The flame ability and space ability clashed against each other.
Space twisted and distorted like raging waves.
Du Sen struggled to break free from the spatial confinement like a trapped beast.
"So powerful!"
Yan Dongxu didn't dare let his guard down one bit. The situation had already escalated beyond comparing their abilities, it was now a life-or-death battle.
If he got careless and let Du Sen break through the spatial blockade, he could be reduced to ashes in an instant.
To be safe, he retreated to the edge, leaving room to escape.
At the same time, he tried various means of spatial attacks.
Teleporting objects to smash into Du Sen, folding space, and so on.
But it was to no avail.
Du Sen's flame ability was too strong, it had already formed a domain where Du Sen was the absolute ruler.
He couldn't even penetrate it with his space ability.
Ultimately it came down to the difference in their power levels.
The only thing he could do now was to seal Du Sen in, limiting the spread of the intense heat.
"That's all you've got?" Du Sen looked at him playfully like a fiery king.
"You can't get out either, what's there to brag about? Didn't you say you wanted to beat me up? Come on then!" Yan Dongxu retorted with equal trash talk.
"You really think you can trap me here?" Du Sen shook his head. The flames around his body burned even more intensely, especially around his fists which gave off scorching golden light.
"I'll break through!"
Du Sen swung his fist toward the side. A pillar of fire instantly tore through Yan Dongxu's spatial restraint.
The blistering heat instantly caused the ground to boil and bubble.
"I admit that you're very strong, but you just awakened your ability, your application isn't adept enough yet." Du Sen said arrogantly.
Yan Dongxu gasped. He knew Du Sen was provoking him.
If he had swung that fist at him just now instead, even if it didn't kill him, he would have been severely injured.
However, Du Sen's move gave him valuable insight.
Could compressing then releasing his ability result in such great destructive power?
He immediately tried it. Spatial ability gathered in his hand, then he swung out violently.
Whoosh!
A terrifying spatial blade formed out of nothingness sliced through the air.
Du Sen, who was still gloating, suddenly felt an intense sense of crisis and quickly swung out a tongue of flame.
In the midst of the flames, he saw the spatial blade shooting rapidly toward him, already arriving 10 meters away in front of him.
Seeing the flames being torn apart, Du Sen didn't dare be careless. He instinctively punched out.
A vacuum instantly formed between his flame-infused fist and the spatial blade, white lightning crackled violently between them.
Boom!
The spatial blade shattered, but the resultant chaotic spatial turbulence was even more terrifying. Like a rain of knives, the turbulence directly engulfed Du Sen.
Even with his flame ability protecting his body, countless fine cuts were still sliced into Du Sen's skin.
"Sh*t man! You're serious?" Du Sen cursed loudly. His other hand hurriedly moved to shield his crotch.
The back of his hand was also sliced by the spatial turbulence. If he hadn't protected himself in time, the consequences were unimaginable.
If any critical body parts actually got cut off, there was no guarantee they could be reattached.
Yan Dongxu was equally shocked. He didn't expect that move to be able to injure Du Sen, its destructive power astonishing.
Angered, Du Sen stopped holding back and fought Yan Dongxu with full seriousness.
Ripping through the spatial restraints, Du Sen transformed into a blazing fireball shooting toward him.
Whoosh!
Yan Dongxu instantly teleported to another spot.
Du Sen simply couldn't lock onto his shadow.
However, as time passed, no matter how crafty a direction he teleported to, Du Sen would always appear at his side in the next second.
This forced him to use his spatial ability to shield his body as he warded off Du Sen's attacks.
But that made him too passive. A loud smack sent him crashing into the ground, sinking into the boiling hot magma.
If not for his spatial shield protecting his body, he was sure he would have died.
Yan Dongxu was also provoked to anger now, his concentration intensifying.
He removed the glass-like spatial barrier, allowing the spatial ability to adhere tightly to his body instead.
Although his movements were stiffened, it was still better than being confined in that shield unable to counterattack.
Bang bang bang!
Yan Dongxu was beaten very miserably, but as time went on, his motions grew increasingly agile while his spatial defenses became more substantial.
Slap!
After teleporting and switching positions, he captured the spot where Du Sen was about to appear next and smoothly swung at his face.
A loud slap straight across Du Sen's face stunned him directly.
This was also the first time amidst their close quarter combat that Yan Dongxu managed to get a hit in.
