“Wudao.”
Chu Tianjiao suddenly spoke, his tone turning unusually solemn.
“When you’re fighting, you may use any means necessary to win.
“But!”
“Once you step off the arena, you must make friends with a peerless genius like Su Yu, someone who has risen out of nowhere!”
“Under no circumstances are you to offend him!”
Chu Wudao was stunned.
Make friends with him?
A trace of confusion flashed through his eyes.
Seeing that his son did not understand, Chu Tianjiao gave a cold snort.
He began to teach him the true art of handling people.
“Do you think the geniuses of the starry sky are all people you can casually trample beneath your feet?”
“I’ve lived for countless years and witnessed far too many bloody lessons.”
Chu Tianjiao lowered his voice, a hint of weary sarcasm coloring his words.
“Someone like Su Yu, who can reach such a realm at just eighteen years of age…”
“He must possess tremendous fortune!”
“Do you remember the story of the Desolate Heaven Emperor recorded in the history books?”
“He was born into humble circumstances, without the slightest background.”
“Because of a trivial matter, he offended an ancient and powerful clan.”
“And what happened?”
“That clan sent people to hunt him down. Not only did they fail to kill him, but the battle actually allowed him to break through at the brink of death!”
“They threw him into an abyss ten thousand zhang deep, and he immediately found an ancient powerhouse’s inheritance at the bottom of the cliff!”
“They sent ten Stellar-level experts to encircle and kill him, only for all sorts of inexplicable reclusive masters to appear and save him!”
Chu Tianjiao sighed, looking every inch the weathered old veteran.
“People blessed with that kind of fortune are practically illegitimate children of the laws of the universe!”
“They survive countless supposedly certain-death pursuits along the way.”
“In the end, they shatter the void and become supreme Emperors.”
“Then they turn around and wipe out the entire clan that once offended them—not even a single spirit hound of the starry sky is spared!”
Chu Wudao felt his scalp prickle.
A thin layer of cold sweat appeared on his back.
“Father, you mean…”
“Exactly.” Chu Tianjiao’s eyes sharpened.
“If you offend someone blessed with that kind of fortune, you’ll have endless trouble.”
“You won’t be able to kill him, and sooner or later he’ll come back for revenge.”
“Besides, there is no irreconcilable blood feud between our imperial family and him.”
“There is no need to offend him.”
Chu Tianjiao raised a hand and clenched it in the air, as though he held the authority of an entire star region in his grasp.
“Once a genius like this grows to maturity…”
“He will absolutely become an unrivaled existence capable of suppressing the starry sky!”
“If you can befriend him and show him kindness…”
“Then in the future, he may become the sharpest blade in your hand!”
“He could help our Great Chu Star Region unify the other two star regions and establish an empire of eternal glory!”
Chu Tianjiao turned and gave Chu Wudao a long, meaningful look.
“Used well, he will be a weapon for opening new frontiers and expanding our territory.”
“Used poorly, he may turn around and bite you.”
“This is the art of imperial rule. Do you understand now?”
Chu Wudao’s expression grew solemn.
He completely put away the arrogance buried in his bones.
“This son has learned his lesson!”
“Once we leave the arena, I will set aside my pride and treat him with the courtesy due to a great statesman!”
…
The Taixu Arena.
The matches proceeded at a breakneck pace.
One battle after another erupted on the platforms, only to end just as quickly.
Ever since Su Yu had withstood Zhao Kuang’s mental minor divine ability head-on, his standing in everyone’s eyes had risen from that of a “flash-in-the-pan genius” to an “untouchable monster.”
During the next two rounds of elimination matches, Su Yu still did not use a single drop of qi-blood power.
He merely carried the invisible spear formed from his domain spear intent and stood on the platform.
His opponents—various geniuses possessing thousands of drops of origin blood—would turn pale and immediately concede.
What kind of cosmic joke was this?
