The War of the Gods in the Great Void God King

Jiang Fan raised his eyes, his cold gaze fixed on Liu Ruyan, whose expression had changed drastically. With a few strokes of his pen, he wrote his oath once more, his words resounding with unwavering resolve!

"I, Jiang Fan, hereby swear!"

"This humiliation will be punished within a year!"

"One year later, on the high platform of the Cloud Heaven Sect!"

"I will personally defeat you, you proud daughter of heaven!"

Liu Ruyan stared intently at Jiang Fan's resolute oath. She had been pampered for many years and had never been taught such a lesson by someone her own age, especially a good-for-nothing.

She was so angry that her head spun, and her slightly childish voice became shrill as she said:

"Excellent! What a proud and unyielding spirit!"

"I, Liu Ruyan, accept your one-year promise!"

"One year from now, at the Cloud Heaven Sect, I'll be waiting for you!"

"I'd like to see what kind of trouble you, a good-for-nothing who hasn't made an inch in eighteen years, can stir up in just one year!"

"If you're so capable, then show me just how far you can rise up! If you can defeat me then, I, Liu Ruyan, will be your slave for life, completely at your beck and call!"

"If you're still this useless a year from now, then in front of the entire Yuntian Sect, I will terminate our contract!"

Looking at the girl's ashen face, Jiang Fan smiled sarcastically and continued writing: "In less than a year, I will have absolutely no interest in you whatsoever!"

Jiang Fan suddenly took out the marriage contract, gently picked it up, and then slammed it heavily onto the table.

He then continued writing in blood on the paper:

"Don't think I, Jiang Fan, care so much about your so-called genius wife. This contract isn't a contract to dissolve the engagement; it's a certificate of divorce, for which I, this young master, am expelled you from the Jiang family!"

"From this day forward, you, Liu Yining, have absolutely no connection with my Jiang family!"

"You... dare to divorce me?" Staring at the divorce papers on the table, Liu Ruyan's beautiful eyes widened in disbelief.

With her beauty, talent, and background, how could she be divorced by a good-for-nothing from a small family?

This sudden change felt so unreal to her.

Looking coldly at Liu Ruyan's astonished expression, Jiang Fan suddenly turned around, knelt down in front of the Jiang family elders who supported him, kowtowed heavily, bit his lip, and stubbornly remained silent.

Although nominally he was the one who expelled Liu Ruyan from the family, once the news got out, the other aristocratic families in Wutan City would not think so.

Unaware of the situation, they could only assume that Liu Ruyan, with the powerful Yuntian Sect and her family's background, had forced the Jiang family to annul the engagement.

After all, with Liu Ruyan's talent, beauty, and background, she was more than a match for a good-for-nothing boy from the Jiang family.

No one believed that Jiang Fan would have the courage to divorce his fiancée, who was likely to become an elder of the Yuntian Sect in the future... And if he did so, he would certainly be subjected to countless taunts from the elders of the Jiang family...

The elders of the Jiang family looked at Jiang Fan kneeling and understood the deep remorse he felt.

The elders smiled calmly and said with a grin, "I believe in Jiang Zhao's son, our young clan leader. He won't be a good-for-nothing for life. These mere rumors will be proven false by reality in the future."

Then, Jiang Fan kowtowed deeply to the elders again, making a vow in his heart: "Father, a year from now, I will go to the Cloud Heaven Sect and personally wash away the humiliation you suffered today!"

Jiang Fan's eyes were a little moist. He then stood up straight and walked out of the hall without hesitation.

As Jiang Fan passed by Liu Ruyan, he paused, wrote another line of words in blood on a piece of paper, and threw it at Liu Ruyan.

"I will come to the Cloud Heaven Sect to find you a year from now!"

The boy's shadow was stretched extremely long under the sunlight, making him look lonely and forlorn.

Liu Ruyan's small mouth was slightly open as she stared blankly at the gradually disappearing figure.

Just as Jiang Fan was about to step out of the courtyard, two figures suddenly entered the Jiang family's courtyard.

The slightly older man was none other than Liu Zhengyan, the head of the Liu family.

The girl following closely beside him was Liu Ruyan's older sister, Liu Ruxue, who had been with Jiang Fan since childhood and was his childhood sweetheart.

Everyone in the room was startled and fell silent instantly.

Everyone knows that Liu Zhengyan was a witness to Jiang Fan's father saving the Liu family back then, and he was also the one who personally finalized the marriage agreement.

