Someone suddenly shouted from within the city, "Jiang Green Sheep! Where are you going?"
Before Jiang Wang could wonder in surprise how someone had recognized him, another voice called out, "Your name is on the Sea Frontier Ranking List—you're first on this month's Secondary Ranking List for Sea Merit!"
Jiang Wang followed the voices through the air and looked down. He saw a crowd gathered before a posted ranking list.
Thanks to his sharp eyesight, he could make out what it was: a separate volume of the Sea Frontier Ranking List.
But this volume was different from all the others he had seen before. It didn't display the individual battle records of every cultivator. Instead, it showed the rankings themselves.
It was the Sea Merit Ranking List.
The list was simple and eye-catching.
It had two rankings, called the Main Ranking List and the Secondary Ranking List.
They corresponded to Divine Presence-level combat strength and Outer Tower-level combat strength, respectively.
Presumably, Current Era True Lords and those above them shouldn't be discussed by the common people. And there was little point in ranking combat strength below the Outer Tower level; those cultivators were hardly worth ranking in the Lost Realm.
Divine Presence was already the peak of cultivation most people ever saw. After all, those who truly broke through the limits of their lifespan and retained their cultivation until death really did seem "as if a god had descended."
The two rankings were arranged in separate columns, with the Main Ranking List on the left and the Secondary Ranking List on the right.
The Divine Presence experts on the Main Ranking List naturally enjoyed the greatest glory, but the competition was actually fiercer on the Secondary Ranking List.
After all, cultivators at the Outer Tower level formed the backbone of