Tao and Heaven

Chapter 186: Reaching the top of the Earth Ranking!
As soon as these words came out, everyone present fell silent.

As the top geniuses of the contemporary human race, they are also the most talented generation in thousands of years. They can reach the top in any era.

But there seems to be some kind of rule that there is always a monster among a group of geniuses, even if their talents are high enough.

Sanqing Daozi is that monster. His practice all the way is like the reincarnation of a peerless powerful person. He keeps rising higher and higher and is unstoppable.

It is also possible to accomplish in a very short time what others would spend their entire lives on. This is the true intention of a genius, but there is a huge difference between the strong and the weak.

Genius is the foil of Tianjiao, and Tianjiao will foil a peerless person. In the past, it was Xiao Yunyi, who became famous the earliest. He once challenged the younger generation of the three religions of Buddhism, Taoism and Demon with one sword and successfully won.

Chiyuzi and Jun Yan both lost to Xiao Yunyi. Jade Sword Buddha has a special identity and is generally not considered among the younger generation, so she will not take the initiative to participate in the competition.

After that, Xiao Yunyi was defeated by Sanqing Daozi, and then he became possessed. It was normal for Sanqing Daozi to be beaten now, but Gu Wen's speed was abnormal.

Nine months. When they were nine months old, they were still practicing Qi, but Gu Wen was already stronger than them who had been practicing for decades.

Such a talent is truly the making of an immortal.

Gu Wen asked very pragmatically: "Are there any benefits to being number one on the Earth Ranking?"

Yu Hua seemed to have expected this, and said with a smile: "There are no rewards for the three lists, at least not when the Immortal Realm is in progress. Only after the Immortal Realm is completely over and there is no possibility of the list changing, will the Two Realms City give treasures to the geniuses on the list. The top of the list can always get a Taoist weapon, and of course there are some additional rewards, but that requires the approval of the Two Realms City Lords."

"The Lord of the Two Worlds?"

Gu Wen heard another name he had never heard of before.

Jun Yan answered, "The owner of Liangjie City is the strongest person in the world of space. No one knows his name or master. Many people guess that he is an innate divine beast. The Liangjie City he opened up is a must-go place for long-distance travel in the cultivation world. In the final analysis, ordinary people can travel thousands of miles on a flying boat because of Liangjie City."

All special places in the world are, without exception, the dojo of some great master. This is true for Tianquan Mountain and Zangyuan, where Jun Yan was born.

Gu Wen asked again: "Is this great man a semi-immortal or an immortal?"

"There's no way to verify this, at least I don't know, hehe." Jun Yan was halfway through his words, half of his face was covered by demonic energy, and a dry and unpleasant voice came out of his mouth as he answered Gu Wen's question.

"He is an immortal, a miser who never gives a penny."

Gu Wen revealed the magic sword in his hand and walked towards Jun Yan step by step. When he was about to strike him in the waist with the sword, Jun Yan waved his hands and said, "No need. I have reached an agreement with this old guy before."

puff!
The remnant of the immortal sword pierced through Jun Yan directly. Gu Wen said calmly, "How do I know if you are Jun Yan? If you are, you won't die from this sword."

Very good, you have a dark heart!

Jun Yan's eyes widened slightly, then he raised his thumbs, took a deep breath and endured the pain, saying, "Very good, I really did not choose the wrong person. Although what he said was indeed correct, and I did not lose control, it is better to be safe than sorry."

This time he really didn't have any problems, and he did reach a deal with the Heavenly Corpse, allowing the other party to come out for a breath of fresh air anytime and anywhere. But what Jun Yan needed was Gu Wen's caution, and the Immortal Sword's sword intent could restrain the many old demons in the body.

"Your condition is getting worse."

Gu Wen's eyes narrowed slightly. Jun Yan had been losing control more and more frequently recently. Even though nothing had happened until now, a great demon had broken out of his body.

"Because of the lifespan catastrophe, Zangyuan may be destroyed, and the old man behind me is anxious to become an immortal." Jun Yan explained: "I will tell you in detail later, you should take care of your own affairs first."

Gu Wen nodded. This was what they had agreed upon at the beginning.

