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Humans tend to interpret things based on their literal meaning. Whether the names of Rankings of Heaven, Earth, and Man had a special significance or not, people would inevitably interpret them literally.
Most people understood the Ranking of Hidden Dragons to refer to emerging talents, while the Ranking of Man was for mortal masters. The Ranking of Heaven represented those who were beyond human, legendary figures in the clouds. And the Ranking of Earth fell somewhere in between—those on the path to the heavens.
No matter how much people’s perception of the Rankings of Heaven and Earth may be exaggerated, if Cui Wenjing and others knew that they were considered legends, they might not know whether to laugh or cry. But to the world, this was reality. Even Zhao Changhe, back when he was still naive, thought that Vermillion Bird was a god.
In other words, the top of the Ranking of Man represented the strongest “human.” Above that, one was no longer considered just a person.
Thus, reaching the top of the Ranking of Man granted one an absurdly high status in the jianghu.
At least, that used to be the case. However, due to the deaths of three of the figures on the Ranking of Earth in the past two years and the frequent changes at the top of the Ranking of Man, its once sacred aura had faded. Zhao Changhe’s rise to the top was not even as sensational as when he became First Hidden Dragon. After...
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