The foundation establishment cultivator came and said "Tomorrow morning, you should all assemble here before the sun rises" and then left.
After this, Arjun and the other kids from the orphanage went back to the orphanage.
That night it was not at all peaceful, many dark cultivators tried to abduct the children with spirit roots, and if they couldn't abduct them, they would kill them.
The orphanage was peaceful because the dean was a Qi cultivation stage cultivator.
Early in the morning all 48 kids woke up and after half an hour they all arrived at the entrance and the dean then started distributing them some gifts, he gave each child a bag consisting of five spirit stones and some clothes, these were all offered by the king in hope of them returning to the kingdom when they want to retire.
Arjun and Pavitra's bag consisted of an extra bottle of pills and extra ten spirit stones with a note saying 'Take them to practice when you reach the first stage of Qi refining, these are called Qi refining pills - from your dean'
Arjun's bag Also consisted of a sword and another note saying 'This is a 1st tier medium grade sword, which I bought as a gift to my son, but he is no more, I hope you will cherish this. I am giving this to you because I have never seen a persistent kid like you who practices daily with a sword'
Arjun and Pavitra looked towards the dean and the dean smiled towards them. They all started towards the centre and reached in time.
"Ok children, now onwards you all will have to guard yourself, I hope you all will be careful" The dean said this and the children started boarding a ship.
After all the children boarded, A cultivator started to count them and found out that there were only 1200 of them and said to the foundation establishment cultivator "Sir, it seems the dark cultivators have captured around 200 of the children this time"
The foundation establishment cultivator sighed and said "We can't do anything just start the ship". All these 1400 children were of mortal origin and the children of cultivators would not join any sect unless their parents were unable to live long to take care of them.
The cultivators allocated halls to children and said "We will take around 20 days to reach the brave empire's capital, until then you can all study the information about the sects from the boos available on this ship" After that they all went to guard the ship, fearing that there could be an attack by a beast.
The cultivators allocated them 10 halls and each hall could hold up to 150 children, but right now each hall has upto 120 children. Arjun started to gather books about the sects and orders of the cultivation world.
After three days of continuously reading the books, he found out that there were hundreds of sects within the Silver Kingdom and thousands of sects in the brave empire. There was even a rating for the sects, but unfortunately except for two sects from the Silver Kingdom, the others were not able to enter the top 100.
Likewise, the Silver Kingdom was also only a medium-sized kingdom with somewhat good strength within the Brave Empire. The silver kingdom is still able to sustain itself only due to the golden core ancestor of the royal family. The Emperor of the Brave Empire was himself a golden core cultivator and there were 4 more golden core cultivators in the imperial family, the ancestor was the legendary nascent soul realm, which comes after the golden core realm.
The top five Cultivation Sects were:
1. Flying Sword sect
2. Soaring cloud sect
3. The Heavenly Medicine Valley
4. The Heavenly cultivation sect
5. The Flaming Array sect
These Five Sects recruited Disciples not only from the Brave Empire but also from the Four Empires surrounding it, it could be said that these were like the pillars of the cultivation world of the southern part of the Nexus continent.
The Flying Sword sect was well established towards the sword dao.
The Soaring Cloud sect was more expert in Body Cultivaiton techniques.
The Heavenly Medicine Valley was a sect which was experienced in the pharma division and had many connections with strong people.
The heavenly cultivation sect is a sect with the largest inheritance and it specialises in cultivation techniques.
The Flaming Spear Sect was a sect which specialized in array formations and defence.
The common thing about all these sects is that they all had a better understanding of other daos as well, and all their sect leaders are at the Nascent soul realm.
Arjun also found that all the things in the cultivation world are graded from 1 to 9 tiers and they are sub-divided into four grades, Low, Medium, High, Top.
Like this another 18 days have passed and all of them have arrived at the capital city of the Brave empire, The Mars City.
They got down the ship and started to assemble in lines as instructed by the foundation establishment cultivator. There were thousands of other ships present like this. The ships were from all the cities in the the Brave Empire. Brave Empire had 65 kingdoms and each kingdom had more than 60 cities in them. (Note: each city is the head of the county of of a kingdom)
A hundred ships would unload their passengers and then another hundred ships would come and unload their passengers.
And finally, when all the kids disembarked they were taken to a place where there were many stall-like buildings and five cultivators hovered in the air without swords.
The cultivator in the middle said "You can all go to the stalls of each sect and then check whether you meet the requirements or not"
After this, the five cultivators left while the children started moving to the stalls. Each stall represented a sect, and some sects were giving out spirit stones for free to recruit disciples, probably some low-level sects and medium-level sects.
The target of Arjun was to get into the Flying Sword Sect and he even wanted his friends to get into it.