Beastmaster of the Ages

d myriad dao pill and was told that he was now a third-level constellier.
“Won't this destabilize your growth at all?”

“Don't worry.
My Primordial Gate can continuously refine the pill without resulting in any wasted effects.
It also helps remove impurities that can trigger unstable thoughts,” Lingfeng assured.

Tianming could only inwardly praise the Primordial Demonlord.
Now, Lingfeng could consume as many pills as he wanted without any of the side effects.
As for Xiaoxiao, she could only rely on consuming caeli to break through, but she was easily the fastest among the three.
Not to mention, she didn't care about the consequences.
How powerful she would be in the future didn't matter to her, so long as she was powerful enough right now.
During the past forty or so days, she sometimes went hunting for caeli herself, allowing her to remain the highest in terms of level among the three, being a fourth-level constellier now.
She was still the weakest among them, but that was somewhat offset by her growing familiarity with the Dragonblood Desecration.

“Thank goodness the Sky Palace gave us all that time.
Otherwise, we wouldn't stand a chance at all in the final battle,” Tianming said.

These days, the Voidsky Realm was at its most chaotic.
There were few who could afford to calmly train like they could, especially right when everything was going to start soon.

……

Tianming checked the ranking once more.
It read:

First Place, Li Tianming (Azuresoul Palace), 810000. 

Second Place, Weisheng Moran (Divine Celestial Nation), 740000. 

Third Place, Yu Ziqian (Azuresoul Palace), 480000. 

Fourth Place, Kong (Voidword Shrine), 460000. 

Fifth Place, Feng (Azuresoul Palace), 400000. 

Sixth Place, Zhan Yuance (Wargodeans) 390000. 

Seventh Place, Lin Xiaoxiao (Azuresoul Palace), 360000. 

Eighth Place, Long Longlong (Xuanyuan Dragon Sect), 350000. 

Ninth Place, Chu Jingchuan (Empyrean Sword Sect), 280000.

……

Many people made similar observations about the current ranking.
First, Zhan Yuance's points hadn’t increased, so his rank had fallen to sixth place.
Long Longlong didn't raise his own points either, allowing him to fall to eighth place as planned.
Third, Chu Jiangchuan had been rapidly fighting to raise his points in the forty-odd days to rise to eighth place, but things just hadn’t gone his way.
The Voidsky Realm was so large that nobody intentionally gathered at one place, so he would be quite lucky if he was able to get a few thousand points each day.
Not to mention, the other participants cannibalized each other for points, making the available pool of points even smaller.
It didn't seem like he would stand much of a chance with so little time remaining.

The Empyrean Sword Sect ranked fifth on the myriad sect ranking, being the most powerful sword sect of all—the Azuresoul Palace had actually branched out from it millions of years ago.
No doubt, the members of the sect were on the edge of their seats as they watched the competition unfold.

There was another odd occurrence: Weisheng Moran shouldn't have a need to raise her points at all.
After all, being first or second would likely make no difference when it came to joining the Sky Palace.
Yet she was using her last bit of time to defeat more than a hundred thousand enemies at a rate as fast as Chu Jiangchuan.
Though even with that, it didn't seem like she would be able to catch up to Tianming.
The ranking scheme was heavily skewed toward those that had obtained treasures.
As a result, the battle matchups were more or less decided to be as follows.

The first battle would be between Tianming and Long Longlong, the second was between Weisheng Moran and Xiaoxiao, and Yu Ziqian would face off against Zhan Yuance in the third.
As for Lingfeng, he would be going up against Kong in the fourth battle.

The question now was: how would the eliminated Zhan Yuance be allowed to compete? He no longer stood a chance to join the Sky Palace, after all.
It seemed that Yu Ziqian would easily join the top four without even having to fight.
The Sky Palace had probably considered this and gave more time for someone else to catch up to Zhan Yuance and push him out, but nobody had managed to do it.
Only time would tell how that would be dealt with in the upcoming final battle.

……

The first battle between Tianming and Long Longlong was one to look forward to.
Tianming was from a humble background, yet he had managed to get so many treasures, which allowed him to rank first.
Even so, he hadn't shown any power beyond that of a fourth-level constellier so far.

On the other hand, Long Longlong was from the second-ranked sect and was blessed with talent.
Not to mention, he wielded a grade-eight divine artifact.
Which one of them would triumph?

Finally, the countdown came to an end; the names and points on Skyward Stele would no longer change.
For those outside the top eight, the competition was over.
Some left after having obtained some benefits while others left with nothing, or with less than what they came with.
There were those that had honored their ancestors with their performance in the rankings and others who were now doomed to mediocrity.
Even so, people couldn't care less about those who weren't in the top eight.