"Young Master!"
"Brother Chang'an!"
Gu Xian'er and Gu Fengyao had just completed their final breakthrough.
Just before the final rankings of the Human Ranking were settled, they had elevated their cultivation to the third level of the Void Comprehension Realm!
Chen Chang'an nodded at them before turning his gaze toward the sky.
By his calculations, the day of the Human Ranking's final settlement should arrive at any moment.
Right now, it seemed as though everyone in the entire Tai Xuan Realm had silently agreed to do the same—lifting their heads to quietly watch the heavens, awaiting the arrival of this final moment.
Boom!
Suddenly, though no unusual phenomena appeared in the sky, the entire Tai Xuan Realm trembled violently.
Every inhabitant could feel the earth shaking beneath them, as if the ground might shatter at any moment, plunging them all into an endless abyss.
"What's happening?"
"What... what's going on?"
"Wasn't today supposed to be the final settlement of the Human Ranking? Why hasn't the ranking appeared, but the earth is shaking instead?"
"Damn, could something major be happening?"
"Could this tremor be related to the Human Ranking?"
"Not sure, but..."
Discussions erupted everywhere, but before anyone could reach a conclusion, a golden light once again burst forth in the sky.
This time, the radiance was even more blinding. Those who had been looking upward instinctively shut their eyes, some even experiencing temporary blindness.
The golden light lingered far longer than usual.
As the earth gradually steadied, the brilliance softened.
Only then did the people dare to look up again.
"The Human Ranking has officially concluded."
"Rankings are now announced!"
"Rank 500: Lu Cai, Age: 32, Cultivation: Divine Ability Realm, Seventh Level."
Only the top 500 of the Human Ranking would qualify to advance and participate in the Earth Ranking.
"I made it!"
"Hahaha, I made it onto the ranking!"
Lu Cai, seeing his name appear first, danced with excitement.
Though he was only ranked 500th, he had surpassed countless others across the Tai Xuan Realm to earn this spot.
"Tch, only 500th, what's there to brag about?"
"But the rewards... why aren't the rewards announced?"
"Not sure. Maybe they'll distribute them after all the rankings are revealed."
"Wait, by the time we reach the top 100, their cultivation is already at the Divine Transformation Realm?"
"That's terrifying!"
"Are they even human? How did they cultivate so fast?"
By the time the rankings reached the top 100, the minimum strength required to make the list had risen to the first level of the Divine Transformation Realm.
Though everyone was stunned, they quickly calmed down—after all, the top few were even more monstrous.
"Rank 8: Ye Beiming, Age: 32, Cultivation: Divine Transformation Realm, Seventh Level."
"Rank 7: Nie Haotian, Age: 32, Cultivation: Divine Transformation Realm, Seventh Level."
Boom!
When the eighth and seventh ranks were announced, the entire crowd was dumbfounded.
They dropped again?
The former first and second had now been pushed down to seventh and eighth?
Who else?
Who else could be so terrifying as to overtake them at the last moment?
"Why... why is this happening?"
"Why did it turn out like this?"
"Now I can't even make the top five?"
Nie Haotian could hardly believe his eyes.
Losing to those four supreme freaks was one thing, but how had he fallen all the way to seventh?
Who?
Who had stolen his fifth place?
"Rank 6: Wu Mingdao, Age: 19, Cultivation: Divine Transformation Realm, Seventh Level."
"Rank 5: Li Qiye, Age: 18, Cultivation: Divine Transformation Realm, Seventh Level."
Wu Mingdao? Li Qiye?
Wu Mingdao was a somewhat familiar name, having previously ranked eighth.
Though few knew who this Wu Mingdao was, his name had been remembered.
But no one expected him to surge forward, directly claiming sixth place.
Even more shocking was Li Qiye.
Like Chen Yunxuan and the others before him, he had been completely unknown—yet his first appearance on the rankings landed him in fifth place.
Clearly, during the previous two updates of the Human Ranking, Li Qiye must have still been a nobody.
Yet, in this final year, he had soared to the seventh level of the Divine Transformation Realm at just eighteen years old.
Terrifying!
Absolutely terrifying!
"Who is this Li Qiye?"
"No idea, never heard of him before."
"His talent is insane—probably on par with Chen Yunxuan and Ye Zhiqiu, right?"
"Ugh, all of them are monsters."
"Rank 4: Gu Fengyao, Age: 32, Cultivation: Void Comprehension Realm, Third Level."
"Rank 3: Gu Xian'er, Age: 23, Cultivation: Void Comprehension Realm, Third Level."
"Rank 2: Ye Zhiqiu, Age: 21, Cultivation: Void Comprehension Realm, Fourth Level."
"Rank 1: Chen Yunxuan, Age: 19, Cultivation: Void Comprehension Realm, Fifth Level."
Compared to Li Qiye's sudden rise, the top four rankings didn't surprise anyone much.
But their cultivation progress—how was it possible?
How could they break through so effortlessly? Even at the Void Comprehension Realm, they advanced this quickly?
Too absurd!
"The Human Ranking announcements have concluded."
"Rewards will now be distributed!"
The rewards were coming?
This was the moment everyone had been waiting for—what would the Heavenly Dao's gifts be?
In the next instant, five hundred beams of light descended from the sky, enveloping every ranked cultivator.
"Damn! There's actually someone from the top 500 here!"
"Whoa, looks like there's another one over there!"
"Could it be Chen Yunxuan?"
"Not sure, but I hope it's Ye Zhiqiu!"
The sudden appearance of these beams caught everyone off guard, effectively exposing all five hundred ranked individuals.
