Ji Yuan stared at Lu Yao thoughtfully. The evil master Ji Yan beside him watched his movements and followed his gaze. When he realized who Lu Yao was looking at, he couldn't help but raise his eyebrows and asked, "What are you looking at him for?"
Lu Yao on the other end didn't notice their gazes at all, and was still staring intently at Hua Shi's name on the screen.
Lu Yao was always cautious, and seldom would he be so focused that he forgot to observe the surroundings. Ji Yuan remained silent and did not answer Ji Yan's question, but Ji Yan had already understood from Lu Yao's expression. He then followed Lu Yao's gaze and looked at the light curtain above the statue. After seeing it, he immediately asked curiously, "Who is Hua Shi?"
Who is Hua Shi?
Not only Ji Yan didn't know the answer to this question, but even Ji Yuan didn't know the answer either. He expressionlessly turned his gaze away from Lu Yao and the light screen, and said to his subordinates behind him, "Go check something for me."
He paused, and waited until his subordinates came over before he continued to order in a low voice: "Look into the matter of that Young Master Hua Shi."
The subordinate quickly responded and left, but Ji Yuan continued to watch the situation in the meeting room without changing his expression.
At this time, three days had passed since the start of the Soul Transformation Conference. Although the riot in the Spirit Realm affected many people, the Soul Transformation Conference continued smoothly after the riot was resolved. At this time, many disciples had found their bonded spirit beasts and returned from the Spirit Realm. They were now talking to their teachers or fellow disciples in their respective sects.
The venue was still lively, and Ji Yan was also observing, but he was obviously still thinking about what happened just now: "I have heard of the young master of the Hua family, but he seems to be just a playful young master who is ignorant of the world. There is nothing special about him."
After looking at Ji Yuan's expression, Ji Yan continued, "Was Lu Yao really looking at his name just now? Or was he just staring at the name in a daze?"
Ji Yuan frowned as he listened to his words, and after a while he said, "Let's check first."
Although it is unclear whether there is something wrong with the young master of the Hua family, it is certain that there is something wrong with Lu Yao. Since coming out of the Spirit Realm, Lu Yao has obviously changed a lot. Ji Yuan would not believe it if he said that nothing happened in the Spirit Realm.
When the two of them were talking to this point, some people came out from the gate of the Spirit Realm. This time, they were disciples from Tianwen Mountain and several disciples from Fengyu Palace. The disciples from both sides seemed to have some grudges against each other, but compared to before they entered the Spirit Realm, the relationship seemed to have eased a little.
Ji Yan glanced at the situation over there, then turned back and whispered to Ji Yuan, "Should we start selecting people?"
Ji Yuan lowered his eyes and said, "The Spiritual Transformation Conference usually ends on the fifth day, and most of the disciples can come back. However, from the third day onwards, each sect can start selecting disciples from those who have returned from the Spirit Realm."
Calculating the time, it’s about now.
The rest of the people in Lingdao have already started to prepare, and the leaders of most sects have also returned to the podium, but there are still two seats left vacant. The two people who were unable to arrive because of a fight on the way, namely the Master of Poxuezhai and the Master of Xuanling Pavilion, have not arrived yet.
Ji Yuan's eyes swept across the two empty seats without leaving much to say. Ji Yan, holding a fan, looked at them and couldn't help laughing: "Those two people have been fighting for three days and there is still no winner? Can we still catch up and recruit them?"
Ji Yuan glanced at Ji Yan coldly: "Don't worry about other things."
Ji Yan shrugged helplessly, not knowing who looked over first.
There was no time for further chit-chat. After the disciples left the Spirit Realm one after another, it was finally time for the major sects to select their disciples. Just like in previous years, there was no suspense. All the disciples of the Wind and Rain Palace chose to stay in the Palace. No one in the Spiritual Realm would compete for them, and they had no intention of choosing the Spiritual Realm.
After the evil disciples made their choices, the spiritual disciples also began to make their choices one after another.
