Jun Zhangjian's face alternated between green and red.
Just moments ago, he was thinking he couldn't strike too heavily, as it would be bad if he injured Jun Xiaoyao.
Now, he was covered in dust and wounds.
"Younger clan brother Xiaoyao truly has the bearing of a divine being. Elder brother is impressed..." Jun Zhangjian got up, forcing a smile uglier than crying onto his face.
Today, he had completely lost face.
Once Jun Xiaoyao started fighting, he went all out. He hadn't even had time to activate his Indestructible Sword Body.
However, even if he could have activated the Indestructible Sword Body, Jun Zhangjian wasn't confident he could suppress Jun Xiaoyao.
Because when Jun Xiaoyao was born, he possessed the vision of Ten Thousand Saints Worshipping.
When the Saintly Body vision appeared, who could be his match?
"What a monster..." Jun Zhangjian sighed inwardly.
To have such strength at only three years old, in a few more years, wouldn't he be able to challenge the top five Sequences?
The surrounding crowd was also so astonished their mouths hung open. It probably wouldn't be long before news of this battle spread throughout the entire Jun family.
Jun Xiaoyao had just broken the Myriad Ages Extreme Realm at the Taiyue Ancient Stele, and now he had defeated Jun Zhangjian.
The few clan members who previously had doubts about Jun Xiaoyao were now prostrating themselves in admiration.
"Younger clan brother Xiaoyao has a limitless future. After you turn ten, you will definitely be able to become a Sequence, even above me," Jun Zhangjian said.
According to the Jun family's rules, the younger generation was only eligible to compete for a Sequence position after the age of ten.
Jun Xiaoyao, however, shrugged.
He had long been designated as Sequence Zero by the Eighteenth Ancestor.
His status was even above that of the First Sequence.
It just hadn't been announced yet.
It would be announced at the tenth birthday banquet. If Jun Zhangjian knew this news then, who knows what his expression would be.
"Younger clan brother Xiaoyao, farewell." Jun Zhangjian now only wanted to enter secluded cultivation.
Jun Xiaoyao said faintly, "Oh right, elder clan brother Zhangjian, as a Sequence, there's no need to let any Tom, Dick, or Harry become a follower. That would lower your status."
Hearing this, Jun Zhangjian's eyes flashed, and he said, "Understood."
But Lan Qingya, upon hearing these words, her face turned incredibly red with shame, feeling extreme humiliation in her heart.
Evidently, the "Tom, Dick, or Harry" Jun Xiaoyao was referring to was her.
Subsequently, Jun Zhangjian and Lan Qingya left.
"Sigh, my techniques are still insufficient..." Jun Xiaoyao's eyes showed a contemplative look.
Although he was currently in the foundation-building stage, it was time for him to cultivate some martial arts and divine abilities.
Otherwise, his methods would be too monotonous.
As an ancient aristocratic family, the Jun family lacked nothing, especially rare martial arts scriptures.
"I'll go ask Grandpa," Jun Xiaoyao thought.
On the other side, Jun Zhangjian hadn't walked far before he stopped.
"Considering our past relationship, you should leave the Jun family," Jun Zhangjian said indifferently.
"No, Young Master Zhangjian, don't drive Qingya away!" Lan Qingya's expression changed drastically, turning deathly pale.
In the Jun family, any cultivation resource was readily available to her, and her status was a cut above others.
If she left the Jun family, she would be no different from those female cultivators struggling at the bottom.
"Scram! If it weren't for you, how would I have gotten into such trouble and lost so much face!"
Jun Zhangjian flung his arm, sending Lan Qingya flying, causing her to vomit blood.
Looking at Jun Zhangjian's indifferently departing back, the pain on Lan Qingya's face transformed into bone-deep venomous resentment.
"Jun Xiaoyao, it's all because of you, relying on your status to oppress others..."
"Desolate Ancient Saintly Body, could it be a Desolate Ancient Saintly Body that has broken one shackle? If I tell this news to those hostile forces of the Jun family, or the Ancient Imperial Clans..."
Lan Qingya's expression flickered as she guessed in her heart.
With her limited imagination, she couldn't possibly imagine that Jun Xiaoyao was a Desolate Ancient Saintly Body that had broken all ten shackles.
In her view, a Desolate Ancient Saintly Body that had broken even one shackle was extremely rare.
"Oh right, I heard this Jun Xiaoyao will hold a tenth birthday banquet in the future. At that time, if enemies are drawn here..."
Lan Qingya knew that with her own abilities, let alone this lifetime, even in the next lifetime, or the one after that, she could absolutely not take revenge on Jun Xiaoyao.
The only way was to borrow a knife to kill someone.
"Just you wait, Jun Xiaoyao, and that bitch Jun Linglong, you will all pay the price!"
Lan Qingya, with disheveled hair and a grimy face, was eventually escorted away by the Jun family guards and swept out the door.
