The Divine Son Appears, Terrifying Beyond Belief

The golden dragon of fortune roared as it flew toward Wang Teng's Star Radiance Heaven-Slaying Art.

Its roar was deafening. It then coiled around the crescent-shaped Star Radiance Heaven-Slaying Art and squeezed with all its might.

"Bang!"

The Star Radiance Heaven-Slaying Art was crushed to pieces by the golden dragon of fortune's immense pressure. The dragon then charged at Wang Teng again, opening its great maw as though it meant to devour him.

Wang Teng panicked a little at the sight. His hands rapidly formed seals, but before he could finish the secret art, the golden dragon of fortune had reached him and bitten down.

Wang Teng instinctively raised a hand to block it. Rip... His bloody right arm was torn off, blood streaming everywhere. His face deathly pale, Wang Teng clutched his bleeding stump with his left hand, utterly weakened.

Yuan Ruochu recalled the golden dragon of fortune. Looking down from on high at the utterly defeated Wang Teng, he continued to mock him contemptuously. "You? You want to challenge the divine son? You're too weak..."

"You..."

Wang Teng's Qi and blood churned, his face flushed red, and he spat out a mouthful of blood before passing out. The Wang Family patriarch then saw how miserably his son had been defeated and how badly he was injured.

He could not help frowning. His presence spilled out and pressed down on Yuan Ruochu. The sudden, terrifying pressure nearly made Yuan Ruochu faint, and he struggled to hold on.

"How dare you!"

A supreme clan elder shouted angrily and waved a hand at Yuan Ruochu. The terrifying pressure bearing down on him vanished instantly.

The elder then rebuked the Wang Family patriarch. "Wang Family patriarch, are you trying to bully a junior?"

The Wang Family patriarch replied, "This gathering is meant for exchanging pointers and sparring, but didn't Yuan Ruochu go too far? Aren't you Yuan Clan people going to give us an explanation?"

The Yuan Clan's supreme elder sneered. "An explanation? Our Yuan Clan has never needed to explain its actions. If you want to use this as an excuse to make trouble, then even though killing would be inappropriate on the day of the divine son's coming-of-age ceremony, I will still make you fall here."

The Wang Family patriarch had only just reached the first stage of the Supreme Saint realm and was no match for the Yuan Clan's supreme elder, who was at the ninth level of the Supreme Saint realm. Seeing how powerful the Yuan Clan was, he felt anger rise in his heart, but he could only swallow the injustice in silence.

He then said to the Yuan Clan, "Our family has other matters to attend to, so we'll take our leave." With that, he swept out with the unconscious Wang Teng.

After this farce, Yuan Ruochu addressed the heavenly talents and monstrous geniuses present. "Who else wants to challenge our clan's divine son?"

"I do!"

A voice rang out, and Ji Jingtian slowly rose to his feet, unhurried.

"Ji Jingtian!" Yuan Ruochu stared fixedly at him.

"Last time, you lost to me. Do you want to taste defeat again this time?" A broad smile spread across Ji Jingtian's handsome face.

Yuan Ruochu replied coldly, "Hmph, I admit I lost to you, but you only relied on the might of an emperor weapon. Without it, you'd end up just like Wang Teng."

Ji Jingtian shot back, "In battle, whether it's a Great Emperor's art or a Great Emperor's weapon, both are factors that can secure victory. If you're capable, go get yourself an emperor weapon and we'll duel again. Too bad you don't have one. Haha."

"You..."

Seeing Ji Jingtian like this, Yuan Ruochu was too angry to speak. He really did not have an emperor weapon. After all, he was over sixteen and could not participate in the Heavenly Dao Ancient Tablet rankings. Otherwise, Yuan Ruochu could definitely have claimed a place in the top three. At the same time, he wondered whether he should beg an ancestor to lend him an emperor weapon to bring this arrogant man down a peg.

Just then, Yuan Zhexian's voice rang out.

"Brother Ruochu, I imagine that battle just now and the Wang Family patriarch's pressure cost you a great deal of spiritual power. Why don't you step down and let me take this fight?"

The crowd broke into an uproar as soon as Yuan Zhexian finished speaking. Was the Yuan Clan's divine son going to take action? Were the two peerless, forbidden monstrous geniuses ranked in the top three on the Heavenly Dao Ancient Tablet about to face off?

Without waiting for Yuan Ruochu's answer, Yuan Zhexian walked slowly out. He came up beside Ji Jingtian and looked at him. "Ji Jingtian, the Ji Family's divine son, right?"

"That's right," Ji Jingtian answered, full of swagger.

