Xiao Chen's Dantian Had Recovered?

"Holy shit, Xiao Lingtian is too ruthless, isn't he? Knowing full well that Xiao Chen is a cripple, he still made him go up for the test. Isn't he plainly trying to humiliate him?"

"Who told Xiao Chen to overestimate himself and insist on taking the assessment? A cripple with a shattered dantian is obviously just making a spectacle of himself!"

"This useless Xiao Chen is finished now. If he really goes up to test himself in front of so many people, he'll lose all face and won't be able to hold his head up anywhere in Barren North City from now on! For Zhenbei King Manor to have such a disgrace, what a misfortune for the family!"

Hearing Xiao Lingtian's words, the crowd broke into discussion. Quite a few wore cold smiles at the corners of their lips as they shot disdainful looks at Xiao Chen.

People loved to fawn on the high and trample the low. Back when Xiao Chen's King Physique had not been crippled, he had suppressed Xiao Lingtian so thoroughly that Xiao Lingtian could not even raise his head. The world knew only that Zhenbei King Manor had Xiao Chen; few ever mentioned Xiao Lingtian.

Now, everything had been turned upside down. Xiao Lingtian basked in boundless glory, while Xiao Chen endured nothing but scorn and contempt.

Sweeping his gaze over everyone's expressions, Xiao Chen's eyes held a trace of melancholy. Sure enough, in any world, it was the strong who devoured the weak.

If he had not awakened the system, he would probably have spent his entire life living like a stray dog amid everyone's scorn.

But now, none of that could possibly happen.

With the system in hand, he would surely soar between heaven and earth and grind every enemy beneath his feet.

"You want to see me make a fool of myself that badly? My dear little brother from back then!"

A cold smile curved Xiao Chen's lips.

"Xiao Chen, don't try to act close to me. Who's your brother? You've already been struck from the rolls of Zhenbei King Manor, understand? You're nothing but a stray dog now!"

Xiao Lingtian looked arrogant and overbearing, regarding Xiao Chen as though he were an ant.

Seeing the two brothers arguing again, Wen Wanrong could not help rising and walking over to Xiao Chen. Softly, she said, "Chen'er, hurry back! Today is your brother's great day of entering Saintly Wasteland Academy. Don't spoil things for him."

At those words, a chill immediately rose in Xiao Chen's heart.

Spoil things?

Simply coming to take an academy assessment meant he was spoiling things for Xiao Lingtian?

Just because Xiao Lingtian did not want to see him, Wen Wanrong wanted to drive him away?

Heh heh!

She had played favorites to such an extent, yet still went on and on about treating everyone equally. She truly had no shame at all!

Good thing he had cut ties with this family quickly. Otherwise, they would have disgusted him to death sooner or later!

"Wen Wanrong, in your eyes, does my mere presence spoil things for you all? If so, then stay farther away from me! Because talking to you disgusts me too!"

Xiao Chen sneered.

Wen Wanrong's face filled with astonishment.

She merely did not want the two brothers to turn against each other. How could Xiao Chen speak to her so harshly?

Couldn't an elder brother yield just a little to his younger brother?

"You unfilial beast! How dare you speak to your mother like that? Do you have no regard at all for the bond between mother and son?"

Xiao Zhentian flew into a rage. With a flash, he vanished from his seat, appearing directly before Xiao Chen the very next second.

"The bond between mother and son? Do I have that with her? Isn't Xiao Lingtian the only son in her heart?"

Xiao Chen said expressionlessly.

"I know you harbor resentment, but today is the great day your brother transforms from a hidden dragon and soars into the heavens. It is not your turn to make trouble here! Get the hell out this instant, or I'll break your legs!"

Xiao Zhentian said with an icy expression.

"Great Xia law states that every citizen of Great Xia may participate in martial academy assessments. Why can't I?"

Xiao Chen asked without changing expression.

"Your dantian is shattered and your talent utterly ruined. What meaning is there in taking part?"

"Xiao Zhentian, have you ever heard of Phoenix Nirvana, or withered trees blooming again in spring? If I said my dantian had already recovered, would you believe me?"

Xiao Chen looked at Xiao Zhentian with a teasing expression.

The moment those words were spoken.

Everyone present froze, before mocking smiles appeared on many faces.

"This kid's brain must be full of water. He actually says a shattered dantian can regenerate. Does he take us for three-year-olds?"

