Vast Sky City Summons

The ranking assessments of sects and clans across the Nine Provinces, great and small, could not be meddled with by human hands. They were judged by the Heavenly Mechanism.

That was why, upon learning that the Crimson Blood Sect had gained a Lu Ye, the major sects of Myriad Demon Ridge had sent disciples to hunt him down in the Spirit Stream Battlefield. As long as Lu Ye was killed, the Crimson Blood Sect would be completely struck from the rolls in the next sect ranking assessment!

Myriad Demon Ridge had always been deeply wary of this great enemy, who decades ago had inflicted immense losses upon them and even beaten several First Rank Sects down the ranks.

Unfortunately, they had ultimately fallen just short. At Golden Light Peak in the Spirit Stream Battlefield, Lu Ye had risen to fame in a single battle, and the Crimson Blood Sect had survived as a result.

There were many rigid criteria for sect ranking assessments.

For example, an Upper Three Ranks sect had to have a great cultivator of the Divine Sea Realm overseeing it!

A Middle Three Ranks sect had to have a True Lake Realm cultivator overseeing it!

As for the Lower Three Ranks, they needed a certain number of Cloud River Realm cultivators.

But having a Divine Sea Realm cultivator in the sect did not necessarily make it an Upper Three Ranks sect. The Heavenly Mechanism had its own standards of judgment.

Take the Crimson Blood Sect, for instance. Back then, the Sect Master had been in the Divine Sea Realm, yet because the sect had only Lu Ye and Shui Yuan as disciples, it had merely been rated Ninth Rank.

Even now, the Crimson Blood Sect had not risen into the Middle Three Ranks, because its overall strength