Martial arts ascend to the gods

Chapter 730 Ranking
Zhu Shiji was stunned for a long time, looking at Wu Xin's numerous messages, and remained silent.

He stared at Zhou Leng's Wu Xin profile picture, pondering it over and over again, before finally shaking his head.

Then I searched for related videos online.

He watched the blurry battle video carefully, second by second, his brow furrowed.

Even if I were injured and reached my peak, I still wouldn't be as strong as the martial saint in the video who was impersonating me.

Huang Xuange, the No. 1 of the Demon City Army and a mid-level Martial Saint, sent a video directly.

Zhu Shiji took the video.

Zhu Shiji looked old, but Huang Xuange, dressed in military uniform, looked very young. If he were to wear sportswear, people would believe he was twenty-seven or twenty-eight.

Zhu Shiji's eyes lit up, and he asked, "You've been promoted?"

Huang Xuange smiled and said, "I directly used the Heavenly Star, plus the Little Star Pill you gave me, so it was a blessing in disguise. But you're still going strong, you've also broken through to the middle level?"

Zhu Shiji gave an awkward smile and said, "Think about it carefully, is it really possible that the person in the video is me?"

As he spoke, he turned the camera to show the vast ocean outside.

Huang Xuange thought carefully and said, "It really doesn't resemble you. The style is completely different. I had a preconceived notion, which led me to not notice. Then... who could it be?"

“Zhou Leng,” Zhu Shiji said.

Huang Xuange chuckled and said, "Even if he were a newly promoted Martial Saint, it would be impossible for him to fight two Saints at the same time."

“I’m not talking about him, I’m talking about something related to him. If nothing unexpected happens, he drew out the Blood of Tyranny,” Zhu Shiji said.

Huang Xuange was silent for a moment, then said, "That's the most likely possibility. I really can't think of any other. However, Zhou Leng's connections are indeed impressive; he actually managed to get the Blood of Tyranny involved. I heard he's been promoted?"

"Current intelligence says he has already obtained many drops of ancient beast blood and advanced to a higher level, and is currently attempting to reach the peak of Martial Saint," Zhu Shiji said.

Huang Xuange said, "In that case, you should stay at home and pretend that it is you."

"Isn't this like the real Li Kui meeting the imposter, and the imposter being the real one?"

The two smiled knowingly.

Zhu Shiji asked, "How are the final Ten Thousand Lanterns Project progressing?"

"It's mostly done; now all that's left is to wait for the time to come and execute it."

"Zhou Leng was among them?"

"He's in first place."

Who pushed it?

“Me,” Huang Xuange said.

"Shouldn't you have been in first place?"

Huang Xuange smiled and said, "The world will always belong to the young. We old fogies can't even block the young people when we're running away."

“You are a new generation martial saint, I am the old immortal.”

Huang Xuange sighed and said, "What a pity. Originally, Xu Ming, Wang Boxiong, Chen Shouhu, Li Shenkong, Zhang Xinglie... were all on this list."

"Yes, sometimes it's our own people who blow out all the lights in the houses."

"Forget about that. The blood of ancient beasts is distributed all over the world, and it will probably take a long time to fight for it. You'll have to work hard."

"My body can still handle it."

"Don't worry, the Martial Academy is already intensifying its efforts to collect and purchase the ingredients for the Lesser Star Pill. If all goes well, our injuries will gradually heal. By the way, do you know who refined the pills?"

"I only know that it's Zhou Leng's connection, but I don't know exactly who it is. Theoretically, it should be a demigod demon spirit master."

Huang Xuange exclaimed, "Zhou Leng's connections are unparalleled in the Ten Realms."

While the two were chatting, bad news kept coming from the Elephant Kingdom.

One after another, martial saints either disappeared or were killed.

Several days later, the people of Xiang Kingdom discovered that the Martial Saint of Long Kingdom had gone mad and was making a series of attacks in the Himalayas.

Originally, there was only one Zhu Shiji, so the Martial Saint of Xiang Kingdom was not afraid.

