The emergence of the Heavenly Ranking was an event of the highest importance to young cultivators throughout the world.
For the Ethereal Pavilion, it was also an opportunity to display its standing as one of the Nine Great Sacred Lands.
For this emergence of the Heavenly Ranking, the Pavilion Master of the Ethereal Pavilion had ordered that the event must be grander than any before it. Preparations had even begun ten years in advance.
Thus, this Heavenly Ranking would carry greater weight than any previous edition, which also meant that the struggle for its top spot would be even fiercer.
The Ethereal Pavilion stood in the most renowned blessed land for cultivation, the Luminous Blessed Land.
This place enjoyed the same renown as the Azure Cloud Grotto-Heaven, where the Azure Cloud Sect resided.
They were known as the two grotto-heavens and blessed lands with the richest Heaven and Earth essence in the Cultivation World!
Within one mountain range in the Luminous Blessed Land, more than a dozen peaks stood in succession, encircling a vast plain below.
The vast plain had already been paved with enormous slabs of bluestone. The seemingly endless stretch of bluestone made the entire plain appear extraordinarily open and empty.
More than a dozen peaks surrounded the plain like a fence, forming what resembled an enormous arena.
At that moment, the dozen or so peaks were already packed with young cultivators from every direction.
Some called out to friends and companions, making for a lively scene, while others seized the time to meditate and regulate their breathing, striving to enter in their absolute peak condition when the Heavenly Ranking emerged.
The dozen or so peaks seethed with voices, and everyone's gaze rested on the arena-like plain before them.
Everyone also knew that this plain would be the