After the Ye Family banquet ended.
Chang'an welcomed a period of calm, much like before.
Ye Wangchuan, having advanced from zero to the mid-stage of the first level in just half a day, became famous overnight. His sudden rise shocked everyone in Chang'an.
However, Ye Wangchuan himself was indifferent to the fame.
He chose to seclude himself at home, adapting to the strength of the mid-first level and modifying his combat style.
After all, his cultivation had indeed risen too quickly.
Meanwhile, he dispatched a large number of female guards to watch over Li Luo around the clock.
He was worried that Li Luo might stumble upon some fortuitous opportunity that he would miss.
But after several days, Li Luo was surprisingly peaceful.
She was merely catching up on the knowledge she had missed over the past eighteen years at the Li Family's school, to better understand the world.
After all, her system needed to get close to Ye Wangchuan to maximize benefits.
In Ye Wangchuan's absence, the system didn't even offer a choice of missions.
The two thus maintained a tacit calm.
Time flew by in the blink of an eye.
Two weeks had passed since the Ye Family banquet incident.
And today was also the day of the grand assembly for the sects to recruit disciples.
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Ye Family.
"Old man, a bunch of people from the sects have come to the city center to recruit disciples. I plan to go take a look," Ye Wangchuan said indifferently.
Beside him, Ye Zhentian lay on a wooden chair, reading the newspaper and sipping tea, and spoke with confusion.
"Sects are places for ordinary people. They lack cultivation resources, backing, and martial arts secrets."
"Therefore, joining a sect means providing strength in exchange for resources, backing, and secrets. But at the same time, because of their ties to the sect, they can't act recklessly and provoke enemies."
"You have no lack of resources, backing, or secrets here in the Ye Family. So why waste your advantages by going to a sect?"
Ye Zhentian's confusion was entirely reasonable.
Ye Wangchuan thought for a moment and brought out a prepared excuse.
"If I just stay in the Ye Family like this, it's too smooth and uninteresting. I want to go out and experience the world."
Ye Zhentian scoffed disdainfully, "Hmph, you want to play the fool to catch the wise, revealing your Ye Family identity to shock others when they attack you?"
"Only a fool would do that!"
"If you really want to experience, I'll throw you into my legacy right now and let you truly experience it!"
Ye Wangchuan twitched the corner of his mouth.
Damn!
This old guy, he knows too much. He even knows about playing the fool to catch the wise.
Ye Wangchuan's earlier words were not meant for such foolish acts.
Instead, from his memories of reading novels in his previous life.
At such sect recruitment assemblies, there's usually a reclusive master who hosts a special sect to recruit his final disciple.
And the child of destiny would just happen to choose this master's sect.
As the last disciple of this master, the child of destiny would immediately receive all sorts of top-notch care and cultivation, soaring on the spot!
Ye Wangchuan was going this time to see if he could intercept such a sect.
After all, Tang San had died, and it wasn't impossible for another child of destiny to appear in Chang'an.
Just as Ye Wangchuan was preparing another reason to persuade Ye Zhentian.
"Of course, if you really want to join a sect, it's not impossible," Ye Zhentian said as he sat up and stretched his shoulders.
"After you choose a sect, I will uproot that sect's holy land and move it next to the Ye Family."
"That way, you can receive training from both the sect and the Ye Family."
As Ye Zhentian spoke, he tossed a black token to Ye Wangchuan.
Catching the token, Ye Wangchuan displayed a speechless expression and asked, "Old man, are you just unable to bear me leaving Chang'an City, worried you won't see me?"
"Not at all!!!"
...
In the city center.
A massive circular stone platform with a radius of five kilometers floated in the air.
Additionally, the bottom of this circular platform emitted sunlight to prevent shadows from forming below.
One stone step after another floated down from above to the ground.
Following the stone steps, Ye Wangchuan arrived at the sect recruitment site.
The scene was bustling with activity.
Although the number of people wasn't as high as the millions at the Heaven Rank opening, there were still hundreds of thousands.
This was because the recruitment fair lasted two weeks, so there was no rush for people to come.
Ye Wangchuan looked around.
The platform was divided into six areas.
These six areas represented six different disciplines:
Martial cultivation, magical cultivation, medical cultivation, alchemy, talisman crafting, and artifact crafting.
Ye Wangchuan immediately ruled out the last four disciplines.
These four disciplines were more supportive in nature, and their combat abilities were not as strong as those of martial or magical cultivators.
Naturally, Ye Wangchuan wouldn't let himself be without combat capabilities.
So, he turned his attention to martial and magical cultivation.
One focused on martial skills, the other on mystical powers.
"Hmm... I should choose martial cultivation."
After a moment of thought, Ye Wangchuan decided to pursue martial cultivation.
After all, he had practiced with the spear for so long; it couldn't be for nothing.
