1469 A Trap or an Opportunity? (1/2)
Ye Xiao was still waiting for the news in the inn. He didn't want to waste time doing nothing, so he started to read the books that the Dark Evil Spirit brought back to him.
In fact, those were not quite like some books, but more like some scrolls with introduction for all kinds of ranking lists in the Human Realm Upon Heavens.
There was the Heaven Ranking List.
There was the Earth Ranking List.
There was the Hongchen Ranking List.
There was the Itinerant Cultivator Power Ranking List.
There was the Medicine Ranking List.
There was the Dan Ranking List.
There was the Poison Ranking List.
There was the Beauties Ranking List.
There was the Young Lords Ranking List.
There was the Villains Ranking List.
There was the Hunted Men Ranking List.
There was the Wanted Men Ranking List.
…
All in all, there were all kinds of ranking lists–almost thirty lists in total.
It seemed everything in the Limitless Ocean that could be made into a ranking list would be made into a ranking list.
The Limitless Ocean was an extralegal area. There were no forces of any government departments in this place. There were no officials and officers. If a cultivator wanted to become famous in the world, he should work hard to get his name on some of the ranking lists.
Day after day, the ranking lists in the Limitless Ocean became more and more famous. Even in the five areas that were under the five sky kings' governs, the ranking lists still worked.
That was why the Dark Evil Spirit thought they were important.
Ye Xiao didn't pay much attention to the ranking lists of the superior cultivators, such as the Sky Ranking List, the Earth Ranking List, the Itinerant Cultivator Power Ranking List. He just scanned over them, because…
”No matter how fast I improve myself, it is impossible to get into these ranking lists. I will read these lists when I am good enough to put my name on them…”
What drew Ye Xiao's attention was some special lists, such as the Medicine Ranking List, the Dan Ranking List, the Poison Ranking List.
”These are helpful. These are very helpful.”
When he got the Itinerant Cultivator Power Ranking List, which made the Dark Evil Spirit so proud to be on the number of three thousand, four hundred and eighty-seven.
Ye Xiao just went over the first page and then closed it.
On the first page of the Itinerant Cultivator Power Ranking List, there was only one man. It was the image of the man–a middle-aged man with a clean face like jade, whose eyes were half-closed, staring far ahead. On the man's side, there was a spear standing on the floor, like a poisonous dragon from the depth of hell. The spear was not sharp, but obviously powerful.
”Poisonous Dragon Spear, the king of all weapons. It was traceless, and it was difficult to resist. It helps to win the fight from a thousand miles away, and it shines the cold gloss upon the clouds. The number one cultivator on the Itinerant Cultivator Power Ranking List, the Poisonous Dragon Spear King, Mo Wen!”
Below the image, there were a few more lines of introduction about the Poisonous Dragon Spear King, Mo Wen, about the significant battles he had won, his personality, his appearance, his martial arts and techniques, his cultivation level, and so on. In the end, there was one more line saying, ”Mo Wen is in different appearance, with countless disguises, so the image is only for reference only.”
That was the first page of that book.
Ye Xiao smiled. 'I think the rest of these people are all introduced the same way.'
'I don't think there will be any surprise…'
So he moved on with the Medicine Ranking List.
The book of the Medicine Ranking List was a lot thicker than the other books, which had about one thousand pages, recording one thousand medical treasures in it.
Ye Xiao was captivated by it.
”I have seen some treasures in the Qing-Yun Realm back then, but when comparing to the treasures on this ranking list, those of the Qing-Yun Realm are all just junks…”
He casually opened a page, and there was an image and introduction about a medical material.Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.
It was a flower which was in all black color, but the stamen of the flower was in seven different colors–red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue and purple. It was the Cosmic Seven Colors Butterfly.
The flower's name was Butterfly.
”Number ninety-nine of the Medicine Ranking List, this is the Cosmic Seven Colors Butterfly. It takes a hundred years to set the roots deep in the soil, one hundred years to break a sprout, one hundred years to grow one branch, one hundred years to grow three leaves, one thousand years to have a bud and became a medical material. After that, it takes one hundred years to attract the butterflies and grow out the seven-color stamen, another one hundred years to blossom, and finally became the Cosmic Seven Colors Butterfly. The blossom only appears for one night, and it will become dust and scatter in the air when the next day comes.”
”The Cosmic Seven Colors Butterfly only grows with the mixture of the powers from both the sky and the earth automatically. It is impossible to plant, or transplant. It takes one thousand years for the bud to grow out, and five hundred years to blossom. The flower stays only for one night. If nobody picks it, it will disappear among the sky and earth. Only the destined ones have the chance to get it.”
