Three Great Fierce Beasts Exposed, Snow Empress Awakens! Spirit Hall Only Ranks Third?

(Snow Empress illustration)

After all, even the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda's most powerful support soul skills

required continuous Soul Power consumption to maintain and had limits of distance and duration.

By comparison, the heaven-defying value of this "Book of Curses" spoke for itself!

This also made Soul Masters across the continent harbor unprecedented expectations and greedy fantasies toward the vaguely described "Divine Artifact" rewards for the top three.

The rewards for the top ten were already this incredible—just what sort of world-destroying supreme treasures would the Divine Artifacts for the top three be?!

Before that greed could fully ferment, the Heavenly Ranking's radiance shifted, and a new ranking emerged with a chill that seemed capable of freezing all things:

[Fourth Place on the Heavenly Ranking's Faction Ranking: Extreme North Land!]

[Three great kings stand side by side: Snow Empress, Ice Empress, and Titan Snow Demon King, all ice soul beasts with cultivation exceeding a hundred thousand years!]

[Rewards obtained: Heavenly Treasure "Book of Curses"—the wearer's soul skill power increases by fifty percent; one Ninety-Thousand-Year Soul Bone.]

"Soul beasts?! Fourth Place is actually a soul beast faction?!"

"Three Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts! My heavens... the Extreme North Land actually hides such terrifying existences!"

"Snow Empress, Ice Empress, Titan Snow Demon King... just hearing those names makes one shudder!"

The entire continent erupted once again!

The complicated relationship between humans and soul beasts made this ranking particularly glaring.

Within King's Hall,

A flash of realization passed through Lin Jiang's eyes, as though he had grasped part of the Heavenly Ranking's logic:

"So that's how it is... even the three great overlords of the isolated Extreme North Land have been exposed."

"It seems there is almost no suspense left for the top three. They must include..."

A clear guess had already formed in his heart, and his gaze grew even deeper.

Within Spirit Hall,

Bibi Dong, who had been lazily reclining sideways upon the imperial throne, finally sat upright.

In her peerlessly beautiful face, her lovely eyes burst forth with a sharpness like a hawk's and a greed like a glutton's!

"Extreme North Land... it actually hides three Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts, and they are kings standing side by side..."

Her slender fingers lightly tapped the armrest, her gaze so scorching it seemed capable of melting distant glaciers.

In her eyes, those three kings ruling the Far North had already become the most perfect reserves of Soul Rings and Soul Bones for her future God Trial path!

If the time had not yet been unsuitable, she would have almost immediately gathered her forces and marched north into the snowfields!

Heaven Dou Imperial Palace,

Qian Renxue, disguised as Xue Qinghe, secretly breathed a sigh of relief at the sight.

"Since it is a soul beast faction on the ranking, that is actually a good thing."

These fierce beasts, who could not be easily recruited and preferred solitary lives,

might possess terrifying strength, but regarding Spirit Hall's grand plan of domination,

they posed no direct threat for the time being and might instead restrain other human factions.

At the same time, a beam of reward light ignored the distance of space,

descending directly into the Core Land of the Extreme North, an absolute forbidden zone that even Titled Douluo did not dare enter lightly.

Upon a jade bed carved from Ten Thousand Year ice, a peerlessly beautiful woman lay sleeping quietly.

Her figure was slender and graceful, her white hair cascading like a snowy waterfall to her feet.

Her plain white gown was untouched by the slightest speck of dust, and her features were exquisite and flawless.

Her temperament was noble and cold, like a winter plum standing proudly atop a towering glacier, too sacred to profane.

The immense aura emitted by the Ninety-Thousand-Year Soul Bone quietly awakened her from her long slumber.

Her long eyelashes trembled slightly as she slowly opened a pair of sky-blue eyes.

Those eyes were ethereal and clear, like the purest heart of a glacier, untouched by even the slightest worldly impurity.

"A... Soul Bone?"

At first, her heart ached, thinking it had been left behind by some unfortunate powerful soul beast kin who had fallen.

