Under the watchful eyes of a Grandmaster, the slightest whisper or hidden movement could lead to total failure.
The act had to be played out to the end.
Moreover, it had to be so convincing that even a Grandmaster would believe it without a doubt.
Su Yu took a deep breath.
This utterly ordinary breath triggered a violent fit of coughing.
“Cough… cough, cough, cough!”
He clutched his chest, his pale face flushing with an unhealthy red from the violent coughing fits.
His teetering body seemed on the verge of collapsing like a withered log at any moment.
Yet he still reached out a hand.
Gently, he placed it on Lin Xiaoxiao’s slender shoulder.
“Classmate Lin.”
Su Yu’s voice was terribly hoarse, like sandpaper scraping together.
“Step aside.”
Lin Xiaoxiao’s whole body trembled as she whipped her head around.
She stared at Su Yu—so utterly weak, looking like even standing cost him every ounce of strength—and her eyes instantly reddened further.
“Have you lost your mind?!”
Lin Xiaoxiao bit her lower lip hard, her voice laced with uncontrollable sobs and anger.
“Look at the state you’re in! Don’t you realize it yourself?”
“Right now, you probably couldn’t even beat an ordinary person. What are you going to use to fight that bastard?”
“Get down from here! I’ll handle the rest!”
As the heiress of a top-tier noble family, Lin Xiaoxiao had countless ways to make Zhao Ze disappear later.
She even swore viciously in her heart: as long as Su Yu could walk off this platform alive today,
tonight, Zhao Ze would vanish completely from Jiang City!
If only she’d known that bastard Zhao was this disgusting, she’d have had someone drown him in a sewer three days ago!
But then.
Su Yu didn’t back down.
The hand resting on Lin Xiaoxiao’s shoulder applied a little pressure,
gently pushing her aside by an inch.
Then,
Su Yu looked over Lin Xiaoxiao’s shoulder, past the furious Zhao Tianxiong, past the kneeling Zhao Ze with his twisted face,
and fixed his gaze directly on Grandmaster Lei Potian.
On the platform, a deathly silence fell.
The eyes of the entire hundred-thousand-strong crowd were locked onto this common-born top scholar who seemed ready to drop dead at any moment.
“President Lei.”
Su Yu spoke.
His voice was faint, broken and halting, yet it echoed clearly through the dead-silent arena.
“Master Zhao just said… the match should continue.”
Su Yu gasped heavily, as if every word caused him immense pain.
“I’d like to ask for your opinion.”
“If I agree to continue,”
“will this match still count?”
Lei Potian looked down at Su Yu from on high.
A flicker of extreme surprise passed through his seasoned, battle-hardened eyes.
He had assumed Su Yu would seize the chance to step down.
After all, even surviving was already a stroke of luck.
“Are you certain?”
Lei Potian frowned deeply, his voice like a great bell, carrying an undeniable pressure.
“Kid, I can see your condition clearly.”
“Your qi and blood are depleted, your meridians damaged.”
“You’re worse than an ordinary person.”
“If the match continues, you might not even get a chance to surrender—you could be beaten to death on the spot!”
“Besides, you’ve already won.”
“Even if there’s a problem, it’s my problem. You don’t need to worry about it.”
Lei Potian was clearly hinting for Su Yu not to act on impulse.
The fall of a genius was the last thing he wanted to see.
But Su Yu just barely managed to curl the corner of his mouth.
“I understand.”
Su Yu nodded.
Then,
he lifted his dim eyes to meet Lei Potian’s gaze,
and asked a question that sent a chill through the hundred thousand people in the arena, leaving their minds completely blank.
“President Lei.”
“I just want to clarify the rules.”
Su Yu’s voice was very soft.
“If… in the next round of the match,”
“I accidentally kill my opponent,”
“would that be against the law?”
Boom!
As soon as these words left his mouth, it was as if a massive bomb had been dropped inside the combat arena!
Everyone thought they had misheard!
Dead silence!
You could hear a pin drop!
A few seconds later,
gasps erupted from the stands!
“He’s crazy! The kid has absolutely lost his mind!”
“Who does he think he is? Possessed by a Grandmaster?”
