Chapter 436: The Divine Maiden Strikes Back

Su Nian walked toward Chu Tian step by step.

Each step seemed to land directly on Chu Tian’s heart, carrying a heavy, oppressive pressure.

Her twelve-centimeter crimson soles pressed into the thick, luxurious white long-pile carpet.

Her deep-purple black robe billowed without wind as she moved, flowing with a dangerous luster, perfectly outlining the divine curves remade by the gods and accentuating that unparalleled beauty capable of outshining the sun and moon.

With each step she took, that sacred and indifferent pressure intensified by one degree.

Space twisted around her.

The starlight fresco on the dome dimmed, and even the flames burning in the fireplace froze into an amber-colored sculpture.

Finally, Su Nian stopped in front of him.

She lifted her head slightly.

In her high heels, her line of sight could nearly match his.

Deep in her sky-blue pupils, a golden divine radiance swirled, reflecting his stiff, shocked face.

“Our contract is over.”

She let out a long, soft breath.

Her voice carried a relieved satisfaction.

“Next comes the time to settle all accounts between us.”

She paused, as if savoring this hard-won moment.

The corners of her lips curled into a cold, exquisitely beautiful arc.

“Do you know? I’ve been waiting for this day for a very, very long time.”

Each word was like an icy needle stabbing into Chu Tian’s marrow.

Facing Su Nian’s declaration of war, alarm bells rang in Chu Tian’s heart.

He wanted to move, to activate his defensive magic.

He wanted to tear open a spatial rift and retreat temporarily.

But he could not do a single thing.

In place, even moving a finger became an extravagant hope.

He showed no emotion and only sent the most urgent inquiry to the system in his heart.

“Ding! Warning! Target “Su Nian”‘s current combat power rating: SSS (God level).”

“Host’s current combat power: SS (Demigod Peak).”

“Warning: An absolute power gap exists. Please proceed with caution, Host.”

The cold system prompt exploded in his mind.

Su Nian’s voice rang out again, interrupting his thoughts, “You feed on emotions to strengthen yourself. You imprisoned countless magic beasts, and indeed you grew fast…”

She began to walk slowly around him, as if admiring a work of art about to be destroyed.

Her silver heels left shallow imprints on the carpet one after another.

Her deep-purple black skirt traced an elegant and lethal trajectory.

“But do you know why I was able to obtain my current power?”

She reached his side, raised the corner of her mouth, and lightly brushed her slender fingertips across Chu Tian’s cheek with a cool touch.

Divine power condensed at her fingertips.

A thin line of blood immediately appeared on his handsome face.

“It was humiliation!” Her voice turned abruptly cold, each word tempered with ice.

“Every insult you inflicted on me, every shame you imposed on me… has turned into my strength.”

The words were more biting than the Siberian winter wind.

She walked behind him, and her warm breath sprayed across the back of his ear.

“The divine power at this moment comes from the endless humiliation you gave me!”

‘Now I finally understand why the victors in those stories always love to reveal the whole truth at the last moment. Because it feels too good!’

‘The pleasure of making him understand where he lost is enough to wash away all past pain.’

‘This round, I’ve won!’

Turbulent waves surged in Chu Tian’s heart, but the playful smile on his face only grew more intense.

‘So that’s how it is. All her obedience, her submission, all that unbelievable initiative and depravity… it was all for this moment.’

‘A carefully planned, most magnificent disguise, crafted over countless days and nights.’

‘A gamble that used herself as bait and humiliation as the price, all to gain power.’

‘And she had won the bet.’

Countless fragments of memory exploded in Chu Tian’s mind, then reassembled with a new, cruel logic.

At Shadowmoon Manor, the young girl’s “submission” when cornered; the “Master” she was forced to call out; at Blackstone Gorge, her surrender after being defeated in battle…

All these humiliating events made the young girl stronger.

‘What I thought was conquest was Su Nian’s nourishment. The discipline I enjoyed was the staircase for her ascension to godhood.’

‘Every humiliation became the sharpest blade she would thrust at me.’

Just as Chu Tian was stunned, Su Nian made her move.

She simply lifted her hand.

That hand was still slender and fair, with neatly trimmed, round nails showing a healthy pink.

There was no earth-shattering magical roar, no dazzling radiance of gathering elements.

Then, she pressed down.

The physical laws of the entire room were forcibly rewritten in that moment.

The dancing flames in the fireplace instantly solidified into an amber sculpture, maintaining their burning form.

The starlight flowing on the dome fresco stopped, yet no trace of heat remained.

The floating dust motes in the air froze.

Time and space seemed to be gripped by an invisible giant hand, crushed into a solid glass mass.

Only pure, irresistible divine might descended abruptly, like a falling sky, like a collapsing mountain.

“Boom!”

Chu Tian’s vision went black.

He felt as if an invisible primordial divine mountain had smashed heavily onto his shoulders.

He let out a muffled groan.

His entire skeleton emitted a series of unbearable, tooth-grinding cracking sounds.

“Crack…”

His proud demigod peak magic power, enough to dominate the continent, was instantly suppressed and frozen within his body.

Not a single bit could be mobilized.

It cowered in his mana source, trembling, as if encountering the king of the bloodline origin.

His knees went weak.

That force did not act on his knees directly, but instead crushed his spine, his soul, his will, forcing him to assume a posture of submission.

He could not help it.

Before the young girl, he knelt on one knee!

His knee collided with the hard obsidian floor, producing a dull, shocking sound.

With him as the center, the ornate floor tiles cracked inch by inch, and spiderweb-like fissures spread wildly in all directions, all the way to the walls.

Chu Tian gritted his teeth.

The veins on his neck and temples bulged, every muscle straining to its limit.

His bones emitted a dying groan.

Yet everything was in vain.

Before Su Nian’s divine might, he was as insignificant as a firefly before the bright moon, a mantis arm before a chariot wheel.

This was an absolute crushing on the level of life itself.

He knelt there, disheveled and pathetic, but still stubbornly raised his head, glaring at her with eyes burning with anger and disbelief.

Su Nian looked down at him.

She watched him struggle, watched the unwillingness in his eyes.

On that peerlessly beautiful face, there was not a trace of satisfaction, only a divine indifference.

She savored this moment.

This hard-won, utterly reversed moment.

Once, it was he who looked down on her from above in a cage.

Now, it was her turn.

Just as Su Nian hesitated whether to truly kill him and take complete revenge…

“Creak…”

The heavy circular arched door to the bedroom was gently pushed open from outside.

A gentle female voice came, carrying a trace of cautious concern.

Su Nian’s divine might involuntarily retracted at the sound of this voice.

Everything that had solidified in the room resumed flowing.

Su Nian’s mother poked her head in, holding a plate of cut crystal apples, her face filled with a loving smile.

“Nian Nian, Chu Tian, I heard some noise upstairs. Are you…”

Her words stopped abruptly.

The scene inside the room stunned her.

Her precious daughter, dressed in a never-before-seen, gorgeous yet somewhat eerie deep-purple black robe, stood there with a cold expression, a hint of golden light still lingering in those beautiful blue eyes.

And that always gentle and refined “prospective son-in-law” Chu Tian, whom she was extremely satisfied with, was holding a ring box and kneeling on one knee before her daughter.