The Latent Dragon Nascent Phoenix Ranking was actually composed of two rankings, corresponding respectively to the Body Refining Realm and the Aperture Refining Realm. As for the Joint Aperture Realm, it fell outside the ranking's scope.
Whether it was the Body Refining Realm or Aperture Refining Realm ranking, only the top thirty were taken. In other words, only the top thirty would be displayed on the Latent Dragon Nascent Phoenix Ranking; everyone else was merely there to make up the numbers.
The Body Refining Realm ranking was commonly called the Lesser Ranking, while the Aperture Refining Realm ranking was naturally called the Greater Ranking.
Within the Endless Sea, there were an enormous number of martial artists. With World Vital Energy this dense, they might have been nourished by it from the moment they were still in their mothers' wombs.
Thus, the fiercest competition on this ranking was actually for the Body Refining Realm's Lesser Ranking, because Body Refining Realm martial artists were the most numerous by far.
Therefore, as long as martial artists who made it onto the Lesser Ranking did not perish midway, breaking through to the Aperture Refining Realm was almost inevitable. Moreover, they would all perform exceptionally well within the Aperture Refining Realm.
The Latent Dragon Nascent Phoenix Ranking had existed for many years. Someone had specifically compiled statistics: of those martial artists who had made it onto the Lesser Ranking back then, twenty to thirty percent later entered the Greater Ranking after spending many years in the Aperture Refining Realm.
Geniuses generally remained outstanding all the way through. It was rare for a genius to suddenly become inadequate later on, let alone someone who had fought their way into the top thirty from amid an army of a thousand troops and ten thousand horses. The value