"He doesn't think he's invincible just because he defeated a Tribulation Crossing cultivator, does he? That guy just now was only at the Tribulation Crossing Realm. There's a world of difference between that and the Immortal Realm."
"Just wait and see. When a true Immortal Realm expert takes the stage later, let's see how arrogant he can be!"
The male cultivators were indignant. If they weren't lacking in strength, they really wanted to jump up and give Qin Hao a couple of punches.
However, the female cultivators' reactions formed a stark contrast to the men's.
"So handsome! Shattering a Dharma Idol with a single punch, he's so cool!"
"Right? Did you see the look in his eyes just now? When his gaze swept over, I felt like my heart was going to leap out of my chest."
"Tell me about it! That aura of looking down on the world, that disdainful composure, ah!!! I'm going to die!"
"I realized he's not just handsome, his voice is so nice too!"
"He looks even better when he smiles! That half-smile at the corner of his mouth just now made my legs go soft."
The female cultivators' discussions grew louder and increasingly uninhibited.
The faces of the surrounding male cultivators grew darker and darker.
A middle-aged male cultivator gritted his teeth and squeezed out a sentence from between them:
"A bunch of superficial women, only knowing how to look at a face. What's the use of being handsome?"
As soon as he spoke, he was immediately attacked by the surrounding female cultivators:
"Oh, oh, oh, sour grapes."
"Exactly. It's one thing to be ugly, but why are you so narrow-minded?"
"He's not just handsome, he's strong too! Look at his bone age, definitely not over thirty. Do any of you men have his level of strength at thirty?"
The middle-aged cultivator was flushed red from being scolded. He opened his mouth a few times but couldn't utter a single word.
Finally, he could only turn his head away, no longer talking back.
"Lord Imperial Son, this boy's strength is quite impressive. He is qualified to be your opponent."
Next to Xiao Junbao of the Desolate Ancient Xiao Family, a steward spoke softly.
Xiao Junbao nodded:
"Not just qualified, he is stronger than me! When I was his age, I was only at the Void Refinement Realm."
"Not only is his realm higher than mine, but the combat power he has displayed is beyond my comparison."
Before the clamor in the audience seats died down, Xiao Junbao slowly stood up.
He straightened his robes and strode toward the arena.
Seeing Xiao Junbao, the noise in the entire martial arts arena gradually lowered.
"It's Xiao Junbao! The Imperial Son of the Desolate Ancient Xiao Family, Xiao Junbao! Is he going to make a move?"
"With the Xiao Family's Imperial Son taking action, this kid's time to jump around is up! Although he is at the Immortal Realm, his terrifying strength is comparable to an Earth Immortal!"
Xiao Junbao slowly walked onto the arena, stopping about ten feet away from Qin Hao.
Xiao Junbao offered a polite greeting to Qin Hao:
"Ye Hao, is it? I've remembered your name. Originally, this Imperial Son didn't want to step in so soon. After all, the moment I make a move, it means this competition will be declared over."
"However, seeing the strength you've displayed, I really couldn't suppress my itch to fight. You are qualified to be my, Xiao Junbao's, opponent."
Qin Hao shook his head: "But I feel that, as my opponent, you are still lacking a bit."
Xiao Junbao froze for a moment. He carefully sized up Qin Hao, wanting to see if this person was joking or if he truly thought so.
He, Xiao Junbao, the Imperial Son of the Desolate Ancient Xiao Family, had lived for so many years, and no one had ever dared to say to him:
"As my opponent, you are lacking a bit."
No matter where he went, he was looked up to, revered, and sought after.
Let alone someone saying he wasn't qualified, even if you wanted to flatter him, you had to weigh whether you were qualified to do so.
However, Xiao Junbao didn't get angry at Qin Hao's words. Instead, he laughed heartily:
"Hahaha, Ye Hao, you are even more arrogant than I imagined!"
"But, I admit, you indeed have the right to be arrogant! At least, you are stronger than I was at the same age!"
"And precisely because you are stronger than I was at the same age, I will not hold back at all next!"
After speaking, Xiao Junbao shouted loudly: "Dual Pupils! Open!"
As soon as Xiao Junbao's words fell, he glared fiercely.
His pupils instantly split into two, and an innate pressure of a superior ruler instantly swept across the entire arena!
"It's the Xiao Family Imperial Son's Dual Pupils! He relies on these Dual Pupils to defeat Earth Immortals while at the Immortal Realm!"
"Hehe, that guy named Ye Hao is out of luck now. A Dual Pupil wielder, and an Immortal-level one at that, is not something trash like Ling Feng can compare to."
Seeing the moment Xiao Junbao activated his Dual Pupils, Qin Hao couldn't help but be momentarily stunned.
