270: Chapter 270 Finally, I've reached my comfort zone, Lu Xingye!

"It's our turn! Finally, it's our turn!"

Lu Xingye, standing in the line, was so excited he felt like he might faint on the spot!

He was trembling all over, and the single eye beneath his bangs was flashing wildly with tears of excitement!

Talk trash?

Deliver a domineering, chuunibyou quote in front of the entire national audience?!

Heavens! Earth!

This was absolutely Lu Xingye's domain of absolute rule!!!

This was clearly a show-off segment tailored specifically for him!!!

Lu Xingye frantically scanned the "Ultimate Demon King Quotes" he had been memorizing for three years in his mind.

He took a deep breath, raised the collar of his trench coat to the highest point, struck a desolate and cold pose, and with a walk that showed no regard for his own kin, prepared to rush toward the dozens of camera lenses to deliver his 50,000-word "Black Flame Dragon World-Ending Declaration"!

He had to speak until tonight!

However...

Just as Lu Xingye had taken half a step, and before the word "Abyss" could even escape his lips...

"Whoosh!"

A powerful hand, ruthlessly and domineeringly, grabbed him by the back of the neck!

"Eh?!"

Lu Xingye felt his neck tighten, and his whole body felt like a cat being grabbed by the scruff of the neck, forcibly dragged back by a tremendous force!

Lu Xingye turned his head, looking bewildered: "???"

He saw Jiang You had already passed him at some point. That face, which had just been pumped full of adrenaline and filled with "protagonist destiny," now wore a look of extreme solemnity and depth.

Jiang You shoved Lu Xingye behind him and, under Lu Xingye's desperate gaze of "You bastard, that's my line," walked alone and slowly in front of the live camera for all of Great Xia.

The breathing of the 100,000 spectators in the arena stopped.

Everyone stared fixedly at this "Demon King" who had suppressed a peerless prodigy with one hand last night, wanting to hear what kind of earth-shattering, arrogant nonsense he would say!

The camera zoomed in, giving Jiang You an extreme high-definition close-up.

Jiang You looked into the lens.

There was no killing intent in his eyes, no arrogance, not even the disdain he had shown before as if looking at trash.

In its place was a kind of great enlightenment, as if he had seen through the mortal world and experienced the vicissitudes of life.

Recalling his mediocre life before transmigrating, and feeling this magnificent high-martial world, an ultimate life philosophy belonging to someone who had lived two lives welled up in his heart.

Jiang You did not roar; he spoke slowly in an extremely calm voice that was as deep and still as an ancient well:

"You all think you are striving with all your might to reach the pinnacle of this world."

"But you have forgotten to look back at the scenery you missed along the way."

Jiang You lifted his head slightly, his dead fish eyes looking incomparably clear at this moment:

"True strength has never been about stepping on all your opponents."

"It is about being able to be yourself, as you wish, in this turbulent and noisy world."

He lightly brushed the dust off his black-gold team uniform, leaving behind an extremely desolate and transcendent silhouette as he stepped toward the light gate:

"Go fight, go scramble. The lofty mountain peaks you pursue are nothing more than the backyard garden I see every day when I wake up and push open the window."

"I came to this Restricted Area, not to be the number one in the world."

"I only came to personally measure just how vast this world... truly is."

As his voice fell, Jiang You's figure calmly merged into the deep blue teleportation light gate and disappeared.

"..."

"..."

"..."

Silence.

The entire National Martial Arts Competition Center of 100,000 people fell into a deathly silence that lasted for half a minute.

No screaming, no cheering; even the commentators forgot to breathe.

If the previous prodigies' speeches were "arrogant" and "domineering," then Jiang You's words... were simply a philosophical crushing at a dimensional-reduction level!

Not aiming to be the world's number one?

Only to measure how vast the world is?

Treating the mountain peaks you pursue as your own backyard garden?

"Hiss!!!"

Someone gasped, and immediately, the entire arena exploded, and the comments flooded the screen!

