Chapter 33 Recruiting Disciples

"Hahaha, kid, you’ll regret this!" Once freed, the Three-Eyed Tiger started acting up again. "You think making me a Sect Guardian Spirit Beast is a good thing?" "I’ll make your place a mess. Just you wait!" Jiang Cheng glanced at it, looking at it like it’s a fool, letting it amuse itself beside him. Anyway, as long as it can protect these disciples at critical moments, that’s enough. The next day, Jiang Cheng cultivated all night and advanced to the Soul Splitting Seventh Layer. This Celestial Desolation Indestructible Body is just too powerful, upgrading feels like riding a rocket. Opening the system panel, he found his points had increased by 320. As a points slave, Brother Cheng remembered the points numbers very clearly. "What’s going on? The system didn’t prompt anything." He opened the records and finally understood. Ji Linghan had advanced from Gathering Essence Eighth Layer to Ninth Layer last night, rewarded with 300 points. Luo Yuan advanced from Gathering Essence Sixth Layer to Seventh Layer, rewarded with 20 points. So when his disciples level up, he also receives points rewards? But the points reward disparity is too huge, isn’t it? Both advanced one small realm, yet there’s a 15-fold difference between them! Jiang Cheng rubbed his chin, understanding it. Ji Linghan’s talent far exceeds Luo Yuan’s, the system determines she’s more valuable, so the reward is higher. His thoughts started to become lively. If there were more disciples like this, thousands and thousands, wouldn’t he be able to earn a lot of points while lying down? He quickly gathered everyone together. "Alright, now we have the Sect Guardian Spirit Beast, we should consider recruiting new disciples to expand the sect’s scale." Originally worried that the sect was unsafe, recruiting too many people might not be protected and would harm them instead. Now without this worry, it can be put on the agenda. "Sect Leader wants to recruit newcomers, I wonder what requirements there are?" Everyone also felt that indeed some manpower was needed, the mountain gate was so large, having only 20 or so people didn’t look like a sect. "My requirements aren’t high, new disciples should have True Disciple level talent and bones, that’s all." Jiang Cheng said it as if it were a matter of course. But except for Ji Linghan, all disciples felt like their hearts had been shot with an arrow. Isn’t this considered not high? They themselves were True Disciples before. Jiang Cheng now talks about this level as if it were commonplace, truly too hurtful. Luo Yuan clutched his chest and smiled bitterly. "True Disciple is probably not so easy to recruit, ah!" He remembered when he joined back then, thousands of youths gathered under the Feixian Sect for entry assessment. In the end, only 105 successfully entered. Of those 105, 90 had average talents and could only become Outer Disciples. And 13 who had good talent were chosen to be Inner Disciples, making many onlookers green with envy. That batch had only two True Disciples, one of which was him. And that year was indeed still a batch with relatively good disciple quality, sometimes a whole batch wouldn’t even produce one True Disciple, which was quite normal. The reason geniuses are geniuses is precisely because they are rare. "Our Feixian Sect’s aim is quality over quantity." Jiang Cheng had his own calculations. He knew Luo Yuan’s talent was already quite good, after all, he was a True Disciple. But even he only got 20 points, so what about ordinary Inner Disciples? Outer Disciples? Afraid that advancing a small realm, even 1 point would be hard to get. Recruiting too many such disciples is meaningless, it might even be counterproductive. After all, cultivating disciples also requires consuming Spirit Stones and Elixirs. If earned is less than spent in the end, it’s meaningless. The news that Feixian Sect is recruiting disciples soon spread throughout Qinglan Prefecture. The news originally spread slowly due to the small number of people, but now Feixian Sect is too popular, even overturning four sects, any little rumor would cause an uproar. For a while, many people were eager to try. Feixian Sect is powerful now, extinguishing four sects in two days, there’s a vague trend to become the third pole of Qinglan Prefecture. Following such a big tree, it’s good to enjoy the shade. Moreover, everyone knows Feixian Sect is currently short on people, doesn’t that just mean newcomers could share more cultivation resources after joining? But after seeing the recruitment standards, many people’s hearts sank. This recruitment is limited to True Disciple level only. "Is Feixian Sect crazy?" "Who recruits disciples like this?" "Only recruiting True Disciples, do they think that level is everywhere?" "Even Duanmu Family and Red Sun Sect don’t have such high standards." While the outside world was in heated discussion, another big news spread. Due to Fei Tongzhuo being killed and four affiliated sects being extinguished, Red Sun Sect is furious! It demands Feixian Sect’s Sect Leader Jiang Cheng and all disciples, to kneel and apologize at Red Sun Sect and submit within three days. Otherwise, Red Sun Sect will invade with its army and annihilate Feixian Sect! With this, the outside world became even less optimistic about Feixian Sect. Although Feixian Sect wiped out four sects, Red Sun Sect could do such things too. And Red Sun Sect has as many as thirty thousand people, being the dominating giant of Qinglan Prefecture for tens of thousands of years, its accumulated prestige is too deep. No one thought these 20-something people at Feixian Sect could match them. "Unless the force behind Jiang Cheng shows up, otherwise they’ll be crushed this time." "As for recruiting disciples, who dares to go now?" "Of course, what if after joining you’re extinguished, wouldn’t that be accompanying a burial?" Red Sun Sect’s ultimatum naturally also reached inside Feixian Sect. "Sect Leader, what should we do?" "Right, with Red Sun Sect causing a scene, we’re going to have a hard time recruiting disciples." "Now, instead of recruiting disciples, how to fend off external enemies is the top priority!" The disciples chatted loudly for a while before turning around together. "Sect Leader, give the order, how should we defend?" Seeing the resolve on everyone’s face, Jiang Cheng was a bit surprised, then amused. "With your little power, you’d be wiped out by one Soul Splitting Realm, defend for what? Sending heads?" Luo Yuan and Yin Xiaoxue expressed dissatisfaction simultaneously. "Sect Leader, you’re really hurting our morale!" "Yes, as a Sect Leader you should at least encourage us, how can you dampen our spirits?" Being the eldest senior sister, Ji Linghan was more stable, she asked, "Should we retreat like last time?" "Of course not retreat." Jiang Cheng shook his head. "I forgot to tell you, last time the four sects from Extreme Moon Sect attacking Feixian Sect was orchestrated by Red Sun Sect behind the scenes." "What?" "It was them?" "I said, how did those four sects suddenly team up." "Damn Red Sun Sect!" Knowing the truth now, everyone naturally hated Red Sun Sect. Brother Cheng was about to give a rousing declaration of the expedition to cement his image as Sect Leader, but was interrupted by a cold laugh outside the hall. "Turns out you’re all this stupid, you were exterminated and didn’t even know the mastermind behind!" Jiang Cheng was very annoyed being cut off from his show-off process. Looking up, a peculiar white Jade Platform illusion drifted slowly into the hall’s main entrance. The Jade Platform was three feet high, with strands of soul-stealing aura around it. In the center of that Jade Platform, sat a small pale-green figure, giving an inviolable sacred feeling. Upon seeing that figure, Ji Linghan’s expression changed. "Duanmu Pool of the Duanmu Family, he’s an expert of the Spirit Platform Realm, he’s directly descending with Spirit Platform Out-of-body here."