Guangchengzi Deploys His Forces, and the Chan Sect Immortals Are Stunned: You Even Have the Sect Leader Token?

Human Emperors could cultivate. They had Daoxing.

Everyone knew there was no such thing as Heavenly Retribution or any other obstacle to it.

But after the Abdication System gave way to Hereditary Rule, a current of fortune split from the Human Dao and merged with hereditary kingdoms. From it came states, and from those states came National Fortune.

That National Fortune could shelter an entire kingdom from demons and monsters, giving the Human Race deeper reserves and stronger defenses!

It was also why even Saints dared not offend them lightly.

National Fortune was powerful indeed.

But Hereditary Rule had its drawbacks. The Human Race grew weaker with each generation, and no reigning Human Emperor could guarantee that all his descendants would be cultivators!

In the past, the great clans would nominate people of Merit and ability.

Once the Human Race across the land accepted one of them, he could become the Human Race Co-Lord.

Human Emperors chosen that way were formidable indeed.

But ever since Emperor Yu introduced Hereditary Rule, later Human Emperors had not inherited the throne for their exceptional potential. It went instead to those who could balance every faction and hold the realm together, or to those with talent and grand ambition.

Yet a clever ruler did not necessarily cultivate.

He had to devote his mind to power and strategy just to govern the vast Nine Provinces.

At first, candidates for Human Emperor would still cultivate a little, if only for show. But as Daoxing gradually ceased to be a criterion for the throne,

Human Emperors slowly became mortals.

It did not matter that a mortal was Human Emperor. What mattered was that someone occupied the seat representing the Human Dao.

That brought the support of the Human Dao Will and the blessing of National Fortune. Even