Beneath the center of the clash, the incredibly hard ground—special material capable of withstanding battles between Saints—had been scorched black over a wide area by the flames that escaped the impact.
“Was that really power a King Realm cultivator could unleash?!”
An older student cried out, his face filled with disbelief.
“More than just power! The key is how fast it happened! Did you see it clearly? From the moment he began drawing the talismans to the instant they were completed and counterattacked—it took less than a breath! A single breath!”
Another prodigy well versed in the Dao of talismans spoke with a trembling voice, his eyes filled with shock.
“Forming talismans in the void is already incredibly difficult, yet he managed to combine three talismans on the spot in such a short time and create a compound killing move of this magnitude! It’s simply unbelievable!”
As the smoke cleared, Su Fentian appeared with charred hair and torn clothes, panting heavily.
Fatty Wang was just as disheveled, his chubby face smeared with soot as he planted his hands on his hips and gasped for breath.
“Phew… phew… Senior Brother Su, your flames are way too fierce!”
Su Fentian stared fixedly at Fatty Wang. The fighting spirit in his eyes had been replaced by overwhelming shock.
“One final move! We’ll settle this with it!”
Suppressing the surging blood in his veins and the storm raging in his heart, Su Fentian no longer held anything back. There was no need for further probing. He pushed the power of his Flame God Sacred Body to its absolute limit.
He poured all his strength into his right fist. A dazzling point of white-hot light, resembling the core of the sun, condensed upon it.
This was the essence of his flames, compressed to the extreme!
“Heaven-Burning Strike!”
He transformed into a streak of blazing light and charged straight at Fatty Wang!
Fatty Wang’s pupils contracted. He knew he could not dodge.
A sharp glint flashed through his eyes, as if he had been prepared for this all along.
The instant Su Fentian moved, Fatty Wang did not draw a defensive talisman with his hands. Instead, he slammed both palms against the ground on either side of him.
“Rise!”
In an instant, dozens of Binding Spirit Talismans that had been quietly laid down earlier lit up along Su Fentian’s path and around him on both sides.
The talismans were like transparent shackles that suddenly tightened. Though they could not completely restrain Su Fentian, who had unleashed his full strength, they caused his body to jerk to a halt and his speed to drop sharply.
“What?!”
Su Fentian was stunned. He had not noticed when Fatty Wang had set up the trap.
That fleeting moment of stagnation decided the outcome!
And that was precisely the opportunity Fatty Wang had been waiting for!
His hands swept through the air before him like phantoms. A seemingly simple yet supremely condensed Armor-Piercing Talisman took shape in an instant.
The talisman transformed into a solid streak of black light. It arrived after being launched, yet reached its target first, striking with pinpoint accuracy at the Tanzhong acupoint on Su Fentian’s chest—the point where his defenses were weakest as he exerted his strength.
“Pfft!”
The black light struck its target. The violent fire-attributed spiritual energy gathered around Su Fentian collapsed like a punctured balloon.
The terrifying Heaven-Burning Strike had not even been fully unleashed before it was cut short, its core of power shattered.
Su Fentian grunted. His forward momentum was broken, and his entire body froze in place as his face flushed crimson.
His aura instantly weakened. He stared at his chest in disbelief, then looked toward Fatty Wang.
Fatty Wang clapped his hands and gave a chuckle.
“Senior Brother Su, you were kind enough to let me win.”
The entire arena fell silent for a moment before erupting into an even louder uproar.
“He won?! Just like that?”
“It was a trap! Fatty Wang secretly laid down the Binding Spirit Talismans long ago!”
“And that final Armor-Piercing Talisman—the timing and the target were unbelievably precise!”
Only now did everyone finally understand.
Fatty Wang’s earlier fumbling, his flustered defenses, and even the final clash between the Blazing Sun Heaven-Burning Talismans might all have been smokescreens.
His true killing move had been the control talismans he had laid down without anyone noticing, followed by that precise, fatal strike at his opponent’s weak point, which shattered the core of his power.
Su Fentian stood dazed for a moment before finally exhaling slowly and cupping his fists with a bitter smile.
“Junior Brother Wang, your talisman techniques are unpredictable, and your schemes run deep. I, Su Fentian, concede.”
Just then, a figure slowly rose from the shadows at the highest point of the spectator stands.
The man wore a plain white Daoist robe. His features were refined and austere, while his eyes were as sharp as cold stars.
His gaze locked firmly onto Fatty Wang, who was munching on a spiritual fruit in the center of the plaza. His eyes burned with intense fighting spirit and absolute confidence.
He was Liu Wuwang, another top-tier prodigy of the Dao Repository Academy.
Unlike Su Fentian’s Flame God Sacred Body, Liu Wuwang possessed the far rarer Wuwei Dao Body.
This physique appeared ethereal and intangible, yet it excelled at dissolving all forms of energy, making it especially effective against techniques such as talismans and formations that relied on the evolution of energy.
“All things have a source; the Wuwei Dao Body breaks them at their source.”
That was the fundamental mystery of the Wuwei Dao Body.
Liu Wuwang had watched every moment of the battle between Fatty Wang and Su Fentian.
When he saw Fatty Wang activate his Myriad-Talisman Dao Body to condense talisman seals and transform them into various talismans, a storm had already begun raging in his heart.
