Chapter 118 - Selection (1/2)
As per the general rule of Xianxia novels, a fight must happen every second day to make the story interesting. Even if the protagonist fell asleep at the bottom of a glacier, a scuba knight would probably appear and attempt to kill them with a trident.
Today, Simon had very little to do, blue was finally reaching the breakthrough point of Core Formation, quickly pushing herself towards the fabled realm of Nascent Soul. At this point, Simon started to understand why Xianxia novels get boring after a few hundred chapters. He came to realise that slow leveling with random techniques and stereotypical plot devices get boring after a while.
'Perhaps if my next novel shifted back to a more modern setting, it would be a better read. Even after all of this time, I still need to improve.' Simon noted down his thoughts in a notebook, discarding it in his spatial storage afterwards,
”Grey, I think I'm gonna break through soon.” Blue slowly walked into the living room and placed her hand on the wall, huffing and puffing heavily.
”Cool.” Simon sat on the couch and laid back until he was at a comfortable resting position. He did not really care too much, he just wanted to leave by the next day.
Progress is the only thing that speaks. If they can't progress, then there will be nothing to do. Unless Simon wants to take up fishing or botany, he would slowly crumble into a state of boredom induced madness.
”I'm going to go out again soon, just hurry up and break through so we can leave tomorrow, okay?” Simon rolled off the couch and stood up slowly. It was midday and there was nothing much to do inside the condo, see he decided it would be a good idea to go talent hunting. It just so happened hat the trials were going to take place within the next hour, so he thought maybe this was a good chance.
”Hey, before yo-”
Simon disappeared again without a trace and arrived at the patriarch's home.
”!!!” The guards flinched and jumped back slightly, before bowing and opening the door.
”Please enter, Venerable Hui.” One of them said while bowing his head.
”Ah! Brother Hui, I see you have come again after our last meeting. I take it that your companion is about to reach Nascent Soul?” Wu Zhong smiled and poured a hot cup of tea, sliding it over to Simon's side of the table.
”My companion is but a few hours away from breaking through.” Simon day down and took the cup of tea with his left hand.
”Brother Wu, I have come here today to ask for some help in recruiting more disciples. Since I am to become an elder in the Divine Tempest Sect, shouldn't I have the right to select talents from this batch of trial runners?” Simon sipped from the cup, calmly stating his request.
”Only that? If you d.e.s.i.r.e it, you can have the whole lot of them! The Divine Tempest Sect treats its elders well, we will make sure that you feel pride in being an elder of our sect. Just a few no-name kids that have to rely on medicinal pills to breakthrough? You can have them and all the geniuses recruited this year! Just ask and I will do my best to get it for you.” Wu Zhong laughed and banged his fists on the table, somehow not breaking it.
”Are there any applicants this year that have sparked any interest from brother Wu? I d.e.s.i.r.e your advice in this aspect of recruitment, my eye for talent is not so refined. I only believe that the student can only be as strong as the teacher, so I do take talent into account very often.”
”Brother Hui, I have only found one applicant to be of any interest in this entire batch. Her name is Yao Xue, the most beautiful and talented applicant that We've received in the last century. I can hand her over straight under your care right now if you wish.”
”How about the most useless trash, someone that has worked very very hard to get here.” Simon seemed disinterested.
'Yao Xue? A princess which I ended up giving the ice queen personality archetype to. In any case, best to stay away from her.'
”Hmmm…” Wu Zhong scratched his chin as he pondered on Simon's specifications.