With the system by his side, peerless talent, and an invincible background.
What Jun Xiaoyao wanted was to rule this era!
All the heavenly geniuses and protagonists could only become his supporting cast, dim and devoid of light.
Let alone a Xiao Chen with a bit of luck.
"You..."
Xiao Chen clenched his fists tightly and gritted his teeth.
To be honest, he had never expected to lose so thoroughly, so miserably.
Overwhelming humiliation churned and brewed within his heart.
Yet he could no longer utter any arrogant words.
Because facts spoke louder than words.
"Xiao Chen, enough already. With Lord Divine Son's strength, he could easily kill you. He has already shown you mercy," Bai Yuer stepped forward and said.
Although she had become utterly disappointed in Xiao Chen, even voiding their engagement.
They had, after all, been childhood sweethearts. Though they had never been particularly close, there was still a trace of affection between them.
But that was all.
"Shut up, you bitch! Do I need Jun Xiaoyao to show me mercy?" Xiao Chen roared furiously.
Bai Yuer had meant well, but her words only provoked Xiao Chen's nerves even further.
The dejected look in his eyes had nearly surfaced, but now they were once again filled with unwilling fury.
This foolish girl is drawing aggro for me... Jun Xiaoyao thought to himself.
However, this was exactly what he wanted.
Because another plan had formed in Jun Xiaoyao's heart.
"You... Fine! So my good intentions were wasted on a donkey's liver and lungs!"
With Xiao Chen calling her a bitch again and again, Bai Yuer's lovely face darkened, and the last trace of affection was worn away completely.
Xiao Chen panted heavily, his chest heaving.
He knew that he could not possibly defeat Jun Xiaoyao today.
Xiao Chen clenched his five fingers tightly, his nails digging deep into his palms and bringing piercing pain.
His cold gaze swept over Bai Yuer and Jun Xiaoyao as he spoke his parting threat.
"Jun Xiaoyao, don't get smug. Thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river—never bully a poor young man!"
"Three years from now, you and I will fight again!"
Xiao Chen spoke with a certain resolve and tragic grandeur, his handsome face stained with blood.
It even made some of the Jun Family girls look at him in a slightly different light.
At this moment, Xiao Chen's unyielding will indeed carried a certain imposing spirit.
Having delivered his threat, Xiao Chen turned around and dragged his injured body away, leaving one bloody footprint after another as he walked step by step out of the Martial Arena.
Even Bai Yuer's heart trembled faintly.
She seemed to see the future image of Xiao Chen soaring like a dragon through the nine heavens.
Yet at that moment, a cold voice rang out.
"Hold it..."
Hearing this, Xiao Chen's steps abruptly halted.
"Did I say you could leave?" Jun Xiaoyao stood with his hands behind his back, a teasing glint in his expression.
After saying a classic line and leaving behind such a flashy silhouette, he wanted to leave in peace?
Xiao Chen was thinking far too simply.
"You... What do you want to do?"
Xiao Chen turned around, his face stiff.
As the Jun Family's Divine Son, shouldn't Jun Xiaoyao magnanimously let him go, then wait to be humiliated by him three years later?
Why was he refusing to follow the script again?
"In my Jun Family, you make threats against this Divine Son and then want to leave safely? What do you take my Jun Family for? And what do you take this Divine Son for?" Jun Xiaoyao sneered.
"What else do you want? Could it be that you're afraid I'll defeat you three years from now?" A flicker of panic flashed through Xiao Chen's eyes as he forced himself to remain calm.
"Heh, stop trying to provoke me. But I indeed do not plan to kill you right now," Jun Xiaoyao said with a faint smile.
"Then what do you want?" Hearing this, Xiao Chen relaxed slightly, though vigilance still showed in his eyes.
"Though death may be spared, living punishment cannot be escaped. I have taken a liking to your Dragon Aura."
As Jun Xiaoyao's words fell, he raised his hand.
The golden Spirit Sea within him surged, boundless magical power roiling as it condensed into a giant hand that seized toward Xiao Chen.
"You're despicable and shameless!" Xiao Chen's expression changed drastically as he turned to flee.
But the golden giant hand still slapped him to the ground in a single blow.
Then Jun Xiaoyao grabbed through the air, and a long dragon's roar resounded from within Xiao Chen's body.
