459: Chapter 459 Respect the Frog in the Well!

Ye Chen stood in the center of the slowly closing cage, looking at the triumphant faces on the high platform with a calm expression.

"You mean to say that the Celestial Master Realm cannot break this?"

"Then... what about the Tianyi Realm?"

As his voice fell.

The laughter on the high platform came to an abrupt halt, as if someone had seized them by their throats.

After a brief, dead silence, a fat councilor was the first to react, asking back with a strange expression, "You aren't trying to say that you are in the Tianyi Realm, are you?"

"No," Ye Chen shook his head.

On the high platform, everyone secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

As expected, he was just bluffing.

How could someone in their twenties possibly be in the Tianyi Realm?

In the thousands of years of the Dragon Kingdom's history, a twenty-something in the Tianyi Realm simply did not exist.

Never mind the Dragon Kingdom.

Looking at the entire world, there wasn't a single one!

This kid was clearly just stalling for time!

Thor sneered, just about to open his mouth to mock him...

But Ye Chen slowly added another sentence.

"Actually, I don't know exactly what level I'm at myself."

"But I've definitely reached the Tianyi Realm."

"Early stage Tianyi Realm? Or middle stage? I can't say for sure..."

"Anyway..."

He paused and smiled slightly, "I'm just stronger than you."

On the high platform, everyone's eyes widened, looking at Ye Chen as if they were looking at a madman.

Tianyi Realm?

And he's 'definitely' reached the Tianyi Realm?

You're only in your damn twenties, and you're here saying you're in the Tianyi Realm???

The fat councilor immediately showed a look of disdain.

"Bullshit!"

"At your young age, how could you possibly be at the level of the Tianyi Realm?"

"I've lived most of my life and have seen hundreds, if not a thousand, geniuses!"

"A twenty-something in the Tianyi Realm—forget seeing one, I've never even heard of such a thing!"

"Stop bluffing here!"

"If you really are in the Tianyi Realm, I'll fucking eat the spikes of this cage on the spot!!!"

Hearing this, Ye Chen couldn't help but laugh.

"Tricking people just to get a free meal isn't a good habit."

"Besides..."

He looked up at the slowly approaching spikes, "These things look like they'd be hard on the teeth. Are you sure you can swallow them?"

The fat councilor's face turned shades of blue and white.

Thor, however, let out a cold snort and stepped forward.

"Stop with the glib talk!"

"Even if you really are in the Tianyi Realm, so what?"

He raised his hand and pointed at the eight metal walls that were closing in, a flash of mockery in his eyes.

"This cage is made of Extraterrestrial Meteorite mixed with a special alloy, specifically designed to counter a practitioner's True Qi!"

"Tianyi Realm? Even the Tianyi Realm is useless here!"

"Unless..."

A cold smile curled at the corner of his mouth, "your physical body is invincible and can withstand the crushing pressure of these alloy walls."

"Otherwise, even if you are in the Tianyi Realm, you'll have to obediently turn into a meat patty!"

The surrounding members of the Hall of Saints echoed him one after another.

"The War God is right!"

"So what if you're in the Tianyi Realm? You're still going to die here!"

"Dragon Kingdom boy, remember not to be so arrogant in your next life!"

...

Mockery and sneers surged toward him like a tide.

The fat councilor also began to sneer, the fat on his face trembling.

"If you're so capable, use your fists to smash this cage open!"

"You can't do it, can you? If you can't, then just wait for death!"

He spoke with increasing excitement, spit flying everywhere, as if he had already seen the scene of Ye Chen being crushed into a meat patty.

Yan Qingwu stood beside Ye Chen, watching the spikes get closer and closer, her palms covered in sweat.

She couldn't help but lower her voice, "Ye Chen, are you sure about this?"

Ye Chen did not answer.

He only smiled and asked, "Have you people from Northern Europe ever heard a certain saying?"

Thor frowned.

"What saying?"

Ye Chen stood with his hands behind his back and spoke indifferently.

"A frog in a well is just a frog in a well."

"I respect every frog in a well, after all..."

"they think they've seen the whole world just by looking up."

Thor was stunned for two seconds, not yet reacting: "Wh... what frog in a well?"

Beside him, Ingrid's face turned cold, and she gritted her teeth in anger.

"He's calling us ignorant!"

Thor's face instantly turned the color of pig liver.

"Damn kid!"

"Still acting tough even when death is imminent! You think this is useful?"

He turned around abruptly, strode to the console, and slammed his palm onto a black button next to the red one!

"Die for me!!!"

"Click!"

The moment the button was pressed, the sound of the machinery inside the cage suddenly changed its tone.

The eight walls that had been closing slowly were now being pulled by some terrifying force, slamming toward the center!

"Boom!!!"

