The group sat down before the stone table in the courtyard.
Zeng Yang gathered his thoughts, then slowly began to speak.
"Brother Duan may not have looked into this before."
"The Mystic Heaven Realm's Sect Ranking Tournament is a grand event held once every ten years across the entire Mystic Heaven Realm, jointly participated in by sects from the seven great domains of the Mystic Heaven Realm that have reached a certain scale!"
"Although the qualification standard is not low, of the seven great domains of the Mystic Heaven Realm, aside from our Taihua Domain, there are also Xinluo, Tianpeng, Shangping, Yufu, Guangling, and Yixian—the other six are all vast domains with sprawling territories!"
"In each domain, the sects that meet the standard number at least a dozen, and at most twenty or thirty!"
"So when all is said and done, the participating sects number well over a hundred!"
Jiang Fan nodded slightly.
He had learned a little about the seven great domains of the Mystic Heaven Realm before.
Relatively speaking, the Taihua Domain should have been the smallest of all the domains.
Even so, the Taihua Domain still had nearly ten sects that met the standard for the Sect Ranking Tournament.
With all seven great domains together exceeding a hundred, that was hardly surprising.
"Mm..."
"Go on!"
Zeng Yang continued.
"As for the purpose of the ranking tournament, there are three points!"
"First, ranking is a symbol of status. The prestige of a top-ten sect and a sect ranked beyond the hundredth place in the Mystic Heaven Realm is worlds apart. They cannot be mentioned in the same breath..."
"Second, ranking directly affects a sect's recruitment of disciples. Young talents with exceptional aptitude will naturally lean more toward the higher-ranked great sects!"
"The more talented disciples a sect attracts,