The next day, you summoned all Mu Family disciples and first took a census of their cultivation levels, concluding: together with you, there were nine Main Branch disciples, and all Main Branch disciples had already broken through to Late-stage Qi Cultivation, while the Branch Lineage disciples lagged far behind.
The Branch Lineage disciples numbered around two hundred and fifty or sixty, among whom only one hundred were in Mid-stage Qi Refining. This was still the result after the lineage had raised the disciples' treatment.
As for why none of the Branch Lineage disciples reached Late-stage Qi Cultivation, it was because in the Mu Family, Branch Lineage disciples could be promoted to enforcers upon breaking through to Late-stage Qi Cultivation.
Enforcers were responsible for assisting the elders and handling various affairs.
Their Mu Family currently had only twenty-one enforcers.
The cultivation levels of Branch Lineage disciples were generally much lower than those of the Main Branch. This was not only a matter of cultivation resources, but even more so a matter of cultivation talent.
Most Main Branch disciples were direct descendants of the lineage's elders, and their cultivation talents were uniformly Triple Spiritual Roots, whereas Branch Lineage disciples were selected from four major manors around Muye Mountain. Their parental generation did not even have spiritual root talent, so most Branch Lineage disciples primarily possessed Four Spirit Roots, alongside a few with the unfortunate Five Spirit Root talent like you.
You realized that distinguishing between the Main Branch and Branch Lineage was unfair, but you had more urgent matters at hand right now, so you planned to discuss a more rational disciple grading system later on. What was needed more urgently right now, however, was external expansion!
You first announced this matter, and as expected, some disciples supported it while others opposed