Chapter 3

Translator: Lordbluefire

All these were what happened seven days ago.

Wen Ping had originally thought that after possessing the gravity field, he would be able to recruit many disciples from Cangwu City below the mountain. It was fine even if they had inferior aptitudes. With the 9x increment to cultivation speed, even a pig could rise to the sky.

However, the system had given him a very unbelievable standard of recruitment.

In the Secret Cloud Continent, all sects would allow disciples to join for free and also provide cultivation resources, cultivation arts, arterial techniques, and even vortex diagrams.

However, in his case, not only did he not provide these things, but the system had even set up a rule that those who wanted to join the Immortal Sect had to pay.

It was still fine if money was required. After all, many people didn’t lack things like gold coins. Some daughters of wealthy merchants had very poor cultivation aptitude and couldn’t join 1-star or 2-stars sect, so they would simply spend money to cultivate. Wen Ping had originally planned to target these people, but then the system imposed another rule.

For those at 15 years of age, they had to reach the fifth level of the Body Refinement Realm before they could join the Immortal Sect!

One had to know that Wen Ping had the backing of a 2-stars sect and inexhaustible resources, which was why he could reach the fifth level of the Body Refinement Realm before he was 15. This meant that if poor people wanted to reach the fifth level, other than geniuses, only those 2-stars and 3-stars sects could nurture them.

Unfortunately, if such a genius appeared in Cangwu City, they would have been visited by 2-stars and 3-stars sects long ago and recruited away.

…

Because of it, Wen Ping’s plan to target the daughters of rich merchants failed just like that.

“System, look at this. They are leaving the moment they come here. Can’t you relax the recruitment standard?”

The system calmly replied, “Host, please pay attention to your attitude. As the owner of the Super Sect System, not any tom, dick, or harry, can join your Immortal Sect.”

“But the problem is that it has been three days and I’ve yet to accept a single disciple.”

“I would rather not stand for suboptimal quality disciples even if I had to spend a year to accept a single one. Naturally, the host can choose not to follow my standard. The punishment is merely for me to take the 3x gravity field back.”

Wen Ping bitterly smiled and could only yield.

However, before he yielded, he didn’t forget to leave behind a ruthless sentence. “System, if you become a human in the future, you must never go out to the streets.”

“Why?”

Wen Ping coldly replied, “It’s easy for people like you to be beaten to death by others!”

After that, he sat back down on his chair and simply placed the registration forms on his face. He then lay back and closed his eyes to rest, not caring about the sounds of discussion that drifted toward his ears from the wind.

At this moment, a pair of male and female youths began to walk toward this place together.

They were gorgeously dressed. Their clothes were stitched with golden silk, and the swords in their hands were inlaid with gold and jade, completely complementing their faces that exuded the demeanor of descendants from an aristocratic clan. These weren’t something ordinary people could afford to purchase.

When they arrived at the foot of the Cloudmist Mountain, their gazes landed on the wooden sign that stated ‘Recruitment event for disciples of the Immortal Sect’. After that, they looked at the youth who had fallen asleep sitting there.

It was no wonder the Immortal Sect was defeated like a collapsed mountain and had declined tremendously, falling from a 2-stars sect to a starless one.

With such a lazy person as the examiner, how could such a sect develop into something great?

Just when the girl was preparing to call out, her younger brother prodded her arm. “Elder sister, look at what this is.”

“What?”

She immediately turned her head and stared in the direction her younger brother was pointing at.

At the bottom-right corner of the wooden sign, there was another row of words. “Sect-joiners, no matter who you are, you have to pay 1,000 gold if you want to join the sect. If you don’t have money, just get the hell away!”

“He even wants to charge money?”

She hurriedly rubbed her eyes and had a look of incredulous disbelief on her face.

(Why did the Immortal Sect turn into something like this?)

After casting a few glances at the surroundings, she understood why not even a single person came by.

“Ai, did your sect leader write the characters wrongly?”

As she spoke, she smacked the table.

Boom!

Boom!

Despite the disturbance, Wen Ping wasn’t annoyed. He only took away the pile of registration forms from his face and stretched his body lazily.

“Are the two of you here to join the Immortal Sect?”

“Do we really have to pay money?” As the girl spoke, she hurriedly walked to the wooden sign and pointed at the row of words at the bottom-right corner.