Meanwhile, Jun Xiaoyao didn't care about a minor character like Lan Qingya at all.
In Jun Xiaoyao's eyes, she wasn't even as good as an ant.
The reason he warned Jun Zhangjian was simply because he didn't want to see an eyesore in the future.
At this moment, Jun Xiaoyao was consulting Jun Zhantian.
"What, you want to learn martial arts and divine abilities? Isn't that aiming too high..." Jun Zhantian frowned, his white eyebrows furrowing.
In his opinion, Jun Xiaoyao was being too impetuous.
Only three years old, precisely the time for building a foundation, what martial arts and divine abilities should he be learning?
Moreover, cultivating martial arts and divine abilities also required talent and comprehension, as well as consuming a lot of time.
"Let me try. If it takes too much time, I just won't learn it," Jun Xiaoyao said.
In the end, Jun Zhantian couldn't dissuade him and could only agree to let Jun Xiaoyao cultivate one martial art divine ability first.
Moreover, Jun Zhantian played a little trick; he specially selected an offensive divine ability of the Jun family that was extremely powerful, of a high grade, but also very complex.
"This is the Warring Armaments Art. After mastering it, magical power can be condensed into sabers, spears, swords, halberds, axes, battle-axes, hooks, forks, and other divine weapons. When the Warring Armaments Art is unleashed, thousands of divine weapons follow, sundering heavens and extinguishing earth, its power is exceptionally strong," Jun Zhantian explained.
"Alright then, I'll cultivate the Warring Armaments Art." Excitement shone in Jun Xiaoyao's eyes.
Jun Zhantian chuckled, thinking smugly to himself, "Grandson, you're still too green to compete with grandpa. This divine ability, even grandpa spent a full year cultivating it back then just to barely get started..."
In Jun Zhantian's prediction, Jun Xiaoyao would probably give up after cultivating for a few days.
However, after just a few short days.
Within the Heavenly Emperor Palace, roaring sounds echoed, and endless golden light surged into the sky.
Golden magical power swept through like a storm, then condensed into divine weapons like sabers, spears, swords, and halberds, splitting the heavens and rending the earth.
"Grandpa, it's been a few days, and I've only barely gotten started. Cultivating divine abilities is indeed very complicated." Jun Xiaoyao walked out, shaking his head slightly, a look of disappointment on his face.
"Cough..." Jun Zhantian almost coughed up a mouthful of old blood.
"Grandpa?" Jun Xiaoyao was puzzled.
"No... nothing. If you want to learn any divine abilities in the future, go find them yourself in the Martial Pavilion. Grandpa needs some quiet time."
Jun Zhantian turned and left, not wanting to stay with this little monster for another moment.
Because if he stayed any longer, Jun Zhantian was afraid his Dao heart would collapse, and he'd suspect he had lived all these years like a dog!
Jun Xiaoyao looked completely clueless.
...
Next, five years passed in a flash.
This year, Jun Xiaoyao was already eight years old.
The youth was beginning to mature, as handsome as an immortal banished to the mortal world.
Sometimes, Jun Linglong could stare blankly at Jun Xiaoyao's incomparably handsome face for an entire day without feeling the slightest bit bored.
For any woman, being able to see such an immortal-like handsome face every day was definitely a blessing accumulated over three lifetimes.
Jun Xiaoyao himself had been focused on cultivation, never slacking off.
His cultivation technique was the Jun family's supreme method, the Tai Xuan Scripture.
His body refining technique was the Divine Elephant Suppressing Prison Force.
His soul refining technique was the Chaotic Divine Millstone Visualization Method.
In addition, he was also cultivating some Jun family martial arts and divine abilities, including the Warring Armaments Art, progressing on all fronts.
Jun Xiaoyao's cultivation also directly crossed the nine heavens of the Spirit Sea Realm and broke into the Divine Palace Realm, similar to Jun Zhangjian's cultivation realm back then.
Moreover, due to the special nature of the Desolate Ancient Saintly Body, the Spirit Sea in his Dantian was a golden Spirit Sea, boundless and vast.
The immensity of his magical power was unmatched by anyone in the same realm, truly an endless Spirit Sea.
"Only two years left until the tenth birthday banquet. After the banquet, I should also go out and travel the world, and by the way, investigate the news about Yuan Tian Supreme's Secret Trove," Jun Xiaoyao murmured to himself.
He had not forgotten these two sign-in locations.
After all, having already signed in the Great Accomplishment Desolate Ancient Saintly Body and the Divine Elephant Suppressing Prison Force, he was very curious about what other good things he could obtain from signing in next.
On the other side, Jun Linglong was also cultivating in a side hall of the Heavenly Emperor Palace. She had completely become Jun Xiaoyao's loyal maidservant.
At a certain moment, Jun Linglong felt something in her heart and took out a jade slip for transmitting messages. A message came from within.
"It's her?" Jun Linglong's beautiful eyes narrowed.
(End of this chapter)