Chen Chang'an watched as Gu Xian'er and Gu Fengyao were also bathed in the light.
"The rewards!"
"They weren't announced—just directly given?"
Chen Chang'an hadn't expected this. He had assumed the rewards would be publicly listed, not distributed in this manner.
"Breakthrough?"
"Two whole levels at once?"
"Not a bad reward."
He noticed that Gu Xian'er and Gu Fengyao's cultivation had jumped from the third level of the Void Comprehension Realm straight to the fifth.
A two-level boost.
"Young Master!"
"Brother Chang'an!"
"We broke through again!"
Once the light faded, the two women turned to Chen Chang'an with excitement.
"Good. So the reward was just cultivation progress?" Chen Chang'an asked.
"No!"
"There were other rewards too."
Other rewards?
"What were they?"
shall grant"] ["Inscribing the glory of our race upon tombstones"] ["All that is threatened, I shall protect"] How his younger sister sees her brother: A brother who only makes eye contact once a day, mostly fading into the background as he tinkers with who-knows-what in his room all day. Their life paths should have remained largely separate. Until one day. Su Qi created an equipment card for his never-met "online girlfriend." His sister fell into silent contemplation upon receiving the "white stockings." [Card can be upgraded] [Upgrade by fulfilling any of the following conditions] [Condition ①: Consume one hundred higher-tier cards] [Condition ②: Complete one 'Heart-Pounding Adventure'] What constitutes a Heart-Pounding Adventure? [Heart-Pounding Adventure (Beginner Level): Equip the card and invite 'Su Qi' to admire it.] [Heart-Pounding Adventure (Easy Level): Equip the card, invite 'Su Qi' to touch it, and analyze the equipment's texture.] [Heart-Pounding Adventure (Entry Level): Equip the card and invite 'Su Qi' to...] [Heart-Pounding Adventure (Challenge Level): Freely combine the words 'Brother' 'Out' 'Brother' 'Me' 'Please' into a complete sentence...] "Please help me analyze both teams' mistakes in this match, brother..." His sister exhaled in relief—surely... surely there couldn't be anything more difficult? [Heart-Pounding Adventure (Suicide Mission Level): Sneak a peek at the names of the galgames in 'Su Qi's' hidden E-drive folder]
transmigrates into the world as the sect master of the Heavenly Yan Sect, which is on the verge of being wiped out. He binds a system that grants him cultivation power based on the number of disciples he has: for each disciple, he automatically gains a year's worth of cultivation every single day! Take one disciple: every day he gains 1 year of cultivation power. While others struggle through a year of bitter training, he gets the same just by sleeping through a single night. Take ten disciples: every day he gains 10 years of cultivation power. Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, Nascent Soul—he breezes through all bottlenecks without lifting a finger. Take one hundred disciples: every day he gains 100 years of cultivation power. Even a Soul Transformation Venerable before him can’t survive a single blow. Take ten thousand disciples: every day he gains 10,000 years of cultivation power! With a wave of his hand, he topples empires. With a single step, he crushes the sacred grounds of the universe. ... While others fight tooth and nail for secret techniques, Lin Yan casually hands out Nascent Soul-level cultivation manuals as beginner textbooks. While others strain to find talented recruits, Lin Yan opens his doors to anyone—so long as they’re human. In just three short years, the Heavenly Yan Sect went from a backwater sect made up of three crumbling huts to a sacred land that every cultivator under heaven would kill to enter. ... One day, otherworldly demon gods invade, with a million demon soldiers pressing down upon the realm. Lin Yan, yawning, rises from his lounge chair and glances at the system panel: [Current Disciples: 1.28 million] [Daily Cultivation Increase: 1.28 million years] He waves his hand casually, and the countless demon soldiers are reduced to ashes in an instant. “So noisy… interrupting my fishing.”
ut it can buy an entire year of absolutely perfect training results! Su Yu stared at his empty wallet and decisively opened up various online loan platforms. “Borrow a thousand bucks! Recharge my vitality!” Boom! His vitality broke a hundred points, shattering the limits of the human body! “Borrow ten thousand bucks! Recharge my combat skills!” Boom! A basic punching technique so common it was everywhere instantly maxed out, revealing the ultimate assassination technique of Five Elements Unity—Inner Force! When a rich kid hired assassins for a midnight ambush, aiming to break both of his legs, they instead ran headfirst into a monster—a human-shaped tyrannosaur, brimming with dragon-like vitality. With just two fingers, Su Yu snapped a steel staff reinforced with alloy. Staring at the killer’s stash of stolen cash—a staggering quarter-million dollars—he showed a corporate-sincere smile: “Thanks for the pre-exam gift pack, Mr. Zhao! I’m gonna go re-invest this!” Three days later, at the National Martial Arts College Entrance Exam, while everyone else struggled just to reach the passing line, Su Yu threw a single punch—and more than a thousand vitality points literally detonated the entire arena!
ing gift was a patch of barren land, and disciples were all picked up along the way. He spent fifty years diligently building three "ramshackle little sects," thinking he could finally live a carefree life relying on his disciples. But right at the fifty-year mark, he was suddenly swept away by a spatial rift and exiled to the Chaos Desolation, the Disorderly Ruins. There was no spiritual energy there, only slaughter. Relying on the cultivation feedback from his disciples, Gu Changyuan hacked his way through a sea of blood for eleven hundred years. When the system finally fished him back out, he discovered the ramshackle little sects he'd built back then had developed a rather... unusual style. Hold on... I vanished for a thousand years, so how did my ramshackle little sects become holy lands?!
