441: Chapter 441 The Heavenly Emperor (6)

Within the great hall, the Empress's powerful quasi-emperor aura slowly receded as Ye Yun awoke.

Yet, the lingering pressure still left the Liu family members feeling as if they had fallen into an ice cellar, unable to move.

Liu Yan stood dazed in the center of the great hall, her face filled with humiliation and disbelief.

"I am casting you aside."

These three words echoed repeatedly in her mind, shattering the pride she had held for seventeen years.

She was the Prodigy of the Liu family, possessor of the Glazed Sacred Body, a being destined to look down upon all living things in the future.

Yet today, she had been publicly cast aside by someone she viewed as trash—someone with the cursed Desolate Ancient Sacred Body—in front of numerous famous forces from the Three Thousand Dao Provinces.

This made her feel even worse than if she had been killed.

"You... what did you say?"

Liu Yan's voice trembled with rage as she stared fixedly at Ye Yun.

Ye Yun did not look at her again.

He simply turned around calmly and bowed respectfully to his mother at the head of the hall.

"Mother, your son has been unfilial and has caused you trouble."

The Empress looked at her son's straight back and the pride in his eyes, which was identical to that of Desolate Heaven, and felt filled with relief.

Her Ye Yun had grown up.

"It is nothing."

The Empress spoke softly, but when her gaze fell back upon the Liu family members, it had returned to coldness.

"Since my son has made his decision, let this matter end here."

"You may get out now."

This merciless expulsion turned the Liu Family Head's face livid.

He trembled with rage and pointed at Ye Yun, wanting to say something, but under the Empress's indifferent gaze, he could not utter a single word.

In the end, he could only grit his teeth and swallow his humiliation.

"Let's go!"

The Liu Family Head threw out a parting remark, ignored any formalities, and led the Elders, who were equally livid, along with the devastated Liu Yan, in a hasty and wretched retreat from the main hall of the Ye family.

After they left, there was a moment of silence in the great hall.

Immediately after, the younger generation of the Ye family erupted into earth-shaking cheers.

"The Emperor's son is mighty!"

"Well said! How could a mere Liu Yan ever be worthy of our Ye family's Emperor's son!"

"Today is truly a day to hold our heads high! Let's see how that Liu family will continue to establish a foothold in the Three Thousand Dao Provinces!"

The previous stifled anger and frustration were swept away, and every Ye family disciple looked at Ye Yun with eyes full of fanaticism and worship.

...

The engagement banquet ended on a sour note.

The news that the Ye family's Emperor's son had publicly cast aside the pearl of the Liu family spread rapidly throughout the entire Three Thousand Dao Provinces.

For a time, all major restaurants, markets, and Grotto-Heaven Blessed Lands were discussing this rare and ancient piece of gossip.

"Have you heard? That Desolate Ancient Sacred Body trash from the Ye family actually cast aside the Liu family's Prodigy!"

"Really? Is he crazy? A piece of trash in the Body Tempering Realm, where did he get the guts?"

"It's absolutely true! It is said that Liu Yan tried to break off the engagement publicly and insulted him, but she was countered by the Emperor's son. She was so angry that her Dao Heart became unstable on the spot, and she was forcibly taken away by the Liu Family Head."

The vast majority of people treated this matter as a huge joke.

In their view, Ye Yun's behavior was merely a laughable and powerless counterattack from a weakling pushed to the brink of desperation.

And the Liu family, because of this farce, had completely become a laughingstock in the Three Thousand Dao Provinces.

Especially Liu Yan; from a Prodigy in the spotlight, she had overnight become an object of pity, ridicule, and even a cautionary tale.

Of course, a few older experts noticed something unusual in Ye Yun's attitude and the Empress's support, and chose to wait and see.

They vaguely felt that behind this seemingly absurd farce of the Ye family, there might be some unknown secret hidden.

...

The night was deep, and all was silent.

Ye Yun returned alone to his own sleeping quarters.

The composure and indifference of the day had long since faded; he sat on the cold jade bed, his mind in a state of chaos.

He thought of the decision he had made in the Reincarnation Space.

Eight hundred thousand Reincarnation points.

Aptitude, family background, Comprehension Ability, and Luck—the four categories were equally divided, each accounting for two hundred thousand.

The family background augmented by two hundred thousand points made him the biological son of the Desolate Heaven Great Emperor, granting him the Ye family as a massive backing, as well as the unconditional protection of a quasi-emperor mother.

But this Aptitude left him completely baffled.

"An Aptitude augmented by two hundred thousand Reincarnation points should definitely not be as simple as just an Desolate Ancient Sacred Body."

After all, no matter how strong the Desolate Ancient Sacred Body is, it cannot be stronger than the Supreme Body; the two should be about the same.

Ye Yun muttered to himself, his brows furrowed tightly.

He recalled that in his previous life, he was not born as the Supreme Body that suppressed the ages, but was instead nurtured by a naturally formed Supreme Bone.

But if it were merely an Desolate Ancient Sacred Body, then the investment of two hundred thousand Reincarnation points would seem meaningless, even laughable.

He firmly believed that behind this, there must be an even more terrifying talent that he had yet to uncover.

"Since I cannot figure it out, I will see for myself."

Ye Yun took a deep breath and hesitated no longer.

He sat cross-legged and moved his thoughts.

"Heart Heavy Pupils, open!"

In an instant, a strange light flashed in the depths of his eyes.

The entire world in his eyes shed all its disguises, revealing the most essential Law patterns.

He began to look within himself.

Under his Heart Heavy Pupils, the scene inside his body was unobstructed.

It was a vast ocean of golden Qi and blood.

However, above this ocean that should have been surging endlessly, there were eight black Law chains entwined.

They locked onto the Saint Body Origin like evil Dragons, greedily absorbing the power that should have belonged to Ye Yun.

These were the eight curse shackles that had not yet been broken.

Ye Yun's gaze did not linger on them for too long.

His Heart Heavy Pupils' power continued to go deeper, piercing through the layers of mist of the Saint Body Origin, exploring the deeper secrets.

Finally, at the very core of the Saint Body Origin, he saw it.

A scene that made his heart and spirit shake violently.

There, it was not empty.

There, several other sealed, mysterious "light orbs" were floating quietly.

This was the true talent of his current life, augmented by the two hundred thousand Reincarnation points.

The Desolate Ancient Sacred Body was just the first to appear among these many Heaven-Defying Physiques; it was his Foundation, his "main body."

And those eight curse shackles did not just lock the power of the Desolate Ancient Sacred Body.

They also tightly suppressed all the other Heaven-Defying potentials within his body, causing them to fall into silence and remain unable to manifest.

"So that's how it is..."

Ye Yun slowly opened his eyes.

At this moment, all the humiliation, unwillingness, and confusion vanished after seeing the truth.

Replaced by absolute self-confidence and Battle Intent.

He no longer worried about being a "trash body."

Because he knew that he was not trash.

What he possessed was an unparalleled Foundation that had never existed throughout the ages.

And the only thing he had to do now was to personally break these damn shackles, one by one.

"Curse shackles?"

Ye Yun sneered.

"Heh, then I will personally break you, one by one!"

His eyes became incomparably firm, and the path forward became incomparably clear at this moment.