The National Dynasty implemented Spirit Root testing, and the process was very smooth.
All registered citizens were screened, and the Imperial Court had a clear grasp of how many cultivators there were in the National Dynasty.
After all, Spirit Roots are not codes that you can just distribute whenever you wish!
All cultivators were assigned positions, and these were not just nominal ranks but actual posts as members of local branches of the Investigation Bureau, wielding astonishing authority when handling ghostly entity cases.
No one in the world can refuse power, especially since modern cultivation techniques can be somewhat overzealous.
Since cultivators do not study Buddhist or Daoist scriptures, their strength grows rapidly but without the corresponding state of mind, making them more susceptible to worldly temptations.