Ancient Myriad Races Ranking

"I can't possibly lose!" Ye Mei was very confident in her strength. (From the novels "Top" and "Point")

"If you lose, I want that knife in your hand and everything in your Storage Space." Gu Ding knew that someone of Ye Mei's status must have a lot of good things in his Storage Space, and the knife in his hand was obviously a high-grade spiritual item.

Hearing Gu Ding say this, Ye Mei was silent for a moment, "If the knife won't work, the items in the Storage Space will."

"Then it's settled. Let's draw up Gambling Contract!" Gu Ding said, having the Sea Emperor draft a Gambling Contract. After projecting it, he placed his palm on it. "With your Palm Print on, the contract is established."

"So this is what they call a contract." Ye Mei looked at it with some curiosity, then placed her palm on it.

The lifespan of ordinary members of the Darkness Clan is around a thousand years, and they are considered adults at one hundred. Ye Mei, at only sixteen, is practically an infant in the Darkness Clan, his mind far from mature. Aside from a few things related to combat, he understands very little, making him extremely curious about many things.

After the two signed the contract, Gu Ding put it away. "Information cannot be transmitted within this ruin. I will send you a copy of the contract after we leave."

"Oh, so can we start fighting now?" Ye Mei was completely unaware that she had been tricked by Gu Ding. On the contrary, she was in a good mood because she had tried something new.

Gu Ding put on the Pseudo Spiritual Object gloves, and activated the Myriad Manifestations Emperor Body, Berserk, and Asura World Extinction at full power, causing his aura to surge wildly.

Upon discovering that Gu Ding's aura had surged to near the level of Peak-rank God, Ye Mei was somewhat surprised. However, he still sealed his own cultivation at the demigod level and smiled at Gu Ding, "It seems I underestimated you before. It turns out your amplification ability is so powerful. With your current aura strength, there are fewer than five demigods in my Darkness Clan who can surpass you. No wonder you are the number one on the Demigod Prodigy Ranking."

"If you were to fight me with the cultivation of a god, my chances of winning would be slim. But now that you have bound your cultivation to the Demigod Realm, it's hard to predict who will win." Gu Ding's aura quickly rose to its peak, and he was not at all at a disadvantage in his confrontation with Ye Mei.

"Interesting. He's clearly weaker than me in Combat Strength, but he can match my aura!" Ye Mei originally planned to overwhelm Gu Ding with her aura and seize the initiative before striking, but she didn't expect that Gu Ding's aura was in no way weaker than hers.

With a swift, serpentine motion, he reached for the hilt of his sword at his waist, drawing it with lightning speed. A crescent-shaped, Purple Glare, over ten meters long, slashed out, its target Gu Ding's neck.

Ye Mei's attack speed was extremely fast, and the speed of his blade strike was impossible to defend against. Although he was still inexperienced in many aspects, he was an unprecedented genius in combat. Such a swift attack could very well kill an unsuspecting opponent in a single blow.

But Gu Ding was no ordinary fighter. In terms of combat talent, he was perhaps no weaker than Ye Mei, and his combat experience was equally abundant. Facing Ye Mei's attack, he stood still, neither dodging nor avoiding, extending only one hand. He pointed a finger. A Black Radiance suddenly rose, and when the purple blade light was less than ten meters from Gu Ding's body, it automatically disintegrated and vanished without a sound.

"Excellent technique!" Ye Mei exclaimed, showing no sign of annoyance. "Take my second strike!"

His voice had barely faded when he suddenly thrust his feet forward, leaping high into the air, gripping the hilt of his sword with both hands and slashing down. A fierce Purple Blade Aura, accompanied by a clang, slashed out from above, carrying an unstoppable force towards Gu Ding.

Gu Ding slightly bent his knees, clenched one fist, and twisted his waist to swing at the blade energy diagonally upwards. Black God Source surged out like a flood bursting its banks, instantly engulfing the blade energy. Then, the Black God Source exploded on its own, annihilating the blade energy along with it, creating an energy storm that swept outwards.

Gu Ding stood steadily less than ten meters from the center of the storm, motionless and unaffected. The energy storm's outlet was directed towards the void where Ye Mei was, sending him flying backward.

Although Ye Mei suffered a minor setback, she was not injured and landed steadily on the ground. "Your two Martial Dao Intent are really domineering. They are clearly a small level weaker than my Blade Intent, but the energy they unleash is stronger than my Blade Intent."

Within this secret realm, Ye Mei's sword intent was suppressed by a major level, now only at the Perfected Subtlety stage. Gu Ding, on the other hand, whose Martial Dao Intent had initially entered the Spiritual Affinity Realm, was only suppressed by two minor levels, reaching the Great Perfection of the Subtlety stage, just one minor level below Ye Mei's Blade Intent. It could be said that Gu Ding had an advantage in this respect.

"It seems I really underestimated you. I didn't quite believe you were the number one Demigod Prodigy Ranking. But now it seems you weren't lying. This is the first time I've encountered a demigod who can reach your level of strength." After two attacks failed, Ye Mei finally acknowledged Gu Ding's strength. "However, I'll have to get serious now. There are still eight more strikes. If you can withstand them, I'll let you go."

