Time flowed on.
Besides keeping an eye on their own rankings, the greatest pleasure of the demon hunters participating in the Seven-Ring Holy Tower Rankings was gathering intelligence to exchange and compare, pinpointing one another, trying to make a name for themselves and earn demon hunter titles, and speculating over the respective strength and rankings of the top three.
Now, with only one month remaining before the Seven-Ring Holy Tower Rankings ended, it was no longer possible for Green's third challenger to appear.
The reason was simple. Yazhi and the demon-hunting wizard challenger ranked third on the Seven-Ring Holy Tower Rankings had been "fiercely battling" within a world fragment for several years, yet no victor had been decided!
Even if this demon hunter challenging Yazhi won and claimed second place, there would be no chance of waiting for the two subsequent third-ranked demon hunters to each accumulate three victories, challenge her, gather three chances to win, and then challenge Green.
The many Demon Hunters ranked from fourth to one hundredth were anxious and furious!
The demon-hunting wizard ranked third had entered the world fragment years ago. The fierce struggle that should have begun during the final years of the Seven-Ring Holy Tower Rankings' century-long cycle had instead turned into this: an endless contest between third and second place.
At the top of the Tree of Life, Green naturally knew all this, but he paid it little attention.
It seemed Yazhi was at a disadvantage. She could not defeat her opponent, yet her opponent could not track down Yazhi and defeat her as easily as Green could. That was how the battle had evolved into this extraordinarily prolonged war of endurance.
Neither side could afford to lose!
Now, unfamiliar wizards had begun frequently visiting Green's Demon Hunter Castle.
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