Awaiting What Came After

The vacant sacrificial temples would, barring surprises, be assigned numerous newly ascended Dao Lords by the continental temples or ancestral temples.

These "newcomers" would surely thank him, their Domain Master, from the bottom of their hearts. Among those several hundred vacant jade bodies, the baseline was essentially Second Fruit Position jade bodies. There would always be one suited to their foundations and roots. Their wondrous forms and fortunes could save them thousands or even tens of thousands of years of cultivation.

Thinking of all the difficulties and suppression he had suffered just after ascending, Li Qingyun could not help feeling a little envious of the newcomers who would soon ascend to the Eastern Desolation.

So many jade bodies and Commanded Daoist Temples had been left vacant in Langtian Continent's Eastern Desolation. Those orthodox forces with well-informed channels must be eyeing them like tigers eyeing prey. Privately, they would pull strings to ask for those positions, while urging their Sever Self Realm cultivators in the mortal world to cultivate and ascend as soon as possible—preferably within the next few years, and preferably to the Eastern Desolation!

Also vacant was the position of Great Temple Keeper in the Regional Temple.

A Regional Temple could have five Great Temple Keepers.

So-called Great Temple Keepers were powerful lousefolk cultivators above the Star Plucking Realm.

The Domain Master could appoint Great Temple Keepers personally, or apply to the continental temple. Compared to the mountain temples everywhere, which had appointees forcibly assigned to them, the Domain Master had far more "freedom."

Naturally, Li Qingyun intended to make the appointments himself.

But he had no one at hand for the moment, and even fewer lousefolk he truly trusted. So, from among the short, he picked the tall, first giving three spots to the Chi clan, Ling clan,