I Can See Through Everything - Chapter 177

Chapter 177: Fortune Ranking

“Hidden Dragon List?”

Lu Qing glanced at the scroll on the stone table.

“Excuse me, Master Zhirui, what is the Hidden Dragon List?”

“The Hidden Dragon List is compiled by our Tianji Tower. It ranks the top one hundred warriors in the Inner Visceral Realm who have the greatest hope of advancing to the Xiantian Realm. Once a warrior

reaches the Xiantian Realm, not only does their lifespan increase dramatically, but they also possess various extraordinary abilities, like a soaring dragon in the sky, enveloping the vastness of the universe.

Hence, this list is called Hidden Dragon.”

Lu Qing: …

He had thought the Hidden Dragon List, with its resounding name, was something truly remarkable.

It turned out to be just a preliminary list for the Xiantian Realm.

If Lu Qing were just an ordinary country boy, perhaps he would have found the Hidden Dragon List impressive.

But he wasn’t, so he could only maintain a polite smile.

It wasn’t that Lu Qing looked down on the list.

Rather, as a man of many inheritances, he knew that in the path of cultivation, the Xiantian Realm was merely the beginning, far from achieving true dragonhood.

Therefore, he found it difficult to comment on this list.

The young man in plain clothes was a man of great stature. Seeing Lu Qing’s calm expression, he immediately realized that he didn’t care about the Hidden Dragon List.

Then, he couldn’t help but fall silent.

He suddenly remembered that the young man before him was unlike any martial arts genius he had ever met.

His talent was truly extraordinary.

The Xiantian Realm might be a chasm for other internal organs warriors, even martial arts masters.

To cross it, one must expend tremendous effort and dedication, coupled with indispensable luck, to achieve a breakthrough.

But for Lu Qing, it wasn’t a difficult realm to reach at all.

For a peerless genius who was almost certain to reach the Xiantian realm, was being on the Hidden Dragon List truly something to be honored?

The young man in plain clothes sensed Lu Qing’s thoughts, so he could only remain silent.

The courtyard was suddenly filled with a somewhat awkward atmosphere.

Lu Qing noticed the awkwardness and felt that treating a guest in this way seemed a bit rude.

He thought for a moment, then asked, “Sir Zhirui, I wonder where I rank on the Hidden Dragon List?”

However, Lu Qing was surprised.

When he asked this question, the young man in plain clothes fell even more silent.

After a long pause, he replied, “…29th.”

Lu Qing was somewhat surprised. “It seems this world truly is filled with hidden dragons and crouching tigers. There are countless martial arts geniuses. I wonder who are the martial arts masters ranked ahead of me?”

“Most of those who rank ahead of you are martial arts masters who have long achieved perfection in the Internal Viscera Realm. Some have even forged their own spiritual power, and are only one step away from reaching the Innate Realm.”

Lu Qing nodded. One of the most crucial keys to breaking through from the Acquired Realm to the Innate Realm is spiritual power.   Since those martial arts masters have already reached this stage, they are only a hair’s breadth away from the Innate Realm.

It makes sense that   they would rank ahead of him.   What Lu Qing didn’t know was that, in fact, not only were there those ranked ahead of him on the Hidden Dragon List, but there were also martial arts masters just one step away from a breakthrough.   Even those ranked behind him were mostly martial arts masters. Even the weakest were powerful warriors who had reached the Great Perfection of the Internal Organs Realm.   Almost all of them were renowned, with considerable fame and renown throughout the world.   However, after realizing how insignificant the Hidden Dragon List was to Lu Qing, the commoner youth no longer cared to discuss it.   ”The Hidden Dragon List rankings are updated every six months. I’ll leave this one here. Young Master Lu, you can take a look at it whenever you’re bored and learn about the current world’s martial arts masters.”   The commoner youth handed the scroll to Lu Qing.   Lu Qing took it and put it away, not immediately reading it.   The young man in plain clothes didn’t care and instead said, “Old Doctor Chen, the last thing Zhirui wants to say is about you.”   ”Oh? Feel free to tell me.”   ”Within the next ten years, the world will likely undergo major changes. Chaos will reignite, and the struggle between good and evil will likely rise again. Even the Holy Mountain will be overwhelmed.   Old Doctor, you have a chance to cultivate in the Holy Pool. If you don’t want to give it up, you’d better use it within five years.   Otherwise, you will most likely waste this opportunity.”   The young man in plain clothes said solemnly.   ”Great chaos is about to break out. What do you mean?”   The old doctor asked, his expression stern.   ”What kind of chaos is this? I don’t know, but these are the last words left by the founder of my Tianji Tower. I think they are correct.”   The old doctor thought for a moment and said, “I understand. If nothing happens in the next few years, I will travel to Zhongzhou.”   In recent days, after communicating with Wei Shanhe, the old doctor had learned a lot.   Furthermore, hearing that Lu Qing had been given the Seven Killing Orders by the Seven Killings Tower   had intensified his focus on cultivation.   ”That’s excellent. It’s getting late, old doctor. It’s time for me to depart.”   Having concluded everything he wanted to say, the commoner said his last goodbye.   ”Leaving so soon? Ah Qing, go inside and get some scented tea for Zhirui to take away.”   Only after the commoner left did Lu Qing retrieve the Hidden Dragon List.   He still didn’t open it directly, but instead activated his supernatural powers and peered intently.   A faint golden hue emerged from the scroll.