Then that shock turned into uncontrollable excitement.
“So what if he has the Myriad-Talisman Dao Body? In the end, he still relies on the power of talismans to evolve divine abilities. And my Wuwei Dao Body is precisely his natural counter!”
Liu Wuwang understood that Su Fentian had lost because Fatty Wang’s talisman techniques emerged one after another and changed unpredictably.
His own Wuwei Dao Body, however, could directly dissolve the energy foundation of those talismans, rendering Fatty Wang’s divine abilities useless.
As long as he made his move, he would surely become famous in a single battle and steal the limelight from this dark horse, Fatty Wang!
With that thought, Liu Wuwang moved. He drifted down like a gentle breeze and landed steadily three zhang in front of Fatty Wang.
“Junior Brother Wang, your Myriad-Talisman Dao Body is indeed formidable. I, Liu Wuwang, would like to seek your guidance with my Wuwei Dao Body!”
His words caused the trial plaza, which had only just settled down, to erupt once more.
“It’s Senior Brother Liu! My heavens, even he couldn’t resist making a move?”
“Liu Wuwang of the Wuwei Dao Body! I heard that his physique can dissolve all energy-based attacks and is specifically suited to countering talismans, spells, and techniques like them. He’s practically tailor-made to counter Junior Brother Wang!”
“It’s over, it’s over! Junior Brother Wang just finished one battle, and now he’s run into the Wuwei Dao Body that counters him. This time, he’s probably going to suffer!”
The spectators’ cries of alarm rose and fell without end. They looked at Liu Wuwang with awe, while their gazes toward Fatty Wang held more than a little sympathy.
Even Su Fentian raised his head. He wanted to see how this fat man who had defeated him would act so arrogantly in front of the Wuwei Dao Body.
Fatty Wang had just been preparing to return and continue eating when the unexpected voice interrupted him. He immediately frowned.
“Another person asking for a spar? Senior Brother Liu, didn’t you see that I just finished a fight? I’m exhausted—and I’m still hungry…”
“Enough nonsense!”
Liu Wuwang cut him off. A faint gray-white halo rose around his body as he activated his Wuwei Dao Body.
“Today, I will break your Myriad-Talisman Dao Body and show you what a truly invincible physique is!”
Before his voice had even faded, he raised a hand and swept it outward. The gray-white halo transformed into an invisible wave of energy that surged straight toward Fatty Wang.
The wave appeared gentle, yet carried an intense power of dissolution. Wherever it passed, the fragments of talisman energy lingering in the air vanished instantly without a trace.
Seeing this, Fatty Wang also cast aside his lazy demeanor.
“Since you want to fight, then I’ll play along!”
ions, keeping it grounded and realistic】 After quitting his job, office worker Su Yang accidentally binds with the "Enjoy Life System." As the name suggests, simply by indulging in life's pleasures, he can earn random rewards from the system—no need to spend money on beautiful women or grovel before anyone. Just enjoy, and the money follows, making it all about effortless fun. The system comes with a scanning feature, allowing him to establish a favorability bond with women rated 85 points or above. Every 20-point increase in favorability unlocks additional rewards. After suffering through over twenty years of hardship, Su Yang trembles with excitement, his dull eyes suddenly gleaming with newfound hope. "Enjoy life? How hard could that be?"
nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
he colors of other people’s emotions. Light red meant anxiety. Gray meant exhaustion. Orange meant excitement. Yellow... meant repression. At the same time, he could gain unlimited control over one of those colors. Pale cyan: relaxation. Using this ability, he started offering “two-yuan hugs,” spending an afternoon exchanging emotional-color experiences with others. Then came his final female customer of the day— a girl whose emotional color was pure black... —— A week later, Xu Chuan had become skilled at using pale cyan—Relaxation—treating it like a bottle of menthol balm whenever he needed it. That was when he discovered he had unlocked another unlimited emotional color: Purple, the color of fear. So these emotional colors refresh every week? Fine, I take it back—I’ll never call you useless again... —— Much later, after Xu Chuan had accumulated countless emotional abilities, one night, he suddenly found himself inside someone else’s dream. There, he could use the emotional colors he possessed to paint. And in her dream, he painted her a shower of pink shooting stars, spreading across the depths of the night sky...
s the Eldest Princess, renowned for her cold and aloof detachment, became the most docile of lambs, obeying his every command without question. But when the final move was played on the chessboard, as Gu Chenghan seized everything and ascended on the verge of apotheosis, that very Princess suddenly embraced him from behind, her tone carrying a dependence never heard before: "Wait... you haven't yet... commanded me to love you forever." Gu Chenghan froze abruptly. She... hadn't been hypnotized?! ... [The Eldest Princess's Diary] [When my soul was extracted, becoming the sole spectator outside my own shell] [At first, there was overwhelming fury, until I saw] [How he used my sword to effortlessly shatter my inescapable doom] [How he wielded my authority to eradicate fatal conspiracies I had never even detected] [Like a deity, he rescued me from the deep mire I was trapped in] [If not for those annoying vixens, he and I would be a match made in heaven] [I think I am ill, gravely ill] [My deity should belong to me alone] ... "Hypnosis? Oh, it succeeded, my dear Master." "Only this time, it's my turn to hypnotize you."