When Ji Tianming, the Ji Family patriarch, saw Yuan Zhexian arrive, he looked at the son of the man he had wanted to defeat again all his life and was filled with emotion. But when he heard Yuan Zhexian's words, those feelings promptly vanished, leaving him furious.

"I hear you've been wanting to challenge me lately! You're not going to let it go, are you? Looks like you really want to take me on. Do you have what it takes to fight me, Yuan Zhexian? Have I been giving you too much face?"

"Back then, your father challenged mine time and again and lost every time. What's the matter? Do you want to follow in your father's footsteps and make the same mistakes?"

Ji Jingtian said conceitedly, "We'll know whether I'm following in his footsteps after we fight." With that, he entered the light barrier.

"Ah..." Yuan Zhexian sighed and shook his head. "Why do you insist on seeking setbacks?"

He then flashed into the light barrier as well.

Ji Jingtian's spiritual power surged, and the presence around him turned violent. Countless black spatial rifts appeared inside the light barrier.

Looking at the countless spatial rifts, someone said that this was the Ji Family's true Great Void Scripture. Ji Jingtian's spatial rifts were not only much larger than those Wang Teng had created; their presence and power were also far greater.

After unleashing the Great Void Art, Ji Jingtian fired a ray of light into a spatial rift.

The ray passed continuously through the countless spatial rifts before shooting straight at Yuan Zhexian from one of them.

Yuan Zhexian merely turned slightly to the side and easily dodged the ray. Purple light then radiated from Ji Jingtian's body, and he raised a hand and fired another ray into a spatial rift.

After the ray entered the rift, purple light blazed at the center of every spatial rift. Countless rays then shot from the rifts toward Yuan Zhexian.

Yuan Zhexian did not even feel like moving. He spoke softly. "Samsara Rotation."

A purple barrier appeared before him. After the countless rays struck it,

they all bounced back toward Ji Jingtian. Seeing this, he hurriedly said, "Void Transformation."

Ji Jingtian's body instantly became transparent, and the reflected purple rays passed through it without causing him any harm.

"Oh... so this is the Void Body's special ability, Void Transformation," Yuan Zhexian said mildly, intrigued.

Ji Jingtian's spiritual power surged again, and his presence grew even more formidable. He called softly, "Void Space Transfer." With a wave of his hand, a purple domain appeared throughout the space within the light barrier.

Ji Jingtian then raised his right hand slightly and infused it with spiritual power, preparing to punch Yuan Zhexian. It was a punch infused with the power of the void, and its might was exceptionally terrifying. Whatever part of the body it struck would be completely turned into void, and even a peerless holy medicine capable of regrowing body parts would be useless.

Yuan Zhexian calmly prepared to stretch out a hand to block it.

Suddenly!

Yuan Zhexian, who had been dozens of paces away, appeared directly in front of Ji Jingtian. Even Yuan Zhexian was somewhat surprised.

This Void Space Transfer could actually forcibly transfer him straight in front of Ji Jingtian. Then, with a flash of golden light, he vanished from before Ji Jingtian and reappeared in his original position.

Ji Jingtian's punch missed. Baffled, he said, "Impossible. Void Space Conversion is a secret art unique to my Void Body. This entire space is my domain. You can't possibly use an instant movement technique."

Yuan Zhexian patiently explained, "You said yourself that I couldn't use an instant movement technique in this domain. In that case, you should know what the other explanation is."

Ji Jingtian's pupils suddenly widened at Yuan Zhexian's words. His face full of disbelief, he said, "Impossible! Absolutely impossible! You can't be that fast, fast enough to rival an instant movement technique!"

Yuan Zhexian then said calmly, "What's impossible about it? Just because you can't do it doesn't mean no one else can."

Seeing that the move was useless against Yuan Zhexian, Ji Jingtian prepared to use a bigger one. His hands formed seals without pause, and his spiritual power surged to its limit. Its terrifying presence gave rise to a fearsome storm, with countless bolts of lightning raging within it.

He then said to Yuan Zhexian, "I admit you really are strong. But this is as far as you go."

He shouted, "Void Exile!"

A huge circular space appeared behind Yuan Zhexian. The circular space gave off a terrifying presence and exerted a powerful suction, trying to draw him inside.

Ji Jingtian was confident that, with the support of his domain, Yuan Zhexian could never escape Void Exile's suction. The fate awaiting him was to be exiled into an alternate space.

The powerful suction had already taken hold of Yuan Zhexian, but he stood motionless like a towering mountain. The immensely powerful suction had no effect on him at all.

Seeing Yuan Zhexian standing motionless, Ji Jingtian suddenly stretched out his left hand, and the emperor weapon Void Refining Pot appeared above it. Ji Jingtian's current cultivation was at the ninth stage of the Dao Body realm, but with his cultivation, he could use no more than twenty percent of the Void Refining Pot's power, just as the Sword Sect's sword son could with his emperor sword. The moment the Void Refining Pot appeared, all the space within the light barrier trembled.

