Chapter 3: Weird Rules All these were what happened seven days ago.
Wen Ping had originally thought that after possessing the gravity field, he would be able to recruit many disciples from Cangwu City below the mountain. It was fine even if they had inferior aptitudes. With the 9x increment to cultivation speed, even a pig could rise to the sky.
However, the system had given him a very unbelievable standard of recruitment.
In the Secret Cloud Continent, all sects would allow disciples to join for free and also provide cultivation resources, cultivation arts, arterial techniques, and even vortex diagrams.
However, in his case, not only did he not provide these things, but the system had even set up a rule that those who wanted to join the Immortal Sect had to pay.
It was still fine if money was required. After all, many people didn’t lack things like gold coins. Some daughters of wealthy merchants had very poor cultivation aptitude and couldn’t join 1-star or 2-stars sect, so they would simply spend money to cultivate. Wen Ping had originally planned to target these people, but then the system imposed another rule.
For those at 15 years of age, they had to reach the fifth level of the Body Refinement Realm before they could join the Immortal Sect!
One had to know that Wen Ping had the backing of a 2-stars sect and inexhaustible resources, which was why he could reach the fifth level of the Body Refinement Realm before he was 15. This meant that if poor people wanted to reach the fifth level, other than geniuses, only those 2-stars and 3-stars sects could nurture them.
Unfortunately, if such a genius appeared in Cangwu City, they would have been visited by 2-stars and 3-stars sects long ago and recruited away.
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Because of it, Wen Ping’s plan to target the daughters of rich merchants failed just like that.
"System, look at this. They are leaving the moment they come here. Can’t you relax the recruitment standard?"
The system calmly replied, "Host, please pay attention to your attitude. As the owner of the Super Sect System, not any tom, dick, or harry, can join your Immortal Sect."
"But the problem is that it has been three days and I’ve yet to accept a single disciple."
"I would rather not stand for suboptimal quality disciples even if I had to spend a year to accept a single one. Naturally, the host can choose not to follow my standard. The punishment is merely for me to take the 3x gravity field back."
Wen Ping bitterly smiled and could only yield.
However, before he yielded, he didn’t forget to leave behind a ruthless sentence. "System, if you become a human in the future, you must never go out to the streets."
"Why?"
Wen Ping coldly replied, "It’s easy for people like you to be beaten to death by others!"
After that, he sat back down on his chair and simply placed the registration forms on his face. He then lay back and closed his eyes to rest, not caring about the sounds of discussion that drifted toward his ears from the wind.
At this moment, a pair of male and female youths began to walk toward this place together.
They were gorgeously dressed. Their clothes were stitched with golden silk, and the swords in their hands were inlaid with gold and jade, completely complementing their faces that exuded the demeanor of descendants from an aristocratic clan. These weren’t something ordinary people could afford to purchase.
When they arrived at the foot of the Cloudmist Mountain, their gazes landed on the wooden sign that stated ’Recruitment event for disciples of the Immortal Sect’. After that, they looked at the youth who had fallen asleep sitting there.
It was no wonder the Immortal Sect was defeated like a collapsed mountain and had declined tremendously, falling from a 2-stars sect to a starless one.
With such a lazy person as the examiner, how could such a sect develop into something great?
Just when the girl was preparing to call out, her younger brother prodded her arm. "Elder sister, look at what this is."
"What?"
She immediately turned her head and stared in the direction her younger brother was pointing at.
At the bottom-right corner of the wooden sign, there was another row of words. "Sect-joiners, no matter who you are, you have to pay 1,000 gold if you want to join the sect. If you don’t have money, just get the hell away!"
"He even wants to charge money?"
She hurriedly rubbed her eyes and had a look of incredulous disbelief on her face.
(Why did the Immortal Sect turn into something like this?)
After casting a few glances at the surroundings, she understood why not even a single person came by.
"Ai, did your sect leader write the characters wrongly?"
As she spoke, she smacked the table.
Boom!
Boom!
Despite the disturbance, Wen Ping wasn’t annoyed. He only took away the pile of registration forms from his face and stretched his body lazily.
"Are the two of you here to join the Immortal Sect?"
"Do we really have to pay money?" As the girl spoke, she hurriedly walked to the wooden sign and pointed at the row of words at the bottom-right corner.
Wen Ping wasn’t in a hurry to answer. Rather, he looked at the simple information projected about the two of them.
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Huang Can
Gender: Female
Age: 15
Cultivation Base: Third level of Body Refinement
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The other youth had similar stats as well.
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Huang Shan