Suotuo City, the Rose Hotel.
Just as in the original story, Dai Mubai and Su Ming's group came into conflict over a room.
A fight could be said to be on the verge of breaking out.
Su Ming turned to Tang San and instructed him, "Xiao San, you go."
"All right, Brother Ming." Tang San nodded and prepared to fight.
As Su Ming's loyal underling, Tang San would have obeyed even if he had to climb a mountain of blades or plunge into a sea of fire.
"Please enlighten me." Tang San stepped forward twice and raised his hands in a defensive stance.
Dai Mubai left the twins at his side and charged straight at him.
Under Su Ming's guidance, Tang San had become a food-type Soul Master, but he did not fall behind in the slightest against Dai Mubai.
A fierce battle erupted between them.
But at that moment, Su Ming's thoughts were not on such a trivial matter at all.
He turned his consciousness inward, sensing the total Vow Power he had harvested and accumulated in the previous few worlds and in the years since arriving on the Douluo Continent.
Enough.
Finally, enough.
The corners of Su Ming's mouth lifted slightly.
His current reserves of Vow Power were enough to fabricate a Heavenly Screen.
The Heavenly Screen was a barrier that could block the Divine Realm's perception while projecting images across the entire Douluo Continent.
It required an enormous amount of Vow Power. Even counting what he had saved in the previous few worlds, he had needed to keep accumulating more, and only now did he have enough.
Why fabricate a Heavenly Screen?
Because Su Ming had suffered setbacks in the worlds he had harvested before.
Back then, he had just obtained the ability to harvest Vow Power. To save himself trouble, he had gone straight to the child of destiny of that world and killed him, the people around him, and the important characters in the story.
He had indeed obtained Vow Power, and in great quantity, but it had been a one-shot deal.
Once those people died, the story had been completely severed, and the fates of the other characters had fallen into chaos along with it. When he wanted to harvest more, there was no source left.
Only later did Su Ming realize that killing the goose to get the eggs was the stupidest approach.
The right way was to take part and change the story, making those important figures react in all sorts of ways to his intervention.
Shock, anger, gratitude, fear-as long as their emotions fluctuated strongly and their original trajectories of fate were changed, he could harvest Vow Power.
And that harvest was continuous. As long as the people were alive and the story kept moving, Vow Power would flow in without end.
If such changes had a positive effect on the entire plane, Su Ming could also harvest an extra share from the plane's consciousness. Getting two portions at once was even better.
As for what Vow Power was, it could be considered the essence of the world.
With enough Vow Power, one could truly do anything!
Even so, Su Ming still thought it was too slow.
His goal of becoming a truly omnipotent god was still very far away.
So, after arriving on the Douluo Continent, continuing to influence this world step by step through his many alternate identities, waiting for Tang San to become a god and for those major events to happen one by one, was still too slow.
Thus, Su Ming came up with a bigger plan.
He would use a Heavenly Screen.
Once the Heavenly Screen was deployed, it could block the Divine Realm from monitoring the Douluo Continent.
Those fellows in the Divine Realm would not be able to see what happened here, and Su Ming could act even more freely and boldly.
More importantly, the Heavenly Screen itself was a tool for harvesting Vow Power.
Su Ming planned to use the Heavenly Screen to present rankings.
Not ordinary rankings, but rankings that revealed the future and revealed fate.
Of course, that fate and that future had all been rewritten by Su Ming to be more exciting and more exaggerated!
His alternate identities could also take the world stage ahead of time and become known to all living beings.
As soon as the idea had first occurred to him, Su Ming had already designed the rankings he would use at the outset.
The first ranking, the Strongest Human Monologue Ranking!
The second ranking, the Strongest Martial Soul Ranking!
The third ranking, the Strongest Soul Beast Ranking...
The human experts' monologue ranking included not only people native to the present era, but also the alternate identities Su Ming had fabricated.
First, he would use people who truly existed in the Douluo I era to shock the world and win its trust.
That way, people would believe in the future achievements of the alternate identities Su Ming had fabricated.
The Strongest Martial Soul Ranking naturally also mixed in Martial Souls Su Ming had fabricated, making it more interesting and making it easier for him to harvest Vow Power.
The Strongest Soul Beast Ranking...
Now, the plan could finally begin.
Deploy the Heavenly Screen! With a thought from Su Ming, the Vow Power accumulated within him was emptied in an instant.
[Heavenly Screen deployment beginning...] [Heavenly Screen deployment complete...]
Two notification sounds rang out in Su Ming's mind. They came from a system assistant he had made using additional Vow Power to make operating the Heavenly Screen easier.
In the first breath, the Divine Realm's perception of the Douluo Plane became distorted;
The Heavenly Screen's descent would not draw the Divine Realm's attention to the Douluo Plane.
In the second breath, a deafening boom rang out and swept across the entire Douluo Plane.
An incomparably vast Heavenly Screen, visible clearly to every living being, suddenly hung there in the sky.
Tang San and Dai Mubai, who had been locked in fierce combat, both stopped what they were doing. They looked outside with uncertainty and suspicion, not knowing what had happened.
"Xiao Wu, Xiao San, let's go outside and take a look." At that moment, Su Ming also wore a puzzled expression as he called Xiao Wu and Tang San to leave the hotel.
Dai Mubai naturally lost interest in continuing the fight as well. He followed Su Ming and the other two out of the Rose Hotel.
"Brother..."
Xiao Wu had been about to ask Su Ming a question, but when she saw him look up at the sky as soon as he stepped outside, she subconsciously followed his gaze.
Then she saw the utterly breathtaking Heavenly Screen.
The next instant, an indifferent voice rang in Xiao Wu's ears, and in the ears of every living being.
[The Heavenly Ranking hangs on high, bestowing grace upon the eight directions] [Every living being who makes the ranking shall be rewarded]
It was no ordinary voice, but a tremor that pierced straight into the depths of the soul.
Whatever their existence, all could grasp its meaning.
Even those low-level Soul Beasts that were young, had yet to develop intelligence, and still roamed by instinct could dimly sense the meaning it held.
Su Ming naturally understood that these muddleheaded low-level beasts might not be of any use.
But it was always best to cast a wide net in all things. Having more paths was good, and whatever he could scoop up was worth taking.
Even a mere wisp of Vow Power was still nourishment, and little by little it would add up.
"Assistant, show the first ranking." Su Ming was quite pleased with the commotion the Heavenly Screen had stirred up upon its initial descent.
The more ostentatious the scene, the more worthwhile it was for him.
Otherwise, wouldn't the Vow Power he had poured into it have been squandered for nothing?
[Ranking beginning to appear-]
Immediately afterward, that cold, toneless voice rose again beside the ears of countless living beings.
[Strongest Human Monologue Ranking!] [All who enter the ranking are beings living in the present age; projections extend no more than a hundred years into the future.] [Rankings are determined by the highest point of combat strength; all who make the ranking shall receive a boon of fortune.] [This ranking has ten places in total.]
Compared with the brief announcement before it,
The declarations that now poured forth one after another were like thunderbolts crashing to earth, stirring up towering waves across the entire Douluo Continent.