Even Zhao Kuang, who had unleashed a four-thousandfold amplification of his mental power, had been crippled simply by standing still and letting this kid rebound the attack.
If they went up there, what could they do besides take a one-sided beating?
They could not break through his defenses at all!
On the other side, Lin Yuan, the Heir of the Lin Family, was also advancing with unstoppable momentum.
Regardless of his opponent, he used only a single finger.
The instant a miniature black hole appeared, the law of devouring began to circulate.
His opponent’s attacks, qi-blood power, and even the protective secret treasures they carried were all devoured completely.
A kill with no suspense whatsoever.
The two of them were like the brightest comets in the sky, sweeping aside everything in their respective halves of the bracket.
At last, the New Star Tournament entered its most heated stage.
The quarterfinals!
Apart from the anomaly that was Su Yu, every contestant who had made it this far possessed over ten thousand drops of origin blood and had mastered a top-tier Stellar-level cultivation technique.
The enormous holographic display suspended above the arena began to flicker violently.
Streams of data rolled across it at dizzying speed.
Under Chu Tianjiao’s covert manipulation—
Buzz!
[Ziwei Star, Lin Family, Lin Yuan]
[versus]
[Seventh Legion, Su Yu]
Silence.
The vast Taixu Arena fell into a full three seconds of silence the moment those two lines appeared.
Then—
Boom!!!
A roar ten times more violent than any before it erupted, tearing through the clouds above the arena!
The entire crowd exploded!
“They’ve met ahead of schedule!”
“The second-ranked genius of the younger generation in the Great Chu Star Region versus the all-around monster who rose out of nowhere!”
“This is absolutely a finals-level clash!”
In the stands, countless spectators flushed with excitement as they screamed both names at the tops of their lungs.
In everyone’s eyes, the significance of this match even surpassed any of the Ninth Prince Chu Wudao’s previous battles.
After all, Chu Wudao had relied on the overwhelming advantage of his 150,000 drops of origin blood to crush his opponents.
But Lin Yuan and Su Yu were different.
One was a scion who had mastered the supreme law of the starry sky—the devouring of black holes.
The other had maxed out his mental power and martial will, while also possessing a black-hole-grade mental cultivation technique.
This was a true clash of equals—a needle against a wheat spike!
In the Lin Family’s private viewing area on Ziwei Star, Lin Yuan showed no surprise or panic when he saw the result of the draw.
He slowly rose to his feet.
His slender fingers gently brushed over a crease in his violet-gold robes, the movement graceful and composed.
“At last, it’s my turn.”
Lin Yuan raised his head. His gaze pierced across the void and locked directly onto Su Yu in the Seventh Legion’s preparation area.
An exceptionally bright fighting spirit burned in his eyes.
Beside him, the Lin Family Patriarch and a group of elders gathered around, their expressions grave.
“Young Master, you must not underestimate him!” the Lin Family Patriarch warned in a deep voice.
“Su Yu’s mental power reserves are unfathomably deep. He was even able to withstand Zhao Kuang’s divine ability head-on.”
“His domain spear intent is not to be underestimated either.”
“He is absolutely a formidable opponent!”
The corners of Lin Yuan’s lips curled slightly upward.
“Patriarch, rest assured.”
“I saw through his capabilities long ago.”
With his hands clasped behind his back, Lin Yuan spoke with an air of arrogance, as though everything were already under his control.
“No matter how vast his mental power is, without an offensive divine ability, it is nothing more than a stagnant pool. It poses no threat to me.”
“As for the spear intent he is so proud of…”
Lin Yuan let out a cold laugh.
With a slight flick of his fingertip, a wisp of pure black energy vanished into thin air.
“Before my devouring black hole, pure physical force is nothing but an ant trying to shake a tree.”
“The more violently he unleashes his power, the faster he will lose.”
“In this match, he is destined to become the stepping stone that propels my name throughout the starry sky.”
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!
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.
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