Chapter 177

【The annual Jingzhe Ranking is undoubtedly a grand event that captures the attention of the entire martial arts world, gathering the gazes of heroes from across the land!】

【Mentioning this year's Jingzhe Ranking, Liu Jinchan curled his lips into a smile and said leisurely: "With the Baoyue Tower's all-encompassing intelligence network, will they list Shenzhou in the top ten this time!"】

【The Jingzhe Ranking opened at the beginning of the year, and you broke through to Great Grandmaster not long ago; your accumulated strength is no less than that of an ordinary Great Grandmaster.】

【Mentioning the Baoyue Tower, no one in the Jianghu fails to feel awe. This sect, which seemed to be born overnight five years ago, knows the world's martial arts like the back of its hand and is well-versed in world news, quickly establishing its prestige in the Jianghu!】

【Its Tower Master, Sikong, is even more like a mystery in the fog; although the gender is clearly male, no one has ever seen the true face, leaving behind only a series of speculations.】

【The "Mercury" under the Yan territory's command, after so many years of spying, only managed to find out that this Tower Master Sikong seems to be a pair of twin brothers, and there is no other news.】

【You shook your head; you have always been indifferent to matters of fame and fortune.】

【Many people from the Sanzhen Sect are also on the list, among whom Lu Yu is ranked in the top ten!】

【The powerhouses ranked in the top ten of the Jingzhe Ranking are all peak existences in the martial arts world; they each possess glorious battle records of killing Great Grandmasters, and every one of them is a peerless expert of the time.】

【Among these ten top powerhouses, Jianghu people particularly admire five of them, who are collectively known as the "Five Absolutes," with no clear ranking order between them.】

【Although the specific positions of the top ten are not clearly ranked, in the hearts of Jianghu people, Lu Yu is a hot candidate for the top five.】

【Lu Yu once killed two Great Grandmasters, the nine-thousand-year-old Chen Sanzhong and Jiang Xiaoyue, with his own strength, and his prestige shook the Jianghu.】

【Besides Lu Yu, the other four are also renowned and lead their own fields.】

【The first is the Daoist expert "Xuan Son of Heaven," hailed as the number one expert of the righteous path. Hailing from the Han Kingdom, he is the contemporary Sect Leader of the Daoist giant, the Taiping Sect. He practices the "Taiping Dao Scripture," and his power has reached the apex. He is over one hundred and fifty years old and has been famous in the Jianghu for nearly one hundred and twenty years. Xuan Son of Heaven ascended to the Great Grandmaster realm at the age of thirty; he has had few recorded battles in his life, with only two appearances in the last forty years, yet they were enough to shock the martial arts world.】

【Once, when Huang Dao was breaking through to the Grandmaster realm, he encountered Xuan Son of Heaven, who knocked Huang Dao to the ground in less than four moves, causing him to flee in a sorry state. This battle brought great shame to Huang Dao, who turned to closed-door cultivation of the "Dao Heart Planting Demon" Great Art.】

【The second time he took action was on the vast grasslands, where Xuan Son of Heaven challenged three demonic Great Grandmasters; he was the only one to walk out of the grasslands, and his prestige grew even greater.】

【There are rumors in the Jianghu that Xuan Son of Heaven has practiced the "Taiping Dao Scripture" to the four-heaven realm; such an achievement has not even been reached by the founding ancestor of the Taiping Sect, showing that his martial arts attainments are unfathomable.】

【The Taiping Sect is deeply rooted in the Han Kingdom, with believers spread throughout the court and the public; even the eunuchs and concubines in the harem are its followers, showing the extent of its influence.】

【The Han monarch Yuwen Yan once joined the Taiping Sect to practice in his youth, but after ascending the throne, he turned to promote Buddhism as the state religion and suppressed the Taiping Sect, making the relationship between the Taiping Sect and the royal family subtle.】

【In the Jianghu, although Great Grandmasters are the pinnacle of martial arts, they cannot escape the fate of dying from exhaustion when facing the charge of two thousand heavy armored cavalry.】

【But even so, Xuan Son of Heaven still stands at the pinnacle of the Jianghu, unshakable.】

【The second one comes from the Northern Wind; his appearance, like the Baoyue Tower, was sudden and mysterious. He has only been famous for ten years, but wherever he goes, the Northern Wind Jianghu trembles in fear. Five years ago, this person wiped out the entire Great Snow Mountain with thunderous momentum and established himself as the Master of the Great Snow Mountain.】

