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Guo Jing, Huang Rong, Lin Yunshuang, Ma Xiaotian, Wu Santong, Mu Nianci, Yang Tiexin, Xiao Hong, Huang Yaoshi, Hong Qigong, Zhou Botong, Master Yideng, Qiu Qianren, Dorje Tenzin, Ardashir—

These fifteen top masters who excelled in the sword competition, along with Gu Xilou who emerged at the end, were collectively known in the martial arts world as the "Sixteen Greats".

While this title may not sound as prestigious as "The Five Greats"—after all, there are too many people in it—it is undeniably prestigious, as each of them possesses terrifying strength capable of single-handedly storming armies and capturing enemy flags.

To better incentivize martial artists, the Great Sun Immortal Venerable personally intervened, with the endorsement of the Great Song Empire, and launched a list that shook the world—

The three lists: Heaven, Earth, and Man.

The Heavenly Ranking lists only the most outstanding masters, with a total of sixteen spots. Gu Xilou, the Heavenly Divine Sword, ranks first, and Yang Tiexin, the Breaking Army Wind and Thunder Spear, ranks sixteenth. All sixteen masters are on the list.

The Earth Ranking lists only the top-tier masters, with a total of thirty-six spots. Most of those on the list are veterans of the martial arts world, each with the strength to establish their own sect.

The list of outstanding individuals includes only those under the age of thirty, with a total of sixty-four spots available. Only the most gifted and talented can be included.

The release of the three lists shook the world.

This list is officially endorsed by the Great Sun Immortal Venerable, and it's widely circulated throughout the world, generating astonishing traffic!

Once you're on the list, you'll gain both fame and fortune. Not only will you enjoy the exposure and government subsidies provided by the Song Dynasty, but you'll also become famous throughout the world and admired by millions!

In an instant, the entire martial arts world was in an uproar.

Everyone is practicing martial arts desperately, hoping to climb onto any of the three lists.

Those older generation martial artists who had originally planned to give up also rekindled their fighting spirit—even if they couldn't make it onto the Heavenly Ranking, making it onto the Earthly Ranking would still be a source of pride for their ancestors!

Those young people who are just starting out take making it onto the list of successful people as their first goal in life, and they practice hard day and night without daring to slack off.

Various ingenious ideas emerged during the competition, were incorporated into martial arts, and propelled the overall level of martial arts in the martial arts world to continuously improve.

From an outsider's perspective, "Li Mochou" smiled with satisfaction.

She judged that if this trend continued, ten years later, the overall level of martial arts in the martial arts world would surely see a leap forward.

At least we can return to the glory days of the Tianlong era, when powerful figures emerged in great numbers and countless divine skills abounded.

What do you call this? You call this turning back the clock of history!

Therefore, she decided that the Mount Hua Sword Tournament would be held once every ten years.

Every sword duel is a major harvest of ten years of accumulation in the martial arts world.

All the insights, innovations, and breakthroughs of martial artists will be displayed before her during the sword competition, becoming the resources for her continued progress.

Tie Xinlan, who had already returned to the world of The Legendary Twins, also replicated this pattern.

The imperial court in that world was under Jiang Yuyan's control, and with the assistance of the Yihua Palace and the Sun God Cult, it was fully qualified to support the same three-rank system.

Now, she has all the martial arts practitioners from two different worlds helping her accumulate insights and innovate martial arts techniques.

These conditions are so generous as to be astonishing.

Unfortunately—

At her level, every step forward she takes is creating an unprecedented path forward at the peak, making it impossible for her to make rapid progress like before.

Harvesting her insights into the entire martial arts world every ten years was merely a helpless choice she made after her progress stalled.

This time, the time spent in the Legend of the Condor Heroes world is much longer than ever before.

Ten years in total.

In the past two years, "Li Mochou" was still somewhat interested and occasionally paid attention to the expansion progress of the Song Empire, and stepped forward to decide or resolve some key matters.

But by the third year, Tie Xinlan returned to the Legendary Twins, and after the Song Dynasty was handed over to Guo Jing and others who had grown up, she became completely fed up with it.

So she left everything to Guo Jing and the others, and embarked on a journey around the world with her increasingly adorable, intelligent, and emotionally supportive pet, Xiao Hong, who could make her happy and provide a lot of emotional value.

She had been to the deserts of the Western Regions and seen the sunsets and starry skies there.

She has been to the far north ice fields and seen the aurora borealis and avalanches there.

She had visited the islands in the South China Sea and seen the coral reefs and waves there.

She even crossed the ocean to the distant New World, where she saw the primeval forests and strange animals, leaving behind the legend of the Great Sun God King.

This world is vast and beautiful.

She measured almost every inch of this world with her own footsteps.

Even without her as a celestial being, the Song Dynasty would not stop its expansion.

Supported by absolute strength and a complete framework, and driven by a new generation of idealistic officials and generals, the Great Song Empire, like an unstoppable war chariot, crushed one enemy after another.

Ten years later, the Great Song Empire had become an incredibly vast and world-renowned terrifying empire.

There were hardly any places in the entire Eurasian continent that had not been conquered by the Song Dynasty.

Although the Great Sun Immortal Venerable is no longer in the martial world, her legend is still known throughout the martial world.

Her eight top experts held various important positions in the Song Dynasty. Whenever they did something big or made some news, the Great Sun Immortal Venerable would be praised along with them.

"General Guo has won another victory? That's all thanks to the Immortal Venerable's excellent guidance!"

"Grand Tutor Huang has come up with another brilliant plan? It's all thanks to the Immortal Venerable's discerning eye!"

