This Young Master is not Cannon Fodder

Chapter 137: The Deviated Plot

Chapter 137: The Deviated Plot

In the formation, Tianyi stared at Lei Jingye. This encounter was their first meeting in years, but Tianyi felt as if something was off. The face was the same, and so were the hatred-filled eyes, but Tianyi just felt something off about Lei Jingye. It wasn’t a feeling he could put into words.

Lei Jingye looked down, and his shoulders began to tremble. Tianyi wondered whether Lei Jingye became scared but immediately threw the thought away. How could a protagonist be scared? He should be excited that he has a chance to kill me or something, Tianyi thought. And as he expected, Lei Jingye began to laugh.

“HAHAHAHAAAhaahahaaa,” Lei Jingye finally stopped laughing and began to rise in the air until he was slightly above Tianyi’s eye level, allowing him to literally look down on Tianyi.

Tianyi had to resist rising any further so he could have the high ground to establish his dominance. Them getting into a height battle would be quite silly. He would allow Lei Jingye to have the high ground and look down on him for now. He was a generous person; he won’t quibble with a dead person over such a small matter.

“Hairless brat, I didn’t think you would deliver yourself to me before I looked for you.” Lei Jingye said as if gloating Tianyi’s destined defeat at his hand.

“You seem to forget, had you not run from our first two encounters, you would have long died under my hands years ago,” Tianyi said, rolling his eyes. Lei Jingye sure has changed in Tianyi’s opinion. Before, he would have already tried to kill him, but now he had time to gloat since his cultivation was higher?

“Don’t compare me to that failure.” Lei Jingye said, his voice full of ridicule. “I admit, compared to me yore, your current self is stronger at the exact same realm.”

Tianyi froze as he heard “Lei Jingye’s” words. He thought to the storyline he imagined for Lei Jingye, specifically him fighting the Dragon Emperor’s soul for control of his body, eventually winning and inheriting all the Dragon Emperor’s knowledge and wealth. But now, it seems the Dragon Emperor suddenly appeared before Lei Jingye had enough strength to fight back the possession.

“Speaking of which, I have to thank you. If it weren’t for you, that twerp, Lie Jingye, wouldn’t have been weakened enough for me to take over.” “Lei Jingye” continued to speak. “Since I have taken over his body, I decide to take over his karma and kill the little thief.”

Tianyi frowned when he saw “Lei Jingye” point his finger at him. “Thief? Haha, if I recalled correctly, weren’t you, the Dragon Emperor, the one that kept stealing maidens and eventually got killed by all the sects. A thief calling another a thief, who would believe you?”

“No, that identity was supposed to be mine. Just as I was about to succeed, you invaded and took over. If you hadn’t stolen that body from me, I wouldn’t have needed to possess such a worthless identity.” The Dragon Emperor said as he looked coldly at Tianyi.

It was as thunder had exploded inside Tianyi’s head. The Dragon Emperor planned to become Xi Mengfei’s son and use her to revive himself! Tianyi’s eyes narrowed, causing them to look even more bedeviling. Xi Longyi was the identity the Dragon Emperor chose to revive himself with!

Immediately the memories of Xi Longyi torturing Daoyi surface, of how he took Mengfei’s kindness for granted and even took advantage of her. The murderous intent in Tianyi’s eyes grew even more. Not to mention, he knew that Tianyi wasn’t originally supposed to be Mengfei’s son!

Tianyi allowed his teeth to show in his excitement at how rage had consumed the Dragon Emperor. What he feared wasn’t the Dragon Emperor’s techniques or treasure but his wealth of experience. If the Dragon Emperor became a berserker, Tianyi was happy to allow him to do so. After all, in pure strength and qi reserves, he was confident no one was his equal at the same realm.

The Dragon Emperor charged through the layer of silver, but his speed dramatically slowed down as if something was pulling him back. This was the Web of Time technique Tianyi unleashed using the sea of time around the first mountain of his Moutain and Seas Formation. Since he controlled the formation that trapped the Dragon Emperor, he could easily hide the Mountain and Seas Formation within it as well.

The worst part of facing a formation master was being trapped in their formation. A strong formation would layer formation within formations, creating an endless number of formations for their enemy to face. Tianyi didn’t consider himself a true formation master as it wasn’t his sole focus, but he still considered himself an expert. And with a formation master as a mother, if he couldn’t even do this much, he would be ashamed to call himself Xi Tianyi.

