Chapter 760: Chapter 467: 9707 Divine Generals! [3rd Update, Requesting Monthly Pass!]

"Wanxiang Pavilion!"

"After a month and a half of opening, the ’Divine General List’ is finally released!"

In the Xuan-named Divine General’s Courtyard, Yan Chuan, Lu Yuru, Ding Xiang, Situ Fei, and Tan Yunqing were present, browsing the new ’Divine General List’ released by the Wanxiang Pavilion.

Having an elder at home is a treasure.

Tan Yunqing had been at the Innate level for many years, and his understanding of the Mountain and Sea Realm far surpassed that of Yan Chuan and the others, including knowledge about Wanxiang Pavilion: "This is a mysterious force spread across the thirteen regions, not involved in any power struggles, remaining above worldly matters, solely focusing on ranking lists such as the ’Divine General List’, ’War God List’, and even the ’Overlord List’. Meanwhile, they recruit talents from various places, offering them generous conditions for development. Many War Gods and even Overlords in numerous regions and countries have the support of Wanxiang Pavilion behind them."

Wanxiang Pavilion!

So mysterious!

Firstly, they do not engage in commerce.

Secondly, they do not involve themselves in politics.

They focus solely on compiling ranking lists, and even the fundamental purpose of compiling these lists is to recruit and cultivate talents. However, after recruiting and nurturing them, these talents grow up to have a loose connection with the Wanxiang Pavilion, doing nothing for them, leaving behind a spotless history with no mysterious disappearances or unknown life or death situations.

This organization——

"It’s more like a ’Talent Mutual Aid Association’." Yan Chuan, who had some understanding of Wanxiang Pavilion from Heavenly Ladder City, said: "As long as one displays enough talent, they will attract Wanxiang Pavilion, who will offer contracts and provide corresponding resources. Before these talents grow up, Wanxiang Pavilion gives without asking for anything in return. Even if they become War Gods or Overlords later on, Wanxiang Pavilion does not demand repayment; it depends on these individuals’ conscience. If they wish to donate, they donate a little; if not, it’s no problem."

From Yan Chuan’s understanding of Wanxiang Pavilion, it appears to be a very loose organization, devoid of desires, focused on talent aid, much like a ’charitable organization’.

But in the intricately complex Mountain and Sea Realm, is there really such a pure organization?

Yan Chuan was skeptical.

"There are no free pies falling from the sky."

"There’s no free lunch in the world."

Ding Xiang did not believe that Wanxiang Pavilion was truly devoid of desires, but it did not prevent her from enjoying reading through the latest ’Divine General List’ released by Wanxiang Pavilion: "There are so many Divine Generals in the Hunxi Territory!"

Indeed!

There are really many!

Yan Chuan was also looking through it, a thick roll of the ’Divine General List’, recording all the information of the Divine Generals within the Hunxi Territory——

[Tenth Rank Divine General: 0]

[Ninth Rank Divine General: 1]

[Eighth Rank Divine General: 4]

[Seventh Rank Divine General: 12]

[Sixth Rank Divine General: 83]

[Fifth Rank Divine General: 132]

[Fourth Rank Divine General: 448]

[Third-Rank Divine General: 1344]

[Second-Rank God General: 3132]

[First Rank Divine General: 4551]

...

"According to the statistics of Wanxiang Pavilion, there are 9707 Divine Generals within the Hunxi Territory." Lu Yuru was shocked: "Nearly ten thousand Divine Generals!"

This is too many!

The population of Hunxi is not as large as Danhu, at most thirty million, yet there are nearly ten thousand Divine Generals?

"On average, one person out of every three thousand achieves Innate Dao?" Ding Xiang was also shocked.

Yan Chuan laughed and said: "That’s not the correct way to calculate."

How long can ordinary people live?

On average, only fifty to sixty years.

But Innate Divine Generals undergo a transformation, as long as they don’t die prematurely, they can live at least 150 years, and even live up to 180 to 200 years without any injury, if they know nourishment techniques.

By this calculation——

"Innate Divine Generals can live for at least three lifetimes of ordinary people."

"While the ordinary people die three times over, one generation of the Innate Divine Generals only dies once. Calculating like this, in every hundred million, there will be nearly ten thousand Divine Generals, which is roughly a one in ten thousand ratio."