However, the appearance of Lin Yinghun, the one-armed martial saint, caused a wave of panic among the martial saints of the Demon Worship Sect.

Due to the severity of his injuries, Lin Yinghun remained at the level of a newly promoted Martial Saint.

Even though they are very strong, they are not valued by various countries or monsters.

Based on the analysis of his injuries, Lin Yinghun's strength has begun to decline significantly.

In everyone's eyes, Lin Yinghun was not even as good as Zhu Shiji.

He possessed the power to destroy the void, but could only wait to die.

On the tenth day of the battle for the blood of ancient beasts, Lin Yinghun descended upon Mount Himalaya with unparalleled prowess. As a mid-level Martial Saint, he injured several Martial Saints from the Elephant Kingdom.

Finally, he even used eleven devastating punches to exchange minor injuries for minor ones, defeating the high-ranking martial saint of the Elephant Kingdom.

At this point, the Martial Saint of the Elephant Kingdom completely withdrew.

Those martial saints who had been causing trouble around the Dragon Kingdom also withdrew one after another.

They discovered that the Dragon Kingdom's strength had increased by leaps and bounds in recent days.

In a mountain in the Himalayas.

With a loud crash, a large snow avalanche broke off, revealing a cave.

A figure leaped out of the cave.

Zhou Leng looked around; everything was quiet.

In the past few days, he killed five half-saints of the Demon Worshiping Cult, obtained two drops of ancient beast blood, found one drop himself, and together with the drop from the Beast World, he has obtained four drops.

Looking up at the sky, the five-tiered Heavenly Stairway to Godhood is still there.

The blood of the ancient beast was divided into several thousand drops, and even the demigods and martial saints of the ten realms could not each get an average of one drop. Getting four drops was already considered very lucky.

Leaving the Himalayas, we sped eastward toward the ocean.

Ten days have passed. The Martial Saint of the Dragon Kingdom should have searched all over the Dragon Kingdom and should now be searching in other parts of the world.

Upon arriving at the nearest city and connecting to the internet, Zhou Leng continued his journey while reading various news items.

Lin Yinghun, having accumulated much experience, was promoted to the mid-level Martial Saint and sent a letter of thanks.

Finally, he promised that he would go through fire and water for anyone who asked him for anything in the future.

Zhou Leng replied politely, then looked at the recent news and the information about the Martial Saint shared by Zhu Shiji.

Lin Yinghun's promotion to the middle rank and Huang Xuange's promotion to the upper rank greatly increased the strength of the Dragon Kingdom, all the noise disappeared, and the internet was full of triumphant news.

Zhu Shiji also suddenly became popular again.

The online debate about the ranking of martial arts masters has started again.

So Zhou Leng looked through the rankings of martial arts saints on various websites, and finally went to a video blogger he had previously followed who specialized in creating "Martial Arts Saint Rankings" and "Gods Rankings," and was known as the Ranking God.

In this blogger's ranking, Huang Xuange rose from nineteenth to thirteenth on the Martial Saint list, making him the last among the human high-ranking Martial Saints.

Zhu Shiji, due to his achievement of suppressing two saints with two palms, rose directly to the 39th place on the Martial Saint Ranking, ranking first among the lower-ranked Martial Saints.

Lin Yinghun, with his real record of defeating a high-ranking Martial Saint, surpassed all mid-ranking Martial Saints and ranked fourteenth on the Martial Saint List, becoming the number one mid-ranking Martial Saint.

Song Juesi, due to his amazing battle record, ranked 92nd on the Martial Saint List, becoming the first newly crowned Martial Saint.

The title of the top martial saint on the Human Martial Saint Ranking has always been held alternately by Li Tianyuan and Chen Shaohuang, but now Chen Shaohuang is in first place.

The latest rankings by the God of Rankings have thrown the world into chaos.

The newly promoted, lower-ranked, middle-ranked, and upper-ranked positions were all occupied by the Dragon Kingdom.

Although the Martial Saint Ranking is purely subjective, with each country ranking its own people at the top, it is unprecedented for the Dragon Kingdom to be number one on all four rankings.

