?!

"Clang-!"

There was no need for Chu Yuan to act. In an instant, an ornate longsword, the Lion's Roar, appeared in Keqing's slender, jade-white right hand, brilliant violet-gold lightning flickering along it!

With her Vision reforged by Chu Yuan's Crown of Heavenly Principles, and the terrifying boost from her first Divine Authority Soul Ring, Violet Firmament Divine Oracle, which ignored thirty percent of Soul Power defense, just how astonishing was the Electro power erupting from Keqing's body now?

Dark purple lightning instantly coiled around her long, shapely legs in black stockings and the edge of her sword. Keqing tapped the ground lightly with her toe, and her figure became a violet lightning afterimage of extreme speed. Moving later but arriving first, she intercepted the attack at Chu Yuan's side. With a flick of her wrist, she struck at Dai Mubai's grasping right palm with the hilt and the lightning from the half inch of blade she had drawn, without even fully unsheathing the sword!

"What?!"

Dai Mubai saw a flash of purple light, and a terrifying sword intent sharp enough to make his scalp tingle came crashing toward his face along with raging lightning!

His expression changed in horror. No longer daring to underestimate her, he frantically channeled his Soul Power. Three Soul Rings, two yellow and one purple, rose instantly from beneath his feet. His first Soul Skill, White Tiger Protection Barrier, and his third Soul Skill, White Tiger Vajra Transformation, lit up almost simultaneously on instinct. The muscles in his arms bulged, and he crossed them before his chest!

"Boom-crack-!!"

The violet-gold lightning of the Heavenly Principles and the white protective barrier of the White Tiger collided with a thunderous crash in the middle of the lobby!

What happened next nearly scared Dai Mubai's soul out of his body.

His prized dual defense of White Tiger Protection Barrier and White Tiger Vajra Transformation, capable of withstanding a full-force strike from a Soul Elder of the same rank, was like thin ice made of paper when it touched that wisp of violet-gold lightning. Violet Firmament Divine Oracle's defense-ignoring law and Keqing's sword Qi, condensed to the utmost, pierced straight through it, shattering it inch by inch!

"Pfft-!"

The raging Violet Firmament lightning surged through Dai Mubai's crossed arms and into his body. Electricity crackled all over him as he was blasted backward!

Wood splinters and rose petals rained down through the air.

Zhu Zhuqing stood by the lobby entrance, her cherry lips slightly parted, her delicate, fair face filled with incredulous shock!

Defeated?!

Dai Mubai, one of the outstanding talents among the Star Luo Imperial Family's younger generation, the possessor of the top-tier Beast Martial Soul, the Evil-Eyed White Tiger, had his protective Soul Skills shattered and was sent flying, spitting blood, by a single strike from this purple-haired girl who had not even fully drawn her sword?!

"Cough, cough... pfft!"

Amid the wreckage and wood splinters, Dai Mubai struggled to push himself up, but blood and Qi churned in his chest, and he choked out another mouthful of congealed blood.

He raised his head and stared at Keqing, standing gracefully beside Chu Yuan. His voice trembled uncontrollably. "Y-you... who the hell are you?! How could you break my White Tiger Vajra Transformation without even showing a Soul Ring?!"

"A frog at the bottom of a well like you thinks you're worthy of asking my master's name?"

Keqing swept a cold glance at Dai Mubai, who was as wretched as a dead dog, and turned her wrist. The Lion's Roar dissolved into specks of violet-gold light and vanished into the air.

Had Chu Yuan not refrained from giving the order to kill, that strike would not have been a blow with the hilt; she would have cut the ruffian's head clean off.

Without even turning his head, Chu Yuan accepted the red room card the front desk manager offered with both hands and slipped an arm around Keqing's slender waist again.

"Why get angry with a stray dog by the roadside and dirty your hands? Come on, let's go upstairs and see the room first."

Feeling the warmth and affection in Chu Yuan's palm, the ice in Keqing's eyes melted away at once. "Mm," she answered softly.

Together, the two walked toward the spiral staircase leading to the third floor.

As they passed the lobby entrance, Chu Yuan paused for half a breath and glanced indifferently at Zhu Zhuqing, whose breathing was tense.

Their eyes met for only an instant, but Zhu Zhuqing felt as though the young man had seen straight through her soul and the hidden internal injuries within her. Her heart began pounding uncontrollably.

Only when Chu Yuan's retreating figure, his arm around the graceful Keqing, had vanished around the corner on the second floor did Zhu Zhuqing come back to her senses. She glanced at Dai Mubai, who was beside himself with shame and anger but didn't dare let out another fart. The disgust and contempt in her eyes deepened. Without hesitation, she turned and left the Rose Hotel, disappearing into the streets and alleys outside.