This was the depth and strength of those Renowned Great Sects: their juniors could stand against the older generation.
And young people like these often set their sights directly on the Dragon Rankings. As for the Tiger Rankings, they did not consider them worth a glance.
The Dragon Rankings required a cultivation level of the Half-Step Martial Realm. Young experts like Zhangsun Youyue were not qualified to compete for a place on the Dragon Rankings even if they possessed the strength of the Half-Step Martial Realm.
This was also why Pei Yi had reminded Zhangsun Youyue. If Zhangsun Youyue could not break through to the Half-Step Martial Realm within the next six months, she would have no part in this contest for the Dragon Rankings. And naturally, she could not compete ten years later, either, because by then, younger experts from Bishui Palace would step up to take her place. Even if there were no younger disciples with such extraordinary talent, Bishui Palace would rather forgo the competition.
For a young expert like Zhangsun Youyue, even another ten years would still leave her very young, but to Bishui Palace, that age was already beyond the limit.
Ten years later, Zhangsun Youyue would probably have a very good chance of contending for the top ten on the Dragon Rankings, but a power like Bishui Palace had no need whatsoever to prove anything through its position on such a list.
Thus, the changing of these rankings was a contest between the younger disciples of the Renowned Great Sects, as well as an opportunity for experts in the Jianghu who did not come from such sects to make their names. They might bring glory to their own schools, or they might catch the eye of a Renowned Great Sect or another major power,