"That’s too outrageous."
Although it wasn’t impossible to do so, and Lu Yuan had indeed already done so.
But that was rely a temporary solution.
For fear of being exposed later, and because he still cared about his reputation, at this point, he had no choice but to put on a show and recruit so disciples to make an appearance.
Currently, as Lu Yuan had just ascended and had no one to utilize, he had no choice but to perform a sect by himself.
However, the Immortal Sect of the future and the Taiping Dao of the future couldn’t continue like this.
If he truly had to play the role of hundreds of people alone, that would also be exhausting.
When the master is busy, the disciples will bear the labor.
That is the true manner of opening an Immortal Sect.
Did you think conquering Youxin Country ant having people help manage it?
Lu Yuan had never thought about being a corporate drone, single-handedly supporting a country.
In that case, even if he was an Immortal, he would have to work tirelessly every single day, exhausting himself to death.
If so, wouldn’t his cultivation to immortality have been in vain?
To be carefree and at ease is to be an Immortal.
"However, finding so qualified disciples is not that easy," he said.
Thinking of his avatar and its recent busy endeavors, Lu Yuan couldn’t help but feel speechless. "This Che Shidao avatar has been busy for so long and has only now barely identified a dozen or so people as passable."
The system of Immortal cultivation in this world didn’t have a traditional cultivation novel’s spiritual root system, where only those with spiritual roots could cultivate.
Here, in theory, everyone could beco an Immortals.
Even your ti of cultivation was not too restricted.
An eighty-year-old man, if taught by soone and with good innate talent, could still cultivate to the Dao and ascend to immortality.
But this was only in theory.
Because cultivation is constrained by lifespan.
An old man, even if he manages to enter the path of cultivation, the remaining lifespan wouldn’t support his breakthrough in cultivation to reach the next realm.
Otherwise, the three barriers of the immortal path wouldn’t kill so many cultivators, blocking them outside the path of immortality, watching helplessly as they die from aging.
If old n could beco immortals, either it was due to a miraculous fortune, reincarnation of a powerful being, or they had a remarkable background providing them with limitless resources.
Only by fulfilling one of these three conditions could such a miraculous feat be achieved.
Therefore, those fairy-tale like stories are just for inspiration; taking them seriously would be foolish.
Normally speaking, cultivation still depends on qualification.
This qualification includes bone roots and comprehension, fortunate encounters and Qi luck, special bloodlines, and profound backgrounds.
Among these, the first factor—bone roots and comprehension—is the most tangible and common.
Take Lu Yuan, for example; his body, in terms of comprehension and bone roots, had diocre qualifications.
According to the theories of the Immortal Realm, only those with diocre qualifications had a slim chance of achieving the Five Qi Towards Primordial.
Those with superior qualifications had a chance of becoming immortals.
Even this theory was only achievable under the best circumstances.
Normally, cultivators with diocre qualifications could only hope to reach the stage of Gathering Three or Four Qi, ensuring that with diligent cultivation, they might attain minor success on the path of immortality.
The less gifted might not even overco the Gathering Three Qi stage.
Only those with superior qualifications could confidently surpass the Gathering Three Qi stage, and with ample resources, aim for the Five Qi Towards Primordial and envisage the Dao of Immortals.
As for those with inferior qualifications,
Even if these individuals cultivate and have incredibly good luck, they can only achieve the Gathering of Three Qi at most.
Such disciples are hardly valued by even slightly larger Immortal Sects; they are generally not included on the sect’s roster.
Only those minor Tao inheritances and traditions on the verge of extinction would indiscriminately take them in as disciples.
And those who do not even qualify as having inferior qualifications, re ordinary people, are completely without a chance on the path of cultivation; they need not be ntioned further.
"In these past two months, I had my avatar gather all the living people within ten thousand li around the City of Yunlan and brought them back here, eventually amassing over one hundred seventy thousand individuals.
These days, I sent Dao soldiers among these survivors to choose, and among the young people under twenty, only thirteen had qualifications that barely reached the dian level.
There were none with superior qualifications.
It’s almost like finding one suitable disciple among ten thousand people.
By this calculation, I fear it would take hundreds of millions of people to produce ten thousand disciples and fulfill my desire for the ’Myriad Immortals to Attend Court’."
Since I am founding an Immortal Sect, as a Human Emperor who has ascended and been the ruler of a realm for over a thousand years, even now in the Immortal Realm, I should aspire for sothing."
Either I do not do it, or I do it well.
Lu Yuan considers Taiping Dao as his own supportive arm, preparing to manage and build it just like Great Chu in the Nine Provinces.
Hence, his requirents for recruiting disciples are exceptionally high.
If not of dian qualifications, without the hope of achieving the Gathering of Three Qi, they are not even considered; there’s not the slightest intention of recruitnt.
A cultivator can only have the Five Elents achieve minor success within them and lay down the foundation of the Immortal thod, officially differentiating from mortals, and enjoy five hundred years of longevity, if they cultivate up to the Gathering of Three Qi.
Those who manage to gather only one or two levels of Qi have shallow cultivation and can live for at most three hundred years, which so ordinary martial artists, practicing health-preserving thods and having so fortuitous encounters, could achieve.
Thus, the difference between cultivators of these first two stages and mortals is not significant.
Among the common folks in the Immortal Realm, those swindlers learning a few magic tricks often belong to these two stages.
Whether an Immortal Sect has a tradition or not is also determined by whether it can surpass this threshold of Gathering Three Qi.
At Qing Immortal Sect, as far as Lu Yuan knows, they only recruit disciples with dian qualifications and above.
Even those of dian qualifications mostly can only stay in branch locations, without having cultivated to the level of Five Qi Toward Primordial, they do not qualify to go to the main Mountain Gate and be officially included on the sect roster.
Only those disciples with superior qualifications, after several years of testing, are officially taken into Qing Immortal Sect.
The other party rules over a territory as a Great Immortal Sect, so their requirents are higher; Lu Yuan cannot compete, nor dares to compare.
"But if I lower my requirents a bit, it’s not too much to only include those of dian qualifications on the sect’s roster, is it?"
Lu Yuan’s requirents are not high.
After all, Taiping Dao overtly has two Immortals presiding over it.
Even his Dao soldiers, having demonstrated strength during external missions, all possess cultivation surpassing Gathering Three Qi.
By these standards, dian qualifications really are the minimum requirent.
"Well, having only a hundred seventy thousand people now and being able to select thirteen disciples from them isn’t too bad.
Once Youxin Country has been accepted, there will be tens of millions more people waiting for to choose from.
Even if those people are the leftovers from Qing Immortal Sect’s selection, a careful screening should still uncover several hundred hidden gems.
With a few hundred disciples, nurturing them for one or two hundred years, continuously recruiting newcors during that period, should be enough to establish the frawork of a major Immortal Sect."
As a being of longevity, Lu Yuan maintains a rather broad perspective.
For those mortals, even for Immortals, one or two hundred years might seem like a long ti.
But for him,
It’s truly just a blink of an eye.
Having endured over a thousand years in the realm of Nine Provinces, facing one or two hundred years in Youxin Country is rely a nap.
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