"A variable?"
Xu Taiping glanced at Yan Xuanling beside him, then shook his head and said:
"Even if we can't take first place, if we take second or third, we can still try asking the Flame Emperor Treasury for a fragment of the White Jade Golden Bridge."
Although he now had the Sky Demon Token, which let him enter and leave the Lower Realm at will, he still needed the White Jade Golden Bridge fragment Senior Blade Ghost had mentioned to enter the Taixuan Ghost Domain.
Boom!!
Just then, the Demon-Slaying Tokens at the waists of Xu Taiping, Lin Buyu beside him, Xiao Huang, and the others suddenly lit up in unison.
Immediately afterward, the Demon-Slaying Ranking hanging down from the sky ahead suddenly blazed with light once more.
At the same time, Xu Taiping's name and those of the others lit up one after another.
The points beside their names kept increasing as well.
Suddenly, as the points beside Xiao Huang's name leaped by a full fifty thousand, cries of astonishment erupted from the cultivators watching on the Demon-Slaying Platform:
"Fifty thousand points?! What did Xiao Huang do?!"
"His points have overtaken Xu Taiping's!"
"That Heavenly Genius of the Ziyang Sect really does hide his depths!"
In an instant, Xiao Huang's points rose to one hundred and fifty-three thousand, surpassing Xu Taiping's one hundred and forty thousand and carrying him straight into first place.
Beside them, Xiao Huang let out a long breath and said:
"Risking my life on that final gamble over the last three days finally paid off somewhat."
Although Xiao Huang spoke lightly, it was not hard to tell from those few words that he must have challenged multiple upper-grade Fourth Stage demonic beasts to improve his final ranking.
An inexplicable solemn respect rose in Xu