”One thousand and five hundred years, it only shined for one night. The blossoming Cosmic Seven Colors Butterfly was one of the most valuable treasures in the world. However, one second before it blossoms, it was just a normal plant of no use.”
”When it is eaten, it fixed the broken Mai and saved the dying dantian. It calls back the leaving soul and improves the cultivation level… It was the main material to make the saint level treatment elixir, Spirit Soul Fixture Dan, which works for cultivators beyond the Divinity Origin Stage and below the second level of the Saint Origin Stage. It has no use for people beyond the second level of the Saint Origin Stage.”
Ye Xiao took a deep breath after reading the page.
It was the number of ninety-nine medical material in the ranking list, but it was already this difficult to grow and collect…
It certainly had astonishing efficacy.
It surely didn't mean much for Ye Xiao, since he had a great amount of supreme dan beads with him. However, for others, even for high-level cultivators such as the Dark Evil Spirit, it was something they would scramble for. After all, having a Cosmic Seven Colors Butterfly was definitely a great help to oneself! It was incredible!
Ye Xiao had a flash of sudden inspiration, so he put down the books of all kinds of ranking lists. He started to think about the people who made these ranking lists. He was deeply interested in the organization behind these lists.
How much does it take on earth to make all those meticulous ranking lists?
To make a ranking list like these, all kinds of knowledge was required, including the art of cultivation technique, martial arts, and all kinds of things in the world.
If there were people who were so well informed and experienced, why would they spend their valuable time on such boring and useless jobs?
These ranking lists were at least useless for the people who made them!
It served all the other people in the world.
Was there a bunch of people doing boring works just because of their great virtue of human beings?
Ye Xiao absolutely did not believe there were actually such selfless people!
The greatness in Dao was long and full of dangers. One could never have enough time to crumble ahead in the path toward greatness. How would anybody spend time on meaningless things just to serve others?
Ye Xiao was confused. He looked at the title page of a book, and he was wordless.
It should be the name of the author.
There were several words–Revealing Heaven's Secret.
”Whoever made these ranking lists definitely gave away the secrets of the men on the lists… Everything about those cultivators were clearly recorded in the books…”
”Whoever wrote these books must be horrible.”
”This Revealing Heaven's Secret must be an organization. It is absolutely not just one person. An individual could never be able to learn all these things about all these different areas, not even if he or she had lived for hundreds of thousands of years and spent all the time studying. It was impossible for a single person to know so clearly about all these cultivators' cultivation levels and techniques.
”I think… This organization which is called the Revealing Heaven's Secret is the actually most influential force in the Limitless Ocean… In fact, not only in the Limitless Ocean, they could be one of the most powerful forces in the entire Human Realm Upon Heavens.
”Including those royal forces…”
Ye Xiao took a deep breath.
He had a sudden inspiration and continued reading those ranking lists again with a totally different attitude.
”What is written on the cultivators ranking lists could be false, which can't be trusted. It is only for reference. If I am going to get to know these people well, I have to find another way to do it. The ranking lists only had a simple introduction about people, but the information about the Medicine Ranking List, Dan Ranking List, and Poison Ranking list must be true. I can totally believe what is recorded. These things are hardly changed. If there is any information wrong in the introduction, people would give up on these lists…”
Ye Xiao was fully immersed in these three ranking lists.
He knew that this was a good opportunity to widen his knowledge. When he knew more about the Human Realm Upon Heavens more after some days, he would become different. He wouldn't be so eager to learn as much as he could if he didn't do it now.
When he got used to the days in the Human Realm Upon Heavens, he might become just like the other cultivators, who just bought some books of the ranking lists and put them away somewhere, never read a word of them until they needed to know something particular…
However, it would waste time in a battle.
What Ye Xiao should do now was to mark down all the information he learned from the books, kept the knowledge in mind.
After having all the valuable information in his head, no matter at what level he was, no matter where he was, he could get to know how bad his allies and himself were hurt in the battle and what he should do to solve the problem.
That was some true power that he really needed.
The supreme dan beads that Erhuo made for him were capable of healing almost all injuries, but they were too eye-catching. If he didn't try to hide them as well as he could, people in the Human Realm Upon Heavens would find out his secret someday. After all, he was still too weak, so it wouldn't be wrong to do as much disguise as he could!
Time flew. Ye Xiao had spent an entire afternoon reading the books.