Lin Dong vs. Lin Langtian (Part One)

The moment the subtitles appeared beneath the sky screen.

Everyone on the Douluo Continent felt their hearts violently clench.

Compared with Lin Langtian, that Symbol Master Tower disciple who had casually slapped a ten-thousand-year soul beast to death was nothing more than a firefly beside the radiant moon!

In the footage.

Lin Langtian stood on the Demon Vulture's back, slowly sweeping his gaze across Lin City below.

"I heard that Lin Dong from the Qingyang Town Branch Family has come to participate in the Clan Competition too?"

Lin Langtian's tone was flat, without the slightest ripple.

An Inner Clan elder responsible for welcoming him below hurriedly bowed his head and answered.

"Young Master Langtian, that brat has indeed come. He even injured several of our guards. He's extremely arrogant."

Hearing this, Lin Langtian's lips curved with undisguised contempt.

"A frog at the bottom of a well. A few lucky encounters, and he actually thinks he's someone important."

"Since he's so determined to come here to die, I'll deal with him myself at tomorrow's Clan Competition."

"I'll show him that a branch family's dog can only ever grovel at the Main Family's feet."

As his words fell.

The terrifying pressure of Lin Langtian's greater mastery of the Qi Creation Realm erupted without restraint.

Boom!

At that moment, the clouds above all of Lin City were actually torn clean in two by that pressure!

Under that pressure, the martial artists who had been standing ramrod straight in the streets all involuntarily bent at the waist, their eyes filled with awe.

As for Hu Liena, hiding in an alley, her knees buckled, and she dropped straight onto the flagstones with a thud.

She gasped for breath, her chest heaving violently as cold sweat instantly soaked her back.

"What... what kind of monster is this?!"

Hu Liena stared fixedly at the handsome young man standing on the Demon Vulture's back in the sky, her shock beyond words.

She had originally thought that Lin Dong, who rode a Fire Python Tiger and shattered an Origin Pill Realm demonic beast with one slap, already represented this world's ceiling.

Yet now, the aura radiating from the young man named Lin Langtian in the sky was actually even more terrifying than Lin Dong's.

Merely releasing his pressure had left her, a rank fifty-one Soul King, unable even to stand!

"Lin Langtian, a genius of the Main Line..."

Hu Liena swallowed, a complicated light flickering in her beautiful eyes.

In her bones, she was a woman who admired strength.

At this moment, watching Lin Langtian gaze down upon all living beings like a sovereign from the sky, the scales in her heart even began to shift.

Can that Lin Dong really defeat this monster tomorrow?

If Lin Dong loses, won't all my efforts to ingratiate myself have been wasted?

Hu Liena bit her red lip and secretly made up her mind.

She no longer hurried to the manor where Lin Dong was staying to wag her tail and beg for pity.

I have to go and watch tomorrow's Clan Competition in person.

Whoever wins will be the truly peerless powerhouse.

Even if I have to strip naked and cast aside all my dignity, I'll climb into the winner's bed!

To survive in this cruel higher-dimensional world, Hu Liena had completely abandoned the last shred of her principles as Spirit Hall's Saintess.

Only one thought filled her mind now: cling to someone powerful!

The Douluo Continent.

Inside Spirit Hall's Pope's Palace.

Watching Hu Liena waver on the screen, even calculating how to seduce powerful men, Bibi Dong felt the blood surge in her chest.

This was the disciple she had taught with her own hands!

On the Douluo Continent, Hu Liena had been so proud that she had looked down even on the princes of the two great empires.

After going to another world, she had actually become a plaything who knew only how to cling to men!

"Just how far has that world trampled people's dignity..."

Bibi Dong leaned weakly against her throne, an emotion called fear appearing in her eyes for the first time.

Any genius who appeared at random had greater mastery of the Qi Creation Realm.

And this was merely the Lin Clan of a single Great Yan Dynasty!

What about those super sects?

If Spirit Hall's people encountered the monstrous talents of those super sects, they probably would not even be worthy of carrying their shoes!

The sky screen paid no heed whatsoever to the Douluo Continent's despair.

As ripples flowed across it, the image of Lin Langtian's unparalleled dominance slowly froze.

[Switching to the perspective of Number Two Explorer, the Star Luo Empire Eldest Prince, Dai Weisi.]

The image flashed.

What came into view was a desolate mass graveyard reeking of pungent decay.

This was where the bodies of slaves and condemned prisoners were dumped outside Great Eagle City.

The sky had gone completely dark.

Incomplete skeletons littered the surroundings, and gusts of chilly wind blew past, sounding like wailing ghosts and howling wolves.

Dai Weisi lay silently amid a heap of mud and scraps of flesh.

All four of his limbs had been crushed underfoot and twisted at grotesque angles.

Blood continued to spill from his mouth.

With his tongue pulled out, he could not even scream, only make faint rasping sounds.

The extreme pain had already left his nerves completely numb.

