Golden Crocodile Douluo and the few remaining worshippers roared and charged forward as well, using their flesh and blood to buy time for Qian Renxue.
"Stop Tang San!"
Tang San looked at the scene, and instead of getting angry, he laughed.
"Hahaha! How touching!"
"Qian Renxue, do you think you can still turn this around?"
"You're merely struggling before death!"
The Shrek group was utterly dismissive as well. In their eyes, this was merely the Spirit Hall Empire's final wail.
Victory had long been within their grasp.
At that tense moment, the golden light in the sky finally condensed to its peak!
Rows of even more dazzling and majestic gilded words slowly emerged, appearing before everyone's eyes!
[Douluo Exotic Treasures Ranking, First Place!] [Taichu Sword!] [This sword was formed from the first ray of light when heaven and earth first opened. It would endure as long as the world and stand eternal alongside the Great Dao!] [When the sword emerged, it could change the color of heaven and earth and render the sun and moon lightless! It could reverse space-time and shatter reincarnation!] [Its might could slay a God King!] [Divine Weapon Grade: Beyond Super Divine Artifact!] [Master: Lu Ming!] [Reward: One Vermillion Fruit (after consumption, Soul Power would unconditionally increase by ten levels)!] [Reward: One Million Year Soul Bone Set!] [Reward: Divine Skill—Blue Silver Divine Light!]
As those lines of information clearly appeared upon the Sky Screen,
the entire Jialing Pass battlefield fell into dead silence.
Everyone's movements froze at that very moment.
Bibi Dong, who had been locked in combat with Golden Crocodile Douluo and the others, abruptly raised her head. When she saw the words on the Golden Ranking, her entire body went rigid.
Her pupils contracted to their limit in an instant!
"W-what?"
"Taichu Sword?!"
"First place... was actually... the Taichu Sword?!"
Bibi Dong's mind went blank, her ears buzzing.
The words she had just said to Qian Renxue echoed madly through her mind.
"That broken sword..."
A broken sword?
That divine sword which had surpassed the Asura God Sword, the Angel Holy Sword, and the Eternal Life Pendant, ascending to the top rank of the Douluo Continent Exotic Treasures Ranking...
Was it the broken sword she had spoken of?!
No matter what, she could not connect that rust-covered piece of ordinary iron with the supreme divine weapon described on the Ranking List, a weapon that "could slay a God King"!
Hu Liena, who had been watching from atop the city wall, was utterly stunned as well.
Her mouth hung open, her beautiful face filled with shock.
"How... how is that possible?!"
"It was actually the Taichu Sword?!"
Just like her teacher Bibi Dong, she had previously looked down completely on that so-called "broken sword."
She had even mocked Qian Renxue in her heart. As the mighty Angel God, Qian Renxue did not study Divine Skills, yet spent every day kneeling before a broken sword. It was simply idiotic beyond measure!
But now...
The Golden Ranking's placement was like a resounding slap, viciously striking her across the face!
Golden Crocodile Douluo and the other worshippers were even more horrified out of their wits.
"Taichu Sword?!"
"There is actually such a divine object in this world?!"
"Beyond Super Divine Artifact... what grade is that?!"
"Its master... was Lu Ming again?! That Lu Ming again!"
The shock in their hearts was beyond words!
Unlike the Spirit Hall Empire's sheer terror, the Shrek group wore entirely different expressions at that moment.
The first to break the silence was Dai Mubai.
His evil eyes stared fixedly at the words "Taichu Sword" on the Sky Screen, his voice dry.
"Taichu Sword?"
"W-what exactly is this Taichu Sword?"
"Why could it rank first?"
Zhu Zhuqing, standing beside him, said nothing, but her tightly furrowed brows explained everything.
She could not understand it either.
In her view, the Asura God Sword was already the pinnacle creation of the God Realm, the supreme Divine Weapon capable of Judgment upon Gods. What kind of exotic treasure could possibly stand above it?
"I refuse to accept this!"
A voice filled with boundless pride and fury exploded forth. It was Tang San!
His eyes were bloodshot, Sea God Divine Power and Asura Divine Power surging endlessly around him. Even the surrounding space seemed to warp from his rage.
He pointed the Sea God Trident in his hand at the Golden Ranking in the sky and harshly demanded an answer, as though confronting the unseen rules themselves.
"Why does this sword deserve to rank ahead of my Asura God Sword?!"
His voice was full of jealousy and unwillingness.
The Asura God Sword was his greatest trump card, the source of pride he possessed as the inheritor of Dual God Positions!
Yet now, the Golden Ranking had told him in the most direct and cruel manner that everything he took pride in was utterly worthless before another exotic treasure!
"Third Brother is right!"
Xiao Wu immediately echoed him. She jumped to Tang San's side, raised her little face, and glared angrily at the Golden Ranking as well.
"The Asura God Sword is a Super Divine Artifact, and even among all Super Divine Artifacts, it is absolutely among the best!"
"This Taichu Sword, I've never even heard of it. Why does it deserve first place?"
The young woman's voice was clear, but it carried an unshakable resolve.
However, just as the Shrek group shared the same outrage and protested Tang San's injustice, a discordant voice suddenly rang out.
"What?!"
Yu Xiaogang abruptly snapped out of his shock. He was not stunned by the Taichu Sword's ranking, but by something else.
He extended a trembling finger toward the Sky Screen, his face filled with absurdity and fury.
"First place... wasn't my theory?!"
"I refuse to accept this!"
That furious roar instantly made the atmosphere around them somewhat strange.
The Shrek group all turned to look at Yu Xiaogang as though he were some kind of monster.
At a time like this?
They were discussing the ranking of Super Divine Artifacts that could determine the outcome of a battle involving God Kings, yet Master... Master was still hung up on his theory?
Yu Xiaogang, however, did not notice anyone's strange reactions at all. Immersed in his own world, he only grew angrier the more he thought about it.
"My Spirit Master theory is an unprecedented exotic treasure of the continent! It is a supreme treasure capable of changing the entire Soul Master World's structure!"
He beat his chest and stamped his feet, devastated.
"The Golden Ranking is blind! The Golden Ranking is blind!"
"If this Taichu Sword ranks first, then doesn't that mean... my Spirit Master theory, capable of overturning the continent itself, did not even make the top ten of the Exotic Treasures Ranking?!"
He could not accept that fact!
This was simply the greatest insult to his life's work!
Watching the near-hysterical Yu Xiaogang, Flender and Liu Erlong exchanged glances, both wearing bitter smiles as they hurried forward to restrain him.
"Xiaogang, calm down..."
"Master, now isn't the time to talk about this..."
Tang San frowned as well, somewhat displeased by his teacher's loss of composure. Yet he said nothing, merely turning his gaze back to the Sky Screen.
He did not believe it!
He wanted to see just what kind of description this so-called Taichu Sword possessed that it dared stand above the Asura God Sword!
Everyone also collected themselves and continued looking toward the Sky Screen.
The next moment, as the Golden Ranking's detailed description of the Taichu Sword slowly emerged, everyone's breathing stopped in that instant.
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