Alex arrived at the bottom of the stairway early morning and waited for more people to arrive.
He didn't wear his sect robes, so when people did arrive, they were curious why there was a single man at the bottom of the stairs.
A few more people came and soon all 256 possible new recruits had gathered. Because Alex's cultivation base was still one of the weakest even among all 256 of them, many of them did not give him a second glance even after they noticed the discrepancy at 257 total Immortals being there.
The sun rose a decent amount into the sky before Elder Shang flew down from the mountain and gave the whole spiel about climbing the mountain. As always she did not mention how difficult it would be to climb the mountain as it was something the participants had to find out on their own.
She pulled out the hourglass and flipped it before placing it down on the ground.
