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Chapter 1437: Chapter 562 Rise and Fall Suddenly_3 Chapter 1437: Chapter 562 Rise and Fall Suddenly_3 Thus, for Jade Brocade to advance to Earth Immortal within these mere few hundred years, the difficulty would accordingly increase.

This was, in a way, a consequence of massive slaughter.

Therefore, in dealing with those rebels this time, Jade Brocade only dealt with the ringleaders and those core members, sparing the ordinary members and peripheral participants from excessive involvement.

Killing too many people would not only damage the strength of the sect but also harm his own interests.

Jade Brocade still depended on his disciples to go out and gather materials for his advancement.

If all these people were killed, his own date of advancement would also be endlessly delayed.

He would have to be foolish to engage in such acts that hurt others without benefiting himself—acts that were painful for the victims but satisfying for the enemies.

The current extent was quite adequate.

Killing one-tenth of the people was enough to deter the hearts of the rest.

With the remaining people not daring to offend again, the increasingly rampant behaviors of forming cliques and colluding with enemies within the sect could naturally be curtailed and controlled.

In this way, the first step in Taiping Dao’s plan to purify its internal ranks was also completed.

In fact,

this approach had indeed worked extremely well.

Shaken by those four hundred heads, Taiping Dao had sternly warned the other disciples within the sect at the almost empty cost of an entire subsidiary courtyard.

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Seeing the familiar faces of fellow disciples, with whom they had often shared drinks and discussed the dao, even traveled together—yesterday still full of laughter, only to become cold corpses the next day, displayed as a disgrace on the sect’s pillars.

It was no exaggeration to say that everyone was terrified.

Not only were they terrified, but a considerable number of people also developed negative emotions like disheartenment, disgust, hatred, and confusion.

What the outsiders had speculated had come to pass.

Taiping Dao’s decisive killings had been very effective, but the repercussions were also quite significant.

Four hundred people had been killed, and because of various relationships involving fellow disciples, close elders, and even clan members, nearly two-thirds of the sect was inwardly repulsed and dissatisfied with this decision of the sect.

They were just too scared to voice it out.

However, various forms of passive resistance, such as negligent work, silent opposition, and even harboring ill intentions, were inevitable.

The three measures that Jade Brocade had implemented since his tenure had been extremely effective, but the side effects were also significant.

Soothing the scattered and resentful morale of the people within the sect alone was a headache-inducing problem.

Fortunately, Lu Yuan had already provided a solution for this issue.

Recruitment on a large scale.

After the killing of four hundred people, scaring those within the sect into fear and silence, and leaving the outside world speechless,

Jade Brocade sheathed his butcher’s knife and offered his sweetness.

He reassigned those who had caused the turmoil to idle positions, either to be sidelined or to be expelled from the sect to travel outside and search for treasures for him, fully using them as tools and making the most out of waste.

He then seriously selected and screened a group of disciples from among those unaffected, who were loyal to the sect and not involved with the troublemakers, offering them resources and job preferences, promoting their use.

Based on these people, he embarked on large-scale recruitment of disciples across various subsidiary courtyards and the sect’s headquarters.

The first round of recruitment brought in four thousand people.

Yes, that was the clever number, four thousand new disciples.

Why choose this number?

Jade Brocade was clear in his heart that it was the order from the true master, to double the number of disciples within a thousand years, before the sect went to war with Changqing Immortal Sect, to meet the demands of the war.

Now, four thousand was just the beginning.

Once these people started to grow initially, and if the resources could keep up, he planned to start a new round of expansion.

But these were just his inner thoughts, and all of Taiping Dao’s core plans were kept secret.

The people outside, they had no idea of Lu Yuan’s plans.

Belonging to Taiping Dao, right after they had just killed people, they promptly recruited another four thousand disciples, immediately imbuing the act with a very political flavor.

To all outsiders, it seemed that Taiping Dao, after a purge, had completely lost trust in those old disciples within the sect.

These old disciples were too entangled with the outside world—too many of their friends and family, along with their fellow disciples and masters, had been killed by Taiping Dao.

Although they were from the same sect, in some sense, they were also enemies.

Such disciples were certainly not ones Taiping Dao dared to rely on.

Yet to directly kill these old disciples or expel them from the sect would lead to a devastating loss of strength for Taiping Dao, and that aftermath would be even more dire.

So, after much deliberation, recruiting a batch of new blood and then sidelining those old disciples with questionable loyalty, sending them away to collect dust, became the best choice.

To abandon those problematic disciples and then to recruit a batch of new ones, using the remaining unquestionable disciples to teach the newly initiated.

In this way, after three to five hundred years,

By the time those abandoned old disciples had died off and the new disciples had grown up, Taiping Dao would have completed a cycle of replacement.

It purified the inside and strengthened the sect.

The only cost was that during this replacement period, Taiping Dao would face greater financial strain.

But that was nothing much of a concern.

They were just some mortal disciples who had not yet attained immortality.

With the current size of Taiping Dao, to say nothing of doubling, even a two or threefold increase could be sustained.

So, for Jade Brocade, this matter posed no pressure at all.

And for Taiping Dao,

Using the excuse of replacing disciples, they also successfully deceived the public, using a smokescreen to cover up Taiping Dao’s covert troop expansion.

After all, the rationale was just too legitimate and powerful.

No one would suspect that Taiping Dao’s frantic recruitment of new disciples, following a large number of internal betrayals, was anything but well-intentioned.

Even the Qing Immortal Sect and Jiuzhou Immortal Gate surrounding Taiping Dao had no slightest alertness or pressure towards this development.

On the contrary,

Seeing Taiping Dao in such internal disorder, these two sects that had been constantly extorted were elated.

In their hearts, they just felt that those who engage in evil will ultimately bring about their own destruction.

Taiping Dao was suffering from divine retribution for their many misdeeds, and it was well deserved!

Did they really think they could take advantage of me so easily?

Now let them see that by taking my things into their home, they’ve also brought me into their household.

Now their home is in turmoil, the children are in strife with their parents, and disciples have begun killing their masters.

Taiping Dao is completely paralyzed.

A sect, thus weakened for five to six hundred years.

Taiping Dao missed out on five to six hundred years of development time, and the momentum that was booming was instantly halted, allowing the other two sects to gain five to six hundred years.

No, with this loss and their gain, the time they secured might be even longer.

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Originally, Taiping Dao was the fastest in accumulating strength compared to the other two sects.

But now, having been severely damaged, before the disciples in the sect were replaced, before the next generation grew up, Taiping Dao could only mark time or even regress.

Whereas, Qing Immortal Sect and Jiuzhou Immortal Gate could seize the chance to develop, reopening the gap between them.

The former situation with Qing Immortal Sect being the strongest, Taiping Dao next, and Jiuzhou in the last place, might just have to change.

History was about to return to its rightful place.

The era of Taiping Dao was characterized by both its vigorous rise and its sudden demise.

An internal purge had completely destroyed the rising momentum of Taiping Dao.

Many outsiders couldn’t help but think this way in their hearts.

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