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Immortal Calendar Year Twenty-Five, early summer.
Unbeknownst to many, twenty years have passed since Phoenix Mountain last widely opened its doors to recruit disciples, and today marks the second such recruitment.
The first batch enrolled six hundred and one disciples, among which were Twenty True Transmissions and three hundred core members, with the rest also becoming pillars of the sect, each with disciples of their own.
Phoenix Mountain officially has over a thousand disciples, and counting the outer sect, the number exceeds five thousand, yet this is still far from sufficient.
In modern society, Taoist sects are akin to companies, and the bigger the enterprise, the more staff it needs. With the mountain's industries thriving in various fields, we are on the brink of expanding across the continent and even towards the East China Sea and Tai City, with at least a ten thousand-person shortfall.