Although Li Xiaoya put on a bewildered expression, he understood perfectly well. Under the Human Race Alliance's rules, a sect controlling one district had to send one or two Heaven-and-Earth Realm cultivators to participate in the Hell Tower selection. The Purple Vitality Gate controlled three districts, so naturally, it had to send three to five cultivators.
At least one of the cultivators who participated had to become a Heaven-and-Earth Divine General outright. The Purple-Light Daoist Patriarch had mentioned this to Li Xiaoya before. Given the circumstances of the various great races and Great Sects, none of them were particularly willing to send the Heaven-and-Earth Realm cultivators they had painstakingly nurtured to the Clan Alliance to risk their lives...
Although ordinary Heaven-and-Earth Realm cultivators received slightly fewer benefits in the great sects than Heaven-and-Earth Divine Generals did, at least they were much safer. Serving as a Heaven-and-Earth Divine General was extremely dangerous. They were often sent to fight on the Race Battlefield, which showed just how perilous it was. At other times, they had to undertake exceptionally dangerous missions for their race.
Thus, most cultivators were not particularly willing to join the Human Race Alliance.
Of course, service as a Heaven-and-Earth Divine General was not permanent. Ordinarily, a Divine General served for ten thousand years. That was not particularly long for a Heaven-and-Earth Realm cultivator, but the chief concern was the danger...
That ten-thousand-year term coincided with the Hell Tower opening once every ten thousand years. Clearly, it was meant to select the next batch of Heaven-and-Earth Divine Generals.
Thus, some sects hired rogue cultivators of the Heaven-and-Earth Realm to participate in the Hell Tower selection on behalf of the Great Sects...
One point worth mentioning was that if a sect's candidates deliberately failed the Hell Tower selection and came out,