He used the magic sword to solve the problems of Chi Yuzi and Jun Yan, and they protected him. Now that the two of them have helped him a lot, it is time to fulfill their promise.

Under the gaze of everyone, Gu Wen walked out of the cave, stood on the top of the mountain, and looked up at the sky.

"Aren't you going to cover it up for a while this time?"

Yu Hua came to his side, leaning forward slightly to look at Gu Wen. His features were regular and his eyes were clear, but he did not have the jade-like appearance that ordinary people pursued. He was just an ordinary person among the cultivators, and even had the smell of sweat and blood from fighting for many days.

Rough, vulgar, ordinary.

When I first met him, he was like a rat in the gutter, full of vigilance and suspicion of everything. But such an ordinary person climbed to the first place on the Earth Ranking and the third place on the Human Ranking in nine months.

Gu Wen asked back: "Is it not possible?"

Yu Hua shook his head and said, "Of course you can. On the contrary, I think it should be this way."

He changed and became what he wanted to be.

Nine months at the top of the Earth Ranking is unprecedented, and this road is destined to be full of thorns. Jianmu, all the monsters, half-immortals, and all the powerful beings who are about to die will focus their attention on him.

Heaven and earth allow geniuses to exist, but mediocre people cannot accept the emergence of geniuses.

Just as when the master rose to power, there were the Three Pure Ones, the Heavenly Masters of each sect, the leaders of each sect of the human race, the Ten Great Demon Saints of the demon race, the Lords of the Seventy-two Caves and Heavens, and the Twelve Demon Ancestors. It was along this journey that he achieved the name Qingcang.

How far Gu Wen's invincibility would go, she had no idea, and she was afraid she would not see that day. The life span of immortals was often calculated in epochs, 10,000 years for one epoch, 120,000 years for one epoch, and if they did not become immortals, they would eventually die.

But she knew that Gu Wen would definitely reach the end and eventually replace Jianmu and stand shoulder to shoulder with the existence that caused the longevity calamity that day. This path required an invincible heart of Tao.

Yu Hua smiled and said what Gu Wen was thinking when he first learned about his Yuqing Daoji. He said softly:
"You are the best in the world, the best in the world."

"I promised you that next year I will be number one on the Spring Human Ranking and at the top of the Earth Ranking."

The corners of Gu Wen's mouth curled up slightly, and a golden light flickered on his palm. Then it slowly rose into the air, as if flying towards the silver plate in the sky.

"First on the Earth Ranking today, first on the Human Ranking tomorrow."

"There are still three hours until tomorrow."

"How can you calculate like that? Tomorrow is an imaginary number."

At this time, the rest of the people also walked out of the cave, but no one came forward to stand shoulder to shoulder with the two of them. They could only look at their figures illuminated by the bright moon from afar.

And they also vaguely understood why the goddess who ranked first on the Heavenly Ranking had such a preference for Gu Wen, who seemed to be an ordinary man.

Ao Tang was most impressed. When he came down to earth at the beginning of the year, the sect had already given up on Gu Wen. But Yu Hua held on to him and even turned against many powerful people in the sect.

They thought Yu Hua was crazy, she was trapped in a love affair, she was tricked. Otherwise, why would a Taoist goddess be so interested in an ordinary man? This was not a play, let alone a drama.

After today, there will be no more dissenting voices inside or outside the Taoist sect, and all doubts will disappear with the rise of Gu Wen.

No one dared to abuse Yu Hua anymore. It was not because the goddess had been tricked or had fallen into a love affair. It was simply because people valued her talent. Gu Wen's talent was rare among all the sects in the world.

It is Dao Zong’s fortune to be at the top of the Earth Ranking for nine months.
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Outside the sky, the city of two worlds.

True fire and thunder surged in the turbulence of the void, and piece after piece of demonic cloud shattered into pieces. Among them, countless spirit swords were broken, and so many of them floated in the air that they formed silver ribbons.

Dao Zong and the demon clan resumed their confrontation. The mighty men on both sides were all gasping for breath, and no one was without injuries.

This battle lasted for fifty hours. Most of the people were exhausted, their magic power was running out, and some even burned out their lifespans.

The battle between the powerful can be long or short, some lasting decades, while others only take a few breaths.

