Zhongli: Surprise, Fear? What Were Those?

"Bibi Dong was actually level ninety-eight?"

"Wait, level ninety-eight was only tenth place?"

Ning Fengzhi, Gu Rong, and Chen Xin felt as though their brains were no longer enough to process this.

No matter how proud Chen Xin was, he had to admit that he was no match for Bibi Dong right now.

The difference between level ninety-six and level ninety-eight was like heaven and earth.

After seeing that Bibi Dong possessed Twin Martial Souls, Chen Xin felt relieved.

"Sword Man, it looks like we have no chance of making the list."

Gu Rong said with a grave expression.

Their earlier speculation was very likely correct.

This ranking did not just contain powerful humans; it certainly contained powerful Soul Beasts as well.

This world had become somewhat unfamiliar.

Seeing this, the old guard of Titled Douluo felt as if their hearts had been stabbed.

They had thought that they would surely have a place on this ranking.

Who could have imagined that His Majesty the Pope, at level ninety-eight, would actually be at the bottom...

It was over. Everything was gone.

They did not even have the chance to be mere runners-up!

Just then, the Sky Screen changed once more.

The words vanished, and a bewitching purple-black figure appeared upon the Sky Screen.

She was a person with the appearance of a spider. In her Martial Soul Possession state, she looked incomparably Evil and sent chills down people's spines.

"Th-that's His Majesty the Pope?"

Many who believed in Spirit Hall felt their scalps go numb. What kind of monster had they been worshipping?

Bibi Dong on the Sky Screen appeared to be fighting someone.

[Divine Slaughter's Domain, activate!]

[Death Spider Emperor's sixth soul skill: Vampiric Spider Thorn!]

[Soul Devouring Spider Emperor's sixth soul skill: Eternal Wound!]

[Mental Immunity Skull Skill: True World!]

[Unity of Life and Death Dream, Death Spider Emperor's ninth soul skill, Undying Body!]

[Soul Devouring Spider Emperor's sixth soul skill: Space-Rending Abyss Slash!]

[Death Spider Emperor's eighth soul skill: Spider Emperor Clone!]

[Death Spider Emperor's fifth soul skill...]

[...]

All living beings fell silent. Cold sweat slid down their foreheads, and their bodies trembled faintly against their will.

His Majesty the Pope was this powerful?

She even had more than one hundred-thousand-year Spirit Ring. It was simply terrifying.

In the Worship Hall, Golden Crocodile and the others wiped the cold sweat from their foreheads, feeling a chill creep down their backs.

Bibi Dong, whom they had always kept under watch, had actually become this powerful?

And she had even become an inheritor of a god.

Had Qian Daoliu not kept Bibi Dong in check, those who had constantly opposed her would likely have long since become her nourishment.

This "video" had exposed far too many things!

The Sky Screen only recognized combat power. It did not care that Golden Crocodile also possessed level ninety-eight strength.

In a one-on-one fight, Golden Crocodile was no longer Bibi Dong's match.

Bright Moon Brothel.

Xue Beng stared blankly at the Sky Screen, unable to calm down for a long while.

As members of the imperial family, their reliance was on vast human armies.

In the imperial family's eyes, no matter how powerful a Soul Master was, they could still be crushed beneath an army of hundreds of thousands.

Having witnessed the world's foremost experts today, how many soldiers would have to die to take down someone like that?

Wait, what was that expression on the person beside him?

Xue Beng lowered his head and glanced sideways at Zhongli.

Zhongli was leisurely sipping tea and listening to music, utterly unconcerned.

No, did he not even look surprised?

He was far too calm to be an ordinary person!

Xue Beng was certain that even his imperial father would not be this calm right now.

Such an expert was simply not someone a human army could exterminate.

They could come whenever they wished and leave whenever they wished.

That was why Spirit Hall had been suppressing the two great empires and preventing them from going to war. The two empires truly could not afford to start one.

If they provoked Spirit Hall, and it carried out a decapitation strike, the Heaven Dou Emperor would not be able to stop it.

"Brother Zhongli, aren't you surprised?"

"Don't you find this frightening enough to feel fear?"

Xue Beng asked tentatively.

"Surprise, fear?"

Zhongli stroked his chin. What kind of expression was one supposed to make for surprise and fear?

Over the course of thousands of years, the emotions belonging to humanity had long since faded from him.

When he had first reincarnated, he had panicked for a while.

But when he learned that he was Skyward Star, that he was Rock Demon God--Morax, that panic vanished in an instant.

After all, he was the most reassuring "man" on the Teyvat Continent!

Xue Beng: "..."

Seeing Zhongli sink into thought, Xue Beng's eye twitched.

This guy was definitely no ordinary person!

He did not even possess the emotions of surprise and fear. This was simply...

[TOP 10: Bibi Dong, evaluation complete.]

[Her combat power was worthy of TOP 10.]

[Evaluation reward: The age of all Spirit Rings increases by 10,000 years.]

"..."

The world fell silent once again. To them, ten-thousand-year Spirit Rings were already incredibly powerful.

Some Commoners who were Soul Emperor-level experts might possess only a single ten-thousand-year Spirit Ring.

Ten-thousand-year Soul Beasts were not so easy to deal with.

The tenth-place reward on this Power Ranking was actually an additional ten thousand years for every Spirit Ring. It truly made people's eyes turn red with envy!

How generous would the rewards for ninth, eighth, or even first place be?

Wait, Bibi Dong had struck it rich!

She possessed Twin Martial Souls. Although her second Martial Soul had not yet finished gaining new Spirit Rings, it already had several Spirit Rings.

All Spirit Rings would gain ten thousand years. She had two Martial Souls, so the Spirit Rings on both Martial Souls would gain years. If that was not striking it rich, what was?

At the same time.

Qian Daoliu and Bo Saixi, far away on Sea God Island, sank into thought.

They had narrowly escaped death while completing the Red Eight Trials, becoming the Great Enshrined of deities.

Even then, the age of their Spirit Rings had only increased by ten thousand years.

Yet merely placing last on a Power Ranking granted an increase of ten thousand years.

This world was so unfair!

That was how it was for them, and it was even more so for ordinary Soul Masters.

They could not even gain access to God Trials, much less come into contact with the Sky Screen.

"Who will the next expert be?"

"Qian Daoliu?"

"Bo Saixi?"

"Or Tang Chen?" ×2

Bo Saixi and Qian Daoliu thought to themselves.

The three Peerless Douluo would certainly have a place on this ranking.

As for where they would rank, that was unclear.

In the shadows of Blue Tyrant Academy, Tang Hao clenched his fists and stared fixedly at the Sky Screen.

His Soul Power Level had now reached level ninety-five.

He had thought that, apart from Qian Daoliu, no one in this world could threaten him.

Who could have imagined that the current Pope had reached level ninety-eight?

A difference of three levels was like heaven and earth.

"I, the mighty Clear Sky Douluo, cannot even make this Hidden Expert Ranking!"

"Are there truly this many experts in this world?"

Tang Hao frowned deeply. This world had become completely different from the one he had imagined before.

"The Sky Screen's rewards are too generous. Those who receive them will become even stronger."

"I..."

Tang Hao was furious, yet helpless.

The words and video on the Sky Screen changed once again.

The words and images swiftly disappeared.

Clearly, it was preparing to reveal the ninth-ranked expert on the Hidden Expert Ranking.

The tenth place was already this powerful. What kind of magnificence would ninth place possess?