My Senior Brother Is the Greatest Male Protagonist of All Time?!

Clang-!

Boom!!!

First came the sound of metal striking metal, immediately drowned out by a tremendous boom.

By the time Ling Ying reacted, a terrifying force had already pressed down through his dagger.

Like a black meteor, he was smashed into the dense woods behind him, leaving a sunken wasteland in the lush green forest.

But Sun Qi, whom Ling Ying had just stabbed with his short blade, had now turned into a fine golden hair.

Inside the enormous crater, Ling Ying felt nothing but chaos within his body.

His life had nearly flashed before his eyes, and his consciousness had even gone blind for an extremely brief moment.

It had lasted less than a single breath, yet it sent a chill through Ling Ying's heart.

Given Sun Qi's usual habits, he would surely have struck while Ling Ying was down and taken his life, seizing the opening to smash him with hundreds or thousands more blows of his staff.

But Sun Qi had no intention of killing Ling Ying. He only wanted to teach him a lesson.

"Don't follow me again. Otherwise, next time it won't be as simple as one blow from my staff!"

Meanwhile, Yao Chen, who had been residing in Xiao Yan's Storage Ring, suddenly spoke up. "Xiao Yan, experts are fighting!"

Xiao Yan, who had just sold his pills, jumped at Yao Chen's shout and immediately asked, "Experts are fighting? What's that got to do with us? I don't even have Dou Qi right now. They can't be here for me, can they?"

Yao Chen did not explain further. Instead, he said, "Never mind that. Run outside the city quickly and see who they are. Judging by that presence, they're at least Dou Wang experts!"

At the words "Dou Wang," Xiao Yan immediately became interested.

If he could witness a battle between experts of that caliber, it would be a tremendous help in improving his own strength!

Without the slightest hesitation, Xiao Yan raced in the direction Yao Chen had indicated.

When he was still ten li from leaving the city, two figures suddenly appeared at the intersection of the street he was racing down.

When Xiao Yan got a clear look at that figure, his feet stopped in their tracks without thinking.

The corners of his mouth twitched slightly. His eyes widened, his pupils contracted, and he trembled.

He could not tell whether it was excitement or fear.

He only knew that this figure had appeared in his memories before.

"G... Great Sage Equal to Heaven!"

His words were no longer clear, and even his hands and feet were trembling. He did not even know when Yao Chen had emerged from the Storage Ring.

"Th... how is this possible?!"

"This world, clearly...!"

Disbelief could no longer describe it: shock, complicated feelings, and even doubt about this world.

They all welled up from the depths of his heart.

Gulp! His throat bobbed sharply, and then a white figure suddenly flew past him.

By the time he came to his senses, Yao Chen had already rushed up to the golden figure.

Unlike the shaken Xiao Yan,

Yao Chen gripped Sun Qi's shoulders tightly with both hands, his eyes filled with grief, regret, and heartache.

A soul body could shed no tears, yet Sun Qi saw a glimmer of them in his teacher's eyes.

"Is... is it really you?!"

Yao Chen's hands trembled, and through tightly clenched teeth, he finally spoke his first words upon seeing this youngest disciple of his.

"Master!" Sun Qi suddenly knelt before Yao Chen. "Your disciple was useless. If I had been stronger, if my strength had matched yours, you wouldn't be like this now...!"

Feeling Yao Chen's half-illusory body, Sun Qi felt as though needles were piercing his heart.

Yao Chen cupped Sun Qi's face in both hands. "You've grown up. That mischievous monkey you were as a child was still cuter..."

Hearing that familiar voice, Sun Qi found all the longing he had felt for Yao Chen over the years caught in his throat. In the end, all that remained was a single word: "Master."

At that moment, Xiao Yan stared at the scene before him, utterly dumbfounded.

His mind was in complete disarray, and he had no idea what was going on.

Yao Chen touched Sun Qi's forehead. "All right, I just said you'd grown up, yet here you are, crying in such majestic armor. What a sight."

Watching Yao Chen act like a kindly old father, Xiao Yan's expression grew even more complicated.

Although he had not spent much time with Yao Chen, he had never seen this gentle side of him.

Yao Chen usually hid behind an unserious manner, which had always made Xiao Yan feel that something was off.

Only now did he finally know what it was...

Just then, Sun Qi suddenly took a porcelain bottle from his Storage Ring and held it out to Yao Chen. "Master, your disciple has killed Han Feng, the traitor who stabbed you in the back. His soul is imprisoned in this Soul-Trapping Bottle."

Yao Chen looked at the porcelain bottle in Sun Qi's hand, and his gentle, kindly gaze instantly became filled with an indescribable complexity.

He fell silent for quite a while before finally saying, "Keep it with you for now. We'll speak of this later."

Sun Qi knew that Yao Chen had once raised Han Feng as his successor, yet Han Feng had tried to murder his teacher.

Yao Chen had never been able to let it go, and he had even come to doubt his own decision back then.

Yao Chen turned to Xiao Yan. "Silly boy, what are you standing there for? Hurry over and greet your senior brother!"

Hearing Yao Chen call him, Xiao Yan finally came to his senses.

He forced down the shock in his heart and jogged over, carefully studying Sun Qi.

Xiao Yan had barely taken two looks when he felt a smack on the back of his head. "What are you still staring at? Greet your senior brother first!"

"Xiao Yan greets Senior Brother!" Xiao Yan reacted quickly, cupping his hands and bowing to Sun Qi, though he was incomparably excited.

The Great Sage Equal to Heaven was actually his senior brother!

Though the resemblance was only in appearance, he was still extremely excited.

Seeing this, Yao Chen nodded in satisfaction, then looked at Sun Qi with a loving expression.

After looking him over carefully, he said with satisfaction, "Good, good. I never thought that in just a few short years, you'd already have advanced to Dou Wang."

Yao Chen's words were full of feeling. "Back when your master was murdered, you were still a little monkey who hadn't even reached the Dou Shi realm."

Hearing this, Xiao Yan grew even more excited.

"A monkey? Senior Brother really is a monkey?!"

Yao Chen looked at the shouting Xiao Yan, speechless.

"What do you mean? Are you looking down on your senior brother for being a monkey?"

Seeing that Yao Chen had misunderstood, Xiao Yan hurriedly waved his hands and shook his head, saying that was not it. Then another question popped out: "Senior Brother didn't happen to spring out of a rock, did he?!"

Xiao Yan had only meant it as a joke, thinking there was no way it could be such a coincidence.

But Yao Chen's expression suddenly turned serious, and he asked gravely, "How did you know?"

Xiao Yan: "???"

"What? Senior Brother really did spring out of a rock?!!"

Now it was Xiao Yan's turn to be dumbfounded. Everything had been a coincidence up to now, but if they had both sprung out of rocks, wasn't that a little too much of a coincidence?

Seeing Xiao Yan react so strongly, Yao Chen simply assumed he had not seen much of the world. "I keep telling you to read more, but you never listen. Now you've run into a gap in your knowledge, haven't you?"