Boom!
Just then, the nine golden dragons suddenly raised their heads and simultaneously unleashed a roar like a mountain collapsing and a tsunami crashing down. Visible shockwaves spewed from the dragons' mouths, eventually converging in mid-air and soaring into the azure sky!
The sky seemed to have been torn open with a huge gash, and the entire Land of Heaven and Earth seemed to tremble slightly amidst the tremors!
Immediately afterwards, the familiar scene reappeared: vortexes formed in the sky, and countless streams of air swirled and churned desperately. However, unlike the scene created by Gu Mingheng earlier, Gu Chen had not yet imprinted his essence blood on the stone tablet, yet an even more terrifying celestial phenomenon had already formed!
The clouds rolled away, not just in one place or one corner, but covering almost the entire Land of Heaven and Earth!
In Central Plains City, West Dan City, Wind-Murmur City, and in every corner of the Land of Heaven and Earth, countless people looked up at the gloomy sky, bewildered by what had happened! The once clear sky had suddenly fallen into darkness, as if the end of the world had arrived, swallowed by darkness!
"This, this..." Such a once-in-a-millennium sign was hard for people to accept in a short time; they were filled with disbelief!
At this moment, Gu Chen circulated his True Qi, gathered it on his finger, then bit his finger, and a stream of blood containing his essence shot out, hitting the stone tablet!
"Cao Miao!"
In the dimly lit and completely silent space, Gu Chen's voice suddenly rang out. Hearing him call his name at this moment, Cao Miao was startled.
"I told you earlier I'd tell you later," Gu Chen said coldly. "Now, it's time."
"Not only you, but even your Cao Family, even with two experts on the Dragon Ranking, what can they do to me!"
With Gu Chen's confident and powerful words, his essence blood instantly merged into the stone tablet!
As the names on the stone tablet flickered, Gu Chen's name slowly appeared in the next moment. Everyone looked down, but there was no Gu Mingheng. Instead, Gu Mingheng's name, like Bai Zhuosong was ranked 100th just now, slowly disappeared! In its place was the name of the 99th person!
Gu Mingheng has been pushed off the Dragon Ranking!
I had only been on board for less than half an hour when I was pushed off!
Everyone was startled and looked over!
A tremendous sense of horror instantly filled their minds and bodies, and disbelief was on everyone's face!
Thirty-five!
Gu Chen is actually ranked thirty-fifth!
Thirty-fifth on the Dragon Ranking?! How is that possible?!
"Impossible, impossible, this must be an illusion..." Cao Miao kept backing away, his lips trembling, as if he had gone mad, just muttering to himself.
Thirty-fifth place, that's shocking! It's even higher than those two Dragon Ranking seniors from the Cao Family!
Before anyone could be surprised, a colorful beam of light formed in a vortex of clouds, descended from the sky, and hurtled down towards Gu Chen!
The essence of extraordinary celestial phenomena!
Gu Chen's body trembled, and then he let out a muffled groan. When he saw this strange phenomenon, he was certain that whether it was Gu Mingheng or other martial artists, as long as they were not practicing cultivation techniques, it would be of little benefit to them. Only cultivators like him who practiced cultivation techniques could fully absorb it!
Gu Chen circulated his cultivation technique, greedily absorbing the essence of heaven and earth. This spiritual essence belonging to the Small Thousand World was like a powerful tonic for a seriously ill person. The spiritual energy in his dantian began to increase wildly!
The pinnacle of the Late Revolving Illumination Realm!
Gu Chen was overjoyed and opened his eyes!
In an instant, the strange phenomena disappeared, and the sun peeked out from behind the clouds once more.
"You, you, you..." Gu Mingheng's face was so gloomy it was almost dripping with water. He stared intently at the Dragon Ranking Stele, the glaring thirty-fiveth place deeply provoking him!
Not only that, but Gu Chen also pushed him down to the top 100!
All that hard work, and then it was all announced to the world, turned out to be a complete waste for Gu Chen, letting him steal the spotlight!
The thirty-fifth place on the Dragon Ranking was dazzling, and the nine dragons rising into the sky just now, a celestial phenomenon, was even more awe-inspiring!
"What do you mean, 'what about me'?" Gu Chen stood with his hands behind his back and said calmly, "Gu Mingheng, you just told me that you are already a martial artist on the Dragon Ranking, and you still want to give me the number one spot on the Tiger Ranking? But now, where are you?"
Where are you!?
Gu Mingheng was so angry that he trembled all over, and the veins on his forehead and arms bulged!
But Gu Chen still had no intention of letting Gu Mingheng off the hook, coldly saying, "Gu Mingheng, how you got onto the Dragon Ranking, I'll make sure you're removed from it just the same way!"
Arrogant and unreasonable!
That was a slap in the face, too fast and too thorough!
With his unparalleled thirty-fifth place ranking, Gu Chen was utterly arrogant and domineering! What could Cao Miao, Gu Mingheng, or the other young masters from prominent families say in the face of such a peerless expert?!
Gu Mingheng suddenly understood why Gu Chen had prioritized the Tiger Ranking before elevating him to the Dragon Ranking —it was all to wait for this moment! Gu Chen wanted to bring him down from the very top! At that moment, he was so enraged that he spat out a mouthful of blood.
"Gu Chen, how did you do that?" Gu Muyu stood in front of Gu Mingheng at this moment, protecting him.
She knew that Gu Chen was trying to undermine Gu Mingheng's confidence. In the path of martial arts, one can be defeated, but one cannot lose confidence, especially for a peerless genius with a smooth path ahead.
Therefore, she must protect Gu Mingheng.
"If I remember correctly, Third Elder of the Gu Family, you were just discussing qualifications with me." Gu Chen pointed to the Dragon Ranking and said calmly, "But I didn't see your name on the Dragon Ranking. Do you have the qualifications to speak to me?!"
How arrogant!
Everyone gasped!
Gu Chen's actions not only slapped Gu Mingheng in the face, but also Gu Muyu! And each slap was more severe than the last!
Only then did they realize that when they saw Gu Muyu ascending the Road to Heaven, they thought she was slower than Gu Chen. It turned out that it wasn't an illusion, but the truth!
Gu Muyu's face turned cold. As the third elder of the Gu Family, when had she ever been humiliated like this, especially by a junior, a discarded child of their Gu Family!
"The Dragon Ranking is clearly flawed, and you actually believed it?" Gu Muyu's eyes flashed with murderous intent as she said, "You're courting death!"
She could no longer contain her anger. With a fierce glare, she unleashed a burst of internal energy from her hand, striking towards Gu Chen!
However, just as this burst of energy was about to strike Gu Chen, another surge of internal force came from afar and intercepted it!
The two forces collided in mid-air, and the void seemed to tremble.