“Gold?”

Lu Qing was a bit surprised.

It was just a list, yet it possessed golden quality?

Interesting.

Lu Qing was looking at the notes.

[Hidden Dragon List: A ranking list compiled by the Tianji Tower using data from countless post-natal realm warriors.]

[This list records the top one hundred post-natal warriors, as determined by the Tianji Tower, who are most likely to reach the Xiantian realm.]

[Those who appear on the Hidden Dragon List, receiving the attention of the world, will invisibly receive a boost of luck, making their path of cultivation smoother.]

“This Hidden Dragon List actually has the effect of gathering luck?”

After reading through the notes, Lu Qing was genuinely surprised.

The young man’s tone had previously suggested that all warriors in the world admired and yearned for the Hidden Dragon List, which had puzzled him.

So that was the case.

Apparently, his inclusion on the list wasn’t entirely a bad thing.

Lu Qing opened the scroll and immediately looked down.

He found his own name in the 29th place.

Cangzhou’s Lu Qing, seventeen years old, was at the initial stage of the Internal Viscera.

His information was extremely brief, revealing little beyond his name, age, and cultivation level.

Lu Qing glanced at the other names on the list.

Their information was similar to his own.

At most, some would add the sect or family to which the listed individual belonged.

Other information, such as the cultivation techniques practiced and the weapons they were proficient in, remained undisclosed.

Lu Qing was quite satisfied with this.

It showed that the Tianji Tower was prudent and hadn’t revealed too much information about the individuals on the list.

He searched the list again and indeed found a few familiar names.

One was the name of the commoner youth, who ranked just ahead of him at seventeenth.

The other two were Wei Xinghe and Zhao Xiong, the burly figure from the Tiancang Sect.

Their rankings were not far apart, one at seventy-eighth and the other at eighty-first.

However…

even two martial arts masters who had reached the Perfect Internal Viscera Realm could only rank this low.

It seemed that the world was truly filled with martial arts masters.

Lu Qing looked again and discovered that there were actually several names of disciples from the Qisha Tower.

The most formidable among them was a man named “Tanlang,” who ranked ninth on the list and was quite impressive.

Most importantly, Lu Qing noticed a unique characteristic:

none of the top fifty on the list were over thirty years old.

Even among the bottom fifty, the oldest was only forty-eight, still in the prime of life for a warrior.

In other words, the Hidden Dragon List was actually a very “young” list.

The warriors on it were all at the peak of their powers.

“Indeed, this Hidden Dragon List ranks those martial artists most likely to break through to the Xiantian realm.

Once a person passes thirty, their vital energy and blood begin to decline from their peak, and the probability of breaking through to the Xiantian realm decreases accordingly. The reason that

Patriarch Wei and Zhao Xiong are ranked so low must be related to their age.”

Lu Qing pondered for a moment, and understood the reason.

Not everyone has the talent and luck of their master.

Despite his age, the master who created the Nourishing Body Fist had always maintained excellent energy.

He disliked fighting, and his body was virtually free of injury.

Later, after consuming the Earth Vein Spirit Fluid, not only did his body recover to its peak, but he even forged the power of his soul.

Furthermore, he was protected by the light of merit.

Only then could he, at such an advanced age, enter the Xiantian realm and create almost impossible miracles.

