Chapter 64

The sky was azure, the blue sky like it had been washed.

The hanging stone arena was spotless and clean.

"Number of students in the big district: 42,720."

"Your ranking: 15,560."

Jiang Jian raised an eyebrow, looking at the holographic screen.

He remembered clearly that his ranking when he logged out last time was 9,765.

He hadn't logged on for one night, and he had actually dropped to over 10,000th place.

Jiang Jian swiped the screen to look at the detailed rules of the Heavenly Ladder ranking tournament.

"If someone defeats a higher-ranked opponent, they will automatically replace their ranking."

"The loser will not drop down; they will only be pushed back by one place."

"Everyone behind them will also be pushed back by one place."

"So that's how it is."

Jiang Jian thought for a moment and started matching directly.

Under these rules, if you don't log on for a long time, your ranking will inevitably drop in a straight line as time passes.

Entering the top 100 requires logging on every day and participating in matches within a limited time.

Otherwise, the Heavenly Ladder system will detect it, kick you out of the ranking system, and you'll have to start from the bottom again.

"Match successful!"

The notification sound rang out, and the holographic screen dissipated.

Opposite the arena, a flying blade wrapped in gale force pierced through the air!

Strike first to gain the advantage!

The Heavenly Ladder ranking tournament had been open for a day and a night.

Many students had discovered that the moment the screen dissipated was when the two people's scenes overlapped.

Fewer and fewer people were talking nonsense.

"Stagnate."

Jiang Jian's fingers moved slightly, and a blood-red stream of light circled out, directly wrapping around the rapidly flying blade.

It caused it to crumble inch by inch, turning into fine light and shadow.

"Jiang Jian from Linjiang Academy, how did I get matched with you!"

The person opposite held a flying blade and was originally full of confidence, but upon seeing Jiang Jian's face, his expression changed, and he cursed his bad luck, "My winning streak is going to be broken!"

On the joint forum of the seventeen universities in the prefecture, someone had long since analyzed the difficult opponents in the ranking tournament in detail.

The number of people on the list was in the hundreds.

Jiang Jian from Linjiang Academy was one of them.

Although because there were too few matches, the forum didn't estimate Jiang Jian's threat level to be very high.

But it was enough to make people vigilant.

Crack!

Jiang Jian's fingers curled slightly, and the blood-red stream of light suddenly dissipated.

The next second.

The air in front of that person twisted, blood light dispersed, and he was crushed into powder along with his blade!

"This is a normal threat level!?"

"Which bastard ranked this!"

In the virtual cabin, Guo Hao sat up and couldn't help but curse angrily.

"Such pure spiritual essence, terrifying lethality, and the speed of spiritual energy condensation is so fast—it's like he's been practicing for over a dozen years!"

Guo Hao watched the battle replay over and over, his face full of shock.

Standing still for a few seconds.

Guo Hao hurriedly opened his identity device, logged onto the joint forum, and uploaded the battle video just now.

The video title was even highlighted in red and bolded by him.

"Students who are rushing the rankings, take note!"

"If you encounter Jiang Jian from Linjiang Academy, it's best to admit defeat directly to avoid affecting your mindset!"

"In my opinion, his threat level is approaching those monsters in the top 10!"

At the end of the video, the camera flickered, catching a glimpse of Jiang Jian's side profile.

What the built-in camera captured was the sky full of falling fragmented blood light.

Replies under the post quickly increased.

"Is Linjiang Academy about to rise?"

"I don't think so; it might just be that the blogger is too trash."

"The freshmen of Linjiang Academy this year have been called trash for so long; I guess this Jiang Jian isn't very good either."

"Blogger, stop overhyping; what kind of gold content can there be in a matching pool of around 10,000th place?"

Many comments were filled with sarcasm and irony.

The people replying were almost all from remote Divine Gift universities.

In the two days since the Heavenly Ladder opened, very few freshmen from the seventeen colleges of Linjiang Academy had rushed into the top 100.

