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nAfter Arman left, Sam went out to take a look at the ranking list.

nOut of five people on the top of the list, he knew three of them. Arthur is first, Nicholas second and Arman is in third place.

nHe was surprised that Arthur was able to stay in first place with Nicholas. After all, Nicholas is a battle, crazy person. He would have beat the crap out of Arthur.

nAs for Arman's rank, he has his doubts. Because, from what he heard from the people around, the fight wasn't even that exciting and intense as they thought it would be.

nArman admitted defeat after five minutes as if he was exhausted.

nAs far as Sam could think, Arman might have just let it go and didn't want any attention.

nAs for Arthur occupying the first position, it was said that Nicholas didn't get a chance to battle him as he was in the western continent all these days.

nAnd even after he came back, he is nowhere to be seen.

nNicholas is waiting for him to come back.

nRight now, if Sam wants to participate and gain a position in the main team, he has to fight more than thirty duels at least. He doesn't need to get first place and as long as he is in fifth place which will make him eligible is enough for him.

nHe didn't wait for anything and just started noting down the names of the people he has to challenge.

nBut before that, he has to finish the battle with the 325th ranked and occupy his place.

nLuckily all the candidates are in the initial stages of the Grand realm cultivation and the last ten rankers are even Great realm cultivators.

nSo, this is going to be easy.

nThe first duel was over as soon as he challenged because the person is a Great realm peak state cultivator.

nAs soon as he sensed Sam's cultivation, he just gave up.

nThe next person, he challenged is a person is 315th ranker.

nThe next person, 305th.

nAs there is still three months time, he didn't rush it and settled with three matches per day.

nHe doesn't want to attract too much attention as he is not prepared to deal with the six major powers. According to his original plan, he would stay in the western continent, keeping tabs on the money he is making and do more research to become stronger for a while, at least the palace of inheritance.

nThen only he would set his sights on the rest of the world to explore it. But now, he was forced to come here because of Watt's situation. That is why he thought it would be better if they are lowkey.

nThat is also one of the reasons he wanted Jack and Philip to be out of the competition.

nAs they are famous as the team, they would attract more attention if they are too bright and outstanding.

nIt would have been better if they don't join the reserve team too. At the end of the day, he has no right to stop them and force them to act against their wishes.

nSo, the trio is set on challenging people. But unlike Sam who is doing three challenges for a day, both of them are much more low-key.

nThey decided to fight a challenge every two days.

nThey will be in the top ten if they win every challenge more or less within sixty days.

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nTime passed. As much as Sam wanted to stay low-key, it is impossible to be out of the limelight when he is upgrading thirty ranks every day.

nBut it has its uses as Philip and Jack escaped the lime-light.

nCompared to Sam, their ascension of ten ranks for every two days is not as eye-catching. Sam is relieved as this is one of the results that he hoped to achieve.

nEven though this might look like he is undermining their talent, but the talent is a double-edged sword. It is useful as it will give a person more opportunities, but it will also deal a definite blow to them as humans are the species who get jealous easily.

nHe believed that there is no other being in this universe or any other universe which is more jealous and greedier than human beings.

nRight now, they are walking in the territory of Giants and they don't have any protection, He knew more than anyone else that the thunder god temple, wouldn't bat an eyelid to sell them off if they get enough benefits.

nPhilip and Jack are not ready to face that at this moment, both physically and mentally.

nSoon, the three months passed and it is time for the resource competition.

nSam reached fifth place and only defended his position. Philip and Jack got ninth and tenth places. Their only purpose here is to spectate the battles of seniors to learn something out of it.

nThat day, they were escorted to the space gate island.

nNicholas is still in second place as he didn't get a chance to fight Arthur, as, for the reason, Arthur was in a special mission given by the higher-ups, but there is a rumor that the higher-ups didn't let them fight so that the leadership of the team didn't go into hands of a disciple who is not a descendant of the thunder god temple.

nThey might have even let Arman take this, but Nicholas is a complete outsider who came from the western continent.

nSam could totally understand this and there is a high chance that this is true.

nBut what he is most interested in is, from what he knew Nicholas would be the last person to be interested in the positions, fame, and status. He wondered how these higher-ups would think, that the place they guarded with their honor online, is extremely worthless in the eyes of a green young man.

nThere is an extremely complicated space gate in a secure location of the island.

nSam looked at the two other teams. Right now, he is in the category of Below thirty-year-old cultivators.

nSam is just nineteen, meanwhile, Jack and Philip are twenty, but their cultivations are high for their ages and can only content in the under-thirty age category.

nAs for the remaining two teams, the under-twenty team is nothing special as their competition doesn't affect the whole resource distribution much.

nAt most, they are only here to expand their horizons.

nAs for the last team, which under-fifty category. Moriya is leading it.

nHe is the best Nascent stage cultivator of the thunder-god temple. He is as calm as usual.

nSam observed the Nascent stage cultivators and could sense their battle-hardened spirits.

nThey are emitting an aura which is filled with the smell of blood.

nOne look and he could say that they have been through all kinds of tough battles.

nOnly Nascent stage cultivators Sam knew, who could compare to them are the Six swords of the sword Marshall from the former Orion.

nThey have the same kind of aura these guys had.

nAfter everyone gathered, the temple head came and led them to the space gate.

nAfter the transference, they arrived in a large stone building.

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"You guys, stay here. Moriya will lead you when it is time.

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nTemple's head said those words and left. Moriya guided them outside the stone building.

nWhen they came out, there is a large expanse of forest.

nThe stone building is not even that big. It is as big as a single bedroom apartment in the modern world and there are only two rooms, one of them is the space gate and another one is just a meeting room which is almost like a mini-auditorium.

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"Recover as soon as you can. There is not much to discuss. Don't expect a majestic ceremony or something. There wouldn't be any superficial things like that here.

nEverything will be straight forward and all you have to do is fight when you are asked to. The team with the first place will get some prizes which would be useful for your cultivation.

nThere are almost no restrictions in a fight except for the weapons, inscription scrolls, and formation discs.

nYou cannot use higher ranked weapons than your cultivation level.

nYou can kill the opponent if you want. The only way the fight would end is one of two faints, one of two dies, or one of the two surrenders.

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nMoriya explained the rules.

nSam was glad when he heard that there are no ceremonies.

nAs Moriya was about to explain the remaining rules, his expression changed and started leading them somewhere.

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"Follow me.

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