Cultivation : I'm an Ancient Giant Bear-Chapter 352 - 332: Celestial Pride List

North Sea, emerald waves stretching for tens of thousands of miles, the human army has completed the blockade from the sky to the surface of the sea, and to the seabed!

Grand arrays, divine prohibitions, and fleets—totaling over five million elite human cultivator troops—have turned this place into a copper wall and iron wall.

The Snake Emperor and its cohorts can no longer move an inch.

Because in the sky, clusters of pale clouds are locking on, ready at any moment.

Over a period of sixty years, the elite of the Immortal Alliance were all deployed, and the human race paid a huge price. South Desolate Wushui City, East Desolate Mountain and Sea City were taken by the Demon Race, and even the Black Tortoise City of the West Wilderness might be occupied.

In these sixty years, attacks, reproaches, and scoldings have left the core of the human race in panic, and the sound of angry curses can be heard even in the North Sea.

The Lu Family has even been labeled as the lackeys of the Demon Race, as spies among the human race.

But it was all worth it!

To encircle and capture the Snake Emperor, to lure it into the trap, who knows the price the Lu Family has paid over three generations for this?

To lure it in, Lu Wuchen himself stepped into the trap, hardened his heart, and used his own bloodline descendants as bait!

"These four Hidden Dragon traps should now be broken, hehe, that Snake Emperor probably won’t understand where its Hidden Dragons have gone even at the end of its life, Senior Brother, after this battle, the human race’s momentum of Heaven Repairing should be established!"

Lu Wuchen, Liu Wujiu, and another Vice Alliance Leader of the Immortal Alliance stood at the top of the clouds, talking and laughing, appearing in a good mood.

"Indeed, for the past several hundred years, Brother Wuchen has borne too much slander, sometimes you and I had to follow the trend and scold as well, but fortunately, soon the truth will come to light, and the great momentum will be established."

The Vice Alliance Leader laughed, stroking his beard. For the past hundred years, he was the one who scolded the loudest, even repeatedly proposing motions within the Immortal Alliance to remove Lu Wuchen from his position as Vice Alliance Leader.

They seemed irreconcilable, but who would have thought, they were merely acting.

"Speaking of which, I’m still curious, Brother Wuchen, how did you deceive the Snake Emperor? It hides so well, and with Dragon Island in hand, it can teleport at any time. As long as it lays low, we really have no way to deal with it."

Lu Wuchen was silent for a long while, a faint sadness seemed to flash in his eyes.

After a long time, he sighed softly.

"Actually, it’s nothing, the Snake Emperor was just too greedy. Its four daughters, each comparable to the strongest First-Grade Demon Emperor, if they had just laid low like that Stone Demon, who could have done anything to them? But it wanted to restore the glory of the Dragon Race’s era, it simply didn’t understand, it didn’t understand..."

Lu Wuchen didn’t continue, but his face showed irrepressible sorrow. To outsmart the heavens, he had to enter the game himself. If he didn’t sacrifice true love, how could he deceive the Dragon Maiden’s true heart?

Now, he seems to have won everything, but also seems to have lost everything.

The only solace he could find was in raising those two children to adults.

But it also meant he had wasted two of the Snake Emperor’s Hidden Dragons.

The Snake Emperor, sensing they were still alive, would believe it still had two trump cards and be willing to believe they would suddenly rise up one day to accomplish its plan, which could be described as grand and tragic.

Yes, the Snake Emperor circled the North Sea, it didn’t want to escape, it just wanted to create a big event, it wanted to exchange a Snake Emperor for four True Dragons! As long as the four Hidden Dragons were in place.

This is why Lu Wuchen knew all too well that Wushui City and Mountain and Sea City would be captured and knew that the Five Poisons in Profound Iron City could awaken at any time, but still pretended not to know.

Actually, no one in this world can kill the Snake Emperor, not even Lu Wuchen, and neither can that prison guard—the ancestor of the Lu Family, Lu Ji, who often compels him to kill in his dreams!

The only one who can kill it is itself.

But it doesn’t know that in this world, now only Shen Wu remains as a Hidden Dragon, a single tree cannot support a building, and due to the great distance, it cannot inherit much of the Snake Emperor’s legacy.

As for that Xiong Wu, what kind of Hidden Dragon is it? It’s just a facade. Its uncle Yue Mountain is the real Hidden Dragon, inheriting almost ninety percent of the Snake Emperor’s bloodline essence, being the direct grandson of Xiong Pi!

This is why Yue Mountain, even cultivating human cultivation techniques, could achieve the rank of ninth on the Celestial Pride List. Otherwise, if it cultivated both the Innate and Acquired, who knows how terrifying it would be!

The Dragon Race should be extinct, at least here.

And as long as he refines a Fourth-Grade Five Elements Heaven-Repairing Immortal Pill, he will qualify to become a prison guard, just like his ancestor Lu Ji.

However, his ambitions are greater.

He doesn’t want to be a prison guard; the world is so vast, he wants to see it.

Why can outsiders come and go as they please, calling it an adventure?

Why should they be trapped here forever, their descendants eternal?

And play out some so-called destiny to create obstacles for those adventurers?

The Celestial Pride List, haha, the celestials are merely trampled by outsiders, just finding a sense of presence.

The Snake Emperor doesn’t understand, it can’t comprehend, so they aren’t on the same path.

Thus, there needs to be enough, sufficiently powerful, rebellious prisoners filled with a spirit of resistance and questioning against everything.

At the very least, they can’t be like Pork Large Intestine and Old Turtle, meek and thinking that hiding obediently in Shaman Village will allow them to be spared!

