Trouble Before the Competition Begins

Early the next morning, True Monarch Guangmu freshened up and personally saw them off in high spirits.

A total of one hundred and thirty-one cultivators were heading to Central Continent for the Five Continents Grand Competition: fifteen Nascent Soul cultivators, sixty Golden Core cultivators, and fifty-six Foundation Establishment cultivators.

Just as Tianyi Sect had its Heaven, Earth, and Human Rankings, Central Continent also had its own Heaven, Earth, and Human Rankings.

However, Central Continent did not consider them rankings belonging solely to Central Continent. Instead, they bore the name of the Cangwu Realm and were known as the Realm Rankings.

Among them, the Heaven Ranking was for Mahayana cultivators, the Earth Ranking was for Spirit Transformation cultivators, and the Human Ranking was for Nascent Soul cultivators.

Below the Heaven, Earth, and Human Realm Rankings were three lesser rankings: the Lesser Heaven, Earth, and Human Rankings, prepared respectively for Golden Core, Foundation Establishment, and Qi Refinement disciples.

Yet the Heaven, Earth, and Human Rankings shone too brilliantly, completely eclipsing the Lesser Heaven, Earth, and Human Rankings.

Still, this batch of Foundation Establishment and Golden Core cultivators had all come for the Lesser Heaven, Earth, and Human Rankings.

The Nascent Soul cultivators all had their sights set on the Five Continents Grand Competition, with the Human Ranking, the lowest of the Heaven, Earth, and Human Rankings, coming only afterward.

As for the Heaven and Earth Rankings... it was said that they recorded only the top twenty names, and those names had not changed for decades.

For the time being, no cultivators who did not know the difference between life and death had gone to challenge the top twenty on either ranking.

After the disciples of the five Southern Continent sects gathered together, they boarded a flying vessel for Central Continent.

They had