"Yes. A tall tree catches the wind. Junior Brother Lin, Senior Sister and I know your contributions perfectly well. You needn't stand here modestly declining the credit," the Youth surnamed Long said with a smile.
With the conversation having reached this point, if Lin Xuan kept refusing and claimed he had not helped the sect in the slightest, that would be far too affected. As the saying went, too much was as bad as too little, so he simply smiled and said nothing.
After listening to the two of them for a while, he suddenly remembered something. "Right, Senior Sister, you just said our sect ranks twelfth among the sects and clans of the Nailong Realm. What is that...?"
As Lin Xuan listened, he found it rather strange. The Nailong Realm was vast, with countless sects and clans, and the gaps between strong and weak were enormous. Yet there was actually a ranking? Wasn't that a little too absurd?
"Hehe, since Junior Brother mentions it, this ranking has existed for a very long time. If one traces it back to its source, I'm afraid it would have to be verified as far back as a million years ago. At first, it was just some idle cultivators arranging things at random for fun. Later, for some unknown reason, certain great powers began to take this ranking seriously. Every five hundred years, they would send out large numbers of disciples to verify the strength of every sect and clan in this realm, then produce a ranked list. Afterward, Wanxiao Immortal Palace even became specifically responsible for this matter."
"Oh?"
Lin Xuan was greatly surprised. He had heard of Wanxiao Immortal Palace. Like the True Extremity Sect, it was one of the few great powers in the Nailong Realm. Ordinary cultivators could only