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The so-called [Hero Ranking].

At its core, it was merely a method used by the [News Report] to encourage young cultivators and provide them with a path forward.

As everyone knew.

Although many cultivators possessed considerable talent, their prospects remained bleak due to their backgrounds, like fine steeds that had never encountered a discerning patron.

Under such circumstances.

So long as they successfully made it onto the [Hero Ranking], they could, at the very least, use the boost in fame to join a fairly decent faction and secure a better future.

At the end of the day, most people who ventured into the martial world did so for profit and reputation... The world had always contained more common folk than anything else.

Therefore.

Once the younger generation of cultivators realized that the higher they ranked on the [Hero Ranking], the greater the benefits they received, their pursuit of strength naturally became all the more intense, driving the overall cultivation atmosphere in a healthy direction... After all, becoming stronger brought fame, and fame brought all manner of tangible benefits. That in itself was the best kind of virtuous cycle.

It was precisely because of this.

As a ranking intended specifically to seek opportunities for younger cultivators, the [Hero Ranking] only included those under forty.

So the question was.

What kind of age was forty in this world?

Answer: even for ordinary people, it could still be called young.

This was a world where, absent external threats, even ordinary people could live past a hundred on average.

If their living conditions were relatively good.

For example, if they never had to worry about food or clothing and did not need to perform heavy labor in their daily lives, then even an ordinary person who never exercised living smoothly to around one hundred