Sneaky Ranking Ninth Place: Seven-Surname Slave King Huai!

[Sneaky Ranking Ninth Place: Earth Cave King Huai, Huai Ying!]

[Standing before you is the Earth Cave Heavenly Plant Royal Court True King, Heavenly Fate Royal Court external True King, general of the Two Kings, Earth Dog True Lord of the Divine Sect, one of the Thirty-Six Saints of the New Heavenly Court, friend of Martial King Zhang Tao, and Dao Protector of the future Human King!]

[Enough, enough, there isn't enough room here for so many people.]

As King Huai's long, dazzling string of titles appeared, the entire Three Realms first fell into an eerie silence, followed by a total eruption!

"Holy crap! King Huai is the true king of sneakiness!"

"Compared to King Huai, that sneaky King Ming is weak as hell!"

"Seven different factions... King Huai is invincible!"

"Just what kind of freak is this Huai Ying?"

"Does he have some special talent? How could he be accepted by seven different factions!"

"Earth Dog True Lord of the Divine Sect? King Huai is actually a member of that mysterious Divine Sect!"

"Thirty-Six Saints of the New Heavenly Court? What kind of faction is that!?"

"King Huai is even collaborating with humanity, what a shameless traitor to the Earth Cave!"

"..."

Earth Cave True Kings who weren't particularly strong, like the Earth Cave Survival King Pingshan, were on the verge of a breakdown!

What is going on with King Huai?

A seven-faced spy!

Usually, King Huai was considered the weakest True King in the Earth Cave, someone anyone could mock a few times.

Now that the Sky Screen had exposed him, King Huai had leaped into becoming a true "True God"!

Everyone was astonished, and even Li Zhu, who was always calm and composed, was stunned into speechlessness!

"Huai Ying is truly surprising!"

Li Zhu sighed with emotion. He had always thought Huai Ying was one of the Two Kings' men; he never expected King Huai to be a man of the Two Kings, a man of King Ming, and a member of the Divine Sect all at once.

That King Huai had colluded with Zhang Tao did not surprise him.

King Huai was such a troublemaker that it would have been more surprising if he hadn't colluded with Zhang Tao.

Zhang Tao's mouth also twitched, filled with admiration.

He did indeed have some cooperation with King Huai, but he truly hadn't expected King Huai to be such a social butterfly!

His intuition told him that the factions collaborating with King Huai were far more than the seven exposed by the Sky Screen.

Humanity's top brass, Li Zhen and Nan Yunyue, were also dumbfounded.

King Huai is truly a damn sneaky bastard!

"However, Dao Protector of the future Human King? Who is the future Human King?" Zhang Tao frowned, feeling somewhat puzzled.

Li Zhen, Nan Yunyue, and others noticed this as well, as did many True Kings within the Earth Cave and powerful figures hiding in the shadows.

King Ming's expression was gloomy. He had thought King Huai was his man, but he hadn't expected that he was the one who had become the clown!

"Huai Ying... you hid yourself truly deep!"

It wasn't that King Ming hadn't considered finding King Huai immediately, but the sheer number of titles King Huai had exposed made him somewhat wary.

What if King Huai had been pretending to be weak all along and was actually exceptionally powerful?

Better to wait for the Sky Screen to continue its exposure.

King Huai, who was still on the run, watched the exposure on the Sky Screen with cold sweat streaming down his face.

"The Sky Screen is killing me!"

King Huai was filled with grief and indignation. There were some factions he hadn't even joined yet, okay?

As for being the Dao Protector of the Human King... that was pure slander!

Wait, Human King?

Could it be referring to Martial King Zhang Tao?

[King Huai, Huai Ying, born a slave in the Earth Cave, his origins were extremely humble, like dust in the Earth Cave.

He has eaten dirt, drunk blood, sold himself, acted like a dog, and been ridden by others... all just to survive.

The hardships he endured were beyond imagination, relying on extraordinary perseverance, a shameless spirit, the ability to read people, as well as superhuman talent and luck.

