First on the Sun-Moon Continent Prodigy Ranking, Xu Que (Part 1)!

Heaven Dou Empire, Clear Sky Sect, which had long since retired into the mountains and forsaken worldly affairs.

Clear Sky Douluo Tang Hao stood atop a mountain peak, staring fixedly at the golden screen in the sky. Looking at its contents and Li Yuanba's earth-shattering record, an uncontrollable look of shock appeared on his face. Clear Sky Douluo Tang Hao spoke, offering his assessment of Li Yuanba, who possessed two god-tier martial souls.

"1.8 million people killed in a single day?"

"That Li Yuanba truly is a demon!"

"Even if all the Gods of Slaughter throughout Slaughter City's history were added together, they still would not have killed as many people as Li Yuanba did in one day."

"Terrifying—Li Yuanba is truly terrifying!"

"Hiss..."

After evaluating Li Yuanba, Tang Hao drew in a cold breath, both wary and terrified.

Those were not 1.8 million chickens, nor were they 1.8 million pigs. They were 1.8 million people!

Li Yuanba had committed such monstrous slaughter in a single day, yet not only had he escaped heavenly punishment, he had even become a Level-99 Titled Douluo?

To Tang Hao, this was simply intolerable to heaven's justice. Were those supreme gods in the sky not going to do anything about Li Yuanba? Were they really going to let him massacre people on Four Bright Mountain, until blood flowed like rivers and corpses piled into mountains?

Spirit City, Spirit Mountain, Consecration Hall.

"Three or four hundred Titled Douluo attacked together, yet not only did they fail to take down Li Yuanba, they were... they were all killed by him alone! Not one was left alive! Is Li Yuanba really a Soul Master and not a god?"

Spirit Hall's Seventh Consecrator, Demon Subduer, spoke. The shock on his face was obvious and impossible to conceal.

After hearing Demon Subduer's words, Spirit Hall's Sixth Consecrator, Qianjun, spoke as well.

"Forget three or four hundred Titled Douluo. I cannot even handle three or four of them. Yet Li Yuanba can defeat them with ease. All I can say is that Li Yuanba is hundreds, even thousands of times stronger than I am."

After the dazzling crimson meteor shot out from the golden screen in the sky, it swiftly arrived before Li Yuanba. Under his gaze, it transformed into a tiny pill.

The pill was golden.

It was about the size of a mung bean.

It was the Soul Power Advancement Pill!

After looking at the Soul Power Advancement Pill for several moments, Li Yuanba took out the storage soul tool he carried with him and put it away.

Yes, Li Yuanba had no intention of taking the Soul Power Advancement Pill just yet.

A few days ago, Li Yuanba had fought someone.

That person had been no match for Li Yuanba. After being beaten into a panicked retreat, he fled back into the sky.

Li Yuanba believed that person would come down from the sky again.

And when that person returned to the Sun Moon Continent?

That would be when Li Yuanba took the Soul Power Advancement Pill!

When that time came, Li Yuanba would never let that person escape again and flee back into the sky.

Across Douluo Continent, countless Soul Masters and soul beasts waited for a long time, yet the divine phenomenon they had expected never appeared. They did not know that Li Yuanba had not taken the Soul Power Advancement Pill. Although they had not witnessed the long-awaited phenomenon of godhood, they did witness the Golden Ranking reveal the first place on the Sun-Moon Continent Prodigy Ranking!

A voice carrying natural majesty emerged from the golden screen in the sky, then echoed across Douluo Continent, the Sun Moon Continent, and the vast sea.

[First place on the Sun-Moon Continent Prodigy Ranking: Sun-Moon Lord, Xu Que!]

Heaven Dou Empire, Tianshui Academy.

When the majestic voice reached Shui Yue'er's ears, her beautiful eyes instantly lit up. As they brightened, Shui Yue'er pointed at the golden screen in the sky and said, "Sister, look, I guessed right! First place on the Sun-Moon Continent Prodigy Ranking really is Xu Que, the emperor of the Sun Moon Empire!"

Hearing her younger sister Shui Yue'er's words and seeing the contents of the golden screen in the sky, Shui Bing'er nodded in confirmation and softly said, "Impressive."

After saying that, Shui Bing'er focused intently on the golden screen in the sky. She wanted to learn about Xu Que, who ranked first on the Sun-Moon Continent Prodigy Ranking, and see why he could stand above Li Yuanba, Xue Li, Xiang Yu, Bai Qi, and the others.

Under Shui Bing'er's gaze, along with the gazes of countless living beings, the Golden Ranking quickly began its introduction after revealing the first place on the Sun-Moon Continent Prodigy Ranking.

[Xu Que, male.]

[Xu Que, like Zhao Yun and Yue Yun, who had previously appeared on the Sun-Moon Continent Prodigy Ranking, is from the Sun Moon Empire. However, unlike Zhao Yun and Yue Yun, who all serve the Sun Moon Empire, Xu Que is the master of the Sun Moon Empire! He is the emperor of the Sun Moon Empire!]

[Xu Que is not merely the emperor of the Sun Moon Empire.]

[He is also the founding emperor of the Sun Moon Empire.]

[When Xu Que was born?]

[The Sun Moon Empire was still merely the Sun Moon Kingdom, not an empire.]

[When Xu Que was six years old, he underwent the martial soul awakening ceremony, which was of immense importance to every person, just like other children.]

[Basically every royal family of every kingdom possesses its own inherited martial soul, and the Xu Clan of the Sun Moon Kingdom is no exception.]

[The inherited martial soul of the Xu Clan of the Sun Moon Kingdom is the Sun.]

[It is a special and powerful martial soul.]

[That martial soul possesses powerful solar fire.]

[Xu Que's father, the king of the Sun Moon Kingdom, had greatly hoped that the martial soul awakened by his first son, Xu Que, would be the Sun. If so, he would have an heir.]

[But the final result did not go as Xu Que's father wished.]

[Xu Que's martial soul was not the Sun.]

[Instead, it was a powerful martial soul mutated from the Sun.]

[Martial soul mutations are divided into two types.]

[One is a beneficial mutation, a mutation in a positive direction. Feng Xiaotian, ranked ninth on the Douluo Continent Prodigy Ranking, underwent such a beneficial mutation, transforming from a Gale Demon Wolf into a Gale Two-Headed Wolf.]

[The other is a harmful mutation, a mutation in a negative direction. Tang San's teacher, Yu Xiaogang, underwent such a harmful mutation, transforming from the top-tier beast martial soul Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon into the inferior beast martial soul Pig Slave.]

[Xu Que's mutation?]

[It was a beneficial mutation!]

[He transformed from the Sun into the god-tier beast martial soul, Purple Radiant Heaven-Annihilating Dragon King!]

As the majestic voice fell silent, the Silver Dragon King and the Beast God Di Tian both froze within the Land of Great Misfortune.

Her eyes widening, the Silver Dragon King, who was bathing, could not believe what she had heard.

What did the Golden Ranking say?

What was Xu Que's martial soul?

Purple... Purple Radiant Heaven-Annihilating Dragon King?

Following the voice and looking at the contents on the golden screen in the sky, the Silver Dragon King confirmed again and again that she had not heard incorrectly. A thought surfaced in her mind.

The ancestor of wyverns!

The Dragon God's younger brother!

A powerful dragon that controls the Power of Destruction!