Sacrificial Artifact System: From Bell-ringer to the Ancestral Patriarch of the Sect novel Chapter 147

Chapter 147: Chapter 127 Empress Dowager Becomes a Heavenly Phenomenon (Please Vote with Monthly Tickets)

The Divine Sword Sect’s annual recruitment had fully commenced.

Besides the original eight counties of Sword State, one county of Ming State, and three counties of Xuanzhou...

The Divine Sword Sect now also occupied the territories that originally belonged to the Xuanming Sect, that is, the other six counties of Xuanzhou.

This expansion brought the Sect’s territory to a total of eighteen counties.

The recruitment of disciples for the entire Divine Sword Sect would unfold across these eighteen counties.

Typically, the process would consist of an initial selection and a final examination.

The initial selection would have recruiters of the Divine Sword Sect proceed to the eighteen counties, with the cooperation of the local Divine Sword Mansions, to choose from among the commoners those with adequate root bone qualifications.

As for those martial arts forces with intricate ties to the Divine Sword Sect, they would not participate in the initial selection, choosing instead to send their candidates directly to the Sect.

Because it was too far for commoner youths to come to the Divine Sword Sect to participate in the Inner Sect assessment, they could only rely on being transported together by horse carriage after passing the initial selection.

Generally speaking, anyone capable of passing the initial selection... would essentially qualify to stay in the Divine Sword Sect as a servant disciple.

"Junior Brother Li, all these people here have been sent from Pingze County, a total of five hundred and twenty-nine individuals, all of commoner origin."

Elder Kang pointed to the neatly arranged group of young men and women.

Li Qian’s Spiritual Perception swept over the crowd, but he did not spot the young fisherman from Pingze Lake.

Even though there was a fee for participating in the initial selection, that young man had an Azure Dragon Fish; he should have managed to gather the money, and on top of that, he had decent root bone qualifications. Why didn’t he come?

There must be something fishy going on.

Li Qian nodded and with Spiritual Perception, scanned the assembly, investigating the youths’ root bone qualifications.

There were indeed some promising seedlings.

But the vast majority were very ordinary.

Under normal circumstances, a massive selection from among commoner youths would not yield so few talented individuals.

It is very possible that during the initial selection phase, by reducing the ratio and number of talented commoners, one could increase the chances of martial arts forces’ offspring passing the examination.

After all, the number of spots for Inner Sect Disciples is fixed; if there are more commoner children, naturally, there are fewer offspring from martial arts forces.

"Elder Kang, the root bone qualifications of these individuals are not up to par."

Li Qian said with a solemn voice.

"Junior Brother Li, this is very normal, the chances for talent to emerge from commoners are naturally very low, in the end, we should still focus on those martial arts forces."

Elder Kang said with a smile that did not reach his eyes.

"Then let’s go take a look at the offspring of those martial arts forces."

Li Qian did not elaborate and followed Elder Kang to another group.

These were the offspring from various martial arts forces of Pingze County, with even greater numbers.

Li Qian’s Spiritual Perception swept over them, and indeed the overall root bone qualifications were much better than those of the commoner group.

However, the ratio of quality seedlings was not high.

Next, he learned about the root bone qualifications of participants from the other dozen or so counties taking part in the assessment, which were similar to the situation in Pingze County.

"Junior Brother Li, isn’t the chance of talented individuals emerging from the offspring of martial arts forces so much higher?"

Elder Kang said with a smile: "If there are no problems, we can start with the Inner Sect assessment."

"Elder Kang, whether they are commoner youths or offspring of martial arts forces, I feel this batch is not quite up to snuff; we can’t proceed with the Inner Sect assessment just yet, I need to go down to the counties for a firsthand inspection."

Li Qian shook his head.