Insulting their Nine Nether Palace as desolate place already arouse fury in all disciple. In them one women is particularly standing ahead of her team, she is Saintness of Nine Nether Palace.
Her hair was deep black with a faint violet sheen. Her eyes were icy, alluring, and filled with calm arrogance, which made even proud geniuses swallow.
Her body was long and slender, her curves wrapped in dark-blue silk, which emphasized her cool, predatory aura. But it was wild and enchanting - like a moonlit fox walking out of a forbidden forest. She is Gu Nalran, Saintness of Nine Nether Palace.
Gu Nalran's eyes narrowed slightly as she caught sight of the phoenix flames ahead.
"I did not expect the Scarlet Bird Saintness to come down from their fiery mountain today," she said softly. "Then you should have grow new feathers that i have accidently burn last time?"
"You!!!!" Su Xun'er's brows shot up.
This made laugh of surrounding disciple. Who did not know that Gu Nalran ranked higher than Su xuner in top young beauty ranking in upper realm? That ignite fury of her and she come to fight saintness of Nine Nether Palace, but unexpectedly return with loss.
This is also a special kind of lists that circulate, like young genius power ranking or so. But this is no official ranking, so these are not guaranteed with their authenticity. Still somehow these ranking circulated in purpose of competition in young generation.
"You—!" Her phoenix flames flared slightly, even Scarlet Phoenix Holy Land's disciples looked furious.
"Watch your mouth, Netherbird woman!"
"How dare you insult our Saintess?!"
Gu Nalran didn't even glance at them but a slight smile curled her lips.
"Ahem hm. Imperial Genius Gathering is just begin and we are making a show for others. How about we continue this matter tomorrow in arena competition."
Ye Chen took two steps forward and decided to ease some matters. Firstly, he was thinking of a good face-slapping scene, but when he saw the villain character in front of him, he decided to put a good impression of himself.
Ye Chen took one more glance at Gu Nalran in the corner of his eye…
Truth was…Ye Chen was going insane.
"Holy shit… why is she so beautiful?!"
Wait-villain character should not be more beautiful than heroine…
Hot damn, her cold-tempered face… her curves… her aura…
She'd be an 11 out of 10 in my previous world!
No — 12!
'Two incomparable beauties right in front of me… this is definitely fate setting up my harem!'
Su Xuner's phoenix flames violently danced around her, but the moment Ye Chen stepped forward, those flames froze.
Not because she cooled down but because she didn't like it. 'He… took her side? Just after she insulted me…
Her peach-blossom eyes became thin, and a hint of grievance swirled beneath.
The surrounding Scarlet Phoenix disciples also quieted.
Thousands of the young talented individuals gathered from all over the upper realm look to the Imperial Capital. If she fought now, her reputation would fall at the opening of the Imperial Genius Gathering. Her Holy Land might suffer unnecessary shame.
"Fine," she exhaled with a tight jaw. "But i hope during tomorrow, you may be as strong as your mouth."
Her voice was soft, yet her nails dug into her palm.
From the other side, members of Nine Nether Palace stiffened. They were fewer in number. Also, the powers on both sides were not comparable and Gu Nalran alone carried their entire face at this moment.
But the Saintness only brushed a finger through her dark-violet hair and smiled coolly.
"We'll continue tomorrow," Gu Nalran said, her voice like ice sliding across silk. "You should try not to lose as quickly as before."
"YOU—!"
Su Xuner's aura flared—But she bit down the rage again.
Around them, both great sects stayed silent. Scarlet Phoenix Holy Land didn't lash out, because fighting here would damage their dignity. Nine Nether Palace didn't escalate, because they were drastically outnumbered.
And so the confrontation hung in the air like a blade.
Only one onlooker out there did not like this ending.
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Lin Chen had been watching everything silently since the moment the their confirmation began. He leaned against a stall pillar, the faint glow of treasure light reflecting off his calm face.
When the tension finally settled, he exhaled softly and looked again at his system screen. Three messages popped up on the screen.
[ DING! Heaven chosen son, Ye Chen has detected around host. ]
[ DING! Heaven chosen daughter, Su Xuner has detected around host. ]
[ DING! Heaven chosen daughter, Gu Nalran has detected around host. ]
Lin Chen stared at the glowing text on his screen.
".Two heroines standing on Ye Chen's side and yet both are staring at him with a frown?
He blinked. That wasn't how protagonists usually worked. Usually, beauties would already be blushing, indebted, or falling into the arms of destiny.
But here…
Su Xuner looked irritated; Gu Nalran barely spared him a real glance, and both held grudges that didn't align with Ye Chen's "perfect protagonist luck."
Lin Chen's eyes narrowed thoughtfully.
"…So their routes with the heroine haven't started yet. Something unpleasant must happen later that will push them toward Ye Chen."
He turned to Ye Chen, who at this moment was pumping his chest in satisfaction, and the two saintesses-one frustrated, one arrogant-both with unstable fate lines.
A slow, dangerous smile was tugged at Lin Chen's lips.
"Two future heroines…Both have unstable emotions, both with grudges from the past, both will be caught by Ye Chen later."
His eyes darkened with mischief.
"IIf I… intervene early… Interfere with their emotions… And guide their hatred…"
A cold chuckle escaped him.
"Heh… heh… heh…"
The perfect villainous idea bloomed in his mind.
A method to steal villain points, derail Ye Chen's harem route, and twist fate itself. Perhaps even… use their conflicts to make both Saintesses hate the protagonist more than each other.
Lin Chen's fingers tapped lightly on his sleeve. "Time to begin," he whispered, "Let's see how badly I can mess up Ye Chen's script." And with that— The first step of the villain.