At the same time, he was blowing the horn signaling his counterattack.
With his mastery of spatial abilities growing by leaps and bounds through the continuing battle, the pressure Du Sen exerted became smaller and smaller.
Soon he had beaten Du Sen's face black and blue.
Of course, he wasn't much better off either, Du Sen's scorching fists could send his spatial defenses fluctuating violently.
He was also punched full of purple bruises.
But having just awakened his abilities, being able to fight Du Sen to this degree, he was already very content.
He had heard before that death can stimulate one's potential.
Just now each time Du Sen had pummeled him into that magma, he had felt as if he was about to die.
Perhaps that was why his strength improved so rapidly.
"Kid, you really astonish me!" Du Sen grew more alarmed the more they fought. In his eyes, Yan Dongxu was the person with the highest talents that he had ever seen.
As the battle dragged on, Yan Dongxu's strength seemed to visibly improve at an astonishing pace.
Was this the potential of a SSS-grade spatial ability?
If Yan Dongxu's initial strength was only at B or A rank, then now he had already strode to reach the threshold of S rank.
Bang!
Both their fists landed squarely on each other's face at the same time.
Then they each retreated back several tens of meters to disengage.
"Hahahahaha!"
They looked at each other and laughed, restraining their abilities as they lay panting heavily on the vacant land, gazing up at the blue sky.
"Hey, got any cigarettes left?" Du Sen asked, turning his head.
"Yup!" Yan Dongxu took out a cigarette pack from his pants pocket. He discovered that the cigarette pack had been stomped completely flat.
He pulled out two badly crumpled cigarettes, straightened them out a bit, and tossed one over saying help yourself.
Du Sen lit both their cigarettes then they lay there leisurely smoking away.
"When were you planning to stop hiding it?" Du Sen asked.
"Don't know, anyway the fewer who know the better. With more abilities comes more trouble. I'm living pretty good now, don't want too much trouble." Yan Dongxu said, exhaling some smoke.
Du Sen chuckled, "When I first awakened my ability, I thought the same as you. But you'll gradually discover that some things, you really can't just sit by and do nothing about."
"Just like when you stopped that guy who lost control after freshly awakening back there. You'll encounter more and more such incidents in the future. And people who know about you will only increase."
Yan Dongxu was indifferent. "Who cares? Go with the flow I guess. We didn't determine a winner today, let's fight again next time!"
"We should head back now too right? You good with those injuries?"
"No problem! Let's go." Du Sen got up and tossed away his half-finished cigarette. As he left, he cooled down that patch of magma land as well.
Yan Dongxu then brought him back into the mall.
Everyone gaped dumbstruck when they saw the two walking out from another entrance.
"B-boss...did you two fight each other?" Lin Xia looked at the bruised and swollen faces of Yan Dongxu and Du Sen, asking in astonishment.
transmigrates into the world as the sect master of the Heavenly Yan Sect, which is on the verge of being wiped out. He binds a system that grants him cultivation power based on the number of disciples he has: for each disciple, he automatically gains a year's worth of cultivation every single day! Take one disciple: every day he gains 1 year of cultivation power. While others struggle through a year of bitter training, he gets the same just by sleeping through a single night. Take ten disciples: every day he gains 10 years of cultivation power. Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, Nascent Soul—he breezes through all bottlenecks without lifting a finger. Take one hundred disciples: every day he gains 100 years of cultivation power. Even a Soul Transformation Venerable before him can’t survive a single blow. Take ten thousand disciples: every day he gains 10,000 years of cultivation power! With a wave of his hand, he topples empires. With a single step, he crushes the sacred grounds of the universe. ... While others fight tooth and nail for secret techniques, Lin Yan casually hands out Nascent Soul-level cultivation manuals as beginner textbooks. While others strain to find talented recruits, Lin Yan opens his doors to anyone—so long as they’re human. In just three short years, the Heavenly Yan Sect went from a backwater sect made up of three crumbling huts to a sacred land that every cultivator under heaven would kill to enter. ... One day, otherworldly demon gods invade, with a million demon soldiers pressing down upon the realm. Lin Yan, yawning, rises from his lounge chair and glances at the system panel: [Current Disciples: 1.28 million] [Daily Cultivation Increase: 1.28 million years] He waves his hand casually, and the countless demon soldiers are reduced to ashes in an instant. “So noisy… interrupting my fishing.”
