The Gold Rankings Reveal Eleventh Place!

Qian Renxue's hand froze.

A ring of ripples spread across the wine in her cup.

She looked at Long Yuan, the ease gone from her face.

"How do you know?"

Few people in the entire Heaven Dou Empire knew the name Qian Renxue.

To carry out Spirit Hall's plan, she had spent years hidden in the palace under Xue Qinghe's identity.

When she left the palace today, she had deliberately changed back into women's clothes and concealed her aura.

Even someone who knew Xue Qinghe well could have stood before her without connecting the two.

Fewer still had seen her true face.

Yet this man had taken only a few glances to name her.

Qian Renxue gripped her wine cup, her guard rising.

"Have you investigated me?"

Long Yuan shook his head.

"No."

"I only recognized you just now."

Qian Renxue stared at him.

First, he had claimed to come from ten thousand years in the future.

Then he had accurately named Bibi Dong's ranking.

Now he had seen through the identity she had hidden for years at a glance.

She suddenly realized she knew nothing about Long Yuan.

Long Yuan, meanwhile, seemed to know all her secrets.

Qian Renxue slowly set down her cup.

"Long Yuan, who exactly are you?"

The man before her remained composed.

The arrival of the Gold Rankings had not drawn the slightest panic from him.

Even after uncovering her identity, he had made no attempt to threaten or probe her with it.

For the first time, Qian Renxue felt that the man she had met by chance in a tavern was more mysterious than anyone in the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace.

Elsewhere in Heaven Dou City.

Ma Xiaotao looked up at the Gold Rankings.

Her fiery red hair flowed down her back, and her fitted dress accentuated her tall figure.

She stared at the name Bibi Dong for a long time.

"Bibi Dong?"

"Why does that name sound so familiar?"

Ye Xishui stopped walking.

She stood at the edge of the crowd, her elegant gown hugging her slender waist, a pair of long, shapely legs visible beneath its hem.

Golden light fell across her fair face, bringing her delicate features into sharper relief.

Ye Xishui thought for a moment.

"That's the same name as the pope of Spirit Hall ten thousand years ago."

Tang Ya's eyes lit up.

"I remember now too!"

"It's recorded in the Tang Sect archives."

"Ten thousand years ago, Spirit Hall committed every evil imaginable and tried to rule the entire continent."

"The kind and righteous Tang Sect leader, Tang San, stood for justice and ultimately destroyed the evil Spirit Hall. He even attained the Dual Godhood of the Sea God and the Asura God."

Tang Ya looked around at the old streets.

There were no Soul Guidance cars.

No Soul Guidance Lamps.

She could not find a single decent civilian Soul Tool anywhere in the city.

Together with Bibi Dong's appearance on the Gold Rankings, it gave her the answer.

She excitedly grabbed Ma Xiaotao's arm.

"So we've traveled back ten thousand years?"

Interest flared in Ma Xiaotao's eyes.

"If that's true, this is incredibly exciting."

"My ancestor Ma Hongjun probably hasn't become a god yet."

"If I can find him and give him a beating, that'll feel great."

Tang Ya's face was full of anticipation too.

"Does that mean I can meet Tang San, the Tang Sect leader?"

"I could see with my own eyes how he founded the Tang Sect."

"The records from ten thousand years ago are far too brief. So many events get only a handful of sentences."

Long Xiaoyao looked around, eager to test himself as well.

A chance to witness the continent of ten thousand years ago with his own eyes—and even cross hands with the renowned figures of history—would never come again.

Ye Xishui drew her gaze away from the Gold Rankings.

"From what we've seen so far, that's very likely."

After a moment's thought, Ye Xishui took a silver disc from her Storage Soul Tool.

It was only the size of her palm, its surface engraved with intricate patterns and a purple crystal set at its center.

Tang Ya leaned closer for a look.

"Sister Xishui, is that a Long-Range Communication Soul Tool?"

Ye Xishui nodded lightly.

"We still need to verify it."

"I'll try contacting Master. I just don't know whether this Soul Tool will still work across ten thousand years."

She poured Soul Power into it.

The silver disc glowed faintly, and ring after ring of Soul Tool patterns began to operate.

Long Xiaoyao stood beside her, his gaze resting on the purple crystal.

Long Yuan had crafted this Soul Tool himself. It could ignore most distances and barriers.

As long as both parties remained under the same sky, there was a chance to establish contact.

A moment later, the purple crystal burst into brilliant light.

Ye Xishui's expression shifted.

Tang Ya immediately asked:

"How did it go?"

Ye Xishui withdrew her Soul Power.

"I reached him."

"Master said we really have come to ten thousand years in the past."

"He's in a tavern in Heaven Dou City right now."

Ma Xiaotao lowered the arms she had folded across her chest.

"The leader is in Heaven Dou City too?"

Ye Xishui continued:

"Master also said he's drinking with Qian Renxue."

Surprise flashed through Long Xiaoyao's eyes.

"Qian Renxue?"

Tang Ya was stunned too.

"Bibi Dong's daughter, the successor to Spirit Hall's Angel God?"

"According to the archives, she spent years undercover in the Heaven Dou Empire, then inherited the Angel Godhood and helped Spirit Hall wage war."

"She was the evil Angel God who vanished from history, and the historical villain recorded in the Tang Sect archives."

Ye Xishui frowned slightly.

She had no interest in the history of ten thousand years ago.

But the thought of Long Yuan sitting down to drink with Qian Renxue as soon as he arrived in this era still left her uneasy.

Ma Xiaotao, however, was intrigued.

"History is written by the victors."

"Whether Qian Renxue really was a villain of history can wait until we've met her."

Tang Ya nodded repeatedly.

Her long black hair fell to her waist, her delicate face was lovely and lively, and her blue dress set off her slender, graceful figure.

"Let's go find the leader."

"I want to see what this Angel God looks like too."

"The Tang Sect archives only say she was breathtakingly beautiful and tall. They didn't even leave a portrait."

Ma Xiaotao swept the fiery red hair away from her shoulder.

She was tall and curvy, her close-fitting dress tracing the lines of her waist and hips, her long legs shapely and straight.

Anticipation showed on her striking face.

"I'd like to see whether she's even prettier than Sister Xishui."

Ye Xishui glanced at her.

"Xiaotao, you'd better watch what you say when you see Master."

Ma Xiaotao spread her hands.

"When have I ever said anything I shouldn't?"

Tang Ya could not help laughing.

Long Xiaoyao turned toward the end of the long street.

"Now that we know where he is, let's go."

The four were about to set off when the Gold Rankings high above the heavens shone once more.

Golden light filled the sky and gathered into lines of text.

[Eleventh on the Douluo Power Rankings: Tang Chen!]

[Level 99 Limit Douluo!]

[Martial Soul: Clear Sky Hammer!]

[Cleared Hell Road in Slaughter City, possesses a portion of Asura Divine Power, and holds the Asura God Sword!]

[To master the Slaughter Domain, he slaughtered at least tens of thousands, including many innocent people whom he nevertheless deemed deserving of death!]

[Later, Asura Divine Power eroded his consciousness, leaving his mind in disarray and his body gravely injured. His strength has not reached its peak!]

[In light of the above, he ranks eleventh on the Douluo Power Rankings!]

[Reward: All negative effects removed, consciousness restored to clarity, and injuries fully healed!]

[The age of all Soul Rings increased by fifteen thousand years!]