Everyone held their breath, waiting for the response of this top-tier freshman.
The tension had been built to its absolute peak.
Su Yu looked at Chu Kuang on the high platform, who clearly enjoyed watching the chaos unfold.
The corner of his eye twitched slightly.
This old man?
Which one of your eyes saw me wanting to fight to the bitter end?
Su Yu withdrew his gaze and looked back at Chen Feng.
He thought for a moment.
Then he let go of the hand that was resting on Lin Xiaoxiao's waist.
And then, under everyone's expectant gaze.
Su Yu simply shook his head.
"I'm not fighting."
His tone was flat, with not a hint of hesitation.
The entire crowd erupted in shock!
"He refused?"
"The top-tier freshman actually backed down?"
"Expected, I guess. With a two-thousand-point difference in vital energy, going up there would just mean getting beaten."
"But even Director Chu gave the order... retreating this fast is a bit much..."
Murmurs spread through the crowd.
The sneer on Chen Feng's face froze instantly.
The punch he had loaded up with all his strength felt like it had struck cotton.
He was so frustrated he could spit blood!
"You're scared?!"
Chen Feng glared at Su Yu, his teeth clenched in mockery.
"Is this the courage of a top-tier freshman?"
"If you won't even accept my duel, what right do you have to stand by Xiaoxiao's side!"
Faced with Chen Feng's provocation.
Su Yu slipped both hands back into his pockets.
His tone carried an air of unapologetic confidence.
"It's not fear."
"It's just not worth it."
Su Yu looked at Chen Feng like he was looking at an idiot.
"You win, and I have to stay away from Lin Xiaoxiao."
"But what do I get if I win?"
"If I beat you, I don't get a single cent of benefit, and I waste my time for nothing."
"I can't be bothered."
Silence.
On the training ground, an eerie silence fell once again.
Everyone stared at Su Yu.
Their minds buzzing.
How was this top-tier freshman's brain wired?
Others duel for dignity, for the girl, for fame.
He duels only after calculating whether there's a profit?!
On the high platform, Chu Kuang stumbled, nearly tumbling down the steps.
This kid!
He's completely obsessed with money!
Chen Feng was also stunned by Su Yu's shameless reasoning.
But at this point, he was blinded by jealousy.
As long as he could trample Su Yu into the dirt and humiliate him publicly.
He'd pay any price!
"Fine!"
Chen Feng gritted his teeth hard.
He flipped his wrist.
A flash of light.
A jade slip, smooth to the touch and glowing with a faint luminescence, appeared in his palm.
The moment the jade slip appeared.
The mental energy in the surrounding air began to resonate faintly.
As if an invisible ripple was spreading outward.
"You want a bet?!"
Chen Feng raised the jade slip high, his eyes bloodshot.
"This is my family's heirloom technique!"
"If you dare accept this duel and actually beat me."
"This technique is yours, free of charge!"
The moment these words left his mouth.
Lin Xiaoxiao beside him sucked in a sharp breath.
She stared at the jade slip in Chen Feng's hand, gasping.
"Chen Feng! Are you insane?!"
Lin Xiaoxiao couldn't help but exclaim.
"That's the very foundation of the Chen family!"
Turning around, Lin Xiaoxiao quickly lowered her voice and explained to Su Yu.
"Su Yu, this thing is extremely precious!"
"It's a Heaven-grade top-tier technique!"
"And it's an incredibly rare mental-energy-based martial art!"
For reference, the fist technique she practiced was also Heaven-grade top-tier, but it couldn't compare in value to a Heaven-grade top-tier mental-energy martial art!
Lin Xiaoxiao's tone carried an undeniable shock.
"Most martial arts in the Great Xia Kingdom focus on tempering the body and vital energy."
"Mental-energy martial arts are one in a hundred!"
"Once mastered, you can kill without a trace, even directly attack your opponent's soul!"
"In the top-tier martial arts vaults, this is absolutely priceless!"
"The Chen family relied on this very technique to establish their foothold in the capital."
"And he's using it as a bet!"
Mental-energy martial arts.
Heaven-grade top-tier.
These words struck Su Yu's heart like a hammer.
His deep, calm eyes finally ignited with a brilliant light!