"My goodness! This level of vision! This is what it truly means to have the aura of an Emperor!!!"

"Is this the composure of a top-tier villain? He doesn't care about winning or losing at all, because he is already invincible!"

At the entrance of the passage, Lu Xingye, who had been forcibly pulled back, stared blankly at Jiang You's disappearing back.

Two lines of unwilling yet admiring tears flowed from his single eye.

"Damn it..."

Lu Xingye gritted his teeth, beating his chest and stamping his feet:

"So despicable, you bastard Jiang You!"

"Usually, you can't even get a word out of him, but at such a critical moment of national live broadcast, he actually held back such a big move without a sound?!"

"No! I absolutely cannot let him steal all the limelight!"

The more Lu Xingye thought about it, the more anxious he became, pacing like an ant on a hot pan.

But then he thought again, and a fanatical and confident light shot out from his single eye.

"Hmph, when it comes to showing off and talking trash, this is my absolute domain of rule!"

"Jiang You's words were nothing but opportunistic secular philosophy. I, on the other hand, have the 'Black Flame Dragon World-Ending Declaration' that I spent three days and three nights polishing, a full 50,000 words!"

"Today, I will not only recite it! I will recite it twice with great emotion in front of all the viewers in Great Xia! I must feed these inexperienced viewers something good! Let them taste what a real literary feast is!"

Thinking of this, Lu Xingye, as if pumped with adrenaline, rushed to the teleportation light gate and precisely snatched the perfect C-position camera spot Jiang You had just stood in.

While the audience was still reeling from Jiang You's "Emperor's aura," Lu Xingye flirtatiously flicked his trench coat and solemnly took out a thick little notebook from his tattered pocket.

He coughed twice in a serious manner, flipped to the first page, stared affectionately at the camera with his bruised single eye, and began his earth-shattering speech:

"Hello everyone, my name is Lu Xingye."

"The man who walked in front just now, saying all those grand principles, is my fated nemesis, Jiang You."

"Regarding the fated bond wrapped in sin and blood between the two of us, it's a long story. To help everyone better understand this grand epic, the matter must start that afternoon in kindergarten when he snatched my lollipop, causing the Black Flame Dragon in my body to awaken..."

"..."

The 100,000 spectators, along with the famous commentators at the commentary desk, fell into a deathly silence once again.

But this time it wasn't because of shock, but because their Brain had crashed.

What the hell is kindergarten?!

We are watching the nation's top competition among a hundred schools, not a bedtime story on the children's channel, hey!!!

Do you seriously have that kind of illness?!

Just as Lu Xingye took a deep breath, preparing to recite the first paragraph of his first chapter with great emotion:

"Bang!"

A dull and heavy sound of flesh colliding exploded crisply behind Lu Xingye.

"Ouch!"

Lu Xingye let out a shrill scream, and his whole body was like a soccer ball kicked with great force, drawing a beautiful parabola in mid-air, and with a "whoosh," he flew directly into the deep blue teleportation light gate and disappeared instantly!

In front of the light gate, Senior Ji Youyou was still holding the pose of a high-kick.

This yandere poison master who was usually ruthless, now had blue veins bulging on her devastatingly beautiful face, even slightly distorted by extreme shame and anger.

"Phew..."

Senior Ji Youyou let out a long sigh, withdrawing her long legs with exhaustion.

She wiped the cold sweat from her forehead, gritting her teeth and cursing in a low voice:

"This embarrassing thing, if I let him continue reciting, the name of our Magic City Martial Arts University will be nailed to the pillar of shame at the Great Xia Psychiatric Hospital!"

To prevent any more nonsense, Senior Ji Youyou quickly waved to the others in Class F, lifted her skirt, and took the lead in rushing into the teleportation light gate.

Xiang Batian, Xie Fuyao, Junior Zhong Wu, and the others also covered their faces and followed in, feeling extremely ashamed.

However, in this chaos, Gou Fugui, as the chief financial expert of Class F, slyly slowed his pace.