King Huai spent two hundred years shedding his slave status to rank among the True Kings of the Earth Cave.

Though he is the weakest, he is actually the strongest, with the strongest temperament!]

At this moment, all the kings of the Earth Cave fell silent, and all the martial artists of the Earth Cave fell silent.

The slaves of the Earth Cave looked blankly at the Sky Screen, listening to its emotionless voice, their cracked lips slowly parting:

"Can a lowly slave also become a True King?"

"King Huai... is truly a legend!"

"I am not his equal!"

"To rise from a slave to a True King, it is unbelievable!"

In the Earth Cave, with its tens of billions of people, only martial artists are considered human; slaves are merely ants and expendable resources to be crushed at will. How could one possibly turn their life around?

King Huai is the only one who has!

Most other True Kings were born into prominent families; even those not born to Earth Cave nobility came from families of martial artists.

In the Earth Cave, slaves have absolutely no way to learn martial arts; wherever they go, they are merely objects to be bullied and toyed with.

No one can imagine what King Huai had to do or what he had to sacrifice to shed his status as a slave.

All that is known is that King Huai walked a path of no return!

While others were marveling at the legend of King Huai, King Huai himself was currently so depressed he felt like vomiting blood.

Damn it, now the whole world knows he used to be a dog and sold himself.

Huai Ying is, at the very least, a True King-level powerhouse of the Earth Cave; he has a reputation to maintain, alright!

Before the crowd could dwell on their emotions, the Sky Screen was exposed once again.

[At the moment King Huai broke through to the True King realm, he received aid from King Ming, which allowed his Dao to be completed.

He accepted King Ming's orders, inciting war between the Heavenly Plant Royal Court and the Human Realm for years, leading to endless battles that caused the Heavenly Plant Royal Court to gradually decline.

He also secretly investigated the background of Li Zhu, discovering that Li Zhu was not a cripple, and reported all the secrets he gathered to King Ming and the Divine Sect.

When the Heavenly Plant Royal Court went to war with the Human Realm, King Huai used various incidents to reach a cooperation with the Martial King Zhang Tao, allowing him to learn the Unity Dao created by the Martial King!

He defected to King Ming, and King Ming died!

He cooperated with humans, and the human powerhouses were nearly wiped out!

He defected to the Two Kings, and the Two Kings died!

He cooperated with the Demon Emperor Mo Wenjian, and the Demon Emperor Mo Wenjian died!

He defected to the Divine Sect, and the Divine Sect was destroyed!

He joined the New Heavenly Court, and the New Heavenly Court was destroyed!

All the powerhouses around him perished, yet King Huai, who defected to whoever was strongest, managed to survive until the end and became, in a strict sense, the strongest person in the Earth Cave!]

Dead silence, once again, dead silence!

"???"

"Is this not the right pair?!"

The various kings of the Earth Cave were completely dumbfounded as they watched the exposure of King Huai on the Sky Screen!

Whoever he defects to, dies!

King Huai isn't just some schemer; he is clearly a faction-reaping machine!

A True King of the Earth Cave swallowed hard in fear, his voice trembling as he said:

"Do you think... the destruction of these factions was actually the work of King Huai behind the scenes?"

"King Huai is truly terrifying!"

A True King felt a chill run down his spine, his voice hoarse.

He felt as though he had already walked through the gates of hell, because he, too, had mocked King Huai in the past.

King Pingshan whispered to himself: "So King Huai was able to survive until the end not because he was strong, but because he cursed every other faction to death!"

Since all other factions were cursed to death by King Huai, naturally, no one was left to attack him!

The more one thinks about it, the more terrifying it becomes!

King Pingshan felt he had discovered the truth.

At this moment, he felt envious and jealous.

Why didn't he have such a destiny? If he had this kind of fate, he would surely be able to survive until the end of time.

Watching the illustrious battle record of King Huai exposed on the Sky Screen, King Ming was also stunned, his face turning a shade paler.

Li Zhu was stunned for a moment, then burst into laughter.

"This fellow Huai Ying really surprises me!"

Others might not believe in the concept of destiny, but Li Zhu does.

