"Get some rest. You must be exhausted," An Ning said softly.
"Thank you for understanding how exhausting it is for me to maneuver among all these factions and survive in the cracks," Li Tianming said.
An Ning rolled her eyes. "I meant how exhausting it is for you to be a master of time management, drifting between all those women!"
"...!"
Next.
Including the contestants' rest and recovery time, roughly half a year later, the round of sixteen to eight, along with the rankings from ninth to sixteenth place, was officially complete!
Taicang Shun and Princess Mo, who had suffered unexpected defeats this round, took ninth and tenth place respectively!
That also displayed the true worth of Divine Tomb's third seat and the second rank on the Ancient Ranking.
Ordinarily, a third-order Destiny Eonic God had an extremely high chance of reaching the top four, yet could only settle for ninth in the end. Even with three straight wins, it was still a tragedy.
Upon the banquet platform stood a tombstone-shaped stele, upon which the names ranked ninth through sixteenth had already been arranged!
Though they were not at the top of the rankings, being able to make this authoritative list in the Xuanting Imperial Ruins meant they stood at the pinnacle of cultivation, the accumulation of talent over countless generations!
Every one of them was a god in the eyes of ordinary people!
Other than Li Tianming and Zi Zhen within the top eight, everyone on this list starting from the bottom was a second-order Destiny Eonic God!
With ninth through sixteenth all ranked, the top-eight battles officially began.
That Left Tomb King was indeed swift and decisive, directly announcing the official start of the next round of top-eight battles.
On the battle sequence projection, only eight names and