Before entering the True King Hall's system city, Gu Ding had never imagined that he could still increase his strength at his current cultivation level.
He had originally planned to advance directly to the Main God level, but that plan was temporarily put on hold. Still, delaying his advancement to Main God by a month made him worry that Sea Emperor and the others might not be able to hold on.
After logging out of the True King Hall system, Gu Ding returned to the spaceship. He had been about to discuss the matter with Sea Emperor when he unexpectedly discovered that less than two hours had passed on his wristwatch. He carefully checked the date; it was not the next day. Yet he clearly remembered spending nearly eighteen hours in the True King Hall's system city.
"The flow of time in that city is ten times faster than in reality?!" Gu Ding suddenly realized. "That means spending thirty days there would only take three days in reality."
Once he confirmed this, Gu Ding knew there was no need to discuss it with Sea Emperor. He left Sea Emperor a message saying that he would be gone for three days, then plunged back into the system.
Returning to the system city constructed by True King Hall, Gu Ding began arranging his challenge times. With ordinary challenge letters, the challenged party had priority in choosing the time of the challenge.
By now, the number of challengers had increased to nearly six hundred. In other words, over the next thirty days, Gu Ding would have to accept at least twenty challenges every day—provided the number of challengers did not continue to rise.
Gu Ding used the system to set a sorting rule, arranging the challengers from worst to best based on their