48: The Great Dao Golden List Appears

Chu Ye was not polite at all, sitting directly on that cold jade main seat and naturally pulling that graceful, soft, and warm body into his arms.

His palm unhesitatingly felt those amazing curves, and he even clicked his tongue in commentary:

"The design of this Sect Master's robe is becoming more and more exquisite, but the material... is a bit too good; the feel is separated by a layer."

Hua Rong was extremely clever. Hearing this, she was not only unannoyed but instead wrapped her arms around Chu Ye's neck like a water snake, breathing like orchids as she whispered in his ear: "Does Master not like this material... next time, I will personally design a few styles with 'less material' that are more convenient for Master to inspect the Sect's affairs, how about that?"

Chu Ye laughed loudly and gave a slap to that plump and perky spot, the crisp sound echoing in the empty and majestic hall.

"Very good, you are sensible."

Subsequently, this supreme and cold Sect Master of the Hehuan Sect, atop this cold main seat symbolizing the core of the Sect's power, engaged in a deep "exchange" of the Sect's future "development plans" with her "Master."

Outside the hall, clouds rolled and unrolled; inside the hall, wind and rain surged several times. Only the cold jade main seat silently bore everything, as if narrating what true, unquestionable authority meant.

After Chu Ye returned to Great Chu, he quickly switched to "Top-tier VIP Leisure Mode."

His main "work" during the day was nesting inside the hundred phoenix diagram, acting as a diligent "World Architect."

The Fusion between the primordial tree embryo and the hundred phoenix diagram deepened daily, and a Small World led by him, which had taken initial shape, was slowly and steadily gestating.

The pure vitality dissipated by the newborn world was unceremoniously "diverted" by him, turning into a "Spiritual Qi Rainfall" that continuously nourished the national Luck of Great Chu.

As for the night... well, this was probably one of the few moments in his day when he needed to use "strategic thinking": flipping name tags.

Oh no, it was thinking about which "stunning shareholder" to favor tonight—the Empress, the Witch Queen, the Fox Immortal, the Buddhist Abbess, and so on. His life was regular to an outrageous degree and comfortable enough to make others green with envy.

Under his "resource irrigation machine" style of feeding, the strength of the Great Chu imperial Family soared like a rocket.

Finally, on a fine and sunny afternoon, his father, Emperor Chu Tianxing, after digesting an unknown number of bottles of top-grade Medicinal Pills "casually" given by his son, felt a crisp sound from within his body that only high-level Cultivators could hear—the sound of a Bottleneck shattering.

Immediately following that, a heavenly phenomenon arrived.

The originally clear sky suddenly surged with wind and clouds, and ten thousand zhang of golden light pierced through the cloud layer, illuminating the mountains and rivers of Great Chu!

The sounds of dragons roaring and phoenixes crying resounded through the Nine Heavens, as endless Dao charms and fragments of Law fell like golden petals.

The powerhouses of the entire continent were startled, casting their shocked gazes toward the direction of Great Chu—another new Emperor had been born!

Chu Tianxing stood at the center of the golden light, feeling the vast, newborn Emperor Realm power within him, so excited he almost burst into tears.

But before he could deliver a speech of "thanking my son, thanking the Family," an even more startling change occurred.

Perhaps it was the pull of the new Emperor's Luck, or perhaps the successive emergence of powerhouses in Great Chu had touched some mechanism in the unseen depths.

At the highest point of that sky full of golden light, the Void Realm began to twist and vibrate violently, as if an invisible veil that had existed since ancient times was being slowly peeled away.

Clouds and mists gathered into a giant vortex. In the center of the vortex, the outline of a hazy and vast world, emitting an aura far more ancient and mysterious than the Four Domains, shifted from illusory to real, gradually appearing clearly in the vision of all those looking up.

There, palaces suspended in the air, divine mountains and floating islands, cranes and auspicious clouds lingered, and the shadows of unimaginable brilliant civilizations and supreme Dao lineages were vaguely visible.

An invisible, majestic Dao charm that reigned supreme over the Four Domains spread out like a tide.

The ultimate mysterious land of the continent, which had been silent for who knows how many tens of thousands of years, finally revealed a corner of its true face to the world through a chance encounter of Destiny.

The Central Domain has appeared.

Chu Tianxing, who was just excited about becoming an Emperor, looked at the magnificent scene in the sky that clearly exceeded the scope of his understanding. He opened his mouth and slowly turned his head to look at his son, Chu Ye, who was also looking up beside him.

