You Think You're Worthy of Being the Protagonist? Lin Yuan: I Am the One Who Makes the Rules!

BOOM!!!!!

The entire Dragon's Nest fell into an unprecedented dead silence at that moment, so still that even time seemed to freeze!

All one hundred thousand spectators stood rooted to the spot as if struck by a Petrification Spell, their faces full of expressions as though they had seen a ghost.

Their gazes were fixed firmly upon the collapsed arena.

Fixed upon the figure who had been forcibly smashed to his knees amid the rubble by a Golden Sword Qi descending from the heavens, drenched in blood and utterly wretched.

That was...

Ye Xuan?

That Young Demon God who had been incomparably arrogant just moments ago, whose fighting intent blazed to the heavens and who had even intended to kill his opponent?

He had just...

Lost?

Killed in one move by a Sword Qi that had come from who knew where?!

What the hell kind of divine plot was this?!

And the culprit behind all this, that Golden Sword Qi, did not dissipate after suppressing Ye Xuan.

Like a Sword of Damocles hanging overhead, it hovered silently above Ye Xuan, radiating Supreme Pressure capable of freezing even one's soul!

Just Then.

At the entrance to the Supreme VIP Box at the highest point of the stadium, which had long since been reduced to ruins.

A tall figure stood with his hands behind his back, slowly stepping out of the shadows into the air.

He walked step by step through the void as if treading on solid ground.

He clearly released no aura whatsoever.

Yet every step he took seemed to land upon everyone's hearts, making their breathing stop!

He wore nothing more than a simple set of casual clothes.

His features were handsome, his expression indifferent, as though everything that had just happened had nothing to do with him.

With his appearance, the deathly silence throughout the venue was instantly shattered!

In its place came countless cries filled with shock, fervor, reverence, and disbelief!

"Lin... Lin Yuan! It's Senior Lin Yuan!"

"My god! He was the one who made a move!"

"Didn't he not participate in the competition? Why is he here?!"

Amid the ruins, Ye Xuan struggled to raise his head.

The instant he clearly saw the figure walking through the air, his pupils suddenly shrank to pinpoints!

Lin Yuan!

Him again!

This guy again!

RUMBLE—!!!

Humiliation and despair from the Depth of the Soul, a million times more painful than his body being crushed by Sword Qi, surged over him like floodwaters bursting through a dam and instantly swallowed him whole!

He wanted to stand!

He wanted to resist!

He wanted to unleash his most furious roar at that lofty figure above him!

However, he could not do it!

Under the suppression of that Golden Sword Qi, forget standing—even moving A Single Finger had become an extravagant hope!

He felt the spiritual power within his body being completely sealed!

That proud Martial Dao Heart of his, which believed itself destined by fate.

At that moment, it was ruthlessly trampled beneath that figure's feet in the cruelest, most disdainful way, then Crushed into Powder!

How could this be?!

Why had this happened?!

He had fought desperately, burned his life, and paid every price imaginable just to finally stand upon this stage beneath the eyes of countless people!

He had thought he could finally stand on the same level as Lin Yuan!

He had thought he could finally stomp this guy beneath his feet!

But what had the result been?

Reality gave him the loudest, cruelest slap across the face!

The gap between him and Lin Yuan had not shrunk in the slightest.

Instead, it had widened into something so vast that even looking up at it made him suffocate in despair...

An unbridgeable chasm!

No!

This was not real!

This had to be an illusion!

"Aaaahhh—!"

Ye Xuan roared madly in his heart.

He tried to draw upon the power of the Extreme Dao Ancestor in his Consciousness Sea, trying to burn the last trace of his Life Origin!

Yet before that Sword Qi, pure to the utmost extreme and seemingly born from the realm of Divine Beings.

All his struggles appeared so pale, so laughable.

Just Then, Lin Yuan had already arrived above the arena.

He looked down from on high at the trembling figure kneeling amid the ruins below him like an ant.

Then slowly spoke.

His voice was calm and not loud, yet it clearly reached every corner of the stadium.

"The National University Martial Arts League has its rules."

"First, competitors are forbidden from using Evil Forbidden Techniques during matches, overdrawing their life force, or abusing external power."

"Second, competitors are forbidden from harboring Killing Intent toward other contestants or intending murder."

Lin Yuan's gaze slowly swept over Ye Xuan's face, twisted by fury and despair.

Finally, in an emotionless tone like a Judgment, he said:

"You violated both."

"According to the rules, you should be severely punished."

BOOM—!!!

Those few words were a hundred times crueler than that Sword Qi!

They utterly shattered the last trace of fantasy and dignity in Ye Xuan's heart!

He had not merely lost!

He had lost utterly! Lost all reputation and honor!

All his past efforts, all his victories.

At that moment, they became a joke! A clown who had broken the Rules and used forbidden arts!

"No—!!!"

Ye Xuan let out a roar of absolute despair.

