A smooth end to the engagement [Please support the first paid chapter] (1 / 2)

Although Chen Yang's words were unpleasant, every one of them stood on solid ground.

Neither Xiao Yan nor Xiao Zhan could find anything to refute.

A powerful opponent was nothing to fear; a powerful opponent with right on his side was another matter.

With one mouth and a few words, he had brought all the reasoning over to his side.

"Yanran, take out the betrothal token from back then and return it to them."

As he spoke, Chen Yang told Nalan Yanran to take out the Engagement Token exchanged by the two families when the engagement was arranged and return it to Xiao Yan.

Hearing this, Nalan Yanran took the Engagement Token out of her Storage Ring, stepped forward, and presented it to Xiao Yan with both hands.

Xiao Yan accepted it. At that moment, the tiny betrothal token weighed like a thousand pounds in his hand.

He no longer had a fiancée.

"Yan'er!" Xiao Zhan was somewhat worried about Xiao Yan's current state.

"Father, I'm fine." His low spirits flashed past, and Xiao Yan shook his head at Xiao Zhan, indicating that he was all right. This had neither crushed him nor left him despondent.

In fact, he even felt a little more at peace.

That was right!

He was penniless, with no ability worth showing off. How could he dare hold back such a lovely woman?

Just as Chen Yang had said, he and Nalan Yanran had never belonged to the same world.

With that thought, Xiao Yan took out the Nalan Family's Engagement Token and returned it to Nalan Yanran.

They each returned their Engagement Tokens. With Chen Yang watching from the side, nothing unpleasant happened during the exchange.

The engagement was dissolved quite smoothly. From that moment on, Nalan Yanran and Xiao Yan were officially no longer betrothed.

From then onward, bridges would be bridges and roads would be roads; they would go their separate ways, with no further ties.

Once the engagement was truly dissolved, Xiao Yan felt no injustice at the hands of fate. Instead, he felt the ease of being freed from his shackles.

It was the same feeling as last time, something he could not explain.

It was as though Nalan Yanran had never belonged to him.

Somewhere in the unseen workings of fate, a voice seemed to tell him that even if they did not break off the engagement today, they would do so someday in the future.

Only then, it would not go nearly as smoothly as it had now.

Xiao Yan shook his head and did not dwell on it any further.

[Ding! The host has outstandingly completed the engagement cancellation mission. Mission completion rewards: 30,000 Modification Points, divine artifact: Azure Abyss Heaven-Splitting Halberd, divine artifact: Windhowl!]

[Ding! System rewards have been delivered to the host's Storage Ring.]

[Ding! Due to the host's intervention, the original plot has been altered beyond recognition, triggering the system's main missions.]

[Ding! The system offers two main missions. The host may choose either one to complete.]

[Main mission 1: Help Yao Chen awaken and allow Xiao Yan to successfully become his disciple.

Mission rewards: 10,000 Modification Points, one portion of Dou Di Origin Qi.]

[Main mission 2: Choose any person to nurture and raise them into a new child of destiny.

Mission rewards: 100,000 Modification Points, three portions of Dou Di Origin Qi.]

Chen Yang roughly compared the two missions. Although the second offered more generous rewards than the first, after careful consideration, he still chose the first.

The second mission was clearly fraught with difficulties. A single little mistake along the way could send all his efforts down the drain.

The first was entirely different. Xiao Yan was already a child of destiny, protected by the plane itself, so there was no need to worry.

The only difficulty was how he should help Xiao Yan and awaken Yao Chen ahead of time.

Tell him directly? Obviously, that wasn't realistic!

Suddenly, Chen Yang thought of a solution.

Suddenly, Chen Yang's gaze landed on the Bone Ring on Xiao Yan's hand, and he said meaningfully, "That ring on your hand is a very special one."

As soon as Chen Yang finished speaking, the hall fell silent, so quiet that even a pin dropping to the floor could have been heard clearly.

Somewhat puzzled, Xiao Yan lowered his gaze to the Bone Ring on his hand.

He merely assumed that Chen Yang had taken an interest in the Bone Ring.

After all, there were many kinds of rings, but this Bone Ring was the only one made of bone that Xiao Yan had ever seen.

His mother had passed the Bone Ring down to him. It was said to have come from their ancestors, and by the time it reached him, who knew how many generations it had passed through?

Xiao Yan knew little about the Bone Ring, only that it was extremely hard, no less so than any jade or stone.

"My mother passed this down to me. It's the only thing she left behind in this world." Xiao Yan pinched the edge of the Bone Ring as his thoughts drifted into memories.

Chen Yang smiled without speaking. He simply stared at the Bone Ring, Dou Qi surging in the depths of his eyes.

His pupils became like vortices, as though they could draw everything into them.

"The twenty-fifth Heavenly Stems Treasure Art of the Thirty-Six Heavenly Stems Treasure Art: Eye of Time."

"Activate!"

The twenty-fifth Heavenly Stems Treasure Art: Eye of Time.

It used the power of time to condense the Eye of Time, which could control the flow of time and cut off or extract a particular span of it.

As Chen Yang activated the Eye of Time, Xiao Yan's Bone Ring entered a mysterious state.

Under the Eye of Time's interference, time began flowing at different rates inside and outside the Bone Ring.

A month inside, a single breath outside.

The immense time difference caused the number of times Yao Chen absorbed Xiao Yan's Dou Qi to accumulate all at once.

A change in quantity brought about a change in quality, and the faint devouring force became a towering surge.

Whoosh!

With a whoosh, an incomparably powerful suction suddenly erupted from the Bone Ring.

This suction actively drew out Xiao Yan's Dou Qi, pulling it into the Bone Ring to devour it.

Xiao Yan, who was touching the Bone Ring, felt that powerful yet familiar suction, and his expression changed drastically.

He suddenly lowered his head, his gaze falling on the Bone Ring on his hand and fixing on it.

He thought he had found the reason his Dou Qi had been draining away over the past six months.

The next moment, murderous intent filled Xiao Yan's eyes.

He yanked the Bone Ring straight off his finger and hurled it viciously at the floor.

Yet in the very next instant, the Bone Ring, which should have struck the floor, appeared in Chen Yang's hand instead.

Holding the Bone Ring under Xiao Yan's puzzled gaze, Chen Yang raised a hand.

Whoosh! In an instant, a black spatial domain enveloped him and Xiao Yan, separating them from the members of the Xiao Clan.

Finding himself in the spatial domain without warning put Xiao Yan on guard.

He warily guarded against Chen Yang and readied himself for battle.

But on second thought, he was no more than an ant in Chen Yang's eyes. If Chen Yang truly wanted to kill him, he would have no power to resist whatsoever.

So he dropped his fighting stance.

He relaxed his whole body and studied Chen Yang before him, though most of his attention was on the Bone Ring Chen Yang was turning over in his hand.

Xiao Yan could clearly see that the Bone Ring was frantically devouring Chen Yang's Dou Qi.

Strangely, however, Chen Yang showed no intention of stopping it.

He was even deliberately feeding Dou Qi into the Bone Ring.

This left Xiao Yan puzzled.

After a while, perhaps having had its fill of Dou Qi, the Bone Ring gradually grew quiet.

Chen Yang then returned the Bone Ring to its owner, tossing it to Xiao Yan.

Xiao Yan did not reach for it. He simply let it drift past his eyes and fall to the empty floor.

"Want to know why?!" Chen Yang knew that Xiao Yan must be full of questions right now.

So he asked.

Xiao Yan nodded firmly, his gaze falling on the Bone Ring.

"Yes!"

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