Heavenly Ranking

Chapter 354 Alien Race
"Xuanyue Island".

Ji Fuyou received Gu Qing at Yunjing Garden.

"Correct."

Gu Qing nodded: "I drifted overseas for a month before finally entering Xuan Yue Island, where I was trapped for a month before I found an opportunity to escape."

How dangerous is Xuan Yue Island?

Ji Fuyou quickly pressed for more information.

Gu Qing did not answer immediately, but carefully considered his words and said, "The way the Heavenly Ranking pulls civilizations into the Heavenly War is by doing it region by region. For example, this time it pulls 108, next time it pulls 108, and so on. Theoretically, one region can only come into contact with civilizations from the other 6 regions."

"Six regions... does that mean we'll come into contact with six civilizations?"

"It should be four civilizations."

Gu Qing said, "You can think of a region as a cube. We can only indirectly contact four of the cube's faces. Of course, we can actually contact the fifth face, but it will be much slower and will probably take longer."

"Four civilizations..."

Ji Fuyou immediately said, "One in Zhenmo Valley, one in Hongri City, plus Xuan Yue Island that you discovered..."

"Yes, that's three."

Gu Qing nodded.

"No, it's 4."

Ji Fuyou said, "The connecting passage deep within the Valley of Ten Thousand Snakes leads to another civilization, but compared to Rainbow Sun City, Demon Suppression Valley, and Xuan Yue Island, that civilization... was completely destroyed."

"Complete destruction?"

Gu Qing was taken aback, then quickly realized something: "Complete destruction is also a normal phenomenon. Not every region can have civilizations survive through various coincidences. After failing the civilization trial, the ones who can truly survive... are said to be only 1%!"

"You stayed there for a month. How dangerous was Xuan Yue Island?"

Ji Fuyou said again.

But Gu Qing glanced at Ji Fuyou and asked, "What do you think of strange beasts and demons?"

"Ok?"

Upon hearing this, Ji Fuyou quickly realized something: "The strange beasts should come from the Civilization Trial. With low intelligence, they only have the instinct to fight and are relatively weak in terms of their level. But the demons have intelligence, their own language, and their own civilization... do they represent other civilizations?"

"good."

Gu Qing nodded: "On Crimson Star, three civilizations were selected by the Heavenly Ranking at the same time. Now that I think about it carefully, the Fertile Clan, the plant spirits of the Misty Forest, the Beastmen Clan, and others that you encountered before may all belong to one of the trial civilizations."

"civilization……"

Ji Fuyou was somewhat surprised, but also felt it made perfect sense.

No one stipulated that all 108 civilizations in the Civilization Trial had to be human.

The fertile tribe, plant spirits, and orcs—they build palaces, forge weapons, and inscribe writing…

It is also a form of civilization.

Even the Blood Moon Demon King—who dares to say he doesn't belong to a certain civilization?

Spider civilization?

The Black Heaven Demon Lord of Zhenmo Valley is also one of them.

However, some civilizations are relatively advanced, kind, and orderly, and humans can contact and communicate with them.

Other civilizations are somewhat ignorant, evil, and chaotic. When they see an enemy, they only think about eliminating or killing it as soon as possible, and there is no possibility of communication or trade.

“On Xuan Yue Island, there are traces of four races. The first race should be Xuan Yue Island itself. They occupy a small town by the sea, with a population... very small, probably less than 10,000. The other three races, I call them the Corpse Demon Clan, the Bone Demon Clan, and the Bull Demon Clan!”

"Corpse Demon, Bone Demon, Bull Demon?"

"Yes, among these races, the Corpse Demon looks like a living corpse... Hmm, I've investigated them deeply. This civilization wasn't like this before. Xuan Yue Island gave them a virus, which infected their entire civilization within six months. After being infected, they survived by transforming into Corpse Demons."

Gu Qing said, "Although only one in ten of the creatures that transformed into corpse demons survived, without exception, all the surviving corpse demons became extremely powerful."

He continued, "As for the Bone Demon Clan, they were also transformed by Xuan Yue Island. Under Xuan Yue Island's influence, they felt that flesh and blood were weak, so they abandoned their physical bodies and transformed into Bone Demons to avoid problems such as aging and disease..."

"This Xuan Yue Island..."

Ji Fuyou's expression was somewhat solemn.

Compared to what Xuan Yue Island did, Zhenmo Valley was quite friendly.

"It was also the choice of those civilizations themselves. If they hadn't been seeking power and hadn't been misled by Xuan Yue Island, how could Xuan Yue Island have dared to attack them?"

Gu Qing said, "Furthermore, it may be hard for us to accept the idea of ​​transforming into a corpse demon or a bone demon, but it may not be so for otherworldly civilizations. Humans cultivate immortality and eventually become ruthless and devoid of humanity, but as long as they can achieve immortality, aren't there countless people who flock to it? Can immortals and humans still be considered the same species?"

Ji Fuyou pondered for a moment and then accepted Gu Qing's fallacious reasoning.

At that moment, he seemed to have thought of something, and suddenly picked up his phone, pulling up some pictures on it: "Look, aren't these corpse demons, bone demons, and bull demons like this?"

Gu Qing was somewhat surprised when he saw them: "Yes, that's it... These Corpse Demons are a bit different, but the Bone Demons and Bull Demons are pretty much the same. However, these are all commander-level monsters, equivalent to royalty among the Bone Demons and Bull Demons. Each one is incredibly powerful. Have you ever seen these monsters?"

