The Human Alliance Council was filled with constant curses, and the Alpha Empire's court was just as lively.
Marshal Hudson, who had not attended court for decades, overturned everyone's table the moment he made a move.
The path of cultivation was being opened to commoners. Great nobles could still rely on their resource advantages to maintain their own superiority.
The lesser nobles below them were in dire straits. They were indeed better off financially than commoners, but cultivation resources were simply too expensive!
Most importantly, the core resources had all been monopolized by the upper ranks. What they could obtain were merely scraps.
The difficulty of ensuring that their descendants maintained their advantages and safeguarded the family's status was simply too great.
"Marshal, this plan will have far too great an impact.
"The Empire has already opened channels for commoners to rise. Over the past several decades, more than a hundred commoner nobles have emerged.
"Some of them were even born as the lowliest slaves.
"The Empire has drawn countless criticisms internationally for doing this.
"If we now lower the threshold for cultivation, not only will there be fierce international opposition, opposition will also spread throughout our own ranks.
"If everyone with cultivation talent can become a knight or mage, the resources required will be an astronomical figure.
"The Empire definitely cannot supply that much. When the time comes, competing for resources will inevitably trigger a series of social problems."
The Minister of Political Affairs was the first to voice his opposition.
If the one making the proposal had not been Hudson, the court would likely already have erupted in cries of murder.
Whoever sought to shake the foundations of the nobility would become the enemy of the entire noble faction.
"Reform" sounded simple, but in actual practice, few countries