Chapter 1 The Enying Beast Eagle

Just as the Enying Beast Eagle landed and prepared to turn around!

Ye Cang had already moved in close, launching a powerful sweep kick at the inside of the Enying Beast Eagle's right leg. Seeing this, the Enying Beast Eagle quickly ducked low, responding with a sweeping kick of its own, targeting Ye Cang's supporting leg to disrupt his technique and leave him momentarily airborne.

Then, in that brief moment of Ye Cang's imbalance, the Enying Beast Eagle actually leaped into the air, executing a wrestling-style rocket flying kick, aiming to smash Ye Cang's face.

But... just as the Enying Beast Eagle straightened its legs, Ye Cang landed in time. After completing a ducking motion at the last possible moment, he successfully evaded the attack.

The Enying Beast Eagle, missing its target and suspended in mid-air, glanced down in astonishment, thinking, "What's going on! How did this low-level hyperdimensional leaper dodge a flying kick with the force of a rocket?"

And now, Ye Cang, on all fours, was ready to counterattack! Just as the Enying Beast Eagle was passing overhead, about to land, Ye Cang sprang forward, delivering an uppercut directly into the Enying Beast Eagle's nether regions.

The Enying Beast Eagle cried out in pain. Ye Cang, upon impact, felt that the area he'd struck was surprisingly hard.

After two muffled thuds, the Enying Beast Eagle tumbled through the air before landing on its rear behind Ye Cang. The Enying Beast Eagle felt a sharp pain in its abdomen. As the beast stood up, Ye Cang sensed that something was amiss, realizing that his uppercut hadn't fully penetrated the Enying Beast Eagle.

"This guy... no, this eagle-masked demon is incredibly resilient! Is it truly invulnerable?" Of everyone present, Xue Shengnan was the most shocked. Witnessing Ye Cang's battle against the Enying Beast Eagle, he began to question everything he thought he knew... "What... what kind of protagonist is this? Is he cheating or something?"

"That painful blow, that dragon-slaying uppercut! If it were a D-grade beast, Ye Cang would have annihilated it instantly." "And yet, this beast hasn't fallen. After this is over, I must find a way to eliminate both Ye Cang and that beast!"

Ye Cang knew that the Enying Beast Eagle had only used about seventy percent of its power and hadn't gone all out. So, he asked the Enying Beast Eagle, "Big dummy! Want to continue?"

The Enying Beast Eagle crouched into a wrestling stance. "Yes! I'm going to get serious now!"

At that moment, both sides faced each other, neither daring to attack rashly. Just then, a drop of sweat from Ye Cang's forehead dripped into his eye. In the instant his eye blinked shut, the Enying Beast Eagle had silently appeared before him.

The beast ducked low, wrapping its arms around Ye Cang's thighs, lifting him up to its neck. Then, using its entire body weight, it drove downward, utilizing the tensile strength of the ground and the force of inertia, channeling it all into Ye Cang's body. "Die, leaper! Wrestling move: Spinebuster!"

With a thunderous roar, the arena filled with smoke.

Chen Li felt a chill run through her heart, thinking, "It's over! What a promising talent. This was beyond the universe's four fundamental forces, a hyperdimensional zero realm." At that moment, everyone focused their attention on the arena.

A moment later, the smoke cleared. Only the Enying Beast Eagle stood in the arena. Ye Cang was nowhere to be seen. Suddenly!

An unknown force, like a cylindrical, transparent shockwave, rapidly pressed down on the Enying Beast Eagle.

With a muffled thud, in an instant, the mysterious force embedded the Enying Beast Eagle into the ground. Just as the beast prepared to rise, another circular, transparent shockwave slammed heavily onto its body.

With a *thump!*, this powerful wave of transparent light forced the Enying Beast Eagle more than three meters deep into the ground. Ye Cang hovered in mid-air, his eyes emitting an ethereal white-blue light, as if a king gazing down upon all living things!

Ye Cang floated down to the deep pit, looking calmly at the beast. The Enying Beast Eagle, after receiving Ye Cang's unknown attack, felt like an ice cream cone melting in the summer heat.

Ye Cang asked, "Enying Beast Eagle! Want to continue?" The Enying Beast Eagle hesitated for a moment. Or rather, it was fearful. The Enying Beast Eagle said, "Leapers' leap techniques usually have a brief hyperdimensional pause after being used for a while! I don't believe you can unleash that power again!"

Ye Cang took a deep breath, then spat out a mouthful of blood, staring at the Enying Beast Eagle once more. "Then... do you dare try that power again?"

At this point, the unknown power had made the Enying Beast Eagle tremble in the pit. In the end, the pride inherent in the Enying Beast Eagle as a martial artist overcame its fear! It looked at Ye Cang and roared, "Leaper! I don't believe your leap technique doesn't have a hyperdimensional pau—"

Before the "pause" could escape its lips, *thump!*, Ye Cang's specialized skill, Hyperdimensional Zero Realm, slammed into the Enying Beast Eagle once again.

This time, the attack forced the Enying Beast Eagle to its knees within the pit. Ye Cang was about to raise his hand to deliver another blow to crush the beast when the Enying Beast Eagle hurriedly shouted, "Brother!... I was wrong! I was wrong! Can we stop fighting?"

This was the first time in Ye Cang's life he had experienced such a bizarre and unbelievable situation. Hearing the Enying Beast Eagle admit defeat, Ye Cang finally breathed a sigh of relief. He crouched above the deep pit, feigning composure, and asked, "What? Are you scared?"

The Enying Beast Eagle stammered, quickly denying it, "I... how could I be scared? I... I was afraid I would hurt you if we kept fighting. So... so I surrendered. We've agreed, I've already surrendered, we can't fight anymore!"

Ye Cang sighed and pointed at the Enying Beast Eagle. "If you had stopped earlier, we wouldn't be in this mess..."

The Enying Beast Eagle lightly tapped its toes and leaped toward the ground, but before it could land, a circular hole appeared in the ceiling of the arena, sucking the Enying Beast Eagle in, after which it vanished without a trace. Ye Cang looked at where the Enying Beast Eagle had been, knowing that this must have been Mu Jieyu's doing.

A moment later, the door to the outside opened, and Ye Cang smiled contemptuously. "It's really not easy to keep living. What strange twists of fate..."

After saying that, Ye Cang shook his head. Helplessness and sorrow washed over him. Suddenly! The light in Ye Cang's eyes vanished instantly. With a *thump*, Ye Cang collapsed to the ground, falling unconscious.

The youth has light, but not dazzlingly so; he is one with the starlight. The wind of his childhood still echoes. He has wandered, gathered, and dispersed along the way, experiencing the trials and tribulations of the human world. This world, this time and space... it seems it doesn't need him to save it. The one who needs saving... seems to be him.

But... since he has come to this world, he certainly doesn't want to simply have come and gone. So... when the sun rises, he will still travel lightly toward the distance.