Seeing that Chu Yuan remained silent, Chu Yang immediately presented the jade slip he had prepared long ago, which recorded the preliminary shortlist from the first round.
"Old Ancestor, this is the list that passed the first round of preliminary screening. Please review it!"
Chu Yuan looked speechlessly at Chu Yang's smiling face. He wanted to get angry, but one did not strike a smiling man. In the end, he could only sigh helplessly and accept the list.
The Immortal King Chu Clan's sphere of influence was unimaginably vast. It extended not only throughout the Immortal Domain, but also into countless Lower Realms. Therefore, the list Chu Yang had handed over was enormous—one hundred billion names in total!
For an ordinary person, even a lifetime would not be enough to finish reading the detailed information on a list containing one hundred billion people. Fortunately, the Immortal Domain was a world of cultivation. Even a list on that scale could be scanned in an instant with a powerful cultivator's divine sense. As a Quasi-Immortal Emperor, Chu Yuan could theoretically read the entire thing in a single Planck time—5.39 × 10⁻⁴⁴ seconds!
Yet the list, which should not have taken even a second to read, left Chu Yuan standing there in a daze for a long time. Chu Yang was overjoyed by the sight!
What did this mean? It meant that his Old Ancestor, an iron tree that had stood barren for a million years, was finally about to bloom!
No matter whom his Old Ancestor had taken a fancy to, even if she were an ordinary person, with the Old Chu Clan's resources, they could pile resources onto her until she became a Quasi-Immortal King!!!!!
Chu Yuan rolled his eyes at Chu Yang. When it came to this junior of his, Chu Yuan knew what he was thinking the moment he so much as twitched his ass.
Of course, he had not taken a fancy to anyone on the list. He had merely seen several familiar names.
Wang Xi, Xu Yaoyue, Yun Xi, Yue Chan...
Fine, those were normal. They had all appeared in the original story and were famous beauties, so it was only natural that the Chu Family, which had already established itself in the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands, would select them.
But what the hell were Qian Renxue, Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, and Hu Liena doing here?
If they had merely shared names with people in his memories, that would have been one thing. After all, the Immortal Domain was boundless, and the Lower Realms under its reach were innumerable. A few identical names would not have been strange. But the information also stated that they cultivated something called Martial Souls. If they were not the people from his memories...
Chu Yuan might have been old, but he was not senile yet...
So there was only one possibility left!
In Xuanming Prefecture, one of the Three Thousand Dao Provinces in the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands, stood one of the Chu Family's strongholds. The Chu Family had many similar strongholds throughout the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands—three hundred and sixty in total!
Originally, the Immortal Domain had sealed off its passageways to the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands in order to prevent the invasion of strange power. It had even barred the Immortal Kings and True Immortals who had once been sent by the Immortal Domain to assist in battle from returning, forcing them to remain in the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands.
But Chu Yuan was simply too powerful. Three hundred thousand years ago, he had single-handedly overruled all objections and forced the other Immortal Kings to allow the Chu Family to open a passage to the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands, enabling the Chu Family's experts to develop their influence there.
The one overseeing the Chu Family headquarters in Wuliang Heaven of the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands was a True Immortal of the Chu Family!
At that moment, inside a massive palace in Lingxiao City on the Barren Lands of Xuanming Prefecture, Qian Renxue watched the streaks of light occasionally flashing through the distance and the guards nearby, every one of whom radiated an overwhelming aura. Her mind was as chaotic and complicated as if a million Grass Mud Horses had trampled through it!
She had never imagined that in merely ten days, her entire worldview would be completely overturned!
This world was too powerful—so powerful that it resembled the legendary God Realm of Douluo Continent even more than the God Realm itself!
Terrifying power, horrifying Giant Beasts stretching beyond the eye's reach... She could even sense that if any random cultivator here went to Douluo Continent, they could probably overturn the entire continent with ease!
Whenever she thought back to what had happened a month ago, she felt unbearably embarrassed.
What did it mean to be a frog at the bottom of a well, ignorant of the vastness of heaven and earth? Everyone in Douluo Continent ten days ago, without exception, had been such frogs!
