Connections

After Hong Yang's thorough explanation, Shen Changchuan finally came to understand some of the circumstances within the Yuqing Immortal Sect's Inner Sect.

First of all,

Within the Yuqing Immortal Sect,

Disciples at the Out of Body Stage realm were Inner Sect disciples.

Those above the Out of Body Stage realm, at the Spirit Wandering realm, were promoted to Personal Disciples.

These Personal Disciples were no longer taught under the Immortal Sect's unified instruction model like Inner Sect disciples, attending all manner of large collective lessons.

Once Inner Sect disciples advanced to the Spirit Wandering realm,

they needed to join the peak masters of the Immortal Sect's various peak lineages, or the Mysterious Pill realm elders within those lineages, formally becoming Personal Disciples.

Of course,

that was merely the normal procedure.

In reality,

the hurdle of advancing from the Out of Body Stage realm to the Spirit Wandering realm was far too great.

Moreover, if one had failed to condense a Spirit Body in advance when advancing from the Qi Induction realm to the Out of Body Stage realm, then the difficulty of advancing from the peak of the Out of Body Stage realm to the Spirit Wandering realm later on would increase by more than tenfold!

Thus, although all two hundred people who had entered the semifinals were Peerless Prodigies at the peak of the Out of Body Stage ninth level, if a hundred years passed and none of them met with mishaps or perished midway, it would already be quite good if fifty out of those two hundred were promoted to the Spirit Wandering realm!

And that was under circumstances where the most outstanding prodigies of the younger generation from the entire Southern Great Domain had gathered together.

Outside the Immortal Sect, it was even harder than ascending to