"Patriarch, we've only just ascended to the Great Thousand World, and there's still much we don't understand. Could you give us some guidance?" After Patriarch Tianhuang agreed to take Qingtan back to the Nine Nether Sparrow Tribe as well, Xiao Yan seized the chance to ask. What he wanted to understand most was the Great Thousand World's hierarchy of cultivation and exactly where his own strength stood.
Patriarch Tianhuang knew what Xiao Yan most wanted to learn. As he led the two of them back to the Nine Nether Sparrow Tribe, he explained some basic facts about the Great Thousand World and its precise cultivation ranks.
The Great Thousand World was where countless planes converged, and its continents were too numerous to count. However, just as the clans and factions on the Dou Qi Continent varied in strength, the Great Thousand World was no exception. Its continents were divided into several grades according to their size or overall strength.
Continents such as the Dou Qi Continent and the Heavenly Profound Continent would merely be considered ordinary in the Great Thousand World-neither outstanding nor particularly weak. Among these planar continents, as numerous as hairs on an ox, ten were universally recognized as the most vast and prosperous. These were known as supercontinents.
Of course, that did not mean supercontinents were necessarily the strongest. Some places inhabited by the Ancient Clans were not supercontinents, yet their foundations were even more formidable. And although certain continents had many powerful cultivators, their circumstances left them embroiled in constant chaos and conflict, making their overall strength a notch weaker.
The Great Thousand World's cultivation ranks were not as finely divided as those of the Dou Qi Continent. Instead, they bore some resemblance to the Origin Power system Qingtan cultivated. The first step in cultivating Spiritual