Ouyang's words spared the sect master of one of the Nine Great Sacred Lands before him no dignity, even bordering on outright humiliation.
Ouyang had also heard of the Heavenly Ranking, renowned throughout Heaven and Earth.
At first, Ouyang had thought it was merely some sort of ranking the Nine Great Sacred Lands had created to encourage young cultivators.
But as his understanding of this world deepened over the years, Ouyang had developed his own interpretation of the Heavenly Ranking.
Once every hundred years, could the names of a hundred Heavenly Prodigies be entered on the Heavenly Ranking?
At first hearing, it sounded like having one's name inscribed on the golden roll of successful candidates, but viewed another way...
Didn't it resemble a list of candidates handed to patrons at the Yihong Brothel?
Those carefully selected Heavenly Prodigies seemed like star courtesans displayed at the Yihong Brothel, available for anyone to choose.
Then who were these patrons?
Probably only those Immortals who had once sat high in the heavens enjoyed such an honor!
And what would become of the chosen Heavenly Prodigies?
Ouyang thought of that young Master's Wife on Penglai Immortal Mountain-Mu Yunhai.
Why had the Nine Great Sacred Lands ignored an Immortal exposed to the world like that?
Or rather, why had they allowed that Immortal to keep eating away at a cultivator's body?
Without Hu Yun's arrangements, Mu Yunhai would probably have faced only two possible outcomes.
Either Immortal Assimilation, or replacing the Immortal!
Since this world's Great Cultivators all harbored a murderous hostility toward Immortals, why would they allow Mu Yunhai and an Immortal to fight over the same body?
The deeper Ouyang considered it, the more chilling it became. Only one explanation could convince him: the Great Cultivators were also observing whether replacing an Immortal