After I, the Villain, Lie Flat, All the Heroines Panic!
Chapter 23

Ye Xuan's Dao Heart Collapses Again! Is This Cheater Going to Let Anyone Else Play?

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Boom—!!!

If Lin Yuan's earlier suppression of Ye Xuan with a single thought had been a depth charge dropped into everyone's understanding,

then this video of him making Huangfu Zhuo kneel with one glance was the equivalent of detonating a nuclear bomb!

"Holy shit, shit, shit! What the hell did I just watch? Was that an immortal descending to the mortal world?!"

"Guy upstairs, take out the 'was'! He is an immortal! One glance! He fucking just looked at him once! A Marrow Cleansing Realm Sixth Level genius kneeled like a grandson!"

"I know Huangfu Zhuo! The Qilin Son of the Huangfu Family, notorious for being arrogant and overbearing, with extraordinary combat strength! And yet... before Lin Shen, he was worth less than a dog!"

"Do you know what the most outrageous part was? Lin Shen was lying down the whole time! He could not even be bothered to get up! In the end, he even yawned because he thought the guy was too noisy! That aura was maxed out!"

"Ye Xuan is still fighting for his life over the national championship, while Lin Shen is lying at home sleeping and casually causing a stir a hundred times greater than winning the championship! Comparing people really can make people die of anger!"

"Please, stop comparing Ye Xuan to Lin Shen. That is an insult to a god!"

The storm online swept through every corner with unstoppable force.

Capital Martial Arts Academy, Girls' Dormitory.

Gu Ningxue was reclining on the sofa.

She was applying a face mask while scrolling through posts with great interest.

When she saw the video pushed to the very top, her rosy lips curled into a beautiful arc.

In the video,

that man still looked languid, as though nothing in the world could interest him.

Yet it was precisely that laziness etched into his bones that had led him to do something that shocked the entire world.

"A lion never cares about the opinions of sheep..."

Gu Ningxue recalled those words once more and could not help letting out a soft laugh.

"This man really is... becoming harder and harder to see through, and more and more interesting..."

She closed the video, an unusual gleam flickering in her beautiful eyes.

She suddenly felt that perhaps she ought to be a little more proactive.

Elsewhere,

the atmosphere in Li Xuan'er's room was as oppressive as hell.

She had seen the video too.

When she saw Huangfu Zhuo's incomparably arrogant figure crash to his knees under Lin Yuan's indifferent gaze, blood spilling from his mouth,

she was utterly stunned.

A sense of absurdity and terror, a thousand times stronger than when the Security Guard had humiliated her with "release the dogs," instantly swept through her entire body!

She finally understood.

She had always believed that Ye Xuan's rise meant she had seized another path to the summit.

But only now did she realize

that she had merely jumped from an aircraft carrier onto a log that could sink at any moment, smugly believing she had a discerning eye for talent!

Lin Yuan's strength had already surpassed the limits of her understanding!

What did the little strength Ye Xuan had gained by burning his life amount to before Lin Yuan's godlike power?

A joke! A Huge Joke!

No!

This could not go on!

She had already lost everything!

She absolutely could not watch helplessly as her last shred of hope was destroyed too!

Jealousy, resentment, regret, fear...

All kinds of emotions intertwined in her heart, eventually converging into a mad thought.

Ye Xuan!

Right! There was still Ye Xuan!

He was now the brightest star in the National League, about to claim the championship!

For him, she had sacrificed so much back then!

She had given him all the resources Lin Yuan had given her!

He could not be so heartless!

As long as they got back together, there would definitely still be a chance with his current fame and status!

As though she had seized her last life-saving straw, Li Xuan'er's eyes reignited with a trace of sickly light.

She abruptly rose from the bed and rushed out of the room.

Inside the presidential suite of the five-star hotel where the National League contestants were staying,

Ye Xuan had just finished a grueling match and was basking in the Cheers and Adoration of the crowd, which surged like mountains and seas.

He opened the forum, intending to admire the posts online praising him.

However, what entered his sight was a title that made his pupils suddenly contract.

[Epic Scene! Senior Lin Yuan Opens His Eyes, and a Huangfu Family Genius Kneeled on the Spot!]

Lin Yuan?

His heart skipped a beat, and an ominous premonition surged into his heart.

As if possessed, he clicked on the video.

When he saw that figure he hated to the bone merely lazily open his eyes and make a Martial Artist whose aura was far stronger than his kneel without any ability to resist,

Rumble—!

Ye Xuan's mind seemed to be struck head-on by a nuclear bomb, instantly exploding into Blankness!

"No... impossible! This is absolutely impossible!"

He leapt to his feet, looking like a madman, and smashed the million-dollar jade table before him into pieces with one punch!

"Huangfu Zhuo is at the Marrow Cleansing Realm Eighth Level! He is even stronger than me! What gives Lin Yuan the right?! What gives him the right to make him kneel with a single look?!"

"What Realm is he in, exactly?! Marrow Cleansing Realm Ninth Level? No! Even at the peak of the Ninth Level, he absolutely Cannot Do It! This makes no sense! This is unfair!"

He had fought desperately, risked his life, and burned away his lifespan just to earn his current achievements and status.

He had thought that he could finally stand on the same level as Lin Yuan, or even surpass him!

But what was the result?

Reality dealt him the loudest and cruelest slap across the face!

Not only had the gap between him and Lin Yuan not narrowed, it had instead widened into a chasm so vast that even looking up at it filled him with despair!

Pfft—

With fury attacking his heart, he could no longer suppress the roiling blood and qi within his body. He sprayed out a mouthful of blood, staining the luxurious carpet red.

Just Then, the Extreme Dao Ancestor's aged voice, carrying a trace of exhaustion, slowly rang out within his Consciousness Sea.

"Alas..."

"This old man told you long ago that Lin Yuan was unfathomable, and warned you to guard against arrogance and impatience, but you simply refused to listen!"

"You thought that with a forbidden secret art, you could ascend to the heavens in a single step and trample him beneath your feet? Foolish!"

"On the path of martial arts, one's foundation is the most important! His family possesses immense wealth and influence. Since childhood, he has been steeped in Natural Treasures; the depth of his foundation is beyond anything you can imagine! How could the gap between you and him be so easily bridged?"

"Teacher..." Ye Xuan's voice trembled with despair. "Could it be... after giving so much and burning my life away, in the end... I still do not even have the qualifications to be his opponent?"

The Extreme Dao Ancestor fell silent for a moment before slowly saying, "Since things have come to this, saying more is useless. Your only path is to work harder than him! Use a hundredfold, a thousandfold more sweat to make up the gap between you!"

"Work hard... right! Work hard!"

After a brief moment of despair, the fire in Ye Xuan's eyes was replaced by something even crazier and more obsessive!

"I, Ye Xuan, am the Child of Destiny! I will never be defeated!"

"I will work even harder, until the day I trample him completely beneath my feet!"

He was just about to throw himself into frenzied cultivation once more.

Just Then, the doorbell to the room suddenly rang.

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