Chapter 311

This was his own collection, accumulated over three thousand years.

Just like that, gone in a single gesture?!

For a moment.

Seeing Di Shitian felt as if his heart were bleeding.

Not just him.

Even Luo Xian and the three others who had been following him to assist.

Were now stunned speechless by this scene.

Their eyes filled with shock.

Faces frozen in utter disbelief.

"Let's go."

He observed the reactions of the four.

Ximen Wudi's lips curled slightly.

He patted the Fire Qilin on the head.

Turned and walked out.

Seeing this, Seeing Di Shitian and the other three.

Though their hearts were filled with shock and confusion.

Still forcibly suppressed this thread of curiosity.

Quietly followed behind him.

Time slipped by like a white horse passing through a crevice.

In the blink of an eye.

Three days passed in haste.

As if aware that the Heaven's Dao Golden List would update its rankings today.

The people of the Nine Provinces collectively set aside their work.

Gathered in small groups of two or three.

Chatting as they occasionally looked up at the void.

They did not wait long.

Under countless gazes.

The Heaven's Dao Golden List trembled slightly, emitting dazzling golden light.

A few breaths later.

As the golden light faded.

Lines of small characters slowly appeared.

【Nine Provinces Combat Ceiling List — (Tied) 34th Place: Po Jun, Cultivation: Heavenly Being Peak.】

【Identity: Son of the Jianzongzhang Sect, Imperial Protector of the Great Ming Dynasty.】

【Po Jun, son of Jian Hui, the Jian Sect's patriarch of the Yinshizong Sect in Yunzhou, was cruel by nature, taking pleasure in harming others.】

【As the Jianzongshao Sect, he should have lived a dignified life.】

【Unfortunately, the Jian Sect produced a gifted disciple—Wu Ming—who surpassed him in character, cultivation, and innate talent alike.】

【Thus, the two engaged in open and covert rivalry.】

【Later, due to Wu Ming's exceptional brilliance, many elders felt he was more suitable to inherit the patriarch position.】

【Jian Hui, however, wished his son to become patriarch; after deliberation, the Jian Sect decided to determine the successor by martial contest.】

【On the day of the contest, as Wu Ming prepared to strike down Po Jun with a single sword, Jian Hui threw down Wu Ming's master's acceptance gift—a jade pendant.】

【This caused Wu Ming to halt his attack.】

【At that moment, due to the presence of numerous experts summoned to witness the duel, Jian Hui, humiliated, froze the entire cave to prevent word of the incident from spreading.】

【Only Wu Ming and Po Jun escaped.】

【After entering the world, driven by hatred toward Wu Ming, Po Jun poisoned Wu Ming's wife, hoping to shatter his mind and gain victory over him.】

【But he miscalculated: Wu Ming, though bereaved, did not suffer mental damage—he instead attained the sword technique "Unutterable Grief," and defeated him.】

【To defeat Wu Ming, Po Jun traveled to You Dongying, trading the Wu Lin's most beautiful woman, Yan Ying, for the "Kill-Break-Wolf" technique from the Jue Wu Shen Sect.】

【A month ago, Po Jun returned to Yunzhou after mastering Kill-Break-Wolf.】

【Unable to find Wu Ming, and with the Nine Provinces in turmoil, he joined the Great Ming after being approached by the imperial court.】

【Heaven's Dao Evaluation: Rare genius, flawed mind.】

【Heaven's Dao Reward: Immortal-grade cultivation art, the Secret of Dual Sword and Blade (the higher one's comprehension, the more one gains).】

【Nine Provinces Combat Ceiling List — (Tied) 34th Place: Wang Yangming, Cultivation: late-stage Heavenly Being.】

【Identity: Sub-Sage, Imperial Protector of the Great Ming Dynasty.】

【Wang Shouren, originally named Wang Yun, styled Bo'an, hao Yangming, native of the Great Ming.】

【As a Heavenly Being Realm cultivator, his life reads like a tale from a storybook.】

【He was born with a peculiar aura; his mother carried him for fourteen months before giving birth.】

【Before his birth, his grandmother dreamed of a celestial deity clad in crimson jade, with clouds sounding flutes, holding a crimson infant descending from heaven.】

【Thus, his grandfather named him "Yun" and named his residence "Ruiyun Tower."】

【Surprisingly, though born under auspicious omens, he remained mute until age five, silently memorizing every book his grandfather read.】

【Only after changing his name to Shouren did he begin to speak.】

【Before entering the martial path, he was a Jinshi of the Great Ming Dynasty—a scholar utterly without martial strength.】

Yet, amid a series of promotions and demotions, he attained enlightenment on an uncivilized wilderness farm.

This enlightenment lasted seventy-seven days, seven times seven.

During this time, he took not a drop of water, yet his body suffered no damage.

Only on the forty-ninth day did he finally end his enlightenment.

At that moment, he who had previously possessed no cultivation stepped directly into the Realm of Heavenly Beings.

The cultivation method he created was compiled by himself into the book "Chuan Xi Lu," and transmitted to the world.

Unfortunately, despite having countless disciples, none among them grasped the essence of Heart Learning.

Thus, "Chuan Xi Lu," originally a martial cultivation scripture, became a classic of conduct among scholars and literati.

Knowing well that fate and opportunity could not be forced, Wang Yangming abandoned all desire to transmit his doctrine; after faking his death, he became one of the Great Ming Empire's Imperial Guardians.

He was revered by the world as the "Second Sage."

Heavenly Dao's evaluation: Unparalleled talent, transcendent comprehension.

Heavenly Dao's reward: Mythical Breakthrough Pill (consumption increases chance of breakthrough to the Mythical Realm by eighty percent).

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As the last character on the Heavenly Dao Golden List appeared and faded.

The Nine Provinces instantly fell into absolute silence.

At this moment.

Whether the original Nine Provinces' people or the Yunzhou cultivators.

All stared wide-eyed, faces filled with shock and horror.

After a long while.

They finally came back to their senses.

The sound of sharp intakes of breath rose and fell continuously across the skies of the Nine Provinces.

Know this.

Since Yunzhou's return, some time had passed.

Whether cultivators from the original Nine Provinces or from Yunzhou.

They all knew roughly seven or eight out of ten of the public rumors within their respective martial worlds.

Therefore.

Upon seeing the ranking list entries of Wang Yangming and Po Jun, they were naturally shaken to their core.