As the number one Divine Gift university in the prefecture, its poor performance this year had long since attracted a wave of abuse on the forum.

"You have won this ranking match!"

"Your ranking: 1,219."

Jiang Jian rarely looked at the forum, so naturally, he didn't know about this.

After a winning streak of more than ten matches, his Heavenly Ladder ranking had already rushed to 1,219th place!

Sensing the full spiritual energy in his Shenque.

Jiang Jian didn't stop and clicked match again.

"Match successful!"

On the hanging stone arena.

A young girl suddenly appeared.

She glanced at Jiang Jian coldly and didn't make a move.

The school uniform she wore was the school skirt of Linjiang Academy.

Jiang Jian recognized her as a student from the First College.

But Jiang Jian had no nonsense here at all.

Instead, he held Han Guang, slashed across the air, and directly cut out a scorching sword light!

The girl frowned slightly, and her figure suddenly twisted!

Boom!

The sword light twisted through her virtualized figure and slammed into the arena floor, sparking fire!

The next second.

The girl's figure solidified; she still didn't fight back, her red lips parted slightly, and she said: "Jiang Jian."

Jiang Jian stood holding his sword, watching her quietly.

The girl had a cold face, but her eyes showed confusion; after a few seconds, she asked softly: "Aren't you..."

Speaking of this.

She stopped, as if it were hard to say.

"I don't know what you mean," Jiang Jian said, "What exactly do you want to say?"

The girl looked ashamed and angry, saying: "Don't you have a good impression of me?"

Jiang Jian was stunned and asked: "What are you talking about?"

The girl said: "Shan Ye said you have a good impression of me."

Jiang Jian was speechless: "Who are you? I don't know you at all."

The girl came back to her senses, also full of confusion: "Then what is going on!"

She stretched out her finger, swiped her virtual identity device, and clicked on a communication.

Shan Ye's voice came through: "Yinyin, how is Jiang Jian? I think you two are a good match."

Below, there were several more communications.

Each one was more explosive than the last.

Jiang Jian listened to these communications, and the corners of his eyes couldn't help but twitch.

"This Shan Ye, she looks quite normal; why is she like Shi Luohua, acting stupid from watching too many short dramas..."

By now, both of them understood.

This matter was entirely Shan Ye's own doing, trying to play matchmaker on both sides.

"It's good that it's a misunderstanding."

The girl swiped the screen away and breathed a sigh of relief, "I was originally a bit conflicted, but now I don't need to be."

Boom!

Before she finished speaking, another scorching sword light slashed over!

"Jiang Jian, you actually launched a sneak attack!"

A second before the sword light reached her, her figure suddenly virtualized!

Jiang Jian didn't pay any attention to her at all; spiritual energy surged around his body, he jumped up holding Han Guang, and slashed back again!

Sword energy continued, sweeping across, almost covering half of the arena!

The virtualization state only lasted for a moment.

The girl's figure solidified directly and fell!

Clang!

A protective spiritual screen solidified and appeared, blocking the thousands of fine sword lights outside!

The next second.

The Han Guang sword blade cut through the air and slashed directly into the light screen.

Wisps of flowing light surged; the light screen stagnated the Han Guang sword body, making it unable to move, unable to advance even half a step.

Jiang Jian's gaze was cold; his Shenque spiritual essence surged crazily, and a full 30% of his spiritual energy was poured into the long sword!

On the Han Guang sword, light shone brightly!

The sword blade's scorching light was brilliant, its aura fierce, and its killing power surged!

Crack!

The thick protective spiritual screen suddenly shattered!

The sword energy scorched and killed, twisting the girl's slender figure into countless fine flowing lights.

"You have won this ranking match!"

"Your ranking: 376."

On the holographic screen, Jiang Jian's latest ranking was clearly displayed.

"The winning streak has reached 29 matches."

Jiang Jian looked at the ranking information.

"Next match."

"It is highly likely to match with the top 100."

(End of chapter)