Becoming a Saint From the Iron Armor Skill

Chapter 499: Chapter 247: The Rouge Assessment

The Inspection Bureau Office was nearing completion, and the Great Dao Sect would probably send people down soon.

Chen Cheng sat in the Government Office. After organizing the intelligence reports, he carefully leafed through three small booklets.

These three booklets were the "Northern Celestial List," the "Northern Territory Earth List," and the "Rouge List."

The Celestial List recorded the experts in the Five Northern States who had entered the Innate Realm, ranked according to their overall Martial Arts Power.

The Earth List, on the other hand, was for Martial Artists under the age of thirty-five who had not yet entered the Innate Realm, also ranked by their overall Martial Arts Power.

The Celestial List was rather brief, generally only recording a person’s Sect, name, and Martial Arts Realm.

The Earth List, however, was more detailed, even recording the Cultivation Techniques practiced by those ranked higher.

The Rouge List was similar to the Earth List, also recording Martial Artists below the Innate Realm, but with the age limited to under thirty.

Furthermore, the rankings didn’t just assess overall Martial Arts Power; they placed a greater emphasis on Martial Arts Talent and potential.

The higher their Martial Arts Talent and the younger they were, the higher their ranking.

In the Great Yu, the Martial Dao was held in the highest esteem, so it was inevitable that Martial Artists would compete for rankings.

In a remote Prefecture City like Linji City, there were also various rankings. For instance, Chen Cheng himself had held quite a few titles before.

Ruyi District’s number one Chief Constable, the South City District’s youngest Chief Constable, Lishui District’s number one Chief Constable, and now, the number one Martial Artist of Linji City’s younger generation.

It was just that in Linji City, they mostly only ranked first place; second, third, and so on were never determined.

But across the entire Great Yu, the various rankings were innumerable.

In the Northern Territory, the most famous were the Celestial List and the Earth List.

These two lists were compiled by the Celestial Secret Pavilion, a faction that specialized in buying and selling intelligence.

The Celestial Secret Pavilion had a long history. It claimed to be able to deduce celestial secrets and know all of the world’s affairs, its activities spanning the entire Great Yu.

It was rumored that the founder of the Celestial Secret Pavilion was a peerless expert capable of glimpsing the level of a Martial Saint.

The lists compiled by the Celestial Secret Pavilion were considered authoritative throughout the entire Great Yu.

However, in the Northern Territory, the Earth List compiled by the Celestial Secret Pavilion was far less famous than the Rouge List compiled by the Sutra of Ultimate Sect.

This wasn’t because the Sutra of Ultimate Sect’s information was more accurate or reliable than the Celestial Secret Pavilion’s. Instead, it was because the Sutra of Ultimate Sect’s Rouge List tended to place greater emphasis on a person’s Martial Arts Talent and potential.

The Celestial Secret Pavilion’s Earth List was updated once a year, and the rankings of those on it would change.

The Rouge List, in contrast, had no fixed update schedule. Whenever the Sutra of Ultimate Sect discovered someone with exceptional Martial Arts Talent and enough potential to make the list, they would update it immediately.

For the past hundred years, many Martial Artists who appeared on the Earth List often failed to make it to the Celestial List. In contrast, the vast majority of those who made it onto the Rouge List eventually entered the Celestial List.

Therefore, the Rouge List was far more famous than the Earth List and seemed poised to surpass it.

The Celestial Secret Pavilion compiled the Celestial and Earth Lists, naturally, to build its reputation and support its business of selling intelligence.

But the Sutra of Ultimate Sect was different. They went through the time and effort of updating the Rouge List for the sole purpose of recruiting disciples.

Many of the Martial Artists who made it onto the Rouge List were ultimately accepted into the Sutra of Ultimate Sect, either as True Disciples or Inner Sect Disciples.

Logically, if the Sutra of Ultimate Sect wanted to recruit disciples with exceptional Martial Arts Talent, it would make more sense for them to hide the news after discovering such individuals.

Instead of hiding the news, they ranked these individuals on a public list, undoubtedly telling other Sects exactly where to find a new martial arts genius with immense potential. This was tantamount to seeking out competitors—hardly a wise move.

But this was precisely where their brilliance lay.

The Sutra of Ultimate Bliss, the legacy of the Sutra of Ultimate Sect, often required men and women to copulate to jointly cultivate the Yin Yang Realm—a practice considered unseemly.

For a long time, they were even considered a Demon Sect and were scorned by all.

But the Sutra of Ultimate Sect had, in fact, relied on the Rouge List to rise against the tide and become one of the most prominent Major Sects in the Northern Territory.

They were trying to prove just one thing to the world: that the Sutra of Ultimate Bliss was a supreme Martial Dao inheritance.

The Yin Yang Realm, cultivated through the Sutra of Ultimate Bliss, was the strongest of all Realms, surpassing every other.

On the current Northern Celestial List, the Sutra of Ultimate Sect had the second-highest number of experts, only slightly fewer than the Taiyi Sect.

And without exception, all of these Celestial List experts had once been on the Rouge List.

"Judged by the Rouge List, advance to the Innate Realm, make the Celestial List, and ascend to the peak of the Martial Dao!"

This was the slogan proclaimed by the Sutra of Ultimate Sect.

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