Unbreakable Jade Hand

Great Gan, Imperial Palace, Imperial Study.

Emperor Kaiyuan sat with Li Lindao, Mei Qingsheng, and the others. Looking at the martial arts grandmasters, he asked, "Has Jia Ying—Jia Baoyu—truly reached the Grandmaster realm?"

Mei Qingsheng slowly nodded. "I fought him for fifty exchanges before relying on my greater experience and deeper internal energy to defeat him."

"Given time, this boy will surely surpass me—and by far."

There was a desolate sense of lament in his tone. The Jia clan had first produced Jia Rong, and now Jia Ying as well. Jia Baoyu had suddenly become the "true Baoyu."

It dealt quite a blow to him, the former number one martial artist in Great Gan. He felt as though he had lived all these years like a dog.

Ordinarily, Great Gan producing a Grandmaster capable of standing shoulder to shoulder with Mei Qingsheng should have been cause for celebration.

But the actual situation was somewhat less than ideal.

Jia Rong had lain dormant for years before soaring into the heavens, directly transcending Great Gan and becoming a Celestial.

It could be said that aside from a few lingering ties of sentiment, he no longer had any connection with Great Gan.

Jia Baoyu was different.

He possessed the martial realm of a Grandmaster, yet his temperament remained unsettled. He was still that same "Chaos-Bringing Demon King."

Put bluntly, this "Chaos-Bringing Demon King" was really just a spoiled brat. Back when Jia Baoyu had been a useless good-for-nothing, no matter how troublesome he was, he could not cause much trouble.

But now that he had become a Grandmaster, with extraordinary strength, a stomp of his foot could shake the imperial capital.

The places where he could wreak havoc were no longer confined to a corner of the Jia residence.

Emperor Kaiyuan and the