Lin Yuan could not even be bothered to spare him another glance.

He merely snapped his fingers casually.

The Golden Sword Qi hovering above Ye Xuan's head seemed to receive its final command and came crashing down!

PFFT—!!!

Unable to bear the dual crushing force upon his body and mind any longer, Ye Xuan violently Spurted Out a mouthful of heart's blood.

His knees could no longer support him, and his entire body sank completely to the ground!

Then, like a heap of mud, he collapsed into the cold ruins and completely lost consciousness.

Lin Yuan's calm, almost cruel Judgment was like the final hammer of Judgment, Heavily Smashed into every person's heart!

The entire Dragon's Nest remained in Dead Silence!

Everyone's gazes converged upon Ye Xuan, who had descended like a god only to fall into the dust in a single instant.

Cheating?

Forbidden arts?

Murder?

These words were like sharp blades, slicing the glorious image Ye Xuan had previously built up as an "inspirational model" and a "grassroots underdog rising to prominence" into pieces!

Just Then, the referees and a group of medical personnel in white uniforms finally came to their senses. Like people waking from a dream, they Scrambled onto the arena that had already become ruins.

They carefully avoided the Golden Sword Qi that still emitted terrifying pressure and arrived beside the unconscious Ye Xuan.

An Old Man in the lead, dressed in a special long robe of the Martial Dao Alliance and radiating a profound aura, stepped forward with a solemn expression.

He was the Chief Referee of this league, a highly respected Peak Spiritual Manifestation Realm expert!

He first glanced at Lin Yuan, who hovered in the air.

Only then did he crouch down, pull a jade disc radiating soft light from his robes, and gently place it on Ye Xuan's forehead.

HUM—!

The jade disc shone brilliantly!

Yet just one second later, the gentle white light abruptly turned into a glaring blood-red—the color representing extreme danger!

Shrill, urgent alarm sounds began to ring wildly from the jade disc!

BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!

When the Chief Referee saw this, his face instantly turned livid!

He suddenly rose to his feet.

Holding up the jade disc in his hand, he solemnly announced to the entire venue in a voice containing boundless fury:

"According to the Demon-Breaking Spirit Disc's examination!"

"Competitor Ye Xuan indeed has extremely domineering and vicious forbidden technique energy remaining in his body! His Life Origin is already severely depleted!"

"Such cultivation arts harm both others and oneself. They are Demonic Evil Arts explicitly forbidden by the Martial Dao Alliance!"

"What Classmate Lin Yuan said was true in every word!"

BOOM—!!!

If Lin Yuan's accusation had lit the fuse.

Then the Chief Referee's official, unquestionable Judgment was equivalent to detonating an entire arsenal!

The whole venue completely exploded into uproar!

"Holy crap! It's confirmed! It really was a forbidden technique! It really was demonic cultivation!"

"I knew there was something wrong with him! How could a grassroots nobody's strength soar to this level in such a short time? So he took a crooked path!"

"Damn it! Fraud! He's a complete and utter fraud! I used to admire him so much and treated him like an idol! Bah!"

"What kind of bullshit comeback king? He's a madman who would stop at nothing for victory, one who has even thrown away his humanity!"

"Good thing Senior Lin Yuan stepped in! Otherwise, Goddess Gu would have been in danger! Ye Xuan really wanted to kill her!"

Public opinion underwent an Earth-shattering reversal at that moment!

A second ago, Ye Xuan had been a legend admired by countless people.

The next second, he had become a rat crossing the street, despised and cursed by all!

The fervor on the faces of those fans who had previously screamed themselves hoarse for him had now become fury and contempt at having been deceived!

Amid the ruins.

Several staff members hauled the unconscious Ye Xuan up from the ground like a Dead Dog, preparing to take him away.

The Chief Referee Took a Deep Breath and returned to the center of the arena.

He swept his gaze across the entire venue and announced in a ringing voice:

"Competitor Ye Xuan seriously violated league regulations by using prohibited forbidden techniques and harboring lethal Killing Intent toward another contestant!"

"I announce the Deprivation of all Ye Xuan's results and qualifications in this league!"

"Therefore!"

He paused and turned his gaze toward the peerless woman who had stood quietly to one side From Beginning to End.

His voice was full of praise.

"The overall champion of this National University Martial Arts League is—"

"Capital Martial Arts Academy's Gu Ningxue!!!"

WHOOSH—!!!

Thunderous applause and cheers rang through the heavens!

This time, they came from the heart, without a trace of impurity, filled with admiration and congratulations for a true powerhouse!

Gu Ningxue stood there, bathed in boundless glory.

Yet her gaze did not fall upon a single spectator below who cheered for her.

She merely raised her head and quietly looked at that figure standing in the void, as though he did not belong in this noisy world.

Light rippled through her Beautiful Eyes.

They were filled with gratitude, reverence, curiosity...

And a trace she herself had yet to notice...

Admiration.