Long-term battles are not direct and fierce battles, but are aimed at taking lives. Once it comes to life and death, the winner can be determined by a fraction of a second. High-intensity battles that last for fifty hours are extremely rare, and masters will be killed if they make mistakes. The longer it lasts, the more mistakes they will make.

There was a finger-long wound on Yun Miao's face, with a colorful glow spreading through it, eating away at his flesh and blood.

He stretched out his hand to wipe away the colorful light, with the Tai Chi diagram suspended quietly in his palm, and looked at the fox fairy clone in the distance.

"As expected of one of the oldest demon ancestors of the demon race, a mere incarnation already possesses the power of an immortal."

"You're not bad either." The fox fairy's voice was soft and gentle, and although it didn't have any ups and downs, it was full of charm. "The human race is really going to prosper. You, a junior who has practiced for three thousand years, can actually be compared to one of my incarnations. Even if ordinary monsters spend ten thousand years, they can't be as powerful as one of my tails."

Yun Miao laughed and said, "I'm not as good as Master. I almost beat you to death."

As soon as these words were spoken, the fox fairy's charming facial features instantly turned gloomy.

There were twelve demon tribes in the battle back then, some of which had existed for several epochs. The accumulation of hundreds of thousands of years was killed by a short-lived species, and three of them died at once.

She didn't die, but her fate wasn't much better. She hadn't recovered completely after three thousand years of recuperation. As a result, the royal family she had designated was slaughtered, and the Taiyin Order that she had planned for tens of thousands of years was taken away. She could only watch helplessly.

Having lived for such a long time, they should have had very few emotional fluctuations, but Qingcang and the others were the only ones who felt hatred and fear!
She said: "Qingcang is dead, and you younger generations don't necessarily have any of his charm."

"I only have half the charm of my great master." Yun Miao admitted frankly that he was indeed too arrogant in the past and always wanted to have one-third of the charm of his great master.

Now that he is three thousand years old, he can only barely kill the Lord of the Cave Heaven. When facing enemies at the immortal level, he can only rely on the precious Tai Chi diagram to fight back.

The two sides were speechless again, and the fox fairy did not fight and continued to lower his status to quarrel with a junior.

He had some talent, and perhaps he could become an immortal after accumulating it for seven or eight thousand years, but he was still no match for himself. There were different levels of immortals, and above them there were even greater supreme beings.

That day, He merely woke up, and everyone below the level of the immortals in heaven and earth had to die.

The being who controls yin and yang, life and death, and reincarnation, the lord of the earth.

In the world, only the immortal land is completely dependent on talent, but the immortal land cannot be the whole of the world. In this more vast world, heritage and life span are also a kind of strength.

What kind of talent does it take to ignore decades of foundation?
The fox fairy could only think of the Taoist priest in plain clothes, who punched through the entire Jianmu tree with one punch.

Although he died of exhaustion, his remaining influence has spread throughout the world for three thousand years, and no one has dared to offend him until now.

One is enough, why do we need a second one?
hum!
A golden light rose slowly, flew out from the thin membrane on the wall of the Immortal Realm, and then turned into a meteor and flew into the Two Realms City.

There are three lists for the human race, a list of all monster races, a list of weapons, a list of magical powers, and so on.

The person behind the scenes of Liangjie City likes to set up lists, which seems to be related to his ability to predict the secrets of the heavens. Among them, due to the prosperity of the human race, the three lists of the human race were taken out separately from the list of all races.

Such an intention initially caused dissatisfaction among all parties, but at that time the battle between Qingcang and Jianmu had just ended, and the human race was at its peak, so it was well deserved.

The Earth Ranking was shaken, the first and second places were swapped, and all eyes were focused for a moment.

[Number one on the Earth Ranking, a master of the three great immortal arts of Red Dust, Human Immortal Arts, Golden Elixir Arts, and Sword Dao Arts, unprecedented in the history]

Everyone in the city was a monk. They looked up at the stone tablet that was as tall as a mountain. For a moment, no one in the city spoke.

The fox fairy widened her eyes slightly, her beautiful eyes full of disbelief.

"No. 1 on the Earth Ranking?"

This little guy reached the top in less than a year. How did he reach the top?

Yun Miao and Hua Yang looked at each other and smiled. They thought that their bet was right this time.

