Time flew by.
Unconsciously, Jiang Yuan had joined the Martial Arts Alliance for a month.
During this month, Jiang Yuan still hadn’t given up on seeking death, searching every day for demonic beasts that could kill him.
However, no matter how powerful the demonic beasts were, they couldn’t harm him in the slightest.
He simply stood still which caused those attacking demonic beasts to inexplicably rebound and die.
He only wanted to seek death but accidentally resolved several disasters.
However, the credit for resolving these disasters was all attributed to Shura II.
Jiang Yuan didn’t care about this. He was only interested in finding demonic beasts that could kill him and had no interest in rankings.
“At this rate, I don’t know when I’ll encounter demonic beasts that can kill me,” Jiang Yuan lazily reclined in his chair, saying dispiritedly.
Shen Hanbing thought for a moment before saying to Jiang Yuan, “Master, with your defensive strength, it’s indeed a bit difficult to find demonic beasts in Zhongzhou that can kill you.”
“After all, the branches of the Martial Arts Alliance in Zhongzhou are only responsible for dealing with disasters of the Yellow and Profound levels.”
“As for disasters above the Profound level, they are directly handled by the headquarters of the Martial Arts Alliance.”
“Obviously, Profound-level disasters cannot threaten you so I suggest you enter the headquarters of the Martial Arts Alliance, where you can only receive tasks for Earth-level disasters.”
In fact, since the last time she sparred with Jiang Yuan, Shen Hanbing had seen through Jiang Yuan’s strength.
With just a gust of fist wind, he could break through continuous mountains.
What kind of creature in this world could possess such formidable strength?
Undoubtedly, none!
In Shen Hanbing’s current perception, Jiang Yuan was an absolutely invincible existence.
Not to mention Earth-level disasters, even if it was a disaster above the Heaven level, it couldn’t harm Jiang Yuan in the slightest.
She suggested Jiang Yuan go to the headquarters of the Martial Arts Alliance to inspire him so that Jiang Yuan would have a goal to strive for and wouldn’t be so bored.
“Where is the headquarters of the Martial Arts Alliance?” Jiang Yuan asked expressionlessly.
Shen Hanbing immediately replied, “It’s in the royal city of the Southern Xia Kingdom. But to enter the headquarters, you need to first enter the Earth Ranking of the branch. Master, you’re currently in the People Ranking, so you still need to step by step.”
“Oh? Is it that troublesome?” Jiang Yuan suddenly felt disheartened.
Shen Hanbing encouraged him and said, “For ordinary martial artists, it’s more than just troublesome. It’s almost impossible. But for you Master, it’s as simple as drinking water.”
After a brief pause, Shen Hanbing began to explain, “Every month, there’s a ranking battle for the People Ranking.”
“As long as you can achieve good results in the ranking battle, you can quickly improve your ranking in the People Ranking.”
“With your strength, as long as you participate in the ranking battle, you can directly achieve first place in the People Ranking.”
“After becoming first in the People Ranking, you’ll have the qualification to challenge members of the Earth Ranking. As long as you defeat any Earth Ranking member at random, you can directly ascend to the Earth Ranking.”
“As long as you enter the Earth Ranking and perform well there, you’ll have the opportunity to ascend to the Heaven Ranking. After ascending to the Heaven Ranking, you’ll automatically enter the headquarters.”
“Can’t I directly challenge Heaven Ranking martial artists?” Jiang Yuan complained.
Shen Hanbing shook her head, “This is a rule of the Martial Arts Alliance, and so far, no one has been able to break it.”
Seeing Jiang Yuan didn’t speak, Shen Hanbing continued, “Tomorrow is this month’s ranking battle for the People Ranking. If you can achieve first place in the People Ranking tomorrow, you can challenge Earth Ranking members the day after tomorrow and enter the Earth Ranking.”
“Alright, anyway, it’s boring to do nothing,” Jiang Yuan said with a yawn.
*
The next morning.
Led by Shen Hanbing, Jiang Yuan arrived at the venue for the People Ranking battle.
The assessment venue for the ranking battle was located in the back mountain of the branch of the Martial Arts Alliance.
There was a spacious open space here with a tower over ten meters high standing on it.
This tower was the Point Tower used in the ranking battle of the People Ranking.
Like the Trial Tower, the Point Tower also belonged to the Illusionary Array Tower and could conjure up illusory enemies.
The difference between the two was that the Trial Tower had no scores and was based on the speed of passing through, while the Point Tower had scores and was based on score data.
The specific ranking of the thousands of members on the People Ranking was determined based on their performance in the score tower.
After Jiang Yuan arrived at the scene of the ranking battle, hundreds of people had already gathered there.
According to Shen Hanbing’s introduction, many martial artists on the People Ranking came here to participate in the ranking battle every month.
Because their ranking on the People Ranking will affect the amount of resources they can receive each month.
Of course, those with higher rankings won’t easily participate.
Because for those with higher rankings, the increase in rank is minimal. From twentieth place to tenth place, it’s as difficult as climbing to the sky so there’s no need for them to participate in the ranking battle.
Therefore, most of the participants in the ranking battle are ranked beyond three hundred.
There are only a few people present who are ranked in the top three hundred.
Those seniors with higher rankings all display an arrogant attitude, completely disregarding those with lower rankings.
Some even directly mock them.
“The People Ranking is getting more and more mediocre. Anyone and everyone can get in!”
“Yeah, even trash at the peak of the Condensation Realm can squeeze in!”
“In our time, even the last place on the People Ranking had cultivation at the peak of the Triple Condensation Realm!”
“It’s really one generation worse than the next, sigh… the sorrow of the country!”
Hearing the mockery from those seniors, the martial artists with lower rankings all had gloomy expressions, but none of them stood up to refute.
Because what those seniors said was true. These martial artists who entered the People Ranking later indeed didn’t have the same quality as those seniors back then.
If it weren’t for the large-scale outbreak of Profound-level disasters in Zhongzhou ten years ago, which resulted in the sacrifice of more than half of the martial artists on the People Ranking, they wouldn’t have had the chance to enter the People Ranking.
Profound-level disasters occurred in Zhongzhou almost every year, but it was only a few times at most, and the most frequent occurrences wouldn’t exceed a dozen times.
However, ten years ago, for some unknown reason, there were over a hundred Profound-level disasters that year!
Because there were too many Profound-level disasters which caused the Earth Ranking martial artists to be completely overwhelmed, they had no choice but to let a large number of People Ranking martial artists assist the Earth Ranking martial artists in resolving the Profound-level disasters.
It was also because of this reason that over half of the People Ranking martial artists sacrificed themselves.
So that year was referred to as the “Year of Magic” by people. It was also seen as a watershed for the transition of martial artists on the People Ranking.
Before that year, martial artists who joined the Martial Arts Alliance had all experienced the “Year of Magic”.
And after that year, martial artists who joined the Martial Arts Alliance were seen as newcomers by the seniors.
Perhaps it was because of experiencing the “Year of Magic” that the seniors all had something to boast about, or perhaps it was because the newcomers’ strength was insufficient so most seniors looked down on them.
It was precisely because of this that scenes of seniors mocking newcomers occurred.
