As a level ninety-nine Limit Douluo, she had also inherited the Rakshasa God Trial.
Bibi Dong understood better than anyone what kind of immense power it took to casually erase a terrifying Seven-Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast as shown on the screen!
That was absolutely a realm beyond the reach of Mortals!
Then, her gaze fell upon the exceedingly generous reward.
"A complete set of Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones..."
Bibi Dong slowly exhaled, her tone complicated.
"This Ranking List is truly generous."
She looked at her daughter and said,
"Xue'er, the value of this set of soul bones may be even greater than your Angel Set."
As the inherited Divine Weapon of the Angel God, the Angel Set consisted of six soul bones, each only ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety-nine years old. In the end, they had failed to break through the Shackles of one hundred thousand years.
Yet this Ranking List had rewarded an entire set of Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones the moment it made a move!
However, Qian Renxue seemed not to have heard Bibi Dong at all.
Her golden eyes merely gazed, dazed and transfixed, at the white-robed figure on the Sky Screen. Though she could not make out his face, his bearing was peerless.
Beneath that sacred armor, her delicate, curvaceous body rose and fell slightly as emotions surged within her like a tide.
Her crystal-clear jade feet stood upon the cold city bricks, yet she felt no chill at all. Only a wave of heat rushed from her heart through every limb and bone.
"With one palm, he killed the Seven-Hundred-Thousand-Year Evil Eye Tyrant Master..."
"Master..."
An unconscious smile touched Qian Renxue's red lips. Pure and radiant, it dispelled all the gloom and killing intent between her brows.
"You're still the same as before—so handsome, so powerful, so... mysterious!"
At the same time.
Sun Moon Continent.
Sun Moon Empire, imperial capital, Ming City.
Inside the resplendent palace, the atmosphere was so oppressive it seemed nearly frozen solid.
A white-robed figure sat casually upon the throne that symbolized supreme authority.
Below him, Xu Tian, emperor of the Sun Moon Empire, led the imperial family's core members and the civil and military officials in kneeling black masses.
Everyone had their heads bowed deeply, their bodies trembling from extreme terror. None of them even dared to breathe too loudly.
They did not dare look directly at the man on the throne. They could only steal reverent glances at the golden Sky Screen hanging in the heavens from the corners of their eyes.
Just moments ago, they had witnessed it.
They had witnessed the Evil Eye Tyrant Master—the being they of the Sun Moon Empire revered as a sacred totem and hailed as the strongest guardian God of the Sun Moon Continent—being casually killed with a single palm strike by the man on the throne.
That was their God!
And just like that... he was gone?
At that moment, golden light burst forth from the Sky Screen.
Six dazzling pillars of light brimming with a vast Life Aura descended from the heavens, landing precisely before Lu Ming. They transformed into six soul bones of different forms, each radiating the terrifying pressure of the Hundred Thousand Year level.
A complete set of Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones appeared before everyone just like that.
Lu Ming casually swept his gaze across the six soul bones, his expression calm and utterly unmoved.
He reached out, picked up the right arm bone that shone the brightest, and weighed it in his hand.
Then, seeming utterly uninterested, he placed it back into the ball of light.
"A set of Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones?"
He murmured softly. His voice was not loud, yet it reached every person below with perfect clarity.
"Not worth keeping, but a shame to throw away."
"Forget it. I'll take them back and give them away."
As soon as he finished speaking, he casually waved his hand. The six soul bones that could drive the entire Douluo Continent mad were tossed into his storage space as though they were rubbish.
Xu Tian and the others kneeling below nearly bit off their own tongues upon hearing that.
Not worth keeping, but a shame to throw away?
This was... an entire set of Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones!
And he actually... found them lacking?
After dealing with matters here, Lu Ming slowly rose from the throne.
His karma with the Sun Moon Continent had been settled.
"It's time to return to the Douluo Continent."
Standing with his hands behind his back, his gaze seemed to pierce through the palace roof and look toward the distant east.
A gentle smile appeared at the corner of his lips.
"Come to think of it, I do miss Gu Yuena and the others."
At the same time.
Heaven Dou City.
Within an enormous and magnificent estate filled with pavilions and towers.
The Ye Family.
Inside a fragrant bedchamber.
A peerlessly beautiful woman in a pale green dress stood quietly by the window, gazing up at the golden Divine Ranking in the sky.
Her skin was fair as snow, her features picturesque, and her long, smooth black hair cascaded down to her waist like a waterfall.
With a gentle temperament and tranquil grace, she resembled an orchid blooming in an empty valley. She was Ye Lingling, the Nine Heart Begonia Soul Master.
When her gaze landed upon the white-robed figure on the Sky Screen, the one who had obliterated mountains with a single palm strike,
and then upon the name in the "Master" column, her limpid eyes abruptly contracted.
"Lu Ming?"
A soft cry filled with profound astonishment escaped her cherry-red lips.
Her delicate body trembled uncontrollably.
"The portrait on the Sky Screen... is exactly the same as the statue in the ancestral hall!"
A thought that made her breathing stop surfaced in her mind.
Could it be... that this peerless expert, capable of casually killing a Seven-Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, was actually an ancestor of my Ye Family?
Just then, the door was gently pushed open, and a graceful, noble figure entered. It was Ye Qingxian, the current head of the Ye Family and Ye Lingling's mother.
"Lingling, you're watching the Ranking List too."
Ye Qingxian's voice was warm and pleasant, but it carried excitement she could not suppress.
Her gaze was likewise fixed upon the Sky Screen. Her peerless face, seventy percent similar to Ye Lingling's, was filled with reverence and fervor.
"Mother."
Ye Lingling turned around and asked anxiously,
"This Senior Lu Ming on the Sky Screen... he, he really is..."
"That's right!"
Ye Qingxian nodded heavily, her tone incomparably certain.
"He is the ancestor of our Ye Family!"
"Back then, it was Ancestor Lu Ming who fell in love with the ancestor of our Nine Heart Begonia Lineage. With his heaven-reaching power, he defied fate and broke the curse of single-line inheritance in our Nine Heart Begonia Lineage!"
"Only after that could our Ye Family flourish and grow!"
Ye Qingxian's voice rose higher and higher, her eyes shining with pride.
"Ancestor Lu Ming even created a separate genealogy for us, and on the very first page of that genealogy was his name!"
"Gasp—"
A sharp intake of breath came from the doorway.
A woman in a jade-green fitted outfit leaned against the doorframe, her voluptuous figure and heroic bearing offset by the shock written all over her face.
She was Dugu Yan, Ye Lingling's close friend and a Jade Phosphorous Serpent Soul Master.
She had come to visit Ye Lingling today, never expecting to overhear such an earth-shattering secret.
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