Three days passed in the blink of an eye, and the day the final Cloud Ascension Rankings were released finally arrived. Early that morning, the Violet Sun Gate party left their lodgings and headed for the Stele Tower where the rankings were posted.
Even Qi Xuancheng and Zhang Hanzhou, who had already been eliminated, rose bright and early.
By the time they reached the Stele Tower, a sea of heads already crowded the place, inside and out. Names covered the towering stele.
With so many contestants eliminated, the Cloud Ascension Rankings had changed dramatically, and many people's positions had shifted.
"Junior Brother Li, you're thirty-first on the Cloud Ascension Rankings now!" Qi Xuancheng called out.
The first name he spotted was Li Chuyang, who had shot straight up from eighty-fifth to thirty-first.
"Thirty-first. That's a pretty good ranking."
Li Chuyang smiled, quite satisfied with his placement. Previously, he had devoted all his energy to cultivating the Li Family's Three Yin Silver Palace Profound Astral True Art, which had slowed his progress considerably and left his ranking woefully out of step with his talent. Now, that had finally been corrected.
Thirty-first among the younger generation of Cloud Province-if that did not make him a dragon or phoenix among men, it came close. At the very least, his ranking was not much lower than his father Li Lingdu's had been when he underwent his Second Dragon Ascension.
Before long, however, Li Yunzhou could no longer smile, because he saw that Jiang Fan had once again surpassed him, placing twenty-second.
Xu Yang had also surpassed him, placing twenty-sixth.
Both men he was at odds with ranked above him. How could he possibly be happy?
"Hahaha... excellent! Heaven has blessed our Violet Sun Gate!" Bai Shaoling and Yue Zhong could not help laughing aloud.