Ling Tian and the others selected nine thousand combatants and one thousand support fighters, settling the ten thousand slots for the upcoming war between realms. Nine Quasi-Near-God leaders were still needed, of course, but Illusion Dream Fairy, Lei Ting, and the others were organizing trials to choose them. The candidates would surely be decided before long.
Naturally, the ten thousand places weren't set in stone. The members of the various Heaven's Might Organizations had agreed that anyone who met the Lord of the Universe's requirements and could defeat a thousand of the combatants among the ten thousand would qualify for a place and be allowed to join the war between realms a thousand years later.
The nine thousand combatants had been chosen through round after round of selection. They were the cream of the crop among the Immortal Realm's younger generation. Defeating them would be incredibly difficult, to say nothing of beating a thousand of them, so almost no one could successfully challenge their place.
Over the next thousand years, Ling Tian and the other leaders would take the ten thousand out to train. Besides teaching them to work together, they also arranged for some people to give them trouble, honing their ability to adapt when faced with danger.
Ling Tian, Tan Tai Chang Feng, and the others went along with them, but they didn't step in to help—or even offer advice. They left the group to fend entirely for themselves.
Time flowed on, and several hundred years passed in the blink of an eye.
After all these years of honing their skills, the group had become much more coordinated. Most importantly, Ling Yu, Tan Tai Xiao Lin, and the others had greatly improved their leadership skills, becoming the undisputed leaders of the younger generation.
"Impressive. These young cultivators are