Chapter 696: Hidden Undercurrents
Ke Xingzhi!
This name was, of course, no stranger to Chen Qing.
The most outstanding disciple of the current generation in the Supreme Void Dao, a top figure on the Primordial Spirit Rankings, the undisputed leading light of the entire Jingyang Blessed Land's current generation.
It was only that he had been away outside for so long that Chen Qing had never had the chance to meet him.
As for the Black Rankings, Chen Qing had heard Huo Tingshan, Zhuang Chi, and others mention it before. It was a record of marauding cultivators compiled jointly by the seven great blessed lands, listing the fierce and ruthless figures across the Great Luo Heaven who specialized in killing, arson, and plundering resources.
Among these people were both wandering cultivators without affiliation and disciples of vagrant Dao traditions, even outcasts who had fled from other worlds after being expelled from their own Dao traditions. Every one of them was cold-blooded and vicious, with no shortage of genuine strength.
The Black Rankings included not only Primordial Spirit realm cultivators but even Dharma Form realm figures. Most of these people hid scattered throughout the Great Luo Heaven, their movements secretive and mysterious, extremely difficult to eradicate.
The seven great blessed lands had a formal agreement that disciples from each side could contend with one another outside their own territories, but to prevent matters from escalating out of control, they always followed the rule of only fighting at the same cultivation level, and for the most part did not cross that line.
Yet those marauders on the Black Rankings never abided by such rules, always bullying the weak with their strength, employing ruthless methods. Never mind other powers, even the seven great blessed lands had lost no small number of people at their hands.