Chapter 2 – Celestial Master! A Major Event That Shakes the Federation!

“What?!”

A series of notification sounds bombarded Ye Sheng, leaving him dazed.

At the same time, he felt overwhelmed by the sheer amount of information, unable to process it all at once!

Whoosh!

The stat panel reappeared before Ye Sheng, the changes now crystal clear.

Ye Sheng widened his eyes to look.

[Character: Ye Sheng

Class: Celestial Master

Class Rating: SSSS Tier!

Level: 1st Awakening, Level 0

Talent Passive: Celestial Master’s Heart]

“This?”

Ye Sheng glanced at the stat panel, his eyes nearly popping out of his head.

The first thing he noticed was that his class had changed—no longer a Daoist, but now…

A Celestial Master!

And the class rating for Celestial Master was terrifyingly…

SSSS Tier!

“Hiss!”

Seeing this rating, Ye Sheng immediately gasped in shock!

He clearly remembered,

the strongest class in this world was only ‘SSS Tier’!

Yet the Celestial Master’s rating had reached the terrifying ‘SSSS Tier’!

Surpassing the strongest class in this world!

…

At the same time, in the Imperial Capital City!

A ‘Heavenly Dao Ranking’ suddenly changed!

The Heavenly Dao Ranking was a massive golden stone.

It recorded one hundred classes.

These classes, each more formidable than the last, were ranked on this ‘Heavenly Dao Ranking’!

It could be said that the hundred strongest classes in this world were all listed on it.

And now!

The Heavenly Dao Ranking, which had remained unmoved for years, suddenly erupted with a blinding golden light.

The ranking had refreshed!

The originally top-ranked SSS Tier class!

Was pushed down from first place to second.

In the first-place position, golden light flashed, and several blazing golden characters were inscribed!

First Place: Class: Celestial Master! Rating: SSSS Tier!

As the characters were completed, the entire Heavenly Dao stone tablet shone with a waterfall of golden light!

Dark clouds gathered over the Imperial Capital City, and celestial phenomena appeared in the sky.

This sudden change alarmed the guards protecting the ‘Heavenly Dao Ranking’.

“Ah, the Heavenly Dao Ranking has refreshed again!”

One guard exclaimed in shock!

“No, it’s the first place that refreshed!”

“How is that possible!”

Several guards were stunned!

The class ranked first had dominated the Heavenly Dao Ranking for over a decade, never once shaken.

Yet tonight, it had been pushed down!

This was absolutely a major event!

Enough to make tomorrow morning’s headlines.

Several guards widened their eyes, looking toward the first-place position.

They wanted to know which class had replaced the original first place!

“Celestial Master!”

“What is a Celestial Master?!”

The guards were momentarily confused, but upon seeing the class rating, they instantly lost their composure.

“Heavens~! Am I seeing things?”

“SSSS Tier!?”

“How is that possible?”

They exclaimed, as if they had seen a ghost!

…

…

Meanwhile, Ye Sheng, far away in the Moon Spirit District of ‘Ghost Mountain City,’ was naturally unaware of this change.

Still breathing heavily, he continued studying the changes to his class.

“SSSS Tier! Celestial Master!”

“Oh my heavens~!”

Ye Sheng couldn’t help but groan, nearly overwhelmed by the sudden surprise.

It took him a long while to steady his mind before he continued reading.

“Talent Passive—Celestial Master’s Heart?”

“What is this?”

Ye Sheng looked.

[Celestial Master’s Heart—All learned skills are automatically upgraded to Destruction Tier!]

“What does this mean?”

Ye Sheng glanced at it, not quite understanding what it implied.

Upon seeing that his skill had actually transformed into 【Nine Heavens Divine Thunder】, he instantly understood!

His original skill was the ‘Thunder Summoning Art’!

He had used that ‘Thunder Summoning Art’ before.

Even when pushing it to its limit, he could only produce a single spark of electricity from his fingertip.

Those who witnessed it at the time mercilessly mocked him.

But now…

The ‘Thunder Summoning Art’ had actually been replaced by ‘Nine Heavens Divine Thunder’!

【Annihilation-grade Skill: Nine Heavens Divine Thunder (LV1), one of the Supreme Daoist Secret Arts, summons the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder to cleanse impurities and vanquish evil, covering an area of a hundred miles in radius.

Attack Power Increase +10000%!

Damage to Ghost Creatures Increase +20000%!

Note: Upgraded from ‘Thunder Summoning Art’. Due to its immense power and vast coverage area, use with caution!】

“This…?”

After reading the skill description, Ye Sheng was utterly astonished!

If not for the clear description, he would have thought his eyes were playing tricks on him!

Attack Power Increase +10000%!

Damage to Ghost Creatures Increase +20000%!

“This is simply heaven-defying?!”

Ye Sheng was completely dumbfounded.

No wonder it was called an Annihilation-grade Skill!

For ordinary skills, an Attack Power Increase of +20% was already considered quite good!

Who had ever heard of an increase as exaggerated as +10000%?

“And also… with this Talent Passive ‘Celestial Master’s Heart’,

does that mean all the skills I learn in the future will be upgraded to Annihilation-grade?!”

Ye Sheng was lost in thought!

…

The night passed without incident.

By the next morning, Ye Sheng appeared at the breakfast table with dark circles under his eyes.

The previous night, he had hardly slept a wink.

The reason was simple: he was too excited.

Anyone who possessed such a heaven-defying Class would likely be unable to sleep all night.

“Let’s eat!”

At the table, Lu Shushan was drinking a bowl of porridge. He glanced at Ye Sheng briefly but didn’t pay him much attention.

Instead, he turned to Mother Lu beside him and asked, “Where’s Lu Ming? Still not up yet?”

Mother Lu smiled dotingly. “He stayed up late last night. Let him sleep a little longer.”

Before their words had fully faded,

a hurried figure rushed out from the bedroom.

Lu Ming, still in his pajamas, wore an expression of shock as he ran, shouting loudly:

“Big news… something huge has happened!”

Seeing this, Lu Shushan frowned. “What’s all this fuss about? Calm down!”

Lu Ming, visibly excited, plopped into a chair and exclaimed, “Last night… last night, the ‘Heavenly Dao Ranking’ actually refreshed!”

“The Heavenly Dao Ranking refreshed?”

Hearing this, Lu Shushan was stunned, a look of astonishment appearing on his face!

The Heavenly Dao Ranking!

It was a massive stone tablet bestowed by the ‘Supreme Rule’.

Engraved upon it were the hundred strongest Classes in this world.

Every Class that made it onto the ranking was an aberration!

The Heavenly Dao Ranking refreshing meant that another heaven-defying Class had appeared in the world!

“This is indeed a major event!”

Lu Shushan grew uncharacteristically serious. Sipping his porridge, he asked curiously,

“What Class appeared? What rank did it take?”

Lu Ming’s lips trembled as he uttered the astonishing news, “Celestial Master!

Ranked first… number one!

It pushed the original first place down!”

“What?!”

Lu Shushan was shocked!

Clatter! His chopsticks fell onto the table. He was completely stunned!

He had initially thought it was just another aberrant Class appearing within the top hundred.

He never expected the number one rank to have been replaced!

This was absolutely an event of tsunami-like proportions, one that would shake the entire Federation!

Another person was also stunned.

Ye Sheng, who had originally been minding his own business and burying his head in his meal, froze in place upon hearing these words.