Thud!
Jiang Cheng's lean figure erupted with astonishing power.
His fist, clad in brass knuckles, smashed viciously into the armored giant!
Before the spiked club could swing, Jiang Cheng’s punch landed squarely on the giant’s chest armor, leaving a gruesome dent as cracks began to spread.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
Jiang Cheng’s narrowed eyes suddenly snapped open!
The silver knuckles in his hand struck like lightning, hammering the armored giant relentlessly!
A surge of fierce energy rippled through the giant’s body, the shockwaves even shattering the clouds above.
The armored giant, utterly defenseless, was pummeled into a battered wreck by Jiang Cheng’s blows.
Finally!
Seizing a brief opening—
The armored giant roared in fury, swinging its spiked club and forcing Jiang Cheng back!
Bang! Bang!
Two gunshots rang out, hitting the giant but dealing minimal damage.
Still, they successfully diverted its attention.
"Are you here to forge metal or fight?"
A cold voice cut through the chaos.
Jiang Cheng’s sly grin twisted slightly. "So you finally showed up."
The speaker was none other than Lin Chen.
His earlier shots had drawn the giant’s rage—its club now hurtled toward him.
Thud!
In an instant, Lin Chen caught the spiked club with one hand.
Jiang Cheng and Zhang Qianyu both froze in shock.
Blocking the armored giant’s strike with a single hand?
Impossible!
At the very least, no one their age should be capable of such a feat!
Jiang Cheng’s sharp phoenix eyes narrowed as he noticed the trick.
Lin Chen hadn’t used raw strength—he’d manipulated qi to solidify the air, forming an invisible barrier.
Interesting.
Jiang Cheng relaxed, opting to observe the battle with detached amusement.
The armored giant was no pushover.
Just look at Zhang Qianyu—ranked fifth on the Hidden Dragon List—reduced to such a pitiful state. That alone spoke volumes about the giant’s power.
A cold smirk curled Lin Chen’s lips as his hooked staff, Lieyun, spun in his grip and slammed into the giant’s chest.
Boom!
The impact was brutal beyond measure—the piercing screech of metal made even Su Xue’er cover her ears in the distance.
That single strike!
Released a shockwave of terrifying force!
It pierced straight through the already shattered armor, exposing a flickering light deep within the giant’s chest.
In one fluid motion, Lin Chen extracted the glowing cyan core.
Jiang Cheng and Zhang Qianyu stared in disbelief.
One hit. One kill.
Realization dawned on Zhang Qianyu, his face twisting with fury.
He knew it!
From the start, he’d been the one locked in combat with the armored giant, wearing it down through sheer endurance.
He’d pushed it to the brink!
Only then had Jiang Cheng found openings to counterattack.
And now? This ice-cold bastard had swooped in to steal the final blow!
Infuriating!
Zhang Qianyu’s rage burned hotter.
That moment of glory should have been his!
Lin Chen held up the cyan core, his gaze challenging Jiang Cheng.
"I know you’re after this too. Let’s settle it. I’ve always wondered—just how strong is the so-called number one on the Hidden Dragon List?"
"Lin Chen, he—he’s the Azure Dragon, Jiang Cheng!" Su Xue’er whispered, her face pale.
Number one on the Hidden Dragon List!
The undisputed top genius of their generation—a figure shrouded in legend.
Lin Chen’s provocation sent a chill down her spine.
Jiang Cheng grinned as he looked at Lin Chen: "Alright, I’m quite curious about your strength! Where exactly did you get the guts to challenge me?"
He didn’t know much about Lin Chen.
But he had heard a thing or two about him.
Back then, this guy had nearly lost his life fighting an S-rank assassin like Butcher, yet in just half a year, he had grown strong enough to reach this level!
This rate of growth was downright terrifying!
Zhang Qianyu stepped forward, gripping his sword, as the three of them stood in a triangular formation.
An overwhelming aura radiated from each of them.
"Who would’ve thought it would come down to the three of us in the end!"
Zhang Qianyu, clad in flowing white robes, spoke with cold arrogance: "I, Zhang Qianyu, eldest disciple of Dragon Elephant Mountain, have trained in the sword since childhood. This blade is named 'Sunset Sword,' measuring three feet, three inches, and three-tenths. My expertise lies in swordsmanship—"
Just then, the barrel of a sniper rifle locked onto his head.
"If you keep yapping on the sidelines and disturbing their fight, I’ll blow your brains out!"
Su Xue'er glared, steadying the massive sniper rifle aimed squarely at Zhang Qianyu’s skull.
What the hell was this guy even doing here?
Zhang Qianyu glanced at Lin Chen and Jiang Cheng.
The two were locked in a fierce stare-down, brimming with killing intent—not sparing him a single glance!
Zhang Qianyu’s heart sank.
Ice-cold!
How could someone as powerful as him be ignored like this?!
"Damn it, this place is a nightmare to climb."
A slender hand gripped the rocky edge of the floating island before its owner hauled himself up.
