Jiang Cheng had no interest in slowly revealing his trump card and then fighting for three days and nights.

He always preferred to stack all the buffs and use his ultimate technique right away.

Since he couldn't defeat the opponent quickly and couldn't die anyway, he might as well use a critical strike.

One critical strike, instant kill, saving time and effort.

As he won, one of the three blue flags opposite the dueling platform slowly disappeared.

This indicated that the opponent had lost a round.

Jiang Cheng was transmitted back to his ascension platform.

The experts from Zhanxiao City were in pandemonium.

They had participated in many ascension battles and had seen both wins and losses.

But the City Lord being killed caught them unprepared.

After all, if you couldn't win, you could always escape back.

A dignified Profound Immortal wasn't that easy to kill anyway.

As long as you could escape back to the ascension platform, it would be counted as a loss, and the battle would end.

And under the constraints of the game's rules, the opponent couldn't pursue them.

So you could generally keep your life.

But who could have thought that Jiang Cheng would kill the City Lord with one strike, leaving no chance to escape...

Especially since Brother Cheng was quite meticulous in his actions.

Others might have just won and stopped at that, but he took the opportunity during the few seconds of battle settlement to scavenge the spoils.

With the City Lord dead, Zhanxiao City was left leaderless!

This made things very troublesome.

The other side was in chaos; some even lost their fighting spirit on the spot.

Some showed fear in their eyes.

They finally understood why the opponent's City Lord was so confident, daring to challenge with 2 wins against 4 wins.

If he could instant kill a Profound Immortal, could he be a Golden Immortal?

"Calm down, everyone!"

"The next round is ours to watch, this person cannot act!"

"Right, there's nothing to fear anymore!"

According to the rules, the second round was a massive group battle involving 29,999 people.

In the past, the Immortal Martial Army of Dingtian City handled these matters.

And the City Lord who fought in the first round couldn't fight in the second round.

"But he's so strong, how could he not have powerful subordinates?"

"His subordinates might be lying in wait…"

"What to do, I don't want to die."

For a moment, some were full of fighting spirit, while others were worried, suspecting Brother Cheng had a large number of experts waiting.

The black jade dueling platform quietly vanished, replaced by a valley.

Tall mountains surrounded the area, with steep cliffs, towering and inaccessible.

The valley was filled with rubble and boulders, vast and boundless.

Though such terrain wouldn't mean much to Immortals, it was merely a setting for the scene.

The 29,999 people on the opposite side entered the field, carrying mixed feelings.

Preparation for the second round commenced.

Brother Cheng planned to fly in but found he couldn't get in.

It was as if an invisible barrier blocked him in the void, preventing him from entering the battle.

Recalling the words of the group on the other side, he was speechless.

Was it possible?

He couldn't fight in the second round?

Instead, he had to send his subordinates into group combat?

What's the point in fighting like this?

He couldn't possibly call out all the Golden Dragon King and others from the ascension platform.

And call upon disciples like Lan Ti and Ji Linghan too?

Summon them to die?

The opposing side was all Immortals, while more than ninety percent of his side hadn't become Immortals yet.

There are limits to challenging across levels.

Without Sect Leader Jiang intervening personally, it was impossible to win.

He didn't want to send anyone to die, so he sat in place waiting for the countdown to end.

After all, there wouldn't only be two rounds.

The group opposite was quite anxious.

The atmosphere was tense and oppressive as they awaited the battle, with three Profound Immortals urgently arranging combat formations.

Nearly thirty thousand immortals quickly got into position.

Each person summoned their own weapon or magical treasure, hiding within the mountains according to assigned duties.

As the great array formed, the entire valley darkened quietly, fogs swirled, and it became a killing field.

Then, they waited for the massive army from Dingtian City to be in position.

The first battle had been so disastrous; the second was bound to be perilous, and they dared not be careless.

However, after waiting for a while, there was no movement from the other side.

After waiting longer, there was still no one from the other side.

There was no sign of the army entering the arena.

The people from Zhanxiao City were puzzled, what was going on?

Could it be the opponent really had only a City Lord alone, with no others?

No way?

Could this be the case?

They had fought many ascension battles, and the second round was always the most lively and intense.

After all, both sides together involved nearly 60,000 people in a chaotic melee.

This round was extremely important; various City Lords recruited experts to win in this melee.

They encountered opponents with incomplete numbers before, with the fewest being just 10 people.

That was a battle decades ago when they were challenged by a powerful Immortal City.

The opponent had just one Golden Immortal and thirty-one Profound Immortals, and in the second round, only 10 Profound Immortals fought; the rest didn't bother.

On that occasion, their City Lord and General wisely chose to concede.

Today, that city ranks among the top hundred and is often talked about by them.

It's as if having fought against such a renowned top-ranking Immortal City was a sort of honor.

But they'd never encountered a situation where the opponent didn't dispatch anyone in the second round, never even heard of it.

How could this happen?

Wouldn't that be considered giving up?

As time passed, the second round indeed exhausted the countdown.

Since Dingtian City didn't send anyone to fight, it was considered a forfeit.

Thus, the second round was ruled a win for Zhanxiao City.

One of the three red flags for Dingtian City also fell.

Everyone in Zhanxiao City stared at each other.

"Did we just win a round?"

"We did win, very strange."

"I swear I've never had such an easy ascension challenge in my life."

If Brother Cheng hadn't performed so dominantly in the first round, they might have felt humiliated again.

"Hey, expert from the other side, do you only have one person in your city?"

"If you're alone, why start a challenge?"

"Don't you know ascension battles rely on group strength?"

"Why not join us here in Zhanxiao City?"

"Yes, yes, why not be our Vice City Lord!"

"We just lost an expert, and you have no people over there, so it's quite complementary."

Hearing these words, Brother Cheng was amused.

Please, I just killed your City Lord, didn't I?

It's one thing for you not to seek revenge, but actually recruiting on the spot?

Why be so pragmatic?

Of course, he wouldn't agree, especially since Dingtian City's Essence Core Xiaobai had become his son.

Switching cities would mean separating father and son.

Most importantly, they offered just the Vice City Lord position, not attractive at all.

If he was to be something, he wanted to be the main one!

At this moment, the third round began.

As the valley in the field slowly faded away, a transparent bubble appeared in the void.

The bubble wasn't large, only about tens of meters in radius.

Smooth, thin warp rose around it, surrounding the bubble, appearing and disappearing.

The Jade Ruler magical treasure in Brother Cheng's hand suddenly trembled violently.

The Essence Core Xiaobai, originally under the ascension platform, appeared beside him out of thin air.

Following closely, Ah Huang also chased out.

The third round was a duel between the Essence Cores of the Immortal Cities!

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