"For School Leader, congratulations!"
"For Immortal Venerate, congratulations!"
Inside Mi Yun Mountain, after a brief silence, countless cheers burst forth in an instant.
Everyone was excited, thrilled that their School Leader had surpassed another Heavenly Immortal barrier, taking a solid step further on the road to becoming a Heavenly Immortal.
Out of the three Heavenly Immortal trials, the School Leader had already conquered two. All that remained was one more breakthrough in the Cave World, and he could ascend to the realm of Heavenly Immortals, becoming a Great True Person, a Great Immortal Grandmaster.
As members of the Celestial Immortal Sect, their status naturally soared alongside, making the dominance of Taiping Tao Sect even more secure, hereafter truly named for thousands and tens of thousands of years.
Immortals never perishing, the sect never falling.
As part of the sect, they too benefitted immensely, whether in terms of reputation or advantages, they indeed obtained it all.
The sect disciples’ reverence for the School Leader instantly erupted, each feeling proud to be under the School Leader.
Moreover, the Qi Luck that Lu Yuan received from that side also started to surge massively.
The way of Qi Luck is such:
The stronger you are, the more you can boost the confidence of your subordinates, and the more confident your subordinates are, the more Qi Luck they can feedback to you.
With such a positive cycle, as long as no major setbacks occur, it’s almost impossible to interrupt.
Coincidentally, Lu Yuan had not faced any setbacks in his journey.
Or rather, while there were difficulties, they did not stop him; instead, he overcame them and thereby gained even greater benefits.
With this breakthrough to Heavenly Immortal, it is just so.
With each barrier broken, the confidence transmitted to his followers increases, and subsequently, the feedback they provide him also increases.
At this moment, some are directly addressing Lu Yuan as Immortal Venerate.
One must know that in the Immortal Realm, the title of Immortal Venerate is generally reserved exclusively for Heavenly Immortals.
Now, by calling Lu Yuan Immortal Venerate, they undoubtedly affirmed that the School Leader will surely become a Heavenly Immortal, or that his personal prestige is already comparable to that of a Heavenly Immortal.
However, these disciples also had some constraints; they knew the School Leader wasn’t truly a Heavenly Immortal yet. So, before the title of Immortal Venerate, they did not add a "Great," using only Immortal Venerate as the title.
This also counts as a kind of burying their heads in the sand in some sense.
And it’s precisely these disciples who are gradually pushing Lu Yuan, giving him more Qi Luck, assisting him towards charging on the Heavenly Immortal path.
Not only the disciples of Taiping Tao Sect are boiling.
Upon understanding the changes in the School Leader’s strength, those True Immortals within the Taiping Tao Sect also immediately took action.
It is now precisely the two-thousandth year of the Taiping era, two thousand years since Taiping Tao Sect obtained the hegemony of Changqing Domain and changed its name.
Two thousand years, for the older generation of Human Immortals from the past, was the end of their lives; they had even seen the passing of a generation.
Two thousand years, for those cultivators below the level of True Immortal, it has been nearly three generations.
Three generations changing, in reality, means several hundred batches of disciples being replaced.
So many people, under the resource accumulation controlled by Taiping Tao Sect after obtaining the Changqing Domain, untold talented individuals have emerged.
Two thousand years, even though Lu Yuan had appropriated a vast amount of resources from Taiping Tao Sect to maintain his cultivation, it was still enough to allow Taiping Tao Sect to birth countless strong warriors.
Now, there are a total of sixty-nine Human Immortals within Taiping Tao Sect.
Above Human Immortal, besides Lu Yuan’s nine Avatars, there are also three more native cultivators who have ascended to Earth Immortal.
The flourishing Qi Luck of Taiping Tao Sect, after winning the hegemony, began to exhibit robust development.
Everything was like those newly rising Heavenly Immortal sects in the Immortal Realm, which, in the first tens of thousands of years of establishing the sect, would undergo explosive growth.
Using a suffocatingly powerful force to prove their own strength.
Only later, once they became strong, would they slowly abandon this nouveau riche-style growth, switching to a more inwardly restrained and ordered foundation and legacy.
