Chapter 443: Recruiting People (3)
The first round ended quickly, and Tao Zi had almost finished screening the information.
Lu Shaobai stayed outside to control the situation, while Zhou Qiandan and Hua Seng brought in the list of qualified monks.
Tao Zi took a quick look and realized that the information, which was already half thin, had to be discarded again.
She said, "Li Xiu, you check the physical condition of the body cultivators. I'll go deal with those ghost cultivators first."
Li Xiu nodded in agreement and got up to leave.
A group of ghost cultivators stood in the yard. Even though the sun was shining brightly, it couldn't dispel the coldness that emanated from them.
To her surprise, the leading ghost cultivator was actually a female cultivator. In her memory, the most powerful cultivator was clearly a male ghost cultivator.
Tao Zi became interested and asked, "Name."
The woman spoke crisply and clearly, "Xu Chengcheng, an orphan, about a hundred years old, with a strength of the third level of Spiritual Silence."
Xu Chengcheng's information flashed through her mind, and her interest grew.
"The information shows that you once had a master. Where is he now?"
Xu Chengcheng's expression was very calm. He said, "He's dead. I killed him."
Many cultivators around were in an uproar. In the world of immortal cultivation, killing a master is a serious crime.
Unexpectedly, Tao Zi laughed and said, "You passed. You have two choices: ordinary disciple or elder. Choose one."
Xu Chengcheng asked in return: "What is the difference between them?"
She said, "Elders have a higher degree of freedom and are more likely to participate in various relics, but I won't interfere too much. Disciples, on the other hand, will."
She replied without hesitation: "Disciple."
Tao Zi reminded: "If you choose to be a disciple, you will need to call three ordinary cultivators in the Foundation Establishment Stage and Xuanzhao Stage as your senior brothers and sisters."
"It doesn't matter. I'm a good disciple. I just need someone to look after me."
She nodded and said, "Okay, stand over there."
Xu Chengcheng walked in the direction she pointed.
The second person who passed the test stared at Tao Zi sinisterly but said nothing.
She was too lazy to play games with others, so she just said, "Name."
He curled his lips and said with disdain: "Yi Zhong, I am at the seventh level of Lingji."
Tao Zi said calmly: "Eliminated, you can leave now."
Yi Zhong's expression changed, and he asked, "Why?"
She stared at him and said, "Yi Zhong's name has long been famous, and Yi San Men can't afford to take it away."
His expression was unpredictable. "If I remember correctly, this level tests your character. The guy who killed my master before me passed it, so why can't I?"
Tao Zi looked at his stubborn expression and said, "You rebelled against the Ghost Sect one hundred and fifty years ago, massacred an entire village a hundred years ago, and massacred an entire sect fifty years ago. The Yisan Sect is too small to accommodate you."
Yi Zhong's gaze on her suddenly became extremely sinister: "Do you recognize me?"
"I was lucky enough to see you from afar." Tao Zi paused, then said, "You have five minutes to leave, or I'll take action."
Yi Zhong sneered, and the surrounding yin energy became strong, and many cultivators immediately dispersed.
Tao Zi remained calm and said, "Since you refuse to leave, I will clean up the Ghost Sect."
The little ghost laughed twice in her sea of consciousness and only sent out a small army to surround Yi Zhong.
His expression grew greedy, and he laughed heartily, saying, "Are these the ghosts of legend? If you dare to show them to me, I will take them!"
Yi Zhong moved his fingers, and a few faint threads entangled the ghosts.
Tao Zi sighed lightly, and those ghosts attacked together, filling the sky with gloomy energy.
Yi Zhong's face changed drastically. Ordinary ghosts will lose their ability to attack after being connected by his Yin line. What's going on with these ghosts?
He gritted his teeth, immediately gave up controlling the ghosts, and tried to block the attacks, but in the end he couldn't even block a single move and fell to the ground.
Under the absolute suppression of strength, there is no need for those fancy moves, and the enemy can be defeated with just one move.
Tao Zi took a step forward and directly plundered Yi Zhong's life force. The little ghost followed closely behind and took the ghost in Yi Zhong's sea of consciousness for himself, and burped with satisfaction.
She looked at the corpse on the ground and sighed in her heart, thinking back to a hundred and fifty years ago, when their relationship was still pretty good. Even after he betrayed the Ghost Sect, they often met for drinks. It was not until the village massacre happened a hundred years ago that they stopped seeing each other.
People only know that he massacred a village, but they don’t know that the village was his hometown. They also don’t know that he not only massacred the village, but also killed his wife and children, and the cause of all this was the devil in his heart.
Before that incident happened, she received a strange message from him: Kill me.
She didn't know why at the time, but later when she learned that he had fallen into the devil's way due to his inner demons, she couldn't find him. It seemed that when he sent that message was one of the few times when he was truly sober.
Seeing that Yi Zhong didn't even have the chance to use his ghost, the other cultivators quieted down a lot.
Her expression was calm, even with a hint of a smile, as she said, "Everyone, rest assured. Yisan Sect is here to recruit people, not to eliminate evil. If there are any unqualified people, they can just leave. But if you don't know what's good for you, don't blame me for taking action."
Everyone responded in unison, and everything went smoothly afterwards. Even when Tao Zi asked them to open their sea of consciousness so she could investigate, no one dared to object. At most, they would give up and leave.
After she had screened them, Hua Monk set up a heart formation to investigate again, and finally only about twenty monks were left.
After selecting ten ghost cultivators with outstanding strength and five ghost cultivators with weak strength but still young age from these twenty or so people, she stopped accepting anyone else.
Tao Zi asked Xi Jing to take out spirit stones and magic tools as gifts for those cultivators who were not selected - never underestimate the poverty of independent cultivators, and never underestimate their abilities.
Those cultivators were easy to talk to. They took the gifts and left. Of course, the main reason was that Tao Zi was very powerful and had a Nascent Soul in charge, otherwise this matter would not be so easy.
After those people left, Xu Chengcheng took the initiative to speak: "Don't I have to go through the heart formation?"
The Heart Formation is a Buddhist formation used to test the mind and character of monks. Simply put, monks with poor mind and bad character cannot pass it.
Tao Zi smiled and said, "You don't have to. Everyone go and rest first. I have other things to do."
Those monks were all very obedient and agreed one by one, but she still asked her brother to keep an eye on them secretly. After all, at least half of these people were proficient in saying one thing to one person and another thing to another person. Who knows what they will be like when no one is watching.
The Flower Monk whispered, "Fellow Daoist Tao, what should we do with the body on the ground?"
Tao Zi took one last look and said, "Find a place and bury it casually."
The physical cultivators were easy to deal with. It didn't take long to select people. Basically, those who had enough strength could also pass the mental formation. But generally speaking, only five physical cultivators were recruited.
After all, the number of physical cultivators is relatively small, and even fewer who are not injured can be saved, let alone those who have to pass the heart formation.
That night, the little ghost suddenly let out a spitting sound and said, "That ghost cultivator today was truly filthy garbage, and the ghosts he raised were truly unpalatable. If I were a human, I'd probably have a stomachache."
Tao Zi burst out laughing and said, "There's nothing we can do. He's possessed by a demon in his heart, so it's normal for him to behave like a jerk."
Faintly, she seemed to hear her inner demon sneer.
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