Today's third update: Chapter 3179! 3/4!
What did "Hundred Races Ascend to the Peak" mean?
The "hundred races" here specifically referred to the top one hundred races in the Sequence Ranking at the time: the Three Saint Races, the Seven Royal Races, and ninety S-Tier Races.
"Ascend to the Peak" meant that these hundred top races had to demonstrate an absolute, indisputable, dominant-scale gap in strength over the other 9,900 races.
Quantified for each rank, the S-Tier Race ranked one hundredth needed to have accumulated total race points at least twice those of the Tier-A Race ranked one hundred and first!
Furthermore, for every rank climbed higher, that race's total points had to exceed the one below by at least the total points of the Tier-A Race ranked one hundred and first!
The far-reaching significance of "Hundred Races Ascend to the Peak" was that, after that war ended, it used the Battlefield Will as its guide to draw an insurmountable chasm in strength between S-Tier Races and Tier-A Races.
Moreover, the closer one got to the top of the sequence, the greater this gap, measured in units of the "foremost Tier-A Race," became. Like a heavenly gulf, it completely separated upper-tier races from lower-tier races.
This affected not only the Myriad Races Sequence, whose rankings had been determined by the War of the Myriad Races, but also directly affected the relative strength of the races on Blue Star. It created the stable pattern of the five hundred years following the Haotian Era and, after the First Tier War of the five-hundred-year period defined the Myriad Races Sequence, established the racial system ranging from SSS-tier to Tier-D.
From this, low-tier races rated Tier-E and Tier-F also emerged. Though they were not included in the Myriad Races Sequence, their classifications were