What did he need most right now?
A mental-energy technique!
His ten-million-year condensed spear intent was pure brute force stacked by the system.
Its power was terrifying, but he himself didn't truly understand how to wield mental energy.
If he had a Heaven-grade top-tier mental-energy martial art.
And then poured a few million years of system time into refining it.
Combined with his condensed spear intent, his combat power would undergo a qualitative leap!
This was exactly what he needed, handed to him on a silver platter!
The Su Yu who had been utterly bored suddenly perked up.
His gaze locked onto the jade slip in Chen Feng's hand.
"You said it yourself."
Su Yu slowly pulled his hands out of his pockets.
His tone remained calm, but carried an unshakeable resolve.
"Heaven-grade top-tier, mental-energy martial art."
"If I win, it's mine."
Chen Feng saw Su Yu finally take the bait.
The vicious grin on his face could no longer be hidden.
"That's right!"
"I, Chen Feng, am a man of my word!"
"But if you lose!"
Chen Feng pointed at Su Yu's nose, snarling viciously.
"Then from now on, whenever you see me, you get out of my way!"
"And don't you dare come within a step of Xiaoxiao!"
Su Yu didn't pay his outburst any mind.
He turned and glanced at Lin Xiaoxiao beside him.
Then, he reached behind him and began untying the long, narrow object wrapped in layers of black cloth.
The layers slid off one by one.
A pitch-black spear, its shaft covered in dark golden dragon-scale patterns, was revealed under the sunlight.
Yuanlong Spear.
A Martial Emperor-grade weapon.
The moment the spear appeared.
A bone-chilling aura of slaughter dropped the temperature in the area by several degrees.
On the high platform, Chu Kuang's eyes bulged wide.
"Yuanlong?!"
"That old bastard Lin Zhengtian actually gave this spear to this kid?!"
Chu Kuang sucked in a cold breath.
Now this was going to be good.
Su Yu gripped the Yuanlong Spear.
The touch was ice-cold.
The one-thousand-point martial artist vital energy in his body began to circulate slowly.
He looked at Chen Feng.
A sharp gleam flashed through his deep eyes.
"Enough talk."
Su Yu pointed the spear tip toward the ground.
"Where do we fight?"
Chen Feng sneered at the sight.
"So you do have some spine after all!"
"Weiming Lake, the duel platform!"
"Let's go!"
Chen Feng turned and strode toward the Weiming Lake direction, his three-thousand-point vital energy radiating violently.
The crowd of freshmen and upperclassmen erupted!
A duel!
Top-tier freshman Su Yu versus sophomore martial artist Chen Feng!
One thousand vital energy versus three thousand!
And the stakes were a Heaven-grade top-tier mental-energy technique!
The news spread like wildfire, instantly flooding the entire Jingwu training ground.
A massive crowd followed behind the two, surging toward the lakeside.
Lin Xiaoxiao walked beside Su Yu.
Watching the cold Yuanlong Spear in his hand.
Though worry still lingered in her heart, afraid Su Yu might get hurt, there was also a strange sense of anticipation.
She knew how overpowered Su Yu could be.
"You..."
Lin Xiaoxiao hesitated for a moment.
"Are you sure about this?"
Su Yu didn't turn back.
He watched the silhouette of Chen Feng ahead of him.
"Wouldn't we find out if we just tried?"
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!
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.
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.
ine. During your journey, you save an abandoned baby girl and become her elder brother】 【You rely on each other, becoming each other's support】 【At the end of the simulation, you shield the now-grown girl with your life, sacrificing yourself to block numerous demonic cultivators. You die, and the light in the girl's eyes fades】 …… 【Second Simulation: You are transported to a world where steam and magic coexist】 【You immerse yourself in the study of magic, obsessed with its research. One day, while out, you encounter a half-blooded demon girl wandering the streets. You take her in as your student】 【You teach the demoness what it means to be human, show her the beauty of the world, and nurture her into a miracle that surpasses even the gods】 【At the end of the simulation, you die of old age in front of the nearly immortal demoness due to your mortal lifespan】 …… One simulation after another, one encounter after another. Xu Xi suddenly felt something was off: "Wait, you said you're coming to the real world to find me?"
