Yu Tianheng's Fury

Yu Tianheng's Fury

Most importantly! Chen Ming, a guy whose family did not even have a Soul Douluo, actually dared to steal a woman from Yu Tianheng?

Not long after Dugu Yan awakened her Martial Soul at the age of six, Yu Tianheng saw her at a banquet while accompanying his grandfather, Yu Yuanzhen.

Yu Tianheng had been eight then, while Dugu Yan was six. The moment Yu Tianheng, who had only just begun to understand relationships between men and women, saw Dugu Yan, he felt his heart pounding wildly. The maid who had introduced him to the world of adults and left him utterly infatuated was no longer appealing at all in that instant.

After returning home, Yu Tianheng sent the maid who had once bewitched him off to mine in the Extreme North Land. He could neither eat nor sleep as he thought about Dugu Yan, eventually drawing Yu Yuanzhen's attention.

After Yu Tianheng told his grandfather about it, Yu Yuanzhen was somewhat surprised, but he still reluctantly agreed to ask Dugu Bo whether he approved of it.

However, Dugu Yan had only just awakened her Martial Soul at the time. A whole crowd of people eager to forge a connection with Dugu Bo lined up to arrange marriage contracts with Dugu Yan, enraging Dugu Bo so thoroughly that he dragged out those men in their forties and fifties who wanted to marry his granddaughter during a Heaven Dou Empire court assembly and hung them up for a beating.

The nobles who were beaten were all injected with poison by Dugu Bo. For a week, they were delirious and unable to distinguish reality from illusion. For a month, they suffered from incontinence. They could not even get out of bed for a full three months.

Some of the younger ones supposedly regained their vigor nearly a year later. As for those who had already been older, or simply weaker, it was said they still had not recovered their abilities even now.

Seeing Dugu Bo's nearly crazed state, even Yu Yuanzhen could not easily provoke him at that moment.

Although Dugu Bo's individual strength was indeed far inferior to Yu Yuanzhen's, when it came to threat level—

Dugu Bo was among the very top on the entire continent.

The only weakness on his entire body was his granddaughter, Dugu Yan. If Dugu Bo were provoked, he could simply hide Dugu Yan away and then go mad across the continent.

And so, they waited several more years.

A few years later, Yu Yuanzhen brought Yu Tianheng to Dugu Bo's door and brought up the matter.

Out of consideration for Yu Yuanzhen's strength, which surpassed his own by a considerable margin, Dugu Bo politely turned him down, claiming that the children were still too young and they could discuss it again in a few years.

Although Yu Yuanzhen stopped paying much attention to Yu Tianheng's pursuit of Dugu Yan afterward and returned to seclusion,

that very indifference severely provoked Yu Tianheng instead. His behavior gradually began to turn somewhat twisted.

As the sect leader's eldest grandson, Yu Tianheng also had elders backing him. Moreover, these elders cared far more about Yu Tianheng pursuing Dugu Yan than Yu Yuanzhen, his actual grandfather, did.

Over the years, Yu Tianheng had been utterly obsessed with Dugu Yan. He knew exactly what she liked to eat and what colors she liked. He also knew very well that Dugu Yan disliked weak people and preferred those with strength who appeared cold and aloof.

Ever since Dugu Yan entered the academy, Yu Tianheng had constantly monitored her movements. He had even secretly encouraged several students who had not initially been so fanatical to passionately pursue Dugu Yan, all so that he could find an opportunity to deal with these toads before her and earn her favor.

At first, some students had not dared at all, because many of their elders had been among those punished by Dugu Bo in the imperial palace back then. They had witnessed firsthand what those people suffered.

But the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan's connections and influence made everyone obediently play their assigned roles.

Whether through coercion, temptation, or both, the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan had plenty of methods—enough to make those people obediently comply.

In recent years, the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan's only Titled Douluo had been its sect leader, Yu Yuanzhen. In pursuit of a higher realm, Yu Yuanzhen remained in seclusion year-round. Most of the clan's internal affairs were handled by Yu Luomian, Yu Yuanzhen's younger brother and the sect's second-strongest member.

In many people's eyes, Yu Luomian, the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan's second-in-command, seemed more like a sect leader than Yu Yuanzhen, who spent all year in seclusion.

For if Yu Yuanzhen was a proud True Dragon soaring through the heavens, whose anger manifested as thunder that crushed everything before him into dust with pure power,

then Yu Luomian was undoubtedly a snake crawling through the shadows of the earth. Though he appeared similar to the True Dragon in the sky, what lay beneath his bones was shrewdness and calculation.

Not only did he borrow the dragon's might, but he also harbored a hidden scheme in his heart.

Although Yu Tianheng was Yu Yuanzhen's biological grandson, his talent was inferior to that of his cousin, Yu Tianxin, within the sect. Furthermore, Yu Yuanzhen generally ignored worldly matters, allowing the sect to become almost entirely Yu Luomian's domain.