"Yue Mountain, Five Poisons, you must not disappoint me!"

Lu Wuchen gazed southward, tens of thousands of miles away, the frequency of Five Poisons’ onset should be increasing, and the symptoms more severe, right?

Does he know that what he believes to be the Five Poison Spiritual Qi he discovered and expanded upon is actually the best antidote to unlock the bloodline seal of Yue Mountain?

It can also, in the shortest time, make Yue Mountain’s Qi and blood flourish and strengthen, as if having gained a millennium of cultivation all at once.

Lu Wuchen was not worried that all this would go astray.

Because the Snake Emperor bloodline would attract each other, the more concentrated and pure it was, the more so.

Without Yue Mountain, Five Poison would not take the final step, even if he became ill, he could control it and maintain basic rationality.

And without Five Poison, the bloodline seal of Yue Mountain would never be broken, he would always be the rational Yue Mountain.

Only when the two were together, and because of some random changes in the outside world, would the balance be broken.

Two traitors, two who would not follow the command of the Snake Emperor, yet could acquire the Snake Emperor’s heritage, powerful traitors with their own minds!

"If we can escape from this prison, I hope my son and I can reconcile one day."

——

In Yun Ding City, Grandpa Huang ultimately did not fulfill his promise to exchange it for an exotic item.

After Wang Wu rested for a day, Song Pizi took him to a Teleportation Array.

At this place, a total of three hundred and twenty-seven people had gathered, and all of them were young people, all aiming to improve their ranking on the Celestial Pride List.

They were the younger generation belonging to the Cloud Cauldron Nine Cities Alliance.

At this moment, Grandpa Huang came over and personally hung a jade token engraved with nine characters on Wang Wu’s waist, which clearly meant he was ranked ninth on the Celestial Pride List.

This immediately sparked discussions among the young people nearby, as if encountering an idol.

Indeed, still too young and restless.

Wang Wu noticed that among them, some wore similar jade tokens, with the highest rank being eighteenth, but the lowest was only two hundred and seventy-fourth.

In general, counting Wang Wu, the Cloud Cauldron Nine Cities Alliance only had fourteen people in the top three hundred of the Celestial Pride List, which was indeed a bit too few.

However, some could not participate, such as Five Poison, and some exceeded the age limit, like Zhenhai, who had previously ranked forty-seventh on the Celestial Pride List.

Then there was Feng Yang, who, although not exceeding the age, did not want to embarrass himself; his best previous achievement was one hundred forty-seventh.

In short, unless competing for the top ten positions, most others were predominantly under two hundred years old.

In fact, if truly between one hundred and two hundred years, they aimed for the top fifty; otherwise, without that confidence, they wouldn’t be demoting themselves to compete for lower ranks.

This has become an established rule.

"Young Master Shan, once you enter the battlefield, you will be constrained by this supreme treasure, the Celestial Pride List, where no one can cheat, and no one can take shortcuts. You’ve participated once before, so I won’t go into details; there’s only one thing to note: being the ninth on the Celestial Pride List, you must play at least three matches regardless of your choices."

"This means you need to first accept the challengers who come after, maintain your ninth position, then challenge others. If you win, you need to guard this rank and accept others’ challenges."

"If you’re lucky, three matches will suffice; if not, you might need to play five."

"Don’t put too much pressure on yourself!"

With that, Grandpa Huang handed Wang Wu a golden small tripod filled with pure spirit liquid, capable of being drunk in three hundred sips—truly a good thing.

Soon, those not participating in the Celestial Pride List vying stepped back, and Wang Wu, along with other participants, stepped into the Teleportation Array, but this time the operation of the array was somewhat different because it was clear to see that this time the teleported area was in the sky.

"Whoosh"

With a flash of white light, Wang Wu appeared in an unfamiliar airspace, at least a thousand kilometers above the ground, yet he could still see the huge cities, mountains and rivers, continents, and oceans below.

Wang Wu, having fused his bloodline with General Xuelang’s, though not possessing the brilliance of Wolf Gaze Divine Techniques, still had extraordinary sight. If combined with Level 15 Spirit Essence and Danger Perception, he could discern the gender of a fly a thousand kilometers away.

Of course, it was unnecessary most of the time, and doing so would consume a lot of resources.

At this moment, beneath him was an enormous disc-like grand array.

Looking at this disc-like grand array, Wang Wu thought of the giant disc that appeared when the Pork Large Intestine and Old Turtle were taken by the Celestial Tribulation in the Evil Wind Desert.

Are they the same thing?

With this thought, he immediately looked up into the high sky.

Sure enough, in the deeper black sky, he vaguely saw statue after statue, or were they statues?

He couldn’t see clearly.

Wang Wu thought for a moment, then activated his Level 15 Spirit Essence, slightly combined with Danger Perception, and this time he could finally see more clearly, though it was still somewhat blurry...

These statues were incredibly massive, some resembling Stone Demons, others like Ancient Trees, and some were Giant Dragons...

Moreover, Wang Wu also saw many Human Race statues.

And Demon Race statues, there was even one statue that increasingly resembled Pork Large Intestine.

"So it’s not just the Dragon Race, nor just the Monster Race, Spirit Race, even the First-Grade Great Cultivators of the Human Race are being brought to the sky to bleed and turn into Spirit Essence?"

Wang Wu was shocked by this revelation.

But he couldn’t help but make this association, because previously in Shaman Village, that projection of Lu Wuchen was utterly cold-blooded, directly capturing Yuchi Qianshan, who was one of his most important allies.

Wang Wu suddenly realized something: are today’s Celestial Pride List’s prodigies destined to be captured and bled in the future as well?