Red Rankings Update, Top 50 in the City (Please Follow Along)

[Yang Jian, congratulations on your victory. You have successfully passed the Advancement Match!]

[Points +3]

[Congratulations, you have successfully advanced to Star Rank]

[Total Points: 151]

[Ranking (Chiqiong Martial Arts Gym): 9]

Lin Qi stood in his Personal Space, his expression calm as he let out a breath.

"After nearly a month of hard work, I finally advanced to Star Rank today."

"The 500,000 Xia Guo Bi reward is mine too."

The corners of Lin Qi's lips rose slightly. Five hundred thousand Xia Guo Bi was an indispensable fortune to him.

After collecting himself, he thought of Wu Feng from earlier.

Whether it was Lü Xiang or Wu Feng, they truly deserved to be called geniuses of No. 1 High School's Elite Class. Both were incredibly strong.

Wu Feng in particular—his saber technique was already very close to the Second Order, and he had even learned the first Killing Move.

If his Killing Move had not still been unpolished, allowing Lin Qi to seize an opening and kill him with a single spear thrust, defeating him would not have been so easy.

"I'm still not strong enough. I need to keep honing my Spear Technique."

Lin Qi thought to himself.

Finally, he looked at the ranking section, especially the number 9.

"The Red Rankings are calculated based on a combination of win rate and number of matches."

"Being ranked ninth on the Red Rankings means I'm ninth within the range of Chiqiong Martial Arts Gym."

Lin Qi pondered this, but the ninth-place ranking was not very meaningful. Chiqiong Martial Arts Gym's range was still too small. If the scope expanded to all of Tianhai City, his ranking would probably plummet.

"There's still time. I can keep matching."

After checking the time, Lin Qi chose to continue matching.

One hour later

[Yang Jian, unfortunately, you have died!]

[Rank: Xingchen]

[Win Rate: 93%]

[Points: 160]

[Ranking: 9]

[Through battle with a powerful opponent, your proficiency in Mountain Shattering Spear Technique has improved. Spear Technique +1%]

[Through battle with a powerful opponent, your proficiency in Movement Technique has improved. Movement Technique +1%]

[Spear Technique: First Order 92% → 93%]

[Movement Technique: First Order 87% → 88%]

Lin Qi quietly looked over his personal information.

"I matched for two hours. Ever since winning the Advancement Match and reaching Star Rank..."

"There haven't been many weak opponents. Every victory was far too close."

"The last person I matched against was simply too strong. I couldn't beat him."

"My Spear Technique and Movement Technique improved, but several consecutive high-quality battles only raised them by 1%. Breaking through to the Second Order won't be easy."

Lin Qi thought to himself before finally choosing to exit the Red Realm.

"Buzz!"

"Qi Ge, you're out!"

Jiang Tao's voice rang out beside him.

"Tao Zi, you came out this early?"

Lin Qi looked at Jiang Tao, who was standing beside a Virtual Cabin and drinking a beverage, then asked curiously.

"I only came out a little while ago. By the way, Qi Ge, you advanced to Star Rank too, right?" Jiang Tao asked.

"Of course!" Lin Qi laughed.

"Me too!"

After exchanging smiles and bumping fists, Lin Qi took a Spirit Refreshing Potion from his backpack and drank it.

He gave up his spot for someone else, then went with Jiang Tao to find Guo Heng.

In one corner of the Virtual Room were quite a few seats, with many people gathered together to rest and chat.

Guo Heng sat among them, along with three of his friends.

Two of them were acquaintances of Lin Qi's.

"Wu Feng, you lost to that Yang Jian too?" Guo Heng mocked him without restraint.

Wu Feng sat there gloomily, drinking Milk Tea. Unwilling to accept it, he said, "I was careless. If I run into him again, I'll definitely win."

Qiu Si Ying covered her mouth and laughed. "Lü Xiang said the same thing, and he still lost."

Lü Xiang's face darkened when he heard that.

"I think he's really strong. Look, he's already entered the Red Rankings at ninth place."

When Guo Heng saw Lin Qi and Jiang Tao, he handed them each a cup of Milk Tea before looking at the Red Rankings with them.

Lin Qi accepted the Milk Tea with practiced ease. This had happened several times already. Guo Heng paid every time, and he had gotten used to it.

He also looked toward the Red Rankings on the Big Screen.

