The match ended, and the arena was in an uproar.

"Are you kidding? Is that guy a monster? What kind of speed and power is this!"

"My god, a twelve-meter-tall monster running faster than a damn assassin class, did you see that? The guy just left afterimages, this is scarier than a horror story!"

"Who is this guy? How come I didn’t know about him before, where did he come from?"

....

Amid the countless clamoring voices, Ye Mingqiu calmly walked back to the audience and sat next to Tang Ruobing, saying, "He is indeed strong, the toughest spiritualist I’ve encountered so far."

"Is that so?"

Tang Ruobing’s eyes flickered slightly; her heart was not at peace, but she responded as calmly as ever, "After this battle, you’ve made a name for yourself among those top-tier spiritualists. They will definitely try to investigate your background as much as possible... Are you ready for this?"

"To become strong, one must endure the chilling winds of the heights. This is something that will happen sooner or later, the difference being little." Ye Mingqiu replied calmly.

In fact, his original identity was nothing more than an ordinary child without parents, no talent, no bloodline awakening, or background, so those people were destined to find nothing.

If they find something, that’s fine, but if they find nothing, it makes people more suspicious. After all, any intelligent spiritualist won’t readily believe that Ye Mingqiu grew from an ordinary person to this level; they will almost certainly think he was a genius strongman from some hidden power.

Because his strength is just too out of the ordinary!

Completely unattainable by normal means!

Take the "Eye of Omaragon" for example, for an ordinary person, encountering this leads to death. Without some special ability or background, making a contract and using it as gear is utterly impossible.

"Ding!"

Suddenly, a notification sounded in the Spirit Realm, and Ye Mingqiu instinctively opened the panel, entering the team channel page marked with a red dot.

-- Team Channel --

Qing Yu: Damn!

Qing Yu: The leader is ruthless!

Short-tailed Cat: ?

Qing Yu: He took the top of the Celestial Ladder!

The Other Shore: Damn!

Short-tailed Cat: Isn’t that normal?

Although she didn’t know much about Ye Mingqiu, she at least knew his goal was to hunt gods. Anyone aiming to hunt gods must have extremely powerful abilities; taking the top of the Celestial Ladder is normal; she thinks the Divine Monarch has this capability.

Qing Yu: But he took the top of the Celestial Ladder at Level 4.

Short-tailed Cat: Level 4???

Xin: What top? I just finished the first stage of the trial, how did a top come out?

Qing Yu: @Divine Monarch, boss, I recorded a video of your fight earlier, can I upload it? I promise not to spread it outside.

Divine Monarch: Sure.

His fight with Zhen Yue was public; all the spiritualists in the Celestial Ladder Arena could watch, and the audience was not small; many spiritualists saw it, so there was no need for Qing Yu to hide it from their own people.

After all, he didn’t even use his full strength.

Ye Mingqiu’s strongest form is the "Blood Erosion Tyrant" after activating the Shadow of Blood Erosion, and he didn’t even use the "Divine Majesty" or the magic of the Light and Shadow attribute, meaning he preserved a significant portion of his strength.

Qing Yu: [Combat Recordings]

The recording was not long, as the whole fight didn’t take much time. Very soon, the others watched the recording.

Short-tailed Cat: Is this really a Level 4 spiritualist?

Short-tailed Cat: This is called Level 4?

The Other Shore: Damn!

Xin: It’s alright, not particularly scary.

Qing Yu: @Xin, wait a minute, explain what you mean by ’it’s alright’? Have you seen something more amazing? Any big secrets?

Xin: He once single-handedly took down the remains of an Ancient God at the same level.

Qing Yu: ???

Short-tailed Cat: (◎_◎;)

The Other Shore: Ah?

Xin: Moreover, he did it without any prior preparation, directly attacking from outside the Ancient God’s influence area to the inside, then blew up the Ancient God.

Qing Yu: An Ancient God has an instant death judgment, doesn’t it? How did he withstand that? Is that something a normal human can handle?

Xin: How about you guess why our team’s passive can double resistances?

Qing Yu: !!!

....

Ye Mingqiu closed the channel, looked up, and exhaled a long breath, saying, "The upper limit of the current spiritualists is still too low, even the strongest ones cannot compare to the weakest divinity-level enemy."

"...."

Tang Ruobing rolled her eyes at him, saying, "Why do you think humans should be compared to gods?"

She paused, her gaze changing gradually, unable to help but ask, "Are you planning to charge towards the divinity level?"

"I’ve thought about it."

"..."

Tang Ruobing fell silent for a moment, then said, "But that’s probably not possible. Normal spiritualists have absolute limits to their strength: template limits, skill level limits, specialty limits, body basic potential limits, talent limits..."

"Top-tier spiritualists have calculated that even at the limit state, a spiritualist cannot challenge a divinity of the same tier, not even one tier lower; it has to be at least two major tiers apart."

"Is that so?"

Ye Mingqiu’s eyes lowered; as someone who has truly challenged the Fire God-Hephaestus, he can indeed feel the power of divinity-level enemies. Even if a Tier Two spiritualist comes, the Fire God would probably easily kill them; at least a Tier Three would barely be able to fight.

The Fire God has extremely high basic attributes, and numerous and strong types of judgment, ordinary spiritualists probably can’t withstand the Fire God’s damage.