As Ye Mei finished speaking, he stood with his sword held horizontally in one hand, and above his head, a phantom slowly condensed into form.

It was a Purple-Robed Emperor, seated on a blood-red throne. Beside him, the tip of a long sword was submerged in the ground. One hand rested on the hilt, as if he might strike at any moment to annihilate an enemy.

This Emperor Projection already indicates that Ye Mei's next attack will be extraordinary.

Five-Colored Flames erupted from Gu Ding's palms, quickly engulfing his entire body. His original flesh and blood form instantly transformed into a fire elemental energy body. The surging flames churned and made Gu Ding's originally slender figure appear even larger.

Seeing that Ye Mei was gathering momentum before making her move, Gu Ding quickly formed intricate hand seals with his ten fingers, and five giant pythons of different colors rapidly condensed into shape within the array plate summoned in front of Gu Ding.

Ye Mei finally unleashed his slash, a massive Purple Blade Aura nearly a hundred meters long shooting out, merging with the blade shadow unleashed by the Emperor Projection, and slashing down towards Gu Ding.

A giant golden python lunged at the blade of light, its massive tail lashing out and colliding with the blade's energy.

A deafening explosion erupted, rippling outwards. A crack appeared on the once-powerful Purple Blade Aura, followed by several soft cracking sounds. The crack rapidly spread, covering the entire massive blade aura in moments, before automatically disintegrating into fragments that vanished into the void. The golden python also transformed into countless tiny Mars, scattering into the air.

Having failed with her first strike, Ye Mei unleashed four more slashes, clearly intending to kill all the giant pythons summoned by Gu Ding.

Gu Ding remained completely calm, allowing the giant python to collide with the blade's energy.

The four sword beams dissipated, and the four giant pythons summoned by Gu Ding also vanished.

Ye Mei sneered, "The giant python you summoned has already been slain by me, but I still have three more strikes left. Let's see what other tricks you have up your sleeve to stop me!"

"You'll see once you keep striking," Gu Ding said, his hands forming a new hand seal.

Seeing this, Ye Mei let out another cold snort, "Playing tricks? Do you think I'll give you a chance to make a move? Watch me finish you off in three strikes!"

Ye Mei suddenly leaped high into the air, and at the peak of her flight, she unleashed three consecutive slashes from above towards Gu Ding's location. Three purple blade beams descended diagonally from the void, like falling comets, their momentum immense.

Meanwhile, Gu Ding's hand seals were complete, and Mars rapidly condensed in the void, transforming into a giant dragon shape.

The dragon opened its gaping maw and spewed Five-Colored Flames into the sky, instantly engulfing the three sword strikes. Those three powerful attacks, originally capable of tearing through the void, were completely annihilated. Moreover, after consuming the three sword strikes, the flames even lunged towards Ye Mei.

When Ye Mei saw that not only had her sword aura been broken, but the flames spewed by the fiery dragon continued to engulf her, her expression turned slightly grim. She retreated rapidly, barely avoiding the onslaught of the flames.

The ten-move deadline had passed, and Gu Ding not only withstood all ten of his moves but also gained the upper hand, which greatly displeased Ye Mei.

With a cold snort, the Emperor Projection above his head automatically dissipated, and an unfathomable aura surged from the depths of his soul, condensing into a white phantom above his head.

The white phantom gradually solidified, and Gu Ding could then see clearly that the phantom was actually a long-haired White-Robed Woman. The woman wore a blood-red, hideous ghost mask, which looked extremely terrifying.

"Is this also Emperor Projection?" Gu Ding felt that the aura was not quite right and secretly asked the Sea Emperor.

"This is the Ancient Moon God Race, a humanoid beast from the Primordial Era. They are born with a blood-red, ferocious ghost face, which looks a bit like a mask they wear, but it is actually their true appearance. The Moon God Race was also an extremely powerful race in the Primordial Era. At its peak, it could even rank in the top 100 of the Ancient Myriad Races Ranking, with an average ranking of around 200."

"Only two hundred? That doesn't sound very powerful." Gu Ding said with disdain when he heard the ranking from the Sea Emperor.

"What do you know! There were countless kinds of mythical beasts in the Primordial Era, said to be hundreds of billions. But in the tens of thousands of River of Time of the Primordial Era, only ten thousand races could be ranked in the Ancient Myriad Races Ranking, and they were all extremely powerful beings. If you combine the Ancient Era and the Primordial Era, even if you put the 108 divine beasts of the Ancient Primordial Era, less than forty of them could make it into the Ancient Myriad Races Ranking. Among the ancient divine beasts, only three groups could barely make it into the top three hundred of the Ancient Myriad Races Ranking."

Hearing the Sea Emperor's comparison, Gu Ding finally realized just how powerful the bloodline of the Ancient Moon God Race was.

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[I'm writing a bit slowly, the bonus chapter for Chapter 3 won't be until midnight, so please don't wait.] (To be continued...)