TOP 4: Spirit Hall?

The Seventh Elder, who had been hiding in the shadows and thought no one had noticed him, nodded.

Just as he thought, Elder Asura looked like a good man.

The sect ancestor would surely praise him for recruiting an elder at the Soul Douluo level.

Asura's Soul Power had already reached level eighty-nine. In another two years, he would likely become a Titled Douluo. Then the Seventh Elder could ask the sect ancestor to take him to the Far North to hunt a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast and obtain a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring.

The Clear Sky Sect would gain another Titled Douluo!

Who would have thought the sect ancestor was so powerful? Even the Million-Year Soul Beast of the Far North and the 990,000-year-old Deep Sea Demonic Whale King could only bow beneath the Clear Sky Sect!

The Clear Sky Sect truly deserved to be called the greatest sect under heaven. Surpassing Spirit Hall was only a matter of time!

At the thought, the Seventh Elder rubbed his hands together. Surely the Clear Sky Sect would be next.

The characters "TOP 4" slowly appeared on the Sky Screen.

Everyone watched the Sky Screen nervously. Inside Wanmin Restaurant, some guessed Spirit Hall, while others guessed the Clear Sky Sect.

Most guessed the Clear Sky Sect.

Zhongli was intrigued too. "Which faction do you think it will be, my young friend?"

Not far away, Dugu Yan and the others pricked up their ears, eager to hear Su Yun's opinion.

Judging by the strength he had shown earlier, Su Yun was definitely above a Super Douluo. He might even be a Peerless Douluo.

It was hard to imagine an academy with a Peerless Douluo guarding it.

Could Teyvat Academy be among the top four?

Su Yun thought for a moment.

Honestly, he had expected the Clear Sky Sect to be TOP 5. He hadn't imagined the Sky Screen would rank it above the deep sea.

"Barring a surprise, it should be the Clear Sky Sect, right?"

But to Dugu Yan and the others, those words meant that Teyvat Academy was stronger than the Clear Sky Sect.

Dugu Yan's eyes lit up. They had found a treasure.

She fixed Xue Ke with an intense stare. The other members of the Heaven Dou Royal Team looked at their captain, Yu Tianheng, their meaning plain.

Captain, why don't you disband the team? We want to head for a better academy.

Yu Tianheng felt his scalp prickle. Truth be told, he wanted to leave too, but his sect had instructed him to study here.

"Let's watch the Sky Screen first. It's about to reveal whether TOP 4 is the Clear Sky Sect."

If TOP 4 was the Clear Sky Sect, there would be few surprises left. The higher ranks would be Spirit Hall and the Two Great Empires. That seemed reasonable enough.

But when three characters appeared on the Sky Screen, everyone froze.

Spirit Hall.

Bibi Dong stared blankly at the Sky Screen high above. The floor tiles around her chair had shattered under the force she had released.

Only one thought filled her mind: How? How could Spirit Hall be TOP 4?

Then an even more terrifying thought struck her: the Clear Sky Sect still had hidden strength.

Why, then, had they sealed themselves off back then?

Hard as it was to accept, it was the truth.

Qian Daoliu was stunned too.

I thought I could sit back and watch it all unfold, and now you're telling me we're only TOP 4? We didn't even make the top three?

Then how the hell did I become the continent's foremost power?

Suddenly, a terrifying thought flashed through Qian Daoliu's mind: Could a god be living in seclusion within the Clear Sky Sect?

Only a god could outrank them.

Even with Bibi Dong currently at only level ninety-eight because of the Rakshasa God Trial, their combined strength would utterly crush every faction on the continent.

Only a god was beyond their power to resist.

Sitting in his chair, Qian Daoliu muttered angrily to himself.

"Was it fun to make a fool of me, Tang Chen? And here I genuinely thought you didn't know what a divine inheritance was. All along, the Clear Sky Sect had one hidden away."

Golden Crocodile, beside him, found the reasoning sound. Only that could explain why the Clear Sky Sect had yet to appear in the rankings.

But even counting the Clear Sky Sect, who were the other two unknown factions?

Could more than one god be living in seclusion on Douluo Continent?

The terrifying possibility kept circling in his mind.

[TOP 4: Spirit Hall]

[Pope: Bibi Dong]

[Martial Souls: Soul-Devouring Spider Emperor, Death Spider Emperor.]

[Soul Rings: black, black, black, black, black, black, black, black, red.]

[Soul Rings: black, black, black, black, black, black, black, red, red.]

[Soul Power Level: Level 98 Super Douluo.]

Everyone stared wide-eyed at that staggering lineup, unable to believe it.

"Y-you've got to be kidding, right?"

"Three whole Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings, and the other fifteen are all black? Even a god couldn't manage that, could they?"

"My heavens! She's this powerful and still only ranks fourth? What kind of devastating trump card is the Clear Sky Sect hiding?"

Everyone in Wanmin Restaurant whispered in disbelief. Only Su Yun frowned.

How? How could Spirit Hall be fourth? What on earth happened to the Clear Sky Sect?

Could Tang San, the future God King, have arrived?

Even if Tang San could cross time and space to get here, he'd still be a pile of crap.

Seeing those two onion spirits, Su Yun immediately stopped worrying.

None of the first-generation gods who had survived were simple.

He had only come here to move the people of Teyvat to safety, away from the Abyss.

After all, King Ni had been perfectly fine when he left, only to return corroded by the Abyss.

(It's unclear why Lord Fa wiped out all Seven Dragon Kings in one fell swoop. Personally, I think it triggered the "The Archon Loves Humanity" program.

In other words, Lord Fa felt that the Seven Dragon Kings didn't love humanity, so he sent them flying with an elbow.

After all, every Archon who obtained a fragment of Lord Fa bore the curse of "The Archon Loves Humanity."

By that logic, love for humanity lay at the heart of Lord Fa's programming.

So he decided the Seven Dragon Kings didn't love humanity and sent them flying with an elbow.

Later, Nibelung returned from the Sea of Stars, corroded by the Abyss. He came home to find his homeland gone and the dragon race wiped out in one fell swoop, so he prepared to take the Celestial Weapon into the sky and blow himself up along with Lord Fa.

He just didn't win...)

Su Yun glanced at the heap of question marks at the back of the character pool. He would honestly rather draw that vanished Segment of The Doctor than draw Lord Fa.

After staring at the Sky Screen for a while, he thought that, if he wasn't mistaken, his system came from that being...

Now that would be interesting.

He rubbed his head and sighed softly.

"Ah, I'll take it one step at a time."

Zhongli clearly sensed that something was off with Su Yun. A little observation told him Su Yun had a secret.

Neither he nor Barbatos could be bothered to expose it.

They had secrets of their own. No one could prove Zhongli wasn't the Amber Lord.

Nor could anyone prove Venti wasn't hiding something.

There was no telling what might turn up if they kept peeling back the onion.

After all, even a dog on the roadside in Mondstadt could say, "For Barbatos, the Anemo Archon."

It all came down to belief, just like giving Tiga light when they were children.

Who knew whether pushing Venti too far might bring out some kind of Glitter Form?