Taiping Dao and the Nine Provinces had joined forces to attack Qing Immortal Sect. Each was acting on their own, with mutual distrust evident from their actions.
Therefore, considering only this aspect, these avatars couldn’t be moved.
No matter how tumultuous the outside world might be, or how stormy the internal discussions were, regarding his own avatars, Lu Yuan had to stand by his opinion and place them at the rear, guarding the ancestral lands.
However, this remaining surplus of combat power, for the sake of the grand plan, could not be sent to the battlefield.
Relying solely on the five Human Immortals at the front line, even with the support of Lu Yuan and Qing Guanzi, Earth Immortals, it would be very difficult to assu major responsibilities.
Reinforcing the front-line battlefield was imperatively necessary.
To resolve this issue,
Lu Yuan had no choice but to follow the practice of the other two sects, selecting from the elite disciples at the front line those with the highest military achievents and sufficient contributions to be stationed at the rear battlefield, allowing them to focus on breaking through to True Immortal.
Excluding the two newly occupied but not yet properly managed small countries, including vassals, the Great Plain Path had a territory of ten countries at the rear, where a total of ten disciples could be placed.
After selecting these individuals, he made each swear a great oath to the Heavenly Path and a vow to their own inner demons, vowing to never betray Taiping Dao, and then arranged for them to move to the rear.
Setting up such binding asures before the breakthrough might seem inconsiderate, but it was actually quite normal and part of the customs of the Changqing Domain.
It couldn’t be helped.
The Changqing Domain had always been a place rife with deception and betrayal.
All the major Immortal Sects were sending spies to one another, completely lacking in any sense of security.
Even Taiping Dao, the newcor, had been infiltrated internally like a sieve, a sight alarming to behold.
Faced with such a severe situation, to ensure the purity within one’s own ranks, the reliability of upper echelons, and to guarantee that the resources spent weren’t cultivating ingrates,
certain necessary asures of restriction and assurance beca unavoidable.
Before funding disciples in becoming immortal, making them swear oaths bound by the Heavenly Path and vows restrained by their own inner demons was just the most fundantal step.
Other thods included entrusting one’s Divine Soul to the sect, life fates entwined with the sect, and binding interests with the sect.
In summary,
below True Immortal, perhaps an Immortal Sect could not guarantee that its disciples were without issues.
But once a disciple reached True Immortal status, even if they originally had motives, they would eventually beco problem-free under the layers of constraints and bindings.
These binding thods were not impossible to circumvent or break.
In fact, as long as one was willing to pay the price, any restraint in the Immortal Realm could be circumvented or broken.
Did not the greatest constraint in the world—the backlash against the Heavenly Immortal for opposing the Heavenly Path—get evaded by those Great True Persons through the thod of circumscribing themselves within defined limits?
Hence, nothing was invulnerable to subversion; the right thod and sufficient cost were all that were needed.
But it was precisely this cost that stumped countless individuals.
To help a Human Immortal circumvent and break the restraints they carried, the price paid was enough to support one, or even more Earth Immortals.
Let’s ask, can the value of a re Human Immortal, no matter how great, compare with an Earth Immortal, or even more Earth Immortals?
Undoubtedly, it cannot.
No one would pay such a high price for a Human Immortal.
If soone truly did, then their enemies would probably go mad with laughter.
Using a Human Immortal to directly burden the opposition with so much of its resources was roughly equivalent to an enemy losing one or two Earth Immortals.
What?
If the enemy was willing to pay such a high price, it must an that the person in question possessed significant value.
If this were the perspective of a Heavenly Immortal sect, perhaps it would be applicable.
After all, the size of those sects warranted that a highly valued Human Immortal might indeed bring greater benefits.
But in the Changqing Domain, who didn’t know whom? Which Immortal Sect didn’t know that a Human Immortal could hold so much value? It simply didn’t exist.
Thus, though these restrictions, in theory, were circumventable, in reality, to those Human Immortals, they were almost as unavoidable.
Since they could not avoid them, they had to dutifully accept their fate.
Therefore, in the Changqing Domain, anyone who wished to beco immortal, before receiving the sect’s support, had to first undergo a set of restrictive asures.
After becoming immortal, they were further bound by deeper ties.
These bindings were sufficient to ensure that a Human Immortal could not betray or rebel against their sect.
Thus, for those like Yu Shipei, whose nature was problematic at a glance, when faced with the sect’s order to retreat for punishnt, they could only do so.
When commanded to charge into battle and fight to the death at the front lines, they could only comply.
Rebellion was impossible.
Obeying orders held a chance of survival, but rebellion, with various forms of backlash striking down, would an he would be the first to die.
Similarly,
for the other vassal Immortal Sects, the disciples who had yet to beco True Immortals were better off, carrying fewer restraints.
But those who had already attained True Immortal status, even if they were School Leaders themselves, wouldn’t find their constraints disappearing with a change of status.
On the contrary, upon becoming a School Leader, their binding with the sect deepened even further.
Thus, as long as Lu Yuan had a firm grip on their Immortal Sects, then for the sake of their sect’s survival and interest, completely aware that their actions were counter to what they upheld, these vassal True Immortals also had to obediently follow orders.
Even if ordered to march to their deaths, they could only proceed.
As for whether this approach was too rigid and foolish, and whether the vassals were too naive?
It was indeed rigid and foolish, but without such rigidness and foolishness, those vassals would have died much sooner.
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