"How many people has Master Ma saved again? That's all because the Celestial Venerable cares for all living beings!"

As such.

Although the Great Sun Immortal has not shown his face for ten years, his popularity has never waned; on the contrary, it has grown stronger with the expansion of the empire.

In the martial arts world, every year countless young people, fresh out of school, desperately cultivate their skills, hoping to climb the Human Ranking.

Every year, people dream of shining brightly at the once-a-decade Mount Hua Sword Tournament and winning the favor of the immortals.

There are even quite a few people who dream of winning the heart of an immortal.

After all, the Immortal Venerable is the most beautiful woman in the world whose value will remain forever.

No one knew that the immortal being in their dreams was no longer in this world.

In a quiet castle high above the snow-covered plains of Siberia.

Li Mochou lay on the soft couch, feeling a familiar sense of separation, and slowly opened her eyes.

"Finally... the time has come."

She murmured to herself, a smile playing on her lips.

Although she spent the last ten years traveling and enjoying nature, she did not neglect her cultivation.

Although her skill level did not increase significantly, and her understanding of martial arts did not improve much, her realm of understanding improved considerably due to her comprehension of the natural world.

Previously, she was invincible only because of her unparalleled skill and martial arts techniques, as well as her world-class divine skills. In fact, her martial arts lacked an understanding of the natural world.

It was precisely because she lacked this aspect that, even though her skill level was almost on par with Zhu Wushi's, she was still unable to do what he did: communicate with the heavens and earth through her qi and trigger extraordinary phenomena.

Although this does not affect her combat power, a weakness is a weakness that needs to be addressed, and she has almost done so now.

At this moment, the feeling that the energy of the hosting was about to run out clearly told her—it was time to leave.

She slowly sat up, glanced at the vast expanse of ice and snow outside the window, then at Little Red, who was wrapped around her and warming her with its soft, warm body, and shook her head with a smile.

"Xiao Hong, I'm leaving."

Little Red seemed to understand her words. The snake suddenly raised its head, a hint of anxiety flashing in its eyes. It hissed and flicked its tongue, rubbing its head against her arm.

Don't make that face.

"Li Mochou" patted its head, "I have indeed left, but I haven't really gone, and I can come back anytime."

Xiao Hong calmed down a little, but her red eyes remained fixed on her, as if trying to etch her image into her memory.

Li Mochou stood up, stretched, and then closed her eyes.

Given what she has accomplished so far, it's clear that Li Mochou is about to finish her role as a third person, thus making Li Mochou her second clone.

That way, there's no need to explain anything; you can just leave.

That familiar feeling of separation washed over her, and her consciousness began to slowly detach from this body.

Her body trembled slightly, and after a moment, her tightly closed eyes slowly opened.

The look in her eyes was no longer that of Song Yi, which carried a cynical and indifferent air. Instead, it was the clear and innocent look that the real Li Mochou should have, with a hint of bewilderment and surprise.

Then, a flood of memories rushed out from the depths of her mind, making her understand everything that was happening now.

She slowly sat up, looked at her hands, then at the West Lake outside the window, her face full of disbelief.

"I...I'm back, and invincible again?"

She murmured to herself, feeling the unimaginable power within her body, and was completely stunned.

After a while, she slowly stood up, looked out the window at the endless white expanse, and gently exhaled.

Damn it, am I going to get lost again?!

Chapter 148 The sun rises, but brings endless darkness.

When she opened her eyes again and saw that it wasn't the ceiling of the Sun Moon Sect leader's bedroom, but the more familiar ceiling of the boudoir on Mount Hua, "Yue Lingshan" let out a long sigh of relief.

At least this time it wasn't in a prison or a brothel. It seems that Yue Lingshan has learned to be sensible after experiencing so much suffering.

While integrating her internal energy and transforming her cultivation techniques, she also began to absorb the memories of Yue Lingshan from this period of time.

However, as she absorbed the memories, she quickly became speechless again. She shouldn't have expected Yue Lingshan to be peaceful; this wretched girl's performance remained consistently excellent.

Two full years have passed since she logged into and hosted Yue Lingshan's account.

Initially, it was Tie Xinlan's soul that took over this body; she was quite chivalrous and had a rather bold personality.

As the nominal vice-leader but de facto leader of the Sun Moon Cult, she now goes by the alias "Qu Wuyi." With the help of the Old Man of Heavenly Secrets, played by Yue Buqun, she has managed to keep a group of demons and monsters under control within the Sun Moon Cult.

At the same time, he was constantly outwitting and outmaneuvering Dongfang Bubai, maintaining peace with her while restricting her from regaining her martial arts skills, and firmly keeping the Sun Moon Sect under his control.

Driven by her own sense of justice, she even ordered the Sun Moon Sect to reform and return to the righteous path, which reversed much of the sect's reputation. If this could continue, the Sun Moon Sect might have truly succeeded in transforming itself and going straight.

Qu Wuyi, the vice leader of the Demonic Sect, is renowned throughout the land. Everyone praises her as a moral, idealistic, ambitious, and principled leader of the Demonic Sect, who is poised to bring unprecedented changes to the martial arts world.

Unfortunately, Tie Xinlan only managed this body for less than six months; for the next year and a half, Yue Lingshan was the one in charge.

Compared to Tie Xinlan's shrewd and calculating tactics, Yue Lingshan's clueless approach to sports is breathtaking.

After realizing that she held immense power and could dominate the martial arts world, Yue Lingshan became arrogant and ordered the Divine Sect to provide her with all sorts of things to satisfy her extravagant and licentious lifestyle.