For other elderly warriors, past fifty or sixty, without the accumulation and luck of their master, achieving another breakthrough would be harder than ascending to heaven.

Therefore, the names of those elderly masters were absent from the Hidden Dragon List.

After briefly glancing at the Hidden Dragon List, Lu Qing rolled it up, intending to study it in detail when he had time.

“Master, what are you thinking about?”

After putting away the Hidden Dragon List, Lu Qing looked up and saw his master frowning, lost in thought.

“I’m thinking about what Lord Zhirui said just now. I also heard people discussing the changes in the situation in the past ten thousand years at the Wei Mansion. I wonder if it’s the same thing as the impending chaos he mentioned.”

The old doctor was a little distressed.

After hearing the young man in plain clothes talk about the impending chaos, he somehow felt a sense of foreboding.

It seemed that this was related to something extremely important.

Lu Qing thought for a moment, then finally said, “Perhaps this disciple knows something about what Master Zhirui is referring to.”

“Ah Qing, do you know?” the old doctor looked up in astonishment.

“I’m not entirely sure, but a while ago, I found a strange book in an old bookstore in the county town. It contained some very strange information…” “

…According to that Xiaoyao Sanren, if his calculations are correct, the so-called revival of spiritual energy may be happening in our time.”

“And the ten thousand years of change and the great chaos that Master Zhirui spoke of may refer to this.”

Lu Qing recounted some of the events recorded in the Xiaoyao Sanren’s notes.

“A revival of spiritual energy in the Age of Immortal Cultivation?”

The old doctor was stunned by Lu Qing’s account.

He had never imagined that this matter would even touch upon ancient events tens of thousands of years ago.

But…

“Did the Age of Immortal Cultivation really exist? Could there still be immortals in this world?”

The old doctor was a little incredulous.

Although a powerful Xiantian Realm cultivator, he had always considered the existence of immortals and gods merely legends.

Now, hearing that they actually existed, his thoughts were profoundly shaken.

“I also find it incredible, but after witnessing some things, I feel that perhaps it’s not so ethereal, like the great cauldron in the Wei family’s underground cavern,” Lu Qing reminded him.

The old doctor suddenly realized.

Indeed, the Wei family’s cauldron was truly miraculous.

Not only did it embody a profound Daoist aura, but according to Wei Shanhai, it had originally been the size of a finger, yet had grown to such enormous size over the course of a hundred years.

A cauldron capable of self-growth was anything but ordinary.

Perhaps only an immortal with immense magical powers could create such a miraculous artifact.

“It seems that the millennia-long change Your Excellency Zhirui spoke of is indeed referring to this resurgence of spiritual energy,” the old doctor sighed.

He had originally thought that what the commoner youth was talking about was at most a struggle between sectarian forces, or perhaps the outbreak of another war between prefectures and states.

He had never expected that it would involve such a huge change in the world.

But how should they respond to such a huge change in the world?

For a moment, the old doctor was a little confused.

“Master, don’t worry too much. Even if the sky falls, there are taller men to hold it up.”

Lu Qing, noticing his master’s bewilderment, offered solace.

“Although Lord Zhirui hasn’t stated the cause of this drastic change, I believe he must know something. Even if he doesn’t, the powerful sects behind him are surely aware.

These sects certainly don’t want the world to be in chaos, so let’s just wait and see.”

The old doctor came to his senses.

Indeed, even that carefree wanderer could find the jade disc. Those powerful sects, with their millennia-old heritage and vast resources and influence, likely know even more secrets.

They’ve likely been preparing for this drastic change.

So, why is he so worried?

“Well, after all, we’re just doctors. Our influence carries little weight, and we can only do so much. Healing and saving lives is our duty. Let the larger sects worry about the world’s affairs.”

The old doctor, having come to his senses, suddenly regained his composure and spoke in a relaxed tone.

Seeing this, Lu Qing breathed a sigh of relief.

Fortunately, although his master was kind-hearted, he had always considered himself a doctor and had no ambition to save the world.

Otherwise, if he had been so stubborn, he really wouldn’t know how to guide him.

While Lu Qing was chatting with his master,

he didn’t know that at this moment, the outside world was in an uproar because of the ranking list of the Hidden Dragons just released by the Tianji Tower.

The reason was, of course, because his name appeared on it.

(End of this chapter)