Yu Xiaogang Coughs Up Blood in Anger, the Clear Sky Sect's Baffling Confidence!

"You all saw it, didn't you?"

Ning Rongrong lifted her chin, looking smug.

"My Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect is not the bottom of the Upper Three Sects; the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan is!"

With the facts laid bare before them, the faces of Yu Xiaogang and Flender were slapped hard by reality.

Yu Xiaogang clenched his fists, arguing back with unconvinced defiance:

"Don't get cocky! The only reason the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect is ranked above them is clearly because of those two outsider Title Douluo!"

Unable to save face, Flender immediately chimed in with a deep voice:

"Exactly. When it comes down to it, isn't that just relying on others? Unlike the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, which relies on its own family members?"

Tang San, Dai Mubai, and the others nodded repeatedly in agreement.

Only Zhu Zhuqing remained silent, feeling increasingly disappointed in Yu Xiaogang, this so-called "Grandmaster," and even more disappointed in this academy.

A sect is not just a single clan; it is a place to gather strength from all sources. What is wrong with recruiting powerful outsiders?

Ning Rongrong was infuriated by this twisted logic, but she quickly came up with an idea and sneered:

"Yu Xiaogang, don't forget that you are a piece of trash who couldn't even break through level thirty. You can only rely on theories you plagiarized from who knows where to put on airs. Without those theories, you are nothing!"

The words "trash" and "plagiarism" struck Yu Xiaogang's heart like a thunderbolt.

"Pfft—"

Having his deepest, most painful scar exposed in public, Yu Xiaogang was so enraged that he spat out a mouthful of blood and collapsed to the ground.

"Teacher!"

Tang San rushed forward to support him, then glared at Ning Rongrong with uncontrollable fury.

To dare to humiliate and slander his teacher like this—she had already invited her own death!

"Hmph~"

Ning Rongrong couldn't be bothered with him. She turned her gaze to Flender and huffed:

"Flender, you haven't forgotten the bet we made, have you? A bet is a bet; kneel down and kowtow to apologize to me!"

Flender's face flushed a deep red. How could he possibly do such a thing?

Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun exchanged a glance and quickly stepped forward to smooth things over:

"Ning Rongrong, let's stop here. Leave a way out for others, and it will be easier to get along in the future."

"Yeah, yeah. Setting aside the facts, don't you have any fault in this at all?"

Ning Rongrong felt a sense of injustice. She pointed at Flender and said:

"He was the one who looked down on my Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect first. He agreed to the bet and lost, so why shouldn't he honor it?!"

"Enough!" Flender could no longer hold back and roared: "If you aren't satisfied, then get out of Shrek Academy!"

Ning Rongrong had been pampered like a princess since she was a child; she had never been yelled at like this before.

Overwhelmed by grievance, she finally couldn't help but burst into tears and turned to run toward the dormitories.

Oscar, who had been coveting her beauty, saw this and immediately whispered:

"Dean, what if she drops out?"

Flender naturally didn't want to let such a big fish get away, so he gave him a suggestive look.

The general idea was for him to go and offer some fake comfort to ensure she stayed.

Oscar understood immediately and chased after Ning Rongrong with a lecherous, wicked grin.

Seeing this, Zhu Zhuqing was dissatisfied with Flender's hypocrisy and felt even more disappointed in the academy.

Coming to this academy was a wrong decision! But if she left, where else could she go?

At this moment, Flender turned to the others and said in a deep voice:

"Alright, let's keep watching. I want to see exactly what kind of power could surpass the Upper Three Sects!"

Hearing this, everyone looked up at the Sky Screen with curiosity.

Yu Xiaogang, in particular, was full of defiance, still convinced that this was just a pretentious, unofficial ranking.

If the power rankings announced by the Sky Screen later couldn't convince him, he wouldn't acknowledge them no matter what!

Zhu Zhuqing also looked up at the Sky Screen, her eyes filled with a glimmer of expectation.

If she truly couldn't stay here, she could wait for the rankings to be revealed one by one and defect to a power that suited her.

