Chapter 20: Discarding Xiao Chen, Seizing the Dragon Qi—I Am Doing This for Your Own Good

With a powerful system, peerless talent, and an invincible background.

What Jun Xiaoyao wants is to dominate this era!

All the genius protagonists can only become his supporting characters, fading into obscurity.

Let alone someone like Xiao Chen, who possesses only a modicum of luck.

"You..."

Xiao Chen's fists were clenched tight, his teeth gritted hard.

To be honest, he never expected to be defeated so thoroughly and so pathetically.

A thick sense of humiliation churned and brewed in his heart.

But he could no longer utter any more arrogant words.

Because facts speak louder than words.

"Xiao Chen, that's enough. With the Divine Son's strength, he could have easily killed you; he has already shown you mercy," Bai Yu'er stepped forward and said.

Although she was utterly disappointed in Xiao Chen—even voiding their engagement—they were childhood sweethearts after all. Though they were never particularly intimate, there was still some lingering affection between them.

However, that was where it ended.

"Shut up, you wench! Do I need Jun Xiaoyao to show me mercy?" Xiao Chen roared in fury.

Bai Yu'er meant well, but her words only served to further agitate Xiao Chen's nerves.

His eyes, which had almost been filled with despondency, were now once again brimming with indignant rage.

*This stupid girl is drawing aggro for me...* Jun Xiaoyao thought privately.

However, this was exactly to his liking.

Because Jun Xiaoyao already had another plan in mind.

"You... fine! I'll treat my kindness as if it were nothing but pig's liver!"

Xiao Chen called her a "wench" repeatedly, causing Bai Yu'er's beautiful face to darken as the last shred of affection was completely eroded.

Xiao Chen panted heavily, his chest heaving.

He knew that it was impossible for him to defeat Jun Xiaoyao today.

Xiao Chen clenched his five fingers, his nails digging deep into his palms, bringing a piercing pain.

His gaze swept coldly over Bai Yu'er and Jun Xiaoyao as he made his declaration.

"Jun Xiaoyao, don't get cocky! Thirty years east, thirty years west—do not look down on a youth for being poor!"

"In three years, we shall fight again!"

As Xiao Chen spoke, there was a sense of determination and tragedy in his voice, which, paired with his blood-stained, handsome face, caused some of the Jun family maidens to look at him with a newfound respect.

At this moment, Xiao Chen's unyielding will indeed possessed a certain aura.

Having delivered his threat, Xiao Chen turned around and, dragging his wounded body, left the martial arena step by step, leaving a trail of bloody footprints behind.

Even Bai Yu'er felt a slight tremor in her heart.

It was as if she could see the future version of Xiao Chen soaring through the heavens like a rising dragon.

However, at that moment, a cold voice rang out.

"Wait..."

Hearing this, Xiao Chen's footsteps came to a sudden halt.

"Did I say you could leave?" Jun Xiaoyao stood with his hands behind his back, a hint of playfulness in his expression.

To utter a classic line, leave behind a flashy silhouette, and then think he could walk away peacefully?

Xiao Chen was thinking far too simply.

"What... what do you want to do?"

Xiao Chen turned around, his face stiff.

As the Divine Son of the Jun family, shouldn't Jun Xiaoyao be magnanimous enough to let him go and wait to slap his face in three years?

Why wasn't he following the script?

"In my Jun family, you dare to issue threats to this Divine Son and then think you can just walk away? What do you take my Jun family for, and what do you take me for?" Jun Xiaoyao sneered.

"Then what else do you want? Are you afraid I'll defeat you in three years?" A flash of panic crossed Xiao Chen's eyes, but he forced himself to remain calm.

"Heh, don't try to use provocation on me. However, I indeed do not intend to kill you right now," Jun Xiaoyao said with a faint smile.

"Then what are you going to do?" Hearing this, Xiao Chen breathed a slight sigh of relief, though his eyes remained vigilant.

"The death penalty can be waived, but the punishment for living cannot be escaped. I have my eyes on your Dragon Qi."

As Jun Xiaoyao's voice fell, he raised his hand.

The golden spiritual sea within his body surged, and rolling mana surged forth, condensing into a massive hand that reached for Xiao Chen.

"You are despicable and shameless!" Xiao Chen's expression changed drastically as he turned to flee.

