Is this what all sect masters are like?

"We pay our respects to the patriarchs" even the mighty elders were bowing and paying their respects so how could the spectating crowd not do the same. After all both the patriarch of the pill cloud pavilion aswel as the patriarch of the armament sect were famous refiners and some of the most powerful cultivators of the empire!

Even Fang Qiu earnestly payed his respects, even though he was from the spirit clan that didn't mean he should act arrogant towards great seniors that are at the apex of the empire.

Both patriarchs soon laid their eyes upon the youth on stage. Nothing in particular stood out about the youth but that made the youth appear even more incredible in their eyes, after all who wouldnt become arrogant or complacent after hearing they are the greatest genius the empire has seen in thousands of years. Of course they could not see his face but looking at his posture and body language they were already impressed by how casual he seemed in a situation that would make most youths his age become complacent and arrogant to the max.

"Little brother, what do you say about joining my armament sect? I can let you join as a core disciple and even let you pick any elder you like as your master" the pill cloud patriarch immediately fumed upon seeing how the armament sect patriarch tried to steal this genius disciple from under his nose.

"You truly have no respect for your seniors, i even gave you my daughters hand in marriage and now you are trying to steal my future personal disciple from under my nose". Then looking towards Fang Qiu he continued "this unfilial step-son of mine truly doesn't realise your worth, how could an elder be good enough to be your teacher, if you join my pill cloud pavilion i can let you join as a core disciple and even take you in as my personal true disciple how's that" the pill cloud patriarch looked all smiles but the armament sect elder now had a really creepy smile on his face, it appears this fight is long from over, just when Fang Qiu thought this to himself the armament sect patriarch suddenly started speaking and even amplified his voice using spirit qi so the whole crowd could hear him, "pill cloud old man you..." just when he was in the middle of his sentence he got cut off by the pill cloud patriarch "just call me daddy or step - daddy will do aswel" Fang Qiu truly had his mouth hanging open now, where was the old wise patriarch from all those novels on earth? Did he end up in the wrong world? He noticed the armament patriarch was about to start speaking again so he quickly focused back on the armament patriarch " pill . Cloud . Old . Geezer. first of all I never called you daddy, more like the opposite your daughter probably called me daddy more than she ever did you" you could now hear a pin drop in the crowd, and as for Fang Qiu, he truly opened his eyes to a new world today, he made a mental note not to anger old people like these 2 in front of him lest he end up mentally scarred for life. He had to admit the armament sect leader truly won this one. And as for the pill cloud sect leader? He looked at the armament sect leader like he was a dead man already.

The pill cloud patriarch soon recovered his composure and looked back at Fang Qiu who was still waiting on the podium. Little brother we have both given our offers earlier which sect will you choose?will you become an alchemist and join the pill cloud pavilion who focuses on the dao of pill refining or will you choose this unfilial son's armament sect and become a master refiner and focus on the dao of weapon refining?

After a few seconds the crowd could hear the youth on stage reply to the pill cloud patriarch "could I choose not to accept a master?" This time it was the two patriarchs' turns to be stunned. "We are 2 of the best refiners in the whole phoenix empire, why would you not want one of us as your master? Or is it that you already have a master?"

Nope I don't have a master but I feel like i should not be rash in picking a master since a master is like a father. And I don't want to call either of you daddy."

The patriarchs slowly looked each other in the eye, this kid is an absolute prodigy they both thought to themselves. He can even make use of our earlier argument to refuse the both of us, it seems the young truly do surpass the old. Sigh..."we truly are getting old, very well you can join any of the two sects as a core disciple and we won't force you to accept anyone as a master. "Then I have one request, if one of you is willing to accept this tiny request of mine I will immediately join their sect". The patriarchs were immediately listening with their full attention so that they could be the first to accept and take in this heaven rank high tier genius. " I want an elder level figure of the sect to accept my maidservant as a personal disciple and I want her to be that elder's only disciple".

This... is not what really something you can call a small request, after all accepting a personal disciple is not a small matter. The armament sect elder quickly replied, but before Fang Qiu could respond he heard a loud voice that could reach even the furthest parts of the recruitment area "I ACCEPT".

Upon hearing the Pill cloud patriarch accepting his request Fang Qiu immediately bowed to the patriarch and made his way over to the pill cloud pavilion new disciples are to join his fellow sect brothers and sisters and watch the rest of the people proceed with their tests. He saw many youths succeed and many more fail but this was the 9 great sects recruitment area after all so similar scenes were happening at the other 7 sects aswell.

Little rou had initially followed him to the recruitment area but upon seeing the massive crowd he had her wait outside of the imperial square. The patriarch of the pill cloud pavilion should have taken her over to the sect by now to see if an elder was willing to tak her in as a disciple so he wasn't too worried about her. After all even his maidservant was carefully picked by the spirit clan so how could her aptitude for cultivation be low.

She had no cultivation base currently but that was because she had spent all her time the last few years on taking care of Fang Qiu, he was certain the patriarch would soon be thanking the gods for the choice he made today.

After staying in the square a few more hours the recruitment event was finally coming to an end. In total the sect accepted over six thousand outer core disciples, 126 inner disciples and 2 new core disciples namely himself and Sun Qiang. His maidservant Tang Rou should be able to at least become an inner core disciple considering she should be very talented aswel as a handpicked servant of the spirit clan.

He also got to know Sun Qiang a bit better whilst looking at the recruitment area all afternoon and he soon discovered upon entering the Pill cloud sect that this couldn't even be called a sect anymore. This sect was almost the size of the imperial capital and apparently they already had over a hundred thousand outer disciples alone, so one could start to imagine as to hoe large this sect actually was seeing that it even provided plenty of other places outside of housing space which only took up about 20% of the total area within the sect.

Just when he was about to move to his assigned immortal cave he discovered two people standing next to the gates attracting attention from many male disciples all over.

Could it be?