The Yuzhou Newcomer Ranking,
was compiled by the Heavenly Secret Pavilion, the most mysterious and unfathomable sect in Yuzhou.
It was a ranking of Yuzhou's new generation of cultivators, primarily recording Heaven's Chosen below a hundred years old.
It differed from Cloud Water Sect's Fifty-Year Inner Sect Grand Competition.
Although the Cloud Water Sect Inner Sect Grand Competition likewise required participants to be below a hundred years old, because it was only held once every fifty years, people like Zhang Qingyuan, who had gone through only one Inner Sect Grand Competition before advancing to become core disciples, were not unheard of.
And after advancing to become a core disciple, they were no longer Inner Sect Disciples.
In truth,
during this Inner Sect Grand Competition, although the Inner Sect Three Elites enjoyed great renown, they were not the foremost among Cloud Water Sect's new generation of disciples.
In truth, among those below a hundred years old,
there were no shortage of Cloud Water Sect core disciples who had entered the threshold of the True Essence Late Stage. Such people did not show themselves in the Inner Sect, yet they were listed upon the Yuzhou Newcomer Ranking!
There was even a higher Hidden Dragon Ranking above the Rising Star Ranking, and among Cloud Water Sect's core disciples, there were also those whose names appeared upon it.
As the First Sect of Yuzhou,
Cloud Water Sect's foundations naturally could not be lacking.
Yet rankings like the Hidden Dragon Ranking were, for ordinary True Essence Realm Cultivators, still beyond the level they could reach.
More of Yuzhou's attention was focused on the struggle for places on the Rising Star Ranking.
For only those who could rank on the Rising Star Ranking would be qualified to participate in the once-a-century Yuzhou Newcomer Assembly.
Such a