The fourth class disciples had returned.
The Five Extreme Mysterious Ice Holy Land's dragon martial practitioners welcomed them as if they were heroes.
Very quickly, the news spread.
This time, the fourth class disciples were able to obtain fourth place mainly because of several key figures … and the most important one was Ran Ran!
Ran Ran had now reached the peak Divine Dragon inheritance blood essence grade of the Dragon Emperor ninth layer. Her battle prowess far surpassed all the dragon martial practitioners of the Dragon Emperor level.
In the mixed battle of the fourth class disciples, Ran Ran defeated seventy-seven opponents by herself, bringing an extremely high number of points to the Five Extreme Mysterious Ice Holy Land!
And in the ranking battle that followed, Ran Ran finally obtained second place!
Among all the fourth class disciples of the Holy Land, Ran Ran obtained second place. Unfortunately, she did not obtain first place. However, the first place disciple had only defeated Ran Ran by a slight margin.
In summary, Ran Ran did not have a very strong dragon weapon. Her dragon weapon had not been fused to a very high level, so she could not display too much power.
At the very least, compared to her opponents, she was still quite lacking.
One had to know that her final opponent was a rather old Dragon Emperor powerhouse. That powerhouse was at the ninth layer of the Dragon Emperor and possessed extremely terrifying strength.
That was a powerhouse that could explore a permanent intermediate level ruin!
Moreover, there was more than one such powerhouse.
Ran Ran had already defeated many such powerhouses and finally obtained second place. It could be said that Ran Ran's battle prowess was already very terrifying, even comparable to Kang Shin-mu.
However, what Kang Shin-mu did not expect was that in the battle of the fourth class disciples, there were too many peak ninth layer existences of the Dragon Emperor. Logically speaking, the fourth class disciples were all at the seventh to eighth layer of the Dragon Emperor.
Logically speaking, when the Holy Tower raised the ranks of the disciples once a year, some strong existences would definitely be able to become higher ranked disciples and obtain more cultivation resources.
But now, it seemed that there were still many Dragon Warrior disciples in the Holy Land who did not put in any effort to raise the level of their disciples.
For example, the opponent who defeated Ran Ran already had the strength of a grade five disciple, and could even fight a grade six disciple.
In the end, he was still a fourth-class disciple...
They couldn't be said to have violated the rules. After all, the rules set by the Dragon Soul Holy Tower were to allow dragon warriors of the same rank to compete on the same stage.
The other party was indeed a grade-4 disciple, so there was nothing he could do about it.
Moreover, Kang Shin-mu did not have the qualifications to criticize him on this point … His current strength had long since reached the level of a grade six disciple, perhaps even the peak of a grade six disciple, but he was still a grade five disciple in the end.
Every holy land was trying their best to transfer their stronger disciples to lower level places so that their own holy land could obtain better results in this competition.
Of course, he couldn't just casually transfer the rank of his disciples.
There were also those with Dragon Emperor's peak cultivation who wanted to participate in the first-grade disciple to third-grade disciple competition. In the end, they were blocked by the Dragon Soul Holy Tower … because they were temporarily transferred disciples.
The Dragon Soul Holy Tower had already seen through this point.
Moreover, although the division of disciples was based on rank, there was still a cultivation limit.
For example, a first-grade disciple was the grade of the Dragon Emperor's divine dragon inheritance from the first to the second level. Therefore, it was impossible for the participants to surpass the fourth level of the Dragon Emperor's. This was a relatively large limit, and also to ensure that there wouldn't be too many unfair situations in the competition.
This time, Ran Ran obtained second place in the fourth grade disciple competition. This could be said to be an extremely high honor, and it brought glory to the Five Extreme Black Ice Holy Land.
Apart from her, there were also many dragon warriors who obtained good results.
Among them, Xiao Yuhua, Xiao Bai, and Liang Xiao obtained seventh, eighth, and eleventh place respectively.
It was precisely because of this that the Five Extreme Black Ice Holy Land could actually reach fourth place among all the holy lands in this time's fourth grade disciple competition.
Unfortunately, Ran Ran didn't obtain first place. Otherwise, the Five Extreme Black Ice Holy Land's overall results would probably directly jump to the top two.
The fourth grade disciples returned, each and every one of them in high spirits.
And Ran Ran, who obtained second place overall, had now become a celebrity in the Five Extreme Black Ice Holy Land!
Originally, although Ran Ran was very talented, she didn't have a chance to display it.
Especially with so many disciples in the Five Extreme Black Ice Holy Land, who would pay attention to her?
But now, this competition let everyone know of Ran Ran's existence!
Of course, the upper echelons of the Five Extreme Black Ice Holy Land had naturally long been paying attention to Ran Ran. This was because Ran Ran's divine dragon blood essence compatibility was too high, and she could directly break through to a supreme level without encountering a bottleneck.
This was rarely seen in the history of the Dragon Gods Great World.
And this time, Ran Ran's performance made the upper echelons and elders of the Five Extreme Black Ice Holy Land feel gratified.
Ran Ran, he was indeed an expert with extraordinary talent!
In the future, she would probably become an important figure in the Five Extreme Black Ice Holy Land.
In comparison, Xiao Bai and the other two weren't as dazzling, but it was already very good. After all, they had only joined the Five Extreme Black Ice Holy Land for less than two years.
The other disciples that had joined the Five Extreme Black Ice Holy Land for ten years had not achieved such dazzling achievements.
It could be said that many dragon martial artists would shine in this competition and obtain the favor of powerhouses.
And when the fourth grade disciples returned, it was time for the fifth grade disciples to set off.
Kang Shin-mu only briefly met with Ran Ran and the others before leaving.
As a fifth grade disciple of the Five Extreme Black Ice Holy Land, he was about to step onto the next competition. Moreover, among the fifth grade disciples, he didn't know anyone that was too strong. It could be said that he had cultivated in the Five Extreme Black Ice Holy Land for very few days, so he naturally didn't know anyone else.
However, he was confident that he could obtain first place in the following competition among the fifth grade disciples.
"I have to obtain first place … If I can't obtain first place, then only death awaits me when I head to the permanent mid-grade ruins."
Kang Shin-mu was especially strict with himself because he knew very well that if he wanted to obtain benefits in the permanent mid-grade ruins and preserve his life, the difficulty would be far greater than obtaining first place in this competition.
After all, a competition was just a competition, but the exploration of the permanent mid-grade ruins was extremely risky.
If he wasn't careful, he could die inside.
Therefore, before that, Kang Shin-mu wanted to use this competition to test himself and improve himself so that he could better deal with the exploration of the permanent mid-grade ruins.
What kind of inheritance would there be in Emperor Wa's ruins?
Kang Shin-mu didn't know, but he had to give it a try. Otherwise, how would he improve his Starry Sky Small World?
The Five Extreme Black Ice Holy Land's several thousand fifth grade disciples embarked on the journey together with Kang Shin-mu.