My friends list was full of unread messages. Zhang Yuanqing quickly scanned through them, first opening the avatars of the two Heavenly Kings.

Heavenly King-level figures always made people pay extra attention (or feel afraid).

[King of Terror: Very good. Congratulations on advancing to the top of the Heavenly Ranking. When you advance to Ruler, I will send the Silver Moon Divine General to kill you. Looking forward to it?]

Heavenly King, please think twice! Zhang Yuanqing thought to himself, "Am I already at the top of the Heavenly Ranking for wanted Saint-stage criminals?"

Being number one on the Heavenly Ranking already qualified him for a Ruler to take action. It seemed he needed to lay low for a while.

Zhang Yuanqing typed: "I'm really looking forward to sending Silver Moon back to the Lingjing." After sending the message, he felt his wording was a bit too much. The King of Terror wasn't the Demon Eye, he wouldn't pamper him. What if he sent a Ruler-level expert to camp at his respawn point? He should give the demigod-level experts the most basic respect...

So Zhang Yuanqing added another line: "I like chatting with you, because I can freely express my opinions. When I talk to other Rulers and demigods, I'm not free."

Sure enough, the King of Terror was greatly pleased and replied with a message: "Interesting!"

Zhang Yuanqing breathed a sigh of relief and then checked the Demon Eye Heavenly King's message:

[Heh, your combat strength is improving quickly. I know what you did in the Ten Thousand Mountains of Bagui Province from Silver Moon. You didn't disappoint me. One last piece of advice: don't rely too much on items.]

The Demon Eye Heavenly King also sent a Three-Eyed Child emoji, with the vertical eye emitting colorful light at the screen.

I know Ruler-stage practitioners lack items. Zhang Yuanqing typed in reply. Search Sanyou on Bing or Baidu to read in advance every day.

[I don't need your praise. I just can't tolerate bullying the weak.] He took the opportunity to improve Demon Eye's impression of him.

Then he sent a message to test the waters: Heavenly King, if there's a conspiracy in the evil faction to hunt me down, you must notify me in time.

The Demon Eye Heavenly King sent another emoji of a Three-Eyed Child emitting colorful light.

Zhang Yuanqing originally wanted to say something else, but thought better of it and returned to the friends list, clicking on the avatar of Kou Beiyue, the little garden idiot.

Kou Beiyue had sent him many messages:

[Kou Beiyue: I heard from Liang Chen that you were fighting with the people from Heavenly Punishment in the Ten Thousand Mountains of Bagui Province? Why did you run to the border? Well, that's not important. I just wanted to say that the Southern School held an emergency meeting for the Saint Observer stage this morning.]

[Kou Beiyue: The Southern School's higher-ups are asking the Dream Controllers to carefully watch your combat videos and understand your combat habits, items, and Yin corpses. They want to thoroughly study you in preparation for hunting you down in the future.]

[Kou Beiyue: Are you an idiot? You're fighting and letting people record videos on the side.]

[Kou Beiyue: Oh, right, Ichikawa Bi is a student of the Southern School's Sixth Elder and also his bed partner. He's very unhappy with you.]

He babbled a lot, not a single word of concern, but all of them reminding him to be careful.

Zhang Yuanqing replied with a simple "Oh" and checked the remaining messages one by one. All of them were congratulatory messages. Big shots like Xie Su and Tiaozhan Gaofeng maintained their composure and said things like "Congratulations" or "Making a name for yourself." High-level executives like Xia Shuzhi Lian sent "666," while friends he met in the Slaughter Dungeon, like Niu Lan Shan Xiao Xiannv, Mudan Xianzi, and Baihu Wansui, were shamelessly showering him with rainbow farts.

Zhang Yuanqing replied to them one by one. To the big shots, he said, "I still need to work harder." To those with similar levels, he said, "Looking forward to exploring dungeons together." To those with a large gap in strength, he said, "Come to Songhai to play when you have time. I'll take you to Goudui Lan to listen to music."

The boss hasn't sent me a message, which means that Zongming hasn't expressed his opinion yet. Annie hasn't contacted me, so it seems I still have to wait for the Nourishing Spirit Association. I hope the ownership of the Underworld is decided soon. I'm going to enter a solo dungeon in a few days.

In fact, Fu Qingyang had sent him a message, but not about the Underworld.

