Tang Hao Could Not Accept It! Seventeenth on the Golden Ranking!

At that moment, Qian Yu beside her suddenly spoke, his tone calm, as though he were stating an established fact.

"My Xue'er's Martial Soul can rank fifteenth."

Qian Renxue was slightly stunned upon hearing this.

She turned her head and looked at her father in disbelief.

"Fifteenth?"

"Father, aren't you underestimating my Six-winged Angel too much?"

The girl's tone carried a trace of coquettish displeasure.

"It's a God-level Spirit! How could it possibly rank only fifteenth?"

"Besides..."

Qian Renxue blinked, looking at Qian Yu in confusion.

"Even Grandfather, the Great Enshriner of the Angel Temple, doesn't know the origins of this Heavenly Screen ranking. Father, how... how would you know the rankings?"

In her eyes, although her father was unfathomably powerful, this ranking came from the Myriad Realms and was formed by the Heavenly Dao. How could a mortal possibly glimpse its mysteries?

She did not believe her father at all and merely thought he was joking with her.

Hearing this, Qian Yu revealed a gentle smile. He did not explain, merely reaching out to rub his daughter's hair once more.

"If you want to know which Martial Souls are ahead of it, I can tell you every one of them."

His voice was soft, yet it carried the composure of someone who understood everything.

Qian Renxue looked into her father's eyes, as deep as a starry sky, and a ripple suddenly stirred in her heart. For some reason, her disbelief began to waver.

Meanwhile.

Outside Jialing Pass, Heaven Dou Empire, Shrek camp.

When they saw the utterly clear rankings on the Heavenly Screen, the entire camp erupted.

Everyone stared dumbfoundedly at the sky, the expressions on their faces frozen.

"This... this is impossible!"

Dai Mubai cried out, his voice trembling.

"The Clear Sky Hammer—that's the Clear Sky Hammer! How could it only be seventeenth?"

"Yeah, could this ranking be wrong?"

Ma Hongjun rubbed his eyes hard, thinking he had seen things.

Yet among the crowd, one person reacted more intensely than anyone else.

Yu Xiaogang.

He stood rooted to the spot, his body as rigid as a stone statue. His eyes were fixed on the words "Seventeenth Place" on the Heavenly Screen, his pupils violently contracting.

"What?"

"The Clear Sky Hammer... how could it possibly... be only seventeenth on the Spirit Ranking?"

His lips trembled, every word seeming to squeeze out through clenched teeth.

His voice was hoarse, filled with bewilderment and collapse.

He had studied Spirit Theory his entire life, categorizing the Martial Souls of the world into different ranks. The Clear Sky Hammer had always been revered by him as the pinnacle among Weapon Spirits, the very peak of his theoretical system.

But now, the most vital cornerstone supporting his entire edifice of theory had been effortlessly... shattered by the Heavenly Dao Ranking.

No, it had not merely been shattered.

It had been completely overturned!

Thud.

With a dull sound, Yu Xiaogang's body went limp, and he collapsed directly onto the ground.

His eyes were vacant as he kept repeating under his breath.

"Overturned... it's all been overturned..."

Beside him, the other members of the Shrek Seven Devils did not look much better.

Especially Tang San.

His body trembled slightly, and his usually calm, composed face was now filled with shock and incomprehension.

"Are you kidding me?"

Tang San's voice was dry, as though a red-hot iron had lodged itself in his throat.

"The Clear Sky Hammer... only ranks seventeenth?"

This was not merely a ranking of Martial Souls.

It was also a denial of his father's glory, and the glory of his entire sect!

The Clear Sky Hammer, the number one Weapon Spirit in the world!

The acknowledged strongest existence beneath God-level Spirits!

This was the understanding and pride engraved into his bones since childhood.

But now, the foundation of that pride had been smashed to pieces by the five icy words, "Seventeenth Place," on the Heavenly Screen.

"Little San, don't get worked up."

Seeing this, Xiao Wu hurriedly stepped forward to support him, her beautiful eyes full of concern.

Yet her own voice carried a trace of trembling as well.

"This... this is the Clear Sky Hammer. How could it possibly..."

She could not finish her words either.

The facts were right before them, beyond dispute.

Dai Mubai clenched his fists tightly, his knuckles turning white from the force.

"If even the Clear Sky Hammer ranks seventeenth, then just what kind of beings are the sixteen Martial Souls before it?"

Ning Rongrong's face was somewhat pale as well.

"My Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda probably... doesn't even qualify to be listed."

Zhu Zhuqing said nothing, but her taut delicate body and the long, shapely legs outlined beneath her battle skirt revealed the turmoil in her heart.

For a time, the entire Shrek camp was shrouded in a stifling, heavy atmosphere.

Tang San's gaze dimmed.

He slowly lowered his head and looked at his hands.

In his left hand, the Clear Sky Hammer.

In his right hand, the Blue Silver Emperor.

Twin Martial Souls—this was his greatest reliance, as well as the foundation of his confidence in opposing the Spirit Hall Empire.

But now, even the Clear Sky Hammer, hailed as the world's number one Weapon Spirit, could only rank seventeenth.

Then even if he possessed Twin Martial Souls, just how strong could he really be?

An unprecedented sense of powerlessness washed over him like a tide.

At that moment, Yu Xiaogang, who was slumped on the ground, seemed to suddenly come back to his senses.

He shakily raised a hand and pointed to the sky, saying hoarsely:

"Even the Clear Sky Hammer... can only rank seventeenth..."

"I truly wonder just how astonishing the Martial Souls in the top ten must be..."

"Especially that... that Number One Martial Soul?"

Fear and fervor intertwined in his eyes. It was an extreme yearning for unknown truth after the collapse of a lifelong belief.

Meanwhile.

Heaven Dou City.

Tang Sect.

As one of the people currently in charge of the Tang Sect, Tang Hao was overseeing the various halls as they accelerated the production of war supplies.

The great battle between the Heaven Dou Empire and the Spirit Hall Empire at Jialing Pass had reached its most critical stage. Any additional supplies could affect the course of the battle.

However, as he inspected a newly constructed giant Godly Zhuge Crossbow, the upheaval in the heavens abruptly brought him to a halt.

When the five words [Myriad Spirits Ranking] appeared, he only frowned slightly.

But when the two lines [Seventeenth Place: Clear Sky Hammer] and [Holder: Tang Hao] clearly entered his sight.

Boom!

An incomparably domineering momentum erupted explosively from his body!

The surrounding Tang Sect disciples felt an irresistible force crash into them, sending them staggering back one after another. Those with weaker cultivation directly spat out blood and collapsed to the ground.

"How is this possible!"

Tang Hao threw back his head and roared, his eyes bloodshot as he looked utterly crazed.

"My Clear Sky Hammer is the number one Weapon Spirit of this age! How could it possibly rank only seventeenth!"

"This ranking is simply absurd!"

His voice was like rolling Heavenly Thunder, exploding across the skies above all of Heaven Dou City.

A gentle blue light spread over him from behind, softly soothing the violent aura around his body.