Vulture Demon Palace had an extremely extraordinary origin. Rather than calling it a faction, it was more accurate to say that it was a special existence standing above all the lineages in the Nightmare Moon Realm.
It was not a faction in the traditional sense, because the cultivators within it did not come from a single lineage or region. Instead, they were people from throughout the Nightmare Moon Realm who possessed extraordinary talent and had displayed excellent cultivation aptitude from a young age.
Those cultivators were secretly selected in successive rounds by special, unknown individuals in the commanderies scattered throughout every region of the Nightmare Moon Realm. In the end, they were secretly sent to an extremely hidden location and gathered together.
Then those young cultivators began their training from childhood. After round upon round of selection and elimination, only those with astonishing talent were chosen by Vulture Demon Palace and admitted to cultivate within it.
Those who could enter Vulture Demon Palace had all advanced to the Integration Realm. Moreover, they had reached the Integration Realm in an extremely short period of time.
It could be said that as long as a cultivator truly entered Vulture Demon Palace, whether in terms of cultivation aptitude or combat methods, he would already be a leading figure among cultivators of the same rank.
Furthermore, entering Vulture Demon Palace did not mean one could simply live a life free of worries. One still had to undergo all kinds of trials.
Although anyone who entered Vulture Demon Palace would no longer be expelled, failing the trials would undoubtedly cause the palace to reduce the resources allocated to him. In the end, he would become an auxiliary cultivator of Vulture Demon Palace.
Even so, merely entering Vulture Demon Palace represented a status.
A status that