Ultimate Village Doctor-Chapter 765 - 829 The World of Dragons

Chapter 765: Chapter 829: The World of Dragons Chapter 765: Chapter 829: The World of Dragons Chapter Eight Hundred and Twenty-Nine

This man had a tall and statuesque figure, dressed in a white sword robe, exuding a sharpness that seemed to pierce through the heavens.

Almost as soon as he stepped out, he attracted the attention of everyone in the square.

Especially the female disciples, who gazed at him with stars in their eyes, as if they had been love-stricken.

“Senior Brother!” many disciples called out respectfully.

Leng Feng, the foremost disciple of Wuliang Sword Sect, at the Xuan Level Peak, Southwest Prodigy, with a strength even greater than Tang Xiao’s, was also the sect’s most likely candidate to step into the Grandmaster Realm.

With hands tucked into his sleeves, he walked over to a large gathering of people and casually smiled, “What’s the commotion here, why so lively?”

“Senior Brother, Hou Ming is betting on your ranking in the Hidden Dragon List again,” a round-faced female disciple tattled.

“Uh!

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Senior Brother!” Hou Ming’s forehead was sweating profusely as he quickly said, “You—you mustn’t listen to Senior Sister Cai’s nonsense, I—I certainly didn’t do that.”

“It doesn’t matter, I didn’t blame you,” Leng Feng waved his hand nonchalantly, his eyes flashing with a speck of brilliance, “Speaking of which, today really is the day the Dragon List is updated.”

“Yes, yes, Senior Brother, you’re definitely going to make it into the top ten of the Hidden Dragon List this time.

I’ve heard that Tang Xiao is already dead.” Hou Ming curried favor.

Leng Feng snorted coldly, “Are you saying that I need someone else to die to make it into the top ten?”

“No, no, that’s not what I meant, Senior Brother,” Hou Ming hastily explained.

“Enough, stop with the pointless chatter.

Open the forum; it’s almost ten o’clock, they should be updating the leaderboard now,” Leng Feng said coolly.

“Yes, Senior Brother.”

Hou Ming quickly operated the iPad.

At that moment, all the disciples also crowded around, eagerly waiting.

The forum Hou Ming logged into was a special one, the IP address of which was very secretive and accessible only through multiple layers of verification because this special forum belonged to an organization—the Dragon Group.

As a mysterious national institution, the Dragon Group not only guarded Huaxia from external threats but also acted as the Sword of Damocles hanging over the heads of the Hidden Sects.

If the Special Action Division served as ordinary police maintaining the order of the Hidden Sects, then the Dragon Group was akin to Special Forces elites.

For the People of the Secret Sects, the Dragon Group was also seen as the “Henchmen of the Court,” a group they despised.

Yet behind the Dragon Group stood the entire national apparatus.

The power of the Dragon Group was also something that the People of the Secret Sects deeply feared; even Grandmasters would not dare to provoke them lightly.

This authoritative institution loomed over the Hidden Sects, instilling awe and trepidation.

At the same time, the Dragon Group, leveraging the nation’s power, was responsible for collecting information on powerful individuals within the Hidden Sects, and they updated the Hidden Sects’ rankings once every month.

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This list was known as the Dragon List.

Similar to Forbes or the Hurun Rich List, the Dragon List ranked these powerhouses by their strength rather than wealth or position.

Although like the Forbes list, the Dragon List acknowledged the possibility of incomplete information collection and couldn’t ensure absolute accuracy in the rankings of these powerful individuals.

However, this list was still seen as the most authoritative and recognized by the Hidden Sects.

The Dragon Group had made this forum available to the Hidden Sects…

and would publish the list once a month.

The various Hidden Sects could log into this forum to view the list.

There is no first place in literature; there is no second in martial arts.

Every person from the hidden sects hoped to be the strongest.

And to ascend to this list was also every hidden sect powerholder’s pride.

