For cultivators, the most fundamental pursuit of cultivation was to increase their lifespans. If a sect possessed the strength to help cultivators break through bottlenecks and advance smoothly, such a thing naturally held an irresistible attraction for countless cultivators.
At first, many cultivators did not quite believe it.
When Azure Nether Sect recruited disciples in Baishi City for the first time, it accepted only six Qi Gathering stage cultivators.
But five years later, when those six cultivators—who had already advanced to the Foundation Establishment stage—reappeared in Baishi City, the entire city was instantly thrown into an uproar.
That was because among those six Qi Gathering stage cultivators, the highest had only been at Qi Gathering Stage Seven. To enable six cultivators who had merely been at the mid Qi Gathering stage to break through the Foundation Establishment bottleneck in one stroke within five years and officially enter the ranks of cultivators was no easy feat.
Because of this, when Azure Nether Sect recruited disciples for the second time, although the cultivators still harbored doubts, some of them had already been deeply moved.
By the time Azure Nether Sect returned to its sect, nearly twenty cultivators had been selected.
Among those nearly twenty cultivators were five Foundation Establishment cultivators. The highest-ranked was a female cultivator who had already reached the Foundation Establishment Late Stage.
What once again shocked Azure Nether Sect was that five years later, when it went to Baishi City for the third recruitment, the dozen or so Qi Gathering stage cultivators recruited last time had all already become Foundation Establishment cultivators without exception.
As for the five people who had originally been at the Foundation Establishment stage, each had smoothly advanced by one level. The female cultivator who had initially reached the Foundation Establishment Late Stage had even