Breaking Off the Engagement Is Out of the Question

"I heard Young Clan Leader Futu Yun has a marriage contract with Miss Qingxuan." A simple-minded youth in the crowd spoke to himself.

But his muttering drew quite a few eye rolls from those around him.

"Give it a rest. What kind of person is Young Clan Leader Futu Yun?"

"He's someone who'll stand at the pinnacle of the Great Thousand World in the future! Now look at our good-for-nothing Miss Qingxuan."

As the disciples discussed this, everyone gradually realized something.

Could Young Clan Leader Futu Yun have come not to visit his useless fiancée at all?

Given Wen Qingxuan's current condition, let alone Futu Yun,

even many disciples within the family looked down on her.

Why would a mere waste be worth Young Clan Leader Futu Yun making such a grand trip to see her?

But if Futu Yun had not come to visit his fiancée,

then why had such a major figure specifically come to the Wen Family?

Some even recalled that, some time ago, Futu Yun had taken Qingling of the Pagoda Ancient Clan to break off her engagement with Ji Xuan,

publicly humiliating Ji Xuan and driving him into qi deviation.

At the time, the matter had been at the height of controversy, so it had been inconvenient for him to visit the Wen Family.

Now that the uproar had passed, had he come to the Wen Family to break off an engagement?

Wen Qingxuan lowered her head as well.

She knew that the person Futu Yun liked was Luo Li.

And now that she had become a complete and utter waste, did she still expect Futu Yun to formally marry her with all the proper rites?

A rare trace of anger flashed through Wen Qingxuan's beautiful eyes.

She had become a complete waste, lost all her former glory, and might even lose her marriage contract.

She could accept all of that.

The Great Thousand World had always been a place where the strong were revered.

But if Futu Yun wanted to break off the engagement, she would never cling to him. Why did he have to come here with such fanfare?

She, a worthless cripple, might have nothing to care about, but the Wen Family was still a major superpower.

Having an engagement publicly broken off like this would be the utmost humiliation!

A heaven-shaking lion's roar suddenly rang out.

Dazzling golden light swept across the sky, eventually taking the form of an enormous golden lion roughly a thousand zhang tall.

And around the golden lion's main head were eight more golden lion heads!

It was a Golden Nine-Headed Lion!

It was an existence capable of contending with Super Divine Beasts, and its descendants were the Golden Lion Tribe.

Anyone within the Golden Lion Tribe who awakened the Golden Nine-Headed Lion bloodline was unquestionably a peerless prodigy of the clan.

Not to mention a true Golden Nine-Headed Lion.

Yet now, such a Heavenly Sovereign-level Golden Nine-Headed Lion could only serve as someone's mount.

A Heavenly Sovereign-level mount!

There were very few in the Great Thousand World who could command such prestige.

Much less one with a Heavenly Sovereign-level Super Divine Beast as a mount.

Everyone realized that Futu Yun had arrived.

Futu Yun's cultivation had now reached the peak of the Heaven Transformation Realm.

At the Wen Family's level, that was nothing remarkable.

But Futu Yun's Heaven Transformation Realm was clearly not on the same level as anyone else's.

When he had first broken through, others had not been able to tell.

But now, any Earthly Sovereign could see that Futu Yun's physical body had actually cultivated a Heavenly Sovereign Spirit Body!

As long as someone like him accumulated enough power, becoming a Heavenly Sovereign would come as naturally as water flowing downstream.

He would not even encounter a bottleneck before reaching Saint Grade!

Everyone's gaze fell upon Futu Yun, while Futu Yun's gaze rested on Wen Qingxuan.

When Granny He noticed Futu Yun looking at Wen Qingxuan, her heart sank.

A thought rose in her mind: Could Futu Yun truly have come to break off the engagement?

At that moment, Futu Yun spoke again. "I came today mainly because of the marriage contract between Qingxuan and me."

"Over the years, Qingxuan and I have never met. There is indeed a lack of emotional connection between us."

"Besides, I have also heard certain rumors about Qingxuan."

The moment Futu Yun finished speaking, everyone present became certain that he had come to break off the engagement!

Wen Qingxuan viciously bit her lower lip, forcing herself not to make a sound.

Her fists clenched tightly, her nails already digging deep into her flesh.

Granny He's expression completely darkened as well. Although she had expected this,

when it truly happened, she still found it difficult to accept.

But what could she do? Was she supposed to beat Futu Yun up in public?

Would she not fear provoking the wrath of the Pagoda Ancient Clan?

Besides, if they truly fought, she might not even be able to defeat the Golden Nine-Headed Lion beneath Futu Yun.

Unexpectedly, Futu Yun abruptly changed his tone. "But no matter what, Qingxuan is my, Futu Yun's, fiancée!"

"I came here today to put an end to those rumors!"

Amid everyone's stunned disbelief, Futu Yun spoke again. "Before coming here, I heard that people in the Wen Family had been bullying her."

"I'll make this clear today: even if Qingxuan has lost her talent, she still has me behind her!"

"If you want to bully Qingxuan, first think carefully about whether you can bear the wrath of both me and the Pagoda Ancient Clan!"

Futu Yun's domineering declaration still echoed between heaven and earth, but Wen Qingxuan was completely dumbfounded. Wasn't he here to break off the engagement?

What was this overbearing defense of her supposed to mean?

Had he specifically come to stand up for her and seek justice for the unfair treatment she had suffered in the Wen Family?

In that brief instant, all the resentment in Wen Qingxuan's heart and all the strength she had forced herself to maintain vanished completely.

She had never imagined that after losing her talent, when nearly the entire Wen Family had mocked, ridiculed, and bullied her,

the one who would finally stand up for her would be the fiancé rumored to be ending their marriage contract!

Mist instantly welled up in Wen Qingxuan's eyes.

What young girl did not hope for a pair of strong arms to shelter her from the wind and rain?

But ever since she had lost her talent, no one had cared about her anymore.

She had fallen from a gifted young girl revered by everyone in the Wen Family, whom no one dared disrespect, into a worthless cripple anyone could bully.

She had endured endless cold stares and tasted every bitterness, yet no one had ever defended her with such determination.

Aunt He cherished her, but she was still a Heavenly Sovereign of the Wen Family.

She could not openly favor a useless cripple like her at every moment before the public.

Otherwise, it would only alienate the family's members.

Xiao Xiao, the young lady of the Boundless Fire Territory, had once been her friend.

But when Xiao Xiao had asked her father, the Flame Emperor, to intervene, even he had been unable to cure her talent.

Afterward, perhaps feeling embarrassed, Xiao Xiao gradually came around less and less.

Not to mention that Futu Yun was a figure of such lofty status.

Even when she still possessed her talent, her status and position had been far beneath his.

How could she have dared hope that now, having become a worthless cripple, she could still catch Futu Yun's eye?

Yet Futu Yun had chosen to so domineeringly hold up the sky for her.

This world had always revered the strong. It was easy to add flowers to brocade, but hard to send charcoal in the snow.

After she lost her talent,

even the elders of the Wen Family who had watched her grow up and once flattered her endlessly no longer showed her a kind face.

They even regarded her with utter disdain.

Yet Futu Yun, a fiancé connected to her only by a single marriage contract, was willing to support her so firmly.

Did that not prove that Futu Yun was completely different from those who fawned upon the powerful?

Still, given Futu Yun's status, he truly had no need to fawn upon anyone.