64: The Central Plains Prodigies Ranking? That's for boosting my apprentice's ranking.

"Hum——"

The space twisted violently.

The next second.

Five figures stumbled out from the Void Realm, landing hard on their bottoms on the solid bluestone floor.

"Ouch!"

Shi Tian rubbed his sore bottom, his face full of despair.

"This teleportation array is too bumpy, even bumpier than Dahuang's dog fur."

"Revered Master is really something. He could have slapped us over here with one palm, yet he insisted on making us take this piece of junk."

Xiao Chen stood up and brushed the dust off his body, but his gaze was instantly drawn to the scene before him.

Prosperity.

Unprecedented prosperity.

Beneath his feet was a white jade street wide enough to accommodate eight carriages riding side by side.

On both sides of the street were rows of magnificent, intricately carved pavilions and jade towers, each one more impressive than the most luxurious palace in the Eastern Wasteland.

Above the sky, Cultivators would occasionally fly past, riding on Flying Swords gleaming with colorful light or traveling in ornate flying carriages pulled by rare and exotic beasts.

The air was filled with Spiritual Qi so dense it was almost tangible; just taking a breath made one feel their cultivation rising rapidly.

"Is... is this the Central Plains?"

Ye Fan looked at the scene before him, which resembled a heavenly palace, and was too shocked to speak.

Compared to this, the Eastern Wasteland where they had previously stayed was practically a poor, rural mountain village.

"Gurgle..."

An untimely sound rang out.

Shi Tian rubbed his belly, looking at the delicacies on the street stalls emitting enticing aromas—food he had never seen before—and he was almost drooling.

"Senior Brother, I'm hungry."

"..."

Leng Yanran and Su Mo, two big shots of the Demonic Path, were currently looking around curiously, much like Grandma Liu visiting the Grand View Garden.

The prosperity of this Central Plains indeed exceeded their imagination.

"Let's find a place to stay first, then inquire about the situation."

As the Senior Brother, Xiao Chen was still relatively calm.

He was just about to take his Junior Brothers and Junior Sister to find an inn.

Suddenly.

A roar of cheers, like a mountain collapsing or a sea surging, came from the city center square not far away.

"Look! The heavenly prodigy ranking has been updated!"

"My god! Saint Dao Yi has actually had a Breakthrough again! He's firmly in the top spot!"

"Yaoguang Holy Son follows closely behind; he is worthy of being the successor of the Ruthless Person!"

"Huh? The tenth place has changed? Who is this 'Qin Wushuang'? I've never heard of him before!"

Driven by curiosity, the five of them also squeezed into the crowd.

In the very center of the square stood a massive stone monument a hundred zhang tall.

The monument was entirely crafted from an unknown black Divine Gold, with a faint Dao aura circulating on its surface.

And on the monument, rows of golden names were emitting a brilliant radiance, as if they were about to blind people's eyes.

【Tianji Pavilion · heavenly prodigy ranking】

This was the most authoritative and highly watched ranking list in the Central Plains.

Only peerless Prodigies under the age of one hundred with a cultivation at the Nascent Soul Stage were qualified to be listed on it.

Those who could make it onto this list were all core successors of the various Holy Lands and ancient clans; they were the future giants and the trendsetters of the era.

Shi Tian stood on his tiptoes, struggling to look up from the bottom.

"One-hundredth place, Wang Teng, Nascent Soul Stage Early Stage..."

"Fiftieth place, Ji Haoyue, Nascent Soul Stage Middle Stage..."

"Twentieth place, Golden Winged Little Peng King, Nascent Soul Stage Late Stage..."

The more he looked, the more alarmed he became.

Nascent Soul Stage.

In the Eastern Wasteland, that was an existence capable of establishing a Sect and becoming an ancestor!

Yet here, it could only rank at the bottom of the list?

"Senior Brother, this Central Plains... is too competitive, right?" Shi Tian swallowed his saliva, feeling that the roasted meat in his hand was no longer tasty.

Although the few of them could walk sideways in the Eastern Wasteland, Xiao Chen, who had the highest cultivation, was only at the Golden Core Peak.

By this standard, he didn't even have the qualifications to be on the list.

Ye Fan and Su Mo also had solemn expressions.

They finally understood why Revered Master had insisted on sending them to the Central Plains.

If you don't come out and see the world, you will never know how vast the heavens and earth are.

However.

Just when everyone was feeling under immense pressure.

Xiao Chen, as the Senior Brother, let out an extremely disdainful...

"Pfft."

Although the sound was not loud, it sounded exceptionally jarring in the noisy crowd.

"That's it?"

Xiao Chen crossed his arms and looked at the list that countless people revered as divine, his eyes looking as if he were looking at a report card from a kindergarten class.

"You can make the list at the Nascent Soul Stage?"

"The one named Dao Yi at the top of the list is only at the Half-Step Soul Transformation, not even counting as a complete Nascent Soul."

"Can this kind of trash be called a Prodigy?"

Xiao Chen shook his head, his face full of disappointment.

"It seems that this Central Plains is nothing more than this."

"It's much weaker than I imagined."

He wasn't trying to show off when he said this.

It was from the bottom of his heart.

After all, he had personally seen his Revered Master crush a Peak Soul Transformation Stage expert with one finger and wipe out a Sect with a single tree branch.

Even the dog guarding the door was a Demon Emperor, and the old man sweeping the floor was a Sword God.

How could a child raised in such an environment not have high standards?

In his eyes, the so-called "Prodigies" on this list, let alone compared to Revered Master, were even miles behind Fat Aunt and Limping Liu.

However.

His "heartfelt" exclamation.

Falling into the ears of the local Central Plains Cultivators around him.

The flavor changed completely.

The air instantly went quiet.

The hundred or so gazes around him, which had originally been excitedly discussing, all focused on Xiao Chen simultaneously, like searchlights.

Those eyes went from astonishment, to shock, and then to... anger.

"Did I... hear that wrong just now?"

A burly Loose Cultivator picked his ear, his face full of disbelief.

"This kid said... everyone on the heavenly prodigy ranking is... trash?"

"Is he crazy? Or did he crawl out from some obscure corner, not knowing how vast the heavens and earth are?"

After a brief silence, there was a burst of ear-piercing, uproarious laughter.

"Hahahaha! You're killing me! Where did this bumpkin come from!"

"Still saying the Central Plains is nothing more than this? Who do you think you are? A Reincarnation of an Emperor?"

"Kid, you can eat whatever you want, but you can't just say whatever you want! That sentence you just said has offended all the Holy Lands in the entire Central Plains!"

A youth dressed in magnificent clothing, looking like a Disciple of some noble family, walked out while waving a fan.

He looked Xiao Chen up and down at his simple attire, the disdain in his eyes almost overflowing.

"Looking at your attire, you must be from that barbarian land of the Eastern Wasteland, right?"

"It's no wonder."

"After all, it's a remote and desolate area; you haven't seen the world, so it's understandable that you have the perspective of a frog in a well."

"However, since you have come to our Central Plains, you must follow our Central Plains' rules."

The youth snapped his fan shut with a "clack," pointed at the heavenly prodigy ranking, and his tone became arrogant and cold.

"Now, kneel."

"Kowtow one hundred times to the one hundred Prodigies on the list, and admit that you are a frog in a well."

"Then, crawl out of here."

"Perhaps this young Revered Master can show mercy and spare your dog lives."

"Otherwise..."

A trace of ruthlessness flashed in the youth's eyes.

"Just because of that sentence you just said, today, none of you five will leave Tianyong City alive!"