by Shian Jeen
“Wangu Yanhui is truly the Wangu Clan’s most talented genius in the last ten thousand years, barely one hour past since the tournament started and he has already accumulated 3024 points, taking the lead in the first place!”
“The current ranking cannot prove anything, our Mu Clan’s disciple Mu Qi will definitely surpass Wangu Yanhui before you know it!”
Discussions and exclamations could be heard everywhere.
The respective clans, families, and sect elders were all beaming when they saw the name that belonged to their own force. Especially those ranked within the top one thousand.
Names flickered endlessly amongst the top one thousand rankings, indicating the rapid changes; some rose in ranking, while others dropped.
However, the names in the top ten seemed to be stable, rarely changing. Three hours later, the name on the very top remained as Wangu Yanhui. Below his name were the other Fourth Order Highgod Realm disciples.
“Master, look, it’s Junior Brother, he’s now in the 1642nd place!” Qin Yi’s eldest disciple excitedly exclaimed.
Qin Yi looked at the ranking list, his face splitting into a wide smile seeing Xiang Mingzhi’s name on it, “Your Junior Brother was in the last group of people who were transferred in, one hour late compared to the first group. Based on your Junior Brother’s strength, he’ll climb into the top one-thousandth ranks very soon.”
While Qin Yi was speaking, Xiang Mingzhi’s name continued to rise up the ranks as his points grew increasingly higher, bypassing more than a dozen names.
Watching Xiang Mingzhi gain an upward momentum, Qin Yi nodded with a satisfied smile on his face.
In the distance, Feng Yang’s group was secretly hopeful as they checked the names on the ranking list. However, not even after they reached the last name at the very bottom did they see Huwang Xiao’s name, instead, they saw Xiang Mingzhi’s name rapidly rising, which was the reason for the ugly expression on Feng Yang, Liu Yun, Chen Yang, and Qi Wen’s face.
At this time in the Overflowing Lightning World, Huwang Xiao surveyed the barren mountains surrounding him. A tiny frown could be seen between his eyebrows, ‘This is the Overflowing Lightning World?’ He raised his head to the sky, looking at the ribbons of lightning streaking through the air and entangling with each other.
Huwang Xiao attempted to spread his divine sense and discovered that it could only cover ten thousand li in radius. Not only that, both his god battle qi and true immortal essence force were suppressed to a certain degree.
The Overflowing Lightning World was a higher realm world surface, its space and time laws differed from the lower realm, hence Huwang Xiao wasn't surprised that a portion of his strength was suppressed. He had expected this.
He merely stopped for a brief moment before disappearing in a flicker, flying forward.
He didn’t fly for long when, all of a sudden, a hundred zhang tall Earth Bear jumped out from the ground below. Two powerful bear paws pounced at Huwang Xiao, exuding a strong earth and lightning element forces.
All demonic beasts in the Overflowing Lightning World possessed the force of lightning, which was why all of them were also called lightning beasts.
Looking at the attacking Earth Bear, Huwang Xiao didn’t dodge. A sharp bright light flickered from his soul sea, releasing a soul force sword that instantly pierced through the Earth Bear’s head.
With Huwang Xiao’s current soul force, the regular Third Order Highgod Realm masters wouldn't be able to defend against his soul force sword attack, even less so a late-Tenth Order God Realm Earth Bear.
The Earth Bear fell heavily to the ground. At the same time the Earth Bear died, a small bright light flew out from its body into Huwang Xiao, entering the jade token inside his body.
Huwang Xiao’s divine sense checked his jade token, noticing there were ten points beside his name.
According to the tournament rules, once the participant stepped onto the Overflowing Lightning World, they’d be given points for every lightning beast they killed. The stronger the lightning beast they killed, the higher the points they would receive.
Their ranking in the tournament was directly related to the amount of points they collected.
Subsequently, Huwang Xiao noticed that he currently ranked outside the ten-million position. Soon, he saw Xiang Mingzhi’s rank through the jade slip.
“967th.”
This was Xiang Mingzhi’s current ranking.
