49: The mysterious mistress of the Goddess Palace!

Seventh Place: Central Region · Divine Craft Workshop · Contemporary Master · Yan Xi.

A projection of a tall woman with a bright, heroic, and focused countenance appeared, her body surrounded by the Fire of Law and countless phantom Divine Artifacts.

She is not a combat Immortal in the traditional sense, but rather one who communicates with heaven and earth through the Dao of Artifact Refining, forging countless earth-shattering Immortal Treasure divine weapons. Her own strength has also reached the Peak through tempering all things and wielding divine fire.

Her works circulate throughout all regions, and she is hailed as a "living legendary treasury," with influence that reaches far and wide.

The successive appearances of three peerless Fairies from the Central Region, with their irrefutable strength and legends, showed the other four regions the meaning of "foundation."

The powerhouses of the Eastern, Western, Southern, and Northern Regions looked at those high positions firmly occupied by the beauties of the Central Region, their hearts filled with indescribable shock and complexity—both admiration for their peerless grace and a chilling realization of the gap in strength.

However, the golden light shifted again. At the sixth position, dark and profound witch scripts intertwined with brilliant Immortal light, reflecting a name that sent the entire Western Region into unprecedented boiling excitement and horror.

Sixth Place: Western Region · Hall of Ten Thousand Witches · Witch Queen Jiu You!

“Her Majesty the Witch Queen?!”

“Im... Immortal Realm?!”

“We serve her day and night, yet we didn't know Her Majesty had already ascended to this realm?!”

The Twelve Ancestral Witches collectively lost their voices, their ancient faces filled with disbelief.

The hundreds of millions of witch people in the Western Region were stunned at first, but then they erupted into earth-shaking cheers and pious prayers, believing this to be a blessing from the Witch God and the glory of the Western Region!

That Witch Queen, who was always shrouded in mystery and majesty, had silently reached such a height!

Fifth Place: Leng Qingyi.

The golden light transformed into a cold Sword Intent that severed all desires. The woman's face in the projection was blurred, with only those emotionless eyes—which seemed capable of freezing the Soul—clearly visible.

She is the Incarnation of the Heartless Sword Dao, a living monument of the Central Region's Sword Dao Holy Land; her very existence is synonymous with "the ultimate."

Fourth Place: Southern Region · Abbess Jing An.

In the golden light, the triple Dao Rhymes of Brahma chants, demonic roars, and Daoist hymns intertwined, outlining a woman with a lean face but eyes containing endless vicissitudes and tenacity.

The accumulations of three lifetimes in Buddhism, Demonism, and Daoism converged into one body, having endured catastrophes without her True Spirit being extinguished.

The living beings of the Southern Region looked at this name with infinite respect and admiration welling up in their hearts, as if seeing her figure rebuilding order from ruins and lighting the lamp of the heart in the darkness. This was the Heavenly Dao's highest recognition of "virtue" and "resilience."

Third Place: Northern Region · Sky Moon Spirit Fox · Xue Qingyue (Fox Immortal).

Ice-blue radiance diffused, and the woman in the projection was cold and stunningly beautiful with silver hair and blue eyes, her body surrounded by the extreme cold Law that froze time and space.

The people of the Northern Border looked up at this name with most complex and difficult emotions—a mix of awe, fear, remembrance, and even a trace of imperceptible melancholy.

This Fox Immortal, who once ruled the Northern Border with an iron fist and wisdom before stirring up heaven-sent waves later on, regardless of how she was evaluated, her strength was already carved into the Heavenly Dao Golden Ranking List.

Second Place: Eastern Region · Empress of Great Qin · Empress!

At this point in the list, the brilliant golden light transformed into vast purple Qi and dragon shadows. A woman's projection, wearing an imperial crown and a Nine-Dragon Imperial Robe, appeared proudly, her stunning beauty radiating a domineering aura that looked down upon the world!

The golden light characters were like heavenly decrees: "Inheriting the Dragon Qi of heaven and earth, gathering the Dragon Veins of the eight directions, practicing the imperial path of hegemony. Her Cultivation Technique accords with heaven, the great momentum is with her; the opportunity for unification is unstoppable!"

