"HAHAHAHA", Duke Song was overjoyed, "I knew Brother Fang would be interested in cultivation". He paused his face becoming solemn, "The Divine Wind Sect is indeed a true cultivation sect, and even the whole Radiant Sun Empire is merely one of the sect's many servants"
Lin Fang's eyes flashed with astonishment, "Is the Divine Wind Sect that powerful?"
Patriarch Xiao shook his head, "it isn't merely 'powerful', to put it simply even the weakest outer disciple from the Divine Wind Sect can turn the empire upside down"
Seeing the fanatical expression of the two old men, Lin Fang was very excited, his cultivation journey was finally about to start.
"I have one more question, fellow martial brothers", Lin Fang's tone was skeptical, "Why are you so excited to help me join the sect?"
"Brother Fang is very sharp, seeing through the matter in one gaze", Duke Song praised, "there is nothing to hide, The Divine Wind Sect rewards each person who refers a new outer sect disciple with an innate martial pill and a longevity pill"
Lin Fang sighed in relief, finally understanding their true motives he could be relaxed around them, especially since it is in their interest to protect him until he gets recruited by the sect.
"what do those pills do?", he asked despite having a guess about their effects.
Patriarch Xiao explained, "The innate martial pill helps a first rank martial artist reach the innate master rank, and the longevity pill increases a martial artist's life span by 20 years"
Done with his questions, Lin Fang agreed to follow them to the capital.
They decided to go to White Stone City first and prepare a carriage since the distance was rather big.
However, Lin Fang interjected saying that he still had some personal things to handle in his village, and using all his acting skills from his past life, he appeared very emotional and even at the point of crying.
Seeing this, the two old men nodded nostalgically, and Patriarch Xiao spoke, "Go ahead Brother Fang, but please take this old man's advice; cut all ties you have in the village especially romantic ties, after all, mortals and immortals are from totally different worlds, and having ties with them will only lead them to ruin"
Duke Song added, "And if you are really worried about them, then I promise you, brother Fang, I'm gonna protect your village with my life"
Lin Fang looked very touched, "Thank you so much Brother Song, then I will have to trouble you to protect my village, they mean the world to me!"
Duke Song smiled and patted Lin Fang on the shoulder, "Not at all! Brother Fang, not at all!"
Duke Song then gave him a Jade slip with a sun engraving on it and told him to show it to the guards at the city gate, they would lead him directly to his mansion.
The two old men then turned around and dashed towards White Stone City, every step of theirs propelling them dozens of meters away.
Once they were out of the range of his spirit sense, he sat back down and called out "status window"
[Endless Slaughter Simulator]
[Host: Lin Fang]
[Age: 18(37)]
[Cultivation realm: Innate master]
[Techniques: Flame heart technique(mastered), Falling star blade(small achievement)]
[Talents: calm and collected(blue grade), Superieur martial body(blue grade)]
[souls: 16]
Lin Fang smiled envisioning his status window becoming filled with various talents and techniques, "I still have one more simulation", he said deciding to simulate again.
[does the host wish to consume 16 souls to activate the simulation?]
Lin Fang's eyebrows twitched, "at this rate, simulating will become as difficult as ascending to the heavens"
"YES"
[Ding, simulation starting...]
[Ding, Talent refresh in progress...]
[Congratulations! You have refreshed the following talents:]
[Business genius (green grade): this talent improves the user's ability in business]
[Sword genius (green grade): the user's talent for sword arts is increased greatly]
[Monologue Addiction (white grade): The user feels compelled to give long-winded monologues at the start of every battle or important event, often boring or annoying everyone around them.]
Lin Fang's expression turned from joy to anger then to disappointment, "sigh! Just when I thought that you had turned over a new leaf, brother simulator!", Lin Fang looked like a disappointed father.
[...]
"I choose the sword genius talent", Lin Fang knew when to stop. The last thing he wanted to do, was to anger his golden finger away, or even worse anger him to the point of forcing him to choose those circus talents.
[Ding, talent selected successfully, simulation starting...]
[at 18 years old, you were the youngest innate master of the empire, and after entering White Stone City, the whole city celebrated your breakthrough]
[a few days later, you left with Duke Song and Patriarch Xiao towards the capital of the empire, Morning Sun City]
[you were met with a huge celebration, and you were honored by the emperor with the rank of Earl of the Radiant Sun Empire, making you the first person to become an Earl despite having no merits to your name]
[a few days later, the Divine Wind Sect's recruitment ceremony started with thousands of young talents from all over the empire coming to participate]
[you were the crowd-favorite, and some people even thought that you may be directly chosen as an inner disciple. However, to everyone's surprise, you were discovered to not have any spirit roots and therefore completely unfated with cultivation]
[on the other hand, 5 random kids from around the empire were accepted as disciples of the sect with one of them, named Zhao Tian even directly entering the inner sect, he was like a carp that lept through the dragon gate]
[what you didn't expect was that as soon as you were tested to not have spiritual roots, one of the examiners; a man with a crooked nose, announced that you sully the senior immortals reputation by having such looks and being talentless so he formed a giant palm and flattened you into meat paste]
[due to your death, the simulation is ending...]