Losing to Dingtian City, the cost was truly too great.

The Essence Core was destroyed, the Ascension Platform collapsed directly, even an Immortal City with 100 victories would have its ranking erased and fall to the bottom because of this.

After achieving one hundred victories, since there were too few ranked targets nearby, it was possible to challenge across ten ranks.

And the challenge could be repeated.

It's said that many Immortal Cities chose to avoid Dingtian City, even resorting to desperate measures.

For example, by first challenging other Immortal Cities and then deliberately losing to them.

After losing a match, there would be a 'protection period' of one year where they couldn't be challenged.

This was also out of helplessness.

However, the top ten cities were mostly not that cowardly.

After all, they all had over 100 victories, with so many instances of Power of Rules reinforcement, their Essence Cores themselves were also relatively strong.

Moreover, the City Lords of these Immortal Cities were all ninth-grade Golden Immortals.

Some were even from the Middle Immortal Realm, with strength far beyond ordinary Golden Immortals.

They didn't believe Jiang Cheng could shake their position.

As for Dingtian City, everyone had already started worshipping the new City Lord as a god.

In just over 100 days, he led an Immortal City ranked six million to eighth place.

This was simply a miracle.

According to the rules of the Ascension Battle, now they just need to wait for the ten-year settlement period to arrive to be transferred to the Middle Immortal Realm.

And in fact, everyone wasn't very concerned about entering the Middle Immortal Realm anymore.

Now the Power of Rules and Immortal Yuan Qi in the city absolutely exceeded that of any city in the Upper Immortal Realm.

110 consecutive wins increased by fifty-five times on the original foundation.

It's uncertain if there's a place like this in the Immortal Realm.

Even if there is, it's probably occupied by Immortal Emperors and Demon Emperors as Grotto Heaven Blessed Lands.

In such a place, it's easy to imagine the effect of cultivation.

During this time, even some of the native inhabitants reached immortality.

Among the Ascenders, experts like Gui Cang and Void Abyss all reached ninth-grade True Immortal.

Even Heart Division experts like Qingsuo reached True Immortal status.

Among Brother Cheng's disciples, Ji Linghan and Lan Ti Lin Ning also reached ninth-grade True Immortal.

At this breakthrough speed, it would likely only slow down when reaching Profound Immortal Golden Immortal.

After all, at the Golden Immortal stage, breaking through to Immortal Venerable is not something an optimal Grotto Heaven Blessed Land environment can solve.

The entire Dingtian City was thriving, now able to form a force of thirty thousand Immortals.

And on this day, Brother Cheng routinely opened the Ascension Chart, intending to pick another opponent.

He had no intention of stopping there.

How could he live up to the title of King Bi without taking first place?

But then, he found that his two children were not urging him to start the battle as usual.

This was strange.

Recently, the two children had been eager every day.

He quickly found the two children, only to discover they were both asleep under the Ascension Platform.

"Hey hey, what's with you two?"

"Get up quickly, it's time to fight."

Xiaobai turned over, not even opening his eyes.

Ah Huang mumbled, "Mom, we can't devour any more Essence Cores, we're too full..."

What?

Is there a limit to devouring Essence Cores?

He squatted down worriedly.

"You two won't have any problems, right?"

As an old father, he certainly didn't want anything to happen to the two kids, even if they didn't have such miraculous abilities.

"We're fine, just need some time to digest."

This...

Brother Cheng was relieved.

However, the original plan for challenges could only be temporarily set aside.

He was confident of defeating the opponent's City Lord in the first round.

But without the two kids, he'd definitely lose in the third round.

As for the second round, although everyone's cultivation had improved rapidly, it was still not enough against the top ten cities.

Those Immortal Cities had Celestial Immortals as bottom-tier in the second round, with hundreds of Profound Immortals and several Golden Immortals leading.

"Looks like we can only take a break for now."

Fighting once every day during this time had already exhausted him.

He felt really tired.

Now was a rare time to relax.

So on this day, Dingtian City, which had attracted much attention, showed no change in its victory count.

Until the end of this day, countless people stared at the Ascension Chart until their eyes ached.

"Dingtian City has stopped!"

"They didn't challenge today."

This kind of thing was very normal for other Immortal Cities, but it seemed abnormal happening to Dingtian City.

"What happened? Why didn't they continue?"

"No need to ask, they reached the limit of their strength."

"Right, the top seven aren't easy to mess with, losing would deduct their battle record."

"They're already in the top ten, no need to take risks anymore."

"I almost thought they could keep pushing and reach number one."

"Do you think cities like Five Seas City are just pushovers?"

As time went on, Dingtian City never challenged again.

The nearby Immortal Cities all quietly sighed in relief.

Over the endless sea at an unknowable number of billions of miles from Dingtian City, black clouds filled the sky, so dark you couldn't see your hand before your face.

This place was perpetually in a state of night, but on that sea, there were two extremely bright flames.

Getting closer, you would see a huge suspended Immortal City.

Above the Immortal City, there were two towering Everlasting Lamps.

In this dark sea, they were as dazzling as lighthouses.

Around and below the city, there were cultivators in short clothes covered in water rust flying into the sea now and then.

Soon, giant sea beasts tens of thousands of meters long would be carried back into the city, exuding blood.

If outsiders came here, they would know this was the famous Shuangdeng City of the Lower Immortal Realm.

Currently ranked eleventh, with a record of 102 victories.

Six Golden Immortals guarded it, assisted by three hundred Profound Immortals.

Its strength was formidable, scarcely anyone dared provoke it.

Recently, however, the City Lord had been in a foul mood.

Dingtian City's sudden rise disrupted the original order of the Lower Immortal Realm.

Although Shuangdeng City was fortunately not chosen by Jiang Cheng, they were the most affected because they were pushed out of the top ten.

The eleventh place could not ascend to the Middle Immortal Realm.

This loss was huge, few could accept it.

To regain their ranking, they challenged twice in recent days.

Raising their record from 100 wins to 102 wins.

But due to insufficient preparation time, they paid a great price.

"We can only continue challenging those behind us, to increase our battle record."

"The cities behind are also not easy to fight. Last time when we defeated Profound Light City, we lost 32 Profound Immortals and 550 Celestial Immortals, the loss was too great."

"Yes, everyone's strength is close, it's very difficult to fight."

"Several of the Immortal Cities in the 90+ victories range are in a protection period and can't be challenged at the moment."

"Currently, Silver Bell City, ahead of us in ninth place, has a record of 107 wins, 5 matches ahead, almost impossible to catch up."

"Silver Bell City has seven Golden Immortals, we can't shake them."

"This damned Dingtian City!"

The City Lord was furious, they had been striving for the top ten for 90 years.

Now so close yet unreachable, how could they accept it?

"How about we challenge that Dingtian City?"

"Challenge Dingtian City, are you crazy? If the Essence Core gets destroyed, it's all over!"

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