Chapter 68: Thick with the Scent of Gunpowder (2)

The spectators were boiling with excitement, putting down their work one after another and calling their friends as they surged toward the mountain gate.

For a time, the area near the mountain gate was a sea of people, with discussions rising and falling, as lively as the opening of a marketplace.

...

Meanwhile, the heroine of the event, Ye Linger, was still completely unaware of the waves that were about to rise because of her at the mountain gate.

She was staying in her room, holding a simple rag doll in her hand, on which Chen Chuan’s name was written with a vermilion pen.

She held a thin needle in her hand, stabbing the doll fiercely while muttering crossly:

"Stab you, you big liar! Stab you, you big jerk! How dare you lie to me!"

"Stinky Chen Chuan! Rotten Chen Chuan!"

The doll had already been riddled with holes, showing the depth of its owner’s resentment.

Just then, an urgent call from a fellow Disciple came from outside the door:

"Senior Sister Ye! Senior Sister Ye! This is bad, come out quickly."

"Lu Yun from the Fengyun Holy Land has come to challenge you to a duel. He’s right at the mountain gate."

Ye Linger’s stabbing motion suddenly froze, a flash of shock and disbelief crossing her pretty Face.

"Lu Yun? He... he really came?"

That Lu Yun, who was still trash a month ago, actually dared to come to the Primordial Holy Land?

Since he dared to come, it meant he had not only recovered his cultivation but had likely improved significantly.

A trace of unease quietly surfaced in Ye Linger’s heart.

But immediately, this trace of unease was suppressed by her strong self-esteem and competitiveness.

"Hmph! So what if he came? In just one short month, how strong can he be? My Cultivation talent is not bad either."

She threw away the doll and needle, straightened her dress, and her pride returned to her Face:

"Fine! I’ll go and meet him, and let everyone see that my choice back then was not wrong."

...

Soon, the news naturally reached Chen Chuan’s ears as well.

Chen Chuan, who was preparing Alchemy Materials, paused his actions, his brow furrowing. "Lu Yun is here? He wants to duel Ye Linger?"

His heart skipped a beat. "Oh no!"

With his understanding of the child of providence template, this Lu Yun, after not being seen for a month, was definitely not the same as before.

With Ye Linger’s Ming Quan Realm cultivation, she was likely going to suffer.

Beside him, Ji Siyu saw the worry on Chen Chuan’s Face, and her beautiful eyes instantly narrowed, her tone carrying a hint of jealousy:

"So worried about your Senior Sister Ye? Husband, do you have some secret relationship with her?"

Chen Chuan snapped back to reality, and seeing Ji Siyu’s Face full of jealousy, he smiled bitterly in resignation. "Siyu, what are you thinking? She and I are perfectly clean."

"Perfectly clean?" Ji Siyu stepped closer, full of jealousy. "Then what about her first kiss? Don’t tell me you don’t know!"

Chen Chuan rolled his eyes and then explained, "That was really to save her. It was an emergency back then; she was heavily poisoned, and that was the only way to suck the poison out."

Hearing this, Ji Siyu huffed, letting him off for now, but she still whispered under her breath:

"You can kiss just to save someone? Next time I’ll try getting poisoned too."

Chen Chuan: "..."

He couldn’t respond to Ji Siyu’s words.

He quickly pulled Ji Siyu. "Come on, let’s go to the mountain gate and see."

The two arrived at the mountain gate, which was already packed so tightly that not a drop of water could trickle through.

Chen Chuan’s gaze moved past the crowd and instantly locked onto Lu Yun, who was standing at the front of the group from the Fengyun Holy Land.

With a thought, he immediately used his Eye of Wisdom to observe.

The next moment, Chen Chuan’s heart shook violently.

The vitality within Lu Yun’s body was like a dragon, and his spiritual power was majestic; he was actually at the First Level of the Myriad Manifestations Realm.

That wasn’t all; deep within his Physical Body, an aura of Primordial Chaos that embraced all things was faintly circulating, which was a sign of the Minor Achievement of the Chaos Divine Body.

What shocked him the most was that Lu Yun was actually bound to a Lottery System.

"Minor Achievement of the Chaos Divine Body, Myriad Manifestations Realm cultivation, and he’s even bound to a Lottery System." Chen Chuan sighed inwardly. "Holy crap! As expected of a child of providence."

But Chen Chuan believed that he was the protagonist, the true child of providence.

He would never allow anyone to steal his spotlight as the protagonist.

"System, is there any way to deal with a Lottery System?" Chen Chuan communicated with the System.

[Yes, the host only needs to purchase an Eternal Curse card and then use it on the host of the Lottery System.]

[Once the other party is under the curse, the Lottery System will have side effects.]

"Hahaha, this is great. I like it." Chen Chuan was extremely satisfied.

He checked the System Mall and found that purchasing an Eternal Curse card only cost one million gold tickets, which was no pressure.

...

Just then, Ye Linger also arrived at the mountain gate.

As soon as she appeared, she instantly attracted all eyes on the field.

"Look! Senior Sister Ye is here."

"The main person is here. Now there’s going to be a good show."

"By the way, what kind of grudge or enmity do this Lu Yun and Senior Sister Ye have? Why did he have to come to our door?"

"Details are unknown for now, but it’s definitely a juicy scandal."

The spectators whispered to each other excitedly, their gazes sweeping back and forth between Ye Linger and Lu Yun, trying to dig up deeper layers of gossip.

Ye Linger felt the gazes converging from all directions and took a deep breath, suppressing the lingering unease in her heart.

She held her head high and walked to the front of the crowd from the Primordial Holy Land.

She looked directly at Lu Yun with a stubbornness that did not back down:

"Lu Yun, you really came. Fine, let’s have a final settlement today."

She secretly vowed in her heart that no matter what, she must win.

She had to prove that she, Ye Linger, wasn’t wrong.

This man, whom she once regarded as trash, would never be worthy of her.

Lu Yun looked at Ye Linger, his eyes calm and rippleless, as if he were looking at a stranger.

Only the faintest curl of his lips revealed a hint of cold arrogance.

The storm was about to begin.