Perhaps Huai Ying really does have some "Dao" within him; otherwise, out of the billions of slaves in the Earth Cave, why was he the only one to rise to the top?

The Myriad Demon King of the Myriad Demon Royal Court was also a bit afraid; King Huai's record was simply too illustrious!

"Phoenix King, we don't have any cooperation with King Huai, do we?"

The Phoenix King's delicate body trembled, and she quickly said: "I don't think so."

"That's good..."

The Two Kings in the Land of King Battles, King Kun of the Divine Sect, and the Demon Emperor Mo Wenjian hiding in the shadows were all dumbfounded!

They were actually all dead?

Although their deaths in the future could not be entirely blamed on King Huai—after all, it wasn't King Huai who personally killed them—whoever King Huai defected to ended up dead... this was just too damn ominous!

Regardless of whether it was true or false, it was best to keep a respectful distance.

At this moment, they all reached the same conclusion: in the future, they must never easily accept King Huai's allegiance.

In Star Suppressing City, Little Fatty Jiang Chao watched the Sky Screen's exposure of King Huai and gasped!

"King Huai's ability to jinx others is a bit like a Child of Luck!"

In the Human Realm, Zhang Tao's mouth twitched once again.

King Huai's track record was truly impossible to keep a straight face over!

Nan Yunyue's eyes lit up, and she said with a hint of regret, "If only we were the only ones who could see the Sky Screen, we could secretly guide our enemies to cooperate with King Huai."

Hearing this, Li Zhen couldn't help but laugh.

Zhang Tao: "..."

Was that the point?

The point was that the Sky Screen had exposed more information they didn't know!

At Magic Martial University, "Holy crap!"

Fang Ping's eyes widened, and he cursed out loud.

"This King Huai is a total Jinx; whoever he joins, dies."

"He's also the future Dao Protector of the Human King. Could it be that the Human King was also 'protected' into the grave by him?"

"And... who exactly is the future Human King? Could it be me?"

At this moment, King Huai, who was still on the run, was completely numb, feeling as if life had lost all meaning.

The Sky Screen had not only exposed his dark history but also labeled him a Jinx; this was simply bullying him too far!

"Slander, naked slander!"

King Huai denounced the Sky Screen's misconduct. He hadn't even done anything yet, and it had already slapped such an unlucky label on him. How was he supposed to get by in the future?

What Faction Destroyer? Whoever he joins dies?

It must have been that those factions were just unlucky and their opponents were too strong. What did that have to do with him?

He placed bets on multiple sides, played both ends against the middle, and knew how to bend and stretch—all just to survive. Was he wrong for that?!

Although King Huai was heartbroken by the Sky Screen's slander, his life was now secured.

[Evaluation: King Huai, Huai Ying, Seven-Surname Slave, survival above all else. He knows what he wants, knows what he is doing, bears the infamy, and remains unmoved as a mountain.

Not a hero, not an overlord, and certainly not a coward. A true, legendary schemer!]

King Huai: "..."

No, what the hell is a Seven-Surname Slave!

Why does this damn Sky Screen keep slandering him!

[Basic Reward: Origin Source Dao transforms from false to true, resolving internal Origin Source hidden dangers, free from the shackles of the Origin Source, to Transcend the Three Realms.

Advanced Reward: Eight-Forged Golden Body, compensating for physical deficiencies; one square meter of Origin Star Fragment; ten strands of Origin Source Qi from deceased True Gods.]

"Slander is good, slander is wonderful!"

Feeling the changes within himself, King Huai was overjoyed!

There was no need to repeat the basic reward; he assumed everyone got the same thing.

Although King Huai didn't know exactly what the Origin Source was, as long as he wasn't shackled, it was a good thing!

Boom!

A bolt from the blue!

King Huai felt his physical body and Vitality expanding; his body hardened, and his Vitality became incomparably thick!

He felt that his current strength was now on par with the previous King Ming.

King Huai looked at the ten strands of Origin Source Qi in his hand.