“A cripple who can’t even stand straight is asking if killing someone is illegal?”
“He’s definitely gone mad from the shock!”
Lei Potian was stunned too.
As a Grandmaster, he had roamed the wilderness for decades—what arrogant junior hadn’t he seen?
But someone like Su Yu, who was already half a foot in the grave yet still dared ask such a question so calmly in front of him?
That was a first.
Lei Potian looked Su Yu up and down, scrutinizing him carefully.
He tried to find a single flaw in Su Yu’s eyes that betrayed bluffing.
But there was none.
Those eyes, though dim, were as deep as a dry well,
utterly calm.
No fear, no despair, not even any reverence for death.
Only a pure, heart-stopping tranquility!
“In your state…”
Lei Potian took a silent, sharp breath.
“You’re actually still thinking about killing someone?!”
Deep down, he felt somewhat disdainful,
believing Su Yu couldn’t possibly do it.
How could a martial artist whose qi and blood had plummeted and who was gravely injured kill a physical education student with a 10.3-level blood energy who had mastered a tier-Xuan combat skill?
How? By headbutting him?
At the same time, Lei Potian couldn’t help but rate Su Yu a bit higher.
What a bold idea.
What a ruthless man!
Not just ruthless to others, but even more ruthless to himself!
Lei Potian could see clearly, even as an outsider, that the enmity between these two was an irreconcilable, deadly feud.
But still.
Lei Potian narrowed his eyes slightly.
Setting aside whether you can actually kill in this state,
I’m standing right here!
With a Grandmaster as the referee, how could you possibly kill?!
Do you think my hundred-thousand-level blood energy is just for show?!
“It’s not against the law.”
Lei Potian withdrew his thoughts and coldly spat out three words.
“In martial arts combat rounds, on the platform, life and death are left to fate.”
“That’s an iron law of Great Xia.”
“As long as the opponent hasn’t shouted ‘I surrender’ or collapsed to the ground,”
“killing the other party carries no legal responsibility.”
Lei Potian looked at Su Yu and added in an extremely serious tone,
“Provided, of course, that you have the skill to do it.”
On the other side,
Zhao Ze, who was kneeling on the ground, was completely dumbfounded.
His mouth hung open as he stared at Su Yu like an idiot,
his mind buzzing.
Kill me?
He wants to kill me?!
After a brief moment of shock,
a wave of absurd, ridiculous amusement surged through Zhao Ze’s heart.
He wanted to laugh.
But he suppressed it hard, his face twisting grotesquely, his shoulders shaking violently.
“Ha… hahaha!”
Zhao Ze finally couldn’t hold it in anymore and burst into a hysterical, almost manic laugh.
“Kill me? Looking like the wreck you are now?!”
Zhao Ze scrambled up from the ground, pointing at Su Yu, laughing until tears almost came out.
“Su Yu, have you scrambled your brains from the backlash?”
“You think just because you used some damn forbidden technique and spooked me a little, you’re invincible?”
“Do it again?”
Zhao Ze gritted his teeth, a gleam of venomous and ruthless light flickering in his eyes.
“Who will kill who, no one fucking knows yet!!!”
Next to Zhao Ze,
Zhao Tianxiong was also stunned.
But after all, he was an old hand, far more calculating and deep-minded.
He stared fixedly at Su Yu’s pallid face, his mind racing with frantic calculations.
with countless casualties. As a top-tier gamer, Liu Xuan volunteered to join the fight, intending to dominate with his skills, but instead he obtained the hidden class: [Pacifist]. Unable to attack. Unable to use active skills. Fortunately, with each level gained, he acquired a new passive skill. And so, armed with a body full of passives, Liu Xuan slaughtered his way through the battlefield of ten thousand races! [You attacked Liu Xuan] [You gained the debuffs: 'Poison', 'Fear', 'Burning', 'Bleeding', 'Freeze', 'Silence', etc.] [Your attack speed has been reduced by 99%] [Your armor and magic resistance have been reduced by 99%] Warriors of the Ten Thousand Races: How the hell am I supposed to fight this?!
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.
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?"
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!
