Princess Yao Yao? The Heavenly Ranking is Decided!

"G-gone?"

Xu Kun's eyes widened. After waiting so long for permission to be verified, the database's answer was only three words!

Traitor…

"What about his other information?" Xu Kun asked, dissatisfied.

"Beep, insufficient permissions, unable to access!"

Xu Kun was silent. With his B-level gold card, he could only learn the title "traitor," and nothing else was worthy of knowing?

Then it seemed this person's identity and level were very high!

Xu Kun didn't know that with his gold card's B-level permissions, he had no right to know anything about "traitors"!

Just now, it was the one on Earth who granted him S-level information access, which was why the database provided an answer!

"However, even though I didn't get any other information, the word 'traitor' alone is enough to make one think deeply!"

"His efficiency in clearing the ten floors of the Haotian Pagoda ranks sixth among all the Lords of the Era, which proves that this traitor has terrifying talent and strength!"

"If such a person were to serve the Human Race, he would surely be a pillar of strength, like a white jade pillar supporting the sky or a purple-gold beam holding up the sea. Perhaps, he is..."

Xu Kun muttered to himself. At this point, a sentence Hao Jian casually said on the playground instantly popped into his mind...

"According to past experience, a Lord of the Era with SSS-level talent is born every hundred years in the Human Race. But why did the Kite God and Light God Odin appear at the same time five hundred years ago, and no one appeared three hundred years ago?"

The Kite God and Light God Odin were in the same era, breaking the Human Race's tradition of a Lord of the Era appearing every hundred years!

Xu Kun currently had no speculation about this!

But three hundred years ago, the Human Race unexpectedly did not produce a Lord of the Era!

This strange phenomenon has led many curious people to endlessly debate it!

The most widely accepted view is that the Lord of the Era from three hundred years ago was targeted by the Myriad Races because of the Human Race's continuous prosperity, leading to his premature death before he could grow. To avoid panic, the Human Race hid the news!

Xu Kun had always strongly supported this view. After all, history has proven that each generation of the Human Race's Lords of the Era are extremely terrifying when they grow up. Not to mention suppressing the Myriad Races of the same generation, they are also unique among the SSS-level prodigies of the Myriad Races!

Such a person could not be unknown, and the only possibility for not leaving any information in the historical records is that they died young!

But after gaining some minor information just now, Xu Kun gradually began to waver in his previously firm belief!

"To be able to keep pace with the Lords of the Era, or even surpass some of them, such a person must have at least SSS-level talent!"

"If an SSS-level Human Race talent didn't die young but betrayed the Human Race, would the Human Race history still record him?"

"If it weren't about such a powerful historical figure, would my current B-level permissions only grant me the title of traitor?"

Thinking of this, Xu Kun quickly shut up!

This accidental discovery was too important. Before confirming it, he absolutely couldn't tell anyone about his guess about this person, not even Hao Jian, his mother, or Hao Jian's parents!

"See, I told you he would guess something, right?"

Qian Manlou stood aside, stammering and unable to speak clearly. He glanced at his boss and twitched his lips, slandering in his heart, "Are you sure he didn't see what you wanted him to see?"

After a series of hypothetical deductions, Xu Kun didn't spend too much thought on this traitor who ranked sixth in the clearing time of the first ten floors!

He was too far away from such a figure, and with his current status, even if he wanted to confirm some guesses, it would be unrealistic!

The most practical thing right now was to thoroughly understand the effective books compiled by the database!

There were still more than six days left in the novice trial period. He couldn't do anything else during this time. Compared to others who were still struggling to pass the levels, he was already starting to study stronger opponents!

One step ahead, every step ahead, everything is like this!

Accustomed to learning, Xu Kun didn't panic when faced with a series of books containing countless information. Instead, he embraced a spirit of learning and exploration, completely immersing himself in it!

The book "Haotian Pagoda Floors 2-10 Strategy Manual" was concise, summarizing the various problems and solutions that would be encountered in the next nine floors of the Haotian Pagoda in the most concise language!

