The blazing sun hung high overhead.
Sky Shadow Peak's plaza buzzed with voices.
Besides cultivators, quite a few mortals had gathered around the outskirts.
Today was the day the Ye Family held its Ascension Assembly, and these mortals were the heads of their respective villages.
As the Ye Family held more and more Ascension Assemblies, those village heads had come to understand that families which had produced cultivator descendants needed special care, because they were more likely to produce cultivators again.
The descendants of cultivators likewise needed to be looked after.
Only then could their towns produce more and more Immortal Seedlings, securing their positions as village heads all the more firmly.
Thus, the number of clansmen attending the Ye Family's triennial Ascension Assembly had increased nearly every year. At a glance, there were now already over a thousand people—making this the Ye Family's largest and most populous Ascension Assembly yet.
Ye Haicheng and Ye Xingxiao still oversaw the entire Ascension Assembly. This time, however, unlike before, the Ye Family would assign all Immortal Seedlings to the Family School Hall for unified training before sending them into the family.
This time, the Ye Family would make certain arrangements in advance based on spiritual root affinity.
For example, those with strong Fire Attribute spiritual root affinity would be sent first to the Pill Hall and Artifact Hall for preliminary selection. Those with strong Water Attribute or Wood Attribute spiritual root affinity would be recommended first to the Spirit Plant Hall and Spirit Talisman Hall.
Some clansmen would also be assigned to branch lines.
This was not because the Ye Family lacked the capacity to train them now. Rather, as the Ye Family gained more and more cultivators, it needed more Spirit Talisman Masters, Spirit Plant Masters, Alchemists, and Artifact Crafters in