Within the Ranking List, figures sat cross-legged in silence.
Suddenly, light flared around several of those nearest the ring, and they leaped up one after another!
Exactly four of them.
As though they had arranged it beforehand, they all chose this moment to strike.
Unseen calculations were at work.
Gao Bai was naturally one of them.
At the prompting of their Master’s Sect elders, he and his senior brother Jiao Tongzi had chosen this moment to act, confident of success. When the Kunlun disciples, including Xietongzi, suddenly sprang into action as well, he was not surprised.
If Chen Fangqing can't spare any attention, his incarnation in the Starweave Ranking won't be able to resist. This is the best time to challenge him...
As the thought crossed his mind, his heart gave a sudden jolt. Chen Cuo, seated within the ring, abruptly raised his head. Anger showed on his face, and a spark of fire rose in his eyes!
Something's wrong!
Gao Bai cried out inwardly. Fire suddenly kindled in his thoughts, and the Eight Sects' stray thoughts came howling from all sides, shaking his sliver of lucid awareness loose!
His head felt ready to split apart!
He lost control of his Incarnation in the Ranking List, and Chen Cuo swept him out of the ring once more!
Even Gao Bai's consciousness was about to be expelled from the Ranking List!
But at the last moment, he saw that the other three had been swept back as well!
Then fire blazed through his consciousness. Amid the chaos of stray thoughts, his mind returned to his body.
"Interesting."
Seeing his name fall back to the second rank on the Starweave Ranking, the scholar-robed Jiao Tongzi rubbed his brow.
A red dot marked the center of his forehead.
Beside him, Gray Pigeon fluttered