Chapter 1718 - Great Expansion

Lin Huang and team had been busy recruiting new members for a few days after the upgrade banquet ended.

Throughout the entire week, the Sword Alliance had received millions of applications, and the numbers showed no sign of slowing down at all.

Fortunately, apart from a small number of the over 300 Sword Servants who were out on their own missions, the rest had joined the assessment team.

In reality, it was not only the Sword Servants; Lin Huang dragged Lin Xin and Lin Xuan into the assessment team.

Almost nobody in the entire Sword Alliance was idle.

Although many applications were obviously just people following the trend, there really were just too many applications. Lin Huang and the rest's workload was heavy.

Even after going through many rounds of filtering, throughout that one week, there were hundreds of thousands of applicants who passed Sword 1 and Lin Huang's assessment criteria, becoming official members.

Some of them showed off the screenshot of their approved applications on the internet when they received the news that they passed.

That behaviour sparked yet another viral trend.

Almost more than half of the hundreds of thousands of people posted their screenshots.

Therefore, "Did You Manage to Join the Sword Alliance Successfully?" became the new hot topic.

In less than half a day after that topic went viral, another strange trend appeared on the internet.

A bunch of people who failed their applications showed off their screenshots of rejection.

Another topic that was even more viral began to trend—"Have You Been Rejected by the Sword Alliance Today?"

There were even more netizens who posted the screenshots of them being rejected by the Sword Alliance. There were tens of millions of people who posted them.

The strange trend made even more netizens begin to send their applications to join the Sword Alliance.

For most, their goal was actually just to participate in the screenshot trend.

However, this increased the pressure of everyone at the Sword Alliance even more.

Not only did the millions of daily applications not decrease a week later, it had shot up to tens of millions of applications daily now.

Lin Huang was not sure whether to laugh or cry about that.

Noticing the insane workload, he thought about it and decided to make an appeal on the social media platforms.

"Thank you all for your love and interest in the Sword Alliance. We're receiving tens of millions of applications daily. I know that many of you are sincere in joining, but many passionate netizens have joined in the fun as well. This has caused a major increase in workload to us. Throughout the past few days, all of us have pretty much been inundated running application assessments all day."

"Let me suggest a little something here. Before applying, think about what you want or hope to gain from joining the Sword Alliance. Can the Sword Alliance give you what you want? If you think we're suitable for you, then send over your application. If not, you can totally go for other organizations. After all, there are many other outstanding organizations in the God Territory that you can choose from."

"I don't accept your suggestion."

"Tens of millions of applications daily is too little. Let us all apply and break a hundred million applications!"

"I don't care if the Sword Alliance suits me or not. I want to apply no matter what. The melon that's forcibly plucked before it's matured isn't sweet, but it sure is thirst-quenching."

"It doesn't matter if the Sword Alliance can give me what I want. The Sword Alliance has Sword 1, and that's the most important thing!"

"I want to apply. Don't stop me!"

…

As soon as Lin Huang posted the thread, countless comments were posted rejecting his suggestion.

He had never expected that his thread to halt the trend would backfire.

Throughout the next few days, the applications to join the Sword Alliance multiplied again.

The highest number of applications had exceeded 50 million per day. 

The people at the Sword Alliance were speechless now. Lin Huang did not dare to speak up again.

He could only get everyone to remain silent so that the trend would pass faster.

As the Sword Alliance was recruiting new members in full swing, the other organizations that were envious rode on the fame and began to recruit their own as well.

Grade-7 organizations like the Combat God Temple and Xeno relaxed their recruitment requirements and increased their membership benefits.

Death Sickle, on the other hand, issued new policies consecutively. They made some adjustments to the organization's structure, and then joined the recruitment war as well. 

Among the grade-7 organizations, God Capital was the only one who did nothing.

In reality, they were envious, but their pride did not allow them to lower their recruitment requirements.

God Capital had always recruited pure blood Protoss only.

That was definitely something that couldn't be changed.

Meanwhile, most of the pure blood Protoss in the God Territory who thought highly of themselves as pure blood had basically already joined God Capital. Most of them who did not join were those who disagreed with God Capital's philosophy.

On a certain level, as long as God Capital was not open to accepting non-pure blood Protoss, it was difficult for them to recruit new members on a large scale in this great world.

Also, organizations such as the Nephilic Judge Tribe that operated as a tribe could only watch as the other organizations recruited members in a frenzy.

Apart from marriage, it was basically impossible for a tribe like them to recruit members from the outside world through other methods.

Moreover, a conservative tribe like the Nephilic Judge Tribe valued the bloodline legacy more.

The outstanding bloodline had basically been bred within the tribe.

Those who were married off or who had married another tribe were those whose bloodline was not exactly pure.

Therefore, the outsiders who joined as a son-in-law or daughter-in-law would not excel in the Nephilic Judge Tribe.

It had caused a vicious cycle. Many talented young people with potential were unwilling to marry into the ancient tribe.

Naturally, their obsolete concepts had restricted their development.

Such restrictions could not be solved by having a lord-level Virgen at all.

The vital thing was to change their concepts. Their entire tribe needed to gladly welcome change instead of refusing to adapt to the times.

…

The number of applications finally began to drop after the people at the Sword Alliance had been busy for half a month.

Lin Huang and the rest were finally relieved when they saw the number of applications dropping.

It had been almost a month, and the number of applications had finally dropped below a million applications daily.

Lin Huang could remove himself from the operation entirely and got Sword 1 to handle the remaining application filtering process.

Throughout the month, he began feeling the side-effects of the operation. He would now feel sleepy whenever he saw applications…

However, the Sword Alliance had gained many new members throughout the month.

Most of them were sword cultivators and saber cultivators. There were also many female cultivators.

Though they went through many rounds of filtering, the number of new Sword Alliance members had increased by over 800,000 people.

Among them were over 3,000 heavenly god-level powerhouses.

Although the number was not worth mentioning at all compared to organizations such as the Combat God Temple and Death Sickle, compared to the Sword Alliance from before, it had undoubtedly expanded at least thousands of times over.

Bloody had done background checks for the over 3,000 heavenly god-level newcomers one by one before passing them eventually.

After passing the assessment, they joined the Sword Alliance's Heavenly God League directly.

Lancelot and Killer would train them.

Meanwhile, as there were too many members below the heavenly god-level, Bloody could not run a detailed investigation on their backgrounds one by one.

Lin Huang used Leech Pods directly to run a mass investigation.

Among the 800,000 people, over 1,000 of them were spies from all sorts of organizations.

He used Leech Pods to control them to forfeit themselves automatically and leave.

The other members did not find it strange that those people quit on their own.

The reason being was that they knew many had applied just for fun.

However, they did not know that those who had applied just for fun had been eliminated in the first round of the filtering process.