章節 116: The Top Ten

The name that appeared on the eleventh rank of the Proclamation of Azure Sky was unexpectedly not the Mount Li Sword Sect's Qi Jian, but the proud Zhuang Huanyu of the Heavenly Dao Academy! The Pavilion of Heavenly Secrets provided no commentary on Zhuang Huanyu. This meant that the Pavilion of Heavenly Secrets did not feel that Zhuang Huanyu's strength had greatly changed over the greater part of the year.

As expected, the person that replaced Zhuang Huanyu on the tenth rank was Qi Jian. This exchange of ranks perplexed many people. Zhuang Huanyu had clearly defeated Qi Jian in the past, and Qi Jian had also lost in the Ivy Festival to Tang Thirty-Six, so how had Qi Jian not only resisted falling, but even advanced?