Another year, another spring hunt.
The spring hunt at Nine Jade Palace this year surpassed all previous years in grandeur.
Ever since Beiming opened its borders to the Nine States, various great sects recruited disciples vigorously, more than doubling the number from previous years.
However, high-level experts above the Spirit Realm can't be cultivated overnight; those same faces still made up the show.
More awkwardly, due to a missing link, Nine Jade Palace's Assimilation Realm had only Zhuo Jiangui. Now with Grandmasters emerging in the world, raising the bar, Grand Elder Zhuo often had to take matters into his own hands.
Like now, for example.
"Is this all the people Nine Jade Palace has?" A finely dressed nobleman fluttered his folding fan in the air above the Jade West forest.
Zhuo Jiangui, playing host, gave a faint nod: "Our small door and sect is indeed laughable, Young Master Xun."