Ye Xuan smiled faintly, his expression calm. “There’s no need. He’s at the peak of the Tribulation Transcendence realm, which makes him the perfect opponent for me. I haven’t fought anyone in a long time. This will be a good chance to stretch my muscles.”
He turned around and looked at Gu Jingchen, his gaze suddenly turning cold enough to pierce bone.
“Very well. As you wish.”
Gu Jingchen threw his head back and laughed, his eyes burning with vicious excitement. “Good! Today, in front of all the heroes of the world, I’ll crush you beneath my feet and let everyone know that I, Gu Jingchen, am the only one worthy of Ye Jiuhuang!”
Ye Xuan ignored him. He simply turned to Ying’er and Ye Jiuhuang and said, “Wait for me below the platform. I’ll be quick.”
Ying’er obediently nodded, without the slightest trace of worry in her eyes.
She had seen Ye Xuan fight before and knew exactly how powerful he was. A cultivator at the peak of the Tribulation Transcendence realm wasn’t even qualified to make him use his full strength.
Ye Jiuhuang hesitated for a moment before finally lowering the hand gripping her sword.
She shot Gu Jingchen a cold look, her voice as frigid as ice. “If you dare harm even a single hair on my husband’s head, I’ll wipe out your entire family.”
The pain in her gaze pierced Gu Jingchen’s heart, twisting his expression even further.
He knew that this woman truly did not care about him.
She was watching him challenge another man with her own eyes. Not only was she not worried about him, she was even threatening to exterminate his entire family.
The pain of being ignored like this was ten thousand times worse than any sword wound.
Yet he still refused to give up.
As long as he killed Ye Xuan, Ye Jiuhuang would come back to him.
News of the duel quickly spread throughout the Sword God Palace.
The guests who had come to attend the wedding swarmed toward the palace’s martial arena.
A hundred-zhang-wide white jade platform hovered in midair, surrounded by tiers upon tiers of viewing stands. By now, the stands were packed with people, all of them talking excitedly among themselves.
“What’s going on? Is someone causing trouble at the Sword God Palace?”
“I heard about it. It’s that Lovestruck Sword, Gu Jingchen! He’s still alive? He’s come back to pester the Sword Sovereign again!”
“This is going to be interesting. Gu Jingchen may be insane, but he’s been famous for thousands of years. His cultivation is unfathomably deep.”
“Can that Ye Xuan really be his match? I heard he’s not even two hundred years old, and his cultivation is only at the Tribulation Transcendence realm…”
“Hard to say. Anyone chosen by the Sword Sovereign can’t be ordinary, can they?”
Azure Emperor stared at the snow-white figure standing on the platform, her heart clenched as though an invisible hand had seized it.
Ye Xuan… her husband…
They no longer had anything to do with each other. Yet she still couldn’t help worrying about him—afraid that he might be injured, afraid that he might be in danger.
Even though she no longer had the right to worry about him.
Bai Qiangu stood at the highest point of the viewing stands.
Her crimson dress snapped loudly in the wind, while her phoenix eyes remained fixed on the platform. Complex emotions flickered within them.
She hated Ye Xuan for his ruthlessness, yet she loved him to the point of madness.
She wanted him to suffer a little, but she was also terrified that he might truly be hurt.
The contradiction tearing at her heart nearly drove her insane.
Ye Xuan stood upon the platform, dressed in white as pure as snow, his black hair flowing behind him. The morning breeze swept past, sending his robes fluttering and snapping in the air.
His expression was tranquil and composed, his eyes as deep and still as an ancient well.
Facing a peak Tribulation Transcendence cultivator who had been renowned for thousands of years, he felt not the slightest trace of tension or fear.
Ye Xuan had never been a heaven’s favored genius. Not in the past, and not in the future.
But he possessed the foundation accumulated over countless lifetimes. That foundation had become the bedrock of his cultivation, allowing him to remain invincible wherever he went.
Ye Xuan slowly raised his right hand. A divine sword, completely crimson from hilt to tip, appeared in his palm from thin air.
Golden patterns of scorching heat flowed across the blade, as though the molten fury of the sun surged within it. Wherever its edge passed, the air warped and twisted beneath the heat.
The Sun-Slaying Divine Sword.
This sword was an ancient divine weapon that had once cut down the sun in the Ninth Heaven. Its reputation was legendary.
Gu Jingchen stood opposite him, a sword appearing in his hand as well.
It was a long, azure sword, its blade transparent as ice and radiating a bone-chilling sword intent.
Yet, to everyone’s surprise, wisps of pink energy coiled around the blade like a lover’s strands of hair. They were gentle and lingering, utterly at odds with his lunatic appearance.
The Lovestruck Sword.
That was where his title came from.
Gu Jingchen stared fixedly at Ye Xuan, his eyes burning with a crazed desire for possession and killing intent. “Ye Xuan, today I’ll make you understand that you’re not worthy of standing beside her!”
“Who in the cultivation world doesn’t know about all your romantic entanglements? First you seduced Bai Qiangu, then you fawned on Azure Emperor, and now you’ve clung to the Sword Sovereign! A womanizer like you, who leaves a trail of lovers wherever you go, dares compare yourself to me?!”
