Two surnames were engraved on the Primordial Chaos Golden Ranking: Hong and Lin.
This meant that two people in Primordial Chaos Space had already left their surnames on the golden ranking.
Leaving a surname on the golden ranking meant that both had become Primordial Chaos Controllers, the strongest people in Primordial Chaos Space.
And the positions their surnames occupied were at the very top of the golden ranking, meaning they were both first-tier Primordial Chaos Controllers.
Once every position at the top was taken, anyone else who left their surname on the Primordial Chaos Golden Ranking would be only an ordinary Primordial Chaos Controller, or a second-tier Controller. The tiers descended from there.
Ordinary Controllers were subject to the authority of first-tier Controllers, and their Divine Abilities were far inferior.
There were four positions for first-tier Controllers. Two remained.
The Primordial Chaos Golden Ranking was actually somewhat like the Sky Ranking in the Great Thousand World where Yao Chen and Xiao Yan were.
The difference was that one required only a surname, while the other required both a surname and a given name.
After signing the Sky Ranking in the Great Thousand World, one could draw on the power of the entire Great Thousand World to drive one's cultivation forward and ascend to the Ruler Realm.
But leaving one's name on the Sky Ranking did not create a disparity in strength based on who signed first.
The first person to leave a name was a Ruler, and so was the tenth. There was no distinction between first-tier and second-tier Rulers.
The difference in strength between Rulers lay not in the order they signed the Sky Ranking, but in the Rulers themselves.
After signing the Primordial Chaos Golden Ranking, one would become a Primordial Chaos Controller, nearly omnipotent within Primordial Chaos