Although warriors were eliminated from the Sacred Hall every year, the overall number continued to grow.
Over these past several decades, compared to when Chen Fan had first entered the Sacred Hall, their numbers had more than doubled.
The proportion of experts had also steadily risen, and thus the number of people in each major sequence had increased as well.
At this moment, the First Sequence had gained another dozen or so members.
It had gone from thirty-three people to fifty-one!
Originally, only three people could be demoted each year. Now, that number had become five.
Although the number of slots had increased, the difficulty of advancing into the First Sequence had not decreased.
Among these fifty-one people, aside from the three predetermined slots from each decade's Plum Gathering, the weakest among the rest was still on the eighth floor of the Sky-Reaching Tower!
Of course, Chen Fan, who had long since cleared the ninth-floor tower, had no need to worry about being eliminated.
Thus, during this period, he had not wasted time taking minor examinations or challenging the Sky-Reaching Tower again.
Over these past decades, quite a few new names had also appeared on the Sky-Reaching Tower.
Some of Chen Fan's old acquaintances had made considerable progress as well.
Worth mentioning was that Fish Tiger had once again fought his way onto the eighth floor of the Sky-Reaching Tower and had firmly secured his position in the First Sequence.
As for Wisdom, he was even more outrageous. After Chen Fan, he had become the first person from their batch of the Plum Gathering to clear the tenth floor of the Sky-Reaching Tower.
However, he was the reincarnation of an immortal. Such progress was only natural.
Other than those two, none of the other geniuses from Chen Fan's own Plum