The Supremes of the Three Academies had even proposed a method of nurturing disciples like venomous creatures in a jar: sacrificing ten thousand heavenly prodigies would be worth it if that produced a single prodigy who could break the shackles of the Supreme realm and become a True Immortal, or even an Immortal King.
Resources were limited, too. Apart from disciples already selected internally, the Immortal Academy and Sacred Academy would not casually recruit more.
Only the Heavenly God Academy was willing to offer an opportunity like this.
In fact, when they went to the other regions of the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths to recruit disciples, they wanted only prodigies at the Heavenly God realm or above who had cultivated one strand of immortal qi.
This era needed peerless heroes to emerge, powerhouses like the Seven Kings of the Border Wasteland.
Cultivating more Heavenly Venerables of the one escape realm meant little. They were all merely ants.
Nearby, the six Heavenly Gods from the Three Academies studied Xiao Tian curiously, but only those from the Heavenly God Academy showed greater interest in Shi Hao and Huo Ling'er.
The Immortal Academy and Sacred Academy had deep foundations, with genuine descendants of the Ten Fiends and outstanding descendants of the former Longevity World.
The original plot had never established that the Longevity Families were necessarily True Immortal families. They might once have produced Immortal Kings.
There were also quite a few prodigies who had cultivated three strands of immortal qi. They were not truly that rare.
Of course, most had relied on secret treasures to conceal themselves from heaven's scrutiny, preventing the Darkness Cage from seizing their souls and cultivating three strands of immortal qi through an unconventional shortcut.
The experts from the Immortal Academy and Sacred Academy recruited Xiao Tian