Even calculating this way, it is still exaggerated.

But the people of the Mountain and Sea Realm are blessed with inherent talent, and with talents one in ten thousand, securing the Innate Dao is reasonable.

Looking at the Great Yan, with a population of four hundred million, there are less than fifty Innate ones, averaging only one Innate within every eight million people, which is a very tragic ratio. Calculating with the three rotations ratio, it is even worse, twenty-four million will only produce one, more tragic indeed.

However——

"The Great Yan is developing."

"Even with the current rate of newly emerging Innates, even if there are only four new ones per year, by the time all of you grow old, after 120 years, the Great Yan can also accumulate five hundred Innates."

"As long as the annual increase in Divine Generals surpasses the deaths, this ratio will keep shrinking, until it reaches a dynamic balance."

The Great Yan is currently in an ascending phase.

Whereas the Hunxi Territory is trending stable.

...

"However, this Wanxiang Pavilion is only so-so." Lu Yuru went through the list, noticing towards the back——

[Character: Qin Yu (Meteor)]

[Location: Golden Talisman City]

[Age: 28]

[Cultivation: Innate Third Layer]

...

Indeed, the Wanxiang Pavilion is not lacking. They managed to investigate details such as the age and cultivation level of Yan Chuan, disguised in Golden Talisman City as ’Qin Yu’, which seemed impressive, but actually——

"They ranked ’Qin Yu’ at 6473rd on the ’Hunxi Realm Divine General List’, only mid-to-upper ranked among First Rank Divine Generals, purely based on surface-level cultivation sorting. But beyond ’Qin Yu’, another ’Yan Chuan’ made it on the list——"

Lu Yuru shook her head.

Qin Yu.

Yan Chuan.

They are the same person, yet both appear on the list, a fact that causes those in the know to question the authority of Wanxiang Pavilion’s ’Divine General List’.

Situ Fei laughed and said: "Brother Yan came to Golden Talisman City under the guise of ’Qin Yu’, never displaying any Martial Arts shown previously in Nanxiong City, discussing martial arts with others only sharing insights on ’Nine Yin Scripture’ never exhibited. No matter how extraordinary the capabilities, Wanxiang Pavilion found it difficult to link ’Qin Yu’ in Golden Talisman City to ’Yan Chuan’ in Nanxiong City."

From this, it can be seen that Wanxiang Pavilion’s ’Divine General List’ indeed lacks precision.

But it is understandable, as within the Hunxi Territory alone, there are nearly ten thousand Divine Generals. How could Wanxiang Pavilion investigate all of them to the last detail? Having a rough idea, offering a reference, that’s sufficient.

"In the Hunxi Realm, there are 9707 Divine Generals, 680 ranked Fourth Rank and above, 2024 ranked Third-Rank and above. Wanxiang Pavilion ranked Brother Yan at 794th on the ’Hunxi Realm Divine General List’, indicating they consider Brother Yan among the top ranks even within the Third-Rank Divine Generals!" Ding Xiang noticed Yan Chuan’s ranking——

[Character: Yan Chuan]

[Location: Nanxiong City]

[Age: 28]

[Cultivation: Innate Third Layer]

...

Yan Chuan also saw it, and his first reaction was to ponder the ranking. His ’Yan Chuan’ identity had only been revealed twice in public, first in Nanxiong City when he instantly killed the Second-Rank Divine General Fu Yuanshan and escaped from the life-threatening situation from third-Rank God General Fu Xixiang. The second time was at Nanyue Lake, where he instantaneously killed the Innate Tenth Layer Beast King Ying Li and made a water escape with a speed no slower than a Fourth-rank Divine General.

Capable of killing a Third-Rank Beast King.

Unable to defeat a Fourth-rank Divine General.

So, being ranked among the top of the Third-Rank Divine Generals seems fair.

However——

"Innate Third Layer!"

"How could that be!"

Yan Chuan stood up, shocked.

He remembered very clearly that the last time the ’Yan Chuan’ identity acted was during the hunt for Ying Li at Nanyue Lake, and he was at the Innate Second Layer. After that, he hadn’t acted again.

But Wanxiang Pavilion!

