For a long time, challenging newcomers had been a source of amusement for many people in True King City, because such opportunities were hard to come by. Even in a hundred years, only a few newcomers might join.
Not only could they enjoy the thrill of winning a match, but they could also earn Experience Points. Why not?
Of course, not every newcomer lost every match. Some capable newcomers could also win when they encountered opponents they happened to counter, but the odds were very low. Moreover, challengers who lost would be mocked by others for a long time.
But newcomers like Gu Ding, who rose to prominence so forcefully in newcomer matches, were few and far between in all of True King Hall. True King Hall selected its members from countless Main Planes, yet throughout the thousands of epochs since its founding, there had only been around a dozen people who displayed terrifying Combat Strength in newcomer matches. Of those, only five had achieved a hundred consecutive victories. Gu Ding was the sixth.
The last time such a newcomer had appeared was sixteen epochs ago, so long ago that many people had forgotten it had ever happened.
Gu Ding's powerful rise finally brought many of True King Hall's old-timers' memories back to sixteen epochs ago. They had witnessed that scene with their own eyes, and it was so similar to the scene Gu Ding was creating now.
As a philosopher once said, history was always astonishingly similar.
Gu Ding's hundred consecutive victories drew the attention of quite a few True King Hall High-level members. It also made many people who had submitted challenge requests start to panic, worried that they would become Gu Ding's next stepping stone.
But a hundred consecutive victories were far from his endpoint, and many