Novel Full Chapter 803 - Chapter 803: Chapter 753: If You Can't Beat Them, Join Them
Chapter 803: Chapter 753: If You Can’t Beat Them, Join Them
Pei Xuanjing, upon founding the Taoist Academy at first, faced great resistance from various factions, for these powers treated their own Cultivation skills as state secrets, unwilling to share them freely, reluctant to divulge.
They were well aware that their ability to occupy so many benefits and resources today was not because they were inherently strong or exceptionally talented but because they monopolized Cultivation, holding the resources and skills of Cultivation in their hands and limiting the common people, which led to the current situation.
If everyone truly started from the same starting line, with the same education and resources, even those in high positions now had no confidence that they could maintain their status in such competition.
However, Pei Xuanjing, though fully aware of their thoughts, did not care. Despite their dissuasions, his establishment of the Taoist Academy laid bare the skills they treated as treasures, offering ordinary people from humble backgrounds a chance to compete, a possibility to rise.
No matter if Pei Xuanjing’s intent was to accelerate internal competition, to bring forth more individuals of talent, to gain more insights, the outcome was undeniable: billions of ordinary people benefited from his deeds.
Facing Pei Xuanjing’s move, these powers, despite their deep resentment, were helpless and could only let it be, because Pei Xuanjing was powerful enough to make them unqualified to stop him.
Over the years, the Cultivation World continued to experience internal competition. Even after the Revival of Heaven and Earth, when countless Heavenly and Earthly Treasures emerged, these powers gained more benefits and their strength continued to climb. However, their actual situation was not as good as they had initially expected.
Because more and more Cultivators emerged, the internal competition of Cultivation increased. Even if among thousands of Cultivators there was one with great talent, the sheer number of Cultivators meant that the strong ones who arose put significant pressure on these powers, adding many competitors to their ranks.
Moreover, especially after the connection between the two realms, the returning Cultivators and powers from the Sky Wasteland posed fierce competition, greatly impacting the development of the native forces of the Great Ming World.
“Since we cannot stop it, we might as well join in and control this possibility in our hands,” stated a powerhouse from one of the native forces of the Great Ming World.
There are always smart individuals Between Heaven and Earth, especially among those leading these powers.
They naturally saw the impact of the spreading Taoist Academy and the increasing number of Cultivators, yet they could neither stop it nor possessed the capacity to do so. Under such circumstances, they needed to change their mindset as much as possible to protect their interests.
Since they couldn’t stop it, they decided to join in. Unable to prevent the rising number of Cultivators or the proliferation of academies, they joined the fray, emulating the academies in nurturing more geniuses for their forces, strengthening themselves.
After voicing this motto, it immediately received recognition from many forces, and they began to take such actions.
Later, when Pei Xuanjing used the accumulated Force of Faith Incense from the Taoist Academy to open up a Small Thousand World and then unreservedly taught the methods for opening up Divine Kingdoms, the fervor of these powers reached new heights.
Nowadays, the method of establishing a Divine Kingdom is widely circulated Between Heaven and Earth and is regarded by many Cultivators as one of the best methods for improving their strength, especially for those Cultivators facing bottlenecks – it’s an optimal choice.
Uncountable forces began to mimic Pei Xuanjing’s actions, building academies and recruiting Disciples, both to reserve talent for their houses and to accumulate the Power of Incense Fire for themselves. They did not aspire to open up minor thousand worlds like Pei Xuanjing did but merely to open Divine Kingdoms to bolster their own strength.
It can be said that since Pei Xuanjing opened up minor thousand worlds and taught the method of establishing Divine Kingdoms at the Shenxiao Debate Conference, academies flourished everywhere, transforming from Pei Xuanjing’s sole flourishing entity to a scene of hundreds of academies vying for supremacy.
If not for the Contribution Points system he had accumulated over the years, comprising an enormous collection of skills and foundational resources, along with the substantial resources required and mutual constraints among the forces, the Taoist Academy would have been significantly impacted.
Of course, even though these forces banded together over the years to secretly undermine the Taoist Academy, the yearly intake of its Disciples never fell short. Rather, there were never enough spots at the Academy.
After all, the reputation of the Academy over the decades, its minimal requirements, and the freedom it offered – unlike other academies where one must serve the interests behind them – and most importantly, the presence of Pei Xuanjing, the Supreme Strong, made the Academy the aspiration of countless Disciples.
“However, with so many Disciples in the Academy, it’s inevitable to have too many monks and not enough porridge, leading to such intense competition,” Qingyang Zi thought somewhat helplessly in his Heart.
There were too many Disciples in the Academy. While most resources could sustain these Disciples due to the presence of the Contribution Points system, some scarce resources were not renewable and thus could not be evenly distributed among all Disciples.
For instance, the task that Pei Xuanjing had now given him: to take a group of Disciples wanting to switch to the Golden Core Dao into the Longevity World and then, with Pei Xuanjing’s personal assistance, to help them condense their Golden Cores and embark on the Golden Core Dao.
Although Qingyang Zi did not know Pei Xuanjing’s purpose in doing so, he knew that once this news spread throughout the Academy, it would surely incite a frenzy among the Disciples.
Like the Shenxiao Sect, although Pei Xuanjing had founded the Academy, he mostly served as a hands-off manager, entrusting all affairs of the Academy to Qingyang Zi. Outside of occasional lectures delivered by his Avatar, there was rarely an opportunity to meet him.
For many Disciples of the Academy, even if they were nominally Pei Xuanjing’s Disciples, in reality, many of them might only encounter Pei Xuanjing’s divine idol preaching within the Academy from the time they joined until they left, never getting the chance to converse with Pei Xuanjing directly.
The authority of a Supreme Strong is not easily accessible, and even for Cultivators coming from top-tier forces, they rarely get the opportunity to connect with such powerful beings during their Sect-based Cultivation. Though they regularly hear of the powerful figures, they seldom get a chance to interact with them, let alone receive guidance.
And now, with Pei Xuanjing’s announcement to select Disciples to enter the Longevity World and assist them in switching to the Golden Core Dao, such an opportunity was exceedingly rare and was bound to spark fierce competition among many.