"No spirit roots! Next"
"No spirit roots! Next"
"Trash! Next"
The recruitment ceremony continued with participants walking confidently towards the orb before walking away in despair, and slowly the arrogant examiner whose real name was Long Shaoyun seemed to be getting angrier and angrier.
At this moment, a shy young man walked up to the table, his clothes were dirty and tattered, with patches of blood all over his robes signifying the trouble he went through to reach this place.
He stretched his hands towards the orb with a determined expression, he had suffered so much just to reach this place and had even vowed to his tribe that once he came back he would be strong enough to save them, "I WILL SUCCEED NO MATTER WHAT!" he roared firmly grasping the orb.
The crowd of nobles sneered in disdain, They had been nurturing their kids with the best treasures since their birth and they still didn't succeed, how could this nobody succeed?
However, to their absolute horror, the once unchanging orb suddenly blazed with a brilliant orange light.
Long Shaoyun's growling expression softened into an ecstatic smile, "Low-grade fire spirit root!", He declared before signaling for the shy young man to stand next to him.
"What's your name, junior brother?", he asked not a trace of arrogance on his face.
"My name's Zhao Tian, master immortal", answered Zhao Tian with a lowered head.
Long Shaoyun smiled warmly, "Just call me senior brother Long".
Zhao Tian nodded hurriedly, "Senior Brother Long!"
Long Shaoyun nodded happily before turning back to his arrogant expression, "NEXT!"
The ceremony continued with most of the participants getting labeled as trash, while a dozen of them got a faint light from the orb which Shaoyun declared as incomplete spirit roots. While four others got a higher intensity light being declared as mediocre spirit roots.
When it finally reached Lin Fang's turn, everyone's eyes locked into him, even Shaoyun was intrigued, while the other examiner with a hooked nose glared at Lin Fang, "The heavens are blind!", he sneered.
On the other hand, The female examiner had stars in her eyes, "Don't worry! even if you don't have any spirit roots, I will take you to the sect as my follower"
Lin Fang looked at her with a strange gaze, before shaking his head and firmly grasping the orb.
The crowd held their breath with curiosity, Lin Fang was the first to ever reach innate realm at 18 years old, and he was the crowd favorite to become an inner sect disciple.
But to their absolute dismay, a brilliant white light blazed making their eyes bulge out of their sockets. Long Shaoyun stood up in astonishment, "T-THIS?!"
He paused for a long time before speaking with a shaky voice, "I have never seen such a talent"
Lin Fang raised his eyebrow in confusion but suddenly an authoritative voice sounded out, "HAHAHAHA! The heavens haven't forsaken my Divine Wind Sect!", an old man wearing bright green robes walked in with his hands behind his back.
The three examiners bowed respectfully, "Elder Yan!"
Hearing this the crowd hurriedly bowed too, "Elder immortal!"
Elder Yan waved his hand dismissively before smiling at Lin Fang, "I've only seen this kind of reaction in the ancient sect books", he paused continuing with a grin, "You have a mid-grade light spirit root"
A collective gasp rang out, the nobles had expected Lin Fang to be talented but they would have never thought that he would be this talented.
"IMPOSSIBLE!", the examiner with a hooked nose screamed his face twisted in irritation, "Elder Yan you must be mistaken! He only has the looks but doesn't have the talent to back it up"
Elder Yan snickered in disdain, "A mere outer disciple dares to question my judgment? You have eyes but fail to see Mount Tai!", he emitted a dreadful pressure forcing him to kneel with blood seeping from the corners of his mouth.
The examiner with a hooked nose was horrified he didn't expect the gentle Elder Yan to suddenly become so enraged, "HMPH! I advise you to no longer harbor any thoughts about disciple Fang, after all, you two don't belong to the same world", he explained with a scornful look.
Elder Yan then clapped his hands indicating the end of the recruitment ceremony, "New disciples, follow me", he said before turning around and walking out of the palace.
Outside the palace, the excited disciples stood in groups according to their talent levels, looking around curiously for the transportation mode of the immortals. Some of them even had arrogant expressions as they were now about to become immortals, a status that they had always dreamt of.
Lin Fang looked at Elder Yan and asked, "Elder, what are we waiting for?"
Elder Yan only smiled and pointed to the sky. Suddenly, a huge shadow appeared turning day into night, with shocked eyes, the new disciples witnessed a huge flying ship descend next to the palace and hover several meters above the ground.
"How magnificent!", Lin Fang's heart trembled.
It was his first time seeing such a huge flying ship, and its scale and grandeur were not much different from the aircraft carriers of Earth from his last life.
Whoosh!
Elder Yan jumped up to the ship and beckoned for them, "Get on board"
Whoosh!
Whoosh!
The ship slowly flew as the new disciples looked down at the capital with proud expressions, they vowed that the next time they returned to the capital would be as powerful cultivators.
...
Back at the capital, in the very depths of the imperial palace.
The mysterious old man looked up, his deep eyes seeing through the layers of walls and straight at the flying ship.
"The strange feeling is fading...", he whispered, "how many more descendants to break through, system?", he said looking at the empty air in front of him.
He then nodded and thought to himself, "I will have to force them to birth more kids", he paused, "This world is getting more and more unfathomable"