Combined with the book "Ten Thousand Whys of Low-Level Races," Xu Kun could quickly learn about the characteristics of some of the race monsters he might encounter next!

Overall, the vast majority of the race monsters encountered in the next nine floors of the tower were just low-level monsters of F and E-level races. In terms of attribute panels, Xu Kun had no pressure. What he needed to pay attention to were the unique combat methods of some race monsters!

After all, every race that can survive has its unique methods. A moment of carelessness can lead to failure. Despising the opponent strategically and valuing the opponent tactically is the best way to win steadily!

Before studying these materials, Xu Kun, with his powerful attributes, equipment, talents, and skills, thought he was invincible!

After simply reading through the two books, he developed another kind of mentality.

I am invincible!

That's right, that's how inflated he was!

Based on past experience, Xu Kun believed that the next nine floors of the tower would not cause him any difficulties. The rest was just looking at the clearance rating and clearance time!

"9 days! This is the unbreakable record created by Azure God. My goal is this time!" Xu Kun said seriously.

Unknowingly, he had spent five days learning the two books!

There was only one day left until the end of the novice trial!

When he learned from the database that he had been immersed in the sea of knowledge for a full five days, Xu Kun was stunned.

"Five days without sleep? How is that possible?"

Xu Kun patted his face to make sure he wasn't showing any signs of sudden death. Although in the process of climbing the Haotian Pagoda, ordinary people gradually evolve towards the "gods" people talk about.

Upon reaching a certain height, one transcends so-called "mortals." Forget five days; even five years without sleep, food, or drink wouldn't matter!

But Xu Kun hasn't reached that level yet. He's just a newbie who's barely cleared the novice trial!

Ding, the effects of the Rank A drug - High Mountain Bright Eyes Tea - are bolstering you. Your spirit remains in a state of excitement, with no signs of exhaustion. Please rest assured!

"Rank A drug - High Mountain Bright Eyes Tea!" Xu Kun repeated, a smile appearing on his lips.

"Treating guests with tea is a tradition of my Huaxia Race since ancient times. When Brother Qian took out tea worth millions per tael, I thought it was just hospitality. But now that I think about it, even if I could produce Rank S Spirit Stones, it wouldn't be enough for the dignified Master of the Myriad Treasures Pavilion to treat me as an honored guest, would it?"

The Huaxia people have a set of traditional hospitality ingrained in their bones. The more esteemed the guest, the better the tea and the more lavish the feast should be, to show respect!

But in the eyes of Qian Manlou, the Master of the Myriad Treasures Pavilion, he shouldn't have such a high status!

"Brother Qian, was this intentional or unintentional?" Xu Kun is increasingly unable to see through Qian Manlou's previous actions!

Everything seems to have been arranged perfectly, so perfectly that he doesn't feel any discomfort!

"Perhaps… this is how experts act!"

Xu Kun took a deep breath. Regardless of the other party's intentions, the tireless study of the past five days has indeed benefited him greatly, allowing him to avoid many detours in the upcoming trials!

The database has compiled five books that are useful to him at this stage.

A Modern History of the Human Race in the Last Hundred Years goes without saying. The major and minor events that have occurred in the last hundred years are summarized very simply. He will have plenty of opportunities to understand it in depth, and he only took a cursory glance at it before!

Xu Kun has gained some insights from the Haotian Pagoda Floors 2-10 Strategy Guide and One Hundred Thousand Whys of Low-Rank Races, which he spent five days studying, but he is far from mastering them!

Reading a book a hundred times reveals its meaning. This is an unchanging truth. Even if Xu Kun can now remember everything after reading it once, he will always have different insights each time he picks up the book again, because some details are mixed in a certain passage!

Just like the book Hao Jian usually loves to read, Myriad Races Bestiary: You Call This an F-Rank Talent?, as he says, each time he reads it, the joy and gains are different!

