"I went down to the lower realm this time, made a trip to the Netherworld, and brought the Ascension Platform back..."
Chen Mobai told Heavenly Lord Kongming about the matter, wanting to ask how the quotas for ascending to immortality had been handled in the past.
"That thing being lost in the Netherworld and never retrieved was actually something Spirit Void Immortal Realm did deliberately, because all the Great Holy Lands have tangled, sprawling relationships in the Immortal Realm. If they gave quotas to one family and not another, it would be hard to save face. And the conditions previously set for screening cultivators ascending to immortality were a little too simple for the Spirit Transformation Cultivators of Sky River Realm."
"Although quite a few more steps were added afterward, for those powers with Seventh Tier True Immortal Dao Lord backers, it was merely a slight bother. It couldn't stop them at all from sending the disciples below up here."
"And after these people came up, they were directly entered into the establishment. But there were only so many posts. Once this batch of cultivators obtained the Immortal Realm's immortal substances, their lifespan became long as well, so they would remain in office for a very long time. That left those who came later with no choice but to draw empty salaries, and they also squeezed out the examination quotas for the local Immortal Citizens, causing enormous conflict."
"When the Ascension Platform was struck into the Netherworld, the Heavenly Emperor happened to be worrying over all the establishment quotas in the Thirty-Three Heavens Dao Provinces being filled. At that, he was directly overjoyed and greeted our Tai Xu Lineage, using this to cut off that path ashore."
Only after Chen Mobai finished listening to what Heavenly Lord Kongming said did