Chapter 74 – Dangerous Red Blood Forest
Ye Chen asked, “How strong is this Blood Craving Monster?” He did not ask for that guy’s cultivation level, because when it concerned geniuses, cultivation levels were only trivial. It was not uncommon for a Mid Condensing Reality Realm warrior to beat a Late Condensing Reality Realm warrior. So, the most important thing was rather his battle prowess.
Yuan Xuemei glanced at Wang Feng, and explained: “Brother Ye, I wonder if you ever heard about the three stages of the younger generation of the Windy Nation?”
Ye Chen shook his head. Maybe the disciples who had been travelling for a while might have known about it, but he was someone who had just become an inner disciple and had no powerful connections. So, he did not know much.
“Okay, I will explain it for you!” Yuan Xuemei organized her thoughts, and slowly explained.
“Although there are not as many geniuses as the other big nations in the Windy Nation, there are still quite a lot of them. In general, only the real geniuses would be included in this classification.
The first stage, which is the highest stage only has three people, Young master Emerald from the Emerald Martial Palace, the Young master North Snow from the North Snow Martial Academy and the Young master Duanmu from the Duanmu family. All three of them are considered the leaders of the younger generation of the Windy Nation. They are capable of competing with the top geniuses from other countries, and are eligible to attend the triennial competition for the Hidden Dragon Rank.
There are many people in the second stage. For example, the core disciple - ‘Broken Palm’ Liu Wuxiang – from the Emerald Martial Palace, the ‘Stone Man’ Shi Potian, the core dicisple from the North Snow Martial Academy - ‘Aggressive Blade’ Yu Yue, ‘North Snow Fast Blade’ Lin Qi, Ouyang Lie from the Purple Sun Martial Palace, ‘Golden Leg’ Ouyang Ming. Our eldest sister and second brother from the Rudra Martial School, ‘Lotus Goddess’ Qin Yulian and the ‘Rain man’ Nan Gongyun; the core disciples from your Sky Cloud Martial School Zhu Mei, and ‘Young master Hanshan’ Luo Hanshan. Of course, the more people there are, the harder it is, to ignore the the difference in their strength. The most powerful one might easily defeat the weakest one. Yet, they are all named in the same stage.
I would not go into details about the third stage, as there are just too many people in it. Most of them are core disciples from all the martial institutions, who are mostly at the Late Condensing Reality Realm. They are very likely to become the mid rank powers of the Windy Nation in the future.”
Ye Chen frowned, “So this Blood Craving Monster is a stage-three genius?”
“Hehe, not exactly. He is below the three stages, but he is still one of the most powerful disciples. it’s just that his cultivation level is not quite there yet. it is not impossible for him to join the third stage.” Yuan Xuemei explained.
After hearing this, Ye Chen tried to picture a detailed power chart in his mind, from high to low. It was much more organized when compared to earlier, when he knew nothing about his fellow disciples’ strength.
As for the competition for the Hidden Dragon Rank that she mentioned, he had already heard about it before.
The Nan Zhuo region was the smallest region in the true spirit continent. However, this smallest region was still way bigger than the world Ye Chen was from. It had millions of miles of land, among which, there were three big nations, ten mid sized nations and twenty-four small nations, like the Windy Nation.
All the martial artists from different nations normally did not interact much, due to the distance between their nations. This made it very hard to get an idea of the strength of the martial artists in other nations.
Therefore, the three big nations decided to collaborate and set up a competition sixty years ago, in order to get a clear idea of the level of all the warriors from various nations.
The competition for the Hidden Dragon Rank was designed for the youngsters who were under twenty-four and with a cultivation level at or above Mid Condensing Reality Realm. It was held once every three years, with seventy-two contestants each time.
Although seventy-two might seem like a lot, it is actually very few. In Nan Zhuo region alone, there were billions of people living, so being selected as one of the top seventy-two would be the greatest honor. And as far as Ye Chen knew, in the last Hidden Dragon Rank competition, that took place a year ago, Young master Emerald from the Emerald Martial Palace was ranked sixty-eighth, while Young master North Snow and Young master Duanmu were not even in the rankings.
Of course, it did not mean that Young master Emerald was stronger than the other two, as sometimes you might just have bad luck and could encounter opponents with the exact skills to counter yours. In that kind of situation, even if you had the higher cultivation level, it would still not make much of a difference.
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