by Translator: BornToBe; Author: Ordinary Magician (平凡魔术师); Licensed From: 17k
Seeing that Long Chen ranked first, everyone cheered. The Devil Slaughter Rankings had brought out the supreme geniuses of the Martial Heaven Continent. For Long Chen to take first, the Dragonblood Legion’s name would truly shake the world. This was the entire Dragonblood Legion’s glory.
“Look at the other people’s rankings!”
After a moment of excitement for Long Chen, they finally continued looking at other rankings.
Tenth place was the representative of Pill Valley, the Pill Fairy. She had 963 kill points, which really represented 963 trillion. That was because after reaching one trillion points, your points would instead be shown according to how many trillions you had.
The Pill Fairy was an alchemist. Fighting was not her forte, yet she had managed to kill her way into the top ten of the Devil Slaughter Rankings.
Ninth place was from the Northern Xuan Region, Ye Zhiqiu. She had 984 kill points, just a bit more than the Pill Fairy. However, the Pill Fairy had a powerful divine item, the Daynight Furnace.
For Ye Zhiqiu to surpass the Pill Fairy meant she had to not only have shocking combat power, but also a divine item of her own.
In eighth place was the ancient races’ Xiang Yunfei. He had 1067 kill points. He was clearly a top expert that the ancient races had sent to win them glory. Not only was he strong himself, but he had to have powerful trump cards. Otherwise, they wouldn’t have sent him.
Powers like the ancient races, the Corrupt path, the Bloodkill Hall, and the Xuan Beasts were not allied with the Righteous path. They would normally only send one or two top experts to fight for the top places of the Devil Slaughter Rankings.
If they sent more, that would be helping the Righteous path, when in reality, they were fighting for themselves. They didn’t care about the Righteous path or if the devil creatures charged onto the surface.
That was why the representatives that they sent would always be experts amongst experts, people they were confident in when it came to getting in the top ten. So it was natural that someone from the ancient races would take eighth place.
Seventh place was Guo Ran. He also had 1067 kill points, but his ranking was above Xiang Yunfei’s.
With each kill point representing one trillion points, it was unknown whether they were only a few hundred apart or a few billion. In any case, Xiang Yunfei was simply unlucky.
Guo Ran blessed his luck inside. Originally, his kill points had been stuck at 835 when he had run out of the black water, and that was not high enough to get into the top ten. However, he had managed to gain more points toward the end when the Dragonblood Legion had moved to defend one of the side channels.
At that time, the Empyrean Winged Blood Devils had been charging out, and blocking them had been difficult. Guo Ran had panicked.
He had taken out all his exploding arrows and shot them using his Army Breaker Divine Crossbow. In just a dozen breaths’ time, he had launched one hundred and sixty thousand arrows.
That kind of shooting speed was not what the Army Breaker Divine Crossbow had been designed for. In the end, its runes had crumbled, making it unusable.
However, that one crazy burst had slaughtered the Empyrean Winged Blood Devils that had charged out. No one had been in the mood to check how many points a Life Star level Empyrean Winged Blood Devil was worth, but in any case, he had managed to muddle his way into seventh place.
Sixth place was Hu Feng. His ranking had always been tumultuous, but he had ended in sixth place with 1188 kill points.
When they saw the kill points that fifth place, Mo Nian, had, everyone couldn’t help but gasp. 6666. He had six times the points of Hu Feng.
Fourth place was from the Xuan Beasts, True Immortal Jiaoqi, with 6781 kill points. Mo Nian was just a bit below him. It was a pity he hadn’t managed to surpass him.
Third place was Dong Mingyu from the Bloodkill Hall. When they saw her kill points, everyone jumped in shock. 18543 kill points. That was almost three times greater than Mo Nian and True Immortal Jiaoqi.
As for second place, Leng Yueyan had 19895 kill points, suppressing Dong Mingyu.
“What? Where are boss’s kill points?”
Everyone was comparing the kill points of these experts. Before this, they had just been checking the rankings, but now that they were paying attention, their jaws dropped when they saw Long Chen’s kill points.
