Everyone followed the sound and looked over.
On the Thousand Marquis List, a young man took a step forward, his face filled with arrogance.
"Is that Beast Nine from the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect? He was once a junior Venerable, but he got knocked off the Venerable List by Jiang Chen and Di Tian. Now he’s number one on the Hundred Kings List, right?"
"It is Beast Nine! His strength is that of a genuine junior Venerable. It seems he’s been hiding his Cyan Radiance Stones, planning to make a stunning comeback at the last moment!"
Jiang Chen and the others also glanced at Beast Nine.
Beast Nine’s icy gaze was fixed on Jiang Chen.
The corner of his mouth lifted into a cold sneer. He shot a provocative glance at Jiang Chen, a hint of killing intent in his eyes.
Jiang Chen: "..."
’I’ve never even met this Beast Nine before.’
’But from the look in his eyes, he seems to utterly despise me.’
He couldn’t help but feel confused.
The Celestial Fate Daoist smiled at Beast Nine. "So, it is Beast Nine of the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect!"
"Senior!"
Beast Nine respectfully cupped his hands toward the Celestial Fate Daoist and grinned. "This junior still has some Cyan Radiance Stones and Celestial Fate Orders that I’d like to exchange for points!"
"Very well!"
The Celestial Fate Daoist nodded and took Beast Nine’s Storage Ring.
BUZZ!
A flash of white light shone.
The Celestial Fate Daoist smiled. "Not bad. Your Cyan Radiance Stones and Celestial Fate Orders are worth a total of five hundred million points. Added to your original score, your total is 1,219,895,650. You now rank tenth on the Venerable List!"
"Thank you, Senior!"
Beast Nine said, his face alight with excitement.
The Celestial Fate Daoist then shot a ray of white light into Beast Nine’s Celestial Fate Order, and a golden radiance bloomed around him. Enveloped in this golden light, he slowly ascended, flying toward the Venerable List where Jiang Chen was.
Jiang Chen, in turn, descended from the Venerable List.
He dropped to the number one position on the Hundred Kings List.
With a look of thick mockery, Beast Nine said to Jiang Chen, "Brat, did you think the Venerable List was a place you could just hang around? I was just hiding my strength before. Trash like you, who only made it onto the Venerable List by a stroke of luck, should just obediently stay on the Hundred Kings List!"
"..."
Jiang Chen rolled his eyes, speechless. ’Is this guy a mad dog? He just bites whoever’s closest!’
Seeing Jiang Chen ignore him, Beast Nine’s face flushed with anger. He said sinisterly, "You dare ignore me? What audacity! You should be thankful that fighting is forbidden on Celestial Fate Island. Otherwise, I could cripple you with one hand!"
"Idiot!"
Jiang Chen curled his lip and stepped onto the Hundred Kings List.
The crowd all looked toward him, their faces filled with sneers and disdain.
Now that they had arrived at Celestial Fate Island, it was impossible to gain any more points. Once knocked off the Venerable List, it was basically impossible to get back on!
Di Tian also glanced at Jiang Chen.
He had originally been in tenth place, but he’d gained another hundred million points a few days ago, rising to ninth and narrowly avoiding elimination!
The Celestial Fate Daoist smiled. "Does anyone else have points they haven’t exchanged yet?"
No one in the crowd moved.
A moment later...
Night Emperor, who was ranked third on the Venerable List, slowly stepped forward. Black light swirled around him as he puffed out his chest and looked at the Celestial Fate Daoist. "This junior has some points as well!"
"Oh?"
After a quick inspection, the Celestial Fate Daoist showed a hint of surprise. "A billion points? Incredible!"
SWISH—
Night Emperor’s score changed to 2,674,584,520, directly surpassing Xuue Yinhao and Lan Haichen to take first place on the Venerable List!
He wore a calm smile as he looked at Xuue Yinhao and Lan Haichen. "Apologies, you two. The throne for first place on the Venerable List is mine now!"
"Night Emperor, don’t be so quick to celebrate!" Xuue Yinhao chuckled. "I have some points I haven’t exchanged yet, too!"
"Hm?"
Night Emperor’s expression changed slightly.
Only Lan Haichen remained impassive, as if none of this had anything to do with him.
Then, Xuue Yinhao added another nine hundred million points, raising his score to 2,765,458,451 and once again overtaking Night Emperor to become number one on the Venerable List!
Now, first place on the Venerable List belonged to Xuue Yinhao, with Night Emperor in second.
Lan Haichen, the super genius known as the Wudi of his generation, had fallen to third place.
Xuue Yinhao gently waved his Feather Fan, smiling as he looked at Lan Haichen. "Lan Haichen, knowing you, you must be hiding a fair amount of points, right? Now it’s just the three of us left to fight for first place. How long are you going to keep them hidden?"
Night Emperor also sneered, "Lan Haichen, don’t tell me you don’t even have over two and a half billion?"
Lan Haichen, Xuue Yinhao, and Night Emperor were the three strongest members of the younger generation from the Ten Great Dynasties.
The three of them had been rivals for many years.
None of them was willing to concede to the others, each eager to surpass the other two in any way possible.
"Not over two and a half billion?"
Lan Haichen glanced at Night Emperor with a look of contempt. "Is two and a half billion a lot?"
"Hm?"
Everyone’s expression changed in unison.
Lan Haichen took out a Storage Ring and tossed it to the Celestial Fate Daoist. After examining it, the Daoist’s expression shifted slightly. A look of shock appeared on his face, which was as wrinkled as old tree bark. "As expected of the publicly acknowledged number one genius of the Ten Great Dynasties. Lan Haichen, you are truly powerful. The points here are over one and a half billion, for a grand total of 3,825,156,320 points. Over 3 billion... Since the birth of my Celestial Fate Ancient Realm, the Celestial Fate Hunting has been held hundreds of times. Your 3.8 billion points ranks in the top three of all time!"
