The Heavenly Ranking Updated, the Ancient Sacred Clan, and the First Glimpse of Hidden Secrets
Dong...
A deep, resonant toll of a bell rang out.
It was the sign that the Heavenly Ranking was about to update!
Heaven and earth fell silent in an instant.
Peerless sects, dynasties and empires, ancient races, hidden schools, ordinary households-every faction and every mighty expert watched with intense attention.
They felt a sense of novelty, curiosity, and wishful hope. Perhaps heaven's calculations had overlooked them! Though they immediately came to their senses again: heaven's calculations could not possibly overlook anyone!
At that moment!
The Heavenly Ranking's placements finally settled, and a new ranking appeared. However...
"The Heavenly Ranking has changed! Qu Jiangxuan is tenth!"
"Wasn't Qu Jiangxuan, the young master of the Azure Dragon Clan, ninth?"
"Where did Mu Shuangling of the Heavenly Sword Holy Land go?"
"Look, it seems everyone has moved down a place."
"No!"
"The Immaculate Body in second place has been replaced!"
The Heavenly Ranking's new placements instantly stirred towering waves of uproar, because someone new had entered the ranking-and had even replaced second place.
The Immaculate Body, Changying-a descendant of ancient Immortals!
She had been replaced!
Everyone paled in shock and hurriedly looked.
[Second place] Name: Sushang Physique: Primordial White Tiger Immortal Physique Assessment: descendant of a sacred clan, innate immortal meridians, Extreme Dao fortune
"Holy shit!"
"It's actually the Primordial White Tiger Immortal Physique!"
"That's the legendary sacred clan from ancient times! This clan keeps an even lower profile than Guixu. If I hadn't seen this today, I would have thought they'd gone extinct long ago!"
"But who exactly is this Sushang?"
"I've never heard of her."
"But even someone this incredible isn't first. The one at the top is still extraordinarily mysterious!"...
People buzzed with discussion, and attention on the primordial white tiger divine physique reached a new peak.
The Heavenly Sword Holy Land.
Seeing the Heavenly Ranking change, Mu Shuangling could no longer remain calm. He paled in shock, his eyes fixed on the ranking, their blood vessels almost bursting.
"How could this be!
"I, a Sword Grandmaster, have actually fallen off the ranking?!!
"The primordial white tiger immortal physique... How could such a terrifying hidden sacred clan appear!
"Ah, damn it..."
Mu Shuangling gritted his teeth in hatred, furious, enraged, and shocked. His face alternated between white and green, his gaze flickering incessantly.
Though he had previously been tenth on the Heavenly Ranking, at least he had been listed, making him someone of no small distinction. But now he had fallen straight off the ranking. He felt he had become an utter laughingstock, overcome by disappointment, resentment, and jealousy.
"Lord Sword Grandmaster, these are heaven's calculations. It isn't that you're weak, but that a sacred clan has appeared!" A swordsman could no longer bear to watch.
"Hmph, I don't need your consolation!"
Mu Shuangling snorted angrily.
The Azure Cloud Holy Land.
"The appearance of a physique like this is truly unexpected."
"Even you're a little surprised."
"I have existed for nine hundred and ninety thousand years and witnessed two eras. The Primordial White Tiger Clan originated in ancient times and has produced countless Saints. Though it remains hidden, members of the clan are active in every era, and every one of them is a Supreme capable of overturning their age."
"You mean that with a new era beginning, this person on the Heavenly Ranking will be its foremost figure? Sushang-a name I've never heard before."
Beneath a red maple tree, Ye Yuan played a game with someone. His yellow robes were like clouds, his Double Pupils like abysses. Neither sorrow nor joy showed on his face, and his bearing was serene.
He frowned slightly and murmured to himself.
His opponent wore a black fox-fur cloak, his face stern and his back straight. He exuded a temporarily sealed killing aura, like a sharp sword sheathed, as though the slightest stir of emotion would unleash that cold killing intent to blanket the sky!
Meng Wuqu!
Ye Yuan's friend, a man who wandered to the ends of the earth.
He chuckled. "Being unknown doesn't mean being weak; being famous doesn't mean being strong. Just like my Fishing Fire Sword-if it never leaves its sheath, who could experience its blood-soaked killing aura that surges into the heavens?"
Ye Yuan said, "And yet even someone like this is still not enough to reign supreme!"
Meng Wuqu said, "That's why I'm so curious about first place on the Heavenly Ranking! A Human Emperor, a descendant of ancient Immortals, a Primordial White Tiger, and that most mysterious person at the top. Xiao Yezi, being born into an era like this is both a challenge and an opportunity for you. You're still young. You need to accomplish something and leave a bold, richly inked stroke in the history books."
