“This is impossible… We couldn’t have lost…”
The Zhao family elders looked as though all hope had drained from them.
They had originally hoped that Zhao Kuang would make a name for himself in this battle, stepping on the back of this peerless prodigy to rise to prominence.
Instead, he had become a stepping stone for that very prodigy to make his name known throughout the stars.
At the edge of the arena, the stellar powerhouse serving as referee stood frozen for a full half-minute before finally recovering from his overwhelming shock.
He swallowed, then flashed into the center of the arena.
After checking Zhao Kuang’s condition and confirming that he was merely unconscious from severe injuries, the referee took a deep breath. Channeling his vital force, he sent his voice thundering throughout the entire Void Arena.
“First round, match fifty!”
“Seventh Legion—Su Yu wins!”
Boom!
The arena once again erupted in cheers like a surging tsunami.
Su Yu remained calm as he withdrew his invisible spear, paying no attention to the feverish gazes surrounding him.
He turned and walked off the arena, heading straight back to the Seventh Legion’s preparation area.
The instant he stepped into the preparation area, a towering figure suddenly charged over and grabbed Su Yu by the shoulder.
It was Chen Xuan.
This Domain Lord–level commander’s eyes were shining with excitement. Even the beard on his chin trembled faintly.
“Good lad!”
Chen Xuan looked Su Yu up and down as though he were examining a priceless treasure.
“Tell me honestly!”
Chen Xuan lowered his voice, unable to conceal the fervor in his tone.
“That Void Spirit Condensation Art you took from the treasury…”
“Have you cultivated it to perfection as well?!”
Although he phrased it as a question, Chen Xuan’s eyes already held absolute certainty.
Faced with Chen Xuan’s question, Su Yu did not hide the truth. He nodded.
“Yes.”
Hiss—!
Hearing Su Yu admit it personally, Chen Xuan and Lu Xinghe, who was standing nearby, simultaneously sucked in a cold breath.
Even though they had already suspected as much, the moment the truth was laid bare before them, the shock of having their entire worldview crushed still left their scalps tingling.
“This talent of yours!”
Chen Xuan heavily patted Su Yu on the shoulder, his voice filled with deep emotion.
“It’s simply unbelievable!”
“If you told me you were a hundred and eighty thousand years old, I’d believe you!”
Eighteen years old, and already possessing two black-hole-level techniques cultivated to perfection!
If word of this reached the central regions of the starry sky, those ancient monsters who had lived for millions of years would probably be so ashamed that they would collectively smash their heads against the wall and kill themselves.
Chen Xuan took a deep breath and calmed his turbulent emotions.
His gaze turned exceptionally solemn.
“Su Yu.”
“With the depth of your spiritual power and the amplification provided by a black-hole-level technique, your strength has already reached an inconceivable level.”
“But!”
Chen Xuan suddenly changed tack.
“Just now on the arena, you could only defend passively. That’s because you haven’t mastered any offensive spiritual technique, have you?”
Su Yu nodded slightly.
It was true.
Although his spiritual power was immense, apart from the probing abilities that came with the Void Spirit Condensation Art, he had no lethal technique worth mentioning.
“That won’t do!”
Chen Xuan waved his hand decisively and pulled a jade slip radiating a faint silver glow from his storage ring.
“With your talent in spiritual power, you absolutely cannot let it go to waste!”
“Take this!”
Chen Xuan shoved the jade slip into Su Yu’s hand.
“This is a supreme divine art for attacking with spiritual power!”
“Although it isn’t as heaven-defying as a black-hole-level technique, it’s still considered top-tier among supreme divine arts.”
“Use the intervals between matches to study it carefully.”
“Even if you can only reach the entry level, it will still raise your combat power by another step!”
Su Yu accepted the jade slip.
His spiritual power swept over it.
Soul-Severing Star Ray.
A supreme divine art of spiritual power.
Chen Xuan really was sparing no expense.
Su Yu did not stand on ceremony and directly put the jade slip away.
“Thank you, Commander.”
With that, Su Yu walked straight to a cushion in the corner and sat down.
He closed his eyes.
On the surface, he appeared to be resting.
In reality, his consciousness had already plunged into the depths of his mind.
“System.”
“Spend one meteor!”
Su Yu issued the command without the slightest hesitation.
Ding!
[One meteor consumed.]
[Converted into one meteor-year of cultivation.]
[Beginning to deduce the supreme spiritual divine art, Soul-Severing Star Ray…]
Boom!
Su Yu’s consciousness was once again dragged into that absolutely motionless, endless deduction space.
He began performing the same dull deductions over and over again.
Breaking down laws.
Reconstructing the circulation routes of spiritual power.
Failing again and again, then starting over each time.
One meteor-year passed in the blink of an eye.
Whoosh!
Su Yu suddenly opened his eyes.
