The First Recruitment of the Sect

[Ding—Congratulations to the host for successfully unlocking the Building Synthesizer. The Building Synthesizer offers an extremely high degree of freedom. Please explore it on your own.]

To be honest, this system was really considerate.

Lin Xiao felt very gratified in his heart.

But this 'extremely high degree of freedom'... just how high could it be?

He felt that the degree of freedom of the Cultivation Method Synthesizer from before was already very high.

Forget it, whatever.

He would first try out this Building Synthesizer to see what it was really like!

Thinking this, Lin Xiao opened the [Building Synthesizer].

Then he saw two familiar slots.

They were respectively labeled [Brick Material] and [Beam Material].

However, there was also something different.

After these two slots, there was a plus sign, looking like this: [+].

Lin Xiao didn't quite understand, so he tried tapping on the plus sign.

Then he found that after the two slots, a new slot suddenly appeared, with a [?] on it.

And the [+] had moved to after the third slot.

Lin Xiao was a little surprised.

Did this mean he could add an infinite number of things into it?

Lin Xiao looked at the current inventory of his Private Vault.

[Private Vault]:

Spirit Stone x7, Misty Spring Grass Seed x1, Pine Soot Ink x6, "Beginner's Manual for Spirit Herb Cultivation" x1, Spirit Gathering Grass Seed x5, "Myriad Void Art of the Peach Blossom Spring" x1.

It seemed like he didn't even have anything to throw in. He couldn't possibly throw a cultivation method or something like that into it, right?

After pondering for a moment, he decided to recruit people first.

Now that he had the Building Synthesizer, collecting materials was just a matter of time, and this wasn't something he had to do all by himself.

If he recruited disciples, gathering the strength of many, collecting materials would be very fast.

But if he didn't have the Synthesizer and recruited people just to have everyone build houses together, it would be easy for others to think he had ulterior motives, that he was a scammer deliberately tricking people into building houses for him.

The weather today wasn't very good. It was nearing noon, yet not a hint of the sun could be seen.

The sky was a bit gloomy, and Lin Xiao estimated that it might rain in the next two days.

Better early than late!

It would be best if he could recruit some people before it rained.

Thinking this, Lin Xiao went into the thatched hut, greeted the two people who were cultivating, and went down the mountain.

He went home, hoisted a broken table and a bench onto his shoulders, and went out, arriving at the grain-drying ground in the center of the village.

It was currently the Spring Equinox, so the grain-drying ground was very empty.

However, because it was right in the center of the village, connecting the villagers' homes to the paths leading to most of the fields, people came and went quite frequently around here.

There would be at least one person passing by every few minutes.

Not to mention that many children in the village were playing nearby.

Lin Xiao placed the table horizontally in the middle of the ground, set up the bench, and sat down leisurely.

Then, he was seen clearing his throat twice before suddenly opening his mouth wide and shouting out:

"Lingxian Sect is recruiting!——

Do you want to cultivate immortality? Do you want to live forever? Do you want to move mountains and fill the seas? Come quickly to our Lingxian Sect, fellow villagers! Don't miss this opportunity as you pass by!"

This loud shout successfully alarmed the stay-at-home folks nearby who were shoveling in their lunch and chatting.

Even many people who were burying their heads in their meals at the edge of the fields, focused solely on finishing quickly so they could get back to work, looked over.

The fastest to gather around was a group of middle-aged women.

There were also a few idle men in the village who lived off their parents.

"Yo, isn't this the second boy from Dayou's family? What's going on? Are you playing at setting up a stall like the adults at the market?" A woman of Lin Xiao's aunt's generation shouted with a shrill voice.

Lin Xiao gave her a fake smile and ignored her.

Shouting once was enough; the enthusiastic (gossipy) villagers would help him spread the word.

Now he just needed to stay quiet and wait for someone who caught his eye to come to him.

Since he didn't speak, someone naturally chimed in,

"Listen to what Aunt Liu is saying~ Didn't Dayou's second boy just say it? This is some sect for cultivating immortality, where you go to learn about living forever without aging, moving mountains and filling seas~ Oh my, look at these words, you can live forever without aging~ Aunt Liu, aren't you going to give it a try?"

An idle man who knew Lin Xiao stepped forward to tease him:

"Brother Xiao, what do you think of me? Do you want me to go to that whatever sect of yours and be a master for you?"

Lin Xiao gave him a fake smile and still didn't reply.

"Hey! Do you think Brother Xiao has played his sect house-playing game so much that he's gone silly? He can't even speak anymore."

...

More and more people gathered around Lin Xiao's table.

Some people chatted for a few sentences and left, while new passersby or people coming to watch the fun joined in.

This place became increasingly lively.

This was the good thing about an isolated little village.

If there was anything even slightly new, it would be spread to the whole village in no time.

Thus.

Lin Xiao finally waited for the first person who caught his eye.

The huge grain-drying ground.

The noisy, gossiping crowd seemed to become a background.

Between heaven and earth, there was only a handsome and uninhibited youth sitting casually behind an old table.

Coarse linen clothes could not hide his bright and free-spirited nature.

And at this moment, another youth with a gentle complexion and a tall, straight posture pushed through the crowd, walked to the front of the table, gave a formal bow to the sitting youth, and said:

"Sect Master Lin, I am Sun Yigao, and I have brazenly come specifically to join the Lingxian Sect."

Lin Xiao smiled faintly.

"Brother Sun's arrival brings light to my humble dwelling."

Seeing clearly who had come, the onlookers all became surprised.

"Oh my, isn't this the scholar from Landlord Sun's family? Why did he come here to play with the Lin family's boy? Is he not studying anymore?"

"Doesn't Aunt Sun manage him very strictly? How can he still have the free time to come out and play this house-playing trick with the Lin family's boy?"

"Sigh! Haven't you heard? This Aunt Sun, yesterday, was a bit unwell..."

"Oh? Unwell how? Good sister-in-law, quickly tell me..."

Someone who had a closer relationship with the Sun family quickly interrupted upon hearing this:

"Pah pah pah! How is Aunt Sun unwell? She just caught a chill last night and her body was a bit weak, that's all. She rested for a day, and right now she's already completely fine!"

"Yes, yes, this morning I even went to wash clothes together with Aunt Sun."

...

The discussions around them were endless, but Sun Yigao stood there perfectly straight as if he hadn't heard a thing.

Meanwhile, Lin Xiao was checking Sun Yigao's status panel.

[Name: Sun Yigao]

[Gender: Male]

[Bone Age: 15 years old]

[Aptitude: One in a Million]

[Cultivation Base: Mortal]

[Sect Status: Outer Sect Disciple (Modifiable)]

[Sect Position: None (Modifiable)]

Aptitude, One in a Million!

Lin Xiao wondered whether this was better or worse than his own 'Dragon among Men' aptitude.

To think that such a small Xiushui Village would actually hide so many cultivation talents?

Or was it that, to a certain extent, everyone actually had the ability to cultivate, rather than being like what was written in those novels, where it depended on spiritual roots and such, and without a spiritual root, one was directly barred from the path of immortality.

Lin Xiao guessed, perhaps the so-called aptitude given by the system depended more on things like comprehension ability?