Chapter 281: The True Protagonist Arrives—Besides Me, Who Dares Claim Kingship or Dominion!

Jun Lingcang reeled backward, blood spraying out, vivid and tragic.

The Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Sacred Sword radiated overwhelming might, as if countless true dragon phantoms coiled around it.

This was Princess Long Ji's personal weapon, an artifact left behind by the ancient Imperial Sovereigns of the Ancestral Dragon Nest.

Though it had not yet fully reached the level of an Emperor Weapon.

But it was unquestionably a top-tier Supreme Artifact, nearing the threshold of a Pretender Emperor Weapon.

Now, suddenly unleashed by Princess Long Ji, it struck Jun Lingcang a crippling blow in a single strike.

"Cowardly!"

"Despicable!"

"This is what you call an ancient prodigy?!"

Young members of the Jun Clan roared in fury.

Jun Lingcang and Princess Long Ji had been battling solely with spiritual techniques and magic power.

Yet Princess Long Ji suddenly summoned her Supreme Artifact—anyone would have been instantly thrown into disadvantage.

But compared to those young Jun Clan members,

the Ten Sequences and others remained calm, merely sighing deeply.

"In this world, combat is never fair," Jun Wushuang sighed.

Princess Long Ji not only possessed immense personal strength, but also extraordinary depth of resources.

She lacked neither Supreme Techniques nor Supreme Artifacts.

At this moment, Jun Lingcang's chest bore a deep wound, blood flowing freely.

Jun Lingcang's expression was cold, blood trickling from his lips.

His left eye, the Double Pupils, pulsed with white radiance, and his wounds began to cease bleeding.

"You've already lost, without doubt," Princess Long Ji said coldly.

She ignored the furious curses and shouts from the Jun Clan youths.

In this world, fairness never existed.

When the Emperor Path opens in the future, who will care about a fair fight? Survival and seizing opportunity are the only truths.

As an ancient prodigy, Princess Long Ji was never naive; she had long recognized this truth.

"I haven't lost yet!" Jun Lingcang growled.

He still had combat capability, had not exhausted his strength, and refused to surrender.

His stubbornness stemmed chiefly from the Jun Clan's honor.

Of course, there was another reason.

Jun Lingcang knew that in the depths of the void, a gaze watched him.

A Jiu!

A Jiu had not descended with Jun Xiaoyao, so she must be hiding in the shadows, observing this battle.

Jun Lingcang refused to lose before A Jiu!

"No need. Continuing is meaningless," Princess Long Ji gently shook her head.

She had lost interest in fighting Jun Lingcang.

The Double Pupils were powerful, and she had used many methods against him.

But now, Jun Lingcang could not truly threaten her.

"You…" Jun Lingcang's gaze turned icy.

"Enough, Lingcang."

From the Jun Clan side, an elder sighed.

They had seen it clearly: Jun Lingcang could still fight on.

But so what?

Jun Lingcang could not defeat Princess Long Ji.

At best, he might force a stalemate—but at the cost of severe injury.

That was unacceptable to the Jun Clan.

For soon, the Immortal Realm may face great events, with major opportunities emerging.

They could not afford Jun Lingcang to be gravely wounded.

Hearing the Jun Clan elders' words, Jun Lingcang clenched his fists, his Double Pupils filled with unwillingness.

Faintly, he seemed to hear a sigh emanating from the void.

It was A Jiu's sigh.

This made Jun Lingcang's heart ache even more.

This battle was now settled.

Princess Long Ji emerged victorious.

Most were not particularly surprised by this outcome.

After all, Princess Long Ji's accumulation was profound—she had been a prodigy from countless eons past.

Jun Lingcang had held his own against her this far, proving his ability and living up to his status as the Jun Clan's First Sequence.

"Ah…" Jiang Shengyi sighed softly.

The Jiang Clan naturally did not wish to see the Jun Clan defeated.

The Grand Elder of the Sacred Spirit Academy and others remained silent.