Seeing her father arrive, Liu Ruyan took a half-step forward and asked, "Father, what brings you here?"

The two accompanying elders of the Liu family quickly bowed and greeted the family head with respect.

Liu Zhengyan's gaze was deep and unfocused. He ignored the greetings from the crowd and his sharp eyes swept over the mess on the floor before landing on the blood-red letter of divorce on the table.

Then, looking at Liu Ruyan, whose face was full of arrogance and showed no remorse, he said:

"If I hadn't come, would you truly have severed all ties between the Liu and Jiang families, committing such an ungrateful act?"

But Liu Ruyan remained unfazed and said:

"Father! Your daughter has not forgotten your kindness! It's just that Jiang Fan was born without spiritual roots and cannot speak; he will be a cripple for life!"

"I am a direct disciple of an inner sect elder of the Cloud Heaven Sect, possessing a sixth-grade spiritual root talent, worlds apart from his! This engagement was a joke to begin with, and it is only natural that I annul it today! My Liu family has already done everything in its power!"

"Having done everything in your power, you've done all the right thing?"

Upon hearing this, Liu Zhengyan's eyes were filled with disappointment.

He then shook his head helplessly, turned around, and looked at Jiang Fan, who had stopped and was standing with his back to the crowd.

Liu Zhengyan stepped forward slowly and said, "Nephew Jiang Fan, it is my Liu family's failure to discipline you properly that has produced such a snobbish and cold-hearted junior, causing you to suffer unwarranted humiliation. I am ashamed of the life-saving grace your father bestowed upon me back then, and I am ashamed of my nephew!"

A highly respected patriarch of the Liu family actually apologized to an eighteen-year-old "good-for-nothing" in public.

The entire Jiang family was moved, and most of the humiliation that had been building up in their hearts dissipated.

Jiang Fan slowly turned around, his eyes calm and still silent, simply looking at Liu Zhengyan in front of him.

He couldn't speak yet; after eighteen years of dormancy, he was just one last moment away from achieving his goal.

Liu Zhengyan straightened up, turned to look at the gentle and calm Liu Ruxue beside him, and solemnly said:

"The engagement was arranged between Ruyan and my nephew."

"But Ruyan is impetuous and ungrateful; she is unworthy to be a wife of the Jiang family, and unworthy to receive the Jiang family's kindness!"

"I cannot forget the kindness shown to the Liu family, and I cannot betray the righteousness of Elder Jiang!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Liu Zhengyan raised his hand and pointed directly at Liu Ruxue beside him, saying:

"Today, by the decree of the patriarch, I hereby annul the previous engagement between Liu Ruyan and my nephew Jiang Fan!"

"I will betroth my Liu family's eldest daughter, Liu Ruxue, to Jiang Fan!"

Upon hearing this, Liu Ruxue's cheeks flushed slightly, but she showed no resistance or resentment.

She gently raised her eyes, gazing at the tall, handsome young man in black before her. Her gaze was clear and gentle. She nodded slightly and said:

"The daughter will follow her father's arrangements."

Everyone else saw Jiang Fan as down-on-his-luck and mediocre, but only she had taken care of him since he was a child, and only she was willing to marry him.

Liu Zhengyan looked at his daughter, who had readily agreed, and let out a long sigh of relief. He then looked at Jiang Fan again and said:

"From this day forward, Ru Xue is your, Jiang Fan's, only fiancée!"

But Liu Ruyan, who was standing next to him, was completely unhappy.

The humiliation of being publicly rejected by Jiang Fan had not yet subsided, and upon hearing her father's words, she instantly became even more enraged.

Liu Ruyan shouted sternly, "Father! Absolutely not!"

Liu Zhengyan frowned slightly and said in a deep voice, "How dare you! I, as the head of the Liu family rules, have arranged this marriage. It's not your place to interfere!"

"I don't care about family rules or obligations!" Liu Ruyan said, both angry and aggrieved.

She stared at Jiang Fan and said, "Jiang Fan and I already had a one-year agreement!"

"Today, I annulled the engagement to ridicule his incompetence and worthlessness! Yet he publicly swore that a year later, he would go to the Cloud Heaven Sect and personally defeat me!"

"I have already accepted the bet, and the outcome is still undecided."

"The bet is still in effect; how can the marriage contract be arbitrarily voided and replaced with someone else?!"