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“967th.” Huwang Xiao read out the number and sneered, this guy surely slid up the ranks fast, but then again, it was better this way. According to the tournament rules, killing another competitor allowed them to obtain half of the points in that person’s jade token!
Thus, before he found him, the more points Xiang Mingzhi accumulated, the higher Huwang Xiao’s advantage became.
Huwang Xiao continued to fly forward.
A short while later, a concealed lightning beast suddenly lunged at him from behind, an early First Order Highgod Realm lightning snake. Its jaws stretched wide, two sharp poisonous fangs piercing down on Huwang Xiao. But before it reached a hundred zhang from him, it was killed by a soul force sword.
At Huwang Xiao’s current soul force, killing a lightning beast below Third Order Highgod Realm with a soul force sword didn't use much of his soul force.
Around one hour later, Huwang Xiao was feeling a little depressed. Although the lightning beasts here possessed the strength of Highgod Realm masters, their bodies do not house any godheads!
Huwang Xiao had killed three First Order Highgod Realm lightning beasts, but did not find a single godhead inside their bodies. In the beginning, he had slightly fantasized that he could collect a large number of godheads during the tournament so that he could refine them after breaking through to Highgod Realm, stabilizing his breakthrough and enhancing his strength further.
But now, his great plan went down the drain.
A sliver of Huwang Xiao’s divine sense sunk into the jade token again. After killing sixteen lightning beasts, his position had shot up from the previous one outside ten million up to the ranks around six million.
Although the ranks around six million didn't seem much, one mustn't forget that there were 17.62 million disciples from a hundred thousand galaxies taking part. Huwang Xiao current ranking was above 11 million disciples in less than two hours after he entered the Overflowing Lightning World
Then again, he did not deliberately seek lightning beasts. So far, he had only killed the beasts that attacked him, otherwise, his current ranking would have surpassed Xiang Mingzhi by now.
Another hour passed.
The number of lightning beasts that died in Huwang Xiao’s hand went up to thirty, pushing his position up another million.
There was something troubling Huwang Xiao at this moment, obvious from the creases between his brows; describing the Overflowing Lightning World as vast was an understatement, even if he flew at full speed for a hundred years, he might not make a full circle back to the starting point. Although he had left a mark on Xiang Mingzhi’s body, it was easier said than done to find him, after all, that mark was limited to a certain distance.
Even though both he and Xiang Mingzhi were amongst the last group of participants to be transferred here, all of them were scattered in various locations after the transfer instead of arriving as a group in the same location.
More than two hours had passed, but he had yet to come across other participating disciples.
Then he inhaled deeply, shaking away the unnecessary thoughts in his mind. He had a feeling that whether it was Xiang Mingzhi or that Yelu Tianfeng, he would run into them sooner or later. As if it was fated.
Just as Huwang Xiao was about to leave, the sound of piercing winds came from the far distance. Turning to look, he saw five disciples clad in scarlet robes flying in his direction.
Clearly, these five disciples were from the same sect or family.
Although these five had yet to breakthr
ough to the Highgod Realm, their cultivation reached perfection stage late-Tenth Order God Realm. Each one of their strength rivaled the top ten on the Highgod Advancement List.
When the five scarlet-robed disciples noticed Huwang Xiao, they were momentarily surprised before splitting into a grin.
“I didn’t expect to run into a stray family disciple here.” One of them laughed.
“Sixth Senior Brother, shall we kill him and rob his points?” Another disciple inquired with excitement in his voice.
“No need. Based on this kid’s cultivation, in just two or three hours he shouldn’t have killed that many lightning beasts, killing him won’t give us many points. Control him and have him scout the path for us, he’ll be better used as cannon fodder.”
These people did not bother to lower their voices, nor did they bother to conceal their plan, every word reached Huwang Xiao’s ears clearly.
The five disciples arrived in front of Huwang Xiao, spreading out to encircle him, blocking all escape paths.
“Kid, you’ve heard what we said just now, you have two choices. One, being killed by us and having half of your point distributed between us, or two, scout the way for us like an obedient errand boy.” One of them stated with a lofty air, sneering at Huwang Xiao, “You have one minute to think about it.”
