Blue Cloud City. Inside the grand hall of the Ye Family.
The atmosphere had dropped to the freezing point.
"Ye Chen, this bottle of 'Qi Gathering Pills' and this Low-Tier Black Grade sword are your compensation. Hand over the marriage contract. From now on, we are destined to be people of two completely different worlds."
In the center of the hall, a breathtakingly beautiful young girl wearing a flowing cloud-patterned dress looked down at the black-robed youth before her. Her eyes held no disguise for her contempt and indifference.
She was Nalan Yan, the number one genius maiden of Blue Cloud City, who had recently been exceptionally recruited by the super-faction, 'Starfall Pavilion'.
Opposite her, Ye Chen clenched his fists so tightly that his nails dug deeply into his palms.
Three years ago, he was the most dazzling genius the Blue Cloud City had seen in a century, breaking through to the Qi Gathering Realm at the mere age of twelve. But a sudden accident turned his Dantian into a bottomless pit. No matter how much spiritual energy he absorbed, it vanished into thin air. His cultivation plummeted back to the Third Stage of the Body Tempering Realm, reducing him to absolute trash.
"Nalan Yan, when your grandfather knelt before my grandfather, begging to arrange this marriage, he certainly didn't have this kind of ugly expression!" Ye Chen gritted his teeth, a cold sneer on his face.
"Insolent!"
A coldly handsome young man in brocade clothes standing beside Nalan Yan let out a sharp shout. A powerful aura belonging to the Eighth Stage of the Qi Gathering Realm instantly swept through the hall, forcing Ye Chen three steps back. A trail of blood leaked from the corner of his mouth.
The young man was Chu Feng, an Inner Sect Disciple of the Starfall Pavilion. He looked at Ye Chen with extreme disdain. "A piece of trash at the Third Stage of the Body Tempering Realm dares to yell at Junior Sister Yan? Take your compensation and get lost, or I'll cripple your other arm!"
The Ye Family elders sitting on both sides not only refused to speak up for Ye Chen, but instead revealed gloating, cold smiles.
"Ye Chen, just hand over the contract. Stop embarrassing the family!"
"Exactly! Miss Nalan is now a high-ranking disciple of the Starfall Pavilion. How could a cripple like you ever be worthy of her?"
Listening to the mocking words of his own blood relatives, a wave of sorrow washed over Ye Chen, rapidly igniting into monstrous fury.
"Good! What a fine Nalan Yan! What a fine Ye Family!"
Ye Chen forcefully wiped the blood from his mouth. He strode over to the table, grabbed a brush, and with bold, sweeping strokes, wrote a massive character—DIVORCE!
He picked up the letter of divorce and viciously threw it right at Nalan Yan's face!
"I agree to end this marriage! But it is not you rejecting me. It is I, Ye Chen, divorcing you!"
Dead silence. Everyone's eyes widened in disbelief, staring at the trash who usually swallowed every insult.
Nalan Yan trembled with anger, her pretty face turning an ugly shade of green. "Ye Chen! Are you insane? Do you even know what you're doing?!"
Ye Chen straightened his spine, his gaze sharp as lightning, and spoke word by word:
"Thirty years the river flows east, thirty years it flows west. Do not bully the young and poor! Nalan Yan, I, Ye Chen, will remember today's humiliation. Exactly three years from now, I will personally step foot onto the Starfall Pavilion and, in front of the whole world, crush you completely beneath my feet!"
"Just based on a piece of trash like you?" Chu Feng laughed out of extreme anger, ready to strike and teach Ye Chen a lesson.
"Senior Brother Chu, let's go!" Nalan Yan stopped him, giving Ye Chen one last, icy glare. "Fine, I will give you three years. Three years from now, I will let you know that trash will always be trash!"
With that, the two turned and left amidst a hall full of sneers.
The elders also dispersed with cold laughs, leaving Ye Chen standing entirely alone.
Night fell.
Ye Chen returned to his dilapidated wooden hut on the back mountain. Sitting cross-legged, he exhaled a long breath of turbid air. He knew that while he had vented his anger today, if he couldn't restore his cultivation within three years, he would die an incredibly ugly death.
Just as despair threatened to swallow him—
[Ding!]
A cold, mechanical electronic voice suddenly exploded in his mind!
[Intense emotional fluctuation detected. Activation conditions met.]
[The 10,000x Critical Strike System is binding... 10%... 50%... 100%!]
[Binding successful! Any cultivation behavior or resource consumption by the Host has a chance to trigger a 10x to 10,000x critical multiplier return!]
[Host's damaged Dantian detected. As this is the Host's first system activation, a 'Novice Invincible Gift Pack' is specially rewarded. Do you wish to open it?]
Ye Chen's eyes snapped open, his pupils shrinking drastically as his heart pounded against his ribs.
A System?!
As a transmigrator, he knew exactly what this meant! This was a heaven-defying cheat code!
"Open! Open it immediately!" Ye Chen roared in his heart.
[Ding! Successfully opened.]
[Congratulations to the Host for acquiring: Primordial Chaos Body (Supreme Divine Physique, impervious to all magic, devours all things)!]
[Congratulations to the Host for acquiring: Divine-Tier Cultivation Technique 'Nine Dragons Heaven Devouring Art'.]
[Congratulations to the Host for acquiring: Ten Years of Pure Cultivation Base!]
BOOM!
In the very next second, a terrifyingly supreme golden energy appeared out of nowhere inside Ye Chen's body. His Dantian, originally shattered like a dried well, was instantly reshaped into a vast, golden sea of stars!
With the awakening of the Primordial Chaos Body, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth within a ten-mile radius went berserk, forming a massive spiritual vortex that frantically poured into Ye Chen's body!
Crack!
Fourth Stage of Body Tempering!
Fifth Stage of Body Tempering!
...
Ninth Stage of Body Tempering!
First Stage of Qi Gathering!
In just half an hour, the cultivation Ye Chen had lost over three years was not only completely restored, but he broke through in one fell swoop to the Third Stage of the Qi Gathering Realm—a hundred times stronger than before!
Ye Chen violently clenched his fist, feeling the terrifying power within him, capable of shattering a mountain with a single punch. A freezing smile crept up the corners of his mouth.
"Nalan Yan, Chu Feng, and you old dogs of the Ye Family..."
"Your nightmare has just begun!"