Yet upon sensing it carefully, she detected no familiar soul beast aura from this exceptionally high-quality Soul Bone, only an incomparably pure energy of heaven and earth.

Only then did she notice the enormous golden ranking in the sky, brilliant and dazzling, radiating supreme majesty.

"The Heavenly Ranking?"

"This item is actually a reward from the Heavenly Ranking?"

"It... it actually revealed the existence of Ice Empress, the Titan Snow Demon King, and me to the public!"

Snow Empress immediately realized the severity of the matter, her delicate brows drawing together.

In that case, even though they were powerful enough to be called the rulers of the Far North, they would inevitably attract the greedy attention of those peak human experts across the continent!

Hunting Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts was a fatal temptation to human Titled Douluo!

What was more, Ice Empress and the Titan Snow Demon King were currently facing critical cultivation tribulations and could not tolerate the slightest disturbance!

An icy sense of crisis instantly enveloped her.

"This matter is no small one. It is no longer merely a matter of the Far North!"

She abruptly rose to her feet, cold air naturally circulating around her as if even space itself were about to freeze.

"I must quickly inform Lord Di Tian of the Star Dou Great Forest and discuss a countermeasure together!"

Within Shrek Academy, the atmosphere was solemn and subtle.

Everyone's eyes focused on Yu Xiaogang, awaiting the analysis of this "theoretical Master."

Yu Xiaogang forced himself to remain calm, clasping his hands behind his back and striving to maintain an air of having everything under control as he analyzed in a deep voice:

"It seems the Heavenly Ranking's evaluation criteria are more complicated than we imagined."

"It even includes soul beast factions like the Extreme North Land in its ranking. That was indeed something I had overlooked earlier."

After a brief pause, he continued his speculation, his tone firm:

"By that logic, the unrevealed second and third places should also be soul beast factions similar to the Extreme North Land."

"As for the utterly unsurprising first place... it must undoubtedly be Spirit Hall!"

This seemingly logical deduction temporarily dispersed the haze in everyone's hearts,

allowing conviction and understanding to reappear in Tang San, Dai Mubai, and the others' eyes.

Master truly was knowledgeable!

However!

Before his seemingly reasonable conclusion had fully fallen, as though the Heavenly Ranking deliberately intended to trample his last shred of dignity beneath its feet,

the golden light in the heavens suddenly surged with unprecedented intensity, and a new ranking descended with earth-shattering force.

[Third Place on the Heavenly Ranking: Spirit Hall!]

[Land of Angel God Inheritance, the place all Soul Masters on the continent aspire toward, where top experts gather!]

[It shall be Third Place on the Heavenly Ranking!]

[Reward Divine Artifact: Blade of Sanction!]

[Reward Heaven and Earth Supreme Treasure: Holy Grail!]

[Reward: one Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone!]

"Boom—!!!!!"

This time, the entire Douluo Continent—from the imperial royal families above to ordinary commoners below—

seemed to have been struck in the mind by a thunderclap from the Nine Heavens, plunging into unprecedented dead silence and horror!

"Th... third?!"

"What kind of joke is this?! Spirit Hall... Spirit Hall, whose might oppresses the world, only ranks third?!"

"The Angel God Temple, Pope Bibi Dong, the unfathomable Worship Hall... with such foundations, it is only third?!"

"Madness! This world has gone mad! Just what kind of monsters are the top two on the Heavenly Ranking?!"

On Shrek Academy's training grounds,

"What? Spirit Hall... only ranks third?!"

Yu Xiaogang cried out in shock like a rooster being strangled,

the faint color that had just returned to his face instantly draining away until he was pale as paper. His body swayed, and he nearly could not remain standing.

Being ruthlessly slapped in the face by reality again and again utterly destroyed this "Master's" prestige!

At the side, Ning Rongrong looked at Yu Xiaogang's dazed and devastated appearance, and an undisguised sneer rose from the bottom of her heart.