Double Cultivation
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"First and foremost, allow me to remind you all the requirements for the exam." Su Yang spoke while calmly staring at the thousands of people before him.
"First, you are not required to be a Cultivator to take the exam. Second, you must not exceed the age limit of 24 years. And lastly, there are four separate exams that you must pass before you are accepted as disciples for the Profound Flower Sect exam. "
As Su Yang explained his rules to the crowd, several figures with extraordinary presences appeared one after another.
When the people there realized who these people were, they were greatly shocked.
"That's Wang Shuren from the Burning Lotus Sect! What was someone like him doing here at the recruitment of Profound Flower Sect disciples?"
"Look over there! The Heavenly Swan Sect Master, Bai Lihua, is also here!"
"Huh ?! Even the Divine Sword Sect Master has appeared! What did all these famous people do just for the exam of another Sect?!"
However, the most shocking person who appeared, was undoubtedly the veiled female individual wearing luxurious clothes.
"Th-That's impossible…"
"No way! What is he doing here?!"
Although one was unable to recognize his identity from his appearance, the guards standing around him easily gave his identity, as they were wearing the armor belonging to the Xie Family!
"Your majesty!"
The people there immediately lowered their heads and bowed to Xie Xingfang.
"Please, don't mind me. I'm just here to watch the exam." Xie Xingfang waved his hand.
Thus, Wang Shuren, Bai Lihua, Divine Sword Master Zhong, and Xie Xingfang started watching the exam from a distance. However, their presence there was simply too excessive, causing the participants to become even more nervous.
Not only did they have to worry about passing the exam, but they also had to pay attention to the big figures watching over them now.
"Su Yang.." Fang Zhenlan looked at him with an anxious look, as he did not expect all these important people to come watch their exam.
However, Su Yang only spoke with a smile, "Disregard them. If they want to watch, let them enjoy the show."
After saying those words, he proceeded to speak to the people, "i'm sure most of you here had already heard this before coming here, I'm sure, but I will repeat it for those who are not aware of this change. The Flower Sect will have two separate departments – one for those who want to cultivate normally and another one for those who want to practice dual cultivation. "
"Now for the last thing before we start the exam."
Su Yang swept his gaze into the crowd, causing them to tremble in awe, and he said, "There are tens of thousands of people here today, and there will be many more later, but until now, there will be many more, The Profound Flower Sect will only accept a maximum of 500 disciples for the normal department and 500 disciples for the dual cultivation department, so only 1,000 of you here will be accepted as disciples. Of course, our standards are different than before, so maybe no 1,000 people will become disciples."
When the crowd heard that, their eyes widened in shock.
One would expect the Profound Flower Sect to receive as many disciples as possible due to the current situation of the Sect, which was the lack of their disciples.
Of course, 1,000 disciples was not a meager number of disciples to accept in a single day, but as an entire Sect, especially one that was currently the number one sect in the continent, he said, 1,000 students are nothing.
The Divine Sword Sect for example, despite receiving less than 100 disciples each month, they had over 50,000 active disciples in their sect.
Even the Burning Lotus Sect and the Heavenly Swan Sect had over 20,000 disciples, so for the Profound Flower Sect to only have 1,000 disciples, it was extremely pitiful.
A while later, Su Yang continued, "Now with all that, let's start the annual recruitment of the Profound Flower Sect, which will last for a total of 7 days."
He then pointed to the background behind him and said, "Behind me is the examination area."
People looked behind him, where four large arenas were placed. The first stage had the Bone Age Totem and the Spiritual Totem placed. The second stage has a stand in the middle with one red pill placed in the stand. The third stage had a large bowl of water placed in the middle. However, the fourth stage was empty.
"As you can see, the first exam will test your age and cultivation. The second exam will test your Heart Dao. For the third exam, we will test your talents through your blood. As for the final exam, you will be fighting with one of our disciples. Of course, we don't expect any of you to beat our students, so even losing doesn't automatically make you fail."
When people heard of the exam they were about to take, they were a little stunned, as it was much simpler than they had expected.
Normally, the Sect would make the participants undergo a hard test to test their limits with some hurdles, even requiring them to fight against the ferocious beasts in the mountains for several days, but compared to that examination method, the Profound Flower Sect examination was very simple, even easy.
However, since they would only accept a maximum of 1,000 disciples, this exam might just seem easy to fool participants into lowering their guard.
"Now that I have explained everything to you, let's finally begin the exam."
Su Yang then looked at Sun Jingjing, Fang Zhenlan, and Lan Liqing.
When they saw Su Yang staring at them, they nodded their heads and started walking onto the stage.
As soon as they each stood on the stage, the examination officially began.