In contrast, the Ancestral Dragon Nest, Ten Thousand Phoenix Spirit Mountain, Qilin Ancient Cave, and Fallen Divine Palace surged with excitement, their members elated.

"Our Ancestral Dragon Nest is invincible!"

"The Jun Clan is truly weak—what First Sequence? Nothing before Princess Long Ji!"

"Even the Zero Sequence—if that Jun Clan Divine Son came, it'd be the same!"

"Exactly! That so-called invincible Jun Clan Divine Son? All talk!"

The ancient imperial clans mocked mercilessly, laughing freely and joyously.

This left the Jun Clan's Sequences with grim expressions.

Jun Zhantian and the other elders had faces as dark as soot.

This battle dealt a massive blow to the Jun Clan's prestige.

After all, the young generation is the future.

In this regard, the Ancestral Dragon Nest had surpassed the Jun Clan.

"Princess Long Ji is this strong—even the Double Pupils are inferior. But my Ye Clan's reincarnated Sword Demon won't fear her," mused a Ye Clan elder.

"My brother fears no Princess Long Ji," Wang Gang declared from the Northern Region Wang Clan.

The brother he referred to was naturally Wang Teng, the Wang Clan's Young Emperor.

At this moment, Princess Long Ji stepped lightly upon the void, her aura transcendent, lofty, radiating peerless elegance.

Jun Lingcang's defeat elevated Princess Long Ji's prestige to its zenith.

Countless ancient imperial clan beings gazed at her with fervent worship.

Especially the Ancestral Dragon Nest beings.

Previously, the Ancestral Dragon Nest had long been suppressed by the Jun Clan, humiliated beyond measure.

Now, Princess Long Ji had finally reclaimed honor for the Ancestral Dragon Nest.

"Since I have emerged in this age, I shall vie for supremacy in the Immortal Realm, crush the Emperor Path, and establish an invincible, undefeated dominion!"

Princess Long Ji spoke, her voice resonating across heaven and earth.

She stood like an eternal empress, displaying supreme authority and majesty!

All on the Wenda Mountain were stunned by her bold declaration.

Is this the spirit of an ancient prodigy?

Many contemporary prodigies wore expressions of despair.

With such an ancient prodigy present, when would they ever rise?

Must they submit forever?

"Damn it!" Everyone in the Jun Clan felt suffocatingly oppressed.

Princess Long Ji's words served both to bolster her own prestige and to crush other prodigies—including the Jun Clan.

Just as Princess Long Ji spoke with passionate grandeur,

a cold voice suddenly exploded in everyone's ears!

"Who dares call themselves invincible? Who dares claim unbeatable?"

"Except me, who dares claim kingship or dominion?!"

Accompanied by this cold, domineering voice,

all saw a colossal hand, etched with infinite runes, descend from the heavens above.

It seemed like divine judgment, poised to crush all life, annihilate all things!

"That is…" Everyone trembled, their spirits shaking with terror.

The terrifying, sky-obscuring hand, like the hand of heaven itself, swept toward Princess Long Ji with overwhelming force!

"Who?!"

Princess Long Ji raised her brows, lifted her jade hand, and surged forth magic power to resist the heavenly might!

Yet the moment contact was made, a terrifying hundred-million-ton divine energy surged violently!

Long Ji's previously calm expression finally shattered completely.

BOOM!

Long Ji was blasted back hundreds of steps, her chest churning with qi, her entire delicate frame trembling slightly.

Surrounding peaks shattered by the thousands, rocks pierced the sky, the earth and heavens trembled!

This sight left the multitude speechless with horror!

He had not even arrived!

Merely one strike had blasted Long Ji back, leaving her humiliated!

This scene was so shocking, no one could recover their composure!

Amidst the trembling, reverent gazes of the crowd, a hazy white-robed figure stepped onto the ninth heaven's expanse.

Like a divine being treading the ninth heavens, gazing down upon mortal ants!