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Supreme Ladder.

Fan Jingtian, second on the Spark Ranking, had silently appeared outside this area not long after emerging from seclusion.

"After three hundred Star Years of single-minded seclusion, it is time to show the world who the true number one on the Spark Ranking is."

His expression was calm, without sorrow or joy.

When he emerged from seclusion, he had not even alerted anyone.

If one did not cry out, so be it; once one did, it would shake the world.

Three Thousand Worldly Dusts had kept him pinned in second place for a full thousand years. Throughout those thousand years, he had been holding his breath and cultivating diligently.

For this, he had all but given up entertainment, leisure, and social connections, all for this day—for the chance to hold his head high and let everyone in the Humanity Holy Hall know that he, Fan Jingtian, had been proud all his life and inferior to no one.

Now that his seclusion had ended, he had not even informed his master before quietly coming outside the Supreme Ladder, all for the thrill of secretly growing stronger and stunning the world at this very moment.

"Three Thousand Worldly Dusts was at the Sixty-sixth Rank on the Supreme Ladder, if I remember correctly? Even if he has improved over these three hundred years, the Sixty-seventh Rank should be his limit. As for me, I am a Supreme Heavenly Prodigy confident of breaking through the Sixty-eighth Rank. If luck is on my side and I happen to encounter a stage whose environment perfectly matches me while suppressing the simulated opponent, reaching the Sixty-ninth Rank and attaining a level near the top of the World-Shaking Ranking would not be beyond hope."

As Fan Jingtian thought this, boundless confidence welled up within him.

"Hmm?"