Open up and break into another world

In the blink of an eye.

More than a decade.

During these ten-plus years, the Peerless Prodigy Ranking had been updated more than ten times. Unsurprisingly, Xu Ming always ranked first.

Initially, every time the Peerless Prodigy Ranking was updated, Xu Ming would go to the Blood Sea Battle Stage to wait for challenges! After all, according to the rules, if he wasn't present when the Peerless Prodigy Ranking was updated, he would automatically lose if challenged!

Of course, Xu Ming wouldn't let the "first" position go to someone else. So, for the first few years, Xu Ming went to the Blood Sea Battle Stage every year.

However, after going a few times, Xu Ming stopped going! Because every time he went to the Blood Sea Battle Stage, no one dared to challenge Xu Ming at all; instead, Long Peng, who ranked second, and Can Tian, who ranked third, often fought fiercely.

Seeing that no one dared to challenge Xu Ming every time, the Blood Sea Half-Saint slightly modified the rules, allowing Xu Ming not to have to be present every time; if someone really wanted to challenge him, he could just rush over! In this way, Xu Ming hadn't been to the Blood Sea Battle Stage in the following decade; yet, his ranking had always been first on the Peerless Prodigy Ranking!

The well-deserved first!

...

Whoosh!

The Ancient Cultivator clone suddenly opened its eyes. Its gaze radiated in all directions, incomparably sharp.

"The time... is almost here!"

What Xu Ming was referring to was naturally... the day of the martial arts competition to select a husband, which was fast approaching!

Boom!

Xu Ming stood up abruptly, his powerful aura permeating the air.

More than ten years ago, Xu Ming's Ancient Cultivator clone was already at the peak of the King-Sealing realm; its strength was comparable to that of an ordinary Half-Step Dominator. When using the 'Cycle of Life and Death' technique, its attack even crossed the threshold of the Dominator realm!

Over the past ten years, Xu Ming naturally wouldn't remain stagnant. Now, the Ancient Cultivator clone's cultivation had already reached the Half-Step God Emperor realm, just a step away from entering the Emperor level; its strength had already crossed the threshold of the Dominator realm!

Now, if Xu Ming were to face Li Xiujie again, he wouldn't even need to use the 'Cycle of Life and Death' technique; a casual move would be enough to instantly kill Li Xiujie! Of course, Li Xiujie had a mysterious trump card to protect himself, so Xu Ming could only severely injure him at most, but couldn't kill him.

"Mysterious trump card?" Xu Ming was somewhat disdainful. "Sooner or later, I will kill Li Xiujie!"

Sooner or later!

"Prepare yourself and head to the City Lord's Mansion!"

With a flip of his hand, a golden jade talisman appeared in Xu Ming's hand.

The gold on the talisman was a coiled golden dragon; the jade part was a soaring phoenix. The entire talisman had a special aura that couldn't be imitated.

This talisman was what Xu Ming had obtained when he signed up for the martial arts competition to select a husband in the Scarlet Flame Prefecture; with this talisman, he was qualified to participate in the competition.

Xu Ming looked at the golden jade talisman as if he were looking at Yin Ran.

The Heavenly Dao clone had to guard the Yan Yan Divine Mountain to guard against the Fire Serpent Dominator from attacking.

The main body, which cultivated the Path of Faith, had to guard the Microcosm World and independent space.

The only one who was idle was the Luck Path clone!

"Then I'll transfer the Luck Path clone here!"

The 'Coordinate Teleportation' cheat was activated, directly connecting the Holy Emperor City and the Endless Continent, these two incomparably distant coordinate points. Xu Ming's Luck Path clone silently teleported directly into Xu Ming's world ring.

"When my 'Heart World' grows stronger in the future; there will be no need to activate the 'Coordinate Teleportation' cheat for the main body and the three great clones to travel between each other! They can directly teleport to each other through the Heart World!"

The Heart World was ethereal and illusory, existing invisibly.

The Heart Worlds of the main body and the three great clones were actually the same Heart World! If the main body didn't perish, the Heart World would never collapse.

