Old Pervert

"By the looks of you, you probably haven't even comprehended a Domain!" Si Yao put her hands on her hips and lifted her chin haughtily.

"I'm a genius who comprehended a Domain at Planetary Level, and I'm only twenty years old."

"When I'm a thousand, I'll be at least a Universe Level Fighter."

Jialu was left speechless by her words, but soon he was stunned by what she'd said.

What had she said?

Planetary Level?

A Domain?

Twenty years old?

How did those three things even go together?

His expression dazed, he blurted out without thinking, "Impossible!"

"At twenty, unless you started cultivating in the womb, there's absolutely no way you could have comprehended a Domain."

Compared to being at Planetary Level at twenty, comprehending a Domain at that age was what he found most impossible to accept.

The former could be explained by a high bloodline level: someone might be born at the Apprentice level and break through to Planetary Level with a little cultivation. But the latter could only be due to talent.

"Absolutely impossible!" he cried frantically, and the onlookers around them immediately erupted.

Planetary Level, a Domain, twenty years old—

"My god!"

"How is that possible?"

"That's a Domain!"

"I've cultivated bitterly for years and never even caught a glimpse of one, and this little girl has already stepped into one?"

Si Yao's words quickly sent shock waves through the crowd. Everyone looked at her with astonishment and disbelief, along with envy—

In less than half a day, everyone on Cloud Sea Planet who was well-informed knew that a genius had arrived: a twenty-year-old at Planetary Level who had also comprehended a Domain!

"You're lying." Jialu clenched his back teeth. His gaze wandered over her petite frame before settling on her pretty, still somewhat youthful face. He stared into her eyes, trying to find even a trace of guilt.

But those brilliant blue eyes held nothing but disgust and irritation toward him. Seeing nothing else there, Jialu's heart sank, and he couldn't help closing his eyes.

What had he done?

He'd actually offended a genius!

He could already imagine what would happen if he didn't handle this well. When he got home and his father found out, he'd fly into a rage and rain blows down on him with a stick.

At the thought, Jialu shuddered. He didn't dare hesitate any longer. He took two Ganwu Coins from his ring and held them out. "This is compensation!"

Let's just say he was paying to make the trouble go away!

Si Yao raised an eyebrow and accepted them without hesitation.

"At least you know what's good for you."

She'd taken them so quickly that Jialu couldn't help wondering if she was bluffing.

Maybe she wasn't really twenty, and hadn't actually comprehended a Domain.

He still couldn't bring himself to believe he'd be so unlucky as to drag a genius into this just by teaching two little punks a lesson.

The thought showed on his face. Si Yao instantly caught the doubt in his eyes and flared up. "You don't believe me?"

She'd run out of patience. Her Domain unfurled, creating a blue world within a ten-meter radius. Invisible wind blades even whipped up fine but powerful whirlwinds across the ground.

Jialu:—

"Thump." Si Yao's anger froze on her face. She stared in shock.

Jialu pressed his palms together and smiled ingratiatingly at her. "Brother—no, sis—uh, ancestor, little ancestor." His gaze fell on Si Yao's fair, almost childish face. The forms of address tumbled around in his mouth before he settled on one that wouldn't offend her and might even earn him some favor.

"Little ancestor, you're magnanimous. Don't hold it against an ordinary man like me, who didn't know better, couldn't recognize a good thing, and is arrogant about his own abilities—"

He glanced at the gleaming wind blades around them and couldn't help licking his dry lips. His mouth felt parched.

What a disaster!

Won't someone come save him?!

Watching Jialu kneeling on the ground, Si Yao clenched her fists so hard her bones creaked. The anger already surging inside her turned, at his kneeling, into a volcano on the verge of eruption—with an entire planet's worth of oil poured over it. It exploded in an instant.

She swiftly used her movement technique, flashed in front of Jialu, grabbed him by the collar, and without hesitation started punching him in the face.

"How dare you curse me!"

Her teacher had told her that when an older person knelt to someone younger, unless their status or strength was different, it meant they wanted the younger person to die sooner.

This old geezer was older than her, had a higher cultivation level, and belonged to the family of her teacher's friend—and he was kneeling to her?

She wanted to stay by her teacher's side for the rest of her life. Was this old geezer trying to shorten her life?

He was clearly a malicious sort!

He deserved a beating!

"Ow—ah!" Jialu's anguished screams rang out, so mournful and miserable that everyone shuddered.

In the crowd, a short, plump old man with a kindly, Buddha-like face watched the two figures in the air, where a one-sided beating was unfolding. More precisely, his gaze was fixed on the girl.

A mark resembling a hurricane sat between the old man's brows. Faintly flickering with the fluctuations of Law, it lent him an air of mystery.

It was clearly a mark bestowed by the Laws. No one knew how he'd managed it, but despite how conspicuous the hurricane mark was between his brows, everyone around him acted as if they couldn't see it, their expressions unchanged.

It was as though he had the power to make everyone overlook him.

If any core member of the Cloud Sea Family had been there, they would have recognized the old man at once. He was none other than their long-absent former patriarch and ancestor, the highest authority in the Cloud Sea Family, who hadn't appeared in nearly a thousand years—

World Lord Xunzhen!

At that moment, their revered and worshipped ancestor stood among the crowd like a deranged old pervert, staring at the girl in the air with shining eyes.

The Domain surrounding the girl did nothing to block the old man's view. He could clearly see every move she made as she hit Jialu.

"Decisive strikes, and her movement technique is at least at the Basic level. Her punches are fierce, yet carry a hint of grace. Clearly, her comprehension of the Wind Domain is already profound—so profound that she can even incorporate it into every move she makes—"

"A genius! This is a genius!"

World Lord Xunzhen's eyes shone. At that moment, his desire to take her as a disciple burned as fiercely as his desire to become an Immortal.

"The Wind Domain, the Wind—" He licked his lips, growing even more excited.

He cultivated the Wind and Time Laws. He had long studied the Time Law and had even gained a certain degree of insight into it. His comprehension of the Wind Law had also reached an extremely profound level. He was just one step away from taking that final step.

Unfortunately, that last step had held him back for a hundred eras, perhaps even longer.

But that wasn't the most important thing now. What mattered was that he seemed to have found the disciple best suited to him.

World Lord Xunzhen's breathing grew heavy. If he weren't afraid of frightening the little girl, he might have gone straight over, dragged her along, and made her become his disciple.

She was a disciple perfectly suited to the path he cultivated!

As he watched the spectacle above, he let his consciousness sink into the Virtual Universe and found the current patriarch, who was countless generations removed from him. Without asking anything, he simply sent a message.

"Who's Jialu's father? Tell him to get his ass over here—now."