Tang San Was Shaken!!

Their morale wavered in an instant.

The confidence they had just built up seemed so fragile before this merciless list.

Tang San stared fixedly at the name in the sky.

There was no fear in his eyes.

Only even more frenzied greed.

"What's there to be afraid of!"

Tang San suddenly roared, his voice laced with Asura Divine Power and loud enough to make everyone's eardrums ache.

"The stronger the Divine Artifact, the greater the threat she poses!"

"If she's allowed to grow, will humanity have any chance of survival in the future?"

"This proves all the more that our teacher's decision was right!"

"We have to take her down now!"

A dangerous glint flashed in Tang San's eyes.

"Originally, I just wanted to recruit a hired hand."

"But now that I think about it—"

"This Divine Artifact should belong to me, too!"

"I am the inheritor of the Asura God! Only I am worthy of possessing a Divine Artifact of this caliber!"

"A man is innocent, but his jade brings guilt."

"Gu Yuena, of all the things you could have done, you should never have obtained something that even I envy."

Tang San's killing intent reached its peak.

Go to the Star Dou Great Forest!

Seize the Divine Artifact!

Kill the Silver Dragon!

This was no longer merely a matter of strategic necessity.

It was to satisfy his selfish desires, swollen to their absolute limit!

Star Dou Great Forest, Lake of Life.

All the Ferocious Beasts were dumbfounded.

Di Tian's eyes widened as he looked at his lord.

"L-Lord?"

"When did you get a Divine Artifact like this?"

"The Great Dao Sword Ring? I've followed you for so many years—how come I've never heard of it?"

The other Ferocious Beasts were just as bewildered.

If their lord had owned something like this, would they have needed to hide away in this forest, chafing with frustration for so many years?

They could have stormed the Divine Realm long ago and crushed those false gods!

Only Gu Yuena herself—

At that moment, she stared blankly at the ring finger of her left hand.

There—

It had been bare.

But at the very moment the Golden List made its announcement—

An ancient-looking ring, with no decorations or markings, appeared silently.

It looked utterly unremarkable.

As if it had been bent from the most ordinary iron rod by the roadside.

There was even a faint hint of rust on it.

And yet—

When Gu Yuena's gaze fell upon the ring—

Her soul trembled.

A familiar aura, so familiar it brought her to the verge of tears, emanated from within it.

It wasn't some earth-shattering divine power.

It was—

Intent.

An invincible sword intent that could sever eternity, cut through time, and stand alone across the ages!

"This aura—"

Gu Yuena jerked her head up and looked toward the place where the white-clad figure had vanished from in front of the Golden List.

Then she lowered her gaze to the ring on her hand.

A rusty iron sword.

A rusty ring.

An absurd yet unmistakably real suspicion exploded in her mind.

"It was him—"

"It had to be him!"

Gu Yuena's voice trembled.

At last, she understood why that man had severed his divine position to cultivate that iron sword.

Because he had left her his most precious thing.

He had left her his understanding of the "Dao"!

This ring was no ordinary Super Divine Artifact at all.

It was a protective charm he had casually fashioned from scraps left over from that iron sword!

And even those scraps had earned it second place on the Super Divine Artifacts List!

Then the sword in his hand—

Just how terrifying must it be?

"Lord, this Divine Artifact—"

Xiong Jun swallowed, glancing greedily at the ring, but Di Tian quickly smacked him on the head.

"Idiot! Do you want to die?"

Gu Yuena paid no attention to her subordinates' scuffle.

She gently caressed the ring, an unprecedented tenderness in her eyes.

"So you were here all along."

"Even after vanishing for ten thousand years."

"Were you still protecting me?"

Just then—

The image on the Golden List changed again.

It was no longer a written description.

Instead, it displayed the power of the "Great Dao Sword Ring" directly!

The image showed—

A boundless starry sky.

A terrifying giant beast, large enough to swallow stars, opened its bloody maw and lunged to bite down on a living planet.

Even through the screen, the aura radiating from the beast left every Titled Douluo gasping for breath.

It was a being beyond the Limit Douluo realm—beyond even that of an ordinary deity!

Just as the planet was about to be destroyed—

A streak of silver light flashed past.

A breathtaking figure stood in the giant beast's way.

It was Gu Yuena.

Gu Yuena of the future.

She used no Soul Skill, nor did she call upon any elemental power.

She merely raised her left hand.

And gently pointed at the beast.

Hum!

The ring trembled.

A tiny sliver of sword energy, so fine it was almost invisible, shot out from the ring.

There was no earth-shattering explosion.

No dazzling display of light.

The sword energy passed lightly over the giant beast, like an eraser sweeping across a page.

Pff.

A soft sound.

The giant beast, mighty enough to devour stars, froze in place.

Then—

Its body began to disintegrate.

From head to tail, it crumbled into the most primordial particles and vanished into the cosmic dust.

One finger.

A god-level giant beast, killed in an instant!

This was the power of the Great Dao Sword Ring!

This was what second place on the list was worth!

Every doubt, every sneer, fell silent at that moment.

By the Lake of Life, silence reigned like a tomb.

Gu Yuena stood quietly, her silver hair flowing like a waterfall and fluttering in the breeze. Her violet eyes were fixed on the unremarkable iron ring on the ring finger of her left hand.

A moment ago, that finger, shattering the starry river in the Golden List's image, had left even the Soul Beast Co-ruler in a daze.

It was too powerful.

So powerful it seemed to defy reason.

Even at full strength, that Starry Sky Behemoth could probably have lasted a few rounds against the Dragon God. Yet before this tiny iron ring, it was as flimsy as paper, vanishing into cosmic dust before it could even scream.

"Lord—"

A heavy swallow broke the silence.

Xiong Jun's huge body had curled into a ball. His eyes were as wide as copper bells, his expression a mixture of shock and greed.

"This—this really belongs to our Soul Beast Clan?"

"I've been alive all these years, so how come I never knew you had a treasure like this, Lord?"

Xiong Jun wasn't the only one.

Even Beast God Di Tian, usually so composed, looked completely stunned.

He had followed Gu Yuena for the longest time and knew her lord's hidden cards inside out. The Silver Dragon Spear was mighty, but it could never unleash such world-destroying power.

When had this rusty ring, which looked as if it had been picked out of a garbage heap, appeared in his lord's possession?

Di Tian stepped forward and asked respectfully, though he could not hide his curiosity, "Lord, what exactly is the origin of this Great Dao Sword Ring?"

"The Golden List said that it was forged from fragments of the strongest sword in the world?"

At the words "the strongest sword in the world," every Ferocious Beast present perked up its ears—including the Three-Eyed Golden Beast beside them, still untransformed and radiating auspicious light.