The surrounding flowing air was violently drained away. Under that terrifying oppression, gravity itself distorted. Even the adamantine rock floor tiles beneath Su Chen's feet emitted a dense sequence of crisp cracks, and spiderweb-like fissures silently spread outward from the soles of his boots.
Such terrifying sword intent! If the opponent made even the slightest thought, let alone his physical body, even the entire central arena would be neatly sliced apart!
The Ancestral Dragon Hegemony Body Art within Su Chen's body surged into a violent frenzy the instant it suffered a fatal threat, and the Pure Yang Dragon Aura rushing through his meridians roared like a breached river, sounding dull and thunderous.
In the flash of an electric spark, just as Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ning Rongrong had not yet had time to detect the abnormality, Su Chen violently stepped half a step forward with his right foot.
His broad shoulders and back stood like an indestructible iron wall, shielding the three stunning maidens firmly behind him and forcibly propping up a barrier several feet around in this raging sword intent storm.
Big Brother Su Chen...? Xiao Wu keenly sensed Su Chen's abnormality and subconsciously raised her head. She only saw the young man's face as calm and heavy as water, his eyes blazing like two newly risen dark gold scorching suns.
Su Chen's brain operated at high speed under the extreme high pressure.
In the present Douluo Continent, there was only one person who could possess such a sharp, domineering sword intent that looked down upon the crowd... one of the two guardian deities of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, the titled Sword Dao Chen Xin!
On the arena today, Ning Rongrong not only displayed her Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, but also openly fought alongside him as a member of the Dragon God Team, and furthermore revealed unreserved attachment after the match.
The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect was as wealthy as a nation, Ning Fengzhi treated this only daughter as the apple of his eye, and the two titled Douluos Chen Xin and Gu Rong doted on her down to their very bones.
Now the tender cabbage that their family carefully nurtured had not only broken away from Shrek, but was also wholeheartedly attaching herself to a young man of unknown background.
How could this number one sword master, who protected his own to an extreme, possibly fail to investigate?
Su Chen raised his head and met that dim void at the dome, saying, "Since Senior has already arrived, why bother hiding your head and showing your tail, bullying the young with your seniority?"
Hum...! In the void, white light suddenly stirred, and a white-robed figure silently and imperceptibly manifested at a height of three zhang in midair.
That was an elderly man with white hair and beard, a head of silver silk neatly draped behind his head, a face like jade, sword-like eyebrows and starry eyes, standing in the wind with his hands behind his back.
Not a single soul ring was displayed around his entire body, yet simply by standing there, the entire heaven and earth transformed into an unsheathed supreme-grade sharp blade, and even the flowing moonlight was cut into tiny, fragmented fluorescent lights.
"Sword... Sword Grandpa?" The moment Ning Rongrong, protected in the rear, saw the appearance of the newcomer clearly, she could not help crying out in alarm, her exquisitely beautiful and pretty face filled with panic.
She instinctively wanted to rush out of Su Chen's protection to step forward and act spoiled, yet the sharp sword intent emitted all over Chen Xin's body erected an invisible copper wall and iron barrier, forcefully isolating her several zhang away.
Chen Xin did not even look at Ning Rongrong once. His icy pupils, resembling an ancient, deep pool, stared fixedly at Su Chen from beginning to end.
Deep within his gaze, a trace of shock flashed past. A twelve-year-old youth was actually able to stand tall and unfallen under the suppression of three-tenths of the Seven Kill Sword Intent he released head-on, relying on the meager cultivation of a fortieth-rank soul ancestor.
He even had spare strength to protect the three lasses in the back!
"Kid, you've got a lot of nerve." Chen Xin's voice was even and deep, yet it clashed like gold and iron, stirring up waves of stinging pain within Su Chen's sea of consciousness.
"A twelve-year-old four-ring soul ancestor whose fourth soul ring astonishingly reaches a ten-thousand-year age, and you even possess the foundation of a god-tier beast martial soul. Such natural talent has never existed across the ten-thousand-year history of the continent. This old man only wants to ask you one thing: what on earth is your intention in going to such lengths to approach Rongrong and lure the only successor of my Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect?"
