"Ding, ding, ding!"
"Bang, bang, bang!"
At the foot of Heaven-Reaching Peak, the vast True Yang Daoist Ground resounded with incessant thunderous crashes, the sounds of magical artifacts and spells colliding carrying in every direction.
Thousands upon thousands had gathered there, countless cultivators watching the two figures on the martial stage with rapt attention.
Today was the Primordial Yang Sect's grand competition, a rare gathering held once every ten years.
After the Primordial Yang Sect destroyed the Hehuan Sect and Snowfall Pavilion in succession, then forced Crescent Moon Valley and the Void Clarity School into submission, its territory had expanded rapidly.
Naturally, this gradually brought more disciples with excellent spiritual root aptitude.
Thus, after twenty or thirty years, although the ranks of Golden Core cultivators had changed little, the Primordial Yang Sect's Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment disciples far outnumbered those from before the expansion.
Over the years, dazzling "young geniuses" had emerged from time to time, sweeping into Foundation Establishment like a blade splitting bamboo.
Both the Family Line and the Outer Courtyard Line had produced quite a few outstanding cultivators.
Like jade stood the figure upon the path, a young gentleman without equal beneath heaven!
Compared with the former "Three Heroes and Four Talents," the Primordial Yang Sect now shone with a constellation of stars; seven places could no longer encompass them all.
After all, some Foundation Establishment experts, even if they could not enter the top seven, possessed strength far beyond ordinary cultivators of their realm.
The title of Three Heroes and Four Talents had therefore become outdated, replaced by the "Thirty-Six Heavenly Gang" and "Seventy-Two Earthly Sha," collectively known as the "Heavenly Gang and Earthly Sha Rankings."
These broadly referred to the Primordial Yang Sect's thirty-six strongest Foundation Establishment cultivators and seventy-two strongest Qi Refining cultivators.