"Exactly. In Great Xia's five-thousand-year history, no one has ever heard of a shattered dantian recovering. Even when Xiao Chen lies, he can't make up a better excuse!"

"He probably saw how amazing his younger brother is, how much the Zhenbei King and his wife dote on him, and became so unbalanced that he went mad!"

Xiao Zhentian also looked deeply disappointed. He said coldly, "Are you mocking me for not doing everything in my power to treat you? You can investigate it yourself. Since Great Xia came into being, no one has ever regenerated after their dantian was shattered. I already did everything I could back then!"

Wen Wanrong also stepped forward. "That's right, Chen'er. How could we possibly refuse to save you if we could? You are our biological son! Now, please leave first, all right? If Saintly Wasteland Academy is angered, your brother's future will be ruined!"

"What does his future have to do with me?"

Xiao Chen answered coldly, then walked straight onto the plaza beneath everyone's astonished gazes.

"That unfilial beast won't stop until he has utterly disgraced my Zhenbei King Manor!" Xiao Zhentian was so furious that his face turned pale.

"Chen'er has truly gone too far this time. I only hope Saintly Wasteland Academy won't form a bad impression of Lingtian because of this!"

Wen Wanrong's face was likewise full of worry.

"How could he have become so lacking in propriety in only three years? Good thing I broke off the engagement with him in time!"

Not far away, Ye Qingxuan watched the scene with disappointment and contempt in her eyes!

"Xiao Chen, I didn't expect you to actually dare come up!"

Xiao Lingtian, standing on the plaza, was brimming with excitement.

Xiao Chen had suppressed him for a full fifteen years. For all those years, he had lived beneath Xiao Chen's shadow. Now that he finally had a chance to humiliate Xiao Chen, he was so thrilled he practically wanted to jump up and down!

Xiao Chen merely gave him an indifferent glance, said nothing, and walked directly to Zhao Cang.

"You should go down. A shattered dantian cannot reveal any talent in the test, so there's no need to waste time here!"

Zhao Cang said coldly.

"Since I'm already here, I might as well test it!"

Xiao Chen directly placed his hand on the Martial Purity Instrument.

"Xiao Chen, the Martial Hall assessment is a very serious matter. You're making such a fuss, I—"

Zhao Cang's words stopped abruptly halfway through. As he stared at the Martial Purity Instrument before him, blazing with azure light, his pupils suddenly contracted. His face was filled with shock, and his eyes widened as round as brass bells. "He... Heaven Tier! You're Heaven Tier too!"

He simply could not believe the scene that had just unfolded before his eyes.

The instant Xiao Chen's palm was placed above the Martial Purity Instrument, it abruptly trembled. Then, it instantly burst forth with an incomparably dazzling azure radiance!

The explosive force behind that azure glow was terrifying. In almost an instant, the Martial Purity Instrument shone as brilliantly and eye-catchingly as an azure sun.

Its momentum was far more overwhelming than what Xiao Lingtian had produced earlier.

At the sight of this.

Everyone present was dumbfounded!

What the hell was going on?

Wasn't Xiao Chen a cripple with a shattered dantian?

How did he have Heaven Tier talent?

And judging by the look of it, it was not ordinary Heaven Tier talent either!

Several academy mentors were so excited that they directly crushed the teacups in their hands!

Xiao Zhentian felt as if his heart were about to stop. Heaven Tier—another Heaven Tier! His Xiao Family had actually produced two Heaven Tier talents at once! Heaven truly intended to bless the Xiao Family with prosperity!

Wen Wanrong was completely stunned as well, covering her mouth with her hand, her eyes wide in disbelief.

Not far away, Ye Qingxuan's delicate body trembled lightly. She simply could not believe what she was seeing.

Xiao Chen's dantian had actually recovered?

And judging from the Martial Purity Instrument's reaction, Xiao Chen's talent was even greater than Xiao Lingtian's!

How was that possible?

"Impossible, absolutely impossible! The Martial Purity Instrument must be malfunctioning! He's only a cripple with a shattered dantian. How could he possibly possess Heaven Tier talent!"

After his shock, Xiao Lingtian looked as if he had gone mad!

He simply could not accept the fact before him. Xiao Chen's useless dantian had clearly shattered—how could it possibly be healed again?

Such a thing had never happened in thousands of years!