"How did they know I am at the Innate Third Layer?"

"Was it deduced based on my cultivation speed?"

"Or——"

Yan Chuan’s heart was in turmoil.

Yet at this moment——

"Yuan Xiang, the Deputy Chief of Wanxiang Pavilion’s Hunxi Territory Branch, is here to meet with Divine General Qin Yu!"

...

"Chief Yuan." Yan Chuan dismissed Situ Fei and the others, welcoming Yuan Xiang in. Having just been looking at Wanxiang Pavilion’s ’Divine General List’, the appearance of this Chief Yuan Xiang surprised Yan Chuan.

Yuan Xiang was a scholarly middle-aged man, not deliberately concealing his energy, clearly another Innate Divine General, and evidently at a higher cultivation level than Yan Chuan.

Upon entering the courtyard, he cupped his hands towards Yan Chuan, smiling, "I come uninvited, apologies if I intrude, Divine General Qin."

"Not at all." Yan Chuan laughed: "Wanxiang Pavilion has just released the ’Divine General List’, letting me understand more about the numerous Innates in the Hunxi Territory, and the presence of Chief Yuan here enlightens my humble abode."

Just unsure of the reason for his arrival.

Yuan Xiang said: "Divine General Qin must be curious about why Yuan is here."

"Indeed." Yan Chuan nodded, but internally, he had some speculations, though he chose not to express them.

He did not say.

Yuan Xiang spoke: "Divine General Qin is indeed the same as Yan Chuan of Nanxiong City, correct?"

As expected!

Yan Chuan smiled wryly: "Since I saw that Wanxiang Pavilion noted my cultivation as Innate Third Layer on the ’Divine General List’, I had some vague suspicions, and now they’ve been confirmed."

Wanxiang Pavilion noted ’Yan Chuan’s cultivation as Innate Third Layer.

Yet the last manifestation of ’Yan Chuan’s cultivation in Nanyue Lake was only ’Innate Second Layer’.

How could Wanxiang Pavilion know of ’Yan Chuan’s breakthrough?

Estimation?

Guesswork?

No, no, no!

More likely, they had already seen through the fact that ’Yan Chuan’ and ’Qin Yu’ were the same person, which is why they could state it so confidently, without even marking ’Innate Third Layer’ with a ’seemingly’.

But one question lingered——

"I practiced the Bone Shrinking Technique, truly altering my appearance through muscle and bone changes, and never exhibited any martial arts of ’Yan Chuan’ in Golden Talisman City. How did Wanxiang Pavilion uncover my identity?" Yan Chuan was curious.

Yuan Xiang replied: "Wanxiang Pavilion, spread across the thirteen regions, wouldn’t dare put together a list without the ability to verify identities. Brother Yan’s ’Bone Shrinking Technique’ is indeed remarkable; standing in front of me, even with just the naked eye, I could not link ’Qin Yu’ to ’Yan Chuan’.

But within Wanxiang Pavilion, there are Exotic Treasures!

"There are always people beyond people, mountains beyond mountains." Yan Chuan accepted it, yet remained unfazed, and actually became somewhat interested in Yuan Xiang’s purpose.

Yuan Xiang smiled: "Wanxiang Pavilion is dedicated to creating ranking lists and nurturing talents. It does not interfere with the mundane nor participates in any disputes, so Brother Yan can rest assured."

"Of course, I trust in it." Yan Chuan laughed: "Wanxiang Pavilion uncovered my two identities, yet did not reveal this on the ’Divine General List’, they have assisted me."

Qin Yu.

Yan Chuan.

The dual identity made it to the list, Lu Yuru even doubted the authority of Wanxiang Pavilion.

And it turns out, it was intentional on the part of Wanxiang Pavilion.

In the ’North Mansion’, Lu Yuru blushed.

On this side.

Yuan Xiang said: "Wanxiang Pavilion’s aim is to serve talents, not to harm them." He smiled: "Brother Yan’s two battles in Nanxiong City and Nanyue Lake, with formidable combat power, have already landed him on Wanxiang Pavilion’s candidate list. If you can advance further and within the coming year and a half, have a real battle against a Fourth-rank Divine General without defeat, or even win, then this ’Yellow-level Contract’ in my hand will find its owner."

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