The Supreme Eternal Prime God : 1000x System From Beginning

Chapter 40 – When the Heavens Themselves Open the Path

For the first time in Azure Dragon Academy’s long and storied history, the weight of authority, the carefully maintained hierarchy, the absolute control that had governed who could rise, who could fall, who was allowed to ascend, and who was destined to be forgotten—

No longer mattered.

The carefully constructed illusion of order, the unshakable foundation that had ensured no single disciple could ever rise beyond the will of the academy, the structure that had dictated the fates of thousands, ensuring that even the most talented, the most powerful, the most ambitious would always remain within the grasp of those who ruled over them—

Was gone.

And standing at the center of it all, beneath the gaze of thousands of disciples, beneath the silent, unmoving presence of the academy’s highest Elders, beneath the remnants of a system that had once dictated every step of his journey—

Xiao Lin did nothing.

Because he did not need to.

Because he had never needed to.

Because this was never a battle.

It had been a decision.

And that decision—had already been made.

The presence that had spoken, the unseen force that had sent a whisper through the shattered remnants of the Grand Tournament Arena, the entity that had called out to Xiao Lin with neither demand nor request, neither command nor plea, neither challenge nor warning—

Still lingered.

Not as a pressure.

Not as an overwhelming force of spiritual energy seeking to impose its will upon the battlefield.

Not as something that sought to claim him as its own.

But simply as an acknowledgment.

A recognition.

A confirmation of something that the Elders, the instructors, the Inner Court elites, and the Outer Court disciples had all struggled to comprehend, something that many had refused to accept, something that some had feared for far longer than they had dared to admit—

That Xiao Lin was not bound by this place.

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That even the heavens themselves—the forces that stood above the mortal realm, the entities that dictated the rise and fall of countless worlds, the existences that had long remained indifferent to the struggles of mortals—

Had taken notice of him.

And in that moment, as that realization settled upon the academy, as the last remnants of resistance crumbled beneath the weight of an undeniable truth, as the students who had once mocked him, once belittled him, once dismissed him as nothing more than a failure, now knelt beneath the crushing weight of their own insignificance—

Xiao Lin smiled.

Because he had been waiting for this.

The Elders did not speak.

Did not move.

Did not attempt to assert their authority, did not attempt to stop what was happening, did not even attempt to question the presence that had descended upon the battlefield—

Because they understood.

Because even if they refused to admit it, even if they wanted to believe that they still held power here, even if they wanted to insist that this was still their decision to make—

They could feel it.

The shift.

The change.

The moment when this world was no longer theirs to control.

The Elder who had spoken before, the man who had once declared that the academy still had the right to decide Xiao Lin’s fate, the figure who had believed that no single disciple could ever stand beyond the institution itself—

Slowly, carefully, deliberately—

Took a step back.

And the moment he did—

The rest of the Elders followed.

Because it was over.

Because they had lost.

Because they were no longer in control.

From the private pavilion, where the strongest disciples of the Outer Court had gathered, where those who had once believed themselves to be the future of Azure Dragon Academy now sat in stunned silence, unable to speak, unable to think, unable to reconcile the reality before them with the world they had once understood—

Zhan Kanzi lowered his head.

Not in shame.

Not in defeat.

But in the quiet, suffocating realization that his existence no longer mattered.

Because he had fought for power.

Because he had built his name upon the foundation of control.

Because he had believed that the academy was his to conquer, his to shape, his to rule.

But now—

That no longer meant anything.

Because Xiao Lin was leaving.

Because Xiao Lin had already left them behind.

And because the world would never remember the name of the man who had tried to stand in his way.

Xiao Lin exhaled softly.

Not in amusement.

Not in arrogance.

Not in anticipation of what was to come.

But in quiet acknowledgment.

Because this was no longer a question.

No longer a debate.

No longer a matter of choice.

Because he was leaving.

And there was nothing left in this place worth staying for.

A single step forward.

A shift in the air.

A ripple through the flow of spiritual energy.

And then—

A final voice.

Soft.

Quiet.

Inevitable.

"Go, then," the Elder murmured.

A pause.

A whisper.

"And do not look back."

The words settled over the battlefield.

A decree.

A judgment.

A final, unshakable acknowledgment of reality.

And in that moment, as the silence stretched, as the tension faded, as the last remnants of Azure Dragon Academy’s authority dissolved into nothing—

Xiao Lin vanished.

Not in a blur of speed.

Not in a burst of Qi.

Not in the flash of a teleportation technique.

But simply—

As if he had never needed to be here to begin with.

And just like that—

Azure Dragon Academy became nothing more than a chapter in his story.

And the heavens—

Finally opened to receive him.