"Once I fuse these ten strands of Origin Source Qi, I will be a powerhouse in the Earth Cave as well. Even King Ming won't be able to threaten me!"

King Huai's eyes turned sharp, and he immediately threw the Origin Source Qi and the Origin Star Fragment into his Great Dao.

Even though he didn't know what an Origin Star Fragment was, since it had the word "Origin" in it, it must be a treasure to strengthen the Origin Source Dao.

King Huai took a step, and the void shattered.

He felt power like never before!

"I need to find another place to hide."

Huai Ying calmed his mind and immediately fled.

Although his strength had increased, the waters of the Three Realms were deep, and there were plenty of people stronger than him. He could not afford to get arrogant and had to keep hiding.

What if some powerhouse decided to kill him and seize his treasures?

After Huai Ying left, several figures arrived at the spot where he had been staying.

"Heh, he runs fast."

King Gen's eyes were as sharp as knives as he gave chase once more.

He wanted the Origin Star Fragment that the Sky Screen had awarded to Huai Ying!

In such a short time, Huai Ying definitely could not have refined that fragment.

The fact that the Sky Screen would award an Origin Star Fragment truly surprised him.

And there was the Eight-Forged Golden Body... could the Sky Screen perhaps even award a Nine-Forged Golden Body?!

In the Catacomb Royal Court, King Ming watched the Sky Screen's reward for Huai Ying, his heart sinking.

Huai Ying had also become stronger.

The current Huai Ying was likely not much weaker than him anymore.

Especially since Huai Ying seemed to have learned Zhang Tao's Unity Dao and now possessed ten strands of origin qi...

King Ming let out a heavy sigh. He had just torn through the void to reach the Sophora King Domain, but Huai Ying had long since run away. He could not find Huai Ying, nor could he take what was in his hands.

However, other powerhouses might not be unable to find him.

He just didn't know if the Sky Screen's rule about not attacking those on the ranking during the exposure period meant the entire duration of the exposure or if it stopped counting once an individual's exposure ended.

King Pingshan was heartbroken, his eyes turning red.

"Huai Ying is no longer the weakest True King!"

To be able to grow stronger for no reason—he was truly dying of envy!

When would the Sky Screen release a Survivalist Ranking!

He hated that he wasn't a schemer like King Ming or Huai Ying; otherwise, he would have received rewards too.

In the Human Realm, Zhang Tao, Li Zhen, and Nan Yunyue were also very clear that with the Sky Screen's rewards, Huai Ying's strength would inevitably soar.

Fortunately, at this stage, the Catacombs had no time to worry about the Human Realm.

Otherwise, the pressure they faced would be far too great.

"Origin Star Fragment, what is this again?"

Zhang Tao was very puzzled.

There were too many things humanity did not know.

"I'll go ask the ancestor."

Li Zhen looked serious; he prepared to go ask the Heaven Suppressing King.

Things had reached this point; did the Heaven Suppressing King still need to keep secrets?

The Sky Screen had exposed so much information, yet they were confused about some of it, unaware of the causes and consequences.

Only the most ancient Heaven Suppressing King could clear up their confusion.

"Li Zhen, I will go with you to see the Heaven Suppressing King."

Zhang Tao's eyes were deep; he had to meet the Heaven Suppressing King.

"Alright."

Nan Yunyue felt somewhat helpless.

Both of them were Peak experts, and she was the only one at Rank Nine. They were bullying her because she couldn't tear through the void to travel!

No, she had to break through to the Peak as soon as possible, or she would truly fall completely behind Zhang Tao and Li Zhen.

On the other side, King Gen returned empty-handed. Huai Ying was likely under the protection of the Sky Screen, and without him actively exposing his aura, he could not track him down.

Therefore, the matter of seizing the treasure had to be shelved for the time being.

At Magic Martial University, Fang Ping looked at the Sky Screen's evaluation of Huai Ying and couldn't help but laugh out loud.

Seven-Surname Slave... so he's the High Martial version of Lu Bu, with four more surnames than Lu Bu!

A real man lives between heaven and earth; how can he be content to live under others for long!