With the wondersky fairy around, Tianming could easily issue challenges. Lingfeng, however, had to start by getting into the top-ten-thousand bracket first, though he was in no rush. Since they had time to spare, he chose to watch the battles while Tianming fought first.

"Let's go! It's been some time since the commotion you caused with the ancient idols, but I'm sure there’s still some people that remember you," Liu Wanwan said.

The three of them went to the outer fringes of the spherical battlefield where other disciples were spectating the fights. The closer they came, the larger the battlefield seemed. Disciples under thirty were all over the place, fervently looking at the fighters and hoping that they, too, would stand...