Published: March 2, 2025
As Wen Yu squinted his eyes and pretended to doze off, a massive bell tolled from afar. At the same time, a grand yet gentle spiritual wave spread through the minds of every practitioner in the Eternal Sky City!
"The ranking battle officially begins!"
As the spiritual wave gradually dissipated, countless beams of white light flashed from the outskirts of the arena—those were the practitioners qualified to challenge the rankings!
In the next second, at the positions from sequence ninety-one to one hundred, white light flickered, and the sequences were pulled into the challenge space.
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Seeing this scene, Wen Yu couldn't help but swallow hard.
The enthusiasm of the practitioners outside was beyond imagination.
According to the rules, when a lower sequence challenges a higher sequence, sequences can also challenge each other. For the practitioners at sequence ninety-one to one hundred, the best choice was to challenge sequences eighty-one to ninety before being challenged themselves, ensuring they could extract themselves from the endless challenges.
Unfortunately, the practitioners outside reacted even faster...
In under three seconds, another ten beams of white light lit up—this challenge had already ended. This should be due to the different flow of time within the arena compared to the outside world. Looking at the practitioners seated in the positions from sequence ninety-one to one hundred, Wen Yu's eyelids twitched twice.
All ten had changed.
This meant all ten challengers had succeeded!
From this, one could see just how large the disparity in the current sequences was!
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Then, before these new challengers could even settle in, white light flashed once again. The newly promoted practitioners from sequence ninety-one to one hundred vanished, and simultaneously, sequence eighty-seven was also engulfed by a beam of white light.
A new sequence had challenged sequence eighty-seven!
Three seconds later...
Another wave of new and old faces changed frequently below, and Wen Yu suddenly sensed how miserable the lower-ranked sequences would be.
With over fifteen thousand practitioners, they had enough to fight for a while.
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The white light flickered continuously, like countless light bulbs swaying in front of him, indicating not only the intensity of the ranking battle but also the large number of practitioners being eliminated.
However, this had nothing to do with the top ten sequences seated at the front.
To challenge the top ten sequences, one must first break into the top twenty! And the sequences ahead were not easy to contend with!
In fact, up until now, the positions in the top fifty had not been replaced even once.
This was because the majority of battles were intercepted by those in sequences ninety-one to one hundred, and very few new sequences had rushed to the front. Moreover, the quality of the top fifty sequences was indeed vastly superior to those behind!
Sequences were also wary of making reckless moves.
The rules of the ranking battle state that each person only has one chance to challenge. As a sequence, if one challenges a higher-ranked sequence and succeeds, that's fine, but if they fail, they can only passively endure challenges from others while losing the opportunity to advance further.
Thus, sequences not mired in the mud stood still like great Buddhas, motionless.
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The battles below raged on, and even Caius, who had been engrossed in reading the Bible, couldn't help but lift his head, staring at the flashing white lights below, his eyes flickering, lost in thought.
Wen Yu was equally bored. The challenge matches were placed in an unknown space, not in the circular arena below, so Wen Yu couldn't see the fighting scenes at all. He was merely sitting there idly, counting how many had already been eliminated!
In just half an hour, over a thousand practitioners had failed their challenges, and the result of exhausting their challenge qualifications was naturally being teleported out of the ranking battle.
Up until now, Lin Haifeng's plan still hadn't been initiated—the early chaos was too much; it would be better to wait until the situation stabilized a bit.