A deafening roar exploded within the enclosed underground space!

The sound was like rolling thunder, causing the cold lights on the ceiling to flicker wildly!

The eight thick metal walls slammed shut perfectly in an instant!

Spikes collided with spikes, producing a piercing sound of metal grinding!

Dust billowed out from the gaps in the cage!

The entire underground space trembled slightly under the impact!

On the high platform.

The twelve councilors looked at the octagonal cage that had already collapsed into a single mass, and satisfied smiles appeared on all their faces.

The fat councilor was the first to laugh out loud, his face trembling with mirth.

"Hahaha! What Tianyi Realm?"

"Before the Hall of Saints' cage, he's nothing but dog shit!"

Thor's lips curled into a sinister smile, his eyes full of satisfaction: "Competing with us? He's still a bit too green!"

Another councilor echoed him, his voice full of triumph.

"Some Dragon Group Chief Instructor, some tough guy who killed the Second Master of the Manluodi Family... before our Hall of Saints, he's nothing but a joke!"

"Just with this? He dared to come to Northern Europe and act wild?"

"He didn't know whether he was coming or going!"

...

Ingrid crossed her arms, looking at the tightly sealed cage, and smiled coldly: "A pity, I originally wanted to pry some information out of him, but it's fine that he's dead, it saves us the trouble."

She paused for a moment.

She turned her head to look at Grand Speaker Olof and bowed slightly.

"Grand Speaker, the mission is complete."

"Now we can inform the Manluodi Family and have them prepare the Bounty."

Grand Speaker Olof stood with his hands behind his back, a faint smile finally appearing on his wrinkled face.

"This young man was indeed a genius."

"To have the strength of the Celestial Master Realm in his twenties, perhaps even stronger..."

"Unfortunately, he was too arrogant."

"So arrogant that he thought he was invincible in the world."

He shook his head and turned to walk toward the back of the platform, "Notify the Manluodi Family and say..."

Before he could finish his sentence.

"Boom!!!"

A massive explosion erupted from the direction of the cage!

Immediately after.

The entire underground space shook violently!

All the cold lights on the ceiling went out at once!

Debris cascaded down from overhead!

Everyone was knocked off balance by this sudden turn of events!

The fat councilor stumbled and rolled directly off the high platform, landing face-first!

Thor's expression changed drastically, and he whipped around, staring fixedly at the cage!

Amidst the billowing dust.

A massive gap appeared on the octagonal cage that was supposedly 'immune to blades and axes'!

At the edges of the gap, the metal was peeled back in all directions, as if it had been torn open by some terrifying force!

The dust slowly dissipated.

Two figures walked out of the gap side by side.

Ye Chen had his right arm around Yan Qingwu's slender waist and his left hand in his pocket, that harmless smile still on his face.

He was clean from head to toe, with not even a wrinkle in his clothes.

Yan Qingwu was held in his arms, her small face slightly flushed, but her eyes were filled with the light of excitement.

Just now!

She had almost thought the two of them were dead!

After all.

With countless spikes stabbing at them, there was almost nowhere to hide!

Plus, that thing suppressed True Qi—wasn't that a certain-death situation?

But Ye Chen...

He actually held her and broke the deadlock through sheer force!!!

Now, the two walked out of the cage that would make any practitioner despair as if they were taking a leisurely stroll.

The entire underground space was deathly silent.

The twelve councilors stared with wide eyes, looking at this scene as if they had seen a ghost.

No...

Shouldn't this guy have been pierced by countless spikes and crushed into a meat patty by the alloy walls?

How could he be perfectly fine?

No!

Absolutely impossible!

Everyone's heart was plunged into a state of shock!

Ye Chen let go of Yan Qingwu's waist, walked slowly to the front of the platform, looked up at those petrified faces, and smiled slightly.

"Sorry to disappoint you."

"You just said that unless my physical body was invincible, and I suddenly remembered..."

"I seem to have a technique called Indestructible Vajra that really can make the physical body invincible."

What?

Really invincible?

Everyone stood there like wooden chickens, feeling like total idiots.

After all.

Just a moment ago, they were each taking turns mocking Ye Chen!

And the result?

The clowns turned out to be themselves!

Thinking about it was enough to make one break down!

Thor suddenly snapped out of it and looked at Ye Chen in bewilderment: "You... how could you be fine? That cage was prepared specifically for practitioners, you..."

"Stop right there."

Ye Chen interrupted Thor's exclamation with an impatient look and said nonchalantly, "I already said, you are just frogs in a well, nothing more."

"Ye Chen."

Grand Speaker Olof's face was ugly to the extreme, "Exactly how strong are you???"

Ye Chen smiled and beckoned to them: "Why don't you come and try for yourselves, then you'll know?"