Li Qingyuan announced, "The Hall Master has ordered us to concentrate all resources on vigorously nurturing cultivators at the Mahayana stage and above, ideally striving to produce Immortal Venerables."
Immediately afterward, Li Qingyuan told everyone about First Yuji's "erosion by the Heavenly Dao Laws" and the need to open the Immortal Path in "as little as ten thousand years, or thirty thousand at most."
Everyone's heart tightened, their expressions grave.
Wu Mengzi let out a long, melancholy sigh. "To think this is the ultimate terror of the Deterioration Era. Not only does it prevent ascension to immortality, it also erodes cultivators of the Immortal Dao until it ultimately devours them, turning them into nourishment."
Ji Kun's heart clenched. "We only have twenty or thirty thousand years or so?"
Everyone knew that opening the Immortal Path was a desperate, life-or-death gamble. Success would offer a chance to seize a sliver of heavenly opportunity; failure meant eternal damnation.
They still understood little about opening the Immortal Path. How were they to open it? How were they to walk it? Where would it lead? Was there even a ten-percent chance of success?
They knew none of this.
"Phew..." Wu Mengzi exhaled a long breath of stale air and said, "Qingyuan, you are the Sect Master now. I will leave these arrangements to you."
"I will enter seclusion and strive to break through to the Fusion of Treasures realm, seeking a thread of survival for our Azure Profound Immortal Sect."
As his words fell, Wu Mengzi's figure turned insubstantial and vanished.
Li Qingyuan looked at everyone and began assigning tasks. The Mahayana Dao Venerables who had exhausted their potential would remain to oversee the sect and select Mahayana Immortal Seedlings for concentrated nurturing.
The Mahayana Dao Venerables with boundless potential would continue their seclusion,