As time passed, the once-every-six-years Spiritual Academy Competition officially began.
Luo Li's strength had improved the fastest. She had now broken through the "Body Tribulation," and her cultivation had reached the second level of the Three Tribulations of the Sovereign—the "Spirit Energy Tribulation."
Tang Qian'er, Red Ling, Wu Yao, Su Youwei, Ye Sun'er, Ye Qingling, Su Xuan, and Su Ling'er had all raised their strength to the "Body Tribulation" of the Three Tribulations of the Sovereign.
As for Li Xuantong and Shen Cangsheng, the former first- and second-ranked members of the Heaven Ranking, they had now been completely pushed out of the top ten.
Shen Cangsheng could originally have held onto tenth place, but Zhou Yuan, that shameless dark horse, had made a breakthrough in the Ancestor Dragon Scripture, directly raising his cultivation to the peak of the Heaven Piercing Realm.
That had forcibly squeezed him out of tenth place.
However, the most pitiful one was their Child of Destiny, Mu Chen. Although he could now defeat Li Xuantong, he was still no match for Shen Cangsheng.
He could only settle for twelfth place on the Heaven Ranking.
Perhaps it was because Luo Li and the other girls had aggressively monopolized the top nine spots on the Heaven Ranking that every student in Northern Spiritual Academy had been driven to cultivate relentlessly.
Most of them were senior students who had attended the academy for several years, yet when they watched their junior brothers and sisters enter the half-step Supreme Realm one after another, the overwhelming sense of defeat made it impossible for them to stop cultivating.
After all, this was just too damn discouraging.
Inside Fu Ye's courtyard, he was reclining comfortably in a lounge chair, basking in the sun.
Little Nine Nether lay motionlessly atop him with a weary