【He calls himself "Xiaoyue," a title that spread rapidly in the Jianghu.】

【Whenever he travels, he is accompanied by ten stunning maids carrying his sedan, and his face is covered by heavy veils; few in the world can glimpse his true appearance. Legends about him are like a banished immortal fallen from heaven, handsome and extraordinary, making countless women yearn for him, willing to go through fire and water.】

【Women who have seen his true face, regardless of their status, have been taken back to the Great Snow Mountain to become his wives and concubines. To this day, there are over four hundred beautiful women in the harem built on that Great Snow Mountain.】

【When Young Master Xiaoyue walks in the Jianghu, many Jianghu heroines throw themselves at him, offering their pillows.】

【The Jianghu has mixed reviews of him; some call him a flower-plucking thief who specializes in abducting beautiful women, while others admire his martial arts and wisdom, believing him to be a rare talent in a century, whose light-body technique "Azure Heaven White Crane" has reached a transcendent realm, leaving no trace on the snow, graceful as a startled swan.】

【The folding fan in his hand, which looks ordinary, is actually infinitely powerful, capable of crushing gold and splitting stones; a single folding fan in his hand can resist all kinds of weapons.】

【Although many people have tried to go to the Great Snow Mountain to find trouble with Xiaoyue, most have been buried in the vast snowy mountains, with none surviving.】

【The stories about Young Master Xiaoyue and his wives and concubines are full of strangeness. Those women in the harem, whether they are princesses of prominent birth, wives of generals and ministers, or wild village women, are all willing to follow him to the Great Snow Mountain, as if attracted by some magic.】

【Even if husbands bring their children or fathers come to find these women, they are often unable to take them away and may instead suffer humiliation, or even be threatened with death.】

【This phenomenon has gradually given the Great Snow Mountain the infamous name of "Demon Cave" in the Jianghu.】

【And on the Great Snow Mountain, there are actually two beauties from the Rouge Ranking hidden. The Rouge Ranking, as a list for selecting beauties in the Jianghu, has its top ten all being peerless, talented, and rare women.】

【They can be called "Peerless Beauties!"】

【Its influence is second only to the Jingzhe Ranking; these two peerless beauties not only attracted the attention of countless Jianghu people but also drew two martial Great Grandmasters to the Great Snow Mountain.】

【Both of these Great Grandmasters failed to achieve their wishes and instead lost their lives at the Great Snow Mountain, which also brought Young Master Xiaoyue's prestige to the extreme, successfully making it into the top ten of the Jingzhe Ranking.】

【As for the third person, it is that Empress of the Great Gan. She not only commands the armies of the Great Gan world but also practiced the Great Gan Wu family's "Battle Heaven Picture Record" to the final layer, the "Battle Heaven Realm."】

【She once killed dozens of Grandmasters and one martial Great Grandmaster in the Great Gan in an instant, extremely domineering.】

【Jianghu people even believe that she has the strength to compete with Xuan Son of Heaven for the title of number one expert, showing how unfathomable her martial arts cultivation is.】

【The last person is the former Demon Master Huang Dao, whose name has been like a haze in the Jianghu in recent years, making people change color at the mention of it.】

【Huang Dao practiced the martial art "Dao Heart Planting Demon Great Art" to an unprecedented realm, already close to a demon, capable of absorbing human essence and blood to enhance himself.】

【Precisely because of this, he became the person who killed the most Great Grandmasters in the Jianghu, and every action was accompanied by blood and rain.】

【Huang Dao's battle record is shocking; he successively killed four or five Great Grandmasters, including those from the demonic path.】

【Among them were the foolish monk of Lingxi Temple and the Sect Leader of the demonic path's Jedi Demon Sect.】

【This provoked the righteous and demonic paths to join forces in pursuit, assembling dozens of experts, including the Daoist wonder Ning Bo, a Great Grandmaster of the Daoist path, whose self-created "Supreme Eight Pounces" was exquisite; in the end, this team all died within the Great Qing territory.】

【This battle not only made Huang Dao's name even louder but also shocked the entire Jianghu, making it into the top ten of the Jingzhe Ranking.】

【In the past few years, Huang Dao has successively killed two more Great Grandmaster-level experts, and his cultivation has reached a realm that is difficult to fathom.】

【These five people are called the Five Absolutes by the entire Jianghu!】

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