When Eunuch Li announced the new selection rules in the square, all the candidates were immediately thrown into an uproar. They were filled with confusion and bewilderment, because the selection criteria had always been based on age, cultivation, and talent. Why would the rules suddenly change now?
In the past, even if some women were not particularly good-looking, or even ugly, as long as they demonstrated sufficient cultivation and talent, they still had a chance to be selected. However, the new requirements for appearance have been added to the rules, which undoubtedly makes those unattractive women feel the world's deep malice towards them.
In addition, some candidates were actually spies sent by other sects or empires. In order to avoid attracting the attention of the Wei State, these forces deliberately chose women with ordinary or even ugly appearance to participate in the selection of Wei State palace maids.
Their cultivation wasn't particularly high, and they had originally held out a glimmer of hope, believing they might be able to infiltrate the Wei Imperial Palace with their own abilities and thereby steal important intelligence. However, with the change in the rules, they completely lost this opportunity, and their plans were thus thwarted.
In the past, these women with ordinary or even ugly looks might have been able to win the sympathy of others by telling their tragic stories, making themselves stand out from the crowd and making the Wei officials in charge of the selection feel pity, thus winning themselves a precious opportunity to be selected.
However, as appearance becomes a rigid standard, their "tragic stories" that once moved people no longer seem to be so effective, and they can only quietly withdraw from the competition stage.
You must know that other sects and empires are also well aware that if a woman is not only gifted and has a high level of cultivation but also has an outstanding appearance, then she will definitely attract great attention from the Wei Imperial Palace and become the object of suspicion.
After all, there are very few women in the world who can meet these three conditions at the same time. How could these forces easily send such people to carry out undercover missions?
In reality, women who met all three of these conditions were often the daughters of prominent and powerful families within these factions. How could they easily risk their lives? Even if such women were discovered among the common people, they would often be secretly monitored by the various factions, making it difficult for them to escape their control.
The rulers of each major power are well aware of the importance of excellent genes to their offspring. Therefore, outstanding women found among ordinary people are often incorporated into the power in advance and become concubines of the top leaders of the power, or become the wives of young men in these forces.
They would never allow such women to go to Wei State to serve as spies, because their value far exceeded their use as spies.
Only those young and beautiful women who are unwilling to succumb to the arrangements of power and influence will choose a more difficult path and secretly go to the Wei Palace to participate in the selection there, hoping to change their destiny through their own efforts.
However, the emergence of new rules for selecting palace maids in the Wei Kingdom gave these women who refused to submit to the clans and large families an opportunity to show themselves. In the eyes of other countries and clans, their appearance might be considered a disadvantage, but under the new rules of the Wei Kingdom, their appearance became their asset to stand out.
You have to know that those women with profound cultivation, extraordinary talents, and beautiful appearances have often been divided up by various factions long ago, and they will not appear at the selection site of the Wei Imperial Palace. This also gives them an opportunity to win a place in the Wei Imperial Palace with their own strength and appearance.
Under the new rules, these women, though beautiful in appearance, but not outstanding in cultivation and talent, had the opportunity to enter the selection list of the Wei Imperial Palace. This made them full of gratitude to the Wei Emperor, because this was also an opportunity to change their destiny.
Many representatives of the factions who had come to watch the selection were now pale with anger. They had witnessed the rapid development of the Wei State and had originally planned to gain intelligence by planting spies, attempting to steal some important confidential information.
However, what they didn't expect was that the Emperor of Wei was so cunning. He had already anticipated the intentions of these forces and cleverly used the new rules to cut off their retreat, making their carefully planned plans come to nothing.
This series of actions made these forces even more wary of the Emperor of Wei. They deeply realized that the current Emperor of Wei was not only extremely wise, but also had an extremely accurate grasp of people's hearts. However, these forces did not give up and began to seek new ways to resist the rise of Wei.
Chu Fan was unaware of these circumstances. He simply hoped that every day he would see beautiful young ladies to cheer him up. Chu Fan had never anticipated that this simple wish would trigger a series of chain reactions, inadvertently consolidating the security of the Wei Kingdom.
At the selection site, despite possessing high cultivation and outstanding talent, many women were not selected due to their ordinary appearance. Those women who were originally looked down upon by major forces and families were already despairing.
They originally thought that they could change their fate through this selection, but the newly established rules made them still ignored in the Wei State, and their fate did not seem to have changed.
They stood helplessly in the crowd, their eyes confused and tears welling up in their eyes. Waves of sadness and helplessness surged in their hearts, as if the door of fate was once again closed in front of them.
Some women even sat on the ground and began to cry, their tears soaking their clothes. They looked at the lucky ones who were chosen, their hearts filled with envy and resentment. Their hearts were filled with complex emotions, both longing for the future and helplessness about the reality.
As for the women who were originally sent here by other forces to perform surveillance and intelligence gathering, their hearts were now filled with panic and anxiety.
In their respective factions, their status was not high, and it could even be said that they were not valued. Otherwise, they would not have been sent to carry out such a dangerous mission.
You have to know that there are already so many warriors with high martial arts skills in the Wei Palace. Even if they can become palace maids and enter the Wei Palace, their fate will be disastrous if they are found to be suspicious.
Now, because they have failed to play the last bit of expected value, they also realize that once they return to their own forces, they will be treated with even greater indifference and alienation. Their fate seems to be doomed to face the tragic situation of being completely abandoned.
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