In reality, only a single second had passed.
Yet deep in his eyes flashed a terrifying silver radiance powerful enough to tear stars apart.
Mastered!
Under the system’s extreme deductions, he had pushed this supreme divine art all the way to the realm of perfection!
“An amplification of more than seven hundred times to spiritual power…”
Sensing the destructive force in his sea of consciousness, ready to erupt at any moment, Su Yu’s lips curled slightly upward.
An offensive spiritual technique with an amplification of more than seven hundred times!
Combined with his terrifying spiritual power foundation of 450 million meteors…
If this attack were unleashed, it would be incredibly powerful.
Powerful enough to instantly annihilate the souls of the vast majority of Star-level powerhouses!
At that moment, in the royal family’s exclusive premium viewing section—
Upon the towering meteor-iron throne, Emperor of Great Chu Chu Tianjiao still maintained his slightly forward-leaning posture.
His expression was more solemn than ever.
Silence.
A deathly silence.
The cabinet ministers and imperial advisers around him did not even dare breathe too loudly.
As an unrivaled Domain Lord at the peak of his realm, Chu Tianjiao felt deeply worried for Chu Wudao.
“This is troublesome.”
He sighed inwardly.
He knew that this time, the championship of the Rising Star Tournament might very well slip away.
Not only was it in danger—this unknown eighteen-year-old might even snatch first place away from the imperial family by force.
“Father.”
The Ninth Prince, Chu Wudao, seemed to notice Chu Tianjiao’s unusual expression.
Following his father’s gaze, he looked toward Su Yu in the preparation area.
Chu Wudao sneered, his tone still carrying that lofty disdain.
“You don’t need to worry so much.”
“This boy’s talent is indeed impressive.”
“The fact that he was able to withstand Zhao Kuang’s spiritual assault proves that his defensive abilities are formidable.”
Because his cultivation realm was insufficient, Chu Wudao had failed to see through the true foundation of Su Yu’s physical body.
He naturally assumed that Su Yu was merely exceptionally tough and difficult to injure.
“It’s nothing to be concerned about!”
Leaning back in his chair, Chu Wudao spoke arrogantly.
“It’s only spiritual power.”
“Didn’t you notice? From beginning to end, he could only passively take the attacks.”
“Su Yu has no offensive spiritual techniques at all!”
“He poses no threat to me whatsoever!”
“And when it comes to vital force?”
“Your son is certain to win!”
Hearing his son’s confident declaration, Chu Tianjiao slowly turned his head.
Looking at Chu Wudao, the Emperor of Great Chu shook his head helplessly.
“Wudao.”
“You’re underestimating him too much.”
Chu Tianjiao’s voice was exceptionally low, carrying an unquestionable majesty.
“Do you really think his spiritual defense is the only thing he has?”
Chu Wudao froze.
“What do you mean, Father?”
Chu Tianjiao took a deep breath and slowly revealed the terrifying truth he had discovered earlier.
“His physical body is extremely strong.”
“So strong that…”
“It is comparable to that of a black-hole-level powerhouse!!”
uld barely embark on the path to immortality. Just as he was on the verge of death, his golden finger awakened. No matter whether it was poison, drained blood and vital energy, diminished lifespan, or any other physical debuff caused by paying a price—once midnight passed, everything would be refreshed. From then on, whenever someone asked what kind of person Chu Ran was, the answer was simple: Forbidden arts that other cultivators dared not learn? Chu Ran would learn them. Prices that even demonic cultivators dared not pay? Chu Ran would pay them. Lifespan that even righteous cultivators dared not burn? Chu Ran would burn it. All the blood essence in his body? Take it. Want both his hands and feet? He would cut them off and send them to you. You say he’s finished? He wasn’t built to sit idle. You think he’s gone mad? No—he was simply waiting for midnight. From that day onward, Chu Ran would respect neither Heaven nor Earth, bow to neither gods nor ghosts. He had only one wish: For midnight to arrive a little sooner.
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.
s + Rent Collection Wealth】 At the start, he inherited a rundown house in the urban village from his grandfather. The house had no tenants, but the moment he was diagnosed with a terminal illness, a self-proclaimed empress from the Tianxuan Continent arrived as his first tenant. Ye Chuan soon discovered that with every new tenant moving in, not only did he receive massive daily payments, but he also obtained unique items related to their backgrounds. 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Tiger Strength Pill—dramatically enhances physical power!】 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Deer Blood Pill—significantly boosts vitality!】 …… From that day on, all sorts of bizarre tenants began appearing in the house: the empress from Tianxuan Continent, an apocalyptic sorceress from the Magic Realm, a mysterious scientific girl who fell through a spacetime rift… Every single day, he received strange, powerful items and endless money. Then one day, he suddenly realized—he had become invincible. Enough, enough! Stop giving me more!
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