Chapter 93: The Trialists’ Official Website (Ninth Update, Please Subscribe)

“Only eight cycles? Old Wei, we’re still young. Don’t pull our leg.”

Xu Shan’s face was full of suspicion; she plainly did not believe it.

In truth, at that moment Liu Sui, Cheng An, Yu Liang, and Mei Renli did not believe it either.

After everything they had witnessed in the poison zone, they had come to worship Wei Cheng’s strength almost blindly.

Not to mention that he could crush Zhou Wu, kick Tang Xiaojun around, and was already the number one Mountain Shifter in the district; if placed in all of P City, he would still surely rank among the best.

And now, within Zhou Wu’s own team, four nine-cycle Mountain Shifters had suddenly appeared. How could Wei Cheng possibly be only eight cycles?

“Everyone, please be serious for once. What reason would I have to fool you? I really am eight cycles, genuine as can be. What sense would there be in lying about this?”

Wei Cheng spoke with absolute sincerity. That was simply the truth. He would never lie about it. As for his ability to beat down a few ordinary nine-cycle Mountain Shifters, that was another matter entirely.

Of course, he was not trying to hide his abilities and pretend to be harmless. It was simply that, by now, the Earth was already crawling with infiltrating otherworldly demons. Who knew whether they could get into the backend of the Trialers’ official site? Who knew whether they might carry out decapitation-style tactics?

He was still young. Still a newcomer. He could not withstand that sort of fright.

Seeing Wei Cheng say it so plainly, even Xu Shan had no choice but to believe him. Indeed, as companions who had survived life and death together, Wei Cheng had no reason to lie. But that meant their plan to unify the others was more or less dead on arrival.

After all, they knew all too well how troublesome the trialers who had fought their way through this far really were.

With Zhou Wu suppressing them before, they had barely been able to call it a team. Now that Zhou Wu had taken his core group and left, the rest had all gone prickly and defiant.

An eight-cycle Mountain Shifter?

Heh.

At present, there were more than twenty eight-cycle Mountain Shifters left among these people alone.

“Old Wei, I’ve already contacted a few respected people. Everyone has decided to gather at Haolin Hotel this afternoon to discuss cooperation. What do you think—”

“We can go. These days of being scattered like loose sand are not easy. I, for one, would welcome someone with both prestige and strength, someone fair-minded and rational, to lead us toward our next glory.”

Wei Cheng truly agreed.

“Old Wei, we’re serious.”

“What a joke. Where do you see me not being serious? Go prepare separately.”

Wei Cheng waved a hand and turned back into the guest room. He picked up his phone and casually opened one of the apps he used most often. Sure enough, it was heavily promoting trialer registration, with a variety of benefits attached. But the most outrageous thing was that, for reasons unknown, someone had actually set up a ranking for the strongest professions in one’s social circle, the strongest professions in a district, and the strongest professions in a city.

With that kind of thing in place, how could the competitive trialers be content to remain beneath others?

One after another, they registered and uploaded their information. No other reason; simply for bragging rights.

Even if someone could see through such a trick, they were still in the minority.

Wei Cheng skimmed through it and saw that the rankings were divided into newcomer and veteran lists. The newcomer list was visible to visitors, but the veteran list required real-name registration and further strength verification, meaning at least three verified trialers had to acknowledge it.

In short, though there were still plenty of loopholes and flaws, to have put something like this together in such a short time was already rather impressive.

Wei Cheng was suddenly intrigued. After thinking it over, he chose real-name registration as well, because that was unavoidable.

Sure enough, just as he expected, the moment he finished registering his real name, his strength information popped up. Someone had already pre-registered him.

Damn it, a pre-registration? So they just forced me onto the wagon without asking?

[Name: Wei Cheng]

[Age: 30]

[Profession: Mountain Shifter]

[Strength: 9 cycles, estimated]

[Inner Art Level: Second Layer of Mountain Shifter Inner Art]

[External Martial Cultivation: Great Completion of Golden Bell Guard, estimated]

[Previous Greatest Feat: Withstood 32 fireballs single-handedly]

[Equipment: Blaze Ring +10, estimated]

[Certifiers: Zhou Wu, Tang Xiaojun, Qin Douzi]

[P City Overall Professional Strength Ranking: 147th, supercomputer simulation estimate]

[P City Mountain Shifter Ranking: 67th, supercomputer simulation estimate]

Wei Cheng was utterly speechless.

