171: Super dark horse, Yungong Team

Long Aotian and Feng Zixian, following the last group of Mahayana Realm Cultivators to enter the Trial Tower, also stepped inside.

Within five days, over three million Mahayana Realm Cultivators flooded into the Trial Tower. Such a large number of participants greatly exceeded the expectations of the organizers, forming a stark contrast to the usual number of less than 300,000 participants in previous ranking competitions.

This year, the number of participants increased by at least ten times!

To accommodate this, the event organizers increased their work windows from one hundred to one thousand. It took a full five days to register the information of over three million Mahayana Realm Cultivators participating in the ranking competition and to issue over 3.6 million trial jade tokens.

This year's heaven ruins millennium grand list of prodigies was undoubtedly the most intensely competitive and largest in scale ever.

After five days, some had already reached the fifty-eighth floor of the trial ranking. The Trial Tower displayed the ranking information of the top ten thousand Prodigies based on the registered trial jade tokens.

First place: Central Continent Immortal Mansion Team, Qin Wanli, score 23121.

Second place: Tianxu Immortal Mansion Team, Yang Qianyue, score 22580.

Third place: Cloud Palace Team, Ao Jingtain, score 22330.

Fourth place: Honghuang Shop Team, Hong Wentao, score 20008.

Fifth place: Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion Team, Wan Youchuan, score 19830.

Sixth place: Demon Alliance Team, Tu Shanrongrong, score 19600.

Seventh place: Pill Pavilion Team, Dan Dasong, score 18765.

Eighth place: Cloud Palace Team, Long Bubai, score 18181.

Ninth place: Demon Alliance Team, Aolai Wutong, score 17650.

Tenth place: Cloud Palace Team, Long Wudi, score 17000.

Eleventh place: ... Looking at the names of the top hundred on the ranking list, Long Aotian and Feng Zixian were both somewhat lost in thought.

Ao Jingtain, Long Bubai, and Long Wudi all made it into the top ten.

Peak Lord Huo Yaner, Deputy Peak Lord Si Nan of Ice Peak, Emperor Ye of Eternal Leaf Dynasty, Deputy Peak Lord happy of Gold Peak, Deputy Peak Lord Wanjun of Thunder Peak, Hua Buwan, Hua Buqi, and Long Shijie, all eight of them also made it into the top hundred of the ranking list.

Among them, Hua Buwan, Hua Buqi, Long Shijie, Huo Yaner, and Si Nan, all five were within the top twenty, specifically between eleventh and twentieth place.

It could be said that the Cloud Palace Team, which suddenly emerged in this year's heaven ruins millennium grand list of prodigies ranking, truly made everyone drop their jaws.

Long Aotian and Feng Zixian were the last to enter the Trial Tower. Their entering hand-in-hand also drew glances from various forces, but people's attention was mostly focused on the ranking list, so there wasn't much discussion about it.

One thousand teleportation entrances meant that those entering the Trial Tower came from at least one thousand different directions. Furthermore, each main teleportation entrance had ten sub-teleportation entrances.

In other words, there were a total of ten thousand teleportation entrances to the Trial Tower, and each entrance led to a different location within the Trial Tower.

According to the rules, to prevent cheating by groups from the same force, each teleportation entrance could only transport a maximum of two people at a time, after which it had to pause for five minutes before resuming operation.

Long Aotian and Feng Zixian entering the Trial Tower hand-in-hand from the same teleportation entrance was within the rules. The Law Enforcement Officer of the assembly, who was maintaining order at the entrance, dared not say much to them.

Upon entering the first floor of the Trial Tower, Long Aotian and Feng Zixian were directly teleported to a battlefield. As soon as they appeared, two hundred Puppets of the first revolution stage of the Mahayana Realm attacked them.

Two hundred on the first floor, four hundred on the second floor... two thousand two hundred on the eleventh floor. Long Aotian and Feng Zixian swept through them, reaching the twelfth floor in less than fifteen minutes.

The twelfth floor, like the first, also had two hundred Puppets, but their strength was noticeably enhanced, equivalent to Cultivators at the second revolution stage of the Mahayana Realm. However, facing the two abnormal individuals, Long Aotian and Feng Zixian, they were still destined to be swept away.

Soon, Long Aotian and Feng Zixian reached the twenty-third floor, facing attacks from Puppets of the third revolution stage of the Mahayana Realm. Yet, they continued to sweep through them, breaking through with irresistible force.

Their combat scores were rapidly soaring at an incredible speed.

It is worth mentioning that during the process of clearing the levels, Long Aotian and Feng Zixian controlled the number of Puppets they killed to be the same on each floor, so their scores were almost always tied.

In less than a day, Long Aotian and Feng Zixian reached the seventy-eighth floor.

On this floor, they faced a furious assault from Puppets of the eighth revolution stage of the Mahayana Realm. For eleven consecutive floors, they encountered these Puppets. The first layer of these eighth revolution stage Mahayana Realm Puppets alone numbered twenty-two thousand two hundred, and even with their backs to each other, they couldn't help but feel their scalps tingle.

However, after adapting, Long Aotian felt more excitement.

“Xian’er, we can finally have a good fight!”

“Aotian Gege, do you also feel the pressure?”

“Heh heh, it's still early. For me, even facing Puppets at the Ninth Revolution Peak of the Mahayana Realm, I feel no pressure at all. I just feel that they are finally not so vulnerable.”

...“Alright, Xian’er vaguely feels a hint of pressure.”

“Heh heh, that's normal. You're only at the eighth revolution stage of the Mahayana Realm right now, just like them. Plus, there are tens of thousands of them. Facing tens of thousands of enemies at the same Realm as you will definitely be very stressful. But it doesn't matter, at worst, I'll cripple them all, and then you can kill them.”

“Hehe, it's so good to have Aotian Gege around! Aotian Gege, are we considered to be cheating?”

“Perhaps? But this is cheating within the rules. Others won't dare to say much, and I believe other forces will also have people cheating like us. We don't need to worry! Xian’er, your cultivation Realm hasn't improved any slower than mine. Take advantage of this opportunity in the Trial Tower to improve your combat experience, too, won't you?”

“Mhm!”

...Inside the Trial Tower, Mahayana Realm Cultivators participating in the heaven ruins millennium grand list of prodigies ranking were almost all engrossed in improving their combat experience and clearing higher levels. However, outside the Trial Tower, millions of Cultivators who had not entered to participate in the ranking competition were in an uproar.

One day later, the ranking list underwent astonishing changes:

First place: Cloud Palace Team, Long Aotian, score 56789.

Second place: Nine Heavens Immortal Palace Team, Feng Zixian, score 56788.

Third place: Cloud Palace Team, Ao Jingtain, score 36900.

Among the top three on the ranking list, not a single Disciple was from the six continental-level giant Immortal Cultivation forces.

The most conspicuous, without a doubt, was the Cloud Palace Team.

Long Aotian first, Ao Jingtain third, Long Bubai advanced to sixth, Long Wudi advanced to seventh, Hua Buwan advanced to ninth, Hua Buqi advanced to tenth, Huo Yaner advanced to eleventh, Si Nan advanced to twelfth, Long Shijie advanced to fifteenth, Wanjun advanced to nineteenth, Emperor Ye twentieth... Looking at the Cloud Palace Team's momentum, there was a strong possibility of them dominating the top ten of the ranking list. How could the other major giant Immortal Cultivation forces not be in an uproar?