Lying in bed, Huang Tian gazed at the moonlight spilling into the room and sorted through the memories in his mind.
The country I'm in is called Great Chu. The Martial Path flourishes here, and everyone prizes martial prowess. It has ninety-nine prefectures. I'm deep in the mountains of Fu Prefecture, a lower prefecture with a population of ten million. As for the middle
and upper prefectures, their populations are even larger.
The strongest power in Great Chu is undoubtedly the imperial court, followed by the great orthodox sects and aristocratic clans. The righteous and demonic factions clash—
But those great sects are too far removed from ordinary people. The original owner knew little about them. He only knew of the Human Ranking and the World's Peerless Beauties Ranking, and even those he'd heard about from a storyteller in Ju'an Commandery City...
The Human Ranking listed three hundred people. Spread evenly across the ninety-nine prefectures, that amounted to only three per prefecture. For a lower prefecture like Fu Prefecture, even one was a rarity, which showed just how difficult it was to make the list. Once someone's name appeared on it, they immediately became famous throughout the realm, their prestige soaring even higher in their home prefecture. Wealth, power, beautiful women—everything was theirs for the taking, and countless people sought connections with them!
In fact, one did not even have to make the list. Anyone who could remain undefeated for several dozen exchanges against a hero on the Human Ranking while at the same realm would earn resounding fame!
Precisely because of this, almost every hero on the Human Ranking found themselves plagued by an endless stream of challengers after making the list.
As for the World's Peerless Beauties Ranking, as its name suggested, it recorded the realm's beauties. It