The sudden appearance of the Central Domain had already shaken the hearts and minds of the entire continent.

However, this seemed to be only the prelude.

Above the Nine Heavens, a cloud vortex suddenly arose, and endless Dao charms gathered. A golden scroll of immeasurable breadth and unviewable brilliance, accompanied by a Heavenly Dao sound like a great bell, slowly unfurled. The great dao golden ranking list appeared!

This was the handiwork of the Heavenly Dao, descending only when the Luck of the great era reached the extreme node of "over a hundred Emperors, and Immortals descending to the mortal world."

It was neither gold nor jade, condensed from pure rules and Luck, reigning above all mundane lists, possessing absolute uniqueness and supreme authority in heaven and earth.

Upon it would be listed sub-rankings for heavenly Physiques, levels of strength, power of organizations, and more. Its purpose was blunt and grand: to place the top heroes of the era in the open, stimulating the competitive hearts of all spirits to vie with one another, using the way of raising Gu to push the prosperity of the martial arts era to its limit!

Chu Ye looked at that glittering golden list and felt as if he could see the will of the Heavenly Dao whispering: Do you see? These are the backs you need to look up to and chase. Competing is the only way out!

The first to be revealed was the most intuitive and cruelest "Heavens Realm Ranking." Note: Seats are determined only by cultivation Realm; within the same Realm, the list is not responsible for who is stronger or weaker.

As the top 100 names appeared one by one, the four seas and eight directions fell into a deathly silence, followed by an explosion of sky-piercing uproar—the minimum requirement for the list: Peak Emperor Realm!

Names long sealed by time, leaving only chilling codenames, were fished back from the long river of history by the Heavenly Dao along with ancient blood and glory, branded onto the golden list: "Three Blades Guest," "Heartless Sword Lord," "Flame Fist Emperor"... these codenames themselves represented segments of annihilated legends. Countless older generation Cultivators trembled all over with excitement as they looked at these names.

Meanwhile, the younger generation felt a chill through their bodies. Such fierce people could only be ranked outside the top thirty, unable to even touch the threshold of the top ten?

The weight and terrifying nature of this list instantly sank into people's hearts.

When the golden light flowed and focused on the sanctuary of the top ten, the pressure between heaven and earth seemed to solidify, and even the sound of the wind stopped.

10th Place: Central Domain · Old Man of Tianji · Xuan Weizi.

The golden light outlined the phantom of an old man in hemp clothes, holding a compass, his gaze seemingly able to pierce through the mists of eternity.

The world knew he was mysterious and good at deduction, but no one expected that he had already silently stepped into that stage—the Immortal Realm!

"The Master of Heavenly Secret Pavilion... is actually a True Immortal!"

The world originally thought he was just a wise man peeking from the edge of the river of time, but they didn't expect him to be an immortal giant standing within the river itself.

Countless sounds of gasping for air rang out; the unfathomable nature of the Central Domain was beginning to show.

Immediately following, the golden light flashed continuously, and the prelude to the Central Domain dominating the list completely began. This time, the ones appearing were actually three extraordinary women of their generation who were famous through the ages:

9th Place: Central Domain · Guanghan Immortal Palace · Li Yue Fairy.

A phantom of a stunning woman seemingly condensed from moonlight emerged, cold, aloof, and detached from the mortal world.

She once used a song, "Guanghan Nirvanic Sound," to freeze thirty thousand miles of demonic tide and save ten thousand people, but she herself fell silent for a thousand years due to excessive depletion.

Her face was hailed as the "Lost Pearl of the Moon Palace," and her strength was even more unfathomable.

The reappearance of her name evoked memories for countless people of that legendary era when she wore white like snow and saved the world from collapse.

8th Place: Central Domain · Myriad Spirits Heavenly Sect · Sect Master · Madam Hua Yu.

The woman in the phantom was naturally charming, yet her wandering eyes carried a supreme majesty that controlled the life and death of all living things.

She entered immortality through the way of plant spirits; with a single thought, she could turn a wasteland into a sea of flowers or cause a prosperous city to instantly become a silent jungle. Legend has it that she once lived in symbiosis with an ancient divine vine, keeping her face forever young, and her strength grew more terrifying with the passing years.

Her charm and danger coexisted, making her one of the existences in the Central Domain that one must not easily provoke.