"Oh?" He Pingsheng's interest was immediately piqued. Looking at the Golden Core Stage West Lake Patriarch, he asked, "What is this Bushel Mountain Seven-Household Grand Competition?"
"Please explain, Senior!"
"Very well!" True Person West Lake said. "Then I shall explain what is at stake!"
The three sat down at the stone table and stools in the courtyard.
True Person West Lake explained the Seven-Household Grand Competition.
He Pingsheng understood at once.
As it turned out, it was much like the Nine-Nation Grand Tournament in the Cultivation World.
Both were tournaments organized to compete for something.
The difference was that each nation sent ten people to the Nine-Nation Grand Tournament, whereas each lineage only needed to send two people to the Seven-Household Grand Competition, and only one actually competed.
The other served as a substitute at a critical moment.
"All seven of our lineages are affiliated with the Celestial Person Immortal Sect on the Heavenly Fire Continent."
"Of course, countless lineages fall under the Celestial Person Immortal Sect, and we seven are by no means all of them. But our seven lineages compete for some of the same resources, and we all reside on Bushel Mountain!"
"So every hundred years, the seven lineages hold a tournament to determine their rankings!"
"And those rankings also determine our allotted places in the Heavenly Fire Ruins!"
He Pingsheng asked, "What are the Heavenly Fire Ruins?"
True Person West Lake said, "Low-ranking disciples like you might not know this, but our Spirit Realm consists of five vast continents: the Heavenly Fire Continent, the Mysterious Ice Continent, the Western Extremity Continent, the Thunderwaste Continent, and the Thick Earth Continent!"
"These five vast lands correspond to the five elements of fire, water, metal, wood, and earth!"
"The Heavenly Fire Continent gives rise to ten great innate true