There was no number. It was just a blood-colored line, and they didn’t know what that meant.
“Could it be… maxed out?”
Everyone’s hearts pounded. Long Chen’s number had vanished. That was probably something that would only happen when he had maxed out, or there was no way to calculate how many he had killed.
Just at this moment, the jade plate in Guo Ran’s hand with the Devil Slaughter Rankings on it shook slightly. A design appeared on it, one that looked like a blank piece of paper. Guo Ran was dumbfounded, but just at this moment, the same thing appeared on Long Chen’s jade plate.
“This is a special reward given only to the top ten of the Devil Slaughter Rankings. You have the right to leave behind some words for future generations. Take out a drop of your essence blood and you can write whatever you want to write. These words will be forever imprinted on the Devil Slaughter Rankings. Furthermore, your words will appear on the main palaces of all the major powers on the continent for ten days. It’s a chance to shake the entire continent,” said the patriarch.
Even the patriarch couldn’t help but feel emotional. Two of the top ten on the Devil Slaughter Rankings came from his Xuantian Dao Sect. This kind of glory made it so he couldn’t stay calm.
“Haha, there’s such a good thing? What should I say? Well, it doesn’t matter because boss will definitely write something even mightier and grander.”
Guo Ran laughed and scribbled away on his jade plate. In just a short while, everyone’s jade plates quivered.
“The experts have all left behind their words.”
Everyone quickly looked at what had been written. The first words came from the Pill Fairy: I hope the world will have no more slaughter, no more sorrow, and no more pain. We can live peacefully and happily.
Seeing that, Meng Qi, Chu Yao, Tang Wan-er, and the others felt emotional. The Pill Fairy’s words were very simple, yet it showed her dislike of fighting and how she yearned for there to be peace. It was the men who felt so competitive and aggressive that they wanted more fighting. They thirsted for power, to use that power to take, to kill, as if that was the only way to prove that they were strong.
After they took, after they killed, others could only bitterly endure, satisfying these so-called experts’ need for glory. Even if they beat you, you had to endure. If you didn’t, they would kill you.
Battle created the strong, but it was unknown how many unknown people were brought to pain because of that battle.
However, in this world where the weak were prey to the strong, being strong was the truth. Even if you disliked it, you had to endure it if you wanted to live. The Pill Fairy’s words touched all their hearts, especially the women’s.
Unfortunately, they all knew that this was just a beautiful dream. Unless someone grew so strong that they could overturn this whole world and establish a new order, it was just a fantasy.
Seeing those words, Meng Qi and the others all felt that the Pill Fairy was the same kind of person as them.
Ninth place’s words then appeared. Ye Zhiqiu was the same as before, and she barely said anything: I’m waiting for you.
Others might not know what that meant, but Long Chen and the others did. They were also full of anticipation for Ye Zhiqiu’s return.
Xiang Yunfei left a message that was beyond arrogant: Long Chen, you only relied on external power or some shameful method to take first place. The human race really is despicable.
The Dragonblood warriors were enraged, with Guo Ran furiously saying, “Fuck your mother, I should have sent my entry in later! I’d directly kill you with my words, you ancient rac
e bastard!”
Unfortunately, Guo Ran had already submitted his message, and each person only had one chance. It couldn’t be changed. Guo Ran almost crushed his jade tablet in his fury. This ancient race idiot was really hateful.
The Dragonblood Legion had gone through so much to obtain their current accomplishments, yet this person wildly guessed that they were cheating.
“Don’t be so angry. To use the boss’s words. ‘If you can fight, don’t waste time with words.’ The ancient races have suffered so many times at our boss’s hands, but it seems they don’t have a good memory. We’ll make sure they remember it next time,” said Gu Yang.
Only then did Guo Ran feel a bit better. When the Dragonblood warriors looked at the words that he had written, they couldn’t help feeling a bit moved.
“The Dragonblood warriors are closer than blood. Brothers, we will fight through heaven and earth, leaving behind a name that will last through eternity.”
