Within the vast plane occupied by the Dream Dimension's Tree-Root Avatar, Zhang Yang stood before an Ancient Castle that looked somewhat dilapidated. Qu Shang stood beside him, while Tao Yao, Zhao Baiyi, He Yimou, Li Si, and Wu County stood behind him. Behind them stood sixty second-generation disciples and a full thousand third-generation disciples.
The strongest among them was a Law Heavenly God. Of course, Zhang Yang himself did not count. Even the weakest had reached the Law Mahayana realm.
However, those selected for this team had not been chosen based on strength alone. Of at least thirty Law Demigods, only three had made the cut.
Among the first-generation disciples, only six had been selected.
As for the selection criteria, loyalty was merely a basic requirement.
Comprehension and potential were what earned the most points.
Of course, the most outstanding among the second- and third-generation disciples had not come. They had either already joined Mu Shaoan, joined Li Guokui, been recruited by Jiang Rong, or remained in the Sword Immortal World to handle their original duties.
The 1,060 second- and third-generation disciples gathered here, by contrast, all occupied the middle ranks. They were neither high-profile nor low-key. They had a presence, but it was not overwhelming.
They were the true core backbone of the Heavenly Sword Clan that Zhang Yang had cultivated quietly over the past three thousand years.
Back when he had first reached the Fourth Sequence, Zhang Yang had spread out the World Tree's Spiritual Root, silently nourishing the foundations of ordinary mortals.
What was the World Tree? It was a spiritual plant! At that time, the World Tree was already a Six-Colored Spiritual Plant, and the help it gave those newborns was immense.
That was why there were so many outstanding second- and third-generation disciples in the