After Thundercloud Tower opened to the lineage members, many cultivators of the Liu Household eagerly signed up for trials inside, driven by curiosity.
However, so many lineage members wanted to challenge the tower that many had to wait in line.
Liu Changxu placed Thundercloud Tower under the General Affairs Hall's management. Before long, the hall announced to the entire lineage that every member would receive one free trial each year. Any further attempts would require Household Contribution Points.
Naturally, the number of contribution points required for a tower trial depended on the cultivator's cultivation level.
Qi Refinement cultivators paid fewer contribution points, while Golden Core cultivators paid the most.
However, the General Affairs Hall also introduced rewards for tower challenges, offering generous prizes to lineage descendants who performed well to encourage cultivators to take part.
At the same time, their performance in the tower became an important basis for assessing their potential.
This was because, as the number of cultivators in the lineage grew, the Liu Household's leadership could no longer fairly judge its descendants' potential through their own abilities alone.
Liu Changxu himself, for instance, already had several hundred descendants who had embarked on the path of immortality. With so many younger descendants, simply remembering all their names was an accomplishment. He had neither the ability nor the energy to accurately understand every descendant's true circumstances.
Thus, the Liu Household had to use various means to select descendants with potential, then give them focused, targeted training.
To that end, the Liu Household convened a full-lineage assembly and decided to hold a Family Grand Competition every three years. Arena duels would determine the ten best Qi Refinement cultivators, known as the Liu Household's Ten Heroes, and the five best Foundation Establishment cultivators, known as its Five Elites. Together, the Ten