"I want to become a Heaven-and-Earth Divine General too!" Zhang Hong chimed in.
"Uh! I'm not the one who decides who becomes a Heaven-and-Earth Divine General!" Li Xiaoya said with a wry smile. He paused, then explained, "I actually want to take you both with me...!" Seeing Zhang Hong and Liu Xian'er looking at him with feigned suspicion and disbelief, he hastily said in earnest, "Really!" After another pause, he continued, "I already asked Master! To enter the Race Battlefield, you have to be at least in the Heaven-and-Earth Realm, and you have to pass the selection for Heaven-and-Earth Divine Generals!"
In fact!
This was indeed true. Although the Race Battlefield was supposedly open to anyone, the Human Race Alliance did not want cultivators with insufficient cultivation going there. Thus, the Human Race Alliance required entrants to have been selected through the Hell Tower, with cultivation and divine abilities superior to those of ordinary cultivators at the same level. Above all, the entrance was controlled by the Human Race Alliance...
There were two reasons for this. First, as the guardian of the human race, the Human Race Alliance naturally did not want human cultivators going there to die. If cultivators encountered someone from another race there and were confident they could take that person down, they would kill them regardless of whether their cultivation was high or low. More importantly, the second reason lay behind this slaughter: with four races fighting on the Race Battlefield, it was difficult to wipe out the cultivators of any one race completely. However, battle achievements were tallied once every ten thousand years, and the race that earned the most merit received substantial rewards... For the sake of the race's interests, cultivators with unimpressive cultivation and divine abilities naturally could not be allowed to go...