After a hundred years of silence in the Cloud Sea, the rank 8 competition was approaching. The rank 8 competition, happening once every thousand years, was a grand occasion for the Cloud Sea.
It wasn't just one rank 8 sect, but all of them participated. Within each sect, sub-sects would gather at the main sect during the competition to undergo a new round of assessments. The winning sub-sect would receive rewards and attention from the main sect. Exceptional disciples would also be retained by the main sect to be further nurtured.
For those who failed, their status would decline over the next thousand years. Eventually, they would be abandoned by the main sect and disbanded. The remaining disciples would then be sent to other sub-sects.