Chapter 203: Chapter 61 Wanxiang Sect
At the very center of the mainland, atop a giant island in the Sea of Moment, eight towering steles pierced The Firmament, each hundreds of meters tall, their tops obscured from view.
Each stele was surrounded by over a hundred Destiny Plates maintaining a formation, with thousands of strands of Heavenly Mandate Vitality consumed with every rotation. Normally, these plates would need to be replaced every two hours… meaning that these eight pillars alone would consume tens of thousands of plates and use over a hundred million strands of Heavenly Mandate Vitality each day!
Wanxiang Sect headquarters!
One of the top powers in the world.
The Hunting List of Han Yuan City was compiled by them.
“Hurry up with the records… make sure there are no errors!”
As usual, Elder Ouyang Hai came by and instructed his subordinates.
These steles, corresponding to eight different directions, collected all information from the Source World, which was then manually summarized to form the All-knowing List and disseminated.
Whirring!
Hearing this, the crowd grasped with their palms, and gigantic Primordial Spirits simultaneously floated behind them. Numerous brushes took flight on their own, swiftly recording under the control of Strength.
The seemingly servile recorders were each supremely powerful experts who had surpassed the Ninefold Source Pool.
Any single one of them, if placed in Han Yuan City, could crush all opposition.
Yet here, they were just subordinates.
Seeing that everyone was carrying out their tasks methodically, with no errors evident, Elder Ouyang Hai finally breathed a sigh of relief. Flicking his sleeves, he sat down on the central throne, looking around and asked, “Gu You, what’s the situation today?”
“Elder Ouyang…”
A middle-aged man holding a brush and a jade book walked over, bowing deeply: “As of today, we’ve had only one Bronze-tier event, all others have been Iron-tier or below.”
Bronze and Iron referred to the tiers of events, with higher tiers signaling more significant events.
The collapse of a dynasty at the level of Han Yuan would just qualify as Iron-tier; anything less was not even worth recording.
For instance, the assassination of Han Qianchou and Han Xiao were trivial matters not worthy of being reported to Elder Ouyang.
“What’s this Bronze-tier event about?”
Elder Ouyang Hai looked over.
Gu You flipped the pages of the jade book and explained, “It’s about that Mandate Chaos Master from the Zhou Yi Dynasty. It seems he encountered danger in Zhilan Valley. The forces within the Heaven Mandate Domain have gone berserk, and no one can approach within a thousand li…”
“Berserk? Seems like this guy is going to fall there!”
Elder Ouyang Hai nodded, “And what about the Iron-tier events?”
“It’s related to the Heaven Mandate Hall headquarters…”
Before Gu You could elaborate further, the ground beneath them shook, and the stele to the north suddenly burst into bright light, quickly turning gold.
“This is… an unexpected Gold-tier event!”
Gu You’s pupils contracted.
Gold-tier events, higher than Bronze-tier, were rare, usually not happening even once a year, and yet here one had occurred out of the blue.
“No, not just Gold…”
Elder Ouyang Hai could no longer remain seated. He stood up abruptly, his eyes sharp as an owl’s, fixating intently on the stele ahead.
Caught off guard, Gu You looked to the stele again, and his pupils likewise involuntarily shrank.
The golden stele, beginning from the top, slowly transformed, and in just over a dozen breaths, it turned the color of platinum.
“It’s actually a Platinum-tier event…” Gu You’s lips trembled.
Platinum-tier events, even higher than Gold-tier, were considered grade-4 events. Once the news spread, it would cause a sensation across the entire mainland!
What could have happened that was of such high importance?
Elder Ouyang Hai floated up and, in the blink of an eye, reached the stele, placing a hand upon it.
Hum!
On the Platinum-colored stele, a line of large characters floated up: Lit 99 Heavenly Destiny Incense sticks.
“99 Heavenly Destiny Incense sticks? That’s the most supreme Heavenly Destiny Talent… In the history of the Source World, there have been only seventeen such talents, and the one with the lowest cultivation reached the 8-star Pinnacle Destiny Master realm…”
His eyes brightened, and Ouyang Hai was filled with excitement.
Even in his talent test, he had only lit 77 sticks. That someone had lit 99 was unimaginable. Their talent was beyond comprehension.
Such a person, if recruited and nurtured, could inherit powerful heavenly fragments and stand at the pinnacle of the world.
Indeed, the heavens come in hierarchies, and without the highest talent, it’s simply impossible to inherit them. But once inherited, an ordinary person can attain supreme power in a short time.
If one compared the heavens to wealth, creating it generation after generation without a good project or opportunity would make it almost impossible to break free from one’s class… whereas an inheritor could, like Wang Duoyu, go from rags to riches overnight, becoming the wealthiest man.
Not to mention others, the Statistical Destiny of the Wanxiang Sect was not something ordinary people could endure, not even himself. However, this super genius who had lit 99 sticks could do it if all went well.
“Quickly check, where did this genius appear, and where are they now…”
Unable to contain his excitement any longer, Ouyang Hai exclaimed.
“Yes!”
Gu You immediately operated the formation. Moments later, the towering stele displayed another line of words: Han Yuan City!
No sooner had the three words appeared than the stele’s light flickered again, and another line of large characters floated up, exactly the same as before: Lit 99 Heavenly Destiny Incense sticks.
“???”
Elder Ouyang Hai stood frozen in place.
