Qin Zhantian lay at the bottom of the pit, looking up at Qin Hao in the arena, his eyes terrifyingly hollow.
He had lost. He had actually lost, and lost so thoroughly.
His cultivation was a major realm higher than Qin Hao's, and he held an Emperor Weapon while Qin Hao was bare-handed. Yet, even so, he couldn't even take a single punch from Qin Hao. Moreover, looking at Qin Hao, it was obvious he hadn't even used his full strength.
"Just what kind of monster is he? How can he be so strong? His strength is completely beyond imagination!"
"Heh... hehehe..."
Qin Zhantian suddenly began to laugh. The laughter was hoarse, desolate, and carried a bit of self-deprecation.
"The first generation Emperor's Son... the child of the First Ancestor... a complete Great Dao... merged with the Qilin bloodline..."
"These aren't worth mentioning at all. The battle of the great era... is this why the battle of the great era didn't start in my time? Because I'm not the main character at all. Compared to him, I'm just a minor role."
Qin Zhantian's face was filled with a lonely expression.
In the stands, the group of Qin family geniuses was dead silent. When Qin Zhantian had displayed his powerful strength, they all felt inferior. They had no doubt that if they faced Qin Zhantian, they wouldn't last a single move against him.
But even such a powerful Qin Zhantian was blasted off the arena with a single punch when facing Qin Hao. Absurd, it was simply absurd.
In the crowd, Qin Kexin's eyes sparkled like stars as she murmured,
"Ah, he is really so handsome."
"Xiaolan, do you think he'll be happy if I go congratulate him right now?"
Xiaolan raised her eyebrows slightly and glanced at her young miss, realizing that right now, her miss only had eyes for Lord Qin Hao, with no room for anyone else.
"Miss, if you go to congratulate him, Lord Qin Hao will definitely be happy."
Hearing Xiaolan's answer, Qin Kexin smiled even more brightly. "Right! You think so too, right!"
Having received Xiaolan's agreement, Qin Kexin was about to run down the stands to personally congratulate Qin Hao on his victory.
Right at this moment, Qin Zhantian, who was lying at the bottom of the pit, suddenly shot up and appeared in front of Qin Hao in a flash.
Qin Hao looked up and down at Qin Zhantian, who was charred all over, with torn clothes and in an incredibly sorry state, and chuckled lightly,
"What? One punch wasn't enough, you want to take another?"
Hearing Qin Hao's provocation, Qin Zhantian revealed a bitter smile.
It was a very complex smile, holding self-deprecation, relief, powerlessness, and at the same time, a trace of indescribable ease.
"I'm not fighting anymore. I can't beat you. I lost, completely and utterly, and I concede wholeheartedly. You are stronger than me, and you rightfully deserve the family's resource allocation."
Saying this, Qin Zhantian paused, then bowed to Qin Hao.
"Lord Emperor's Son, please teach me! I want to become stronger. I dare not say I will become as strong as you, but at least... at least let me last a few more moves the next time I stand before you."
As soon as these words came out, the entire audience was in an uproar.
Qin Hao looked at Qin Zhantian without speaking. He could tell that Qin Zhantian's bow was completely sincere.
Time ticked by minute by minute. Since Qin Hao didn't speak, Qin Zhantian maintained his bowing posture, motionless.
At this moment, Qin Zhantian only felt his face burning with embarrassment, but he did not waver.
He had seen many geniuses, and Qin Hao before him was the strongest he had ever seen. He didn't ask to learn all of Qin Hao's skills; even if he could just learn a tenth of them, he would benefit endlessly.
Qin Hao also saw Qin Zhantian's determination. Before the duel, Qin Zhantian was such an arrogant and insufferably haughty person, yet now he could lower his head and humbly ask for guidance. It was clear he had made a tremendous resolution.
"I wouldn't call it teaching. We are all members of the Qin family. You are welcome to come find me to spar anytime in the future. As long as it's something I can help with, I won't refuse."
Getting Qin Hao's confirmation, Qin Zhantian felt a surge of joy in his heart. "Thank you, Lord Emperor's Son!"
Bowing deeply to Qin Hao once again, Qin Zhantian turned and left. Although his back still looked battered, it was a bit straighter than before.
Qin Hao watched Qin Zhantian leave and nodded slightly. It seemed these ancient geniuses had their merits after all.
"Qin Hao!"
Qin Hao was just about to leave when he suddenly heard a burst of hurried footsteps. A crisp voice rang out, and when Qin Hao turned around, he saw Qin Kexin running toward him with a blushing face.
