"Su Yuan, there is no possibility between us! I knew nothing of the arranged marriage, and I will never agree to it. The engagement between you and me is null and void from this moment on!"
Shouted a hot-tempered girl in tight leather clothing with a head of fiery red long hair, her voice trembling with anger.
"Huh? Breaking off the engagement?" Su Yuan blinked, his expression rather peculiar.
"Right! The engagement arranged by the elders doesn't count. I want to break off our engagement with you!" Seeing that Su Yuan was not lingering or making a fuss, the anger on Wu Feng's face dissipated a fraction, but her gaze remained resolute.
Although the fellow was indeed quite handsome and his cultivation talent was exceptionally good, this engagement was something she simply had to break off!
"Oh, then let's break it off." Su Yuan nodded calmly, showing not a shred of reluctance to part.
"Even if you aren't willing, I... wait, you're willing to call off the engagement?!" The words Wu Feng had rehearsed in her mind for ages became wedged in her throat, and the mix of anger and blank confusion on her face looked exceptionally comical.
So straightforward?
Without even taking a moment to consider it?
"What else did you expect? If you want to break it off, then break it off. I had no idea about this whole thing anyway! Did you expect me to say 'Never Bully a Poor Young Man' and challenge you to a three-year agreement?" Su Yuan twitched the corners of his mouth, offering a listless retort.
You're afraid I'll pester you through marriage, while I'm terrified you'll divorce me and strip away half of my soul power level...
What era is this, and people are still getting married...
[Ding!]
[Keyword detected -- [Breaking off the engagement, Never Bully a Poor Young Man]! ]
Listening to the cold voice that suddenly resounded in his mind, Su Yuan's indifferent gaze gradually froze.
Wu Feng paid no mind to why Su Yuan had suddenly zoned out; she only knew that she had already obtained the answer she wanted.
She had originally thought he would be a stumbling block between her and the young mistress...
Though the fact that Su Yuan agreed to call off the engagement without the slightest hesitation made her somewhat irritated and caused her to begin doubting her own charm.
Yet the importance of breaking off the engagement was clearly superior to Dou Qi, and Su Yuan's tactfulness also left her quite satisfied, so Wu Feng decided not to haggle with him over it.
"Fine! You agreed to this yourself, so you can't go back on your word!" Beaming with joy, Wu Feng hummed an unknown tune and stepped away briskly.
As for Su Yuan, once Wu Feng had left, he also turned and slowly walked back in silence to his secluded and desolate courtyard. Not until he shut the front door and leaned his back against the cold wooden panel did he softly call out in the depths of his mind.
"System?"
[Greetings, Host. The Keyword System is at your full service.]
[By checking in and witnessing different iconic scenes, the Host can obtain various keyword entries. Each entry provides different effects for the Host, and certain entries cannot be removed once equipped.]
[Note: Iconic scenes require characters of a certain weight to act them out in order to meet the standard for extracting keywords.]
[Existing keyword -- [Never Bully a Poor Young Man]! Keyword equipment effect: In the ancient past, the Flame Emperor achieved the status of Dou Di twenty-two years after breaking off his engagement; today, the Host shall achieve the status of God King twenty-two years after breaking off his engagement! Once equipped, this entry cannot be removed, and over the course of the next twenty-two years, it will gradually increase your total soul power level by a full hundred and fifty ranks, propelling you straight to the God King realm!]
"Holy shit, straight to the God King?! That's so epic!" Su Yuan's pupils dilated in shock.
This... this was the power of the system?!
?! So strong?!
It truly was, so powerful, so unimaginably empowering!
"Equip! Equip immediately!"
[Never Bully a Poor Young Man has been equipped. Cultivation enhancement will commence immediately.]
Before the system even finished speaking, an extremely pure and dense wave of soul power emerged without warning from the depths of Su Yuan's Martial Soul, beginning to elevate his soul power.
Although this soul power was not gained through his own arduous cultivation, its level of purity actually surpassed even the soul power he cultivated through day-and-night meditation!
Just as expected.
Self-cultivation leaves one hollow and unstable.
System stat boosts show the difference instantly!
"Good, this engagement had to be broken off. It was broken off brilliantly!" The wild joy and exhilaration in Su Yuan's heart simply defied description.
As a transmigrator, he was now eleven years old, and up until this point he had always felt rather lost because his talent could only be described as thoroughly mediocre.
Too high to fit in below, too low to reach above-that was the best label for his life.
Su Yuan's Martial Soul was a mutated Frost Dragon, an Ice Attribute earth dragon. His Innate Soul Power was rank seven, putting him on the same level as Wu Feng, and his Martial Soul quality was also close to her Scarlet Dragon.
Perhaps due to the blessing of a transmigrator's talent, however, Su Yuan's soul power could steadily increase by at least three ranks every year.
Ever since awakening his Martial Soul, a total of five years had passed.
Through normal cultivation, Su Yuan had increased his soul power by a total of sixteen ranks, while absorbing two soul rings had provided an additional two ranks of enhancement, adding up to eighteen ranks in total. Coupled with his original innate rank seven soul power, his current cultivation was rank twenty-five.
At eleven years old, rank twenty-five looked a bit bleak compared to that bunch of cheaters in the original work.
Yet this speed was truly not slow at all.
Su Yuan was not a direct-line descendant; he was a wild genius plucked out of the Jiubao City orphanage by the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect during one of their lotteries.
Aside from not having to worry about food and clothing, dreaming of getting cultivation resources was out of the question.
The Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect was indeed wealthy and powerful, but why would they hand resources to an orphan?
Perhaps the sect master of the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect did indeed allocate a large batch of resources from the treasury every year to cultivate the young geniuses within the sect.
Yet under the rule of favouritism and estrangement, the distribution of resources was ultimately up to the other elders in the sect, and they all had descendants of their own.
Who would ever complain that their own descendants had too many cultivation resources?
The portion belonging to Su Yuan naturally found its way into the pockets of the elders.
For all these years, Su Yuan's cultivation had been completely bare-backed, and he could not even freeload off the Mimicry Training Ground of the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect.
Yet Su Yuan did not mind at all either.
Given that this was the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect, who said the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda could not be a leaning tower?
As a laid-back youth who had already been beaten up by society, Su Yuan understood the ins and outs of this too well-what the elders gave you was yours, but what they did not give you, you could not snatch, or else you would have to taste the iron fists of the elders.
Anyway, that meager bit of resources could neither transform one's marrow like an Immortal Herb nor be more precious than one's life like a Soul Bone, so if it was gone, it was just gone.
By eating fewer of the sect's celery, when the time came to eat flat peaches later, he naturally wouldn't need to worry about being interrogated by cold apricots.
Even without resources, hadn't he still cultivated to level twenty-five?
At the same age, Ning Tian, serving as the young sect master of the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect, not only possessed Innate Full Soul Power, but her cultivation resources were also not something an outer sect disciple cultivating bare-backed like him could compare to.
Yet Ning Tian was only at level twenty-eight now, merely three levels higher than him.
Setting aside the gap in Innate Soul Power, the progression between the two of them was even on par.
As for Wu Feng, at this moment she had only just reached level twenty-three, not even comparing to Su Yuan who was cultivating bare-backed.
It was precisely because of this that the higher-ups of the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect wanted to arrange a marriage bestowal for the two of them.
Su Yuan had never concealed his own cultivation level. After all, it was already wretched enough to begin with, and if he concealed it further, he really would become a maggot, unable to even eat fresh hot shit.
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