The corner of Huwang Xiao’s lips curved into a slight smile, “One minute? That’s too long.”
One minute was too long? The five disciples were confused.
Before they could react, a sharp light flickered in Huwang Xiao’s eyes. Four swords made of soul force whistled in the air, piercing through four of the five disciples’ foreheads.
Four bodies plummeted to the ground.
The remaining disciple looked dazedly at the four bodies, fear slowly creeping up his face. In the next moment, he fell to his knees in the air, pleading, “Senior, have mercy, we’re disciples of the Flaming Fires Sect, please give face to our Eldest Senior Brother and spare me. Our Eldest Senior Brother is Zhang Kai, a late-Third Order Highgod Realm master. He also entered this Overflowing Lightning World.”
Zhang Kai?
On the Wangu Clan’s booklet that listed the names of some participants, he had indeed seen this name.
However, just as the Flaming Fire Sect disciple finished saying all of this, he was pulled up toward Huwang Xiao by an invisible force. A purple character flew out from Huwang Xiao’s eyes and drilled into the Flaming Fire Sect disciple’s soul. A moment later, the soul-scouring was completed.
Huwang Xiao had very limited knowledge about the Overflowing Lightning World, he was hoping to obtain some information from this Flaming Fire Sect disciple’s memories.
This was the reason why he left one disciple alive, however, he was disappointed in the end. This Flaming Fire Sect disciple’s knowledge of the Overflowing Lightning World was just as much as Huwang Xiao’s.
He then lightly tapped a finger on the disciple’s forehead and a sliver of true immortal essence fire spread over the disciple’s body, burning everything to ashes, even his soul.
Huwang Xiao collected the five spatial rings with a wave of his hand, then sped away.
One day passed as darkness slowly raised a blanket over the sky.
The night sky of the Overflowing Lightning World was devoid of the moon and stars. Moreover, Huwang Xiao noticed that the lightning in the sky above actually increased in number and frequency at night, birthing a great pressure in one’s heart.
The undulating roars of lightning beasts seemed endless through the night. All kinds of lightning beasts that were hiding during the day came out in droves at this time.
Though the night time in the Overflowing Lightning World was more dangerous than the day, Huwang Xiao kept flying forward in one direction. With various lightning beasts coming out at night, it was the best time to gain some points.
After a day of hunting, adding the points from the five Flaming Fire Sect disciples, Huwang Xiao’s ranking had risen up to the two million range.
At an unknown distance from Huwang Xiao, a figure was hovering above a mountain peak. Fine streaks of lightning sizzled around his body, making him look like the epitome of an ancient Lightning God.
This person was none other than Xiang Mingzhi!
“2,321,643.” Xiang Mingzhi’s divine sense checked the jade token in his body. When he discovered Huwang Xiao’s position, he sneered, mockingly shaking his head, “Huwang Xiao, is this all your strength?”
Whereas he, after a day of hunting, had risen up to the 563rd place. Furthermore, he had yet to get serious.
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Compared to Xiang Mingzhi, Huwang Xiao’s ranking was worse than dog shit.
One was in the top six hundred, the other was above two million, the gap was too wide, a distance wider than one hundred and eighty million li.
Xiang Mingzhi retrieved his divine sense from the jade token, no longer concerned with Huwang Xiao’s ranking. To him, Huwang Xiao was weak to the point where he had lost interest, he was no longer a threat to him. Now, in this Overflowing Lightning World, his opponents were those late-Third Order Highgod Realm and above.
“Inside this Overflowing Lightning World, my Extreme Lightning Destruction Physique is akin to a fish returning to the water, not only can I gain points as I hunt lightning beasts, I can also absorb this Overflowing Lightning World’s lightning force to cultivate.” Xiang Mingzhi could hardly contain the excitement in his eyes, “Within one year’s time, I’ll be able to advance to late-Third Order Highgod Realm! At that time, I can absolutely enter the top one hundred!” Xiang Mingzhi laughed in a low voice at the end.
