Reaching this point, the overall strength of Dingtian City is also undergoing a transformation.

Continuously obtaining spoils of war, all the Ascenders from the Lower Realm have upgraded their gear.

All of the Profound Immortals are equipped with Tier Four Immortal Artifacts, and the Celestial Immortals have at least Tier Three Immortal Artifacts.

Even the True Immortals have all acquired Tier Two Immortal Artifacts.

In terms of equipment, not only do they not have a disadvantage, they actually have an advantage.

However, these new Immortal Artifacts haven't been refined much, so they can't exert their full power.

Though Brother Cheng didn't get a chance to show off, as the Leader, he did snag an unprecedented deal.

A large number of obsolete Immortal Artifacts fell into his hands, which he then converted into points.

Upon counting, he gained a whopping five trillion points.

This somewhat filled the emptiness in his wounded heart.

As for other resources in the ring, he hasn't exchanged them yet and kept them aside for now.

Currently, there's no urgent need to raise his Realm, so he finally has time to improve his system a bit.

He still remembers that the next skill level is to raise the grade of inanimate objects.

Opening the system panel, he pressed the upgrade button.

But the system had no reaction, the button was actually grayed out.

"System, what's going on?"

"After changing the Plane, the system needs to reboot and update to adapt to the new Plane. Before that, the system upgrade function is temporarily disabled."

"Damn, there's this limitation?"

In the past decade, all other system skills functioned quite normally, and he thought that rebooting and updating wouldn't matter.

He even almost forgot about this issue.

Thinking about it now, once reaching the Middle Immortal Realm, it's time to find some free time to update it.

Inside the City Lord's Mansion, everyone was discussing the next plan.

"These guys from the Immortal Realm are really timid, not a single one dares to fight."

"Knowing they'll die for sure, of course, they don't dare."

"Should we continue to fight for the top four?"

Currently, Dingtian City has 122 wins, while the fourth-ranked Brahma Emperor City has 130 wins.

As for the top spot, it still belongs to Five Seas City with 157 wins.

It seems impossible for Dingtian City to gather over 30 more victories because there are only so many opponents left to challenge.

But actually, when those top Great Powers initially set the Ascension Battle rules, they already considered this point.

Once in the top five, winning upwards will result in exchanging victories with the opponent.

Defeating Brahma Emperor City means directly obtaining the opponent's wins, becoming 130 wins.

All the way up, it's really only four matches away from the top spot.

"It feels like there's no value in fighting further, and getting to first place would make us too conspicuous."

"Indeed, ranking fifth and first results in hugely different attention after ascending to the Middle Immortal Realm."

"From a prudent perspective, stopping now is the best choice."

"Being too high-profile will attract attention."

Gui Cang, Void Abyss, and others thought a lot.

They worried that after reaching the Middle Immortal Realm, they would be targeted by those malicious Immortal Emperors.

Even though no one's face reads 'I'm an Ascender from the Lower Realm,' they still have no clear background, with no prior experience in the Immortal Realm.

This large group of people, if traced back thoroughly, would eventually reveal issues.

In their view, reaching fifth place is already quite good.

They've got all the Immortal Artifacts they wanted; it's time to stop.

However, Brother Cheng didn't think so.

With the Resurrection Skill, he's not afraid of anyone.

If he can't reach the top spot, his style won't reach perfection, which would be a lifelong regret!

"Hesitation and timidity, is that the style of us cultivators?"

"Clearly possessing the strength for the top spot but not daring to fight, what is this?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Bi Chang jumped out and loudly declared, "Brother is absolutely right!"

"We Desert People have never been content to be beneath others!"

"That's right, do what needs to be done!"

The War Monkey King and other Demon Races also cried out fervently, their battle intent soaring to the sky.

"The first place must be ours!"

Gui Cang, Void Abyss, Taichang, and other seniors exchanged looks, all seeing the helplessness in each other's eyes.

They are more stable, considering long-term consequences in their actions.

If it were only Bi Chang, the War Monkey King, and others suggesting this, they'd simply take it as a fart, telling them to fight on their own.

But now Brother Cheng spoke.

"Since Sect Leader Jiang is not yet satisfied, we should accompany the gentleman even unto death!"

"We the Demon Realm are willing to advance and retreat with Sect Leader Jiang!"

"We the Celestial Book Domain follow Sect Leader Jiang's commands..."

In a blink of an eye, everyone quickly agreed to continue fighting.

Mo Chen, standing by Brother Cheng's side, felt an immense sense of admiration.

Silently, the sect leader had already become the true leader of this group.

With just one word, he could make them decide on something they originally did not want to do.

The role of this prestige is not apparent now.

If, after a billion years, when all these people become giants in the Immortal Realm, it would be different...

But suddenly he shook his head smiling, is it necessary to wait till then?

With Sect Leader's terrifying fortune, he doesn't even need anyone's assistance at all.

Only then did Brother Cheng contentedly open the Ascension Chart and unhesitatingly choose Brahma Emperor City.

In his view, the top four Great Immortal Cities definitely wouldn't submit willingly.

Once challenged, they would definitely counterattack with all their might.

By then, his First Grade Golden Immortal level with tenfold critical strike would have a platform to shine on.

However, to his disappointment, Brahma Emperor City very straightforwardly chose to forfeit in face of his challenge.

They did not send out anyone to fight in both rounds.

Dingtian City once again won without a fight, increasing its wins to 130 and rising in the rankings to fourth.

Already attracting a lot of attention, they now drew the gaze of nearly everyone in the Lower Immortal Realm.

Everyone is now curious whether this Immortal City, which suddenly rose in the past decade, can really take the top spot.

A quarter hour later, Dingtian City ascended to third place.

The original third-place Liehuang City directly forfeited and conceded the spot.

Another half quarter-hour later, Dingtian City rose to second place.

The previously second-place Bitao City also straightforwardly forfeited both rounds.

This was actually the rational choice.

Given the wins and rankings of these Immortal Cities, they would not fall out of the top ten in the last few days anyway.

Since being in the top ten equally means ascending to the Middle Immortal Realm, why take the risk of total defeat and fight to the death?

Dropping by one rank doesn't matter to them; they can afford it.

At this moment, Dingtian City had reached 146 wins, with only one opponent left ahead at 157 wins—Five Seas City.

Reaching this point, since there's only one remaining opponent, according to the rules, they don't need to restrict to within 10 matches and can directly challenge.

Brother Cheng was agitated, hoping the last Five Seas City could rise to the occasion.

Please don't forfeit again; his long-kept tenfold critical strike has yet to be used.

The battle for the top spot was no different from any other match.

The City Lord of Five Seas City sneered a few times opposite.

"You've climbed quickly indeed."

"Beware, the higher you climb, the faster you fall."

"Some positions, without the fortune, you cannot hold down."

"If not to avoid casualties among my brothers, I'd determine to make you bleed rivers."

Such a yin and yang monster's trash talk had zero damage effect on Dingtian City's side.

The heroes from the Lower Realm had seen all sorts of scenes, in their eyes, this was just a clown.

"Then let's have a grand battle, stop dawdling!"

Brother Cheng actually held some hope for him.

But in the end, after those few words, this guy too chose to retreat and give up.

Just like that, Dingtian City won again without fighting, achieving the top spot in the Ascension Battle!

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