Now, Hou Ming had landed on this forum known as “The World of the Dragon,” and after a flurry of tapping on his iPad, the screen suddenly went dark.

Roar~~

A dragon’s roar sounded, followed by a golden dragon flying out from the darkness, circling around the screen for a while before gradually disappearing, after which the dark screen lit up again.

A golden forum interface appeared before everyone.

This forum had many sections, among which the “Jianghu Gossip” section was the liveliest.

This section had always been populated by a large group of people from the hidden sects.

With technology advancing day by day, changing the whole world, people from the hidden sects also kept pace with the times, no longer like the hermits from the novels who secluded themselves in the mountains without a care for worldly affairs.

In fact, many young disciples from the hidden sects, when they step out into the secular world, are no different from the other young people out there.

They dress fashionably, use computers and smartphones, and enjoy surfing the internet.

Upon opening the forum, Hou Ming found that today’s “Jianghu Gossip” section had over five thousand people online.

This forum was a special one, with a very niche audience.

People from hidden sects were not as numerous as everyday people.

On normal days, the number of online users on this forum was only around three to five hundred at most.

But today, it had soared to over five thousand.

However, he was not surprised.

Clearly, everyone had come for the release of the Hidden Dragon List.

On the fifteenth of every month, at ten in the morning, was when the Hidden Dragon List was published, and that was also when the forum was most lively.

There were still a few minutes left until ten o’clock, and the discussions below were already extraordinarily lively, with the number of replies exceeding ten thousand.

However, Hou Ming noticed that most of the posts were related to one name, Long Xiaoshan.

A few days ago, news came from Xichuan Province that Long Xiaoshan had fought a great battle with Tang Honghu, slaying Xichuan’s number one grandmaster, Tang Honghu.

What was even more frightening was that Long Xiaoshan was only twenty years old this year—a young grandmaster, famous throughout the world.

This naturally caused a stir among the hidden sects.

This was an unprecedented event.

Although the claims were definite, and there was even a video released, there were still many voices of doubt on the forum.

Hou Ming casually clicked on a popular thread with over a thousand replies—”A young grandmaster, the biggest joke of the year?”—and saw that it had erupted into chaos inside.

The disputing parties fell into two camps, one of which supported Long Xiaoshan.

Most of these people were martial artists who had been present at the Elixir Pills competition and hailed from Xichuan.

They vehemently supported Long Xiaoshan, believing he truly deserved to be called a young grandmaster.

The other camp consisted of people from hidden sects all over Huaxia.

They analyzed and argued from various aspects, adamantly claiming that the video was blurry, falsified, that Long Xiaoshan could not possibly be a grandmaster, and that the entire affair was exaggerated.

Many even went as far as to mock, stating that places like Xichuan, barren of hidden sect resources, could only produce a grandmaster like the Tang Family once in several decades—how could a twenty-year-old young grandmaster possibly emerge?

It was merely the delusions of the Xichuan hidden sects.

Most of those who posted on such forums were young and fiery disciples from hidden sects—how could they admit that a young grandmaster was younger than them?

So the war of words was earth-shattering.

Those who doubted Long Xiaoshan’s grandmaster strength considered only that Tang Honghu was old and frail, suffering from a serious illness, which gave Long Xiaoshan the chance to take advantage.

At the top of the thread was a poll, and those who believed Long Xiaoshan did not possess grandmaster strength made up a whopping 90%, holding an overwhelming majority.

“Senior Brother, what do you think?

Is Long Xiaoshan a grandmaster?” a disciple asked.

Xichuan and Yunkun both belonged to the Southwest, and Long Xiaoshan’s reputation in Yunkun was by no means inferior.

His name had been spreading through the Southwest Hidden Gates these days.

A sharp gleam flashed in Leng Feng’s eyes as he flicked his fingernails indifferently, “Tang Honghu was nearly a hundred years old, and I heard he was struck by severe poison before the competition.

A grandmaster like that, even I could defeat.”