The Gongbu Mountain Arena Competition stipulated that participants must be extraordinary individuals under the age of thirty and below the third legendary rank, and that is how it was settled.
This was a competition between the young geniuses of the four powers.
To advance to the third legendary rank before the age of thirty was extremely rare. In the past, only the descendants of gods and dragons had achieved this feat, until recently when two exceptions appeared—Ma Lin and Huo Huo. Ma Lin had advanced by clinging to others' coattails, while Huo Huo was a chosen talent among twenty trillion people.
Huo Huo had now reached the fifth legendary rank as an extraordinary individual and already surpassed Ma Lin by a considerable margin, proving that those with true talents were far superior to the social climbers.
In the demon race, the third legendary rank was known as Commander Rank. It was on Emu that Ma Lin ascended to Commander Rank.