The power of the Ancient Divine Realm allowed her to break through her original limits, gaining even stronger power. Now, her total spiritual energy has increased many times compared to before, and her strength is no longer in the same dimension as her former self.

"Do you have confidence in beating them?"

Ye Mingqiu asked.

"Not sure, but I can try."

Tang Ruobing replied.

She felt unsure because she thought her spellcasting proficiency and precision were not as good as the two people below the stage. Although she also learned to cast from a young age, talent is talent, and there are levels of genius among geniuses.

Those two are stronger geniuses, possessing better spellcasting talents than her.

Her only advantage is the ten times total spiritual energy compared to a hero level magic system spiritualist of the same level. Competing in skills, she would probably not win, and can only bombard them with her total spiritual energy, using the high-speed cutoff spellcasting to instantaneously cast spells and deal damage relentlessly.

Oh, it’s just a little numerical advantage!

"I understand that feeling."

Ye Mingqiu also sighed, gently rubbing his forehead with one hand, and continued, "I can feel that my combat skills, while still decent compared to spiritualists of the same level, are clearly not as good as those top experts."

"When facing them, I don’t dare to fight them with techniques, only crushing with power as much as possible, using innate perception to predict, striving for an instant kill. My skills are far inferior...this feeling is quite excruciating."

"Sigh~" ×2

Both sighed simultaneously.

"By the way, isn’t it still not started? Why are they fighting already? Is there some hidden rule?" Ye Mingqiu asked curiously.

"The arena can have sparring competitions, which come in two types: one that does not involve ranking and another that involves ranking changes," Tang Ruobing replied.

"Oh? So we can directly challenge others now?"

"Yes, but the opponent can refuse. Only in the final stages of the challenge is it irrevocable."

Then, Tang Ruobing paused, flashed a playful smile, and continued, "However, there is a special case, which is the positioning match challenge."

"Positioning match?"

"Exactly, spiritualists with sufficient strength but without rankings due to not having started challenges can choose to initiate a positioning match challenge. Through this, they can alter their ranking, challenging three times, and the challenge span is relatively large."

"I see."

Ye Mingqiu looked at the half-empty leaderboard and said, "If nothing goes wrong, the Spirit Realm’s will means that spiritualists with strong enough power can directly fill in those positions left vacant due to advancing to Tier Two. It’s kind of a mutated benefit."

"Yes, that’s about it," Tang Ruobing nodded slightly and said, "But you need the capability to enjoy this benefit. Starting ahead with a positioning match, others will likely watch your contest and roughly assess your power level to make corresponding adjustments. There’s a hidden cost behind the benefit."

"The advantage is that you can leap ahead in rankings with direct positioning matches, potentially even reaching the top. In the third phase of challenges, under normal circumstances, it’s not possible to challenge opponents with significant ranking differences, saving considerable time and energy."

"Then I’ll start first."

[Note: Enable Positioning Match?]

Yes.

[Announcement: Spiritualist-Divine Monarch initiated a positioning match, challenging the Celestial Ladder ranking]

The same message echoed thrice, letting all spiritualists in the Celestial Ladder Arena know.

[Note: Please choose your challenge target]

[Current selectable targets: Celestial Ladder Ranking positions 37-62]

Challenge the 37th position.

There are positions left half-empty on the leaderboard, and the original spiritualists automatically ascend, so the lowest ranking is 62 rather than 100.

[Confirm selection?]

Yes.

...

The next moment, Ye Mingqiu’s figure appeared inside the Celestial Ladder Arena, which has many fields allowing multiple battles simultaneously.

A figure clad in a black robe slowly walked out from the other side of the battlefield, emitting a raspy and grim voice, "Humph, an ignorant fool daring to challenge me. Fine, let me show you what true power is."

...

Ye Mingqiu did not answer.

In such a place, true arrogance probably doesn’t exist, since the opponent spoke like this, there must be a hidden agenda. Better be more meticulous during the battle.

After all, this is a ladder ranking, and it’s his first time doing a positioning match.

[Note: Battle begins in 3 seconds]

Battle Start!

With the sound of the battle start ringing, Ye Mingqiu instantly entered battle mode, with [Innate Perception] fully activated, and stared at the movements of the black-robed figure. The odd thing was, within the perception vision, there was no trace of an attack.

No trace?

Does he intend to attack me?

[Note: Eye of Omaragon blocked a curse judgment for you]

[Note: Eye of Omaragon triggered passive - Curse Devouring effect, retaliated with an instant death judgment]

[Note: Judgment successful]

[Battle Victory]

...

Ye Mingqiu stood still, looking at the black-robed figure collapsed before him, not knowing what to say.

Damn it!

What a joke!

Of course, it wasn’t because the opponent was weak, but Ye Mingqiu cultivated the Eye of Omaragon very well, as [Eye of Omaragon] itself is a Dominator Level equipment with the ability to grow by devouring curse power.

In the world of Silent Corridor, the Eye of Omaragon devoured a massive amount of curses, previously suffering from indigestion, but now it has gradually processed, and its curse ability is much stronger than before.

Though when used against Dominator Level or Divinity Level enemies, its effect is still not great, yet against Hero Level ones, it’s highly effective.

Just now, it was a straight one-shot.

...

After the battle ended, the black-robed person came to Ye Mingqiu first.

"Hmm?"

Ye Mingqiu slightly frowned, thinking: is this guy about to start talking harshly again?

"Thud!"

The black-robed figure instantly kneels, incredibly humble, saying, "Dad, I was wrong, I really was wrong! Don’t hold a grudge, or...I’ll pay protection money! Whatever you want!"

...

Ye Mingqiu was stunned.

Tang Ruobing lowered his head to type.

Broken Star: Playing curses makes one’s heart black; he sees you as a big curse system dad. Entangling with a big curse system dad means his life won’t be easy from now on.

Broken Star: Hmm, if you don’t accept, he’ll probably give you a couple of worships on the spot.

Divine Monarch: Is it that crazy?

Broken Star: He cultivates in curses, what’s the use of dignity. Furthermore, because he himself is of the curse system, he knows better how terrifying it is to be targeted by another stronger curse system.

Broken Star: Just take him out, don’t hold back, if you want things, he’d really give them to you.

...

"I have a skill I want to advance, but I don’t have the item to advance, it’s quite frustrating." Ye Mingqiu casually said.

"Dad, I’ll get it for you, at most within a month I’ll hand it over!"

The black-robed person’s face showed a smile, feeling relieved as if he had put down a huge burden in his heart.

He is familiar with curse equipment to a certain extent, though he doesn’t know the exact attribute of [Eye of Omaragon], he can tell this thing is definitely not simple, probably the kind of equipment capable of messing up its holder.

And for such curse equipment to obediently serve the Divine Monarch, it indicates the other party isn’t simple, likely possessing some special power, supposedly impossible for an ordinary person.

Silently, the Eye of Omaragon in Ye Mingqiu’s hand opened its eye, glaring at the black-robed figure, filled with contempt and ridicule, while conveying to Ye Mingqiu: See, I’m so awesome! Shouldn’t you reward me with another piece of Dark Gold Level equipment to eat? Advancement items are so expensive!

"I’ll get you something to eat when we get back."

Ye Mingqiu smiled and gently touched the Eye of Omaragon, speaking softly.

Food...to eat?

The black-robed person felt a chill up his spine.