Everyone knew that Guo Ran liked to show off. It was practically his life. They had thought that he would write something to that effect, but unexpectedly, he didn’t even mention his own name, instead choosing to represent the entire Dragonblood Legion and their brotherly emotions.
Long Chen smiled. Guo Ran’s display today was not bad. Although he liked showing off, at least he had some propriety. Originally, Long Chen had been planning on making Guo Ran get the first place. Everything had been going according to plan until they had been sabotaged. As a result, Guo Ran had fallen from first place to seventh place.
“Hu Feng has finished as well.”
Just at this moment, everyone saw Hu Feng’s words.
“Ancient race idiot, do you think you were born from a stone? Without the human race, where do you think you’d have come from? Do you think you’re so powerful that you don’t even need to acknowledge your ancestors?”
Chapter 1712 Original Heart
“Well said!”
The Dragonblood warriors all gave Hu Feng’s words a thumbs-up. This Hu Feng was fairly amazing.
There was no prefix to his name. That meant he was a rogue cultivator. For a rogue cultivator to get into the top ten was definitely difficult. But more amazing than that was that he dared to talk back to the ancient races as a rogue cultivator.
For him to say such a thing, Hu Feng was definitely from the human race and disliked the ancient races’ arrogance.
As for that Xiang Yunfei of the ancient races, he really was an idiot. Saying something like that was offending all humans.
Hu Feng’s words had just appeared when Mo Nian’s message followed: I heard the ancient races had quite a few powerful figures throughout their history. Just wait, once your grandpa Mo is done over here, I’ll go have a stroll through your ancestral tombs as well.
Seeing those words, everyone’s expression became a bit odd.
“Is Mo Nian a graverobber now? What is he doing going through other people’s ancestral tombs?” Gu Yang was speechless.
“It really isn’t clear. The rumors say that this little fellow has appeared in the Eastern, Western, Southern, Northern, and Central Xuan Regions during the past few years. It’s only recently that he settled in the Western Xuan Region. Apparently, his stay in the Western Xuan Region is like a calamity for the western ancient families, as many of their ancestral tombs were excavated by him. Some say it’s revenge, while some say he’s stealing their karmic luck to strengthen himself. Others say that he is destroying their feng shui with the intent of severing their ancestral line. However, Mo Nian himself has never said the real reason, so no one knows what he’s doing.” Long Chen shook his head. He had had Zheng Wenlong investigate what was going on with Mo Nian, but Mo Nian had been too secretive during these past few years. No one knew his goal.
However, a few details had been confirmed. Mo Nian had two peerless skills. One was gravedigging, while the other was fleeing for his life. The entire ancient family alliance was after him, and they had offered a high reward for his capture, but he was still living happily. That could be called a miracle.
Mo Nian’s name was known to everyone in the Western Xuan Region. His fame was about the same level as Long Chen’s in the Eastern Xuan Region. Even when it came to the Central Plains as a whole, they were famous figures.
Mo Nian’s words were also targeted toward the ancient races. That Xiang Yunfei had offended all humans.
Fourth place’s words quickly appeared as well. True Immortal Jiaoqi’s message was: Long Chen, don’t be too arrogant. Next time we meet, I will personally take your head.
It was yet another provocation. The fact that Long Chen had killed Hu Xiaolin in the Grand Han had angered the Xuan Beasts.
This matter had been suppressed by Qu Jianying, but that didn’t represent that the Xuan Beasts were willing to swallow this anger. They were just waiting for their chance.
“This True Immortal Jiaoqi is asking for it!” Gu Yang was also enraged now. The ancient races and the Xuan Beasts were provoking them.
“Ignore him. Next time we meet, we’ll directly beat him and turn him into a stew for everyone.” Long Chen flapped his hand indifferently.
Hearing that, everyone laughed. They knew Long Chen was also angered by these provocations. If Long Chen found him, that True Immortal Jiaoqi wouldn’t have a good ending.
Dong Mingyu also left behind two words: Original heart.
These two words were short and unclear. No one knew what they meant.
Long Chen felt a slightly familiar feeling from these two words, but he didn’t understand what they meant.