First place was still [Battle Axe Bear] Li Zhou. Second was [General Guo, Blade Ready] Guo Heng. Third was [Ten Thousand Swords].

The top three had not changed, but his name had appeared in ninth place.

"This Yang Jian is very strong. He has exceptional Combat Talent. Even if his realm is a little lower, it doesn't affect him much."

"His Spear Technique is excellent. He's more proficient than I am with the Killing Move of Mountain Shattering Spear Technique."

Wu Feng looked at his own twelfth-place ranking and spoke seriously.

"Spear Technique, Mountain Shattering Spear Technique?"

Jiang Tao froze upon hearing that. It sounded so familiar. He immediately looked at Lin Qi.

Qi Ge seems to practice Mountain Shattering Spear Technique too.

Could Qi Ge be Yang Jian?

He had never asked Lin Qi for his nickname because he knew him well. If Lin Qi did not want to say it, he would not.

So he buried the thought and decided to observe a little longer.

"It changed!"

Lü Xiang suddenly said.

"Beep!"

The Big Screen suddenly went black and restarted.

When it came back on, the entire Ranking List had undergone enormous changes.

Every ranking on the Red Rankings had been updated, and all the familiar nicknames had disappeared.

Everyone looked over and found that the top three had changed as well.

[Red Rankings (Tianhai City)]

[First Place: Wind God, Rank: Xingchen]

[Second Place: Li Ke, Rank: Xingchen]

[Third Place: Great Sound is Silence, Rank: Xingchen]

"The Red Rankings have updated!"

Countless people looked toward the Big Screen and checked the rankings.

"This Ranking List really covers every Virtual Cabin IP in Tianhai City this time."

"The current Red Rankings have counted all the geniuses in Tianhai City." Someone said this, and the nearby people nodded in agreement.

"The Red Rankings updated, and my ranking dropped like a rock. I fell from thirty-ninth to two hundred eighty-ninth!" someone wailed.

"Mine dropped too. Why did so many people suddenly appear who are stronger than me?"

"A Heng, you dropped from second place to thirteenth," Qiu Si Ying suddenly said.

"It's normal to fall. Every genius in Tianhai City has been counted in now, with almost no one missed," Guo Heng said, shaking his head.

Lin Qi also saw his ranking drop by a huge margin, all the way to fiftieth place.

His overall ranking in Tianhai was 288th, but in the Red Realm, relying purely on his Martial Arts Skill, he had entered the Top 50.

"Looks like my blood vitality score is still holding me back."

Lin Qi summed up the reason in his heart.

"Previously, only fifteen people on the Red Rankings had advanced to Star Rank. But now that all of Tianhai has been counted—the three top Martial Arts Halls of Chiqiong, Chongming, and Heiyao, all the other large and small Martial Arts Halls, as well as personal IPs..."

"There are actually ninety-eight Star Rank martial artists. After midnight, there should be more than a hundred Star Rank martial artists," Jiang Tao said with a sigh.

He had originally been ranked eighth, but now he had fallen to thirty-eighth. There were thirty-seven people ahead of him who were stronger.

"Doesn't the current points leader look familiar? Could it be Wang Qiu Feng?"

Lü Xiang suddenly asked.

"It should be him. His nickname is Wind God, and he was also first in the entire city in the Tianhai Monthly Exam. He deserves first place on the Red Rankings. In Tianhai City, he's the strongest," Qiu Si Ying said admiringly.

"Wang Qiu Feng... I can't beat him." Guo Heng nodded in acknowledgment.

"Wang Qiu Feng really is strong. Right after I advanced to Star Rank, I matched against Wind God. He killed me in one slash."

"We had the same blood vitality score, yet I couldn't even see through his saber technique. The gap was too huge." Wu Feng sighed.

Lin Qi listened from the side, deeply shaken. He understood Wu Feng's strength all too well. Even he had only narrowly beaten him.

Yet someone as strong as Wu Feng had been instantly killed. If Lin Qi faced him instead, would he not be killed in an instant as well?

The gap was too great!

"My Template's talent has only just begun to show its power. Sooner or later, I'll become number one in Tianhai City too."

Lin Qi quietly set a goal for himself. Drinking his Milk Tea, he prepared to go home and looked forward to the 500,000 Xia Guo Bi reward arriving tomorrow.