The more he spoke, the more agitated he became. His voice was filled with jealousy and contempt.
“Whereas I, Gu Jingchen, have always kept myself pure. I’m still a virgin to this day!”
“I’ve saved the most precious part of myself for Ye Jiuhuang! I’ve never touched another woman, never entertained a single improper thought! I’m the one truly worthy of her!”
After hearing this, Ye Xuan’s gaze suddenly turned incomparably cold.
“That’s exactly why someone like you is the most despicable!”
“Ye Jiuhuang already rejected you clearly. I saw it with my own eyes, and I heard it from her own lips. She said she had never felt anything for you—not even the slightest interest. She even said that killing you would sully her hands. Yet you continued pestering her. For three thousand years, you refused to let go, refusing to stop.”
“You think this is devotion? No. It’s harassment. It’s disgusting.”
“When a woman doesn’t want you, you cling to her shamelessly and use violence to force her to submit. A person like you has no right to even speak the word ‘love.’”
Gu Jingchen flew into a rage, the veins on his forehead bulging. “Shut up! What do you know? My love for Ye Jiuhuang can be witnessed by Heaven and Earth! The sun and moon can testify to it!”
“What right does a lowly kept man like you have to judge me?”
“Witnessed by Heaven and Earth?”
Ye Xuan let out a cold laugh, his eyes filled with disdain. “You can’t even stop lying to yourself, yet you want Heaven and Earth to judge you? You clearly possess a Heavenly Spirit Root and extraordinary talent. If you had focused on your cultivation, you might have become a True Immortal by now.”
“But what did you do? After Ye Jiuhuang severely wounded you, your cultivation fell to the peak of the Tribulation Transcendence realm, and you still haven’t recovered. You wasted thousands of years on delusions of love, taking a hand of excellent cards and playing them into a complete disaster.”
His gaze swept coldly over Gu Jingchen’s turbulent aura, his tone growing even more contemptuous.
“Now we’re both at the Tribulation Transcendence realm. At the same level, I’m invincible beneath the heavens!”
“Arrogant!”
Gu Jingchen was utterly enraged.
With a furious roar, the sword intent around him surged wildly.
He raised the Lovestruck Sword high. Countless pink sword qi poured from the blade, transforming into a storm of falling flowers that swept toward Ye Xuan from every direction.
The pink sword qi appeared gentle and tender, yet each strand concealed a terrifying killing intent. Every ray was sharp enough to tear apart the void and sever mountains and rivers.
Moreover, the sword qi carried a strange power of emotion that could disrupt an opponent’s mind, causing hallucinations and plunging them into confusion.
This was the true terror of the Lovestruck Sword—it used emotion as its path to the sword, and emotion as its weapon for killing.
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)
to panic—he has a system. As long as an investment target dies, he can claim a reward. And since he is immortal, the one thing he has plenty of is time. ... Countless years later. “Immortal Emperor of Longevity? I invested in him.” “Supreme Celestial Venerable? I invested in him.” “Undying Empress? I invested in her.” “...” “Heh. Once they’ve all died, even the Heavenly Dao will have to kneel and call me Dad.”
his freshman year, Su Bai accidentally bound the "Indulgence Tycoon System." 【Sleeping in? Reward: +$1,000】 【Spent $288 at a street barbecue stall? Cashback: +$2,880】 【Dropped $14,396 on in-game skins? Special reward unlocked: A brand-new Porsche Panamera!】 Luxury cars, penthouses, corporate shares, financial empires… College life was all about living freely and doing whatever he pleased! … When the adorably naive academic genius faced family medical bills and financial struggles, Su Bai waved his hand dismissively: "Your future is on me." "Wuwu~ Big Brother is so good to me! I’ll become a scientist to repay you!" When the genius girl got bullied by a shady professor? Su Bai casually dropped a billion-dollar investment, forcing the university to grovel and beg for her return. A company’s funding chain collapsing? Su Bai smirked—cash was the one thing he’d never run out of. Years later, when people traced the rise of the AI prodigy beauty, who was the man behind her success? Not just that—Su Bai also became the tsundere campus belle’s unattainable dream, the contrast senior’s daily necessity, and the beautiful counselor’s emotional anchor…
for mindless slaughter, this isn't for you.] My name is Ye Shu, and I'm a transmigrator. It seems I'm supposed to be the protagonist, but that feels pretty unlikely. This world has been invaded by a system. The antagonists on the other side have suddenly become pure, flawless saints. The female leads have been force-fed the so-called "original plot," making them think they've been reborn. Now, everyone thinks I'm scum. Including the old lady in my ring. And here I am, in the Monster Beast Mountain Range, braising pork. To put my situation in perspective— It's as if, the moment Xiao Yan stepped into the Monster Beast Mountain Range, the Soul Emperor already knew he would become the Flame Emperor, and Yao Lao had been turned to the enemy's side. I have nothing right now. Oh wait, that's not true. I do have a white-haired loli child-bride who's the Heavenly Dao, and her only skill is acting cute. So, tell me guys... what are my chances of making it to the end?
