
After Arman left, Sam came out to look at the ranking list.
Of the five people on the top list, he knew three of them. Arthur first, Nicholas second and Arman in third.
He is surprised that Arthur can stay in the first place with Nicholas. After all, Nicholas is a warlike man, a madman. He'll definitely beat Arthur.
As for Arman's rank, he had doubts. Because, from what he heard from the people around him, the fight was not even as exciting and as great as they thought.
Arman admitted defeat after five minutes as if he was exhausted.
As far as Sam could think, Arman would probably just let it go and not want any attention.
As for Arthur who occupies the first position, it is said that Nicholas did not get a chance to fight him because he was in the western continent all this time.
And even after he came back, he was nowhere to be seen.
Nicholas was waiting for him to return.
Right now, if Sam wanted to participate and gain a position in the first team, he would have to fight at least over thirty duels. He didn't need to get first place and as long as he was in fifth place that would make him qualify was enough for him.
He did not wait for anything and started to record the names of the people he had to challenge.
But before that, he had to finish the fight with a rank of 325 and occupy his place.
Fortunately all the candidates were at the early stages of great natural cultivation and the last ten ranks were even great natural cultivators.
So, this is gonna be easy.
The first duel ended as soon as he challenged because the person was a peak state cultivator of the Great Realm.
As soon as he sensed Sam's cultivation, he simply gave up.
The next person, whom he challenged was a rank 315 person.
Next one, 305.
Since there was still three months to go, he did not hurry and finished it with three games per day.
He did not want to attract too much attention because he was not prepared to deal with the six major powers. According to his original plan, he would stay in the western continent, keep an eye on the money he made and do more research to become stronger for a while, at least the heritage palace.
Then only he would set his sights on the rest of the world to explore it. But now, he was forced to come here because of Watt's situation. That's why he thought it would be better if they were humble.
It was also one of the reasons he wanted Jack and Philip to be eliminated from the competition.
Since they are famous as a team, they will attract more attention if they are too intelligent and outstanding.
It would be best if they did not join the reserve team as well. In the end, he had no right to stop them and force them to act against their will.
So, the trio is set on challenging people. But unlike Sam who does three challenges in a day, both are much simpler.
They decided to fight the challenge every two days.
They would be in the top ten if they won each challenge for approximately sixty days.
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Time pass. As much as Sam wanted to remain humble, it was impossible to get out of the limelight when he was raising thirty ranks every day.
But it was of no use when Philip and Jack escaped the spotlight.
Compared to Sam, their ten rank increments every two days were not that attractive. Sam was relieved because this was one of the results he hoped to achieve.
Although this might look like he underestimated their talent, but that talent was a double-edged sword. This is useful because it will give a person more opportunities, but it will also deal a definite blow to them because humans are a jealous species.
He believed that no other being in this universe or any other universe was more jealous and greedy than a human.
Right now, they were walking in the territory of the Giant and they did not have any protection, He knew more than anyone that the thunder god temple, was, will not close the eyelids to sell them if they get enough benefit.
Philip and Jack are not ready for it at the moment, both physically and mentally.
Sam reached fifth place and only retained his position. Philip and Jack got ninth and tenth place. Their only goal here was to watch the seniors battle to learn something from him.
That day, they were escorted to the space gate island.
Nicholas was still in second place because he didn't get a chance to fight Arthur, because, for that reason, Arthur was on a special mission given by the higher-ups, but there were rumors that the higher-ups did not.let them fight so that the leadership of the team did not fall into the hands of a disciple who was not a descendant of the thunder god temple.
They might even let Arman take this, but Nicholas was an outsider who came from the western continent.
Sam could really understand this and there was a high chance that this was true.
But what he is most interested in is, from what he knows, Nicholas will be the last person interested in position, fame, and status. He wondered how these higher-ups would think, that the place they guarded with honor online, was worthless in the eyes of a green youth.
There is a very complicated space gate in a safe island location.
Sam looked at the other two teams. Currently, he was in the category of cultivators under thirty years old.
Sam was only nineteen years old, while Jack and Philip were twenty years old, but their cultivation was high for their age and could only be satisfied in the under thirty age category.
As for the remaining two teams, the teams under twenty were nothing special as their competition did not affect the distribution of resources as a whole.
At most, they were only here to broaden their horizons.
The last team is the under-fifty category. Moriya.
He was the best Nascent stage cultivator of the thunder god temple. He was calm as usual.
Sam observed the Nascent stage cultivators and could feel their fierce battle spirit.
They emitted an aura that was filled with the smell of blood.
One glance and he could tell that they had gone through all kinds of difficult battles.
Only Nascent stage cultivators were known to Sam, who could be compared to them were the Six swords of the Marshall sword from Orion before.
They had the same kind of aura that these people had.
After everyone had gathered, the temple chief came and took them to the outer space gate.
After the transfer, they arrived at a large stone building.
"You guys, stay here. Moriya will lead you when the time comes."
The Temple Head said those words and left. Moriya guided them out of the stone building.
When they came out, there was a vast expanse of forest.
The stone building is not too big. It's as big as a one-bedroom apartment in the modern world and there are only two rooms, one of which is a space gate and the other is just a meeting room that's almost like a mini auditorium.
"Recover as soon as possible. There's not much to talk about. Don't expect a grand ceremony or anything like that. There would be no such superficial things here.
Everything will be straight forward and all you have to do is fight when asked. The team with the first rank will get some useful rewards for your cultivation.
There were almost no restrictions in the fight except for weapons, inscription scrolls, and formation discs.
You cannot use a weapon ranked higher than your cultivation level.
You can kill your opponent if you want. The only way the fight will end is one of two fainting, one of two dead, or one of two surrendering."
Moriya explained the rules.
Sam was delighted when he heard that there was no ceremony.
Just as Moriya was about to explain the remaining rules, his expression changed and began to lead them somewhere.
"Follow me."