There was a constant flow of people, including Wu Shaoqi, Yao Bingyu, Wu Dong, several other direct disciples, and Elder Xin Lan and his group.
"There are more people who want to join the sect this year than last year, but their qualifications vary." Xin Lan looked around and spoke.
"In the two years before the ten-year sect ranking competition, the requirements of each sect and school will be appropriately lowered. There are always people who want to try their luck." Udon said with a smile.
Xin Lan glanced at her but said nothing.
Wu Dong joined the Wan Huang Sect the year before the last ten-year competition.
Moreover, she was one of the people she mentioned who tried their luck.
Her aptitude was actually average. If she hadn't had the opportunity to change her aptitude later, she would probably still be just a menial disciple of the Wanhuang Sect, or at most an outer sect disciple.
Speaking of this, Wu Dong sighed, looking at the young people hurrying back and forth on the twenty-meter-wide street, wondering how many of these people who came to Baizong City could be enrolled in a sect? Although there are now a hundred ranked sects, which sounds like a lot, the number of disciples recruited each year is actually just over ten thousand.
Accepting disciples is not just a matter of just accepting them. After entering the sect, they need money for food, drink, defecation and urination, and subsidies for training resources also cost money. You can't just accept them with a wave of your hand, but if you can't afford to support them, it would be embarrassing.
Therefore, each sect has a limit on the number of disciples it can accept.
Some sects that pursue the elite route recruit even fewer disciples each year. Sometimes they cannot find disciples with good qualifications and simply refuse to accept them.
For example, the Green Light Sword Sect, which ranks fifth, takes the elite route. It accepted only three disciples last year and the year before last. The year before last, it did not accept any disciples because it did not find anyone with suitable qualifications.
There are many people who want to join the Green Light Sword Sect, but there are few people ranked high, which means that there will be more training resources available.
However, these have little to do with Xin Lan and the others. Their Wanhuang Sect is not yet famous enough for everyone to join.
The criteria for recruiting disciples are also focused on female disciples, which is quite restrictive.
"Fourth Elder, how many disciples will our Wanhuang Sect recruit this time?" asked a direct disciple.
Last year, Wanhuang Sect recruited about two hundred disciples. Most of these two hundred people are now in the outer sect, a small number are in the inner sect, and only one person has become a direct disciple, and she is the fellow sister who is questioning this direct disciple.
However, this time both she and her junior sister were taught the art of refining the soul. When they set out, her junior sister was still in seclusion.
Not all of the seventeen direct disciples who had been in seclusion to practice the Soul Refining Technique have come out.
Thinking of this, the direct disciple could not help but glance at Wu Shaoqi, feeling a little doubtful. She had actually expected that several other direct disciples had come out of retreat, but Wu Shaoqi had also come out, which was a bit beyond her expectations. She now doubted whether Wu Shaoqi had not practiced at all.
But there is no point in thinking too much. Whether Wu Shaoqi has practiced or not, it actually has little to do with them.
Although Wu Shaoqi was a direct disciple, many of his direct disciples did not regard him as a real direct disciple.
In the eyes of many people, Wu Shaoqi became a direct disciple because he was lucky and had been raised by the master since he was a child, which made the master accept him as his direct disciple.
It's a pity that Wu Shaoqi is not up to the task. He has never been short of resources for cultivation, but he grew up in the Wanhuang Sect since he was a child, and now it seems that he has not even reached the first level.
Thinking of this, the disciple shook his head slightly.
"It's about the same as last year." Xin Lan pondered for a moment and spoke.
This is what the elders came up with after discussing it together.
At the beginning, everyone wanted to accept more disciples, and they were willing to lower some of the qualification requirements for this purpose.
But the day before departure, the five elders discussed it again and finally decided to do the same as in previous years.
Since the Wanhuang Sect wants to gain a ranking, relying on the number of disciples is useless.
Instead of lowering the requirements to accept some disciples with poor qualifications, which will also cost a lot of resources after they are accepted into the sect, it is better to use the original resources on disciples with better qualifications.
Increasing high-end combat power is much better than accepting a large number of disciples with poor qualifications.
To put it more bluntly, a high-level cultivator can kill dozens of middle-level cultivators with one sword strike, but if dozens of middle-level cultivators surround and kill a high-level cultivator, there is a great possibility that they will counterattack. Even if the counterattack fails, it is not difficult to kill a few and escape.
Hearing Xin Lan's words, several of his disciples nodded.
This can be used to determine where the Wanhuang Sect’s goal will be for next year’s sect ranking competition.
In fact, with the Soul Refining Technique, everyone felt that the Wanhuang Sect's ranking in next year's sect ranking competition would definitely rise. As for how much it would rise and what target the elders had set, that was not very clear.
But now I heard from the Fourth Elder that the number of disciples recruited today is about the same as last year, which means he is not planning to fight for the top 20.
The disciples had all kinds of speculations in their minds, but Xin Lan didn't say much. He just looked at the disciples calmly.
"We're here." Xin Lan said when she saw a building with a sign that said "Phoenix" on it on the side of the street.
Several disciples looked over at the same time.
Some people have seen this building and some have not. For example, Wudong has seen it because she joined the Wanhuang Sect in Baizong City ten years ago. It is not surprising that she knows this building.
Among the disciples who came along this time, there was one other person who was the same as her. Apart from them, the others all came from other places to join the Wanhuang Sect.
For example, Wu Shaoqi was directly sent to the Wanhuang Sect as an orphan.
Another example is Yao Bingyu, who was brought back to the Wanhuang Sect directly after the leader of the Wanhuang Sect discovered her in a mortal country six years ago when he went down the mountain to travel.
Among the direct disciples, only a small number were recruited from the disciples accepted into the sect from Baizong City. Most of them were recruited by the peak masters and elders who went down the mountain themselves.
It's not that there are no good talents coming to Baizong City to become apprentices. In fact, there are quite a few good talents. However, those who can become direct disciples of Wanhuang Sect may also be able to become direct disciples if they go to a better sect. At worst, becoming an inner disciple will not be a problem.
At this time, the benefits of fame are reflected. These people are often more willing to join the sects with higher rankings as inner disciples, and they also feel that it is better than joining the Wanhuang Sect as a direct disciple.
There is a saying that it is better to be the head of a chicken than the tail of a phoenix, but this saying is not applicable in the world of cultivators.
The main reason is actually the upper limit problem.
The sects that are ranked lower are indeed valued, but the upper limit of their cultivation path is a fatal flaw.
Simply put, the upper limit of a large sect is the ninth grade, while the upper limit of an ordinary sect may be the eighth grade, and there may be as low as the sixth or seventh grade.
Since you have chosen to enter the world of cultivators, you must of course choose a sect with a higher upper limit.
If a monk doesn't have a broad mind, then he shouldn't be a monk.
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