Though the two were in fact tied for first, the Heaven Ranking was ordered according to overall strength, so Dugu Qingming could only be placed behind Yuwen Shengxin.
When the handyman disciples in the sect saw the Heaven Ranking emerge, every face was filled with disbelief. Their eyes were wide as brass bells, and even their mouths hung wide open.
That was the Heaven Ranking!
They had dreamed of seeing their own names appear on it.
Yet this Dugu Qingming, who had appeared out of nowhere, had shot straight to the position of the sect's number-one prodigy. Comparing oneself to others really could make a person furious.
However, they felt no jealousy. Their gazes toward Dugu Qingming were filled only with boundless envy and admiration.
Just then, the Circle of Stars Diagram, hidden in the sky above the Divine Sword Sect, abruptly appeared.
Dazzling stars filled the firmament, majestic fortune surged and churned, and mountains, rivers, and streams appeared one after another. It looked both real and illusory, like a vast painting containing an entire world.
Immediately after, a Seven-Clawed Golden Dragon stretching ten thousand miles emerged from the Circle of Stars Diagram, raising its incomparably enormous head.
Its domineering and arrogant eyes swept faintly over Dugu Qingming below as it let out a dragon's roar.
Then it opened its great maw, and an incomparably dense mass of violet fortune qi shot through the air.
The violet qi was extraordinarily dense and profoundly mysterious, instantly merging into Dugu Qingming's body.
"Hiss~"
"Th-this... is this the fortune all martial artists dream of?"
"My fortune has risen dramatically?!"
Dugu Qingming said in shock. At that moment, she could feel with incomparable clarity that her fortune was skyrocketing higher and higher.
At the same time, she sensed that her freshly broken-through realm had