Qin Chuan dialed Guan Zexiao’s private number.
Guan Zexiao saw Qin Chuan’s call and found an excuse to leave his current meeting.
“Sect Master!” Guan Zexiao answered the call.
“I have something I want to discuss with you.” Qin Chuan spoke.
Guan Zexiao felt like it was urgent, so he walked to a corner and said, “Sect Master, what would you like to discuss.”
Qin Chuan directly replied, “I intend to recruit more cultivators to expand our strength.”
Guan Zexiao was shocked.
Reasonably speaking, this was a good thing.
Because of immortal cultivators, the threat from the monsters had become smaller and smaller, and the global situation gradually improved.
Now, everyone knew that cultivation really existed. Everyone wanted to cultivate.
Judging by the number of people who went to Beichuan, it was evident how crazy everyone was about cultivation.
As the highest-ranking leader of the country, Guan Zexiao had a lot of things on his mind.
“Sect Master, where are you looking to get the candidates this time?”
“Probably the university students.”
Because of the monsters, the schools in Xia Country were all closed, but universities were still operating normally.
The universities were being managed by the military. So they taught all kinds of knowledge related to the military to nurture military talents and prepare them for the monster calamity in the future.
But because the immortal cultivators had participated in the fight against the monsters, such military training had clearly become unnecessary.
Hence, Qin Chuan was considering university students.
It just so happened that they were under the military and were all gathered together. He could immediately use the Heart Refining Rock to screen them.
Guan Zexiao had no objections.
Compared to military education, cultivation was much more promising and useful.
Guan Zexiao asked, “Sect Master, how many people are we going to recruit this time?”
Qin Chuan glanced at the system interface.
[Level Two Sect: 3,324 / 50,000]
“Around 40,000 people!” Qin Chuan replied.
“Should we make this public?”
Qin Chuan smiled. “Everyone knows about cultivation now, there’s no need to be so secretive.”
“Okay, I understand. By the way, are we picking from all university students?”
Qin Chuan said, “There are tens of millions of undergraduates in the country now. The Heart Refining Rock can eliminate some of them. But, even with that, I don’t think the sect is big enough to take them all in.
“In any case, I picked two areas, Beichuan and Gold Sea. We’ll start with colleges and universities in these areas.”
Guan Zexiao nodded. “Then when will we begin?”
“The sooner the better!”
Guan Zexiao thought for a while. “How about in two days?”
“Sure!”
Just like that, the call was hung up.
Qin Chuan entered the sect and summoned the system interface. Then, he tapped on the infrastructure function to begin preparations for the subsequent increase in the number of cultivators.
Now, he had more than a million points, which was very sufficient.
Qin Chuan spent 100,000 points to upgrade both the gates and the Spirit Spring to Level Three.
The importance of the gates and Spirit Spring was indescribable. They played a crucial role in determining the length of a person’s cultivation path.
After leveling up the gates and Spirit Spring, Qin Chuan also upgraded the main hall to Level Three.
After all, this was his own residence as the sect master. Of course, it had to be grander.
Then, he upstaged the spiritual meridian veins.
Qin Chuan added five spiritual meridians. The five mountains around the main peak each had one, and they were all third-level spiritual meridians.
After that, he added all sorts of small infrastructure such as the Enlightenment Platform, houses, and training halls.
After he had upgraded everything, he had less than 500,000 points left.
After spending so many points, Qin Chuan’s heart was dripping with blood. But, all of the stuff he spent was important. When the newcomers arrived, he would be able to earn back the points quickly and would even get more.
…
On the other side.
After hanging up the call with Qin Chuan, Guan Zexiao immediately ordered the recruitment of cultivators.
There was no need to hide this matter. Once the news spread, it immediately caused a sensation in society.
Everyone was envious, especially of the university students who were studying in Beichuan and the Gold Sea.
Those students were extremely excited when they learned that there was going to be a recruitment exercise for cultivators.
The majority were too excited to sleep.
While some who had fallen asleep dreamed of themselves cultivating.
Some of them sleepwalked. They used the brooms in their dormitory, pretending to fly on them with the “Sword Kinesis Flight.”
Soon, two days passed.
Qin Chuan arranged for some people to go to various universities.
All the colleges and universities welcomed the arrival of immortal cultivators with great excitement.
When the students saw the cultivators riding their swords high in the sky, they were especially envious and worshipful.
Zhao Xuanxuan came from Gold Sea University and was in charge of the recruitment plan for this school.
When everyone learned that she was an immortal cultivator, they were particularly surprised.
The moment Zhao Xuanxuan arrived, she was surrounded by the students from Gold Sea University.
“Senior, what does cultivating feel like?”
“Senior, when did you start cultivating?”
“Senior, can I still fly on a sword if I’m afraid of heights?”
“Senior, senior, when will I be as outstanding as you?”
…
All the university students were all talking at once, turning Zhao Xuanxuan numb.
She couldn’t push them away since she was afraid of accidentally injuring them.
In the end, Zhao Xuanxuan was only freed after the military came in.
At nine in the morning, all the students of Gold Sea University gathered at the school’s main field.
As a first-rate university, they had a considerable number of students—20,000 of them.
The sect had prepared 20 Heart Refining Rocks. If nothing unexpected came up, recruitment would only take a day.
As the immortal cultivator representative, Zhao Xuanxuan explained the selection method.
The students were nervous and excited as they stared at the Heart Refining Rocks.
Soon after, they began the screening process.
The military managed the students, and everyone was very orderly.
Half of the students had completed the screening process in the morning. This was much faster than expected.
About 1,000 people had passed the test in the morning.
From the ratio, it was just the average pass rate.
Those who passed the test were naturally very excited and happy. Those who did not were very sad and disappointed.
Zhao Xuanxuan encouraged them, saying that there would be more opportunities to cultivate in the future.
She took out a large stack of books from her storage ring.
These scriptures were the Tao Te Ching.
Zhao Xuanxuan instructed the military to distribute them to those students who hadn’t passed the test.
Zhao Xuanxuan said that reciting the contents in the book every day would increase their chances of passing.
After those students who did not pass the test heard this, their eyes lit up with hope.
After collecting their copy, they immediately flipped it open and started reading seriously.
At around two in the afternoon, all the students of Gold Sea University had completed their screening. Nearly 2,000 people had passed the test of the Heart Refining Rocks.
At the same time, the other universities had also completed the screenings.
The total number of people was roughly the same as what Qin Chuan had deduced. There were over 40,000 people, and they did not exceed the upper limit of the sect.
Two days later, the government officials took them to Cloud Mountain with military trucks.
Qin Chuan had already set up a teleportation array at the foot of the mountain.
This way, there was no need for him to personally guide the newcomers. Instead, the students who were selected simply needed to step into the teleportation array, and they could enter the sect.
