Are You Trying to Provoke Me?

Thinking of this, Cen Yu looked down at Tang San with disdain. "Master, don't worry. I have my own way of keeping him in check."

"If my senior sister and the others can't handle it, I can step in and take control of the battle myself."

At this, Bibi Dong's mouth twitched. She nearly rolled her eyes.

The boy was telling the truth, but why did everything he said make people want to beat him up?

Suddenly, Cen Yu perked up. "Hey, teacher, look! That little girl is my Soul Bone~"

"Hm?" Bibi Dong followed his gaze.

Xiao Wu was attacking Zhu Zhuyun, trying to secure victory in the battle.

"Oh? Is there some kind of treasure on her? She can actually conceal her aura as a Soul Beast."

Cen Yu raised an eyebrow. "Who knows? Maybe she has some rare treasure on her."

He waved to Bibi Dong. "Since the match is about to end, I'll go find my senior sister and the others."

"I'm really looking forward to tomorrow's match against Heaven Dou Royal Academy. It'll be my first time making an appearance in front of the whole continent."

Bibi Dong nodded. Just as he was about to leave, she added, "Keep yourself safe."

"You're confident, but you'd better not reveal too much of your strength, or you might draw unwanted attention."

If Cen Yu took the field and showed what he could do, she had no doubt Yu Xiaogang would find a way to counter him in a single night.

"Got it~ Master~"

"What?! Captain, you want me to be a substitute and put him on the field instead? He's only a Soul Grandmaster!"

The one who spoke was Li Kai of the Martial Soul Hall Team, a Soul Master of the Power Attack System at level forty-seven, whose Martial Soul was the Black Horned Boar.

Taken aback by the challenge, Xie Yue said irritably, "It's an order! If you can't follow it, get out of the team."

Li Kai froze, then glared at Cen Yu, his eyes full of hatred.

It was all because of this good-for-nothing! That damned nepotism hire! Some Soul Grandmaster in his twenties actually dared to steal his spot!

He shouted furiously, "What makes him qualified? Just because he has powerful connections, you're willing to joke around with Spirit Hall's honor?"

"He's only level twenty-something! If he steps into the arena, Spirit Hall will lose face without even fighting!"

Hu Liena's expression darkened with displeasure.

A team member was disobeying orders and saying things like that. He wasn't just slapping her in the face; he was insulting her teacher, too.

Hu Liena was about to speak when Yan pointed at Li Kai and shouted, "What did you say?! Who gave you the nerve—"

Just then, Cen Yu came strolling over with a smile and greeted Hu Liena and the other two.

Then he gave Li Kai a knowing look. "Looks like this senior has a big problem with me~ Is there something you'd like to teach me? I'm here. Go ahead~"

Seeing the person at the center of it all, Li Kai snorted and said disdainfully, "I looked into you. You're nothing but an orphan."

"You think you can steal my place by sucking up to powerful people? Take a look at yourself. Is your level-twenty-something Soul Power even enough?"

Li Kai kept ranting, oblivious to the sky suddenly darkening and to the increasingly grim expressions on Hu Liena and the others' faces.

The other team members stared at him in shock, unable to understand why he was being so bold.

No, wait. Maybe he'd been kicked in the head by a donkey.

Sure, Cen Yu was an orphan, and he was only level twenty-something, but his age spoke for itself.

A Soul Grandmaster at that age—did Li Kai understand what that meant? Even His Holiness the Pope might not have managed it if she started cultivating all over again.

And Li Kai still dared to provoke him with talent like that? Had Cen Yu's unusually quick physical development made him forget how young he was?

Following the principle of getting out of the way when things looked bad, the others silently took a few steps back.

Seeing Cen Yu's gloomy expression, Hu Liena and the others glanced at the even darker sky. A sense of foreboding welled up in their hearts.

"Junior—"

Xie Yue had just started to say something when Cen Yu cut him off.

He covered his face and laughed darkly. "Ha... Haha... Hahahaha..."

Li Kai sneered. "What? You good-for-nothing. Are you so ashamed of yourself that you can't even speak?"

At that, Cen Yu suddenly burst into laughter and slowly raised his head to look at the figure provoking him.

"Hahaha... That's right... That's right! I'm an orphan, you know? So I must've chosen to be one, huh~ Hehe~"

"Oh~ I get it~ Senior, you're trying to provoke me and get my attention~"

"I'm so~ touched~"

Seeing Li Kai about to speak again, Hu Liena hurriedly summoned her Martial Soul and prepared to take him down.

But just then, someone else moved even faster.

With a deafening crack of thunder, Cen Yu flashed in front of Li Kai, clamped a hand around his neck, and lifted him off the ground.

The whole place fell silent at the sudden turn of events. No one had expected Cen Yu to move so fast.

Even more unbelievable, a Soul Grandmaster had so effortlessly subdued a Soul Ancestor—and one from the Power Attack System, no less.

The other team members watched the World-Ending Heavenly Mother, whose body radiated a terrifying aura of slaughter. Though they didn't recognize the Martial Soul, they silently backed away a little farther.

But just as they'd stepped back, one of them noticed the two Soul Rings beneath Cen Yu's feet.

The person's eyes widened. They hurriedly nudged the teammate beside them, pointing them toward the rings.

The others stared, eyes wide, unable to believe what they were seeing.

Zhang Ping whispered in shock, "What kind of monster is he? His first two Soul Rings are both a thousand years old??? How did he do that?"

Xu Yu hurriedly covered her mouth. "Stop talking! Is that really what matters right now? What matters is that Li Kai might be finished today."

With talent like that, how could Cen Yu be an ordinary person? Li Kai must have left his brain behind—how had he dared to offend him?

At that moment, Li Kai, dangling by the neck, felt as though he was about to suffocate. He frantically slapped at Cen Yu's hand.

"You... You... let... let go... S-sneak attack... shameless..."

"Oh? I sneak-attacked you? Hahahahahaha... Good~ Good~"

Laughing, Cen Yu swung his arm and flung Li Kai straight to the ground.

Li Kai drew in air again and came back to life, gulping it down. Then he summoned his Martial Soul and shouted furiously, "You bitch! How dare you sneak-attack me!"

As his words fell, four Soul Rings—yellow, yellow, purple, and purple—appeared alongside a purple boar.

"You bastard, I'll make you regret messing with me today!"

Seeing this, Sun Chuantao, another level-forty-eight Battle Soul Ancestor of the Power Attack System on the team,

quietly sighed and mourned Li Kai's fate.

Everyone else could tell that this new junior was no ordinary person. Even setting everything else aside, just how intimidating were those two thousand-year Soul Rings?

Yet Li Kai, whether he was blinded by rage or what, hadn't noticed at all. He was set on picking a fight with Cen Yu.