In preparation for the great war that was to co, it was necessary to recruit more people now and start training them imdiately.
Thus, those four thousand disciples had to be fully recruited.
Not only did these four thousand need to be recruited in full, but also another newly ordered four thousand had to be completed.
Disciples from within the sect, who had been infiltrated by outsiders, had already been lured by spies from the Qing Immortal Sect among Jiuzhou Immortal Gates and ran off to the Hei Yuan Secret Mansion.
These people thought well; having no opportunities within the sect, they ventured into the Eastern Desolate Inner Sea to try their luck.
But did they ever think if the Eastern Desolate Inner Sea was a good place to go?
That place was the territory of the Sea Clan, teeming with countless monsters, and these Sea Demons were not easy to encounter.
Even on the seas of the Eastern Desolate, nurous islands were inhabited by large numbers of loose cultivators and peripheral sects.
These peripheral cultivators, coexisting with demons, had no basic moral constraints like the disciples of the Immortal Sects in East China, and their actions had no limits.
The cultivators of the Eastern Desolate Sea were similar to the portrayal of nefarious cultivators in those underworld cultivation novels Lu Yuan had read in his previous life, each one murdering, looting, searching corpses for treasures, driven solely by profit, similar to evil cultivators.
Going to such a place, those True Immortals were still okay, having extrely strong personal strength; even if they encountered demons or nefarious cultivators, they could protect themselves.
But those ordinary cultivators did not have that kind of strength.
In the East Sea, they had to guard against demons as well as evil cultivators. One can never know if the person who warmly greeted you would stab you in the back the next mont in a murderous robbery.
Those disciples of Taiping Dao who were lured away had grown up in the peaceful and stable era of Changqing Domain, enjoying seven hundred "peaceful days."
Even if they were wary, in terms of experience and worldly encounters, they were undoubtedly like naive rabbits compared to the East Sea cultivators.
Fighting with these people was indeed an unpredictable outco.
All this was just the difficulties they would face on the way to the Hei Yuan Secret Mansion.
Once inside the Hei Yuan Secret Mansion, with interests in front, who cares if you’re from the orthodox Immortal Sect?
Each cultivator competes with one another, fighting for their lives in a ruthless struggle.
In such a fierce competitive environnt, the death rate becos even more horrifying.
More than two thousand cultivators being lured away, it’s feared half would die on the way to Hei Yuan, and the majority of the remaining half would perish upon arrival; scarcely one in ten might return alive.
The death of these individuals was not important, but the positions they vacated had to be filled.
Given this situation alone, Taiping Dao had to rapidly expand its manpower.
Ti changed too swiftly.
The ergence of the Hei Yuan Secret Mansion disrupted Taiping Dao’s gradual plan for disciple replacent.
If an exploration mission resulted in the deaths of over two thousand people, Taiping Dao’s grassroots disciples would be almost decimated.
The remaining few could not support the entire sect’s structure.
Even if the newly recruited disciples were inadequate and required extensive training, there was no ti to consider much anymore.
Even just to fill the numbers, they had to gather the people to maintain the basic facade of the sect.
As for within the jurisdiction, insufficient qualified candidates not being able to provide enough disciples wasn’t a big problem.
The fact that Taiping Dao couldn’t gather so many people in the region it ruled was indeed the truth, and there was no solution to that.
But it wasn’t just Taiping Dao’s region in the entire world; the entire Changqing Domain and East China were available for selection.
Even if the Changqing Domain was under the influence of Jiuzhou Immortal Gate and Qing Immortal Sect, if they didn’t want to see the current situation of disciples being extensively infiltrated happening again, they couldn’t select disciples.
However, outside the Changqing Domain, in the East China, there were over a dozen Great Domains.
In these places, Qing Immortal Sect and Jiuzhou Immortal Gate had no influence.
They could not intervene or influence civilian affairs in those places, effectively eliminating the possibility of their infiltration.
With such a vast territory, was gathering four thousand, no, eight thousand qualified disciples not very easy?
However, even though there were so many qualified candidates worldwide, nor just anyone could recruit them.
According to the Immortal Realm’s customs, in the regions ruled by various Immortal Sects, any mortal with cultivation potential, regardless of their potential’s level, were considered each respective Immortal Sect’s property.
They were the potential cornerstone of an Immortal Sect, and outsiders were not allowed to interfere.
Occasionally stealing one or two disciples that t their desires was tolerable if the numbers were small, and other Immortal Sects could turn a blind eye and treat it as a favor.
But if it ca to extensive recruitnt, it was a naked act of provocation and akin to declaring a war.
Of course, the above is only if you recruited disciples without others’ consent.
If you could gain the consent of the local Immortal Sect, then recruiting so disciples from their territory wasn’t really an issue.
After all, even if all qualifying disciples in your own region were recruited, it was only empty for a short ti.
With the speed of human reproduction, in just about twenty years, or even ten years, a new generation would be born with new potential cultivators.
Such a short window of ten to twenty years, for any Immortal Sect, was rely the ti for ditation, hardly significant.
The cost of this wasn’t enough to cause any heartache.
But, when there’s no close relationship, even if the cost isn’t significant, why should others help you?
Without good relationships, people won’t give you face, so what can you do?
At this ti, the good reputation Taiping Dao had painstakingly maintained for seven hundred years, the continuous external interactions, dispatching disciples to exchange with other Immortal Sects, showed its benefits.
Among neighboring domains, countless Immortal Sects were on good terms with Taiping Dao.
Jade Brocade alone was able to confirm that more than thirty Immortal Sects would likely agree to Taiping Dao’s request to recruit disciples from their territories.
Among these Immortal Sects, Dongyang Mountain led the way.
With the relationship previously established with True Person Wang ShiZhou of Dongyang Mountain, such a minor request wouldn’t be refused.
Securing Dongyang Mountain ant securing the Dongyang Domain.
Having a large domain as a talent pool, Taiping Dao might gather four thousand disciples in one go just from this place.
Coupled with a few other friendly Immortal Sects, a re eight thousand disciples was nothing to worry about.
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