The elder was able to say this entirely because of the strength that Fu Ziyi had just displayed, that he was able to stand up to Yu Ze.
Elder Zisang thought for a moment and said, "Isn't the academy preparing for a grand competition recently? Let them go up on stage to compete and enter the inner sect. If someone chooses them, they can become the personal disciples of an inner sect elder. If not, they can just be ordinary inner sect disciples."
The elder choked. If the outer disciples heard Elder Zisang's words, they would probably vomit blood. The inner disciples were being made to look like cabbages by him.
Xu Yuehuai and the others were temporarily settled in the guest courtyard. Each courtyard could accommodate two people, and Xu Yuehuai and Ji Yuanchi stayed together.
Fu Ziyi and Baili Xiuwen shared a room. Pu Erge glanced at the other two people, and they immediately huddled together and headed to another room.
While resting in the room, Elder Zisang observed Xu Tian's condition. Thanks to timely treatment, Xu Tian was out of danger, and Elder Zisang breathed a sigh of relief, having managed to save someone.
Before long, the disciples who went out to search for the other person returned. Several disciples went out carrying an unknown number of light orbs, and when they returned, they were all dimmed. One or two of them had inhaled some miasma. One of them was the Grand Elder's personal disciple, whom the disciples of the academy called Senior Sister.
The senior sister, dressed in a light blue outfit with the academy's insignia, said, "Elder Zisang, we've found that person."
The eldest sister's tone was complicated, and she stammered. Upon hearing this, Elder Zisang had a guess in her mind. "When we found him, he had already passed away. We brought the body back. Do you want to go and see for yourself if this is the person?"
Elder Zisang nodded, and the eldest sister led him to the back courtyard. There was a corpse in the courtyard, its face pale, much paler than Xu Tian's, and its lips had turned completely black.
There was no breathing, no heartbeat. Elder Zisang felt a pang of frustration. He turned to his eldest sister and said, "Find someone to bury him."
After saying that, Elder Zisang left without looking back.
The disciples behind him, not understanding why he had such an expression, leaned closer to their senior sister and asked, "Senior sister, why does Elder Zisang look so grim? It's just the death of an unimportant disciple, is it really necessary to act like this?"
The eldest senior sister, Ji Yaocen, was a beauty. She pursed her lips and frowned slightly. "In recent years, our Qingtao Valley has become the last among the seven major sects. This has made the elders and sect leader rack their brains to improve the sect. However, the disciples recruited over the years have all been mediocre. The disciples brought up from the third floor this time can be considered a scheme or a gamble orchestrated by Elder Zisang and the sect leader."
"Gambling? Why?" the junior brother asked, puzzled.
"They're betting on whether these former prodigies from the third level can still be prodigies after coming to a better environment." Ji Yaocen finished speaking and turned to leave, leaving her junior brothers and sisters to ponder.
She first returned to the Grand Elder's mountain to report the situation. After learning about this, the Grand Elder's expression did not change. "Master, don't you think it's a pity?"
Ji Yaocen and the Grand Elder had a good relationship and were like friends in private. The Grand Elder fiddled with the flowers on the table and said slowly, "You've made it clear that the person sought his own death. What can I say? Such a person is not worth dying for. I don't know how that old man Zisangyi chose such a person."
The elder's tone carried a hint of disdain, and Ji Yaocen chuckled upon hearing this, "In that case, what Master said isn't entirely unreasonable."
"Where are the rest?" The First Elder had a habit of speaking in half-truths, leaving the other half unsaid, so that people could guess her meaning during the conversation.
Ji Yaocen was already used to it. She replied, "They've been placed in a guest room in the outer courtyard. Does Master want to see them? I'll go and bring them over right away."
Ji Yaocen was about to leave in a hurry when the First Elder stopped her, saying, "No need. You should entertain them these days. The guests have come from afar, and we can't let people think we've neglected them. As the senior sister of the valley, you should take care of the future junior brothers and sisters."
Ji Yaocen didn't understand the deeper meaning behind the elder's words. At this time, doing as she said would be the right thing to do. Ji Yaocen agreed and turned to leave the room.
Xu Yuehuai continued meditating in the room, each time feeling a small thing wreaking havoc in her dantian. She tried to capture it with her spiritual power, but the result was disappointing, and every time she used her spiritual power on it, it was completely absorbed.
She found it strange and felt a little resentful. She started to fight against the thing, constantly using her spiritual power to capture it from all around. The final result was obvious: not only did she fail to catch the little creature, but she also fed it and it grew quite a bit bigger.
When Ji Yaocen arrived, she brought a lot of things, all of them cultivation resources. She distributed them as instructed. Ji Yuanchi looked at these things she had never seen before with curiosity. "Senior Sister, are these all for us? What is our position in the sect?"
This was something that Ji Yuanchi was curious about. They had been here for at least half a day, but there had been no movement at all.
Ji Yaocen hesitated, as she wasn't entirely clear on the matter herself, but she had heard the Grand Elder mention it briefly: "In half a month, our sect will hold a sect competition, and you will all participate. What kind of treatment you can secure for yourselves will depend on your performance in the sect competition."
Upon hearing this, someone began to complain, "We've only just arrived, why should we participate in the sect competition with you? They've all cultivated for countless years, how can we compare to them?"
Fu Zi also disliked these words. He glanced at the man indifferently as he spoke, then immediately looked away with disdain.
Ji Yaocen didn't understand the arrangements made above, but the tone of her junior brother's voice made her uncomfortable. "Weren't you all cultivating every day when you were on the third floor? Why is it that here we are the only ones cultivating?"
Li Cheng stopped abruptly. He dared not look into Ji Yaocen's eyes. Before they came here, they also thought they were geniuses among thousands. But when Xiao Qian told them on the way, their cultivation level was not even as high as the lowest level here.
For a moment, Li Cheng felt that all his years of hard work and cultivation had been a joke.
Ji Yaocen was unaware of Li Cheng's inner thoughts. Seeing that he remained silent, she skipped over the matter and began to talk about what was going on next, "In order to help you understand this place as soon as possible, I have given you tokens to go to the library, one for each of you. These tokens must be returned to me after the sect competition is over."
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