Many people had entered the Star Tower.
Some had failed the trial, but they had still gained something different when they emerged.
And so.
Now that the Star Tower had appeared again, many people immediately went to challenge it.
The Treasure Pagoda stood tall within the city.
In front of the tower stood someone who bore some resemblance to Qin Shujian, motionless as a puppet.
It was an avatar Qin Shujian had created from his own true essence and a strand of divine sense.
It did not possess much strength.
Its sole purpose was to maintain the Star Tower's daily operations.
Within the Celestial Court.
Only after casting the Star Tower toward the Fallen Immortal Domain did Qin Shujian slowly speak. "War is imminent. Heavenly Soldiers shall be selected once a year. We must gather one hundred thousand of them.
"The same applies to the Heavenly Generals.
"I hope that one day, the Celestial Court will have one hundred thousand Heavenly Soldiers and one thousand Heavenly Generals."
One hundred thousand Heavenly Soldiers!
That was only the bare minimum.
During the Third Era, the Celestial Court had possessed over one hundred million Heavenly Soldiers.
But times had changed.
In the present era, the Great Thousand World had weakened, and its strength was nowhere near that of the Third Era.
Having over one hundred million Heavenly Soldiers was impossible.
After all, true immortals had only begun to emerge a little over a decade ago, and the Celestial Court itself had only been established for slightly more than ten years. One hundred thousand Heavenly Soldiers was almost its limit.
To have more.
They would need time.
Now that the power of the heavenly stars had been drawn down to bathe the Great Thousand World, they had already pushed their methods of accelerating growth