He didn't expect this Xiao Family Imperial Son to also be a Dual Pupil wielder.
What a coincidence, I'm a Dual Pupil wielder too! Moreover, Qin Hao's Dual Pupils were not something other Dual Pupil wielders could even hold a candle to.
"Ye Hao, no matter what monstrous methods you have, before these eyes of mine, you can only bow your head in submission."
Facing Xiao Junbao's trash talk, Qin Hao smiled and nodded: "Not bad, Dual Pupils are indeed quite strong."
As soon as these words came out, a wave of jeers instantly erupted from the audience: "Eee—"
"Why is he starting to flatter the Xiao Family Imperial Son? Does he know he's no match and hopes saying some nice words will make the Imperial Son go easy on him?"
"The fight hasn't even started yet, and he's already boosting the enemy's morale while dampening his own. It seems this guy is just strong on the outside but weak on the inside."
Just as the male cultivators below the stage finally found an outlet to vent and unleashed a barrage of insults, Qin Hao's next words made them all lose their voices.
Qin Hao slowly closed his eyes, the corners of his mouth turning up slightly:
"But your Dual Pupils are just very ordinary!"
After speaking, Qin Hao abruptly opened his eyes.
In that instant, the air in the entire martial arts arena seemed to freeze.
Not metaphorically, but literally frozen.
The clamor of tens of thousands of people vanished into thin air in an instant, and the entire arena fell into an absolute, deathly silence.
And all of this was because of Qin Hao's eyes.
"What!!! He... he is actually a Dual Pupil wielder too! He fought me, and didn't even use his Dual Pupils!"
In the audience, when Ling Feng saw Qin Hao's split pupils, his sky fell.
That Ye Hao was a Dual Pupil wielder. He fought him at the peak of the Tribulation Crossing Realm, and he didn't even use the power of his Dual Pupils, yet he still lost.
Xiao Junbao's expression completely changed the moment Qin Hao opened his eyes.
How should one put it? In front of Qin Hao's eyes, he felt a sense of suppression originating from the very level of life itself.
It was like a flood dragon encountering a supreme true dragon.
In front of Qin Hao's eyes, he felt like his own eyes were pirated knock-offs.
Xiao Junbao's eyes were trembling.
Those Dual Pupils, which had never been shaken by anyone or any power, were actually producing an instinctive, uncontrollable tremor in front of Qin Hao.
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?!
【Prologue: The Beginning of It All – Use holy water to heal the saintess tainted by demonic energy, then converse with her.】 Shen Nian stared at his older sister sipping yogurt, lost in thought. So you’re telling me my sister is the saintess, and yogurt is the holy water? 【Main Quest 1: Brave Youth, Become an Adventurer! Reward: Rookie Adventurer Title.】 【Side Quest 1: Find the Adorable Kitty! Reward: 1000 Gold Coins.】 Shen Nian: "Wait, I’m a high school senior here—did some guy who got isekai’d accidentally bind his system to me?" Hold on, completing quests gives gold rewards? Titles even boost stats? Is this for real? (A lighthearted, absurd campus comedy—not a revenge power fantasy.)
ut it can buy an entire year of absolutely perfect training results! Su Yu stared at his empty wallet and decisively opened up various online loan platforms. “Borrow a thousand bucks! Recharge my vitality!” Boom! His vitality broke a hundred points, shattering the limits of the human body! “Borrow ten thousand bucks! Recharge my combat skills!” Boom! A basic punching technique so common it was everywhere instantly maxed out, revealing the ultimate assassination technique of Five Elements Unity—Inner Force! When a rich kid hired assassins for a midnight ambush, aiming to break both of his legs, they instead ran headfirst into a monster—a human-shaped tyrannosaur, brimming with dragon-like vitality. With just two fingers, Su Yu snapped a steel staff reinforced with alloy. Staring at the killer’s stash of stolen cash—a staggering quarter-million dollars—he showed a corporate-sincere smile: “Thanks for the pre-exam gift pack, Mr. Zhao! I’m gonna go re-invest this!” Three days later, at the National Martial Arts College Entrance Exam, while everyone else struggled just to reach the passing line, Su Yu threw a single punch—and more than a thousand vitality points literally detonated the entire arena!
lity and could only live as an ordinary mortal. He only wished to live a peaceful life. Yet he didn't know— The dog he adopted, because it ate his food, became a legendary demon king. The kitchen knife he casually forged became a peerless divine weapon, causing numerous experts to fight desperately for it. The young disciple he took in became an immortal lord that led an era, due to cultivating the techniques Ye Feng taught him. Even the skeletons he looked down on the most were ominous demon kings that suppressed countless worlds. Many years later, looking at the void shattered with a punch, Ye Feng murmured to himself: It turns out the peerless kings were myself all along...