The moment his voice fell, Chen Xin's eyes narrowed slightly. That grand sword intent, which had originally been like a mountain, abruptly contracted, transforming into a condensed speck of killing intent that pressed straight toward Su Chen's glabella!
Under this contracting sword intent, the surrounding adamantine rock floor tiles simultaneously collapsed downward by half an inch!
"Sword Grandpa! No!!" Ning Rongrong's eye sockets turned red with anxiety, and tears fell patter by patter. "It was Rongrong herself who wanted to follow Young Master Su! Shrek bullied Rongrong, and Big Brother Su Chen saved me, holding me up! You are not allowed to hurt him!"
Zhu Zhuqing and Xiao Wu likewise wore pale complexions, yet they stepped forward without the slightest hesitation. The Nether Cat Claw and Soft Bone Rabbit Soul Power bloomed simultaneously; even knowing clearly that the other party was a titled Douluo capable of overturning the firmament with a flip of his hand, they still swore to live and die together with Su Chen.
Su Chen raised a hand, calmly blocking the three girls gently behind him while gazing directly at Chen Xin.
"Senior speaks incorrectly. Rongrong is my teammate, and in the future, she will also be an indispensable supporting arm for the Dragon God Team. I protect her because she is my companion, not because she is the eldest young lady of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect."
Meeting Chen Xin's gaze, Su Chen's words carried a lofty self-possession that could swallow the heaven and earth: "The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect has vast resources and family wealth, boasting two peak Douluos. In the eyes of worldly mortals, it is naturally high and out of reach. But in my, Su Chen's, eyes, Rongrong is simply Rongrong. Moreover... no matter how tall the temple of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect is, it cannot lock up a divine phoenix that wishes to soar across the nine heavens. The future you cannot give her, I can."
"Arrogant junior!" Chen Xin let out a cold snort. His white robe fluttered without wind, and sword intent churned.
"The Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda has been extinct for ten thousand years. It is a continent-recognized flawed martial soul, and at its highest, it can only stop at the seventy-ninth rank! The shackles of the number one support in the world-even Fengzhi and past ancestors exhausting the strength of the entire sect were unable to break them. You, a mere four-ring soul ancestor, dare to utter such wild words?!"
Facing the questioning and killing intent of a ninety-sixth-rank peak powerhouse, Su Chen did not retreat.
Instead, his right hand, held behind his flank, lifted up, his fingertips loosely curling into a fist.
Amidst a slight movement of his mind, the system reward that had always silently slumbered within his sea of consciousness...
That droplet of crystal-clear [Nine-Colored Divine Marrow], emitting endless creation profound light, was quietly guided by Su Chen to release a trace of weak aura.
Hum...!
It was merely a sliver of faint light overflowing from between his fingertips, yet the temperature within the void suddenly warmed back up! A sacred creation divine charm quietly rippled outward from Su Chen's palm.
As the light circulated, it presented nine intertwined and spiraling profound divine radiances of red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, purple, black, and white!
Chen Xin's figure, suspended in midair, abruptly paused. That Seven Kill Ancient Sword, which had long since fused with his own soul, actually emitted a low tremor and eager ringing within his sea of consciousness, completely out of his control, upon sensing this aura!
What caused Chen Xin to be even more struck with terror and lose his color was that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda martial soul within Ning Rongrong's body broke out of her body entirely out of control under the illumination of this faint light. The seven-tiered pagoda, originally crystal-clear and warm, violently shook and grew taller like a seedling encountering sweet dew after a long drought.
The illusory outlines of the eighth and ninth tiers actually faintly materialized in the void at the top of the tower, which had been tightly sealed by the laws of heaven and earth!!
"This... what kind of supreme treasure is this?" For the first time, monstrous waves churned across Chen Xin's ancient-well-like, waveless face. With a single step down from midair, he landed at the edge of the arena and stared fixedly at Su Chen's closed palm.
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