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Because he surrendered in his fight with Lin Shen, his winning streak at the third mountain was also broken. Having previously been able to challenge anyone ranked up to a million places above him, he dropped a level and could now only challenge those within ten thousand ranks above his.
The third mountain quickly selected another target to continue his upward challenge, aiming to trigger the million-level leapfrogging challenge rule again with another hundred consecutive victories.
The third mountain thought that by surrendering, he wouldn't draw attention to himself, but he hadn't anticipated that many would take notice of him simply because Lin Shen had challenged him.
People soon discovered that this third mountain only ever chose to challenge little-known small race Ascenders.
At first, some thought the third mountain was just picking easy targets, but after watching several of his fights, they realized it was not so simple.
