As Wang Quan sat in the twelfth pass, talking at length with dozens of other vanguard officers and discussing how to conduct the magical duels, cultivators in the New Method army camp were discussing the same thing.
But the New Method had fewer factions, and only three vanguard officers: a chief vanguard, a left vanguard, and a right vanguard.
The three vanguard officers were not Golden Core Cultivators, but Nascent Soul Great Cultivators, a realm beyond Golden Core.
Nascent Soul corresponded to Primordial Spirit in the Old Cultivation Method.
The three vanguard officers were great cultivators at the great perfection of the Nascent Soul Late Stage, with half a foot in Spirit Transformation.
Such cultivation made them figures of some standing even within the New Method.
More importantly:
The ones controlling these bodies were not their original owners, but cultivators from [Heavenly World].
Indeed, the most important reason behind the New Method's sudden rise, its desire to begin magical duels and fight for a voice in the next era, was [Heavenly World]'s intervention.
Heavenly World knew that the New-Method Cultivators of the Mortal World were not up to the task.
Thus, this time, they had deployed a mighty treasure and selected some monstrous prodigies to descend through it and possess the New-Method Cultivators of the Mortal World.
Then, using the bodies of New-Method Cultivators, they rampaged and waged war across the land.
On the one hand, they wanted to suppress orthodox immortal cultivation; on the other, they were taking the opportunity to hold an internal competition for places as Immortals, Orthodox Immortals, and even in higher realms.
According to some of Heavenly World's big shots:
The most important thing about these magical duels was not suppressing and destroying Orthodox Cultivators, but the struggle between Heavenly World's factions and the struggle