Dai Mubai seemed to see through her thoughts and sneered inwardly:

"Zhu Zhuqing, a top-tier beauty like you can only belong to me, Dai Mubai. Don't even think about escaping my control!"

In the Heaven Dou Empire, inside a tavern in a remote town.

Tang Hao, dressed in a tattered black cloak with a disheveled appearance, was drinking himself into a stupor.

"The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan are both ranked at the bottom? What kind of trashy, unofficial list is this!"

Tang Hao felt dissatisfied with the Sky Screen outside his window, yet he was simultaneously drawn in by the rewards listed.

The battle from all those years ago had left him with severe hidden injuries, causing his cultivation to stagnate without any hope of progress.

With his grandfather Tang Chen still missing, he was currently the strongest combatant of the Clear Sky Sect.

If the Clear Sky Sect made it onto the list, he would most likely appear as the representative for the sect's strongest combatant.

"Once I improve my strength, I'll settle the score with you Martial Soul Hall for what happened back then, hahahahaha!"

At the mere thought of being able to improve his strength without any effort, Tang Hao excitedly raised his wine cup and drank deeply.

Clear Sky Sect.

Tang Xiao and the various elders were once again shocked by the Sky Screen list.

The Second Elder stroked his graying beard and exclaimed:

"I truly didn't expect that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had already surpassed the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan."

The other elders nodded one after another, chiming in:

"Indeed, according to the intelligence Yuehua has been sending back, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect clearly hasn't shown much improvement or change."

"It seems now that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect has been hiding its true strength. Yuehua's intelligence can no longer be fully relied upon; I fear other factions have been hiding their strength as well!"

Tang Xiao's confidence was shaken once more, and he furrowed his brows, saying:

"Respected elders, now that the other two of the Upper Three Sects have appeared on the list, will it be our Clear Sky..."

Before his words could fade, a chorus of dissatisfied rebukes erupted from the elders:

"Tang Xiao! Why are you spouting defeatist talk again? With the five of us plus you, we have a total of six Title Douluo!"

"With such a foundation, how could those two trash sects compare? We are bound to be in the top three; it is absolutely impossible for us to be in the bottom three!"

And the very moment their words fell.

The Sky Screen high above suddenly let out another dull, humming sound.

Golden light burst forth, the old characters rearranged themselves, transforming into rows of new text:

[Faction Ranking, 13th Place: Clear Sky Sect]

[Ruler Representative: Tang Xiao]

[Strongest Combatant Representative: Tang Xiao]

[Evaluation: The head of the Upper Three Sects among the seven great sects of the Douluo Continent, with hundreds of clan soul master disciples, five Title Douluo elders, and the sect's inherited top-tier assault-type tool martial soul, the Clear Sky Hammer. The martial soul itself might not be considered the absolute peak, but when paired with and bolstered by the sect's unique inherited Clear Sky Five Secret Arts (Ring Detonation, Nine Absolute Arts of Clear Sky, Great Sumeru Hammer, Sky-Surpassing Strike, Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer), its upper limit is raised infinitely. The higher the talent of the wielder, the greater the power unleashed! A peerless war soul hammer, a towering Clear Sky Sect; the name of Clear Sky shakes all directions!]

[Low-tier Reward: The Soul Power Level of the two representatives will each increase by one level, and the age of all soul rings will increase by two thousand years (if the representative is the same person, it is replaced by a Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone that perfectly adapts to the martial soul)!]

The entire continent, the moment they saw the Clear Sky Sect appear on the list, completely boiled over!

"What? The head of the Upper Three Sects, the Clear Sky Sect that was severely wounded and went into seclusion all those years ago, has actually advanced instead of retreating!"

"Including the sect master Tang Xiao, that's a full six Title Douluo! But how are they only ranked 13th?"

"If the Upper Three Sects can only rank in the bottom three, then what kind of heaven-defying existences are the twelve ranked ahead of them?!"

Among them, many sharp-eyed people also noticed that the once world-shaking Tang Chen did not appear on the list as a sect representative!

Previously, everyone in the world had believed he was still alive and merely missing. Could it now be concluded that he is dead?