171: Chapter 171 The Eye of the Celestial Pivot Activates Again

However, before Jiang You could finish his mental grumbling, Class Monitor Zhao Feilong's fist had already reached him.

"Bang!" A dull, thunderous sound rang out.

Unable to dodge in time, Jiang You instinctively moved to block, but the gap in their base attributes was simply too vast.

With his [Blood-Burning Burst Force] activated, Class Monitor Zhao Feilong possessed the genuine, raw power of a Tier 3 peak expert!

Jiang You felt as if he had been struck head-on by an out-of-control dump truck. Intense pain radiated from where his arms were crossed, his body slid backward uncontrollably, and his feet plowed two deep, sparking furrows into the alloy arena floor.

"Cough, cough..." Jiang You steadied himself, feeling his internal organs trembling.

"Is this the speed of a Tier 3 peak expert?"

"My eyes clearly saw it, and my Brain reacted in time, but my body just couldn't keep up..."

This was the first time Jiang You had faced such a high-intensity, direct confrontation while fully conscious.

Previously, he had either been lying flat or letting his organs fight for him.

Now that he was fully in control of his own body, even with a Blood Qi value of 7.9 and an SSS-grade Eye of Tianshu, he exposed a fatal flaw: his combat proficiency was still far too weak!

He possessed raw strength and cheats, but he couldn't fully unleash the power they contained.

Meanwhile, deep inside him, the [Organ Chat Group] was surprisingly quiet.

[Brain (Watching Coldly)]: "This is the effect we wanted."

"If Slacker Ruler cannot even fully utilize his current power, then even if we gave him greater strength, he would be unable to control it."

"Only in adversity, only while being beaten, can this Slacker Ruler truly master the instincts of combat."

...

In the virtual battle world, Jiang You was indeed in pain.

Before he could even catch his breath, Class Monitor Zhao Feilong's attacks descended again like a violent storm.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

"Running? I thought you were pretty good at running?"

"Can't your eyes predict moves? Why aren't you predicting now?"

Class Monitor Zhao Feilong looked like a madman, his rock-covered fists striking heavier with each blow.

Jiang You was forced into a continuous retreat. Although he managed to narrowly avoid vital areas thanks to the Eye of Tianshu, he inevitably sustained injuries; his black combat suit was torn, and a trickle of blood spilled from the corner of his mouth.

"Hahahaha!"

Watching the disheveled Jiang You, the pent-up frustration in Class Monitor Zhao Feilong's heart vanished, replaced by extreme gratification.

"Jiang You! Look at yourself right now!"

Class Monitor Zhao Feilong kicked Jiang You flying, pointed at him, and mocked, "Don't you look just like a stray dog?"

"Did you think awakening some bullshit SSS-grade ability would let you turn things around?"

"Trash is always trash!"

"Just like that day in the Mist Swamp!"

Class Monitor Zhao Feilong approached step by step, his tone dripping with humiliation:

"That day, you wanted to show off, you wanted to be a hero, but what was the result?"

"You were kicked hundreds of meters away by that Tier 5 Great Demon just like you were trash!"

"If you hadn't been lucky, you would have already turned into a pile of rotting meat!"

"What? Want to reenact that scene today? Too bad, there are no miracles here, only the reality of being trampled under my feet!"

"Cough..." Jiang You wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth.

Mist Swamp... kicked away... trash...

These words were like thorns, piercing deeply into his mind.

That was the shadow he couldn't shake off, and the sense of powerlessness he least wanted to face deep within his heart.

"Yeah..." Jiang You lowered his head, looking at the ground, his voice somewhat hoarse:

"That day, I was indeed quite pathetic."

"I wanted to save people, but I couldn't even get close."

"I could only fly away like a background prop, waiting for someone else to come and save the day..."

Jiang You's fingers dug deeply into the crevices of the alloy floor.

An emotion called "unwillingness" burned crazily in his chest; even a salted fish has moments when it wants to flip over and bite back!

"But..." Jiang You slowly raised his head.

His eyes, which had been unfocused from the beating, were now terrifyingly bright.

"Since the heavens gave me these eyes, since they gave me a chance to start over..."

"This time..." Jiang You gritted his teeth, every word seemingly roared from the depths of his soul:

"I don't want to be a background prop anymore!"

"I want to... win!!"

"Since I'm here, I'm going to turn this world upside down!"

"Boom!!!"

As if responding to its master's intense will, the faint, flickering, ghostly blue light in Jiang You's eyes suddenly erupted like a volcanic explosion, surging violently!

"Playing god, are you?"

Class Monitor Zhao Feilong saw this and felt a jolt in his heart, but the arrow was already on the string and had to be fired.

"Go to hell!!"

He roared, gathering all his strength into his right arm. That thick, rock-encased arm, carrying terrifying power sufficient to crush a tank, smashed down fiercely toward Jiang You's head!

However.

Just as that giant rock fist was about to make contact with Jiang You, Jiang You suddenly widened his eyes!

"Zzzzt!!!"

Two brilliant, utterly pure, ghostly blue beams of light shot out from his pupils without warning!

This time, it was no longer clairvoyance, nor was it analysis.

It was annihilation!

The beams illuminated Class Monitor Zhao Feilong's swinging right arm with precision.

There was no explosion, no violent shockwave.

There was only a hair-raising "hissing" sound.

In the horrified gazes of tens of thousands of spectators,

Class Monitor Zhao Feilong's sturdy, indestructible arm—covered in A-grade Rock Armor and wreathed in Blood-Burning Qi—disintegrated under the illumination of the two blue beams, just like snow under a scorching sun, or a pencil drawing being erased by an eraser.

It crumbled inch by inch!

It vanished inch by inch!

Rock, flesh, bone... all returned directly to nothingness!

"Ah??"

Class Monitor Zhao Feilong only felt his right arm lighten, and his whole body lunged forward due to momentum.

When he lowered his head, he discovered in terror that everything below his right shoulder... was gone!

The cut was as smooth as a mirror; not even blood flowed out, because the cells at the wound had been instantly carbonized and sealed!

"My hand! Where is my hand?"

The delayed, excruciating pain instantly overwhelmed his nerves.

"Aaaaaah!!!!"

A shrill, miserable scream echoed through the sky, and Class Monitor Zhao Feilong, clutching his bare right shoulder, collapsed to the ground from the intense pain and fear.

But it wasn't over yet. Jiang You did not press his advantage; he just stood quietly in place.

Although the two terrifying blue beams of annihilation had retracted, they hadn't completely dissipated. Instead, they transformed into two ghostly blue halos resembling liquid galaxies, flowing slowly around his eye sockets, even trailing behind two long blue ribbons of light.

That was highly compressed ocular power, the materialized rule of destruction.

"Hoo..." Jiang You raised his hands, spread his fingers, and lightly touched the blue light overflowing from the corners of his eyes, then smoothly wiped downward.

"Hum—"

The next second, a breathtaking scene occurred. The ghostly blue streaming light that had originally been coiled in his eyes acted like some kind of living, spiritual flame, following his fingertips and "dyeing" onto his hands!

The light flowed and cascaded downward.

In just an instant, Jiang You's hands were completely enveloped by this mysterious layer of blue radiance, which was filled with an aura of destruction.

From a distance, it looked as if he had drawn a pair of gauntlets forged from stars out of that blue stream of light!