Her eyes were sparkling, and her face carried the unique shyness and expectation of a young girl.
"Congratulations..."
Before she could finish her sentence, Qin Kexin's expression instantly froze. She heard a soft and charming voice ring out, laced with deep reliance and worry.
"Haohao, how did you still get hurt? Why didn't you use your full strength from the start? My heart is aching to death."
Qin Kexin's words stuck in her throat, unable to utter a single syllable. She widened her eyes, watching a pale pink figure plunge headlong into Qin Hao's embrace.
It was a devastatingly beautiful woman. The aura about her was not the green and bashful nature of a young girl, but a calmness and gentleness that came from experiencing the world. Between her brows, there was even a bit of mature charm unique to a young married woman.
Shen Suning threw herself into Qin Hao's arms like a child, her hands tightly grasping his lapels, her face full of heartache.
Qin Hao rubbed Shen Suning's head with an intimate look on his face and smiled,
"It's nothing. I just wanted to see how far I could go relying solely on physical strength."
"Sigh, don't be so willful next time. Just use your full strength right away."
Shen Suning's voice carried intense tenderness. She held up the hand Qin Hao had just used to forcefully block the sword qi, which still bore bloody scratch marks, and carefully blew on it a few times.
"Does it hurt?"
Qin Kexin stood in place, watching the scene before her, her entire body freezing like a stone statue.
She watched that woman hold Qin Hao's hand and carefully blow on it, watched the helpless yet doting smile on Qin Hao's face, and watched the intimacy between them as if no one else was around.
And this woman's nickname for Qin Hao—Haohao? What kind of mushy nickname was that?
Qin Kexin's nails dug deeply into her palms. Looking at the intimate pair before her, Qin Kexin only felt as if something in her heart had been fiercely squeezed.
Right at that moment, Qin Hao turned his head, his gaze falling upon Qin Kexin.
"You seemed to have something to say just now. What did you want to say?"
Something to say? Of course she had something to say! She originally wanted to come and congratulate Qin Hao on his victory, but what was the result?
She didn't know where this woman suddenly popped out from, hugging and holding Qin Hao. Congratulate? Congratulate my ass! Right now, she only wanted to know who this woman was! Just what exactly was her relationship with Qin Hao!
Thinking of this, Qin Kexin took a deep breath, mustered up her courage to look at Qin Hao, and then pointed at Shen Suning, asking,
"Qin Hao! Who is she?" Qin Kexin's voice contained an unstoppable tremble.
Before Qin Hao could even open his mouth, Shen Suning beside him smiled.
"Little girl, please watch your tone when speaking to my Haohao!"
grated, and just when he finally managed to get into an elite academy, he discovered that he actually had a system, and the way to earn rewards was extremely ridiculous. So for the sake of rewards, he had no choice but to start acting ridiculous as well. Su Cheng: "It's nothing but system quests after all." But later, what confused Su Cheng was that while he was already quite ridiculous, he never expected those serious characters to gradually become ridiculous too. And the way they looked at him became increasingly strange... (This synopsis doesn't do it justice, please read the full story)
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."
ing gift was a patch of barren land, and disciples were all picked up along the way. He spent fifty years diligently building three "ramshackle little sects," thinking he could finally live a carefree life relying on his disciples. But right at the fifty-year mark, he was suddenly swept away by a spatial rift and exiled to the Chaos Desolation, the Disorderly Ruins. There was no spiritual energy there, only slaughter. Relying on the cultivation feedback from his disciples, Gu Changyuan hacked his way through a sea of blood for eleven hundred years. When the system finally fished him back out, he discovered the ramshackle little sects he'd built back then had developed a rather... unusual style. Hold on... I vanished for a thousand years, so how did my ramshackle little sects become holy lands?!
ap a wealthy young lady? Or else I'll be eliminated by the system? Ye Feng, who awakened the Kidnapper System, originally wanted to live a peaceful life but never imagined he would become a kidnapper of young women. However, after some time, he discovered that all the girls the system ordered him to kidnap were far from ordinary. "Big brother Ye Feng~ You've kidnapped my heart, and now you're not allowed to leave me ever again~" "Ye Feng~ You kidnapped me back then, now it's my turn to capture you♡" "Little Feng, you're mine! You can only be mine!" "Ye Feng, none of them deserve you. Only I love you the most♡" ... This is madness, they've all gone mad! Wait, what? Why are all the girls I kidnapped yanderes?!