Moreover, swords were also included in martial cultivation, so there would definitely be more chosen ones of martial destiny.
It would be easier for him to find a hidden master's sect in the martial cultivation area.
...
On the plaza of the recruitment fair, the inconspicuous Li Luo frowned and looked towards the martial cultivation area.
"Did Ye Wangchuan just go over there?"
After a moment of thought, Li Luo decisively decided to follow.
Actually, Li Luo wasn't planning to join a sect.
After all, she was from the Li Family and naturally didn't lack resources.
So, there was no need for her to join a sect.
But...
"If Ye Wangchuan joins a sect, I must join the corresponding sect!"
Li Luo thought to herself.
All her previous conclusions were based on the assumption that Ye Wangchuan would stay in Chang'an if he didn't join a sect.
But if Ye Wangchuan were to leave Chang'an, then...
No matter where Ye Wangchuan went, Li Luo had to follow!
There was no helping it.
Without following Ye Wangchuan, she wouldn't get any system rewards!
Practicing alone, just reaching the first level would take at least a year and a half.
Without Ye Wangchuan, she hadn't even triggered a system-selected mission.
So, she had to take advantage of Ye Wangchuan to accumulate enough antagonist sentiment points.
Li Luo tightened her coat and cheongsam and walked into the martial cultivation area.
...
"Hmm..."
Ye Wangchuan looked around.
The sect recruitment was serious yet casual.
The entire martial cultivation area was like a marketplace.
The recruitment agents from various sects set up their stalls, placing a cloth on which they wrote their recruitment requirements with a brush.
For instance, on the left...
Ye Wangchuan looked to the left and saw a stall where the hanging cloth read:
【Sword Dance Sect】
【Sect's Martial Arts Characteristics: The sword techniques are graceful, as if dancing, possessing strong aesthetic appeal.】
【Recruitment Standards: Those with innate talent of 60th rank and above do not need an evaluation and can join directly. Those with innate talent of 34th rank and above should come to the stall to explain their situation.】
【Benefits: Outer sect disciples receive approximately 28 to 150 silver coins per month for cultivation resources, further discussions for inner sect disciples.】
There were quite a number of people there.
However, Ye Wangchuan was not very fond of such effeminate sects.
He turned his head to look at other stalls.
iving with nine beautiful women. [Ding! Welcome back to the Joyous Sect, Host…] Lin Yu: ??? I’m clearly in a shared rental, but you’re saying I’m in the Joyous Sect? Watering plants is now [Tending to Spiritual Flora]? Cooking becomes [Researching Elixirs]? Making the bed turns into [Setting Up Formations]? A gentle and innocent auntie, twin classmates, a mysterious hacker girl on leave, a severely socially anxious artist, an elementary school Chinese teacher, a community hospital nurse, a pet shop owner, an antique clock restorer… This system… is kinda interesting.
lities. One day, Qi Yuan was buying groceries when he unfortunately came face-to-face with a monster. Just when he thought he was going to die on the spot, he suddenly heard the monster's thoughts... "This aura, he's definitely not an ordinary master!" "So terrifying, so terrifying." "A fight with my back against the wall, I can't take it anymore." Qi Yuan: Ah, no one told me that my awakened ability isn't telepathy, but rather the stronger my enemies imagine me to be, the stronger I truly become. PS: Zhou Hai in the first chapter is not the protagonist.
close your eyes and open them again, only to find yourself transmigrated into the role of a villainous male supporting character. Readers familiar with urban wish-fulfillment novels know that it is only through the relentless antics of the villainous male supporting character that the plot between the male and female leads can progress. As the villainous male supporting character, Long Aotian not only has to bully the female lead, harass the second female lead, and flirt with the third female lead, but he also has to go all out to antagonize the male lead. In the end, when his body is discovered, he is still clutching half a moldy fried dough stick in his hand. Fully aware of the plot, Long Aotian is determined to change his fate, starting with the female lead! In the beginning, the female lead lacks confidence: "Big brother, I hope I didn't scare you?" In the middle, the female lead treads carefully: "Brother Long, please don't hit me, okay?" Later on, the female lead becomes coquettishly clingy: "Aotian, it's time to pay the 'public grain' tonight." Long Aotian's legs go weak, and he feels like crying: "I taught you to be thick-skinned, not shameless!"
m back to his original world. In the end, he realized he had overthought things. [Hey, why is Shen Manni, the female lead, acting strange? Shouldn't she be fawning over the male lead at this point?] [Zhou Qiaoqiao, are you sick? Weren't you supposed to break off your engagement today?] [Damn it! An Youyi, please do your job as an undercover agent and sell my information to the protagonist, you idiot!] ... At this moment, Xu Mo himself didn't know that these female leads had already heard his inner thoughts. Then they decided not to play by the rules. Xu Mo: Please respect my profession as the big villain!
