"Boss, I have a suggestion. Why not add an 'Ascension' option? That would also give the younger disciples more motivation and let them look forward to the Great Dao of Immortality."
The Heavenly Dao Maiden suddenly spoke.
Zhang Yang nodded. It was a good suggestion. Days without hope could not last long. In the Fourth Sequence, because of the rules of the River of Time, cultivators' lifespans were drastically reduced. Even Mahayana Stage sword cultivators had only six thousand years to live. On top of that, every additional True Spirit Leaf granted another thousand years of life.
Thus, He Yimou, Zhao Baiyi, Tao Yao, Qu Shang, Jiang Rong, and the other fifteen core disciples who had been the first to be resurrected and reincarnated all had nine thousand years of life, while the remaining thirty-five core disciples had only eight thousand.
Therefore, to survive in the Fourth Sequence, one's True Spirit had to reach at least three leaves, and one's strength had to be at least that of a demigod.
Otherwise, an enemy could simply wear you down with time until you died.
Now that lifespans were generally insufficient, this had become the greatest flaw of Zhang Yang's faction.
"All right. Set Ascension after the Mahayana Stage. There should be an assessment for Ascension, calculated from three aspects. First, we look at whether the individual's cultivation, battle arts, and state of mind are complete. Second, we look at how great their contributions to the clan are. Hmm, we can add Heavenly Dao Karmic Merit here as well: doing good earns merit, while doing evil reduces it. Third, as the world expands and there are more living beings, karmic entanglements will increase. We should therefore add a karma option. The slippery ones who fear getting involved in karma should lose points,