The Final Ranking Contest

Shen Hui's ranking rose from the sixth stage to the seventh.

Those who had previously been challenging the fifth stage also began sprinting toward the sixth.

But not long after they began, another group of people was eliminated.

Fewer than a hundred people were still challenging.

After being eliminated, these people were also drawn to the large screen displaying the rankings.

When they saw Shen Hui's ranking, they were all astonished.

"Shen Hui is unbelievably fierce! He's already challenging the seventh stage."

"At this rate, won't he break the record for the ninth stage?"

"You're getting ahead of yourself. With each stage, the difficulty increases exponentially."

"Dozens of people have made it this far in the challenge this year. That's already much better than in previous years. I bet someone really can break the record."

"But I don't think that person will be Shen Hui."

Deep down, most people didn't want Shen Hui to take first place.

After all, he'd come from the same school as them, and his circumstances had even been worse than theirs.

Yet his strength far surpassed theirs, so naturally they felt a little resentful.

But that was only what they thought. The challenge was still underway.

In the seventh stage, powerful mages joined the attacking forces.

Their magical attacks were even more ferocious.

But they still couldn't kill Shen Hui's heroes.

Instead, Tomie's clones multiplied more and more.

In the end, the knights and mages were all engulfed and killed.

The challenge advanced to the eighth stage.

On top of the forces that had already appeared, paladins now joined them.

But to Shen Hui, it made no difference at all.

The other challengers also began attempting the seventh stage one after another.

But many more people were eliminated.

Only twenty-three people remained in the challenge.

Of those twenty-three people, apart from Shen Hui, Qingxue was the only one from a school.

Moreover, several people among them, including Ye Long, had been holding back their strength.

Their goal was to break the record, so they had needed to proceed carefully and conserve their strength in the early stages.

Now that they had reached the seventh stage, they thought they could give it everything.

They brought out their full strength, increasing their pace through the stages.

They soon advanced to the eighth stage as well.

The students and teachers watching in the plaza were all astonished.

"I knew it. How could the children raised by these powerful families be so slow? Look at their pace now-it's obvious they were holding back before."

"Looks like they're planning to sprint for the record."

"Finally, someone's in the same stage as Shen Hui!"

Everyone watching couldn't help having the same thought.

At last, there were opponents who could match Shen Hui.

Otherwise, with Shen Hui always in the lead, they'd gotten the false impression that he was so powerful he could crush everyone else.

With little pressure on him, Shen Hui smoothly cleared the eighth stage and reached the ninth.

"The ninth stage. I'm about to break the old record. I wonder how far the others have gotten."

Shen Hui had never expected to outperform everyone else, but there shouldn't be many people who had reached this stage.

Ye Long and the others, who were now using their full strength, soon followed Shen Hui into the ninth stage.

They all thought that perhaps they were the only ones still in the challenge.

Just watch me break the old record and amaze everyone!

Meanwhile, those who had just completed the seventh stage and were preparing to sprint through the eighth-

Without exception, they were all eliminated.

Now, including Shen Hui, only five people were still challenging.

Everyone stared intently at the ranking screen. They all had a feeling.

Today, they were going to witness the old challenge record being broken!

After Qingxue came out, she saw that everyone was focused on the big screen.

She immediately went over to check the rankings.

Only five people were still challenging, and all of them were taking on the ninth stage.

But when she saw a familiar name among them-Shen Hui-

Qingxue couldn't help opening her mouth. Then she covered it with a hand to hide her shock.

"Shen Hui is really this strong? He's still challenging, neck and neck with the others in the ninth stage."

Qingxue had instinctively thought Shen Hui would probably stop at the eighth stage, just like her.

She never expected him to make it to the ninth. He was far stronger than she'd imagined.

The five people still in the challenge had everyone's hearts in their mouths.

Soon, the rankings shifted again.

Shen Hui, Ye Long, and another person from the Xiao Family named Xiao Xiangyan advanced to the tenth stage, their rankings changing one after another.

The other two were eliminated.

In the conference room at the practical training base, the two people from the major families who had been eliminated were deeply frustrated.

They had been so close to reaching the tenth stage.

Even if they couldn't complete it, reaching that stage would have been an honor.

But the two challengers from the Ye Family and the Xiao Family who had made it through weren't particularly happy either.

After all, Shen Hui was still competing against them.

Chi Yan, however, watched Shen Hui's name with an interested expression.

In the trial, the tenth stage began.

The attacking forces weren't any stronger than before.

But there were many more of them, a full hundred.

They included paladins, archmages, and powerful mages.

In Ye Long and Xiao Xiangyan's worlds,

the creatures they had created were fighting the invaders.

Magic and energy raged wildly throughout their worlds.

Although they had already brought out their full strength, they had lost many creatures in the previous trials.

So this battle was extremely difficult.

If the powerful forces behind them hadn't supplied abundant resources to build better worlds and stronger creatures,

they would have been unable to hold on long ago.

But Shen Hui's world was completely different from theirs.

The knights all had terrified expressions as they cautiously walked through the withered forest.

Strange laughter rang out from all around them, and shadowy figures flitted past.

The moment one of the knights in the group let his guard down, a cold breeze swept past.

A knight vanished on the spot.

At the same time, a beautiful young girl appeared among them.

Some of the knights in the group went berserk.

Although they killed her without hesitation,

this was already the twelfth time they'd killed her.

This withered forest had become their nightmare.

In the world belonging to Xiao Xiangyan of the Xiao Family,

Xiao Xiangyan had created a world of demonic beasts. She watched her beasts die rapidly.

More than half of the attacking knights remained. If this continued,

all the creatures in her world would be killed.

That would damage the structure of her world's Origin.

If she could just get through this stage, she would break the old record.

Although Xiao Xiangyan was unwilling to give up, she had no choice. She chose to end the tenth-stage trial herself.

At the same time, she thought about the results she'd estimated for her opponents.

She figured only Ye Long of the Ye Family could rival her, which meant she would place at least second.

Thinking of this, Xiao Xiangyan felt a little more at ease. Second place wasn't bad, either.

However, when Xiao Xiangyan went out, she saw that no one was paying any attention to her.

She immediately looked at the big screen everyone was gathered around.

What she saw completely exceeded her expectations.

She was actually only in third place.

As expected, Ye Long was still challenging the trial, but there was also someone named Shen Hui on the screen.

He had taken the second place she'd held before!