However, the most important moment has not yet begun. Although most people in the square are looking at the disciples in front of them, their minds are still on the gate of the spiritual realm, because the disciples who have returned now are only those who have signed contracts with fifth- and sixth-level spiritual creatures. The disciples who are truly gifted and have great opportunities are still in the spiritual realm and have not come out.
The ceremony for selecting disciples for each major sect lasted for two days. During these two days, disciples continued to return from the Spirit Realm, and each time they returned, they chose the sect they wanted to go to.
But perhaps because most of the disciples in this session have mediocre qualifications and there are no outstanding people, so in the past two days, only about ten masters from the major sects have selected disciples of their choice, while the sect masters and elders have always sat safely on the high platform, without any intention of selecting anyone.
Ji Yan couldn't sit still for a long time, and couldn't help but turn sideways to ask Ji Yuan: "Those old foxes were not polite at all when they snatched people in the past. What does it mean that they didn't make any moves this time? Do you think they will take it this time? Could it be that they have already picked the good ones this time, and are waiting to snatch the people at the last minute?"
Ji Yuan didn't want to pay much attention to Ji Yan, so he sat there with his eyes closed to rest.
Ji Yan nudged his arm with her elbow and insisted, "Tell me, you definitely know, right?"
Ji Yan refused to let Ji Yuan have some peace and kept asking questions. Ji Yuan was annoyed and finally frowned and said, "Two."
Staring at Ji Yuan with a smile in his eyes, Ji Yan asked curiously: "What do you mean?"
Ji Yuan said calmly, "There should be two disciples that the major sects are eyeing this time. One is Zhou Li, a disciple of the Zhou family, one of the three great families. He is one of the younger people participating in the Spiritual Transformation Conference this year, but he has great talent. The Zhou family has spared no effort to train him, so he has the strength of the upper realm of Red Devils at a young age. He was also lucky in this Spiritual Transformation Conference and formed a contract with a seventh-level spiritual creature, so he should be one of the targets that everyone is fighting for this time."
Ji Yan said "Oh" and turned to look for him in the crowd. When he found that Zhou Li had not returned from the Spirit Realm, he asked, "What about the other one?"
"There is another disciple named Yu Xing. She was originally the daughter of the Lord of Shuiyun City, but she entered Hanxi Sect as an outer disciple. Her strength is one realm higher than Zhou Li's. She should be the best among the young disciples in the entire Xuanqing Continent." Ji Yuan paused for a moment, and thought of something else. He continued, "Before the Spiritual Transformation Conference, this person had already formed a bond with an eighth-level spiritual creature by chance. This time when she entered the Spirit Realm, she formed a bond with a ninth-level spiritual creature. Her strength is beyond the reach of most of the new disciples of various sects. What's more, she is so young. If nothing unexpected happens in the future, she may very well be the next..."
At this point, Ji Yuan suddenly stopped talking for some reason. Ji Yan stared at his expression for a long while, and couldn't help but asked tentatively: "Next Liu Qishuang?"
If we say that there are not many young men with such talent and intelligence in the entire Xuanqing Continent, Liu Qishuang back then could be counted as one of them.
But as soon as he said this, Ji Yuan glared at him and said in a bad tone: "Don't mention him."
Ji Yan spread his hands, having long been accustomed to Ji Yuan's attitude, and asked with a half-smile: "Do you think that Yu Xing can't be compared with him, or do you think I am not worthy of mentioning his name?"
Ji Yuan had shut up at this point and was no longer talking. He was obviously regretting having communicated so much with Ji Yan.
Ji Yan, however, seemed to be fine. She covered half of her face with her folding fan, revealing only her smiling eyes as she looked at the situations in various places on the square: "Then let me see how these two disciples are doing, and then see how those old guys are going to snatch people away."
Coincidentally, at the same time he said this, there was movement again in the gate of the spiritual realm, and then a woman in white walked out.
The female disciple was only a girl of seventeen or eighteen years old, wearing the white Hanxi Sect disciple uniform. Her features were not stunning, but pretty and clean. Unlike the aloof genius girl that Ji Yan had imagined, this girl walked out of the Spirit Realm gate together with several other disciples. She was talking and laughing in a low voice with the people around her, and the word aloof had nothing to do with her.