What did this mean? Surely the stele hadn’t malfunctioned? Otherwise, why would the same message appear again?
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After a moment of stunned silence, Gu You regained his composure, his lips trembling, “Elder Ouyang, could it be… that this is the second genius who has lit 99 sticks of Heavenly Destiny Incense?”
“The second one?”
Elder Ouyang Hai’s eyes bulged, his fists clenched involuntarily, “That’s hardly possible…”
Only seventeen had ever appeared in history, the emergence of one was shocking enough to be considered a Platinum event, let alone another one at the same time… Could it be true?
Before he could finish speaking, the tombstone’s light flickered again and another line of characters emerged: Lit 99 sticks of Heavenly Destiny Incense.
Ouyang Hai breathed a sigh of relief, “I said it was impossible, right? The appearance of a second one is already unimaginable, how could there be a third, and consecutively at that? There must be a problem, check it thoroughly…”
At this moment, he had already determined that it was very likely that there was a problem with the tombstone before him.
“Yes!” Gu You acknowledged with a fist salute, just about to fly over to closely investigate what was happening, when he suddenly noticed something, rubbed his eyes involuntarily, and his voice of surprise immediately followed, “Elder Ouyang, the color of the tombstone… has changed!”
Elder Ouyang Hai hurriedly looked, only to see that the previous platinum-colored tombstone had turned to earthy yellow, sturdy and solid, as if it were connected to the ground itself.
“This is, this is…”
With trembling lips, Ouyang Hai lost his previous composure and appeared bewildered, “Is this an Earth-tier event? A super genius couldn’t possibly warrant such a tier, could it be… that three unprecedented geniuses who lit 99 sticks of Heavenly Destiny Incense have truly emerged…”
An Earth-tier event far surpasses a Platinum event. Such an event might not occur once in hundreds of years across the entire mainland. The sudden emergence of a single genius wouldn’t be enough to trigger this… The only possibility was that it wasn’t that the tombstone had malfunctioned, but that three of the continent’s top geniuses had indeed emerged…
“Give me the map, I’m going to Han Yuan City right now…”
Unable to contain himself any longer, Elder Ouyang Hai, paying no heed to other matters, said, “Also, immediately notify the Wanxiang Sect branch in Han Yuan City, locate their testing site, seal the news, and don’t let the message about these three geniuses leak out!”
“Yes!”
Gu You nodded his head.
The sudden emergence of three of the entire Source World’s top geniuses, whoever could find them, could carry the strongest fragments of the heavens. It seemed the entire world was about to change.
…
In the depths of the Heaven Mandate Hall of Han Yuan City.
A middle-aged man rushed into the training room of the Hall Master.
“Reporting to the Hall Master, just now Elder Ling brought a few people over to test Heavenly Destiny Talent. Out of six people tested, three lit up 99 sticks of Heavenly Destiny Incense, one lit 37 sticks, and the other two lit up 23 and 21 sticks respectively!”
“What?”
Hall Master Han Xiao stood up in disbelief, her eyes filled with incredulity, just like Elder Ouyang Hai earlier.
No wonder she had been coughing up blood… It turned out that Ling Buyang had gathered several geniuses!
This way, the balance with Chai Yunsheng was completely shattered.
If lighting up 17 sticks could make one the number one in Han Yuan City, could there really be such a genius in the world who could light 99 sticks?
“Quickly, take me to see…”
Likewise unable to hold back, she strode out.
…
“Forget it, you don’t have to test anymore…”
Zhang Xuan, on the other hand, was unaware of the huge commotion he had caused; after continuously testing Zhao Ya, Zheng Yang, and Wang Ying, and finding that all could light 99 sticks of Heavenly Destiny Incense, he couldn’t help but stop.
Having guessed the answer, there was no longer any point in continuing.
Moreover, he had always kept a low profile, and causing such a scene was not what he desired.
As he stopped, Liu Mingyue next to him shivered, feeling somewhat like crying.
She thought she was the first to comprehend Mo Dao Destiny and had the highest talent, but after all this commotion, it turned out she was the worst…
It was embarrassingly awkward.
Yu Xiaoyu also wished there was a crack in the ground she could crawl into…
Others were overjoyed at lighting up 23 sticks of Heavenly Destiny Incense, while she felt so miserable she wanted to die…
The other senior brothers and sisters hadn’t tested, but judging by their calm demeanor and their teacher’s performance, they likely wouldn’t do worse than their senior sister and others.
If the disciples he accepted could all light 99 sticks of Heavenly Destiny Incense… Just how formidable was their teacher?
“Let’s go!”
Seeing that everyone was looking their way, Zhang Xuan had no wish to stay longer, so with a shout, he was about to leave when he felt someone grab his shoulder.
Turning his head, he saw Dao Li had appeared behind him at some point, his forehoof resting on his shoulder, his gaze intense as he shook his head and made a sound.
“Heir, Heir~~”
“You want to test too?” Zhang Xuan frowned.
Dao Li nodded his lengthy head.
“Alright, we can try. After all, we’ve paid the fee; not to test would be a waste!” Zhang Xuan gestured dismissively.
“Heir, Heir!”
With a flick of his tail, Dao Li stepped forward.
“Even a horse can be tested?”
Everyone was completely dumbfounded.
Yu Xiaoyu and Liu Mingyue exchanged glances, both of them simultaneously having a bad premonition…
They couldn’t have their rankings drop even further, could they?