A day passed in the blink of an eye during meditation. Darkness fell before his eyes, then light returned, and Xuantian was sent out of the Samsara world by the Lord of Six Paths of Reincarnation.
Looking around, he found himself in a lush forest. Fallen leaves bore tracks left by carriage wheels, proving that this was not an uninhabited place.
After confirming that the traces had been left recently and determining the direction in which the carriage had gone, he followed its route.
His mental deductions told him that at this point in time, great divine ability practitioners had hidden themselves away from the world, while the strongest figures active in the world were masters who had attained the Dharma Body.
The Great Jin imperial family had established the Heavenly, Earth, and Human Rankings, assigning positions to Tianxia's masters.
The Heavenly Ranking listed Dharma Body masters akin to Land Immortals. At its peak, it had fifteen or sixteen names; at its lowest, only six or seven.
The Earth Ranking listed renowned masters beneath the Dharma Body realm, recording only the top two hundred. Among Exterior Landscape experts of the Ninth Heaven, only those at the Seventh Heaven of the Exterior Landscape were generally qualified to make the list.
The Human Ranking listed young masters under thirty. Since battles across aperture levels were common, rankings were based solely on individual records.
Liangchun Inn's first-floor hall was noisy and bustling. Jianghu folk sat in groups of two or three, discussing strange tales and extraordinary events.
A lean-faced man in his early thirties drained the wine in his cup in one gulp and said, "Have you heard? Someone made it onto the Human Ranking overnight."
"I returned from beyond the frontier the day before yesterday and haven't paid attention to changes