"Long Aotian!"
"Long Aotian!"
As the Body Sect's prodigy, Long Aotian really was popular.
The moment he appeared, cheers rose from every direction.
The senior and junior sisters of the Earth Dragon Sect also had stars in their eyes at the sight of this handsome, powerful prodigy.
And no wonder!
According to the original story of the Douluo Continent,
Long Aotian was Du Busi's personally chosen successor.
He was destined to lead the Body Sect to greater glory.
And he was even an imperial Princess's fiancé.
He truly was a dragon among men.
"Ah, such a fine young man!"
"What a shame he'll die young!"
Looking at his opponent, who stood as handsome and graceful as a jade tree in the wind,
Luo Feng could not help sighing.
As someone who had transmigrated here, he naturally knew the Body Sect's fate.
Before long, Long Aotian would die in a surprise attack by the Sun Moon Empire.
Then Du Busi and the others would attempt to assassinate Xu Tianran.
Their attempt would fail.
In the end, the Body Sect's master would even self-destruct.
Precisely because he knew how it all ended,
Luo Feng hated the idea of joining a war.
He only wanted to keep his head down.
And live out his life happily.
"What are you muttering and mumbling about over there all by yourself?"
"I've already spoken to the Body Sect for you. This is a friendly match. They won't hurt you!"
For all Nan Qiuqiu's usual snarling and clawing,
She was quite considerate of her fellow disciples in the little things.
Especially toward Luo Feng, the junior brother she had picked up. Her concern for him seemed to go beyond that of a senior sister.
"Nothing!"
"I was just wondering which day would be auspicious for bringing you home as my bride!"
"But I haven't bought a house yet. Would you still be willing to marry me?"
At Luo Feng's frivolous remarks,
Nan Qiuqiu suddenly blushed.
But she quickly put on that fierce expression again.
"Get lost!"
"Are you asking for a beating?"
"You make it sound like you can actually beat Long Aotian!"
In fact,
Nobody had thought Luo Feng stood a chance from the start.
Some people had even placed bets.
They said Long Aotian would put him on the ground within three moves.
But Luo Feng thought nothing of it.
He did not even intend to summon his martial soul and expose his four black Soul Rings.
"Haha!"
"Come on, senior sister!"
"Do you have so little faith in your husband?"
"Scram!"
"Keep taking liberties with me, and I'll kick you to death!"
Before Nan Qiuqiu could unleash any more of her fury,
Luo Feng jumped straight onto the arena platform.
Across from him, Long Aotian, who had already basked in all the flowers and praise, immediately turned serious.
"You must be Luo Feng, little brother!"
"This is a friendly match, so we'll stop short of hurting each other. Falling off the platform counts as a loss too. Don't be nervous!"
Looking at this junior student whose level was only in the forties,
Long Aotian seemed rather dismissive as well.
As the strongest among his peers,
Long Aotian certainly had the right to be arrogant.
It was said that even Shrek's Huo Yuhao was slightly inferior to him.
"Heh, falling off the platform?"
"That's a good way to settle this without hurting anyone's feelings!"
Luo Feng had still been considering his tactics.
But unexpectedly, his opponent had already worked them out for him.
When he murmured those words to himself,
The Body Sect members opposite him misunderstood.
"Kid, just surrender when you're facing our eldest senior brother Long Aotian!"
"If you don't want to surrender, you can jump off the platform yourself!"
"Hahaha! Level forty-two against level sixty? What a joke!"
"Keep it down, you lot. The Earth Dragon Sect is our Body Sect's ally, after all..."
Listening to all their babbling outside the arena,
Luo Feng was getting genuinely impatient.
"You're too noisy!"
"Time Stop!"
Another snap of his fingers.
The entire world immediately fell silent for another thirty seconds.
Luo Feng wasted no more words.
He strode up to Long Aotian in a few quick steps!
Without any pointless chatter,
He swung up his foot and kicked Long Aotian squarely in the backside.
The force was neither too strong nor too weak, just enough to send this prodigy out of the arena.
Face-first.
The whole process flowed seamlessly.
It took less than eight seconds.
After the fellow's body fell outside the arena and hit the ground,
Luo Feng strolled over at his leisure.
Then he crossed his legs and sat down at the edge of the platform.
He even propped his chin on one hand, pretending to doze off.
"Snore!"
"Snoooore!"
At the same time, that familiar system notification chimed again!
[Ding! Congratulations, host, on successfully using the Innate Time Stop Skill. Your proficiency has risen to LV2.] [Your next Time Stop will last forty-five seconds, and its cooldown has been reduced to one and a half hours.] [Congratulations on reaching soul power level forty-five. Keep up the good work!]
Thirty seconds passed quickly.
The spectators still wore the same mocking expressions as before.
Only the eldest senior sister, Nan Qiuqiu, had her brows tightly knitted.
Her two small, delicate fists were clenched tight.
She was clearly worried about Luo Feng.
Long Aotian had said he would hold back.
But that was no guarantee her little junior brother would escape without injured muscles or broken bones.
Otherwise...
"I—how did I end up outside the arena?"
The next instant, before anyone present could react,
Long Aotian's shriek reached their ears.
They could not understand it at all.
When Time Stop activated, everyone's awareness and perception had also been halted.
From their perspective, Long Aotian had been standing in the middle of the platform talking in one frame.
In the next, their vision blurred, and Long Aotian was already sprawled outside the arena eating dust.
It was as though thirty seconds had been forcibly cut out of a videotape.
The absurd sensation of this "teleportation blackout" was overwhelming.
"Huh?"
"Is it over?"
"Thank you, Brother Long. You let me win!"
Of course, Luo Feng had only been pretending to sleep.
But making himself look just as clueless as everyone else was even more misleading.
Everyone would focus their attention on Long Aotian outside the arena.
Rather than wonder who had actually done it.
"You, I..."
At Luo Feng's words, Long Aotian looked utterly bewildered.
He quickly checked his body.
Apart from a slightly sore backside and some dust on his face, nothing else was wrong.
But Luo Feng did not look as though he had made a move either.
"Heh, I almost forgot!"
"Brother Long, if you have time, remember to come to the Earth Dragon Sect for my wedding feast!"
Having said that,
Luo Feng brushed the dust off himself.
And jumped off the platform as though nothing had happened.
Then he eagerly trotted over to Nan Qiuqiu.
Still wearing an innocent smile.
"Senior sister!"
"Speaking of what I asked earlier, what's included in your dowry?"
"A house and a car?"
But Nan Qiuqiu's brain had crashed at that moment.
She could not process any of it!
"You—how did you do that?"
"I didn't do anything. Didn't Brother Long jump off the platform himself?"
"But that still counts as my win, right?"
When it came to muddying the waters,
How could these people from the Douluo Continent compete with an outstanding twenty-first-century university student like me?
Anyway, this wife had practically fallen into my lap.
I'd be a fool not to take her!
I wasn't asking for a gorgeous beauty like Tang Wutong.
I couldn't hold on to a top-tier beauty.
An unassuming girl like Nan Qiuqiu, on the other hand, was just right for building a life together.
Then we could have a whole bunch of kids.
Life would be sweet!
"Ah!"
"You—you little brat!"
But just as Luo Feng was considering what to name his son.
But the beautiful senior sister before him let out a shriek.
She seemed to have suffered quite a shock!
After all, this was a major decision in her life.
How could it be settled so rashly?
"No, absolutely not! We have to ask my mother before anything can be decided. Get over here!"
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