Because the academy tournament had produced an immortal weapon, and everyone could gain access to the Dao-Seeking Stone by taking part in missions, all the academies had benefited.
Dao Spirit Academy knew how to conduct itself, so the other branches had far fewer objections. Although the instructors of Dao Spirit Academy still inevitably faced some ingrained discrimination, things were generally moving in a positive direction.
The instructors and students of Dao Spirit Academy had also increased considerably since the academy was founded. The grotto abodes were about sixty to seventy percent occupied, and the number of students had surpassed that of Extreme Spirit Academy.
Of course, their aptitudes were decent, but their cultivation levels varied wildly. Fortunately, resources were plentiful, so I was not worried about the grand tournament three years later.
Aside from the Dao-Seeking Stone being able to activate bloodlines, the Demon Race disciples now faced two major hurdles: bloodline marrow cleansing and cultivation-method training.
Activating a bloodline meant awakening the potential buried in their roots. Cultivating a method was simpler—once they passed through the Dao-Seeking Stone, all they needed was to tailor and relearn a cultivation method according to the attributes of their awakened bloodline.
Marrow cleansing, however, meant correcting the flawed cultivation method they had been born into. The difficulty could be imagined.
Relearning was impossible. It would take far too long, and they would miss out on many disciples with outstanding bloodlines.
The only path for demonkind was still immortalization. In my view, demonification was an evil path, and it was unlike the path of the Demon Gods, because the Demon Gods could not be judged by common sense.
Immortalization meant cutting off the roots of demonification, so the Dao-Seeking Stone was only the beginning.
For this reason, I had purchased large quantities of heavenly