100th Place on the Bone Tempering Rankings

The golden pillar of light that pierced through the sky slowly dissipated.

In the center of the battlefield, that small figure stood quietly, the aura of the Fifth-Turn Bone Tempering Realm as deep and boundless as the ocean, permeating the desolate ruins.

However, the purity and domineering power of the Qi and Blood emanating from his body completely exceeded everyone's understanding of the Fifth-Turn of cultivation.

Especially Ling Feng, who is at the Eighth-Turn Bone Tempering Realm.

His mouth was slightly open, and the reflection of that golden beam of light still lingered in his pupils; his brain had completely lost the ability to think.

As one of the Federation's top combat forces in the Core Zone, he had seen too many so-called geniuses and even personally suppressed many Alien Races prodigies.

But what we're seeing now can no longer be described as genius.

Chen Fan took a deep breath, feeling the new power surging through his limbs and bones. His bones had been Bone Refinement, and every heartbeat felt like a war drum, full of explosive power.

He stretched his body with satisfaction, his joints making a series of crisp popping sounds.

Then, he turned his head and looked at the Petrification Ling Feng not far away.

Chen Fan grinned, revealing two rows of white teeth, completely ignoring the other person's previous expression that looked like he wanted to devour him alive, and spoke in a familiar tone as if they were old friends.

"Senior Ling Feng, how are you feeling now? My new territory is pretty good, isn't it?"

One sentence, like a bucket of ice water, abruptly jolted Ling Feng awake from his Beyond the Heavens.

A flood of emotions surged through him, turning his resolute face a deep purplish-red.

He was about to roar and demand an explanation for what the hell was going on when the sky over the entire Core Zone suddenly darkened.

It wasn't that dark clouds were obscuring the sun, but rather that a higher level of will was descending.

A supreme and boundless majesty enveloped the entire world, as if an invisible pair of eyes had opened from the heavens above, focusing their gaze on this place, on Chen Fan had just completed his breakthrough.

"This is..."

Under the horrified gazes of everyone, an ancient golden scroll covering the entire sky was slowly unfurling in Firmament heavens.

On the scroll, swirling energy flowed, and Daoist runes rose and fell. Three Primordial Divine Script, with their dragon-and-phoenix-like strokes, exuded an aura that suppressed eternity.

Bone Tempering Rankings!

"It's the Bone Tempering Rankings!"

Ling Feng gasped in shock, his face instantly replaced by an expression of awe.

He stared intently at the sky. "Unlike the Myriad Laws Ranking, which assesses the potential of cultivation techniques, the Bone Tempering Rankings... only evaluates combat strength!"

"Only those Bone Tempering Realm prodigies in the Core Zone, recognized by the World Will, and whose overall combat strength ranks among the top one hundred, are qualified to be listed!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Shen Xuan, Zhang Zhi, and the others began to breathe rapidly.

Those who can make it onto this list are all invincible among their peers in Ten Thousand Races; they are true prodigies!

Just as everyone was in shock, at the very end of the huge golden scroll, at the position of the hundredth person, a faint light flickered.

A brand new line of golden text was imprinted on it, stroke by stroke, with perfect clarity, as if by an invisible hand.

[Rank 100: Human Race - Chen Fan]

In an instant, the entire arena fell silent.

Time seemed to freeze at that moment, and even the wind stopped howling.

Ling Feng, Shen Xuan, Tuo Bashan... everyone who witnessed the massacre thought they had seen it wrong, or even experienced hallucinations.

They instinctively rubbed their eyes and looked up again.

That line of text still hangs clearly at the very end of the list, like an absurd joke.

A little guy at Fifth-Turn in Bone Tempering.

It's... ranked 100th on the Bone Tempering Rankings?

If this was merely absurd, then what happened next added a strong element of irony to that absurdity.

Following that, the list appears to be undergoing minor adjustments, and the information for the 99th place ranking is becoming increasingly clear.

[Ninety-ninth place: Blood Demon Race - Xue Wuya (Seventh-Turn Bone Tempering Realm)]

A powerful expert at the Seventh-Turn Bone Tempering Realm, ranked ninety-ninth.

Ling Feng's eyes widened, bloodshot veins spreading wildly from the corners of his eyes. He stared intently at the dazzling golden characters in the sky that read "100th: Human Race - Chen Fan".

My throat was so dry it felt like it had been burned by fire, and every word seemed to be squeezed out from between my teeth.

"Fifth-Turn... 100th... This is fucking impossible!"

It wasn't that he didn't believe it, but rather that his reason was frantically refusing to accept the fact.

The Bone Tempering Rankings is the ultimate dream of all the Prodigies in the Core Zone, and the only ironclad rule for measuring combat strength! Those who are listed on the ranking are at least Seventh-Turn prodigies!

How could someone only reach the Fifth-Turn?

However, when he recalled the scene not long ago, when Chen Fan, with his small body at the Fourth-Turn of cultivation, effortlessly blasted the Sixth-Turn Xue Dingtian along with its Origin Dao Seed into nothingness with a single punch...

"I knew it. Following this guy, I was bound to see things I shouldn't have seen sooner or later."

Shen Xuan smiled wryly and shook the folding fan in his hand; the fan trembled slightly as its owner's emotions surged.

His tone carried a hint of fanaticism that even he himself was unaware of.

This isn't someone following another person.

This is clearly a Young God walking with him!

On the other side, Tuo Bashan clenched his fists, his bulging muscles like cast iron, his eyes blazing with fighting spirit.

For him, the list held no fear, no awe, only a brand new goal more worthy of his life!

Meanwhile, in the Tianshu Guardian Zone, at the Command Hall.

The atmosphere, which had been frozen solid, was suddenly shattered by a deafening roar.

"Good! Good! Great!"

Wei Yan appeared to be insane. He slammed his palm hard on the command platform in front of him. The hard platform, made of Starfine Gold, shattered into pieces with his angry and joyful blow, and countless parts flew off!

His usually composed face was now a mixture of extreme ecstasy and deep-seated anxiety, two completely opposite emotions that made him look somewhat distorted.

He understood.

All the previous criticisms, worries, and even the plan to hide and protect Chen Fan became a complete joke under the backdrop of the golden characters in the Firmament.

The hope of Human Race does not need to hide under anyone's wings!

He himself is the most indestructible wing, strong enough to shield from wind and rain!

However, after the ecstasy came an endless chill.

A principle that Human Race can understand, Alien Races...

You can understand it too!

At the other end of the Core Zone, within a magnificent city entirely forged from white bones and Obsidian, dozens of terrifying Alien Races Prodigies also looked up at the illusory image of the Bone Tempering Rankings that appeared simultaneously.

"A Fifth-Turn Human Race? Made it onto the Bone Tempering Rankings? Haha, is the World Will out of its mind? Or has the Human Race become so weak that it needs to resort to such jokes to boost morale?"

Below the main hall, a Demon Ape Race prodigy with eight arms and covered in long black hair burst into Prodigies laughter, his voice filled with disdain, drawing a chorus of agreement from those around him.

"Shut up, you idiot!"

A voice devoid of any emotion, like a chilling wind from the Nine Netherworlds, swept across the entire hall in an instant.