"Me? I'm too lazy. Isn't it nice to sit here playing a little board game and chatting? Oh, it's your turn."
Ye Yuan set down a black piece and smiled.
Just then, the Heavenly Ranking began playing the video for second place-
Whoosh-
Before the images arrived, the sound came first.
It was the sound of waves washing against a shore. Gradually, images appeared on the Heavenly Ranking. Beneath wind and clouds, waves surged, beacon fires blazed, and war drums thundered, cleaving yin from yang.
An ancient sea battlefield!
Gods fought in a chaotic melee, and divine beasts gathered in throngs. Amid the churning seas, a white sacred beast split the enormous waves, revealing its majestic bearing as it commanded heaven and earth! It was the embodiment of war, beacon smoke, upheaval, death, and sacred miracles!
The Primordial White Tiger!
As everyone watched with pounding hearts, the white tiger suddenly turned toward the screen and roared. Its voice pierced clouds and split stone, shaking all eight directions. The already shaken onlookers nearly had their souls scattered!
It was a pressure that struck the soul!
Thud!
Thud!
Some of the less strong-willed were actually frightened to their knees.
Though it was only a brief video, the Primordial White Tiger's imposing presence transcended space and time, shaking the world and branding itself deep in everyone's memory!
The Xuanji Sect.
Xie Feng walked out of the alchemy chamber. Seeing the Heavenly Ranking's placements, his gaze flickered slightly, and he murmured, "This girl's physique really is astonishing. I've heard the Primordial White Tiger Clan is a hidden sacred clan, with even deeper foundations than ancient great clans and powers like the Azure Luan Clan and the Azure Cloud Holy Land, and an even lower profile. Yet Xiao Shang is all alone. Could there be some hidden circumstances behind this?"
Inside the alchemy chamber.
Strands of spiritual workings stirred, and traces of the white tiger's sky-soaring dominance still lingered. Sushang emerged from the countless spiritual workings. Her long silver hair flowed down like a waterfall. Her face was exquisite and cold, her slender, jade-like fingers lightly brushing her hair. Her eyes narrowed slightly, she was elegant and noble, as still as a deep pool and imposing as a mountain.
At this moment, she fully possessed the figure and bearing of an adult woman-composed and noble, distinctly different from her previous endearing innocence.
However, this form lasted only three minutes. As the power gradually stabilized and the white tiger phantom dissipated, her body shrank to its former size, and her clothes changed back as well: the same white vest and dark orange lantern trousers.
Sushang opened her eyes, a trace of bewilderment in her limpid pupils, soon replaced by shock. Sensing the changes in the strength within her, she was thrilled.
At that moment!
Dong-
The bell rang once more, and the rewards began to be distributed!
[Second-place reward] Radiant Sun Sword [A sword of radiant sunlight and creation, gathering the power of dawn from heaven and earth. Immortal sword.]
As the words appeared, almost everyone's eyes locked onto the final two words.
Immortal!
It was actually an Immortal Grade weapon!
Before an immortal sword, divine weapons were thin paper, and spiritual weapons were rotten mud. It could slay humans, demons, gods, and even Immortals!
"What tremendous fortune..."
"Such a realm, such a grade-we can only look up to it!"
"Just watch. The future will be an era of mighty figures vying for supremacy."
The Heavenly Sword Holy Land.
"An immortal sword! An immortal sword!" Mu Shuangling stared at the Heavenly Ranking, muttering as though he had suffered a shock. His mouth tasted bitter, and his eyes reddened with jealousy.
His reward had been the Spirit-Shaking Heavenly Sword.
A heavenly sword and an immortal sword-one word apart, yet as different as clouds and mud!
But who could he blame for failing to measure up?
The grand mysterious sword physique, a Sword Grandmaster of his generation, a favored son of heaven-even if his swordsmanship reigned supreme beneath the heavens, his aptitude was there for all to see. What grounds did the grand mysterious sword physique have to compare itself with someone else's primordial white tiger immortal physique?!
"Lord Sword Grandmaster, don't grieve. At least both physiques have 'Grand' in them, don't they? They both show how powerful our physique is." The swordsman from earlier once again "risked death to offer counsel."
"Shut up. No one will take you for a mute if you don't speak." Mu Shuangling vented his anger on him.
The swordsman immediately clamped his mouth shut.
"Forget it, forget it. I don't want to waste any more words. Where's Liu Zhen? Have him wait. I'm going out!"
Mu Shuangling waved a hand.
Right now, he had something more important to do!