Chapter 1841: The General Trend Is Set! Do You Like It?

"What? Killing millions plus an Undying Ruler, and nothing happens?!"

"The Star Master's favoritism is way too obvious!"

"Nonsense! If you could also achieve Rulerhood in a hundred years and reverse-slay an Undying, the Star Master would favor you too!"

"True, now the entire Solar System is completely dominated by the Heavenly Punishment Ruler."

"..."

The news spread.

Countless Immortal Gods and Ruler-level powerhouses discussed heatedly.

Beyond the shock, they also thoroughly understood Xu Jingming's weight in the hearts of the human race's upper echelons.

You have to know, in the entire human race, Ruler-level powerhouses are extremely few in number.

Each and every one is an important pillar of the race.

Under normal circumstances, the fall of an Undying Ruler.

The Flame Alliance would definitely investigate to the end and severely punish the culprit.

But when it came to Xu Jingming—

Nothing happened!

Instead, he received the Star Master's public support, and his territory permissions were strengthened to the utmost!

Thus, the Heavenly Punishment Ruler's prestige grew ever more like the midday sun.

Five days later, Blue Star, Demon Capital.

On the day of the Ascension Banquet, ten thousand li of clear sky, brilliant sunshine.

The manor spanning tens of thousands of mu was decorated magnificently and splendidly.

Starry secret patterns circulated with faint starlight even in daytime.

One powerful figure after another descended from the sky.

There were Rulers, there were Gods, and also Xu Jingming's old friends from the past.

The banquet plaza at the center of the manor had long been thronged with guests.

When Xu Jingming appeared accompanied by the women, the entire venue's gazes instantly focused!

He wore a set of black gold-threaded battle attire, his figure tall and straight like a spear.

Black hair, black eyes, handsome features, the corners of his mouth holding a trace of a calm smile.

And by his side.

Ling Shuang in a white dress, cold and elegant, a teardrop mole at the corner of her eye alluring.

Ye Li in black clothes like ink, tall figure, cold and stunningly beautiful.

Lin Qianxue in a silver dress fluttering, legs straight and slender.

Yue Ying with silver hair and gray pupils, appearance noble like a moon goddess.

Eva with an emerald-green ponytail, full of vitality.

Su Qingli, Aimes, Yuli......

One peerless beauty after another, each with different charm, a thousand graces and hundred charms.

They stood or stood, surrounding Xu Jingming's side.

Like a peerless scroll painting, making one dazzled and entranced.

"My god! This is too blessed, right?!"

"Every single one is a peerless beauty! And their temperaments are all different!"

"The Heavenly Punishment Ruler is simply the winner among winners in life!"

"Can't be envious, really can't be envious......"

Countless guests exclaimed in low voices.

Male cultivators' eyes were full of envy, females mostly filled with emotion.

Venerable Xiyue, Ruler Shuangmian, Ruler Lingge, Ruler Yongge and other supreme existences had also arrived.

Sitting in the seats of honor, faces wearing smiles.

Xu Jingming stepped forward, ascending the ceremonial platform.

His gaze swept across the whole venue, his voice calm yet clearly reaching every corner:

"Today, thank you all for coming to attend my Ascension Banquet."

He paused, his tone turning solemn:

"I, Xu Jingming, do not like making enemies."

"But there is one point I must make clear—"

"The Solar System is my hometown, Blue Star is my root."

"Here lies everything I cherish."

His voice suddenly rose, carrying an undeniable majesty:

"From now on, the Solar System is my personal territory."

"Friends come, there is fine wine."

"But if anyone harbors ill intentions and covets it, then don't blame me for being impolite!"

Boom!

The million-kilometer Thunder God Nation phantom behind him suddenly unfurled!

Terrifying pressure swept across the whole venue like a tsunami, making all guests' hearts and souls tremble violently!

Heavenly Punishment Ruler!

The general trend is set; no one can stop his rise anymore!

"Ruler stage! It's truly the Ruler stage!"

On the banquet plaza, Roy held a wine glass.

