The Third Stage

Put plainly, the Hundred-Clan Ranking Tournament was a platform where the Hundred Clans of the Primordial Wilderness displayed their strength, using their rankings from the competition to determine their respective shares of benefits. The higher one ranked, the better the resources one received; the lower one ranked, the fewer resources one received. The resources mentioned here mainly referred to places for cultivation. Cultivators valued wealth, companions, methods, and land—do not underestimate "land" just because it came last. It was an important component of cultivation. The Hundred-Clan Ranking Tournament was now a platform for "dividing the spoils." Everyone used their strength to obtain good cultivation grounds. A good place for cultivation could achieve twice the result with half the effort, which was why the various clans still attached considerable importance to the Hundred-Clan Ranking Tournament.

But do not think that obtaining a good cultivation ground through the Hundred-Clan Ranking Tournament meant everything would be smooth sailing afterward. That was impossible. The Hundred-Clan Ranking Tournament had a rule: for one hundred thousand years after a cultivation ground was acquired through the tournament, others could not attack the owner of that "territory." Yet it was only one hundred thousand years. What could one hundred thousand years accomplish in the Primordial Wilderness? A single secluded cultivation session might consume that time. Yuan Tian's previous seclusion had lasted nearly a hundred million years. By that calculation, the owner of his cultivation ground might change a thousand times during a single seclusion. Wasn't that utterly screwed up? There was no helping it; those were the rules. If one wanted to keep a cultivation ground, one needed the corresponding strength. Without strength, what could one say? In the Primordial Wilderness, strength did the talking. Thus, in terms of timing, the Hundred Clans could only be said to