Ji Jingtian used his spiritual power to control the Void Refining Pot, moving it above the Void Exile space. Its opening faced Yuan Zhexian, and a pale purple light shone from it onto him, trying to draw him inside. Looking at the space's suction and the Void Refining Pot's steadily increasing power, Yuan Zhexian finally moved.

He clenched his right hand slightly and began to gather power. As the spiritual power in his fist continued to grow, a terrifying presence erupted.

Crack! Crack!

A crack appeared in the light barrier, as though it were glass. Turning, he then threw a punch, and a burst of golden light exploded from his fist toward the Void Exile space and the Void Refining Pot.

Bang!

The golden light struck the Void Exile space and the Void Refining Pot at the same time. The space was blasted apart by the terrifying golden light, while the pot slammed heavily into the light barrier. With a crack, the barrier was shattered by the impact of the Void Refining Pot.

Pfft...

Ji Jingtian spat out a mouthful of blood. Yuan Zhexian's terrifying punch had already inflicted severe physical and spiritual damage on him, leaving his spirit utterly debilitated.

Following the principle of taking an enemy's life while he was down, Yuan Zhexian threw another punch without a word. His fist was covered in golden divine radiance, its terrifying power even greater than that of the previous punch. The air currents it emitted sent everything in the banquet hall flying. Then the golden light bursting from his fist shot straight at Ji Jingtian.

Just as Ji Jingtian was about to fall on the spot, a figure appeared before him and extended a single finger, easily blocking Yuan Zhexian's punch.

"Hm??"

Yuan Zhexian frowned and looked displeased at the person before him. It was none other than the Ji Family patriarch. The patriarch said to Yuan Zhexian angrily, "Are you trying to kill my son?"

Yuan Zhexian replied coldly, "Of all the countless heavenly talents and monstrous geniuses in the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands, your son is the most annoying. He's tried to challenge me time and again.

"He wants to use me as a stepping stone to strengthen his Dao heart. Do you think he can do it?"

"If he wants to challenge me, he has to pay the corresponding price. You've surely killed chickens to warn monkeys plenty of times yourselves, haven't you?"

Yuan Changsheng then flashed over to Yuan Zhexian. Looking at the man he had defeated in the past, he said contemptuously, "A fair exchange can lead to duels. Duels have winners and losers, and where there are winners and losers, there are bound to be deaths and injuries."

"What? Do you object?"

"Back then, when we were of the same generation, you challenged me time and again too. But you were one of the few people who could exchange a few moves with me at the time. I wanted to add a little amusement for myself, so I didn't kill you. Don't take a mile when given an inch."

Yuan Changsheng's words made Ji Tianming even angrier. He had always regarded Yuan Changsheng as the goal he wanted to surpass. He had done the same with his son, telling Ji Jingtian from childhood to turn the tables and make Yuan Zhexian regard Ji Jingtian as the goal he wanted to surpass.

Yet now Yuan Changsheng had actually said he was merely a source of amusement. That was truly killing a man and destroying his heart.

But angry as he was, they were at the Yuan Clan's stronghold, and he did not dare go too far. Ji Tianming then said to Yuan Changsheng, "We concede this time."

He prepared to leave with Ji Jingtian and the rest of the Ji Family.

But Yuan Zhexian suddenly called out, "Wait!"

The Ji Family stopped in confusion and turned to look at Yuan Zhexian.

"Did I say you could take Ji Jingtian away?"

The people around them were also baffled.

Yuan Zhexian continued, "I said that anyone who wants to challenge me must pay the corresponding price. Either Ji Jingtian falls here today, or he stays in the Yuan Clan as my servant. Choose one."

Hiss...

The people present could not help drawing a sharp breath. The Yuan Clan's divine son was actually so overbearing.

This was the patriarch of the mythical Ji Family, a supreme expert at the Supreme Saint realm, yet he spoke to him so overbearingly. Not only was the Yuan Clan's divine son terrifyingly powerful, but his courage and boldness were also extraordinary.

Yuan Zhexian's thoughts were simple. Ji Jingtian had tried to make trouble for him several times, so today he would either have him fall here or have him stay in the Yuan Clan as his servant.

After all, the Human Ancestor and the Chaos Great Emperor had said that the myriad races would emerge during the golden age. Plenty of heavenly talents and monstrous geniuses would surely pop up.

If he had more useful people at his side, he would spare himself a great deal of trouble. Although he could stand invincible in the world and sweep everything aside, too much trouble would still annoy him. If he could be lazy, that was definitely a good thing.