Chang Li Yao had barely recovered from the Rogue Saint and the latest Heavenly Dao Fragment when a familiar presence pressed down on him. The air shimmered, the mountains trembled, and a voice resonated in his mind like a mountain collapsing.
Hung Jun: "Chang Li Yao… you continue to evade destiny. It is time you accept the Dao fully."
Chang Li Yao groaned, sitting cross-legged on a cliff. "Oh, fantastic. Just what I needed… the most annoying saint in the universe, coming to remind me that the system hates me."
Hung Jun descended, aura pressing like a tidal wave. Chang Li Yao instinctively stepped back. His Purple Bamboo Bloodline pulsed faintly, keeping him grounded as laws warped around his body.
[System Notice: Saint Encounter Detected. Passive Comprehension Triggered. +70 Breakthrough Points]
"Ugh! Every time this guy shows up, I automatically get stronger!" Chang Li Yao groaned. His body tingled, laws whispering secrets: space, lightning, death, five elements, all converging in chaotic harmony.
Hung Jun approached calmly. "You have talent beyond reckoning, yet you waste it avoiding discipleship. Why?"
Chang Li Yao waved frantically. "No! No discipleship! I… I just… like, peace! I like living without being shoved into Hong Mang World! You don't understand!"
[System Notice: Avoiding discipleship will accelerate automatic breakthroughs.]
[Automatic Realm Breakthrough Triggered: Heavenly Dao Stage Six to Heavenly Dao Stage Seven]
Chang Li Yao groaned so loudly it echoed off the mountains. His body glowed faint purple, and instinctively, he manipulated space to form multiple images of himself, dodging Hung Jun's probing aura.
"I… I guess I'll listen… just a little," he muttered under his breath, already plotting his escape route. "But no discipleship, no Hong Mang, got it?"
Hung Jun's aura pressed, and Chang Li Yao felt his mind expand uncontrollably. The laws began to weave together, comprehension growing faster than he ever thought possible. Lightning fused with death, space intertwined with five elements, and the universe itself whispered in patterns only he could grasp.
[System Notice: Multi-Law Comprehension Achieved. Breakthrough Points Gained: 80]
[Automatic Realm Breakthrough Triggered: Heavenly Dao Stage Seven to Heavenly Dao Stage Eight]
"I HATE THIS!" Chang Li Yao shouted, clutching his head. His body surged with cosmic energy, causing a small crater where he stood. "I just wanted a normal life!"
But even in frustration, a grin crept onto his face. The system forced me to grow, yes… but I can control how I use it. Clever tactics, indirect actions, and a little chaos… that's how he survived every battle so far.
Hung Jun finally stepped back, observing him quietly. "You are… extraordinary. But if you continue this way, the Hong Mang World will await you regardless."
Chang Li Yao groaned again. "Great… more warnings. Universe, could you maybe stop threatening me while I eat lunch? Preferably before the next forced breakthrough?"
Even as he muttered, he felt the faint pull of Heavenly Dao Fragments across distant realms calling to him, tempting him with more power, more breakthroughs, and greater danger.
He clenched his fists. "Fine. Universe. You want me to grow? I'll grow… but on my terms. No discipleship, no Hong Mang, just me… and the chaos I can manipulate."
The mountains trembled slightly under his resolve, laws bending subtly around him. Chang Li Yao had become a force not just of power, but of cunning and unwilling defiance.
This was only the beginning.