The problem currently facing Ash Holy Tower was mainly the painfully slow cultivation of its younger generation of magicians.
Magicians above Level 1 were not so easily cultivated.
Taking Ash Holy Tower's large-scale apprentice recruitment every five years as an example, suppose three thousand apprentices enrolled. Years later, fewer than fifty of those three thousand might truly reach the life level of Level 1 or above.
The overwhelming majority of the other apprentices remained stuck at the Intermediate Magic Apprentice stage. It was a hurdle.
And even that was already an extremely high ratio.
Given Ash Holy Tower's current scale, expanding recruitment was not something to consider for the time being.
Even if Saine could afford the enormous expense of training so many apprentices, there were not enough apprentices willing to enroll.
The development of a Holy Tower was not something that could explode into growth overnight.
What established Holy Tower had not been tempered through thousands, even tens of thousands, of years?
Saine's Holy Tower was already developing faster than other Holy Towers founded in the same era, but he still had to endure.
The good news was that Ash Holy Tower now had 971 registered magicians in total, and would soon surpass a thousand.
In the thirty-first year after Saine returned to the Land of Ashes, he finally received word from Thor in the Titan World.
Thor said that he had obtained the Golden Apple for Saine and asked whether Saine had prepared the money.
As early as twenty years ago, the Azure Blaze Sect had scraped together seventy million Magic Coins and had been waiting for his news ever since.
At Thor's suggestion, Saine headed alone for the Titan God Race's Star Harbor beyond the Wizard World.
Within the enormous Star Harbor, which bore an unmistakably