Ten days ago, she had still been plotting, as usual, how to usurp the Heaven Dou Empire. Then, a voice suddenly rang out across the entire world.
[The livestream of the Mysterious Land is about to begin. This world will randomly select one hundred Chosen Ones to enter the Mysterious Land!] [It is a vast, boundless, endless, and powerful greater world!] [Supreme power capable of shattering countless Daos can be seen everywhere there!] [Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures capable of extending one's lifespan are abundant there!] [Terrifying Magic Tools capable of destroying heaven and earth stretch across the skies there!] [One may even attain immortality and the Dao there, live forever, and stand proudly at the pinnacle of all worlds and realms!] [Everything and anything—you will find everything you desire there!] [One year later, the Chosen Ones may choose to return to the Douluo World with all their gains and power!] [Provided that you can survive!]
Qian Renxue was stunned, both because the voice had resounded through the heavens and because of what it had said!
She understood every word separately, but when they were put together, she could not quite understand them.
Supreme power that could tear apart heaven and earth?
Ridiculous!
A Soul Douluo could split mountains and shatter rocks, face an army alone, and turn the tide of a battle. A Title Douluo could initially wield the elemental power of heaven and earth and possessed domain abilities, enough to rival an entire nation alone. A Peak Douluo controlled space; in a rage, one could make heaven and earth change color. A Peerless Douluo stood at the pinnacle of humanity, possessing a demigod body, and could shatter mountains and rivers with a full-powered strike!
As for gods, they controlled laws. Once they acted, they would surely destroy heaven and earth!
Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures that extended one's lifespan?
Ridiculous!
An ordinary Soul Master lived for roughly one hundred years. A Title Douluo at Rank 90 lived for around two hundred years. A Peak Douluo at Ranks 95 to 98 could live for two to three hundred years, while a Peerless Douluo at Rank 99 generally lived for two to three hundred years, with a few surpassing three hundred!
Gods, meanwhile, had broken through the limits of life and could live forever!
Without any Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures that extended one's lifespan, gods could still exist eternally!
Terrifying Magic Tools capable of destroying heaven and earth?
What Magic Tool capable of destroying heaven and earth could possibly be stronger than a Soul Tool?
A Level 9 Soul Tool was especially terrifyingly powerful, capable of matching a Peerless Douluo's full-force attack. In terms of range, it was even far greater!
Attain immortality and the Dao, live forever, and stand proudly at the pinnacle of all worlds and realms?
What kind of nonsense was that?!
Could some hidden expert on Douluo Continent be playing a joke on everyone?
But what would be the point...
"Still, if it is true, it would be an incredible opportunity. If I can enter this so-called Mysterious Land, perhaps I can draw inspiration from it and successfully break through to Rank 80, becoming a Soul Douluo!"
A look of longing appeared on Qian Renxue's face, but she soon shook her head and continued her grand undertaking of usurping the nation.
Putting aside whether this was real or fake, even if it were true, so what?!
According to the information Spirit Hall had released some time ago, Douluo Continent had a population of roughly 140 million. A hundred people would be chosen from 140 million, and she just happened to be among them?
Hehehe, was she insane, or had something gone wrong with her brain...
Of course, Qian Renxue was not the only one. At that moment, everyone across Douluo Continent heard the voice.
As the voice appeared, the entire Douluo Continent erupted into an uproar.
"Mysterious Land? Does that mean another world?"
"Probably."
"By the way, what exactly is this livestream thing?"
"No, brother, why are you asking me? Who am I supposed to ask? But what I care about is that the voice said we could obtain supreme power capable of shattering countless Daos in the Mysterious Land. I wonder whether that sort of power is easy to obtain, and whether it is stronger or weaker than the legendary Douluo?"
"Nonsense, of course Douluo are stronger! Douluo experts can rival an entire nation by themselves, all right?!"
"That's true. Douluo are the strongest!"
At the Clear Sky Sect, Tang Xiao—the current sect master of the Clear Sky Sect, Tang San's eldest uncle, and Tang Hao's biological elder brother—looked around in confusion. Seeing that everyone present wore equally bewildered expressions, he confirmed that he had not misheard anything.
"Which senior is here, playing such a joke on us? My Clear Sky Sect is not some weak force to be bullied at will!"
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