But he was still knocked down by a single strike from the golden hand.

Then, Jun Xiaoyao reached out across the distance, and a dragon's roar erupted from within Xiao Chen's body.

Immediately, a semi-illusory silhouette of a Azure Dragon was pulled out by Jun Xiaoyao.

This was precisely the Dragon Qi possessed by Xiao Chen.

"No! My Dragon Qi!" Xiao Chen's eyes turned blood-red as he roared frantically.

"Noisy!" Jun Xiaoyao struck down with another palm.

With a thunderous boom accompanied by the ear-piercing sound of cracking bones, more than half of Xiao Chen's skeletal structure was shattered, and he vomited blood as if it were free.

"You... you actually crippled my entire meridian system!?"

Xiao Chen's face turned deathly pale, his teeth nearly grinding to dust.

Jun Xiaoyao hadn't killed him, but he had rendered him useless.

As it stood, forget three years—even in three hundred or three thousand years, he would never be able to defeat Jun Xiaoyao.

"Jun... Xiaoyao..." Xiao Chen spat out every word, his eyes surging with bone-deep hatred and fury.

The surrounding Jun family disciples also shuddered slightly, their hearts turning cold.

This was the first time they had witnessed Jun Xiaoyao's ruthless methods.

"Fighting against heaven and acting with such freedom... he truly is decisive and swift," an elder hidden in the void chuckled.

"This is how it should be. The more ruthless my grandson's methods, the more at ease my heart will be," Jun Zhantian smiled.

Not only did they not find Jun Xiaoyao's actions improper, but they also considered them perfectly normal.

When the Imperial Path opens in the future, even more cruel things will happen; what was this level of severity even worth mentioning?

On the martial arena, after seizing the Dragon Qi, Jun Xiaoyao did not hesitate and began to absorb it right in front of Xiao Chen.

Continuous explosions echoed from within his body.

Those were the sounds of individual Great Elephant particles awakening.

After absorbing more than half of the Dragon Qi, another ten thousand Great Elephant particles awakened within Jun Xiaoyao.

He had now awakened a total of thirty thousand Great Elephant particles, which meant a strength of three hundred million catties—absolutely terrifying.

Not only that, Jun Xiaoyao discovered that the Dragon Qi was also nourishing his body, making his already peerless Ancient Desolate Saint Body even more powerful.

Furthermore, a layer of azure light seemed to spread beneath his skin; when needed, it could transform into dragon-scale inner armor for protection.

"A decent harvest," Jun Xiaoyao nodded slightly.

Then, he channeled the remaining small portion of undigested Dragon Qi into Bai Yu'er's body.

"Divine Son, you..." Bai Yu'er was shocked; she never expected Jun Xiaoyao to do this.

"You possess the Vermilion Bird Divine Fire. Combined with the Azure Dragon Qi, they should have a complementary effect," Jun Xiaoyao said indifferently.

His action was, naturally, to win people over.

In the future, he would need Bai Yu'er to manage the Vermilion Bird Ancient Kingdom for him, so her talent could not be too weak.

"Thank you, Divine Son!" Bai Yu'er was immensely moved, tears even shimmering in her eyes.

This kindness was like being reborn!

Meanwhile, witnessing this scene, Xiao Chen could not help but spit out a mouthful of heart's blood!

Fury!

He was so angry that his internal organs felt as if they were burning and his liver and gallbladder were about to shatter!

Jun Xiaoyao had refined his Dragon Qi right in front of him, and then used it as a gift for his former fiancée.

And his former fiancée, Bai Yu'er, was kneeling before Jun Xiaoyao in a sycophantic manner.

This made Xiao Chen's vision go dark, nearly causing him to faint from rage.

Seeing this, Jun Xiaoyao said earnestly, "Xiao Chen, do not be angry. I took your Dragon Qi and crippled your cultivation for your own good."

Which protagonist does not endure a thousand hardships and ten thousand tribulations?

If one's cultivation isn't crippled, one can hardly claim to be a protagonist.

From this perspective, Jun Xiaoyao was indeed helping Xiao Chen with great painstaking effort.

Hearing this, Xiao Chen trembled with rage. Finally unable to bear it, he let out a desperate, futile roar toward the heavens, spat blood, and collapsed unconscious on the ground.