Although the Immortal Spirit Realm had races friendly to the Human Race, there were not many of them overall. As a human cultivator, True Lord Qianzhong had experienced the same hardships.
Here, too, he had seen many human cultivators fight desperately over scraps of cultivation resources, blood spraying everywhere.
"Life on the Lost Continent is cruel enough already. If more human cultivators can survive here, there will be more of our kind in the upper realm when they ascend."
Even if nothing else came of it, more human cultivators in the Immortal Spirit Realm meant that one day, among their descendants, there might be someone suited to inherit the Five Immortals Sect's legacy.
Those people might then have a chance to seize their opportunities instead of dying prematurely in the lower realm.
In True Lord Qianzhong's view, cultivators on the Lost Continent had a somewhat better chance of ascending than those on the other continents. Slaughter was the way of life here, and the strong were more numerous.
All he needed to do was offer human cultivators a little help in obtaining cultivation resources.
After considering all this, True Lord Qianzhong changed his mind.
"I can help stabilize your Sect Protection Array, but I have one condition.
"If human sects or cultivators appear within your territory in the future, I don't ask you to give them special treatment. But you must not suppress or exclude them.
"Nor may you record this matter in a jade slip, lest it bring human cultivators endless trouble. How far you can uphold this, and for how long, is up to fate!"
True Lord Qianzhong knew, first, that human cultivators could not be sheltered too much. In such a paradise, they would only wither and die.
Second, no flower blooms for a hundred days. If