Dragon Bird could not help but feel a twinge of pity for her little junior sister, who had to just happen upon the utterly shameless husband of her master.0

She was not even really the one who killed the enemies. The actual master of the sacred saber Dragon Bird was right beside her, perfectly capable of retrieving it at any moment. Still, the Tome of Troubled Times recorded it thus:0

Qingming. Ling Ruoyu, wielding the power of Dragon Bird, while only being at the Profound Gate Realm, slew the second-layer Profound Mysteries Realm Chang Wanchun and the third-layer Profound Mysteries Realm Li Huangquan. Sword Lake trembled, while gods and demons alike were shaken.0

Due to the influence of a divine artifact, her position cannot be precisely ranked. The rankings have been adjusted to accommodate her accomplishment. Ling Ruoyu enters the tail end of the Ranking of Man.0

Rank 72: Ling Ruoyu.0

In every generation, new talents emerge, each reigning in splendor.0

Ling Ruoyu nearly wept with frustration.0

Now, everyone in the world knew that Dragon Bird was in the hands of some junior, and worse still, its exact location had been explicitly stated. How was she supposed to fend off the wave of wolves and tigers that would come for the saber? The ones aiming to snatch it would not just be at the Profound Mysteries Realm… Even those at the Profound Control Realm would be drawn in.0

As for that lofty line “each reigning in splendor”? It made her sound like the protagonist of this generation, basking in peerless glory. But in truth?0

Ling Ruoyu had always aimed high. She once dreamed of echoing her master’s legendary feat: delivering a thunderous debut on the Ranking of Man, storming straight into the fifties or sixties of the ranking, not dragging herself up from the bottom like some hanger-on.0

The Rankings of Troubled Times from that year, the prodigious cohort of that generation’s hidden dragons, had since become an unrivaled tale immortalized in every storybook and teahouse. The moves...0