Immediately afterward, a half-illusory Azure Dragon phantom was pulled out by Jun Xiaoyao.
This was precisely the Dragon Aura Xiao Chen possessed.
"No, my Dragon Aura!" Xiao Chen's eyes turned bloodshot as he screamed madly.
"Too noisy!" Jun Xiaoyao struck down with another palm.
A thunderous boom rang out, accompanied by the teeth-aching sound of bones cracking.
More than half the bones in Xiao Chen's body shattered, blood pouring from his mouth as though it cost nothing.
"You... You actually crippled all my meridians!?"
Xiao Chen's face turned deathly pale, his teeth nearly cracking from how hard he clenched them.
Jun Xiaoyao had not killed him, but he had crippled him.
With this, let alone three years, even three hundred or three thousand years would not be enough for him to defeat Jun Xiaoyao.
"Jun... Xiao...yao..." Xiao Chen spat out each word one by one, his eyes surging with bone-deep hatred and fury.
The surrounding Jun Family disciples also shuddered slightly, chills rising in their hearts.
This was their first time witnessing Jun Xiaoyao's ruthless methods.
"Zhantian, Xiaoyao truly acts with thunderous decisiveness," an elder hidden in the void said with a smile.
"This is better. The harsher my grandson's methods, the more at ease I feel," Jun Zhantian said with a laugh.
Not only did they find nothing inappropriate about Jun Xiaoyao's actions, they considered them perfectly normal.
When the Imperial Path opened in the future, even crueler matters awaited. What did something at this level amount to?
In the Martial Arena, after Jun Xiaoyao seized the Dragon Aura, he began absorbing it directly before Xiao Chen without the slightest hesitation.
Explosive sounds continuously rang out from within his body.
They were the sounds of Divine Elephant Particles awakening one after another.
After absorbing more than half of the Dragon Aura, another ten thousand Divine Elephant Particles awakened within Jun Xiaoyao.
He had now awakened a full thirty thousand Divine Elephant Particles, granting him three hundred million jin of immense strength. It was simply terrifying beyond compare.
Not only that, Jun Xiaoyao discovered that the Dragon Aura was also nourishing his body, making his already overwhelmingly powerful Desolate Ancient Sacred Body even more formidable.
Furthermore, beneath his skin, a layer of azure light seemed to spread. When needed, it could transform into dragon-scale inner armor to protect him.
"Not a bad haul." Jun Xiaoyao nodded slightly.
Then he sent the remaining small portion of Dragon Aura, which had yet to be refined, into Bai Yuer's body.
"Lord Divine Son, you..." Bai Yuer was astonished. She had never expected Jun Xiaoyao to do this.
"You possess Vermilion Bird Divine Fire within your body. Paired with Azure Dragon energy, it should have a mutually reinforcing effect," Jun Xiaoyao said calmly.
Naturally, he was doing this to win people's hearts.
He would need Bai Yuer to manage the Vermilion Bird Ancient Kingdom for him in the future, so her talent could not be too weak.
"Thank you, Lord Divine Son!" Bai Yuer was incomparably moved, tears even glimmering in her eyes.
This favor was akin to giving her a new life!
Yet upon witnessing this scene, Xiao Chen could not help coughing up a mouthful of heart's blood!
Furious!
His five viscera burned with rage, his liver and gallbladder ready to shatter!
Jun Xiaoyao refined his Dragon Aura right before his eyes, and even borrowed flowers to offer Buddha, giving it to his former fiancée.
His former fiancée Bai Yuer was even groveling before Jun Xiaoyao with the posture of a female bootlicker.
Xiao Chen's vision went dark, and he nearly fainted from rage.
Seeing this, Jun Xiaoyao said earnestly, "Xiao Chen, don't be angry. I seized your Dragon Aura and crippled your cultivation for your own good."
What protagonist had not endured a thousand perils and ten thousand hardships?
If their cultivation had never been crippled, they would be too embarrassed to call themselves a protagonist.
From that perspective, Jun Xiaoyao was indeed helping Xiao Chen with painstakingly good intentions.
Upon hearing this, Xiao Chen trembled all over in fury. Finally unable to endure any longer, he threw back his head in a grief-stricken howl, raging impotently before coughing blood and fainting to the ground.
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