An elderly man with streaks of white in his hair appeared silently.
"Old geezer?"
Lin Chen was slightly taken aback when he saw the newcomer.
It was Cheng Yuanfeng.
Cheng Yuanfeng shot Lin Chen a glance and scolded, "You idiot, why are you dawdling with this gray-haired brat instead of refining it already?!"
Jiang Cheng’s eyes turned icy as he regarded Cheng Yuanfeng, his guard instantly rising.
This man was no ordinary opponent.
Ranked 29th on the Heavenly Leaderboard!
In the entire Great Xia, few could stand as his equals!
Whether Jiang Cheng could even match him was uncertain—but the odds were grim.
Cheng Yuanfeng smirked arrogantly at Jiang Cheng. "If you want a fight, you’ll have to go through me first. My disciple has business to attend to."
"Disciple?"
Lin Chen raised an eyebrow. Since when had he ever taken a master?
"Hurry up and refine it. Stop wasting time—this secret realm is far more dangerous than you think."
Cheng Yuanfeng’s expression grew solemn as he spoke.
Jiang Cheng narrowed his eyes, hesitating.
Lin Chen alone was already a headache, and now Cheng Yuanfeng had shown up. Facing both of them at once? His chances of winning were slim.
"If you want to monopolize it, you’ll have to get past—"
Zhang Qianyu’s cold retort was cut short as he felt the sniper barrel press against his back. A cold sweat broke out, and he hastily amended, "Go ahead, take it! I fully support it!"
Purple lightning crackled through the air, splitting the sky.
On the towering ancient tree,
the small blue ghost had already been slain.
Its body slowly faded, dissolving into nothingness.
Ji Chen clenched his prayer beads, his handsome face dark with displeasure, his gaze frigid.
Beside him, Lv Zheng, ever the carefree rogue, laughed heartily. "Well, as they say, the mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind. Who’d have thought that after all our fighting, someone else would swoop in and reap the rewards?"
After the blue ghost was slain,
a single blue orb materialized.
But there was only one.
Neither Ji Chen nor Lv Zheng was willing to back down.
They even clashed again in a brief skirmish.
Yet, to their shock, after a few exchanges, the blue orb vanished—right before their eyes!
It couldn't have just vanished into thin air!
Someone must have taken it!
Ji Chen's handsome face twisted with anger: Who on earth dared to do this?
Behind the towering ancient tree.
Bai Xiu gasped for breath, his chest heaving.
Shadow Step!
This move drained his stamina like nothing else—he’d probably need to sleep for ages to recover from the toll.
But stealing right under the noses of two masters? Now that was a thrill!
How the hell does this thing work?
Bai Xiu clutched the glowing blue orb, his curiosity burning brighter than the light in his hands.
e school belle recognized by the whole school, a genius girl from the kendo club. She also has a hidden identity, the youngest legendary demon hunter. Chen Shuo just transmigrated and found himself turned into a weak, helpless little vampire. He was caught by Su Xiyen and taken home at the very beginning. Since then, Chen Shuo's life creed only had two items. "First, classmate Su Xiyen is always right." "Second, if classmate Su Xiyen is wrong, please refer back to item one." Many years later, Chen Shuo, who had turned back into a human, led a pair of twins to appear in front of all the vampires to share the secret of how he turned back into a human. "It's simple, I tricked a female demon hunter into becoming my wife!"
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.
transmigrates into the world as the sect master of the Heavenly Yan Sect, which is on the verge of being wiped out. He binds a system that grants him cultivation power based on the number of disciples he has: for each disciple, he automatically gains a year's worth of cultivation every single day! Take one disciple: every day he gains 1 year of cultivation power. While others struggle through a year of bitter training, he gets the same just by sleeping through a single night. Take ten disciples: every day he gains 10 years of cultivation power. Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, Nascent Soul—he breezes through all bottlenecks without lifting a finger. Take one hundred disciples: every day he gains 100 years of cultivation power. Even a Soul Transformation Venerable before him can’t survive a single blow. Take ten thousand disciples: every day he gains 10,000 years of cultivation power! With a wave of his hand, he topples empires. With a single step, he crushes the sacred grounds of the universe. ... While others fight tooth and nail for secret techniques, Lin Yan casually hands out Nascent Soul-level cultivation manuals as beginner textbooks. While others strain to find talented recruits, Lin Yan opens his doors to anyone—so long as they’re human. In just three short years, the Heavenly Yan Sect went from a backwater sect made up of three crumbling huts to a sacred land that every cultivator under heaven would kill to enter. ... One day, otherworldly demon gods invade, with a million demon soldiers pressing down upon the realm. Lin Yan, yawning, rises from his lounge chair and glances at the system panel: [Current Disciples: 1.28 million] [Daily Cultivation Increase: 1.28 million years] He waves his hand casually, and the countless demon soldiers are reduced to ashes in an instant. “So noisy… interrupting my fishing.”
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."