From the sky above, countless streaks of lightning continued to strike down, entering Xiang Mingzhi’s body.
Hovering above his soul sea was an enormous godhead that seemed to be condensed out of lightning, devouring the lightning force that entered his body at a terrifying speed and turning it into the purest lightning element godforce and Lightning God’s Law.
The Overflowing Lightning World’s lightning was of high-grade and high-purity, cultivating here for one day was even better than cultivating in the Azure Dragon Institute’s forbidden land for a whole month.
Any other Highgod Realm master who cultivated the element of lightning wouldn't be able to absorb the lightning force in this Overflowing Lightning World like Xiang Mingzhi did. He was different because he had the Extreme Lightning Destruction Physique! Ranked sixth among the three thousand unique physiques!
Other than his Extreme Lightning Destruction Physique, Xiang Mingzhi had condensed a top rank ten lightning element godhead!
All of a sudden, a lightning beast jumped out and attacked Xiang Mingzhi. However, just as it reached his side, it was repelled by the flickering lightning around his body, turning into gray ash scattered in the air.
This was the power of lightning fire.
Moreover, it wasn’t the common lightning fire, it was the unique lightning fire of the Extreme Lightning Destruction Physique.
“Nighttime is the best time for hunting.” A bloodlust light glimmered in Xiang Mingzhi’s eyes. His mouth split into a grin, “I like it!” His figure turned into a streak of light, disappearing into the night.
The night hunt begins.
As lightning beasts continued to die under Xiang Mingzhi’s hand, his position flew up the ranks.
At this time, around the Aeon Square’s perimeter.
The Azure Dragon Institute’s Ceng Chu watched as Xiang Mingzhi’s name glimmered brighter as he rose through the ranks. He let out a happy laughter, “Master, look, Junior Brother’s ranking has gone up again, he’s really close to the 500th. In another two hours, he can definitely enter the top five hundred!”
Qin Yi beamed proudly, everyone from Azure Dragon Institute was excited and full of smiles.
Masters from the four galaxies’ forces standing close by looked at them with envious gazes.
Disciples from tens of thousands galaxies took part in this
tournament. No matter whose disciple it was, being able to enter the top one thousand brought supreme glory to the forces they hailed from.
Feng Yang, who was looking on from the distance also noticed Xiang Mingzhi’s improving position through the ranking list. Seeing Qin Yi’s proud smiling face, his heart felt uncomfortable.
Qin Yi turned slightly to look at Feng Yang, a wide grin on his face, “Feng Yang, you didn’t think this would happen, right? The wheel turns and every person has their day, my disciple Xiang Mingzhi can achieve such a good position. Hehe, I just wonder what rank that disciple of yours, Huwang Xiao, reached. Is it in the range of 10 million? Perhaps lower than 12 million?”
Ceng Chu mocked with a smiling face, “Master, I think you’re overestimating Huwang Xiao saying he’s around the ten million range. I say he’s definitely at the end of 17 million.”
Qin Yi and those from Azure Dragon Institute exploded in laughter.
Due to the fact that the list projected above the Aeon Square’s center only showed up to three thousand names, leaving the remaining disciples’ results unknown, Feng Yang’s group didn't have the slightest clue of Huwang Xiao’s ranking.
It was known there were over 17 million disciples taking part in this tournament, so when Ceng Chu said that Huwang Xiao was probably at the end of 17 million, Liu Yun and Qi Wen turned red with anger. Feng Yang didn’t look that good either.
However, Feng Yang couldn't retort without knowing Huwang Xiao’s ranking.
“I wonder who it was that claimed Huwang Xiao to be our four galaxies’ most talented genius in countless millennia, what f*cking blind dog eyes!” An Azure Dragon Institute Grand Elder snickered.
“That’s right, compared to our Junior Brother, that Huwang Xiao is nothing but trash!” Ceng Chu went on with inflated audacity, “Our Junior Brother is the true genius of the four galaxies, that Huwang Xiao is just a fart. Wait until our Junior Brother enters the top one hundred, our Junior Brother will bring the greatest glory to the four galaxies!”