Fu Qingyang sent a message at six in the morning: "Xiahou Aotian wants to resign. Deal with it."

At six-ten, he sent another message: "After you've resolved it, don't say he's just tightening screws."

Probably because he didn't receive a reply, Fu Qingyang had to personally appease Xiahou Aotian, so the second message was clearly emotional.

Resign? Wasn't Xiahou Aotian very satisfied with his current life? He had bodyguards wherever he went and was called "Leader" every day.

Zhang Yuanqing replied, "Yes, Boss. Thank you for your hard work, Boss."

After replying to the messages, he checked the missed calls. Half of the dozen or so missed calls were from his grandmother, and the other half were from Fu Xue.

His grandmother couldn't get through on the phone, so she sent a voice message saying: "Why did you turn off your phone? Your mother has something urgent to tell you. Call her back when you see this message."

Chen Shu was doing business abroad and could buy blue pills from Mr. Bill, which meant she had a lot of contact with Lingjing Xingzhe. Of course, she knew about the existence of Lingjing Xingzhe.

After talking to the Palace Master about his parents' past, Zhang Yuanqing understood this. And given the relationship between the Palace Master and Chen Shu, he would definitely tell her that Yuan Shi Tianzun was her son.

Hmph, now that I've suppressed the three Saint Envoys of Heavenly Punishment, the news will definitely spread abroad. Chen Shu is really a snobbish and realistic mother. When her son was an ordinary college student, she might not even call once a year. Now that her son has made a name for himself and is on the rise, she immediately contacted him.

But Zhang Yuanqing refused to forgive her. Fu Xue was also a materialistic mother-in-law, sending him a series of voice messages, calling him a good son, showering him with rainbow farts, and asking why Guan Ya's phone wasn't being answered, saying that she was getting old and didn't want to find another partner, and felt lonely and wanted to hold a grandchild.

She was recently trying to find a Ruler-level knight. A Ruler-level knight could be exempt from vows and cancel laws!

Guan Ya was forced by her to make a vow to prevent pregnancy that day. Now the mother-in-law was suffering the consequences. It was hard to say whether Guan Ya felt a sense of crisis, but Fu Xue was filled with a sense of crisis, fearing that her daughter wouldn't be able to hold onto her boyfriend and would be snatched away by a little fox spirit.

Zhang Yuanqing was completely playing along with his mother-in-law, not really liking her, so he didn't reply.

After replying to all the messages, Zhang Yuanqing opened the official forum. The forum was almost entirely about the topic of Yuan Shi Tianzun taking on Heavenly Punishment, with a heat that even surpassed his annihilation of the evil faction in the Slaughter Dungeon.

This was the value of a peak Saint. This battle refreshed the understanding of Yuan Shi Tianzun by both the orderly and evil factions, allowing major organizations and families to clearly and intuitively recognize the true combat power of Yuan Shi Tianzun.

At the same time, it also heralded the birth of another invincible Saint.

When Fu Qingyang was at the peak of the Saint stage, even Rulers were polite to him, and he was infinitely glorious.

And now Yuan Shi Tianzun had surpassed the former Young Master Qian. Zhang Yuanqing scrolled through the posts, reading the comments and secretly enjoying the official practitioners praising him.

Occasionally, he saw people from the Jiangzhun branch popping up, demanding that Yuan Shi Tianzun return the Yin-Yang Disc and asking headquarters to uphold justice. Below these comments were basically unanimous replies:

"Don't say things that are not conducive to unity!"

The matter of the Yin-Yang Disc might have caused disputes and criticism in normal times, but now the grassroots staff's high enthusiasm hadn't subsided, and it was precisely when Zhang Yuanqing's prestige was at its peak. Not to mention occupying the Yin-Yang Disc, even if Yuan Shi Tianzun occupied a young virgin, there would be brain-dead fans standing up to whitewash him.

Zhang Yuanqing scrolled for a long time and soon got tired of it. He was tired of the rainbow farts and was about to exit the forum when he discovered a newly refreshed post titled: #Heavenly Punishment is Anxious!#

Clicking on it, he saw that someone had uploaded the video overseas, and the news that Osmon, Hoover, and Zuo had been defeated by the Five Elements Alliance's Yuan Shi Tianzun had spread in just one morning.

