204: The big guys eat the meat, the small sects drink the soup, and the casual cultivators smell the flavor.

With the release of the robbery heavenly genius rankings and the distribution of the Secret Realm entry tokens based on it, the Jiedao Heavenly Pride Assembly came to an end.

Next was the opening of the Tribulation Dao Secret Realm, where Cultivators in the Mahayana Realm holding Tribulation Dao Secret Realm entry tokens would enter the Secret Realm for experience.

However, this would require waiting for half a year.

Before this Jiedao Heavenly Pride Assembly, previous Heaven Ruins Millennium Grand Tournament of Martial Arts were all arena-style competitions, which resulted in more serious casualties. Therefore, some time was needed to allow the Prodigies who fought to the death to recover from their injuries, recuperate, and then fight in the Secret Realm again.

Thus, the Tribulation Dao Secret Realm would usually open half a year after the assembly concluded.

This Jiedao Heavenly Pride Assembly changed many things; not only was the competition method altered, but even the name of the assembly was changed to the Jiedao Heavenly Pride Assembly.

However, it was more widely accepted by everyone.

Compared to arena-style competitions, tower-climbing competitions undoubtedly had broader participation.

In previous assemblies, the number of Prodigies sent by various Giant Cultivation Factions to compete never exceeded ten. Among hundreds of thousands of Giant Cultivation Factions, only a few hundred thousand Prodigies actually participated in the ranking battles.

What about after switching to tower-climbing competitions?

Without the risk of being instantly killed in an arena, participation immediately surged, and even Loose Cultivators were eager to join.

Even though the Central Continent Immortal Mansion eventually controlled the number of participants in this Jiedao Heavenly Pride Assembly, the Prodigies who participated in the tower climb still reached a massive three million.

With more participants, a wider range of people were catered to, and its popularity naturally increased.

It is worth mentioning that in previous entries to the Tribulation Dao Secret Realm, hundreds of thousands of entry tokens were distributed, still hundreds of thousands short of the one million limit. But this time, perhaps due to the change in competition rules, the entry tokens were truly distributed to the full quota of one million.

Of course, this full distribution of one million entry tokens was not entirely based on the robbery heavenly genius rankings.

It also involved the issue of resource treatment enjoyed by different Sect Faction Ranks.

That is, a portion of these one million entry tokens would be allocated to various Sects based on their Rank.

For example, the six Continent-Level Giant Cultivation Factions, as the rule-makers, stipulated that Continent-Level Giant Cultivation Factions do not need to participate in the robbery heavenly genius rankings to compete for entry tokens and can directly divide up sixty thousand entry tokens.

To appease the dissatisfaction of other Giant Cultivation Factions, each Sub-Continent-Level Giant Cultivation Faction would also receive one hundred entry tokens, each State-Level Giant Cultivation Faction would receive two or three entry tokens, and Sub-State-Level ones could only get a taste, at most receiving one entry token.

Thus, of the one million tokens, three to four hundred thousand, or even more, would be divided in this step.

Is that all?

Apparently not yet.

Furthermore, according to the rules of previous assemblies, participants in the competitions also needed to register.

Continent-Level Giants could send hundreds of Prodigies.

Sub-Continent-Level Giants could send a hundred Prodigies.

By the time it came to State-Level Giants, having ten Prodigies eligible to compete was already very good, and Sub-State-Level Prodigies eligible to compete numbered no more than five.

Loose Cultivators also had the right to register to compete, but they were limited to a maximum of ten thousand Loose Cultivators.

How many Loose Cultivators are there in the world?

Hundreds of millions, and more.

However, only a maximum of ten thousand slots were available for participation, and the rules were still decided by the Giant Cultivation Factions.

The humble plight of Loose Cultivators is why so many Cultivators desperately try to enter a Sect; there is some truth to the saying that it is good to enjoy the shade when backed by a big tree.

From the rules, the benefits were already tilted towards Sects. Even if Loose Cultivators participated in the robbery heavenly genius rankings, the vast majority were Disciples of various Sects, and the more powerful and higher-Ranked the Sect, the greater the benefits it gained...