Su Mo walked out of the room and looked thoughtfully around the huge store in Sky-sea Pavilion.
He was considering if he needed to buy any treasure, but it seemed like he wasn't lacking anything at this moment.
Su Mo did not lack any cultivation skills, martial arts techniques, or swords. He had kept a few of each in his storage ring including two Lower Lv 4 swords.
What he lacked were Beast Souls. Recently, his Martial Soul improved by devouring other people's Martial Souls, so, if he wanted to move up to the next rank, he had to devour Beast Souls.
Ultimately, going around devouring other people's Martial Souls was just not practical. Besides, he needed to devour Martial Souls of at least Earth Class for it to have an effect on his Martial Soul. If he were to devour Human Class Martial Souls, even devouring 100,000 people might not enough for his Devouring Martial Soul to move to the next rank. Moreover, in Skymoon Country or even the whole Hong Domain, there were only a handful of people with Earth Class Martial Souls.
A place like Firmament Divine Realm, where many top-notch geniuses with Earth Class Martial Souls had gathered, was very rare!
Su Mo inquired at a counter selling Beast Souls. They only had two Soul Crystals of Lv 4 Beast Souls and Su Mo bought them both.
Two crystals of Class 1 Lv 4 Beast Souls were worth 600,000 Lower Spiritual Stones. The price was exorbitant, but this was nothing to Su Mo.
Other than that, Su Mo did not purchase Lv 3 Beast Souls because they were of no use to him anymore. He planned to leave Skymoon Country to visit other branches of Sky-sea Pavilion in bigger countries to purchase Beast Souls of higher levels.
Just when Su Mo was about to leave, he passed by the counter where he had once bought the Legend of Firmament, and saw that there were still many people buying it. Su Mo went up and bought a copy for himself as well.
Since the Top-100-talent Competition was over, they should have compiled a new List of Top 100 Talents of Hong Domain!
After buying a new copy of the Legend of Firmament, Su Mo immediately left Sky-sea Pavilion and headed back to Gale Island.
"Eh? That person looked like Su Mo?"
"Su Mo? The one ranked first on the List of Top 100 Talents? Are you seeing things?"
"Absolutely not! I previously saw him at the Four Seas Arena, so I can't be wrong. It's a pity that he already left!"
At Sky-sea Pavilion, some who saw Su Mo's figure were all talking about him.
In the sky, Su Mo was reading the updated version of the Legend of Firmament while flying.
The List of Top 100 Talents in Hong Domain had already been updated, and the rankings were as follows:
Number One, Su Mo.
Number Two, Ao Wushuang.
Number Three, Hong Qingxuan.
Number Four, Wu Sheng.
Number Five, Mo Yue.
Number Six, Huo Ling.
Number Seven, Han Qianze.
Number Eight, Nie Chong.
Number Nine, Hong Qingtian.
Number Ten, Duanmu Ying.
Number Forty-Eight, Han Yijian.
Number Ninety-One, Zhu Shaojing.
In the Legend of Firmament, the latest version of the List of Top 100 Talents of Hong Domain had clearly listed everyone's rankings.
Su Mo unquestionably was ranked number one, the ninth princess ranked third, Han Yijian's ranking improved while Zhu Shaojing dropped a few ranks.
"Eh! There were also changes to List of Top 1,000 Talents in East Continent!" Su Mo continued to read.
It seemed like the List of Top 1,000 Talents in East Continent was also updated once every three years, and at the same time as the List of Top 100 Talents.
"Has the List of 10,000 Talents also been updated?"
Su Mo continued to read and immediately flipped to List of Top 10,000 Continental Talents.
Su Mo took one look and, as he had guessed, the List of 10,000 Talents had also been updated.
Su Mo's eyes were instantly drawn to one of the names.
Shangguan Hao!
Su Mo clearly remembered that in the previous version of the List of 10,000 Talents, Shangguan Hao was only ranked 31st.