Ji Yan was really surprised this time. After staring at the girl for a long time, he couldn't help but raised the corners of his lips and smiled.
People in the entire square were waiting for the real battle between the major sects to begin, and the battle finally began when the disciple named Yu Xing returned from the Spirit Realm.
The square suddenly became lively, and Zhou Li and others who walked out of the spiritual realm after Yu Xing made the whole scene even more lively.
The two most talented disciples of this Spirit Transformation Conference have already appeared, so there is no reason for everyone to be so nervous.
However, few people noticed that Zhou Li did not come back alone. Following him was a less conspicuous person named Hua Shi.
As soon as Hua Shi walked out of the gate of the Spirit Realm, he heard a lot of people screaming and cheering. He didn't know what had happened. He had not yet recovered from the feeling of weightlessness from crossing the Spirit Realm and the Xuanqing Continent. When he heard the sound, he thought that his contract with the tenth-level spiritual creature had been discovered. He was nervous for a while before he realized that he was not the focus of the crowd.
When he realized that people were looking at Zhou Li beside him and the short girl in front of him, he finally breathed a sigh of relief, left Zhou Li behind and quietly slipped out of the crowd, returned to his seat, drank a cup of tea, and ate the snacks and fruits prepared in advance by the servants who had been waiting there early.
The difficult exploration of the spirit realm was finally over. Hua Shi sat in a chair and ate, and felt that being surrounded by servants was indeed a safer and nostalgic feeling.
His thoughts were conveyed to Fang Wei through his consciousness without reservation. Fang Wei had already gotten used to how lazy this young master was, so he didn't react at all.
However, the evil spirit that had just taken residence in Hua Shi's soul was different. Although he could not hear what was in Hua Shi's heart like Fang Wei, Hua Shi's expression had almost exposed his thoughts. The evil spirit looked grim and almost wanted to jump out of Hua Shi's soul and strangle this unmotivated guy to death.
Fang Wei therefore had to devote some of her energy to appeasing the evil spirit, and it was only with great difficulty that she finally made him accept the fact that the person she had formed a bond with was just an unambitious little devil.
At this moment, the masters from various factions had already begun competing for Yu Xing and Zhou Li.
The masters of each sect were all people who valued talent, and faced with such a young genius, no one was willing to give in, especially the disciple named Yu Xing. Everyone was scrambling for it until they were almost red in the face, and there were even some slightly irritable old men who almost came to a fight. Hua Shi watched with great interest and even couldn't help asking his servants to bring some watermelons.
He watched as everyone argued for three hours before finally coming to a conclusion.
The final result was quite surprising. Zhou Li was still okay. After several sect leaders offered generous conditions, Zhou Li considered carefully and finally chose Hanxi Sect. This was not surprising, after all, Hanxi Sect was the number one sect in the spiritual world today.
But the most watched Yu Xing made an unexpected choice. She chose to join the Blood Crow Cult and become a disciple of the evil lord Ji Yan.
No spiritual disciple would choose an evil master, and Ji Yan did not participate in the fight for people. He just casually said when everyone was arguing, "Since you can't decide, why not let this disciple be my apprentice." Originally, no one took Ji Yan's words seriously, but Yu Xing took it seriously. In the end, despite everyone's obstruction, he worshipped Ji Yan as his master in public.
Yu Xing's behavior was beyond everyone's expectations, and the entire square fell silent. Even Hua Shi, who was eating melon, was shocked by the plot and stood there in a daze.
But the Spirit Transformation Conference has always had rules that no one can interfere with the final choices of the disciples. Since Yu Xing has chosen the Blood Crow Sect, no one can stop him.
So although the Lingdao sect masters present at the scene looked unhappy, they could no longer force Yuxing to change his mind, and in this gloomy and depressing atmosphere, the servants reminded Hua Shi, who was still in a daze, that it was his turn to go forward and choose the sect he wanted to join.
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