Like Dongyang Mountain, which back when it first became a Heavenly Immortal sect, had boasted about having a hundred thousand immortal cultivators, three hundred True Immortals, and twenty-four Earth Immortals. What a mighty reputation it had?
But now, the number of cultivators at Dongyang Mountain has reduced to less than twenty thousand, and there are less than a hundred True Immortals, less than ten Earth Immortals.
Compared to its peak period, how much weaker has it become?
Even so, outsiders still believe that the Dongyang Mountain of today is stronger than when it was first founded.
The reason is simple; Dongyang Mountain has withstood the test of time. Tens of thousands of years have passed, yet it still remains the master of the Dongyang Domain, still the hegemon, and still prosperous.
Compared to that,
Although the Taiping Dao now controls a region, and has begun to flourish, hosting fifty thousand cultivators and sixty-nine Human Immortals—aside from Lu Yuan, there are also twelve Earth Immortals.
This is only the accumulation of two thousand years of development.
If given another ten thousand years, this number could double again, only then reaching the limit of the Taiping Domain.
Yet, even at that limit, outsiders would not consider the Taiping Dao equal to those Celestial Immortal Sects.
Unless Lu Yuan became a Heavenly Immortal.
But even if Lu Yuan became a Heavenly Immortal, unless he endures tens of thousands of years proving himself not short-lived, others would still look down on him compared to those veteran Heavenly Immortals.
After all,
The previous master of the Taiping Domain, the Changqing Immortal, has proven with a bloody example:
Even a Heavenly Immortal is not guaranteed to live for centuries like that old turtle in the Region Continent.
Among Heavenly Immortals, there are also those who die young.
Dying hurriedly after only sixty thousand years.
Then leaving behind a declining sect, which was usurped within ten thousand years.
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With such a predecessor as an example right before them, as successors, it’s hard for others not to compare Taiping Dao with it.
Therefore, if the Taiping Dao wants to prove itself now, it must first achieve extreme strength, using absolute power to deter the surrounding people.
Then, over time, cultivate a prestigious demeanor worthy of an Immortal Family. Hearing the words ’Taiping’ should inspire longing and acknowledgment of being one of the top Immortal Sects.
Achieving these two objectives would truly solidify the Taiping Dao’s standing in the Immortal Realm.
And as the higher-ups in the sect, those True Immortals within the Taiping Dao have deeply tied their interests to the sect.
Or rather, they themselves represent the power of the sect.
The stronger the sect, the greater their power; the greater their power, the more resources they can access; the more resources, the smoother their cultivation.
Thus, whether the sect is strong affects their path and whether they can advance further.
And the strength of the sect relies on whether Lu Yuan can smoothly break through to Heavenly Immortal.
Lu Yuan’s cultivation is once again tied to their futures.
In such a situation, how could the True Immortals of Taiping Dao not care about their School Leader’s cultivation?
Almost upon sensing the School Leader’s breakthrough, the Human Immortals quickly gathered towards the Cave Mansions of those Earth Immortals who were closely related to them within the sect.
Then, after meeting with these Earth Immortals, they went together to look for Qing Guanzi, Yi Dancheng, and others, either elder by generation, or previous School Leaders, who held high status.
Under their leadership, they proceeded towards the region of Lu Yuan’s secluded meditation.
The reason for this hierarchical gathering and reporting was, of course, because Lu Yuan’s seclusion area had already been designated a forbidden area within the sect.
If unrelated individuals dared to approach, even Earth Immortals would be executed without exception.
The only exceptions were Qing Guanzi, the elder of Taiping in public, or Yi Dancheng, Jade Brocade, and other former School Leaders.
Only these highly esteemed and truly reliable insiders, who would never betray their own, are trustworthy.
They are publicly credible and authoritative.
Privately, of course, it’s because these are all avatars of Lu Yuan himself; he trusts only them.
The public identity is merely a cover to deceive outsiders.
Similarly,
Only these avatars who can communicate with him at any time can stay in contact with Lu Yuan timely, knowing whether it is the right time to visit.
If Lu Yuan does not wish to see certain individuals, these few avatars could also find various excuses to outright refuse them, sparing him the trouble.
Between these internal and external aspects, using a few avatars to form a communication channel is indeed brilliant.