To be ranked 31st among the 10,000 young talents in the whole of Firmament and Continent was already an amazing achievement, and yet, in the updated list, Shangguan Hao's ranking had improved by leaps and bounds.
Shangguan Hao now ranked eighth on the List of 10,000 Talents! His cultivation was at Lv 7 of the Martial King Realm!
Su Mo's eyes narrowed. Shangguan Hao's ranking had jumped more than 20 places to reach eighth place.
Moreover, in the previous version of the List of 10,000 Talents, he was only at the cultivation of Lv 4 Martial King Realm, but now he had attained a cultivation of Lv 7 Martial King Realm!
His talent must indeed be extraordinary for him to increase his level of cultivation so quickly despite his already high cultivation!
Su Mo took a deep breath. As much as he was improving, so was the other party!
Catching up with him within the span of five years would definitely not be an easy task. Furthermore, two years had almost passed and that left him with slightly more than three years to go!
Su Mo felt the pressure increasing. If he could not defeat Shangguan Hao after three years, he would definitely not be able to take Xi'er away.
The good thing was, although Shangguan Hao was improving, his rate of improvement was still not as fast as him.
From the day he awakened his Martial Soul to present, Su Mo had rapidly elevated from nothing to Lv 8 True Spirit Realm in less than two years.
Although Shangguan Hao's talent was astounding, it would be a hundred times more difficult for him to increase his cultivation precisely because of his high cultivation.
"Within one month, I have to reach the Enlightenment Realm, one year to reach the True Darkness Realm, and two years to reach the Martial King Realm! I have three years to attain a high level at the Martial King Realm!"
Su Mo took another deep breath as he set a 'small goal' for himself again!
Then, Su Mo put the Legend of Firmament away and flew toward Gale Island.
After a little more than two hours, Su Mo arrived at Gale Island. He was back to his own small palace.
Gale Island was currently decorated with lanterns and streamers. It looked completely different from the last time he had seen it.
Su Mo was not too bothered. After returning to his place, he devoured two Class 1 Lv 4 Beast Souls and immediately concentrated on his cultivation.
The next morning, Su Mo was disturbed while cultivating.
The Second Elder had come to Su Mo's palace.
"Su Mo, please prepare yourself. After an hour, we'll hold the Coronation Ceremony for you to commemorate your succession as the island owner of Gale Island!"
The Second Elder said with a smile and handed a python-embroidered robe, a jade belt, and a golden crown to Su Mo.
"Eh! Such pomp and ceremony!" Su Mo was speechless.
"Wasn't it supposed to be a casual ceremony, instead of a Coronation Ceremony? Why was it still so grand?"
"It feels like an Emperor's coronation ceremony!"
However, he did not reject these items, and he soon wore the python-patterned robe with the jade belt on his waist and the golden crown on his head.
After changing into the robe, Su Mo's demeanour changed. He could not help but feel like he had the world at his feet and his kingdom before him.
"No wonder in his previous life, historically, everyone dreamt of being an Emperor. The feeling is indeed great!"
"Let's go!"
Su Mo and the Second Elder walked along the mountain stairs toward the Great Hall of the Gale Island Sect.
At this moment, a bright red carpet was laid along the mountain stairs and led all the way up, through the square, and straight to the Sect's Great Hall.
Thousands of Gale Island disciples stood along both sides of the red carpet in straight rows.
The current Gale Island was only left with Inner Disciples and some Outer Disciples who were more outstanding in talent, or higher cultivations. Those average Outer Disciples and Handyman Disciples had already been dismissed. So, there was a sudden drop in the current population of Gale Island.
After all, Gale Island was about to retreat and could not afford to bring along those disciples with lower cultivation.
Those dismissed disciples were not treated too shabbily either as everyone had received a good amount of cultivating resources.
Su Mo stood tall and walked along the stairs. Under the worshipful gazes of thousands of people, he slowly walked toward the Sect's Great Hall.