The remaining books are The Unspeakable Secrets Between Me, the Blacksmith Uncle, the Herb-Gathering Grandpa, and the Shop Auntie and Myriad Races Battlefield Newbie Guide!

It goes without saying that the Myriad Races Battlefield Newbie Guide is a book prepared for everyone who is about to clear the tenth floor of the Haotian Pagoda and will go to the front line of the Myriad Races Battlefield as a Human Race conscript. Xu Kun doesn't need it yet!

On the other hand, The Unspeakable Secrets Between Me, the Blacksmith Uncle, the Herb-Gathering Grandpa, and the Shop Auntie, with its long and somewhat vulgar title, didn't initially interest Xu Kun much.

However, the reason why he hasn't felt any fatigue despite not sleeping for five days is actually because he drank a few more cups of tea, which made him intensely interested in some of the racial treasures possessed by the myriad races!

"Many treasures are unique to the myriad races, and they may not even be sold in this Myriad Races Trading Ground. I seem to have heard that many low-rank races are unwilling to share because they occupy good racial treasures, which leads to them being targeted by large races, resulting in the destruction of their race. Not only are the treasures not protected, but the clansmen also die!"

As he spoke, Xu Kun opened the table of contents of the book and said after looking at it twice, "This book should cover a series of things related to forging, herb gathering, medicine making, and trading, but if it radiates out, it will involve many aspects. In short, it is an introductory book to lifestyle sub-professions!"

Sub-professions are something that many Human Race high-level figures who have climbed a certain number of floors will dabble in!

The most common is the blacksmith. The divine blacksmith who can forge SS-rank equipment in Qian Manlou's mouth is the top figure among the Human Race blacksmiths. Compared to his status in the entire Human Race, the divine blacksmith is like the Lords of the Era in the forging industry!

Some people with poor talent will choose to specialize in a sub-profession if they have no hope of climbing to a higher level. Whether it is to find another way to climb to a higher level or to make it bigger and stronger with this as a goal, the importance of sub-professions is self-evident!

"Currently, I haven't encountered any strong resistance in climbing the tower, so I don't have time to consider a sub-profession for the time being. But in the next few floors, there are also lifestyle skills such as mining, which is a branch of blacksmithing. It's always good to learn more!"

But Xu Kun only has one day left.

Thinking of this, Xu Kun asked the database, "Can I take these books out?"

"Yes, with Rank B permissions, you can also borrow or return them at the first library in the base city!"

That's good!

Xu Kun smiled. He can take them back and read them slowly, and let Hao Jian read them too, just in case!

"Database, can you see the novice trial Heavenly Rankings here?"

After entering the 0th floor of the Haotian Pagoda, the ubiquitous novice trial Heavenly Rankings of previous years disappeared, causing Xu Kun to pay no attention to it for five days. He doesn't know what the current Heavenly Rankings look like!

Ding, yes, do you want to project this year's Heavenly Rankings?

"Project it, I want to see how the results of the myriad races' novice trial takers in the same year as me are!"

The database acted quickly, immediately reflecting the Heavenly Rankings that were nowhere to be found in other places of the Haotian Pagoda and on Earth.

Trial Heavenly Rankings:

NO.1: Kun, Race: Human Race, Talent: F-rank, Novice Trial Rating: SSSS, Completion Time: 7 hours 03 minutes 54 seconds!

Unsurprisingly, no one can surpass Xu Kun's results, which are high on the Heavenly Rankings!

Whether it is the unprecedented SSSS-rank novice trial rating or the exaggerated completion time of just over 7 hours, it is enough for him to stand in an invincible position!

But looking at his golden words on the Heavenly Rankings, Xu Kun grinned. He estimates that what will shock the myriad races the most is not the rating or the completion time, but that eye-watering F-rank talent!

Continue to look down.

NO.2: Zhu Jiu, Race: Dragon Race, Talent: SSS-rank, Novice Trial Rating: SSS, Completion Time: 11 hours 55 minutes 01 seconds!

