Yu Chen could more or less guess East Mother and West Mother's intentions. Calmly, he watched the two goddesses' silence and inner conflict.
Although Yu Chen had consistently placed immortals beneath gods from the very beginning, even regarding the immortal path as a supplementary means of the divine path.
For the immortal path of the Central Plains, however, this was a breakthrough from nothing into something.
Before this, the immortal path held an exceedingly awkward position in the Central Plains.
Those at the bottom mostly knew nothing about it, while those at the top did not care.
Only those caught in the middle, unable to find any other path, were forced by circumstance onto the road of immortality.
Among such people, unless they truly possessed deeply planted Dao roots, or had enough standing that the immortals could not refuse them, how many of the rest were worth anyone's notice?
As a result, the immortal path of today's Central Plains had drifted farther and farther from the mortal world.
But Yu Chen's theory was different. He directly bound the immortal path and the divine path together.
If the normal promotion path for divine cultivators was viewed as an examination for advancing from a lower academy to a higher academy, then after the living beings of the Central Plains underwent assessments based on birth, ability, wealth, status, and so forth, they would enter academies corresponding to different ranks of deities according to their scores, study there, and ultimately compete for the corresponding divine offices.
Then under Yu Chen's theory, the immortal path was like adding an intermediate academy between the lower and higher academies. Furthermore, it declared that its elementary and intermediate education could be pursued in one continuous course. When necessary, one could even advance into a higher academy, or directly