Tian Xuan truly forgot that spiritual stone is highly valuable to lower tier kingdom. He coughed as he tried to appease the crowd. As he rubbed Tian Qiu's feather, he spoke in a clear brisk voice.
"Ahem. Alright, settle down. Good food can affect one's mood but a good show also can. If any of you can try entertaining me with your skill, I will reward a low tier spiritual stone." These people won't settle down unless he also gave them something. Hmph!
Tian Qiu is the one that told him to say this. It was for the sake of recruiting more disciples for the sect.
His words are vague but no one dares to have a wishful thinking that the young lad has a double meaning behind his words.
The head patriarch wanted to directly show his skill because he has experienced absorbing the spiritual stone before but as he thought carefully, he has already reached a bottleneck that couldn't be solved with just a spiritual stone so he gave up. He also thinks that it was embarrassing for such an old person to fight among the new generation.
He looked around the crowd and recommended their proudest genius to show his sword skill.
"Wu Yunfeng, show the honorable leader of Ethereal Demonic Black Cloud Sect, your sword art."
A youth wearing pale blue robe walked out from behind the elders to the center of the hall and bowed toward the silver-haired boy. "Wu Yunfeng greets honorable leader. Please enlighten me." As soon as he finished his word, he leaped up and took out his sword.
"Sky Diving Engraved Sword!" Wu Linyi exclaimed as she recognized the sword. She gritted her teeth and stares at the sword begrudgingly.
It is a tier-one spiritual treasure. It can grow stronger in cultivation together with the owner and is especially suitable for her that is practicing Harmattan Gust, saint tier cultivation technique which she obtained from entering the family ancient library.
Yet, because she is not from the main branch and her father is not influential among the elders, she couldn't get the sword and also have to 'share' her cultivation manual with Wu Yunfeng.
Tian Xuan observed as the boy leaped, toss and turned as he explicitly displays a skilled sword dance. However, after sometimes, Tian Xuan yawned and waved his hand.
"Stop… It won't do. I'm not interested."
Not only Wu Yunfeng was shocked, every Wu Clan including Wu Linyi are stunned to hear that the Lord just said that he is not interested. Wu Yunfeng is a genius that recruited by even the large sect! The sword art attracted even the sect from the conferred empire but the Lord actually said that he is not interested??
Wu Yunfeng stopped whatever he was doing and panicked.
"H-honorable one, has this one made you displeased?"
Tian Xuan sighed and shook his head. "No such thing. Only your sword and sword art is just too simple. As for the reason I said it is simple… Wu Xian, show him how's it done."
Wu Xian took out the Celestial White Sword and displayed a small movement from the Twelve Heaven Crashing sword art.
"First art, Ethereal Strike." He whispered softly as he gripped the hilt tightly and waved the sword lightly before stabbing into the air.
Fwoosh!
The air released by the stab exploded and stunned those around. It is a small movement but the profound sword comprehension could be felt in that short stab. They felt as if the small movement not only can crash the mountain into dust but also the formidable Saint Sword Sect Fortress into dust.
Wu Xian kept the sword back into his ring and cupped his fist before returning to Tian Xuan's side.
"A-amazing!" Wu Linyi clapped her hand as she admired the man performance.
The crowd also clapped while Wu Yunfeng finally realized that compare to the man, his sword performance just too lacking. However, he wasn't discouraged. He bitterly smiled and cupped his fist.
"Thanks for enlightened me, I have learned a lot." Just by seeing a small move of the Twelve Heaven Crashing sword art, his comprehension toward sword mastery has deepened.
Tian Xuan smiled widely as he was satisfied with the youth's personality.
Any other genius would feel humiliated for being compared to other but the youth readily accept the difference and take it as his lesson. He has a good personality.
Just as the youth about to return back to his place, the hall heard the childish voice sounded. "Wu Yunfeng, I would like to recruit you as the Ethereal Demonic Black Cloud sect's disciple. Do you accept?"
Wu Yunfeng was taken by surprise and simultaneously stares with a dumbfounded face at the boy.
"Ethereal Demonic Black Cloud Sect doesn't practice forbidden art or devil art so don't worry. I'm part of the demonic tribe so my sect must be named after my race." Tian Xuan explained further as he worried that people will misunderstand his sect with a devil sect.
Wu Hanzho was about to say something but an elder suddenly comes out from his seat and bowed together with Wu Yunfeng toward the silver-haired boy.
"Honorable leader, please just take this boy with you! He will show promising result and will work hard to meet your expectation." The elder that bowed is Wu Yunfeng's grandfather.
It's not the first time that Wu Yunfeng was recruited by a sect but the elder has seen that Tian Xuan is generous while Wu Xian is especially strong in sword mastery.
Although Wu Yunfeng is a genius, he still lacks a bit compared to other disciples so other sects couldn't promise Wu Yunfeng a bundle of material for cultivation but the Ethereal Demonic Black Cloud sect definitely can!
It would be a lie if he said that he didn't think the possibility of Ethereal Demonic Black Cloud sect being a devil sect but a devil cultivator has their own pride.
They will proudly announce that they are part of a devil sect and annihilate all those that have heard of them.
Therefore, when Tian Xuan confessed that his sect is not part of devil sect, the elder immediately wanted his grandson joined the Ethereal Demonic Black Cloud sect regardless of what others think.
Wu Yunfeng still was taken by surprise but he calmed his heart and bowed together with his grandfather by his side. He also had the same thought as his grandfather.
"I want to join leader's sect. Please accept me."
A universal announcement simultaneously rang inside Tian Xuan's mind and told him the reward that he got from accepting a disciple into his sect.
Wu Xian and Li Yiyuan are accepted under Tian Xuan before the sect is even founded so he gets nothing except for the luck improvement from accepting them.
"En. I welcome you into my sect. Wu Xian will be your sword teacher and that Yi Ling over there is your senior. I will provide many things for my sect disciple so don't let me down."
"Thank you, Leader! Yunfeng will try his best to not let leader down!" Wu Yunfeng bowed deeply to Tian Xuan as he thanked him.
"Right… my sect allows the disciples to take their closest family member to the sect. You can bring as many as you want but only the closest family member like your grandfather, mother, and brothers but not cousin or uncle.
Unless they are your benefactor or treat you as good as if you are their children or brother, you absolutely cannot bring other people.
However, only you will be recognized as the sect disciple while they will only be recognized as the sect residents. If you work hard, I might accept you as the disciple sect one day." Tian Xuan explicitly clarified his words.