"Let's go!"

...

The Holy Emperor City's City Lord's Mansion was immensely large, spanning hundreds of millions of miles!

The plaza outside the City Lord's Mansion was naturally also vast.

At this time, thousands of Emperor-level geniuses and tens of thousands of King-Sealing-level geniuses had already gathered in the plaza, waiting to enter and participate in the martial arts competition to select a husband. Of course, the vast majority of them weren't really here for the competition; they wanted to take this opportunity to show their strength in front of the Divine Domain powerhouses, hoping to be accepted as personal disciples.

"Brother Pan Gang!"

"Brother Pan Gang!"

The burly youth "Pan Gang," whom Xu Ming had met when he first entered the Underground City, was now surrounded by hundreds of King-Sealing-level geniuses.

"Brother Pan Gang, why hasn't Brother Ming come yet?"

These King-Sealing-level geniuses weren't really admiring Pan Gang; they wanted to use Pan Gang to climb up to Xu Ming.

Although Pan Gang put on a very imposing appearance on the surface, he was actually a little apprehensive in his heart! After all, he wasn't sure whether Xu Ming would still call him brother when he saw Xu Ming; if Xu Ming ignored him, he would completely lose face.

However, on the surface, Pan Gang still pretended to be very familiar with Xu Ming: "Isn't it normal that my brother Xu Ming hasn't come yet? The more powerful the person, the later they arrive!"

"That makes sense!" The geniuses suddenly understood—of course, they had to wait for Brother Ming here; could it be that they wanted Brother Ming to wait for them here?

At this moment, an ordinary figure appeared at the edge of the plaza.

This figure was extremely ordinary, yet it attracted attention.

"Brother Ming!"

"It's Brother Ming!"

"Brother Ming is here!"

...

The geniuses who had heard of Brother Ming's legend or had seen Brother Ming take action all exclaimed; however, everyone didn't dare to step forward, but watched Xu Ming from afar with awe.

"Brother Pan Gang, Brother Ming is here, why don't you go up?" A flattering genius asked.

"Uh..." Pan Gang hesitated for a moment, gritted his teeth, and went forward, smiling and cupping his fists, "Brother Xu Ming!"

While greeting, Pan Gang prayed in his heart—Brother Xu Ming, you have to give me face!

Xu Ming didn't put on any airs and also smiled and cupped his fists: "Brother Pan Gang!"

The group of younger brothers who were flattering Pan Gang were immediately excited!—Brother Pan Gang really had a brotherly relationship with Brother Ming! If we follow Brother Pan Gang, we will definitely be able to climb up to Brother Ming!

"Brother Pan Gang, you're here too!" Xu Ming said with a smile.

Xu Ming didn't have much aversion to Pan Gang coming to participate in the martial arts competition to select a husband; after all, Pan Gang wasn't here for the competition, but just wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to see if he had the chance to be accepted as a personal disciple by a powerhouse.

After exchanging a few pleasantries with Pan Gang, Xu Ming's gaze began to survey the plaza!—Although Xu Ming didn't think that any genius could threaten him in the martial arts competition to select a husband; however, this competition was too important to Xu Ming, and Xu Ming didn't dare to be careless!

"Huh—" Suddenly, Xu Ming's gaze fell on a black-clothed youth in the distance, "This person, isn't he the 'Meng He' that I rescued in the Thunder Spirit Mountain Range?"

Xu Ming could recognize Meng He, but Meng He couldn't recognize Xu Ming!—After all, Xu Ming was now using the "Disguise" cheat to disguise his appearance.

His gaze continued to sweep over.

However, Xu Ming didn't find any powerful new faces!—After all, Xu Ming had seen the powerful geniuses on the Peerless Prodigy Ranking.

At this time, exclamations rang out in the distance. The gazes of many geniuses were cast on a vast team that was walking towards the plaza.

This team had as many as hundreds of people, all of whom were Emperor-level geniuses!

In the very center of the hundreds of Emperor-level geniuses, surrounded by the crowd like stars surrounding the moon, was—Li Xiujie!

Today's update is complete.