He had never seen it, but he had seen it in his dreams.

What he showed Gu Qing were images of the Corpse Magician, the Bull Demon Commander, the Bull Demon King, and the Skeleton Demon Lord.

Calculate the time...

They will likely begin to appear on Red Star in about six months, starting with the Bull Demon King.

However, the location where it appeared...

It is a black gold empire.

Based on the information he had at the moment, he vaguely came to a conclusion—the Black Gold Empire had been defeated, and the Bull Demon Clan and Bone Demon Clan had entered the territory of the Black Gold Empire and divided it up.

This is the rule of the Heavenly Ranking War.

The victors will share the spoils with the losers.

and……

After the victors have divided the spoils among the losers, even the survivors will not escape their fate. The rules of the Heavenly Ranking War will continue to operate, dispatching mist-shrouded beasts to completely wipe out the civilizations of the losers.

On Crimson Star, the Black Gold Empire was not far from the Great Shang Dynasty, so it naturally sent powerful warriors to provide assistance, which led to the war between the Great Shang Dynasty and the Bull Demon Clan and Bone Demon Clan.

Heavy losses after the war?

Is this why the Shang Dynasty failed to survive the second round of civilization trials and was ultimately destroyed?

With limited information, Ji Fuyou couldn't guess.

However, it is certain that the Bone Demon Clan, Corpse Demon Clan, and Bull Demon Clan are all enemies.

Even worse, Xuan Yue Island might end up like Zhen Mo Valley, seemingly an enemy rather than a friend, and not worthy of trust.

"I plan to go to the Black Gold Empire to see if Lin Lun has passed on any demonic arts there."

Gu Qingdao.

"Well, you are a spiritual saint and possess the power of nothingness, so you are the most suitable person to investigate information. I'll leave this matter to you."

As Ji Fuyou spoke, he took out a Wuji Xuanjing crystal and handed it to him: "I recently created a Void God Realm. The significance of the Void God Realm to the Great Shang Dynasty and even to the entire Red Star is not only that it can allow us to go further in the Heavenly Ranking War, but also, in case we fail, this... may be the way out to preserve the flame of our civilization."

"I heard from Xiaoice that it's a very magical virtual world."

Gu Qing nodded.

"I need your help."

Ji Fuyou said, "I have already comprehended divine sense, but I only have a superficial understanding of multistate. And your explanation... I cannot understand it, so... it would be best if I could carefully sense the process by which you cultivated multistate."

After saying that, he added, "I will send you a copy of my experience and insights in refining golden source crystals, hoping it will help improve your spiritual scale."

"Is this Void God Realm... really that magical?"

Gu Qing accepted the Xuanjing, somewhat surprised.

"of course."

Ji Fuyou smiled and said, "Otherwise, how could I dare to say that it is a fallback plan after the failure of the Crimson Star Civilization?"

Gu Qing listened and nodded solemnly: "I will upload my experience and insights on multi-state cultivation. In addition, I will also upload my primordial spirit technique. Your Void God Realm can directly download other people's insights. I think you will be able to cultivate this technique."

"Thank you."

Ji Fuyou traveled along many paths.

"It's all for the sake of passing the Heavenly Ranking War."

Gu Qing paused for a moment, then said, "I will go with you to this year's Heavenly Ranking War."

"Do you possess the celestial rank?"

Ji Fuyou was somewhat surprised.

"currently there is not."

Gu Qing said, "However, I captured someone on my way back from Xuan Yue Island."

"Who?"

"Xia Zheng".

Gu Qing said, "The culprit who caused the deaths of dozens of people on the Heavenly Ranking is someone who learned of Lin Lun's opportunity and also wants to find Xuan Yue Island to obtain its Divine Refining Inheritance."

"It's him!"

Ji Fuyou had heard President Leo say that it was his cooperation with the Sun King and the Equal King that led to Zuo Chunqiu and others, who were stationed at Cloud Peak Mountain to protect the members of the Heavenly Ranking, being deceived and caught off guard by these two martial saints from small countries, resulting in heavy losses.

He had already hidden himself away, seemingly preparing to break through to the Saint realm, but unexpectedly...

He actually wants to go to Xuan Yue Island!
If he really finds Xuan Yue Island and colludes with the people there, it could really cause him and the Great Shang Federation considerable trouble.

"Good job catching him. He must pay the price for what he did."

Ji Fuyou said in a deep voice.

"Do you want to interrogate him?"

Gu Qing asked, "If you want, I'll take you there."

"He became a saint?"

"Hmm, the power of the Middle Heaven Realm is quite extraordinary, which has truly enabled him to take this step."

Gu Qingdao.

"Then let's interrogate him and, at the same time, take this saint with us to get the parameters needed to kill a saint."

Ji Fuyou Road.

"Row."

Gu Qing nodded.

At that moment, Ji Fuyou gave some instructions to Yang Kaitai, Fang Qiyun and others, and soon followed Gu Qing to the place where Xia Zheng was imprisoned.

place……

Not far away.

It was actually in a cave in Fulong Mountain.

Compared to his previous high spirits, Xia Zheng now looked disheveled.

When he saw Ji Fuyou and Gu Qing walk in, a deep sense of resentment and hatred flashed in his eyes.

But most of this hatred wasn't directed at Ji Fuyou, the man who killed his son, but rather at Gu Qing.

Clearly, he felt that Gu Qing, who had captured him and ruined his future, was more hateful than Ji Fuyou, who had killed his son.

(End of this chapter)