Hundreds of Celestial Fate Hunts meant several thousand years of history, and Lan Haichen’s 3.8 billion points could rank in the top three!
What heaven-defying talent!
"How is that possible? 3.8 billion points? The points of everyone on the Thousand Marquis List combined probably don’t add up to his score, do they?"
"As expected of the peerless genius known as the Wudi of his generation. This Lan Haichen is too strong!"
"Comparing yourself to him is just asking for humiliation!"
Even the other geniuses on the Venerable List were rendered speechless by that colossal number.
Three-point-eight billion!
That was a full 1.1 billion points higher than the second-place Xuue Yinhao. It was clear proof that Lan Haichen’s strength had far surpassed Xuue Yinhao, Night Emperor, and the others.
They weren’t even in the same league!
Xuue Yinhao gave a bitter smile. "Lan Haichen, I concede!"
"I concede as well."
Night Emperor shook his head, the black light around him pulsing, and said with a wry smile, "Thirty-eight hundred million! Just how many places did you rob?"
Beast Nine also chimed in with flattery, "As expected of Lan Haichen. Such strength is truly fearsome." His gaze swept over to Jiang Chen, a thick sneer on his face. "I don’t know if some people have been kicked in the head by a donkey, daring to oppose Lan Haichen. Isn’t that like an old man on his birthday eating arsenic—courting death?"
"Yeah!"
"I think so too!"
"I despise people like that the most!"
The crowd jeered one after another.
Lan Haichen squinted, his gaze sweeping over Jiang Chen. The slight curl of his lips showed that he was quite pleased with the crowd’s mockery and ostracism of Jiang Chen.
He stood with his hands clasped behind his back. On the Venerable List beneath his feet, which pulsed with golden light, an Azure Dragon coiled.
Lan Haichen taunted contemptuously, "Jiang Chen, by now you should understand just how enormous the gap is between you and I, shouldn’t you?"
Facing the crowd’s mockery and disdain, facing Lan Haichen’s contempt and provocation...
Jiang Chen suddenly smiled!
A brilliant smile spread across his face as he looked to the Celestial Fate Daoist. "Senior, this junior just remembered, I also have some Cyan Radiance Stones and Celestial Fate Orders here. Please take a look, Senior!"
"What? Jiang Chen was hiding his strength too?"
"It’s useless, though. No matter how much he was hiding, could he really jump from 1.1 billion to 3.8 billion?"
"That’s right, he’s just a cornered beast putting up a final struggle..."
The crowd didn’t bother to hide their derision, speaking out loud.
However...
When the Celestial Fate Daoist took Jiang Chen’s Storage Ring, his expression froze. He held the Storage Ring in both hands, his shoulders trembling violently.
A look of utter shock appeared on his normally placid face. He took a deep breath and said slowly, "Jiang Chen, you’ve hidden your strength very deeply indeed! The Cyan Radiance Stones you’ve submitted are worth a total of two and a half billion points. Added to your original eleven hundred million, your total score is three-point-six billion!"
"Three-point-six billion?"
"Holy shit... He... he... he actually got three-point-six billion points?"
The crowd that had just been mocking Jiang Chen was completely dumbfounded.
Especially Beast Nine. His face paled and flushed, as if he had just been viciously slapped dozens of times.
His eyes were filled with sheer terror.
Lan Haichen, Xuue Yinhao, Night Emperor, and the others were also stunned.
However...
With Lan Haichen’s 3.8 billion points setting the precedent, it didn’t cause *too* much of a commotion.
Lan Haichen squinted his eyes and muttered, "Three-point-six billion is..."
He hadn’t even finished speaking when the Celestial Fate Daoist’s voice rang out again. "Aside from the Cyan Radiance Stones, the Celestial Fate Orders you obtained contain a total of four-point-five billion points. But because they were plundered, you only receive half the points. That’s a total of two-point-two-five billion. Added to what you had, your grand total is over five-point-eight billion points! Congratulations, little one. Your five-point-eight billion points have set a new all-time record for my Celestial Fate Ancient Realm!"
SWISH! SWISH! SWISH!—
Streaks of white light flashed past, and a sacred brilliance enveloped Jiang Chen.
He flew back up to the Venerable List.
Looking at the sullen, frustrated Beast Nine who was dejectedly returning to the Hundred Kings List, Jiang Chen gave a faint smile. "Beast Nine, didn’t you say I could never come back?"
"You... I..."
Beast Nine’s face went from pale to flushed, unable to utter a word.
「At the same time...」
Jiang Chen’s score changed: 5,865,458,932.
Five-point-eight billion!
Number one in history!
This colossal number plunged countless people into despair.
Of everyone present, the one who felt the worst was undoubtedly Lan Haichen!
’What’s the use of being called the Wudi of your generation?’
’What’s the use of being the successor to the Saint Martial Sword Sect?’
𝙛𝓻𝒆𝒆𝒘𝙚𝓫𝙣𝙤𝒗𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢
’What’s the use of founding the Celestial Alliance?’
Just a moment ago...
He had been ready to ascend to the top, to feel the satisfaction of trampling everyone else beneath his feet. But at the very instant he was about to reach the summit, Jiang Chen had appeared out of nowhere and brutally dragged him down from his high pedestal. This made Lan Haichen’s expression turn uglier than the bottom of a scorched pot...
Recalling his mockery and disdain for Jiang Chen just moments before, Lan Haichen suddenly felt like a buffoon.
A burning, stinging pain spread across his face.
His venomous gaze locked onto Jiang Chen.
Ready to devour someone whole!
[Five Chapters done, going to bed! So sleepy, good night everyone! Remember to leave a recommendation vote!]