e bizarre and supernatural had descended. The previous emperor was a thoroughgoing tyrant; no longer satisfied with human women, he had set his sights on a stunningly beautiful supernatural entity. He met his end in his bedchamber, drained of all his vital essence. As the legitimate eldest son and crown prince, Wang Hao was thus hastily enthroned, becoming the young emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty. No sooner had he awakened the "Imperial Sign-In Intelligence System" than he was assassinated by a Son of Destiny—a classic villain's opening. The Great Zhou, ravaged by the former emperor's excesses, was in national decline. The great families within its borders harbored their own treacherous schemes, martial sects began to defy the imperial court's decrees, and border armies, their pay and provisions in arrears, grumbled incessantly against the central government. Fortunately, the central capital was still held secure by the half-million Imperial Guards and fifty thousand Imperial Forest Army who obeyed the court's orders, along with the royal family's hidden reserves of power, barely managing to suppress the realm. As the Great Zhou's finances worsened and supernatural activities grew ever more frequent, the court sat atop a volcano. Ambitious plotters everywhere dreamed of overthrowing the dynasty, and even some reclusive ancient powers emerged, attempting to sway the tides of the world. At the first grand court assembly, the civil and military officials nearly came to blows, fighting tooth and nail over the allocation of fifty million taels of silver from the summer tax revenues. The spectacle opened Wang Hao's eyes—the Great Zhou's bureaucracy was not only corrupt but also martially proficient, a cabinet of all-rounders. Some officials even had the audacity to suggest the emperor release funds from the imperial privy purse to address the emergency. Wang Hao suddenly felt weary. Let it all burn.
young master of the Shen family—a figure of immense power and wealth beyond measure—and awakened the "Destined Ultimate Villain System"! His starting scenario? Running into his icy fiancée who shows up with a mountain-descending divine doctor to break off their engagement. The divine doctor arrogantly taunts: "What does your Shen family have besides a bit of stinking money? You're not even worthy of tying Qingxue's shoelaces!" Shen Fei just smiled. He completely defied the usual script: "Fine, I agree to break off the engagement. Also, notify the finance department to withdraw all investments from the Su family." Minutes later, with its capital chain severed, the Su Group teetered on the brink of bankruptcy! The once aloof and proud ice queen CEO was thrown into utter panic. That very night, she went to Shen Fei's villa, casting aside all dignity to beg and plead desperately... From then on, in this world teeming with Sons of Destiny, Shen Fei embarked on a path of extreme dimensional suppression! A mountain-descending divine doctor? Peerless medical skills? Shen Fei: "Reporting you for practicing medicine without a license! I'll gladly take your ancient medicinal cauldron and twin sister assassins." The Crooked-Smiling Dragon King? Commanding a hundred thousand soldiers with a single order? Shen Fei: "Illegal assembly and suspected treason! Let a fleet of attack helicopters sanitize the area and teach you what the state apparatus really means!" A reborn tycoon? Knows all the golden opportunities of the next decade? Shen Fei: "A trillion in capital to reverse and pump the stock market, making you blow your margin and jump on the very first day of your rebirth!" What Chosen Ones? What bearers of Heavenly Fortune? In Shen Fei's eyes, they're all just chives (i.e., suckers/marks) waiting to be harvested! Shen Fei: "Sorry, but as the Destined Ultimate Villain, I don't play by the rules of honor. I only play the game of dimensional suppression."
villain is the number one simp for the book's leading female protagonist, Shen Wan'er. As expected, he later becomes a tool for the main character to show off and slap faces, ultimately meeting a tragic end with his family ruined and his life in shambles. Fortunately, he awakens the [Universal Pure Love System], which allows him to earn points by performing acts of pure love. To change his fate, Gu Yan makes a decisive choice to seek warmth and companionship with the book's biggest villain—Cold Qingqiu. ........... My name is Leng Qingqiu. To find the murderer who killed my parents years ago, I deliberately blinded myself so that everyone would lower their guard around me. Just as I was secretly accumulating power and capital according to my initial plan, a man walked into my world. "Lengleng, Qingqing, Qiuqiu, which nickname do you prefer?" I don't like any of them. You'd better leave quickly! "Why aren't you saying anything? How about I call you my baby wife?" Leng Qingqiu thinks to herself, this man is truly annoying! (Stubborn pure love warrior + single female lead + true pure love + 1v1)
