Young Master Xing's voice was very dull.

"So that's how it is... But everyone, isn't this a bit arbitrary? Do our family's side also admit this?" Starlight Master asked.

"Yes, our side admits it as well, because it means severing the family from the highest echelons and from all the talented individuals within it. For a family, this decision is akin to annihilation. Not every family has the courage to do this." Young Master Xing said.

"I understand now, but this plan should be very secretive, right? So how did we discover it in the end?"

"If it wasn't secretive, it couldn't have lasted against us for thousands of years. Later, when the Sect Leader emerged, knowing that this matter was peculiar, he suspected it was related to the Guardians. He then ventured alone and discovered some signs. The Sect Leader punched the Thirty-six Divine Mountains, shattered the array bases, shook the Xing He, severing the connection between the Celestial Stars and the Little Star Battle Qiankun Array, causing heaven's plans to become directly confused. From that time on, no one could use any method to harness the Star Power through the arrays."

"Subsequently, the Sect Leader went alone to the peak of Bai Mountain and shattered all the Thirty-six Divine Mountains!"

"Using Supreme Divine Thought, he suppressed all the gods of the Thirty-six Divine Mountains from that era!"

"Then, from the following year, the newborn children were different from before."

"However, after the confusion of the stars and total disorder of heaven's plans, our connection with the True God also weakened significantly."

"And after that battle, the Sect Leader's name shook the world, and since then, he became known as 'Dongzhen Xinghe'."

Speaking of the Sect Leader, Young Master Xing's eyes were filled with reverence.

Starlight Master blurted out: "The Sect Leader is truly majestic!"

Young Master Xing smiled bitterly and said: "Yes, the Sect Leader is indeed majestic; but since that time, he has gone into seclusion and hasn't appeared again."

Starlight Master wanted to speak but held back.

The two exchanged a glance, parted their lips but said nothing, then fell silent.

Their speculations were identical.

However, they couldn't speak it aloud.

...

"Countless years passed, and the ancestor of my family also went into seclusion."

Young Master Xing smiled faintly.

"But since then, the geniuses within our sect began to increase gradually, year by year. After fighting for many years, the advantage that was previously lost was slowly regained, bit by bit. However, the price was heavy."

"The schemes of the Dongfang Strategist were inevitable. On one side, we were gaining advantages, but on the other, we suffered greater losses. Moreover, endless plots and conspiracies targeted our geniuses... every year, a large number would mysteriously die."

"And they all died in ways that left people speechless."

"After the plot to eliminate all was destroyed, the Dongfang Strategist had new plans. Or it should be said he had already laid out arrangements before then. It was the Cloud Chart."

"What we now see is only the Cloud Weapon List, but during those years, the Dongfang Strategist's means were endless. After launching the Cloud Weapon List, he successively released the Youth Cloud List, Young Genius Cloud List, Qingyun List... and various other methods."

"The vast majority of them were the rising talents from our Wei Wo Zheng Sect, and the Dongfang Strategist made those ranked challenge upwards, claiming it to be a fair duel... the mainland supervised it."

"And by using popular opinion to set the rules, the challenged ones could not refuse to fight."

"However, the talents on the Guardians' side always managed to push through, advancing, killing along the way. In fair duels, they slaughtered our people, leaving us powerless... irrespective of how important the status or position was, if you were on the list and challenged, you had to go. Once you went, over eighty percent ended up dead."

"The Dongfang Strategist used this method to leisurely reap us. Many of the geniuses within our sect never had the chance to grow... but were killed."

"Added to the other complex situations, they let the continent constantly oscillate back and forth between balances..."

Young Master Xing said: "Do you know? In the eyes of those at our sect headquarters, the Guardians are blessed by divine spirits, and their god is the Dongfang Strategist!"

"So, our Wei Wo Zheng Sect is essentially fighting against a god!"

Young Master Xing's expression was infinitely serious.

"..."

Starlight Master suddenly felt infinitely speechless.

Because this statement felt so familiar.

Dongfang Sansan had said this before.

Fighting with a god.

As a result... to the opponents, Ninth lord was directly seen as a god.

This simply felt absurd.

Yet in their hearts, a boundless reverence and immense pride surged up.

Yes, you have a god.

But, so do we!

Your god, you don't even know where it is. But our god is strategizing here on this continent!

...

"But isn't that incorrect? For this ranking challenge, can't one just not go? Can't it be refused?" Starlight Master was confused.

"How could it be so simple?"

Young Master Xing smiled bitterly: "Every ranking list released takes decades of brewing, with continent-wide promotion everywhere, everyone on the list floats in the clouds... And then for each duel, there are experts from both sides observing as judges."

At this point, Young Master Xing's eyes glimmered with starry light, and he solemnly recited:

"The man fights in all directions, alone I am wild in the world; With a golden pen, I write the heavens, my name is on the Cloud List!"

"Heaven's wind is cold, sun and moon vast; I am the star, listed in the clouds!"

Young Master Xing chuckled, casually reciting two short poems, and said: "Do you know how many such poems about the Cloud List existed at that time?"

"Let me tell you, under the planning of the Dongfang Strategist, if not ten million, there were at least twenty million such poems!"

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