Arjun found two silver coins and 736 copper coins in the original owner's cupboard, the inheritance left by his parents.
Arjun then bought a sword and practised some basic moves with it.
Arjun woke up early in the morning and then again began to exercise but this time he was surprised to find that Pavitra also woke up and came to Exercise.
Arjun asked Pavitra why she was doing this and she said, "I also want to become a cultivator". Arjun smiled after listening to this.
"Pavitra, You don't have to do this to become a cultivator, and even if you do this you may not become one. I am doing this because what if I am unable to become a cultivator, then I should at least be able to protect myself" Arjun said to Pavitra.
Pavitra with determination in her eyes, said " Arjun, I lost my parents because we didn't have strength, if I am unable to even protect myself then maybe I will also die like my parents".
Arjun was convinced and said "Then do 5 rounds around the playground, and 5 squats after that, this will be enough for you for the first month" and then he also started doing his exercise.
The rest of the day continued to be the same except that new dorms were being built to accommodate the beggar children on the street, and Arjun found that there was a sect recruitment happening in two years, and the sect would recruit children from ages 9 to 12. Arjun found this from the chatting between the chef and the cleaner.
Arjun continued his daily routine of exercising and practising with the sword for two years and he also became close with Gopal, Leela, and Pavitra especially. Pavitra was so determined and continued the routine of exercising in the morning for two years.
Arjun found more information about this world and found out that the Silver Kingdom belonged to the Brave Empire, and the Brave Empire was on the southern side of the nexus continent. Brave Empire shared its boundaries with four other continents.
The king of the Silver Kingdom would be at the foundation establishment stage while the emperor would probably be in the golden core realm.
The cultivation realms that Arjun got to know were:
Qi cultivation stage
Foundation establishment stage
Golden core stage
Nascent Soul stage
There are still many more realms but Arjun could not learn about them.
"Gopal wakes up it is time for the recruitment by sects" Arjun woke Gopal from sleep. Today was the day for sect recruitment.
Gopal woke up and ran to get ready fast.
Arjun then looked towards Pavitra who was wearing a dark blue lehenga, complementing her beauty, all the boys in the orphanage were taking secret glances at her.
"Pavitra, today is the day we will find whether we have the fate of cultivation or not, and you look beautiful in this dress" Arjun said with a smile. Unlike other kids, Arjun was not interested in Pavitra because mentally he was 27 years old (25+2) while the others were all nine to 12 years old.
"Thank you, Arjun. You also look handsome when you wear a white shirt" Pavitra said with a blush on her face" Pavitra was an introvert and she didn't have that many male friends except for Arjun.
"Kids, all of you gather at the entrance of the orphanage in half an hour" The dean announced with a loud voice. All the kids wore the dresses offered by the dean as a moment for the spirit testing ceremony.
In these two years, Arjun also found out that the dean was a cultivator at the Qi refining stage.
After half an hour all of them gathered at the entrance and then followed the dean towards the city centre. There were tens of thousands of kids and thousands of families waiting.
After another half an hour, more than a hundred people flying on swords arrived. A middle-aged man from this group announced "All the parents must vacate this place until the spirit testing ceremony is completed, and the children should assemble in 100 lines, 40 for girls and 60 for boys"
The pressure that the middle-aged man applied was too strong and the soldiers present there knew that it was equal to the pressure applied by the king.
"Pavitra, Leela, you both stand in the same line" Arjun said to them, he was worried about them getting lost and after that, he looked toward Gopal and said "Gopal, follow me".
After all the children formed lines the middle-aged man announced "Ok let us now start the spirit testing ceremony"
After this 40 female cultivators and 60 male cultivators immediately went to the front of the lines.
There were around 33000 children present with 14000 being girls and 18000 boys. These were just the kids from the capital and from the towns and villages surrounding it, there were many cities in in the silver kingdom where the spirit testing ceremony is taking place.
Arjun and Gopal were almost at the end of the line, and Pavitra and Leela's situation was also the same.
At the front of the lines, the cultivators called the kids standing at the front to come onto the stage and then they started to check their pulse. All the cultivators placed on the stage had no expression except for two female cultivators and one cultivator, whose face showed happiness.
They immediately called out to the foundation establishment cultivator and informed him, he asked them to stay back on the stage until the ceremony was completed.
The ceremony had been going like this for the last forty minutes peacefully but now there was a commotion in a line, three lines away from Arjun.
The son of an official was scolding another child "How dare you, for a beggar child to touch me, I will see your end after this ceremony"
Just then another child who looked handsome boy with black hair, and green eyes said "Kishore, don't try to abuse your father's power on others, he just mistakenly touched you, why are you making a scene here"
"Varun stay out of this, this is none of your business" Like this they began to argue for some time until a cultivator came and shouted at them.
Like this three hours had passed and now it was Pavitra's turn to go onto the stage.
Pavitra nervously went onto the stage and then the female cultivator checked her pulse and said "Congratulations, you have a talent for cultivation, wait at the back of the stage" and then asked another cultivator who was patrolling to guide her and the other child, the one who caused the commotion before to the backstage.
After that, it was Leela's and Gopal's turn and they were lucky enough to have spirit roots and at last, it was Arjun's turn.
Arjun went onto the stage and nervously gave his hand to the cultivator, he knew that if he didn't have a talent for cultivation then he could do nothing but give up.
Luckily, he also had spirit roots. The guy who tries to save the beggar also has talent for cultivation and even the beggar has talent.
Arjun looked at them and thought that it was like the story from the novels, where the hero tries to save a person from the villain and then he reaches great heights. Arjun noted the appearance of them down.
Arjun then went to meet up with Pavitra and the others.
After another hour the ceremony was completed and there were around 1400 kids with talent for cultivation among the 33 thousand. Surprisingly, the gender ratio between them all was equal. 48 kids from the orphanage had the talent for cultivation.