The first batch of immigrants would accept only those at the Primordial Spirit stage or above... No, these people could not truly be called the "first batch."
The very first humans to set foot on other planets had been the Immortals, the Great Free Wanderers.
Only after the experiences of those Wanderers had been gathered would elite members of the third Grandmaster tier be sent over.
Only once it had been confirmed that "humans could theoretically live there" would lower-stage cultivators gradually be allowed to come.
In this universe, high-level cultivators could endure far more than low-level cultivators, while low-level cultivators were in turn vastly stronger than ordinary mortals. Thus, for jobs such as pilots and astronauts, which required powerful physiques, the principle in this universe was: those with higher cultivation took priority.
—Of course, in exceedingly rare cases, powerful cultivators would use those with low cultivation to scout the way. But that required knowing that a certain location might contain a force even powerful cultivators could not withstand.
This had always been the way of the world.
The Foundation Establishment School, which would one day become renowned throughout the universe, was at this time merely a "mutual-aid study group" organized by Wang Qi, a third-tier Grandmaster. Even Wang Qi himself had only attained immortality as an anomaly while using cheats; by orthodox standards, there remained some gap between the essence of his life and that of an immortal.
If even Wang Qi was like that, there was no need to mention anyone else.
Among the Myriad Dharma Sect disciples first drawn to Wang Qi, there were indeed Primordial Spirit cultivators such as Zhao Qingtan and Wei Cang, as well as people like Su Junyu, who had later broken through the Heavenly Gate. But in truth, many of the members