But the Web of Time couldn’t hold the Dragon Emperor back for long. Even as the Dragon Emperor was being frozen in time, his thoughts slowing to a crawl, it still wasn’t enough to stop him. But that was okay. Although Tianyi made the trap for Lei Jingye, he expected Lei Jingye to break through it as well, much less a powerful expert like the Dragon Emperor.

Tianyi raised his hand into the sky and formed a hand seal before bring it down like an executioner’s blade. Space began to distort even inside Tianyi’s formation as a massive mountain bearing immortal qi began to descend down. Using his maximum effort, Tianyi smashed the immortal mountain onto the Dragon Emperor.

The silver layer began to accumulate around the mountain like a silver sea once more, trapping the Dragon Emperor even more as the mountain smashed him into the ground. Like a cataclysmic earthquake, the ground shattered under the horrifying weight of the mountain.

Tianyi stared suspiciously at the aftershock. The immortal mountain was embedded into the ground like a nail, and through his connection with the Mountain and Seas Formations, he could detect the Dragon Emperor’s ruined body underneath. Hell, he hadn’t even expected this to work on Lei Jingye, much less the Dragon Emperor. Was it because Lei Jingye was a protagonist character and the Dragon Emperor was a villain type?

Just to make sure, Tianyi controlled the immortal mountain to spin on its center axis in one direction while he spun the sea of time in the opposite direction, turning it into a grinder. Under his perception, the Dragon Emperor’s, or rather, Lei Jingye’s body, began to be pulverized into chunks of meat and bones.

Once Tianyi was done with that, he recalled the Mountain and Seas Formation back into its jade pendant form on his waist. He reached into his robes and felt for the golden pill. After using his spiritual sense to instruct the pill and carving several formations on it, Tianyi left it in his robes as insurance. After that was done, Tianyi descended down the giant crater to see the remnant flesh of Lei Jingye’s body, chunks of meat, bone fragments, and blood-coated sand everywhere. Tianyi couldn’t even discern which part was which muscle or organ anymore, but even seeing this, Tianyi still kept a careful distance.

“So much for the Dragon Emperor, so weak that I didn’t even need to personally take action,” Tianyi said, his voice reverberating in the whole area. “How did such a person make it to the peak? What a weakling. Having dreams of grandeur but not the strength to back it up, what a joke.”

Releasing his spiritual sense, Tianyi tried to sense any abnormality. But no matter how hard he searched, he couldn’t discover anything. Even if Tianyi actually did trap and defeat the Dragon Emperor, if the Dragon Emperor had the skill to hide, Tianyi doubted he could discover any clues. In the end, Tianyi didn’t go near Lei Jingye’s flesh scraps and ascended above the crater.

Tianyi took out a small sphere from his spatial ring. The sphere was about the size of a large pill, but its shiny metallic surface had numerous glowing green lines, giving it a strange yet mesmerizing appearance. If someone on Earth were to see it, they would immediately link the green glow to radiation. Truthfully, even when Tianyi knew that his body was not affected by it, he still felt apprehensive handling it due to years of reinforced lessons that radiation was dangerous.

Flipping his hand, Tianyi dropped the metal sphere down where Lei Jingye’s remains were. Once it reached a certain point, Tianyi formed several hand seals. Formations began to all over the metallic sphere. They had always been there, just invisible, and when Tianyi formed the final hand seal, all the formations shattered and disappeared.

For a moment, it was as if the world lost all sound before a horrifying heat emerged. Even Tianyi, who had designed the detonating false core, was buffeted by the generated winds and pushed back, his clothes flapping. Tianyi’s eyes glinted as he saw the mushroom-shaped cloud began to rise up high into the air as the nuclear bomb did its work. Once the bomb finished its purpose, the ground below was just glass. The extreme heat had melted sand into glass, its appearance full of impurities, but it was especially reflective even with its uneven surface.

Tianyi searched the surrounding once more but found nothing. Even as the master of the formation, he couldn’t sense anything. Waving his hand, Tianyi stored the formation he had constructed. As if time had reversed, the scarred lands vanished and were replaced by an untouched desert free of damage. Having an uneasy feeling, Tianyi immediately began to fly off into the distance when suddenly he felt a harrowing sensation on the back of his neck!