Wherever the projection's gaze fell, it seemed as if the mountains, rivers, and the state itself were truly surrendering at her feet.

The Eastern Region seethed as ten thousand people bowed in worship. Powerhouses from other regions felt their minds tremble, sensing a grand and upright, crushing Emperors Might and the aura of one destined by fate!

Finally, all the glory, Dao Rhyme, and pressure converged on the supreme top spot.

There, there was no specific image or vast momentum, only an endless light of Chaos that seemed to contain the beginning of the Universe and the Origin of all things.

The golden light condensed into a line of small characters on it. The font was ancient, yet it carried an absolute mystery and majesty that made all the names below pale in comparison:

Central Region · Goddess Palace · Palace Master.

No name, no surname, no description, no outward manifestation of Dao Rhyme.

All information regarding her was perfectly obscured by a power belonging to the "unknowable" category, higher than the golden ranking list itself.

However, it was precisely this extreme "nothingness" that achieved an extreme "presence"—an absolute mysterious authority that stood above the list, making all the peerless Fairies and giants in the top ten serve as mere foils.

She seemed to stand at the end of all legends, the source of all light, and the ultimate enigma.

Chu Ye stood atop the Great Chu Imperial Palace, looking up with great interest at this towering golden ranking list that was stirring up the world.

His gaze swept over the coldness of Fairy Li Yue, the charm of Madam Hua Yu, and the heroism of Yan Xi. He paused briefly on familiar names like the Witch Queen, Jing An, the Fox Immortal, and Ni Chang, finally locking onto that chaotic light at the top of the list.

“Tsk tsk, the Heavenly Dao's 'star-making' and 'pay-to-win' tactics are quite practiced.”

He rubbed his chin, his eyes flashing with the light of a hunter discovering rare prey. “First, it shows off a bunch of SSR peerless Immortal Venerables from the Central Region to set the stage, then it brings out several from my family to balance things out, and finally, it puts out an ultimate mysterious grand prize to keep everyone in suspense... the tactics are deep.”

The System interface inside his body seemed to sense something, heating up slightly as if silently locking onto the brightest names on the golden ranking list, especially that "Goddess Palace Master" shrouded in Chaos.

“However...” Chu Ye stretched, his smile becoming somewhat playful. “Now that there's a list, the targets for conquest are even clearer. Central Region... Goddess Palace... It seems the ultimate dungeon of this 'collection' journey has finally shown its health bar.”

“I just wonder if this Palace Master's 'rating' will be as high as the legendary 100!”

While the golden afterglow of the "All-Heavens Realm Ranking List" still swirled on the horizon, the great dao golden ranking list seemed to possess a spirit of its own, unfolding the second page without delay—the “Myriad Realms Power Reform Ranking List”!

This list specialized in "showing off the foundations of powers," using the number of Immortal Realm Old Ancestors, Great Emperor Peaks, Ordinary Great Emperors, and Quasi-Emperor Seeds as hard indicators. it could be called the Heavenly Dao's officially certified "Top Club Member Directory."

Who is a true giant and who is a potential stock is clear at a glance.

The list began its reveal from the fiftieth place. One by one, names that awed their respective regions appeared with their data, and the Central Region's powers, as expected, were like a golden torrent, dominantly filling the front rows:

“Nine Heavens Thunder Pool”: Impressive data. Its Disciples are all "short-tempered Thunder Cultivators" skilled in performing "physical salvation" with the "Heavenly Thunder Decree." Its sect-protecting array is hailed as the "cultivation world's strongest Lightning Dharma King training base."

“Shennong Valley”: Middle-to-upper data, but with a note: "Connections value is inestimable." It is the continent's top "Medical and Medicinal Pill Trust" with a special strategic status. As the saying goes in the Jianghu: "You can offend a Sword Cultivator, but you'd better not offend the one who refines Medicinal Pills for you."

“Tiangong City”: Magnificent data, with a note: "Enormous war potential." It is the cultivation world's "Heavy Industry and Military-Industrial Complex," featuring "floating warships that blot out the sun and tides of war Puppets." A common joke in the streets goes: "When Tiangong City fights, they never ask how many opponents there are, only where the position is and if the firepower is sufficient."