Martial Ascent to Divinity

Zhou Leng estimated that his three drops were gone too, but anyway, he couldn’t absorb the thirtieth drop now, so he just assumed all three attempts had failed.

"So the third time on the Ascension Divinity Ladder is... huh?"

Li Yuanhe gazed at the Ascension Divinity Ladder.

On the second tier of the Ascension Divinity Ladder, countless semi-transparent shadows appeared.

All were demigods of the Ten Realms.

Among them, many powerful demigods were located far on the left side of the ladder.

This included several Lords of the Demon Purgatory, demigod kings of the Fierce Beast World, and the Blood of Tyranny.

After these demigods, there was Zhou Leng.

After Zhou Leng, there were demigods from other races.

The further back you go, the weaker the demigod or Martial Saint’s strength becomes.

Demigods who had not obtained Ancient Beast Blood were not appearing above.

Li Yuanhe looked at the second-tier ladder, then at Zhou Leng, and then back at the ladder, then at Zhou Leng again, the confusion on his face growing ever stronger.

Zhou Leng squinted slightly at this arrangement and said, "Don’t misunderstand, the ranking on the ladder is random. How could I be with the top demigods of the Ten Realms, it’s definitely a misunderstanding."

Li Yuanhe said half-believingly, "I don’t know about Fierce Beasts, but the Blood of Tyranny is famous for having many gains. As for the others, not sure about them, but one is the Pale Queen, the Lord of the twelfth level of the Demon Purgatory, and another is the Chaos Monument King, Lord of the tenth level. These two sent avatars to the Endless Battlefield to acquire Ancient Beast Blood. In other words... you’re now sitting at the same table with the Lords?"

"Don’t talk nonsense, I didn’t! The ladder ranks randomly!"

Zhou Leng searched around the second-tier ladder, but did not see the Celestial Calamity God.

It seemed the Celestial Calamity God wasn’t qualified to participate in the Ascension Divinity Ladder.

Li Yuanhe looked at Zhou Leng, said nothing, but his eyes were full of doubt, with not a bit of belief.

Soon after, Martial Faith was flooded with messages.

Zhou Leng checked.

"You’ve been promoted from a big beast to a Ten Realm-level Godly Beast! The whole school is blown up, last time you appeared on the first layer of the ladder it might’ve been a fluke, but this time being ranked so high, everyone’s gone crazy. Without being a Martial Saint, there’s no way to absorb Ancient Beast Blood, you can’t hide it now..."

Feng Wenhao sent the message, followed by a video.

Opening it, it was a video of the dining hall at Martial Arts University, where no matter the grade, male or female, were pounding the tables while shouting.

"Zhou Leng!"

Clap clap!

"Awesome!"

Clap clap!

"Zhou Leng!"

Clap clap...

The place was a mess.

Everyone excitedly slapped tables and shouted, many faces flushed red from yelling.

Theoretically speaking, Zhou Leng is still a student at Martial Arts University, in his fourth year.

A fourth-year demigod, unprecedented.

A student’s martial art scores can influence the ranking of Martial Arts University.

Undoubtedly, a fourth-year demigod could make everyone responsible for college rankings feel a headache coming on.

Martial Arts University, not only might it be lifted into the national Top Ten Martial Arts by Zhou Leng, it might even be directly lifted into the world’s Top Ten.

How could people at Martial Arts not go nuts.

Sitting idle, the school did well, and they made it to the Top Ten themselves.

Then, a large number of friends and Martial Saints sent messages to Zhou Leng.

Some of the messages were extremely similar, all filled with strings of "???"

Liang Baiyin sent dozens in a row, all question marks.

Zhu Shiji asked, "Have you truly ascended to a saint? When did it happen? How did no one discover it? Are you hiding well, or did you ascend in the Otherworld? Either one is a bit terrifying. Also, how could you be sitting at the same table with the Lords and the Blood of Tyranny? How much Ancient Beast Blood did you absorb?"

