Chapter 3706 — The New Rules

The reasoning was simple: compared with the naturally feeble newcomers of the Azure Cloud Pavilion, these old-timers of the Mystic Mechanism Pavilion were generally formidable in strength, and if cross-pavilion challenges were allowed, they were confident enough to drag those second-generation cultivators of the Soaring Heaven Pavilion down from their horses.

Under the ranking match rules of years past, barring accidents, at least half of the fifteen finest cave dwellings at the summit would have belonged to the old-timers of the Mystic Mechanism Pavilion. In other words, the greatest victim of this present assessment rule was in fact the Soaring Heaven Pavilion!