To better fit the world before them.
Gradually, the core of frugal burials had been explained in terms of good and evil.
How many people could really become immortals after death by launching massive construction projects?
Heaven upheld Tian Zhi, while ghosts and gods kept watch. To ascend to heaven after death, become gods or immortals, and endure in the world, one cultivated not ancient tombs, but merit—the observance of Tian Zhi.
Once they understood why the feudal lords and nobles practiced frugal burials, they could influence the process as much as possible without changing their goals. If they succeeded, it could be promoted more widely.
Selection from humble backgrounds was actually somewhat like the difference between prosperous and chaotic times, between systematic education and apprenticeship.
Looking at the development of the main world, it was obvious that in the later stages, the most mainstream Great Heavenly Dao was personal cultivation, not divine bloodlines.
Even the Blue-blooded Men, descendants of the Ancient Water God, would eventually be suppressed in turn by humanity.
Yet even the main world's primary cultivation paths were still controlled by aristocratic families and sects. Naturally, no one in this world would waste time on systematic education.
Take the currently booming private tutoring institutions as an example. Where did their teaching staff come from?
Train them themselves?
How could they possibly have the energy or time? They simply poached experienced core teachers from public schools. The better the teacher, the more they paid. If ten times the salary was not enough, then a hundred times. It would always work eventually.
And that was in a situation where there was already a foundation for systematic teaching and training.
Looking across the Investiture of the Gods World, ordinary people had no path upward whatsoever aside from "fortuitous encounters." Thus,