There was a huge disagreement in the Daoist sect on the route, and this disagreement was so big that the two Tianzun who were in charge of the Sanqing Daoist sect came to blows. The root of the problem was whether to force the goddess and continue to compromise with the Emperor Daojun.

After the goddess demonstrated her strength, the focus turned to how to appease Emperor Daojun.

Although Gu Wen killed his son, as long as the benefits are sufficient, Emperor Daojun can accept it. But this will cause Gu Wen to be alienated, and he will not be a member of Daozong in the future, but only remember the kindness of the goddess.

There were countless arguments about this in the Jade Emperor Hall, and it was finally settled by Yun Miao and Hua Yang.

The result was so great that even the Yuqing Sect was surprised, and the entire Sanqing Taoist sect could not have imagined it.

The two chief celestial masters decided to believe that Gu Wen, who had mastered the Jade Purity Taoist foundation, would be more valuable than the Taoist Emperor who controlled the dragon veins and hearts of the people in the immortal land, even though his strength was the best under the immortals and he had few rivals among the semi-immortals.

At that time, there was basically no comparison between the two, and Dao Zong only considered the personal preferences of the goddess, so Yu Hua had an extremely bad reputation, and he was almost labeled as "lustful and unrighteous".

In the eyes of the disciples inside and outside the Sanqing Taoist Sect, it is not an exaggeration to say that Gu Wen's appearance is like a banished immortal.

Now they have made the right bet.

"Hahahaha, you are worthy of being the future Sword Master of Zhejian Mountain."

Xuan Wufeng held his scruffy beard, and his hearty laughter made many of the Sanqing Dao Sect's celestial masters look dark. Yun Miao said with a fake smile: "I didn't say you won the bet. Hongchen's achievements are greater than Xiao Yunyi's."

"But you didn't guess right either, so it's a tie. So naturally we have to divide it equally." Xuan Wufeng said shamelessly. He held up five fingers and said, "I don't want a thousand years, how about five hundred years?"

"roll."

At this time, the fox girl sent a message to Liangjie City, saying, "Stingy man, are you mistaken? He has only practiced for less than a year, how can he be ranked first on the Earth Ranking?"

The golden light fell into the hands of a man in gorgeous red clothes. A pair of dark eyes that seemed to contain the stars in the sky overlooked the land of immortals. The corners of his mouth slowly curled up, and he held the jade-handled dragon-beard brush in his hand, and with a wave of his hand, he made another change.

"That's wrong indeed. In my opinion, he shouldn't be number one."

The Local Ranking List shook, and the large gold-plated characters changed, emitting a thousand-foot-high golden light, as if to show how talented the people on the list were, illuminating the entire city with golden light.

The turbulence in the void stagnated slightly at this moment, and all living beings and things had to take a look at the three lists.

[Unprecedented in the history of the world, the best in the world, the best in the world]

The top of the Earth List!

Hundreds of thousands of cultivators inside and outside the Two Worlds City, the powerful ones hidden in the dark, and the celestial masters and demon saints who were fighting between humans and demons in the sky were all stunned.

The three human lists, the Ten Thousand Monsters List, etc. will all be closed. The former is held every 100 years, and the latter is held every 1,000 years, all according to the growth time of their respective young generations. The purpose of closing the list is to arrange rewards, and it is also the way that Liangjie City improves the value of its own list to allow more people to compete.

But it has never happened that the immortal fate has just begun, the ranking of the younger generation is still changing frequently, and the top geniuses are ranked first before they reach the ninth level of Taoism.

Does it mean that future generations will never be able to catch up with him?
A hint of fear flashed in the eyes of the fox fairy and many demon saints. When they looked at the word "red dust", the image of the Taoist priest in plain clothes appeared in their minds uncontrollably.

After eight hundred years, he became an immortal, and stood tall and proud. In less than a year, he reached the top of the Earthly Ranking.

How similar, how alike!
Is he back?

A tall figure was half lying on the jade couch, and his voice spread throughout the Liangjie City.

"Hong Chen is ranked first on the Earth Ranking. The first place on the Earth Ranking is sealed from now on, which means it is the best. Those who come later only need to fight for the second place."

(End of this chapter)