The Undying Immortal System

Upon awakening in my small house, I sat in thought.

The elders’ actions had brought the situation in the Su Clan into clear focus for me.

The Eighth Elder had said that “the Su Clan accepts only the best of the best as its elite.” He had also said that the elite disciples had been “specially chosen based on the combined knowledge and experience of the clan’s esteemed elders.”

In the past, I had only focused on the first part of this message. The Su Clan accepts only the best of the best as its elites. They want the elites to be the strongest and best disciples possible. I had naively thought that if there were better cultivators among the normal disciples, then the elders would want to elevate them to the status of an ‘elite’ instead.

However, this interpretation completely ignored the second part of the message. The current elites were chosen based on the combined knowledge and experience of all the elders. To challenge an elite was to challenge the judgment of the elders.

By defeating one of these hand-picked elites, I had brought the judgment of all the elders into question. So, how did they choose to resolve this issue? They could have admitted their mistake, but instead, they chose to remove the root of the problem.

If I was dead, the chosen elites would return to being the best of the best in the Su Clan.

Originally, the Su Clan’s training routine might have been developed to sort through Disciples and allow the best to rise to the top, but over time, a deep rot had crept in. After living in this world for several centuries, I had a pretty good idea of its cause.

If the elders correctly chose the ten best Disciples five years in a row, they would want to continue that streak. Being unable to identify one of the best Disciples during the sixth year would be seen as a failure. If this continued for 100 years, then the elders who chose the elites in the 101st year would be under serious pressure to continue the tradition of always choosing only the best to be their elites.