"An unforeseen variable—"
"The greatest unforeseen variable in all heaven and earth—"
Yu Xiaogang murmured to himself, despair filling his eyes.
His prized disciple, Tang San, now seemed like a child who had only just learned to walk beside that First Generation Angel God.
Just then.
The image on the Golden List rippled again.
At last, beneath the rusted broken sword, the name of its owner appeared.
[No. 1 on the Divine Weapon List: Supreme Broken Sword.]
[Owner: Qian Renxue.]
Boom!
The name set off another uproar.
"Qian Renxue? Her again?"
"She's in third place, and now she's in first?"
"Is Spirit Hall trying to defy heaven?"
"The First Generation Angel God's inheritance is all in her hands?"
Envy, jealousy, awe.
Countless emotions spread across the continent.
With a Divine Artifact like that, wasn't Qian Renxue invincible in this age?
Over at Shrek, seeing that name left everyone utterly numb.
Ning Rongrong's face turned deathly pale, her nails digging into her flesh.
"How could it be in her hands?"
"If she came at us with that sword, could Third Brother—could Third Brother still stop her?"
No one answered.
The answer was obvious.
He couldn't.
Gu Yuena had been able to kill Tang San in an instant with the ring. Qian Renxue, holding the broken sword itself, could probably wipe Shrek Academy off the map with a single slash.
Despair spread through the hearts of everyone at Shrek like a plague.
At that very moment.
In a quiet courtyard on a secluded hill behind Spirit City.
Qian Renxue stared wide-eyed at the name on the Golden List, then lowered her head to look at the thing by her feet.
It was a battered iron sword she usually used to chop wood or practice her swings.
It was so worn, and half