After Lin Hongchen came aboard, Miaomiao beat its Eight Trigrams Imperial Demon Heavenly Wings and tore through the passage at breakneck speed amid lightning and thunder.
Crackle! Pop!
Wherever the lightning went, the metal insects crawling ahead were blasted into the air, crashing about everywhere.
"Can you take off your Ancient God Ring?"
Li Tianming shot Lin Hongchen a glare and lowered his voice while Lin Hongchen was blocking the Ancient God Ring.
"No. At a critical moment, it can save my life," Lin Hongchen said.
Li Tianming had no choice.
"Forget it. Unless I do nothing from here on out, killing Gu Chi Xiaoying can't be kept hidden. At most, they won't have any proof."
After thinking it over, he decided that the Infinitum Bodhimanda was still the Infinitum Bodhimanda. This trip to the Beehive Ancestral Realm had been an unexpected mess from the start, and disciples killing one another over grudges was common. Even if Gu Chi Xiaoying had a formidable background, his parents and elders probably couldn't openly execute him.
The reason he had asked Lin Hongchen about the Ancient God Ring was that the battle just now had effectively "exposed" his current combat power.
The Minor Realm King Ranking had already raised his rank to fifteenth!
This ranking placed him above Lin Hongchen, putting him first among the Swordgod Lin Clan.
With Dark Tribe disciples occupying more than ten of the top spots, reaching fifteenth meant Li Tianming had now surpassed the strongest disciples of at least half the realm-king clans among the Thirteen Infinitum Realm-King Clans.
After all, Lin Hongchen had previously ranked only twenty-fifth as the Swordgod Lin Clan's top disciple, and had now fallen to twenty-sixth.
A change in the Minor Realm King Ranking meant that people outside had basically witnessed Li Tianming's