560: Chapter 560 Shocking the Evil Nation

At this moment, at the edge of the God Stele Forest.

Zhao Zhao was squatting on the ground, bored out of her mind, drawing circles, when she suddenly slapped her forehead hard.

"Ah! I forgot to tell him!"

"If you challenge the God Stele Forest for the first time, there is a placement match!"

"Usually, once you reach a five-win streak, the difficulty increases significantly! If you reach a ten-win streak, the Rank of the summoned opponent will directly increase by one level; it is impossible to win!"

"Chen Yi must be playing the placement match, right? No wonder he hasn't come out after so long..."

"I challenged the placement match when I was a True God, but I couldn't continue after a six-win streak. I can't even imagine how monstrous those people who get a ten-win streak in the placement match are!"

"After the placement match ends, the ranking will come out. Chen Yi's initial ranking should be around seven digits. The subsequent battles will be much easier; basically, the outcome can be decided in a few moves!"

"I can't believe I forgot to mention such an important thing..."

"But the last time I challenged it was thousands of years ago, so it's understandable that I forgot, right? Ehehe~~~"

"Chen Yi should be on a five-win streak in the placement match now! He's probably stuck in a stalemate with his sixth opponent, which is why he hasn't come out!"

"Oh well, I'll just wait for him!"

She squatted back down, propped her chin on her hand, and looked toward the God Stele Forest.

The corners of her mouth curled up once again.

She hoped Chen Yi's ranking wouldn't be as good as hers, so she could properly enjoy the feeling of being above him!

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Inside the challenge space.

Chen Yi had been beaten into a pulp.

His twelfth opponent was the phantom of a burly man wielding a giant axe.

Every swing of that giant axe carried an Aura that could split the heavens and crack the earth.

Chen Yi used all his strength and all the bonuses from his enhancement cards, but he still couldn't win!

It wasn't even an opponent on the same level!

As the giant axe came down, Chen Yi summoned his Seven-Colored Flame Sword to block it.

The moment the sword and axe collided, the violent force sent him flying.

Before he could stabilize his body, the giant axe came slashing down again.

It was too fast!

It was too strong!

In the end, amidst the thousands of axe shadows created by that giant axe, Chen Yi's defense was completely torn apart.

A flash of light passed by, and his figure slowly dissipated in the challenge space.

[Ding! Challenge failed!]

[This placement challenge has ended!]

[Do you wish to continue challenging?]

Chen Yi's consciousness returned to the initial waiting space.

He opened his eyes, looked at the cold text before him, and remained silent for a long time.

"Am I really that bad? This hurts; only an eleven-win streak, what the hell..."

"Will Zhao Zhao laugh at me when I go out later?"

"Damn it, this is definitely rigged! This Stele challenge must favor the world malice!"

He grumbled and complained, but in his heart, he knew this had nothing to do with it being rigged.

Which of those Ancient Gods at the top of the rankings hadn't lived for tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of years?

The accumulated combat experience, polished techniques, and settled state of mind were not things he could compare to!

He wasn't even a hundred years old yet; getting an eleven-win streak was, reasonably speaking, not too bad!

As for continuing the challenge?

Challenge my foot!

I used every ounce of my strength against that thing and couldn't win, so how am I supposed to fight it?

He wasn't a masochist to go and get abused when he knew he couldn't win!

So he decisively gave up on the challenge.

And at the very moment Chen Yi completed the placement challenge.

The plaques throughout the entire City of Extreme Evil erupted with a dazzling golden light simultaneously!

Hundreds of giant plaques lit up at once, dyeing the sky of the entire city gold.

On the streets, in the taverns, in the Cultivate rooms, inside the shops—all the world malice looked up at the plaques simultaneously.

On the plaques, a line of huge golden text slowly emerged.

[Name: Yi Chen]

[Rank: Ancient God Rank]

[Test Ranking: 999th (Has not participated in the official challenge)]

The light did not fade for a long time.

The entire city fell into a long, deathly silence.

Then, it completely exploded!

"Holy crap!!!"

"999th? A three-digit ranking? How is this possible!"

"Damn it, you have to know this is the list of all the powerhouses who have reached the Ancient God Rank throughout the history of the Void Realm for tens of millions of years! Hundreds of millions of Ancient God powerhouses, including those from the Golden Age of Chen Yu's reign—how many awesome Ancient God powerhouses were born back then! And you're telling me that a newcomer who just finished a placement match broke directly into a three-digit ranking? 999th? Although it's at the bottom, in this era, this is definitely the existence of the world's number one!"

"Look at the note at the back! This is a placement match! He just finished the placement match and is already ranked 999th! If he continues to challenge the main competition, what will happen then?"

"Who on earth is this Yi Chen? When did such a figure appear in the Void Realm?"

"Never heard of him? Could it be some old monster who has been in seclusion for tens of thousands of years and finally decided to emerge?"

"That's too awesome, holy crap! He actually pushed Lady Yue Wen down to 1000th place! Is this going to affect the rankings of the Moonlight Festival?"

"Too strong! It's simply too strong! You have to realize that this is his first time challenging and he has this ranking, while Lady Yue Wen had to challenge it many times to grind her way to this ranking! Their strength might not even be on the same level!"

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At the edge of the God Stele Forest.

Zhao Zhao looked at the line of golden text on the plaque, and she froze on the spot!

999th?

Is this fake?

She opened her mouth wide, stared with wide eyes, and her mind went completely blank.

She naturally knew the name Yi Chen!

From Emilia, she had heard about the interesting things Chen Yi did in Yanjing on the Blue Star!

The Sequence Competition, the battle of the Prodigy, the name Yi Chen, crushing everything!

She certainly knew who Yi Chen was!

But precisely because she knew, she found it even more unbelievable!

Chen Yi, this little brat who wasn't even a hundred years old, this human who came from a life planet and whom she had even taught the common language of the Void Realm, had actually surpassed hundreds of millions of past Ancient God powerhouses to reach the 999th level?

Her legs felt a bit weak.

She remembered how she had just been thinking that Chen Yi's ranking should be around seven digits.

She remembered how she was planning how to reward him when he got back, and how to comfort him so he wouldn't take the ranking too seriously.

And what was the result?

He had broken directly into three digits!

999th!

That was 999th!

He had even pushed Yue Wen down to 1000th place!

"Is he—is he even human?"

Zhao Zhao muttered to herself, her voice full of daze.

Then she remembered that Chen Yi was indeed human, and felt that this question was a bit stupid.

She took a deep breath, then another, and another, but she still couldn't calm down!

In her placement match at the True God stage, she had only achieved a six-win streak!

Chen Yi had achieved an eleven-win streak at the Ancient God stage!

This gap...

She suddenly felt that her earlier feeling of being so proud and happy about her six-digit ranking was a bit silly, naively silly!

But soon, she laughed again!

That was pride from the bottom of her heart!

After all, Chen Yi was her man!