Wen Ping wasn’t in a hurry to answer. Rather, he looked at the simple information projected about the two of them.

…

Huang Can

Gender: Female

Age: 15

Cultivation Base: Third level of Body Refinement

…

The other youth had similar stats as well.

…

Huang Shan

Gender: Male

Age: 15

Cultivation Base: Third level of Body Refinement

…

Upon seeing this, Wen Ping completely lost interest in the two of them. He actually wanted to recruit them, but the rules set by the system didn’t permit him to do so.

When Wen Ping nodded again, the youths hurriedly sneaked away. Right now, Wen Ping was already used to this sight.

Why? Because during these few days, he had encountered such a situation many times.

After that, just when the two of them walked out of the street, they were stopped by someone.

“Might I enquire where the direction of the Immortal Sect is?”

The person who stopped them was a young man of around twenty-plus in age. His face was as fair as jade, and he was very polite. His sword-angled eyebrows exuded a special demeanor. This was especially so for his eyes. When he gazed over, Huang Can only felt that she didn’t care about the difference in their age.

She even hoped that this person was a female because she wanted to pull him into her embrace and hug him to sleep on the same bed every night.

She only woke up from her fantasy when Huang Shan, who was beside her, pushed her a little. “Elder sister, what are you doing?”

“Ah!”

“Oh, just continue heading straight down this street and you will see the Immortal Sect at the end.”

“Many thanks, lady.” After speaking, the young man was preparing to proceed forward.

Huang Can hurriedly called out to him, “Sir, if you want to join the Immortal Sect, I find it very regretful to tell you that the Immortal Sect no longer exists.”

“No longer exists?” The young man suddenly turned and revealed a trace of bewilderment in his expression. “The Immortal Sect is the only 2-stars sect in a radius of 500 miles. Why would it no longer exist?”

2-stars sects were presided over by experts at the Mystic Realm who had opened up their first Earth Destruction Arterial Gate. 

“Sir, are you not someone from Cangwu City?”

“Mn, I came from Xingyue City.”

“It’s no wonder that sir doesn’t know that roughly a year plus ago, the Immortal Sect encountered a calamity and their sect leader died. The monkey scatters as the tree falls. During this year, almost everyone has left the Immortal Sect. If you head there now, you will only see an empty shell of the Immortal Sect.”

“Many thanks for the information.” Upon hearing this, Yun Liao wrinkled his brows.

(Could it be that I have to look for another sect?)

However, after thinking about it, he still decided to head there for a look. Even if he really saw an empty shell, he wasn’t willing to return without seeing it.

“Sir, do you still want to go?”

“I came specially from a long distance away to join the sect.” After speaking, Yun Liao continued to proceed forward.

Huang Shan who was at the side hurriedly spoke out, “Friend, if you want to join the Immortal Sect, you have to prepare 1,000 gold coins in advance. If you don’t have so many gold coins, the person there will directly tell you to scram.”

“There’s even such a rule?”

After hearing this, Yun Liao really felt like he should head there for a look. No matter what outsiders said, their words might be rumors, so he only believed in things he saw personally. However, he had never heard of one having to pay 1,000 gold coins to join a sect. Such a rumor was worth him heading there to see.

After bidding farewell to the two of them, Yun Liao quickly proceeded forward.

A short time later, he came to the end of the street and arrived at the foot of the Cloudmist Mountain.

The atmosphere of spring was in abundance here in the mountain area. Various sorts of beasts and birds were in the forest, and the mountain pathway was a stairway of a thousand steps. This place was indeed the Immortal Sect his elder had told him before. However, the Immortal Sect wasn’t as prosperous as what his elder had mentioned. Today was the sect’s recruitment day, but when he came over, he only saw a few people.

At this moment, his gaze landed on a table at the foot of the mountains. He first saw the wooden sign that had the words ‘Recruitment event for disciples of the Immortal Sect’.

After that, his gaze focused on the fee of 1,000 gold coins.

As expected, things were like what that girl earlier had described. The Immortal Sect had declined and actually became a place for the leader to rake in money.

(Sigh! It seems that this trip is most probably a wasted one.)

He had traveled for hundreds of miles and suffered a lot, including encountering some very dangerous moments. When he arrived here, he didn’t expect to see the Immortal Sect making its wealth through such a method. It was no longer the Immortal Sect that had once exuded a sense of overwhelming righteousness..