504: Chapter 502 Supreme Authority

A sword light soared like a swimming dragon ascending to the heavens, dazzling and brilliant.

In the space between heaven and earth, only this sword strike remained.

Everyone couldn't help but squint their eyes, momentarily lost in the brilliance of this strike.

No one knew how much time had passed.

It seemed like only an instant, yet it also felt like a century had gone by.

When people came back to their senses and their vision was restored...

The incomparably massive phantom in the sky was gone.

The blood-colored lightning that had covered the sky and the countless cracks tearing through the firmament had also vanished.

The earth no longer trembled, the mountains no longer collapsed, and the seawater no longer boiled.

Gentle sunlight spilled across the land.

Those hideous, twisted, and writhing faces all returned to a state of calm; in this gentle sunlight, everyone's heart was filled with an indescribable feeling.

It seemed as if something was vibrating.

At the same time, a grand and deep voice echoed simultaneously in everyone's minds.

[Congratulations to Yang Yu for shattering the Void Realm with his sword, slaying the Lord of Madness, seizing the authority of "Confusion," and perfecting part of the rules. Let the whole world celebrate!]

[Part of the Dark World's suppression over you has been lifted...

[Your resistance to the invasion and interference of The Gloom's aura has significantly increased; mental pressure caused by Strange Creaturess of the same Rank is now ineffective.]

[When you ascend to the next Rank, basic attributes from the previous Rank that haven't reached Perfection can still be increased by consuming spirituality values.]

[An anomaly has been detected in your "Charm" attribute; it is being forcibly removed and reset to zero! The spirituality values you invested in this attribute have entered the Dark World and are now being forcibly reclaimed, with 50% returned to you.]

[When you receive reward choices, you will no longer be subject to time limits.]

[The rule of mandatory erasure for uncompleted "Daily Quests" has been lifted.]

[Each time you slay a Specter, after the Dark World's reclamation is deducted, you will receive a spirituality value gain of over 20%.]

In everyone's field of vision, continuous System prompts were flashing.

Before this, many Transcendents had been extremely puzzled.

The System's existence was clearly intended to better combat the Gloom Invasion.

However, why was there always a time limit whenever one completed a quest and received reward choices?

Many had experienced being heavily injured after completing a quest, only to find that by the time they regained consciousness, the time to choose a reward had passed, resulting in them receiving nothing.

And then there was the "Charm attribute," which was clearly a basic attribute on the System panel and related to the use of many skills, yet why did Chu Xuan repeatedly emphasize that it shouldn't be increased?

At this moment, everything clicked for everyone.

People finally understood.

It turned out that those unstated rules and regulations, which were extremely disadvantageous to everyone, all stemmed from the rule suppression of the Dark World.

Immediately after, people suddenly noticed that a "Contribution Ranking" list had appeared on the System page at some point.

People subconsciously entered to check it.

They immediately saw that the one ranked first was none other than Yang Yu.

Behind this name was a series of contribution details, including the contribution of slaying numerous S-rank Specters and even a Record of slaying an "SS-Rank" Specter.

The most eye-catching entries were "Slaying the Lord of Madness with a sword and seizing the [Confusion] authority," followed by "Guarding the central Gloom region and preventing the rapid expansion of The Gloom."

Ranked second was Yan Guofa.

His primary contributions were—

"Seizing the Resurrection Society's four great Curios: the [spirit gathering holy grail], the [eerie bus], the [teleportation furnace], and the [Resurrection Pool], as well as killing the World Traitor 'Chaos'."

Besides these, there were other contributions...

And the person in third place on the contribution list was someone named "Zhang Ziyang."

This person's top contribution was a "?", followed by the slaying of the World Traitor "Vermilion Bird" and the "S-rank Specter: Clown."

Many didn't recognize this relatively unfamiliar name, but soon someone spoke up in the "World Channel section" of the System page.

That "S-rank Specter: Clown" was a Specter from Xiacheng that had once caused nearly ten thousand people in the main urban area to fall into a "Strange Circus," and was later handled by a trainee Night Watcher.

At the time, the authorities had judged the "Clown" as an A-Rank Specter, infinitely close to S-Rank, but only now did everyone realize it was actually S-Rank.

And that trainee member, Zhang Ziyang, was one of the candidates who participated in the Seed Project back then and has yet to return.

Then came the fourth and fifth places, all the way down to the tenth.

The names of these people were even more unfamiliar, but they were quickly dug up; those from fourth to sixth place were all unofficial Transcendents from the "Path of Salvation."

Seventh through tenth place were all from the official Night Watchers.

The ranking list noted that everyone who appeared on the list for the first time would receive varying degrees of spirituality value rewards.

From tenth place to first, the rewards ranged from 1,000 spirituality values and 1 rule fragment to 10,000 spirituality values and 10 rule fragments.

Additionally, they could receive an extra 100 to 1,000 spirituality value reward every day.

The higher the Rank, the higher the authority, and the spirituality value shares from slaying Specters varied accordingly; Yang Yu, ranked first, could receive 50%, while the tenth place could receive 30%.

People were either excited or thrilled, fantasizing that they too could make it onto this Contribution Ranking list.

Not to mention the high-level authority, the gains from first appearing on the list and the daily extra spirituality value rewards alone were very attractive.

Not to mention that the spirituality value share from slaying Specters could also be significantly increased.

However, someone soon noticed that something wasn't quite right.

Why wasn't Chu Xuan on the list?

Even before today, Chu Xuan had live-streamed himself slaying S-rank Specters.

Furthermore, today, under the high-definition cameras of professional photographers, many had personally witnessed Chu Xuan killing numerous terrifying powerhouses on the spot.

Some who had just become Transcendents and had shallow vision might not realize it yet.

But any Transcedent above Rank 7 understood, and those at the scene could feel it even more personally.

Whether it was Zhou Chong, who had smashed the roof of the Great Hall with a single palm, the abruptly appearing "White Tiger," or the "Black Tortoise" that had torn through space trying to squeeze in, they were all far beyond what ordinary S-rank Specters could compare to.

How could Chu Xuan possibly not be on the list?

Although people's hearts were full of doubt, they no longer dared to question whether Chu Xuan was a Specter in disguise, because almost everyone who had raised such doubts was already dead.

What no one knew, however, was that at this same time, Chu Xuan received a System prompt that was different from everyone else's.

[You possess the supreme authority.]

[Each time you kill a Specter, after the Dark World's reclamation portion is deducted, you will receive a spirituality value gain of 60%. (Note: When you use the Fire of Nirvana to kill living beings, other worlds cannot reclaim the spirituality.)]