He gazed at the figure on the ceremonial platform, clad in black battle armor, exuding a terrifying might.

He only felt his throat go dry, even his breathing becoming somewhat difficult.

The Cosmic Genius Battle finals from over a decade ago.

Xu Jingming was merely an opponent who competed on the same stage as him.

Although he lost, the gap was not large enough to be despairing.

But now...... the other party has already ascended to the Ruler stage.

"Both proud sons of heaven from the Genius Battle, is the gap really this large?"

Roy had even begun to doubt his life.

"Tsk tsk, didn't expect that just a few years ago he was only at the Cosmic stage.

Still teaming up and adventuring with us, and now he's already a Ruler-stage powerhouse."

In another corner of the banquet, several men and women wearing standard Extraterrestrial Battlefield battle armor gathered together.

The leader was a beastman burly man.

It was precisely Xu Jingming's captain from his time at the planetary fortress, Duke!

He held a wine glass, looking at Xu Jingming in the distance, his face full of emotion:

"Back in the Extraterrestrial Battlefield, we were still killing Cosmic-stage beings together.

Turns out well, now a single finger of his could crush me to death."

"Captain, you're really saying it.

Others wouldn't need a finger; a single thought and you'd be dead."

The fiery-figured Lyle beside him giggled.

The other members of the Wildfire Squad likewise felt some emotion.

No one expected Xu Jingming's rise would be this fast.

On the Ruler seats.

The Star Candle Nation Lord wore a dark gold long robe, sitting on a seat carved from Bai Yu.

He fiddled with a wine glass swirling with starlight in his hand, yet his gaze remained fixed on Xu Jingming.

"Only twenty-some years have passed, right?

The little guy from the Genius Battle has already grown to this step?"

The Star Candle Nation Lord murmured softly, his voice carrying thick emotion.

As an Undying Ruler, he had cultivated for over four million years.

He had seen countless geniuses rise, and even more geniuses fall.

But like Xu Jingming.

A genius who skyrocketed from the Starfire stage to the Ruler stage in just twenty-some years is simply unprecedented.

Even speaking purely of strength, Xu Jingming is already about on par with him, this Undying Ruler.

At the very front of the guest of honor seats.

Ruler Frost Crown sat quietly in a plain white long dress, ice-blue pupils clear as a cold pool.

Her figure was slender and graceful, curves faintly visible beneath the long dress, her full chest rising and falling slightly with her breath.

Her peerlessly beautiful face appeared even more coldly stunning under the sunlight.

"Frost Crown, your disciple is quite outstanding."

Beside her, Venerable Xi Yue leaned askew in her seat.

Bare feet swaying lightly, silver bells emitting crisp sounds.

"Indeed, he is my most outstanding student."

Ruler Frost Crown's lips curled slightly, her cold face softening a little.

"Also.

A million-kilometer Divine Kingdom, two spears slaying an Undying, even my lord the Star Lord publicly supporting him.

Tsk tsk, this pomp, even grander than when I broke through back then."

Venerable Xi Yue blinked, suddenly leaning in closer, lowering her voice to ask:

"Do you like him?"

"What?"

Ruler Frost Crown froze a moment, not yet reacting.

Venerable Xi Yue looked at her with a smile, her tone carrying teasing:

"I'm saying, from cultivation to now, you've already had three million two hundred thousand years, right?

Yet never given your heart to anyone.

Now seeing such an outstanding student.

Morning and evening together, could it be you're not moved?

If it were me, I'd probably have fallen long ago."

"Auntie!"

Ruler Frost Crown glared at Venerable Xi Yue somewhat shamefully annoyed:

"What are you even saying! Jingming is just my student!

What's more, you're already a Venerable—still no partner?

Venerable Xiyue, one of the founders of the Eternal Star Alliance!

She is also her aunt.

Of course, not by blood relation.

But countless ages ago.

Xiyue's parents' generation adopted her as kin before she entered the Venerable Realm.

But in front of outsiders, she rarely reveals this relationship.