Xu Kun's pupils shrank. Unsurprisingly, the Dragon Race, which has occupied the top spot on the Heavenly Rankings for many years and is occasionally surpassed by the Phoenix Race, the second of the Three Saint Races, has become second only to him this time!

Talent, rating, both SSS-rank. In the Human Race, this is enough to become the Lord of the Era for a hundred years, but such a person... dragon, the head of the myriad races, the Dragon Race, the leader of the Three Saint Races, will have one every year!

This is the terrifying foundation of the Three Saint Races!

Entering the tower a hundred years earlier than the Human Race, the SSS-rank powerhouses born are as numerous as crucian carp crossing the river. Even if each generation of the Human Race's Lords of the Era is amazingly talented, when facing a hundred times the number of Dragon Race with the same talent, they can only sigh in vain!

But the talent and rating are both expected. What makes Xu Kun take it seriously is this Dragon Race genius with the ID "Zhu Jiu". His completion time, compared to the entire Human Race, is actually second only to him and the recognized Human Race's number one powerhouse, Cang!

Even faster than Kite, who originally held the second-fastest time for clearing the Human Race's novice trial!

"Looks like this is a formidable opponent!"

Even with Xu Kun's confidence, he couldn't help but feel wary of Zhu Jiu, who was likely to become a rival!

Continuing down the list, the third rank was unsurprisingly a prodigy of the Phoenix Race!

NO3: Yuan, Race: Phoenix Race, Talent: SSS-grade, Novice Trial Score: SSS, Completion Time: 12 hours 38 minutes 08 seconds!

Xu Kun was momentarily stunned when he saw the third-place completion time. He quickly flipped through the Haotian Pagoda Floors 2-10 Strategy Manual to compare it with the Human Race's novice trial completion times!

He discovered that the Phoenix Race prodigy with the ID "Yuan" was only a few minutes behind "Kite," the Human Race's second-place holder with the same pronunciation of their name!

"Another terrifying opponent. But compared to the Dragon Race, the head of the Three Saint Races, and their hegemonic ways, the Phoenix Race, despite being second among the myriad races, seems to always advocate for peace. The Human Race hasn't established diplomatic relations with the Phoenix Race, but I haven't heard of any major conflicts occurring either!"

While Xu Kun was checking the trial's Heavenly Rankings, the myriad races' prodigies who had already completed the novice trial were naturally paying close attention to the information on the list.

At that moment, a young girl dressed in a goose-yellow palace dress was stomping her feet in frustration, looking at the completion times on the list, waving her small pink fists, and pouting, "Darn it, I was so close to catching up with Fifth Sister's completion time! Ugh, so annoying, it's all this guy's fault!"

As if to vent her anger, she kicked the corpse of the final boss that had already died at her feet.

NO4: Hun, Race: Kunpeng Clan, Talent: SSS-grade, Novice Trial Score: SSS, Completion Time: 14 hours 06 minutes 21 seconds!

Normally, the top three on the novice trial rankings each year are the Dragon Race, Phoenix Race, and Kunpeng Clan, the three major races respected as the Three Saint Races by the myriad races!

But this year, Xu Kun, an anomaly, appeared. With an SSSS trial score and a fast time of 7 hours, he used an almost invincible and crushing stance to trample the Three Saint Races' prodigies under his feet.

Looking at the Kunpeng Clan's ID, Xu Kun's expression was a little strange.

"Speaking of which, my ID is Kun. Could it be that the myriad races will misunderstand me as a member of the Kunpeng Clan?"

And it wasn't just a guess. Xu Kun's speculation had already come true. The moment his results were revealed, the dissatisfied Dragon Race had already sent high-ranking officials to the North Sea, occupied by the Kunpeng Clan, to question them. The results were still unknown!

In any case, when they saw the ID "Kun," the Kunpeng Clan, floating on the North Sea like ancient, unmelting icebergs, fell into collective silence until the arrival of the Dragon Race's high-ranking officials broke the peace!