He directly changed it to eight cycles, and marked the Blaze Ring’s status as destroyed. For certifiers, he pulled in Liu Sui, Xu Shan, and Cheng An. After they confirmed it, his final ranking on the overall P City strength list dropped at once to 539th, while his Mountain Shifter ranking fell to 212th.

Well now. He had thought he might even drop out of the top thousand. It seemed the overall strength of P City trialers was not all that impressive.

Wei Cheng chuckled to himself and did not take it seriously, because he felt there was a great deal of water in these rankings.

At the very least, the P-5 Legion where Song Feifei served was absolutely a place where masters were as numerous as clouds, but the information of their core soul figures would never appear here.

In other words, the names on this list were all civilian and peripheral trialers from the authorities. It held little reference value.

Still, these people could not be underestimated, because comparatively speaking, they really were experts.

For example, the one ranked first overall was named Xia Xi. She was unmistakably a seven-cycle Purple Dawn cultivator who had already mastered the second layer of Purple Dawn Inner Art, with Great Completion in Coiling Dragon Palm and a Blaze Ring at +18. A truly formidable figure.

That was genuinely powerful.

The Xu Guoliang by Zhou Wu’s side seemed so impressive, yet in truth he only had the first layer of Purple Dawn Inner Art.

But this Xia Xi could probably beat at least five or six Xu Guoliangs.

In fact, every single one in the top thirty was Purple Dawn, every single one was seven cycles, and every single one had mastered the second layer of Purple Dawn Inner Art. The only differences were the enhancement values of their artifacts.

So these people were most likely also from the P-series legions.

The people on Zhou Wu’s side, if Wei Cheng had not given them the second layer of Mountain Shifter Inner Art, would now only be able to stare with tears in their eyes.

Take Xu Guoliang, for instance. At this very moment, he had somehow only climbed to 827th place on this list.

Having the second layer of an inner art was very important.

Then there were the hundred best-ranked: half of them were still Purple Dawn professionals, a little less than half were Mountain Shifters, and a little less than half were Spirit Swallows. Among the Mountain Shifters and Spirit Swallows, they were basically all nine cycles, and all had mastered the second layer of their inner arts.

The top two hundred were likewise entirely composed of trialers who had mastered the second layer.

The same was true for the top three hundred.

The top four hundred, the top five hundred, still the same.

Frankly speaking, the top five hundred were all monopolized by the rank-and-file of P City’s five major trialer legions. Who told them they could clear the trials so perfectly? They did not even need to send out their main force to dominate the rankings.

Moreover, the Purple Dawn profession really was the king of the mid-to-late game. Once developed, it was genuinely strong.

Of course, if a Spirit Swallow had a good weapon, it was also very strong.

It was a pity that real-world weapons could not be brought in.

And within the trial stages, for now only Floating Cloud City offered a chance to forge weapons with black-iron stone, or else trade for them through the master of Iron Hall.

After that, Wei Cheng saw some strategy guides on the Trialers’ official site that had only titles. To view the content, one had to first post a guide of importance level 1.

Pretty secretive.

But for Wei Cheng, the titles alone were enough to let him guess the rough content. After all, in terms of how deeply he had completed the sixth trial, he was definitely among the leaders.

And on this point, the districts that had cleared perfectly were actually not as good as they were.

Wei Cheng scanned the page and did not find the names of Liu Sui, Xu Shan, and the others. Only then did he nod. Not bad. Some things could not be given away so cheaply.

Still, come to think of it, on the last day in the poison zone, those few had all been dizzy, hallucinating, mentally drained, and physically weakened. There was actually nothing worth revealing.

Just as Wei Cheng was about to close the Trialers’ official site, a glaring line of red text suddenly swept across the screen.

“Traces of an infiltrating otherworldly demon have been discovered in S City. Its whereabouts, along with those of its dependents, have now been narrowed to a general area. A large number of trialers are urgently needed to establish an outer blockade!”

“Requirement: veteran trialers, strength of six cycles or above, with both internal and external visualization diagrams mastered. Upon signing up, a relocation allowance of 500,000 yuan will be provided!”

“In addition, killing the demon’s dependents may yield irregular unknown crystals. It has now been confirmed that these can be used to enhance artifact values.”