Thus, a massive war broke out among the nations, with many even storming the Dragon's domestic network to fight the rankings god and his fans.

Zhou Leng was enjoying some melon seeds when, unexpectedly, he ended up eating them himself.

There's been a very lively discussion on Wuhu recently, titled "What do you think about the opinion that Zhou Leng should be ranked last on the Martial Saint List?"

Below the discussion forum, various parties offered their arguments.

Some people thought Zhou Leng couldn't do it, while others thought he could, and the two sides argued fiercely.

The comments from the top scorer received a lot of recognition.

"When I rank the Martial Saints, I consider many factors: age, peak condition, injuries, martial arts skills, Martial Saint evaluations, and so on. But the most important factor is actual combat. Actual combat is everything..."

"In my opinion, Zhou Leng definitely has the ability to be on the Martial Saint Ranking. I feel that at least one-third of the newly promoted Martial Saints are no match for him..."

"This isn't just my opinion; many grandmasters have said it. After all, his battle against Zhao Ritian was incredibly powerful; he completely overwhelmed Zhao Ritian..."

"However, he ultimately didn't advance to Martial Saint, so I can't arrange for him to be on the list. But if he does advance, he'll definitely be in the top 100, and will likely rank after Elder Song..."

“You should know that Old Song is the number one Zhou fanboy. Even if Zhou Leng is ranked ahead of him, he will still feel it is only natural.”

Most people support it, but many others oppose it, not believing that Zhou Leng could rank in the top 100.

After looking at it, Zhou Leng shook his head, never expecting that he had become an electronic cricket.

After reading the message, I chatted with Xu Qingjin and then looked at other people's messages.

Zhao Nandi, whom I hadn't contacted in a long time, sent me a message.

"New discoveries have been made at the Koga Sect ruins. Don't forget to translate them when you have time..."

"Some experts have come up with a wild idea: the new ruins might be the main hall of the Ancient River Sect, far surpassing the one we entered last time..."

"You go ahead and do your thing. I'll contact you as soon as I have any further news."

"Oh right, I've arrived in Rucheng. I just finished having dinner with Qingjin, and I'm heading back to the Guhe Research Institute afterward..."

Zhou Leng immediately went to the Divine Relics section of the Martial City APP, found the newly unearthed photos of the Ancient River Sect relics, and translated all the divine inscriptions.

I now frequently use the World Globe to learn from the Little Elf Teacher. I have completed several mock Divine Script exams, scoring either 100 or 99 points, and am now preparing for the final exam.

The divine abilities are now vastly different from what they used to be.

The translation of most of the content was completed in just two hours.

A small portion involves the ancient river sect's techniques and secrets, and will not be disclosed to the public for the time being.

Five minutes after it was posted, countless experts flooded in with comments.

"YYDS, the eternal god of the online literature world!" an old expert said, using an old internet meme from decades ago.

"Hahahaha... It was definitely the right decision not to choose the Ancient River Sect's research direction. Whoever did choose it was doomed. With a wave of Leng Shen's hand, all the academicians fell down."

"Everyone has experience now, and in their respective fields, they're all waiting for Leng Shen to feed them. And here it is, the food is here, and it smells delicious!"

"I reckon someone sent a message to Leng Shen. Leng Shen is preparing for his ascension to sainthood, and after receiving the message, he used his lunch break to complete all the translation work."

"The image above is so vivid. It's unbelievable that they managed to complete a project during their lunch break that would take the entire divine script world a hundred years to finish..."

Suddenly, Zhu Shiji shared information about the Martial Saint.

"The blood of tyranny entered the Demon Prison and was discovered by the Eye of All Knowledge. The Lord of the Demon Prison dispatched five high-level demigods to hunt it down; four died and one escaped. As expected, peak demigods have already been mobilized."

"Intelligence indicates that the Blood of Tyranny stole three drops of ancient beast blood from the Demon Prison."

???

Is my senior brother that powerful?

Knowing full well that the all-seeing eye was watching, they still dared to enter the Demon Prison, and even managed to snatch something from the tiger's mouth—and succeeded.

(End of this chapter)