Based on Heavenly Punishment's fine tradition of manipulating public opinion, they initially denied it, with the intelligence and internet information departments deleting posts and videos from internal forums and issuing clarifications claiming that the videos were fake.

The Five Elements Alliance's Lingjing Xingzhe were dissatisfied with the strong performance of the three Saint Envoys of Osmon at the exchange meeting, so they created fake news and fake videos to deceive themselves and others.

Then Heavenly Punishment's forum began to implement control, banning the release of videos and deleting all posts discussing the topic.

So someone climbed over the wall to the Five Elements Alliance to move posts.

The forums of major official organizations were semi-public. As official organizations, they had to have a channel to announce policies and information to the outside world, so anyone with an invitation code could log in to the official organizations' forums.

The Five Elements Alliance and Heavenly Punishment were the same. When the grassroots members of Heavenly Punishment saw that it was officially certified information from the Five Elements Alliance, they immediately realized that they had been deceived.

The information was true. In addition, members within Heavenly Punishment who were close to Osmon and the others called to inquire. Hoover and Osmon didn't give accurate answers, but Zuo admitted it.

Knights don't lie.

So the Heavenly Punishment internal forum once again launched a fierce debate, and the posts couldn't be deleted at all.

The Five Elements Alliance's Scholars took the opportunity to intercept many debate posts and carefully translated them and brought them back to the Five Elements Alliance forum for everyone to eat melons.

"My God, is it actually true? This kind of news clearly sounds fake!"

"Isn't Yuan Shi Tianzun that new genius? Didn't he only advance to Saint in June? Why has he suddenly become so strong? Maybe a Ruler has transformed into his appearance. I know that illusionists in China are very good at transforming!"

"If you really think so, then the ones deceiving yourselves are us!"

"Ah, thinking back to the battle in the video, he's so powerful. He defeated Osmon, Hoover, and Zuo so effortlessly!"

"Do we have such a strong person among our Heavenly Punishment Saints?"

"I've remembered Yuan Shi Tianzun. He's a terrifying Night Watcher."

"He has so many items. Is he the illegitimate son of a demigod?"

"F*ck, they lost so badly even with three people working together. Osmon and Hoover should be nailed to the pillar of shame. They are not worthy of serving as second-level gold-level executive officials."

"ICIC's bastards, deceiving us time and time again, telling us that the Five Elements Alliance has no experts, telling us that Osmon and Hoover can sweep through all the Saints of the Five Elements Alliance. Not a single word in their mouths is true."

"No, they have the truth. The truth is the opposite. That Yuan Shi Tianzun can sweep through all our Saints."

"In fact, ICIC has never told the truth. They have never reported Yuan Shi Tianzun's information, telling everyone that he is just a Night Watcher who is still quite outstanding."

The Five Elements Alliance praised him as a genius with the qualifications of the Alliance Master. They had this level of genius, but in the eyes of Heavenly Punishment, the Five Elements Alliance was facing a talent drain everywhere.

"Yes, yes, I remember. I really want to kick their butts hard with my shoes, I swear."

Just as Zhang Yuanqing was watching with interest, the phone rang. It was a call from Annie, and the Goddess Association had replied.

Zhang Yuanqing quickly answered, "Mr. Yuan Shi, our department head has arrived and wants to meet you," Annie's soft voice said.

Department head? The head of the Goddess Association's foreign affairs department? The Goddess Association actually sent a high-level official directly.

Zhang Yuanqing thought for a moment and said, "Okay, I'll wait for her in Fu Qingyang's study."

Annie hesitated for a moment and whispered, "The department head wants to meet you privately!"

Meet me privately? How could that be allowed? What if she wanted to eat the little chicken... Zhang Yuanqing wasn't arrogant enough to meet with a high-level official from a foreign power in private.

So he refused, "That won't do! I only accept meetings at Fu Jia Wan."

If the other party had malicious intentions, he was afraid that he would return to the Lingjing on the spot. To take a step back, if the high-level official of the Goddess Association wanted to control him, and threw a flirtatious look, Zhang Yuanqing would have to drop his pants on the spot and transform into a wooden emotional pile driver.

Never doubt the charm of the Lust profession. He couldn't even resist Annie's charm, let alone a department head.

Annie seemed to have expected him to refuse and said, "What if the chairman of the Merchant Guild is also present?"