He stared into the pitch-black night sky, Zhu Zhuyun's disgusted, contemptuous gaze and her lightly uttered "Disgusting" replaying in his mind again and again.

Regret.

Dai Weisi now regretted it until his guts turned green.

He regretted provoking that woman, regretted revealing his identity in the street.

In this world, without strength, status was a summons to death.

Just as Dai Weisi lay filled with despair, waiting to die from blood loss.

More than a dozen pairs of gleaming green eyes suddenly lit up in the darkness.

Then low growls and the sounds of drooling came from every direction.

They were the most common beasts in the mass graveyard: carrion hyenas.

These hyenas did not even qualify as demonic beasts. Without the slightest Yuan Power in their bodies, they were simply wild animals.

But to Dai Weisi now, they were the most terrifying gods of death.

More than a dozen massive carrion hyenas surrounded him.

The scent of fresh blood made them extremely excited.

One hyena approached and sniffed Dai Weisi's face, then opened its yellow-toothed jaws and bit savagely into his broken thigh.

"Mmph!!!"

Dai Weisi's eyes flew wide, a muffled sound of despair rising from his throat.

He could clearly feel the hyena tearing away his flesh!

With the first one taking the lead, the remaining dozen or so hyenas instantly swarmed him.

They savagely tore into Dai Weisi's body, ripping apart his sinews and bones and devouring his organs.

Dai Weisi did not even have the strength to struggle.

He could only watch helplessly as his belly was torn open and those wild dogs fought over his organs.

The agony of being eaten alive by wild dogs was simply beyond words.

Only after a full half an incense stick's worth of time did Dai Weisi's eyes finally lose all focus and he breathed his last.

The exalted eldest prince of the Star Luo Empire, a rank forty-seven Soul Ancestor.

In the end, he died in the jaws of ordinary wild dogs that did not even possess Yuan Power.

Not a single intact bone remained.

[Number Two Explorer, Dai Weisi.]

[Status: Killed in Action on the spot.]

[Current identity: reduced to a meal for the wild dogs of the mass graveyard. No remains left.]

[Live feed paused.]

As Dai Weisi's horrific end drew to a close.

No one in the Star Luo Empire's plaza made another sound.

The Star Luo Emperor stared blankly at the sky, constantly muttering something, seemingly having lost his mind altogether.

Dai Mubai clenched his teeth and slammed his fist into a nearby tree trunk.

There was only one thing he felt fortunate about now.

That, thankfully, he had not been chosen.

Otherwise, Dai Weisi's fate would have been a warning of what awaited him.

Ripples spread across the sky screen once more.

[Switching to the perspective of Number One Explorer, Dugu Yan.]

The moment those words appeared, everyone's heart on the Douluo Continent leaped into their throats.

On Heaven Dou Royal Academy's training ground, Yu Tianheng abruptly raised his head, his bloodshot eyes fixed on the screen.

The image lit up.

It was still the Stone Hall of the Ten Thousand Snake Bone Cavern, filled with the stench of lust and blood.

Dugu Yan had been stripped down to a single thin undergarment.

Her hands and feet were tightly secured to a broad stone bed by four thick black bone chains.

The stone bed's surface was covered in strange runes that emitted waves of red light, completely sealing the Soul Power within Dugu Yan.

"No, please let me go..."

Dugu Yan had regained consciousness. She struggled desperately, the bone chains rubbing her wrists and ankles bloody.

But the great hall was empty, with only the eerie green braziers burning on the stone walls making crackling sounds.

Just then, someone pushed open the stone door deep within the hall.

Teng Hua, the young master of the Heavenly Demon Python Clan, walked out in a loose blood-red robe, his face covered in a lecherous grin.

He had just finished bathing, and a peculiar medicinal fragrance clung to him.

Seeing Dugu Yan struggling on the stone bed, the lustful gleam in Teng Hua's eyes intensified.

"Don't waste your strength."

"Even a human martial artist in the Form Creation Realm would never escape once secured by this Dragon-Locking Formation, much less trash like you who doesn't even possess Yuan Power."

Teng Hua walked to the stone bed step by step, looking down as he admired Dugu Yan's terrified expression.

He loved seeing human women look so desperate and helpless.

"You... stay away!"

Dugu Yan trembled all over with fright, tears streaming down her face.

"My poison is deadly! If you touch me, you'll die too!" She could only threaten him with such feeble, powerless words.

"Hahaha!"

Hearing that, Teng Hua burst out laughing, as though he had heard some enormous joke.

"Your poison?"

"That paltry bit of toxin in your body is nothing more than an appetizer to me."

Teng Hua could not be bothered to waste any more words.

He reached out with his icy palm and pressed it against Dugu Yan's lower abdomen.

"I'll drain your toxins first, then take my time enjoying your body!"

Teng Hua's gaze turned vicious as he directly activated the Ten Thousand Poisons Evil Art.

Hum!

An overbearing devouring power surged along his palm and straight into Dugu Yan's body.

"Aah!!!"

