At the same time, the sky screen finally stirred again, and that indifferent yet majestic voice rang out once more.
[Tenth place on the Strongest Human Monologue Ranking: Angel Douluo - Qian Daoliu!]
The ranked man's likeness appeared as well.
Beside him, his name and title were displayed.
"What? Qian Daoliu only ranked tenth?!"
Staring at the sky screen, Sword Douluo Chen Xin's eyes were filled with disbelief.
His grandfather and father had both died at the hands of that Peerless Douluo, Qian Daoliu, yet now the man had only ranked tenth.
This shattered everything Chen Xin had believed.
I never imagined the waters of Douluo Continent ran so deep?! Chen Xin smiled bitterly. The shock of this result was simply too great.
It seems I have no hope of making the ranking.
Chen Xin sighed without thinking. If even a Peerless Douluo could only rank tenth, there was no need to mention a mere level ninety-six Titled Douluo like him.
At the same time, seeing the looks Gu Rong and Ning Fengzhi were giving him, he voiced what was on his mind.
Heaven Dou Imperial City, the crown prince's residence.
"How is this possible?!"
"Grandpa only ranked tenth?!"
"A bogus ranking, it has to be a bogus ranking!!"
Qian Renxue, who had returned to the residence on the pretext of illness, looked at the ranking on the sky screen with great displeasure and dissatisfaction.
In her eyes, her grandfather Qian Daoliu, a level ninety-nine Peerless Douluo, was the strongest in the world.
But what was the result? This so-called sky screen had ranked her grandfather tenth.
What did that mean?
It meant that on Douluo Continent, there were at least nine people stronger than her grandfather.
How was that possible?!
In any case, Qian Renxue's first reaction was disbelief.
If it couldn't give a proper explanation, then this was definitely a bogus ranking!
But soon, Qian Renxue's thoughts turned wary.
The sky screen had made such a tremendous spectacle, and its origins were unknown. It shouldn't have made such a blunder.
But if all of this was true, then it was terrifying.
Hmph, let's see who else makes the ranking.
The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan's territory.
Seeing the name and the man's likeness appear on the sky screen, Yu Yuanzhen instantly froze.
The name Qian Daoliu brought back some very unpleasant memories.
Qian Daoliu had lived in seclusion for many years, so the younger generation nowadays knew nothing of him.
But Yu Yuanzhen knew him all too well.
Back then, Qian Daoliu had been Spirit Hall's adjudication elder. Countless Soul Masters who had posed a threat to Spirit Hall had died under his sword.
I thought that fellow was already dead! Deep wariness flashed across Yu Yuanzhen's face.
Qian Daoliu hadn't appeared in so many years that Yu Yuanzhen had thought he had passed away, dead like Tang Chen.
But unexpectedly, that fellow was still alive and well.
At this point, someone might ask: hadn't Tang Chen gone missing?
Sorry, but as far as Yu Yuanzhen was concerned, missing and whereabouts unknown meant dead.
Wait, Qian Daoliu only ranked tenth?! What kind of joke is this?! Realizing something, Yu Yuanzhen felt his face suddenly burn.
The more he thought about the bold boasts he had just made, the more embarrassed he felt.
Fortunately, all of it had happened in the ancestral hall, and no one else had been present at the time.
Sea God Island, Sea God Hall.
"Qian Daoliu only ranked tenth."
Sea God Douluo Bo Saixi held her scepter and looked at the sky screen, surprise flashing through her beautiful eyes.
She hadn't expected Qian Daoliu to receive this ranking.
Had the situation on Douluo Continent reached such an outrageous point?
At the same time, Bo Saixi was somewhat curious about where she would be ranked.
He was the Angel God's guardian, while she was the Sea God's high priestess.
Both were divine representatives and level ninety-nine Peerless Douluo. Though their strengths lay in different areas, their rankings should not be far apart.
Tang Chen, so many years have passed. Why haven't you come to Sea God Island to find me?
At the mention of Qian Daoliu, Bo Saixi naturally thought of the man she thought of by day and dreamed of by night.
Had the love she expressed back then really been so subtle?
Why had that fool never returned to Sea God Island in all these years?
Without a doubt, the moment tenth place on the Strongest Human Monologue Ranking appeared, an enormous storm of discussion swept across Douluo Continent.
Although Qian Daoliu had disappeared from the Soul Master World after taking up his post at Spirit Hall,
the previous generation was still around, and they knew his fearsome reputation all too well.
When asked by their juniors, some people recounted Qian Daoliu's background.
And so, even more people were astonished and shocked.
Such an outrageously powerful Titled Douluo had only ranked tenth?!
"I never thought I would only rank tenth..."
"Heroes under heaven truly are as numerous as crucian carp crossing a river!"
After seeing his own ranking, Qian Daoliu himself couldn't help but exclaim.
He had thought that since Tang Chen's disappearance, he was the strongest person on Douluo Continent.
But now it seemed there was far more to it than that.
A trace of fighting spirit rose in Qian Daoliu's heart, and he wanted to test the strength of the other experts.
I wonder who will rank above me?! Qian Daoliu felt a faint thrill, eager to have a fight.
After all, Qian Daoliu, who had become the adjudication elder and eliminated every threat to Spirit Hall, had once been a man who loved to fight.
It was only because he had fought his way across the entire continent, and Tang Chen, whose strength matched his own, had also disappeared, leaving him truly invincible, that he had stopped.
Of course, Qian Daoliu only had such thoughts because he mistakenly believed that the gaps in strength between those on the ranking were fairly small.
After all, the current pinnacle of the mortal world was level ninety-nine.
Thus, in Qian Daoliu's view, those ranked above him should also be Peerless Douluo.
There were simply finer distinctions in their rankings.
As for beings above the level of Peerless Douluo, impossible, absolutely impossible!
It couldn't be helped. For people of this era, becoming a god was still far too distant.
Even divine representatives like Qian Daoliu and Bo Saixi thought so.
Well, if Qian Daoliu had not agreed to let Qian Renxue carry out that so-called Nation-Stealing Plan back then, perhaps he would not have thought so.
For Qian Renxue's talent and bloodline allowed her to begin the Angel Nine Trials, and she had a very good chance of becoming a god.
Unfortunately, in the original timeline, a long time passed after Qian Renxue's Nation-Stealing Plan failed before she began receiving the Angel God's inheritance.
She had such an early and favorable head start over Tang San and Bibi Dong in becoming a god, yet she squandered it through her own willfulness.
After all, if Qian Renxue had undertaken the divine trials just a few years earlier, Bibi Dong and Tang San would never have become gods on Douluo Continent.