After the top four, it was naturally the stage for the Seven Royal Races to exert their strength.

The fifth and sixth places were unsurprisingly occupied by two prodigies from the Seven Royal Races. However, although their trial scores were also SSS-grade, their completion times lagged a bit behind the top four. The fifth place took 23 hours, and the sixth place took 24 hours!

Among the Seven Royal Races, it's hard to say who is stronger or weaker. It all depends on the individual performance of the prodigies participating in the trial each year!

Xu Kun was searching for the Black Tortoise Race, one of the Seven Royal Races that the Human Race was affiliated with!

But after looking at the top six, he didn't see the Black Tortoise Race first. Instead, he saw a familiar Human Race ID!

NO7: Princess Yaoyao, Race: Human Race, Talent: SSS-grade, Novice Trial Score: SSS, Completion Time: 25 hours 25 minutes 25 seconds!

"What a distasteful ID!" Xu Kun's face darkened. How could a Human Race take such an ID? It made him suspect the person's identity!

However, being able to achieve a good seventh-place ranking among the myriad races' prodigies, the strength of this Human Race prodigy with the ID "Princess Yaoyao" was evident!

"If it weren't for me, this... Princess Yaoyao, should be the Lords of the Era that the Human Race produces once every hundred years, as usual?"

"But with the current situation... what should I say?" Xu Kun scratched his head in distress.

His F-grade talent occupied the top spot, so in the future, for the entire Human Race, would his F-grade talent be more important, or would Princess Yaoyao's SSS-grade talent be more important?

Who is the true Lords of the Era?

Putting that question aside for now, Xu Kun finally saw the name of the Black Tortoise Race!

NO8: Tian, Race: Black Tortoise Race, Talent: SSS-grade, Novice Trial Score: SSS, Completion Time: 26 hours 26 minutes 26 seconds!

"Hmm... not bad results. It's far from me, and compared to Princess Yaoyao, it's exactly one hour, one minute, and one second behind. This little turtle... no, Tian should be a magnanimous person... no, turtle, right? It wouldn't get angry and annoyed just because two of the Black Tortoise Race's affiliated races stepped on its shell, right? It wouldn't, would it? The Black Tortoise Race shouldn't be that petty, right?"

This ID-taking is really a diverse and colorful affair. Look how domineering the Black Tortoise Race's prodigy's name is?

I am who I am, I am the heavens!

But no matter how you look at it, Tian, when broken down, means bastard. Isn't it said that the Black Tortoise Race hates others calling them bastards the most?

Combined with its eighth-place ranking, sigh, it's just a complete millennial old eighth!

Sigh, incomprehensible, hard to understand!

The rest, naturally, had no unexpected situations!

The Human Race monopolized the top spot and seventh place!

The Three Saint Races occupied the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th places on the list!

The Seven Royal Races lived up to expectations, occupying the 5th, 6th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th places on the list!

The Heavenly Rankings record the top twenty overall results of the myriad races' prodigies. Apart from the Three Saint Races, Seven Royal Races, and Human Race dividing up the top twelve places on the list, the remaining eight places were divided up by the prodigies of eight S-grade races!

At that moment, a certain S-grade race's prodigy, looking at the top twenty on the list without a place for themselves, cursed and muttered, "What's the use of my SSS-grade score!"

It has to be said that the competition for this year's novice trial Heavenly Rankings was too fierce!

According to previous years, the top twenty weren't necessarily all SSS-grade scoring prodigies from various races. Many times, only the top ten were SSS-grade, and the rest were SS-grade!

So normally speaking, an SSS-grade score, even if the completion time was a bit longer, could still steadily enter the Heavenly Rankings!

But unfortunately, there were too many freaks this year. Who was the biggest freak? Each race's prodigies probably already had someone in mind!

That was the Human Race with the eye-stabbing F-grade talent!

The race prodigy ranked twenty-first already hated Xu Kun's existence to the core, wishing they could eat his flesh, sleep on his skin, and never rest until one of them was dead!