The Golden Rankings Reveal Tenth Place! Ye Xishui Is Stunned!

Tang Ya froze.

Ma Xiaotao looked away too.

Ye Xishui held her wine cup but did not drink.

In her own era, she had met many Soul Masters and knew what ordinary Soul Masters faced.

No family, no resources, no powerful mentor to guide them.

For a commoner to change their fate, they had almost no choice but to fight for it with everything they had.

Yet Spirit Hall now awakened Martial Souls for commoners of its own accord and even provided subsidies to weaker Soul Masters.

That was nothing like what the Tang Sect Records said.

"What else did Spirit Hall do?"

Tang Ya pressed.

Qian Renxue continued:

"Spirit Hall Branches everywhere register Soul Masters and help them hunt for Soul Rings."

"If Soul Masters fight, Spirit Hall steps in to mediate."

"Spirit Hall also punishes Soul Masters who harm commoners."

"At least everywhere I've seen, Spirit Hall has worked to maintain order across the continent."

Tang Ya opened her mouth.

She recalled how the Tang Sect Records described Spirit Hall.

Evil.

Brutal.

Bent on ruling the continent.

But nothing Qian Renxue had described had anything to do with evil.

Ma Xiaotao fell silent too.

She had come from Shrek Academy and later joined the Holy Spirit Cult.

Over the years, she had seen plenty of sects and factions.

Very few truly shared their resources with commoner Soul Masters.

What Spirit Hall did was enough to shake her.

Long Xiaoyao held his wine cup without drinking for a long while.

He had once assumed the Spirit Hall of ten thousand years ago could not have differed much from the accounts.

Yet a few words today had made him reconsider that history.

Ye Xishui looked down at the wine in her cup.

According to the Tang Sect's records, Tang San represented justice, while Spirit Hall represented evil.

That verdict had been passed down for ten thousand years.

But if Spirit Hall truly helped commoners and supported weaker Soul Masters, why had later generations written of it as an evil force?

No one in the tavern spoke.

After a moment, Tang Ya raised her head.

She looked earnestly at Long Yuan.

"Cult Leader, is Qian Renxue a bad person or not?"

"Is Spirit Hall really evil?"

"Was everything Tang San did back then truly right?"

Ye Xishui, Long Xiaoyao, and Ma Xiaotao looked over as well.

Qian Renxue also turned her gaze to Long Yuan.

She did not interrupt Tang Ya.

She wanted to know the answer too.

Long Yuan lifted his wine cup and took a sip.

"You can judge for yourselves whether Qian Renxue is a bad person."

Tang Ya hurriedly said:

"But you clearly know the truth."

"I do."

"Then why won't you tell us?"

"Because you need to form your own judgment."

Long Yuan set down his cup.

"More than ten thousand years of history can't be overturned with a few words."

"If I told you now who was good and who was bad, you might not truly believe me."

"Rather than listen to me, go and see for yourselves."

"Look at Spirit Hall in this era. See how it treats commoners and Soul Masters."

"As for what Tang San did, you'll need to learn that for yourselves too."

Tang Ya pressed her lips together.

She was still confused, but she did not press further.

Ma Xiaotao looked at Qian Renxue.

"Then let's go for a walk."

"We can see what Heaven Dou City was like ten thousand years ago and what Spirit Hall is really like."

Tang Ya nodded at once.

"Sister Qian, could you take us?"

Qian Renxue did not answer immediately.

She glanced at Long Yuan.

He held his wine cup, looking perfectly at ease.

"Go if you want to."

Only then did Qian Renxue turn back to Tang Ya.

"All right."

"But I can't reveal my identity right now."

Tang Ya nodded solemnly.

"I understand."

Long Xiaoyao rose as well.

"I'd like to look around too."

"Since we've come to the world of ten thousand years ago, we should see the powerful figures of this era."

Anticipation lit his eyes.

"I'd like to see just how strong the Titled Douluo of ten thousand years ago were."

Qian Renxue stood beside the table, golden hair falling over her shoulders.

She looked at the four people before her who had come from ten thousand years in the future, then at Long Yuan, who had been drinking calmly throughout.

For the first time, that absurd suspicion in her heart felt a little more real.

Heaven Dou City.

Inside the tavern.

The Golden Rankings in the Firmament changed once more.

Boundless golden light gathered, and Tang Chen's name gradually faded.

Lines of ancient script formed anew.

[Douluo Power Rankings, tenth place: Snow Empress!]

[True form: Heavenly Snow Woman, born of heaven and earth; foremost of the Far North's Three Great Heavenly Kings!]

[Cultivation: 699,999 years; has survived six Soul Beast Tribulations!]

[The Snow Empress was born in the heart of the Far North. She commands ultimate snow by nature and possesses peerless beauty, skin fairer than snow, and long snow-white hair that falls to her ankles!]

[She has neither parents nor kin and has wandered the Far North alone since her birth!]

[For hundreds of thousands of years, the Snow Empress has ruled the Soul Beasts of the Far North, subdued countless powerful foes, and protected the Far North from invaders!]

[Created the Snow Empress's Three Absolutes: Emperor Sword, Emperor's Palm, and Emperor's Cold Heaven!]

[When the Emperor Sword strikes, all ice and snow become its blade!]

[When the Emperor's Palm strikes, Great Cold Without Snow descends, unmatched in its overwhelming force!]

[Emperor's Cold Heaven can turn heaven and earth into a domain, commanding all ice and snow within its bounds!]

[Within the Far North, the Snow Empress draws strength from her surroundings and has virtually no equal beneath the gods!]

[Once she leaves the Far North, the Snow Empress can no longer draw on the ice and snow of heaven and earth, and her strength falls drastically!]

[With her seven-hundred-thousand-year tribulation approaching, the Snow Empress must conserve her strength and cannot fight at full power!]

[For these reasons, she ranks tenth on the Douluo Power Rankings!]

[Reward: one Tribulation-Transcending Pill!]

[Taking a Tribulation-Transcending Pill allows a Soul Beast to survive one Soul Beast Tribulation unconditionally!]

[Artifact reward: the Snow Empress Sword!]

The golden words hung high in the sky.

The entire continent was shaken once more.

A Soul Beast with 690,000 years of cultivation.

Three mighty techniques of her own creation.

Virtually invincible beneath the gods in the Far North.

Each detail was enough to make countless Soul Masters tremble.

The final rewards were especially astonishing.

The Tribulation-Transcending Pill could carry a Soul Beast through one tribulation without fail.

And the Snow Empress Sword was an artifact every Soul Master coveted.

Blue Tyrant Academy.

The Shrek group looked up at the Golden Rankings.

The square was quiet for a moment.

Dai Mubai spoke first.

"A Soul Beast with 690,000 years of cultivation?"

"How long has she been alive?"

Oscar swallowed.

"She's survived six tribulations, and now she has to face a seventh."

"Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts are terrifying enough. How powerful must one with 690,000 years of cultivation be?"

Xiao Wu stood among the crowd, her eyes wide.

She was a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast who had taken human form, so she knew just how perilous Soul Beast Tribulations were.

Each time a Soul Beast crossed another hundred-thousand-year threshold, it had to endure a tribulation from heaven and earth.

Each was more terrifying than the last.

Countless Soul Beasts with immense cultivation had fallen to those tribulations.

Yet the Snow Empress had survived six in a row.

"She actually endured six tribulations."

Xiao Wu gazed at the words "Snow Empress" on the rankings.

"What kind of being is she?"