Though they appeared harmonious on the surface, Yu Tianheng deeply coveted the position of young sect leader of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan. In his heart, he wished his cousin Yu Tianxin would drop dead on the spot.

In order to win Dugu Yan and use Dugu Bo's strength to secure his position as young sect leader, Yu Tianheng had become willing to pay any price this time.

Once several leading figures had stepped into their roles, the remaining spectators, who lacked much self-awareness to begin with, naturally became part of the play.

Among these students, where vermin made up the mainstream, all it took was one or two leaders to break their awe of a Titled Douluo. The rest, whose brains had never worked particularly well, would naturally reveal their true colors.

With help from the elders behind him, Yu Tianheng had already prepared the stage and actors. He had merely been waiting for Dugu Yan to acquire her third Soul Ring before putting on a grand performance. With his cold entrance and domineering strength, he intended to leave a profound first impression in Dugu Yan's heart.

Yet before Dugu Yan could obtain her Soul Ring, news arrived that Chen Ming had been holding Dugu Yan in his arms and engaging in broad daylight debauchery within the academy.

How could Yu Tianheng possibly endure that?!

Though he longed to use thunder to electrocute that little thief until he was scrambling in pathetic disarray before everyone, Yu Tianheng knew there were quite a few teachers in the cafeteria.

If he could not take down that little thief quickly, then once the teachers caught him, even if it benefited his bid to become the future young sect leader of the Number One Sect Under Heaven, he would still be punished by the three Education Committee Members.

Even if he was not sent back to the sect, he would still receive several days of confinement.

What was more, if Yu Luomian learned of this, he would definitely seize upon it, spread it far and wide within the sect, and "accidentally" let Yu Yuanzhen hear about it as well.

If that happened, he would only drift further and further from the position of young sect leader.

Thus, after unleashing a Lightning Dragon Claw, Yu Tianheng could only glare at Chen Ming and wait for Chen Ming to retaliate so that he could take the chance to strike viciously.

Though Yu Tianheng believed he had hidden his intentions well, they were as obvious as if they had been laid bare before Chen Ming. Therefore, despite Soul Power surging through his body and making it seem as though he might attack at any moment, Chen Ming had no intention of attacking first and handing over the most important excuse.

As the two stood on guard, a figure suddenly flashed over from afar. A Soul Master wreathed in flames stepped between them, Soul Power churning furiously around him.

"Take your fight to the arena! Using Soul Skills against fellow students in the school cafeteria—are you trying to get expelled from the academy?!"

Qin Ming shouted angrily, but his heart was full of conflict.

He had originally been preparing to eat in the faculty cafeteria nearby when he suddenly heard someone shout that a Soul Skill had been unleashed in the student cafeteria. He immediately used Martial Soul Possession and rushed over.

Along the way, Qin Ming overtook several teachers and became the first to arrive at the student cafeteria. But when he saw that the conflict involved Chen Ming and Yu Tianheng, his mind immediately went blank.

Since he had arrived first, the teachers who came after him either retreated even faster after seeing the situation in the cafeteria or quietly hid away. None of them had any intention of helping Qin Ming.

Though Qin Ming's feelings were complicated, he was still a responsible teacher. In the end, he forced himself to step in, intending to stop this farce unfolding in the cafeteria.

Seeing Qin Ming, a trace of disdain appeared in Yu Tianheng's eyes, and he gave a supposedly discreet snort.

Although he himself was only a Soul Elder who had broken through Rank 30 not long ago, relying on his background, he still looked down on Qin Ming, a Soul King who was nearly a Soul Emperor.

Seeing that Qin Ming had no intention of siding with him, Yu Tianheng naturally felt displeased.

"Teacher, that person ambushed my friend and even poisoned him. I simply could not stand by while my friend was humiliated, so I acted in a fit of rage."

"If anyone deserves punishment, it should naturally be Chen Ming."

"Hm?" Qin Ming turned his head suspiciously and glanced at the disposable pawn lying unnoticed on the ground nearby.

This disposable pawn's Martial Soul was a Thunder Dragon, a pure-blooded True Dragon Martial Soul. He was considered someone of note in the academy. Due to his Martial Soul and strength, Qin Ming had seen his records before and knew that he was Yu Tianheng's lackey at the academy. His reputation there was also extremely poor.

The moment Yu Tianheng used this person as an excuse, Qin Ming immediately concluded that even if Yu Tianheng had not orchestrated this incident from behind the scenes, it was definitely inseparable from him.

But seeing the large chunks of flesh missing from his body and the blood continuously flowing from his wounds, Qin Ming ultimately could not ignore him.

He gave Yu Tianheng a deep look, then went to the disposable pawn on the ground and used Soul Power to stabilize his condition. Afterward, he called over a healing-type student who had been watching the show nearby and had them use a Soul Skill.

Everyone says I pad things out and update too little, so I'll increase the word count in these chapters today. I'll try to bring every chapter closer to 3,000 characters.

Since everyone keeps complaining about the pacing...

I can only release all three chapters at once...