The Southern and Northern Dipper Sword was intended for Qi Refining cultivators in the first place, allowing Sect-tier Dharma Lineages and the like to select Dao talent.
The Northern Dipper Three Rankings and Southern Dipper Three Rankings on the Dragon-Tiger Mystic Altar listed outstanding elites from the tenth through twelfth levels of Qi Refining. No one of Dao Child standing had ever participated.
Yet no one had expected that the new lord of [Lesser Yang] was still in the Qi Refining realm and had yet to enter the Flying Ascension Foundation Establishment Realm.
This was particularly unexpected.
The Dao Children of the Eight Sects of the Southern Continent were either blessed by fortune and possessed innate Dao wisdom, or had caught a Dao Lord's eye early on and been supported in their rise.
Even the least of them had to be a Foundation Establishment True Person. Since when had a Lower Cultivator at the Qi Refining level ever been allowed to take such a seat?
Secondly, the new lord of [Lesser Yang] did indeed hail from a Dharma Lineage on the border between north and south, with his life Qi entrusted to a Talisman Edict.
With those two factors combined, his name had naturally been entered on the Northern Dipper Dharma Ranking.
"Dharma, Dao, and artifacts—he's taken Ao Head in all three."
Fuli Zi clicked his tongue in wonder. "This new lord of [Lesser Yang] even has a True Treasure Killing Sword protecting him. Just what sort of person is he, to possess such tremendous fortune?
"Mind you, there are fewer than ten in the whole Jambudvipa Vast Land, and those currently in the world number fewer than the fingers on one hand."
Lou Zhenxiao narrowed his eyes. He counted as half a sword cultivator and was quite fond of