Dugu Yan instantly let out an utterly piercing scream.

She felt as though all the blood in her body had begun boiling at that moment.

The Jade Phosphorous Serpent Poison lurking throughout her limbs and bones, which even Dugu Bo could do nothing about, was actually forcibly drawn out of her meridians by Teng Hua's technique!

Wisps of purplish-black poisonous vapor continuously seeped from Dugu Yan's pores, ultimately all being drawn into Teng Hua's palm.

This process of forcibly extracting her toxins was no different from ripping out her sinews and bones.

Dugu Yan convulsed violently in agony, her eyes rolling back, with even white foam spilling from the corners of her mouth.

In just a few short breaths.

The Jade Phosphorous Serpent Poison Dugu Yan took such pride in had been drained completely by Teng Hua.

Teng Hua closed his eyes and smacked his lips, a trace of lingering appreciation appearing on his face.

"Though there wasn't much, the toxin was quite pure. It barely qualifies as a decent supplement."

He opened his eyes and looked at Dugu Yan, who was already half-dead from pain on the stone bed, the lecherous grin on his lips growing wider.

"All the poison's been drawn out."

"Now it's time for the real business."

Teng Hua casually pulled open his blood-red robe, exposing a muscular torso covered in blue snake scales.

He bent straight over and tore apart the last scrap of cloth covering Dugu Yan's body.

"No, help..."

Dugu Yan closed her eyes in despair, two trails of clear tears sliding from their corners.

"You beast!!!"

Douluo Continent, Heaven Dou Royal Academy.

Yu Tianheng could no longer endure this extreme mental torment. He spat out a mouthful of blood and passed out on the spot.

Every Soul Master across the Douluo Continent silently turned away, unable to bear watching what came next.

It was too tragic.

Such a fate-being treated as a cultivation cauldron, drained of poison, and then forcibly ravaged.

It made everyone truly experience what the cruelty of the Demon Region meant.

The sky screen seemed to realize that the coming scenes were unsuitable for display.

Golden light flashed, and the image froze at the very instant Teng Hua lunged at Dugu Yan.

[Explorer No. 1: Dugu Yan.]

[Status: Poison drained, chastity destroyed.]

[Current identity: Reduced to the Sky Demon Python young master's dual-cultivation cauldron, until her primordial yin is exhausted and she dies.]

[Live broadcast temporarily suspended.]

As Dugu Yan's image dimmed, the golden light in the sky began to contract gradually.

But this did not mean it was over.

Because the true climax had only just begun.

On the sky screen, several lines of dazzling golden text burst forth like thunder.

[Switching to your final perspective: Great Yan Dynasty, Lin City!]

[The Great Yan Dynasty's premier event: The Lin Clan's Clan Competition officially begins!]

With these lines of text.

The image on the screen lit up again.

What came into view was a gigantic arena whose sheer scale defied description!

This arena could accommodate hundreds of thousands, and its surrounding stands were packed with powerful figures from forces across the Great Yan Dynasty.

And at the very center of the arena.

A massive fighting platform made of hard black obsidian stood silently.

The atmosphere had reached fever pitch, countless clamoring voices soaring into the clouds.

At the very front of the stands, in the golden seat representing the Lin Clan's highest authority.

Lin Langtian sat with his legs spread in a commanding posture, dressed in luxurious brocade robes.

His expression was cold, and he did not even glance at the fighting platform.

His lofty bearing, regarding all the world's geniuses as mere weeds, was on full display.

Meanwhile, in a corner below the stands.

Hu Liena mingled with the crowd, her eyes shining as she stared at Lin Langtian on the elevated dais.

So handsome. That commanding presence-that's a real man... Hu Liena's heart raced.

Just then.

A sudden commotion arose at the entrance to the arena in Lin City.

Immediately afterward, a figure in blue robes, not particularly brawny and even somewhat lean.

Slowly entered this gigantic arena that held the attention of the entire Great Yan Dynasty, bringing a Fire Python Tiger with him.

Lin Dong had arrived!

The instant Lin Dong appeared, the previously clamorous arena grew much quieter.

Countless gazes fell in unison upon this branch-family youth from a remote little town.

Some were mocking, some sympathetic, and others carried the teasing amusement of those waiting for a good show.

Lin Dong ignored the gazes around him.

He walked step by step to the foot of the fighting platform and slowly raised his head.

His clear eyes passed straight over countless people and locked onto Lin Langtian, seated at the highest point.

Their gazes collided in midair, as though even the air had sparked from the friction.

Ten years of humiliation, the blood-deep vendetta over his father being crippled.

At this moment, the final reckoning had come for it all.

On the elevated dais.

Lin Langtian held his teacup and took a light sip.

He looked down at Lin Dong below, his lips curling with undisguised contempt.

"You actually dared to come."

Lin Langtian's voice was not loud, but wrapped in powerful Yuan Power, it carried clearly throughout the entire arena.

"Since you're here, get up here and meet your death."