"The ladder ranks randomly, it’s not according to the amount of Ancient Beast Blood, I only got one drop, which was gifted by the Blood of Tyranny."

"You’re totally spreading ghost stories."

"Really no, I’ll clarify on my social media."

"Clarify? Does it still have credibility now?"

Zhou Leng took a photo of the ladder and posted it on Moments, with additional text.

"Everyone, please don’t misunderstand, the ladder ranks are random, not based on the amount of Ancient Beast Blood. I was lucky to be gifted ancient beast blood by a good-hearted person whose name is confidential, but it was all an accident. I’m laying it out, I’m the number one Grandmaster King, but I’m truly not a demigod. I’m just a half-step just entered temporary body quasi-fake apprentice preparing to touch the newly promoted quarter-god, not yet a full demigod. Please help clarify, do not spread rumors, do not believe rumors. The internet is not beyond the law!"

Soon, Zhu Shiji replied.

"I believe you’re full of it!"

A large string of people replied with the same phrase, dense with "I believe you’re full of it!"

Wei Hong replied: "I’m an outlaw!"

All of Zhou Leng’s classmates uniformly replied "I’m an outlaw!".

A few classmates replied: "I’m a Huang Meng Sect online."

Zhou Leng sighed.

Decades of secret growth, betrayed by the Ascension Divinity Ladder.

A screenshot of the Moments went viral across the internet.

Demon Purgatory.

The demons were completely stunned.

They all knew the strength of the Blood of Tyranny.

But a human, probably a newly promoted demigod, standing behind a bunch of Lords and the Blood of Tyranny was unthinkable?

Even the upper-rank Martial Saints of humans were far behind.

If it were not for the Ascension Divinity Ladder, the demons would have shouted there was an inside story.

The demons’ self-esteem suffered a significant blow.

"Investigate!"

"Thoroughly investigate!"

"Thoroughly and completely investigate!"

"List Zhou Leng as the same level as the Blood of Tyranny for a complete investigation!"

Orders from the Lords of the Demon Purgatory spread through the Ten Realms.

Demon Spirit World.

The Celestial Calamity God, just having tasted the flavor of the witch, looked up at the celestial ladder, seemingly thoughtful.

"He’s probably a child of fate from an Elementary Civilization as well..."

But then, he shrugged it off and continued looking for a new witch.

He, standing at the pinnacle of Aurora, is a child of God in a High-Level Civilization, having slaughtered countless galaxies, not to mention trivial children of fate.

The Giant Royal Court, Dragon Council, and deep courts of Demon Spirit Masters among other forces fell into silence, successively calculating the amount of Ancient Beast Blood acquired by their people.

It turned out, everyone stood on the ladder strictly ranked according to the amount of Ancient Beast Blood.

Then, each major force fell into doubt.

How did Zhou Leng acquire so much Ancient Beast Blood?

Even if obtained, how could he manage to consume 20 drops?

Theoretically, under an upper-rank demigod, even having 20 drops, they couldn’t endure such immense pain, leading to failure.

Even 10 drops were hard to achieve.

Finally, Demon Spirit Masters once again had a brainstorming session.

"The truth is only one, it was all gifted by the Blood of Tyranny."

Soon, this answer spread through the Ten Realms, mostly believed.

However, major forces continued to investigate Zhou Leng.

All Demon Worship Sect forces on Blue Star mobilized.

Mrs. Xiyang, looking at the massive information, smiled like a doting mother.

"No wonder, he’s my child. Thus, the rumors of the Celestial Calamity Envoy dying at his hands, at least seventy percent believable."

Meanwhile, other relevant information was spreading.

In some videos, Grandmasters of all realms were wailing, for they secretly stored Ancient Beast Blood deep underground, not wanting it found, yet after the trial ended, the Ancient Beast Blood was gone.

The end of the second-tier Celestial Tier Trial became the hottest topic across the Ten Realms.

Everyone speculated on what the third tier of the Ascension Divinity Ladder would be.