Huge Commotion

The Guang Province was entirely surprised when they heard that the Immortal Sword Sect was once again holding a recruitment for disciples just three months after their previous one. It was unheard of.

Everyone prepared for this. Especially the people who had failed to get in the first time. They were hoping that they would get in this time.

But no one understood the criteria for the recruitment. Everybody found it very weird. They did not know why the cultivation level was not required as well as how vague the term 'not bulky' was. Who would understand what they were looking for. So everyone went and registered again.

This recruitment actually out a huge burden on the sect. Each recruitment cost a lot to the sect. A normal household lived off 100 Silver Taels a year. And each Gold Tael would exchange for 1000 Silver Tael. Low Grade Spirit Stones would go for 100 Gold Taels. And this recruitment would cost the sect 100 Low Grade Spirit Stones.

Chen Jiang did not care about that. His mountain did not have to pay for this. What he did was an emergency recruitment. If a mountain had less than 5 disciples, they could ask for this emergency recruitment and the Sect would have to make it happen.

This was because each mountain generally had several hundreds of disciples. If a Mountain only had 5 disciples, they were truly short of disciples. A Mountain could only function if they had a lot of disciples. These disciples would pursue secondary professions and earn money off them. The Mountain would receive a small part of that. But the 36th Mountain only had one disciple who had just started cultivating. So they needed this recruitment.

The day of recruitment came in the blink of an eye. There were several thousands of candidates.

Grand Elder Lu assigned 3 elders to quickly finish the initial phase of recruitment. He instructed them to finish it as quickly as possible with only two criteria - size of the body and age. The elders were confused by this but they proceeded as instructed.

Everyone above 14 were sent away first. This eliminated around a thousand of thee candidates. Then the elders who were all Spirit Dukes scanned the disciples with their Divine Consciousness and sent away another thousand disciples who they felt put a lot of effort into bulking up their body.

In the end, around 4000 disciples were left. Chen Jiang entered the huge arena where all these disciples were.

"Everyone, put on your identification numbers around your neck."

Chen Jiang took out a token. He lightly pressed the token. Every person there felt a pressure on their mind. They felt an acute pain.

Some of the disciples immediately fell to the ground. Some persisted for one minute. Chen Jiang stopped pressing the token after one minute and the pressure stopped.

"All those who are fainted are disqualified."

Chen Jiang said very lightly.

"The rest of you, stand in a straight line in front of me. When I say go, you can go back to your house. It means you are not selected. If you are not selected, do not be discouraged. If you truly have potential, I will suggest other sects where you will fit in. However, if you do not have talent, you must not waste your clan's money on resources for the foolish desire to cultivate."

There was a huge line in front of Chen Jiang. Chen Jiang looked in front of each person for a few seconds and said something.

"Wei Yazhu."

"You will do okay in the 4th Mountain."

"Liao Dong."

"You are not compatible with the Immortal Sword Sect. You can go to the Earth Sect. You will find minor success there."

"Xuan Ao."

"You will do okay in the 9th Mountain."

"Mo Heng."

"You will do okay in the 27th Mountain."

"Yan Tu."

"You are not fit to cultivate. Try to cultivate for a year. If you can truly persist and reach the 3rd Level of Spirit Apprentice, you have a chance to reach the Spirit Warrior realm. Else, you will not be able to break through in this life."

"Shen Yimu."

"You are not fit to cultivate."

Most of the candidates were people who did not have a lot of cultivation talent. Chen Jiang did not show any outward expression but he was disappointed.

"Hao Jin."

Suddenly Chen Jiang's expression became several times better.

"You have a chance to come to my 36th Mountain. Do you want to try or do you want to go to some other Mountain?"

He looked at Hao Jin."

Hao Jin was excited.

"I am honored to be accepted by you Elder."

Hao Jin was just a 7 year old boy so his word were all clumped up and was sounding cute. Chen Jiang smiled at him.

"You stay here. If you are able to stay here beside me for the entire duration of this Disciples Recruitment, you will be a member of my Mountain. Okay?"