Three-Aspect Divine Ability, the Mountain Spirit's Condition (Please Vote with Monthly Tickets)
The blazing sun shone overhead.
The square on Sky Shadow Peak bustled with voices.
Besides cultivators, quite a few mortals had gathered around it.
Today was the Ye Family's Immortal Ascension Assembly, and these mortals were the town chiefs of their respective settlements.
As the Ye Family held more and more Immortal Ascension Assemblies, those town chiefs had come to understand that families which had produced cultivators deserved special care, since they were more likely to produce another.
The descendants of cultivators likewise needed looking after.
Only then would their towns produce more and more promising young cultivators, making their positions as town chiefs increasingly secure.
Thus, the number of clansmen attending the Ye Family's triennial Immortal Ascension Assembly had increased almost every year. At a glance, there were now over a thousand people, making this the largest and most heavily attended Immortal Ascension Assembly the Ye Family had ever held.
Ye Haicheng and Ye Xingxiao still oversaw the entire assembly. Unlike previous years, however, the Ye Family would assign all the promising children to the Clan School Hall, where they would receive standardized instruction before being sent into the Lineage.
This time, the Ye Family would make advance arrangements based on their spiritual root affinities.
For example, those with strong fire spiritual root affinity would first be sent to the Alchemy Hall and Artifact Hall for preliminary screening, while those with strong water and wood spiritual root affinities would receive priority recommendations to the Spirit Plant Hall and Spirit Talisman Hall.
Some clansmen would also be assigned to branch lineages.
This was not because the Ye Family could no longer adequately train them. Rather, its cultivators were growing ever more numerous, and to keep its benefits and stipend policies from collapsing, it needed more spirit talisman masters, spirit plant