Leng Yueyan’s words followed: There’s nothing to say.
It was also a very willful message. The patriarch couldn’t help but shake his head, feeling like he had truly grown old. In the past, the messages of the top ten were always about expressing their feelings or heroism. But today’s geniuses didn’t seem to treat this chance to have their name shake the entire continent as anything important.
Long Chen’s words also appeared. When they saw those words, everyone let out a startled cry.
“Idiots from Heavenly Fate Island, just wait for me. If I don’t beat the piss out of you, you can count yourselves tough.”
Long Chen had actually used this chance to directly challenge Heavenly Fate Island.
“Boss is mighty!”
“Boss is domineering!”
“Boss is mighty and domineering!”
The Dragonblood warriors laughed. Heavenly Fate Island had sabotaged them, almost causing their deaths. Long Chen’s words were very satisfying.
“This is the Devil Slaughter Rankings! You’re… you’re treating it too indifferently.” The patriarch was speechless. Long Chen was actually using the Devil Slaughter Rankings to challenge Heavenly Fate Island? That was childish.
It could be imagined how Long Chen’s words were now seen by every major power on the Martial Heaven Continent. This would cause huge waves that even the patriarch was unable to predict.
Everyone would see this. Furthermore, these words would stay within every large sect for ten days. The Central Plains were about to be shaken.
However, after bitterly smiling, he didn’t say anything more. The current world was no longer his era. It belonged to his juniors. He had already decided to let go of control, allowing Li Tianxuan and Long Chen to mess around as they pleased.
Long Chen looked outside the top ten to see that eleventh place was Zi Yan. That surprised him a bit. He had a feeling that Zi Yan had not used her full power.
Others might be unaware of her power, but he knew that once Zi Yan activated the Seven String Sea Suppressing Zither, her sound waves would be a terrifying area attack. She definitely had the power to get into the top ten.
However, thinking of her character and how she didn’t like to compete, she should have intentionally let others get ahead of her.
Chu Yao was ranked thirty-seventh. This was also an amazing accomplishment. In truth, Chu Yao possessed the power to compe
te for the top ten.
Either Chu Yao or Liu Ruyan would have immense killing power and area attacks if they were fighting alone. Furthermore, they had immense spiritual yuan and life energy.
However, they had fought with everyone else rather than being solitary heroes. Their wide range and flexibility meant that they were the strongest shield protecting the Dragonblood Legion. That was why the majority of the time, they had been focused on defense.
Despite that, they were still able to get such a high ranking on the Devil Slaughter Rankings. That was a testament to their power.
Tang Wan-er was ranked sixty-third. When it came to offensive power, her wind blades were extremely sharp. However, she lacked endurance.
Tang Wan-er could explode with power, but she couldn’t maintain that for too long, at least not compared to wood and earth cultivators. Furthermore, her power had only explosively grown recently, and she was not fully adapted to it. So her attacks were still a bit wasteful.
By the time the spatial gate had been forced wider, everyone had been running out of energy. Tang Wan-er had been almost out of spiritual yuan, so she hadn’t been able to kill that many Life Star level Empyrean Winged Blood Devils. If she had still had some energy left at the end, she would also have a ranking as high as Chu Yao.
Meng Qi, Li Qi, and Song Mingyuan also had decent rankings, just outside the top hundred. They all had immense power, but as the core of the Dragonblood Legion, they hadn’t been able to fight alone, causing their ranking to drop.
Yue Zifeng’s rank was outside the top hundred. After all, he had no divine item, no Heavenly Dao energy, and no manifestation. Using an ordinary sword, he had still managed to reach this level. No one else on the Devil Slaughter Ranking was capable of such a thing, so this accomplishment was worth being proud of.
As for Gu Yang, Long Chen couldn’t be bothered to even look. Gu Yang had had to rely on swinging a single spear to get points. That was too pitiful. Gu Yang’s combat style was only good for one-against-one fights.
Long Chen intentionally looked for Di Xin, only to find that he hadn’t even gotten in the top five hundred. Clearly, he had been completely flung aside toward the end.