Chapter 32 (1/2)
The trip to the Cang Lan Sect covered a distance of 10,000 miles. Even riding the Demonic Blood Steed which could travel 1000 miles per day, would still require almost half a month to reach the Cang Lan Sect.
On the highway, dozens of majestic Demonic Blood Steeds were galloping.
On the horseback were Chen Zongming, seven of the Cang Lan Sect's inner sect disciples, and 7 of the newly recruited disciples which included Shen Tu Liang.
The Shen Tu Clan, which is the city lord's clan is given an entry spot every 4 years and coincidentally, this year was the fourth year.
”Brother Zhan, how many disciples were recruited in the previous recruitment?”
Along the way, conversations were striked up time and time again, this time it was Yang Kai as he turned to ask Yang Zhan.
Yang Zhan replied, ”Tons, nearly 10,000.”
”10 thousand?” Yang Kai gasped, ”Is there so many cities under the Cang Lan region?”
Yang Lie who rode beside Yang Zhan explained, ”Our Yunwu City is a small city, with only a population of 1 million for the entire region. Some of the other large cities have up to 10 million citizens within their region and have 10 or 20 entry spots. Other than those, within the Cang Lan region there are plenty of Martial Inst.i.tutions that are responsible for grooming talents for the sect.”
”Martial Inst.i.tution!”
Li Fuchen have heard of Martial Inst.i.tutions before. In Yingfeng City's region, there is the Yingcai Martial Inst.i.tution, which is just a little over a hundred miles away from Yunwu City.
Martial Inst.i.tutions mainly recruited ordinary civilians with the occasional major or minor clansmen. In fact, Martial Inst.i.tutions were a good option due its compet.i.tive environment, as it could help inspire one's fighting spirit.
But entry spots for Martial Inst.i.tutes were tougher to obtain than entrance to the genius contests of the cities. In Yunwu City, the partic.i.p.ants for the genius contest was around 100. But the partic.i.p.ants for the genius contests within the Martial Inst.i.tutes amounted in a far higher number…
Other than that, the compet.i.tion within the Martial Inst.i.tutes were harsh. Civilians from different cities gathered at the inst.i.tute to change their destiny and were exceptionally hard working. Most of the clansmen that entered were overshadowed easily due to their different upbringing.
Of course, there were still plenty of clansmen who chose to enter the Martial Inst.i.tute to harden themselves.
At this time, the outer sect elder Chen Zongming interrupted, ”There are less Martial Inst.i.tutes than cities, at around the ratio of 1:5. You people may have good talent, but in terms of combat skills, none of you may even be ranked top 10 at an inst.i.tute. Thus, after entering the sect, don't a.s.sume you are able to rise straight to the top. Without effort, you will still be left out and fall to the bottom.”
After the conversation, n.o.body treated that information with regards. After all, n.o.body wanted to admit to themselves that they were worse off than others, especially when one was from a major clan.
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Arriving at Yingfeng City…
Yar! Yar!
On the s.p.a.cious highway, two groups of hors.e.m.e.n converged.
”Elder Chen, what a coincidence!”
The one who spoke was a veteran riding on a black Demonic Blood Steed. Behind him were a group of Origin Realm experts and 20 youths of both genders.
”Elder Liu, greetings.” Chen Zongming gave a smile.
Elder Liu's name was Liu Fangtao, he too was an outer sect elder.
”Elder Chen, did your trip to Yunwu City uncover any gems?” Li Fangtao sized up Yang Kai and the bunch, then nodded with approval. He knew how to do bone reading, he could make out that Yang Kai and Zhu Hongxiu had exceptional bone frames. But once his gaze fell upon Li Fuchen, he let out a sigh as he realized Li Fuchen's bone frame was just normal and couldn't fathom how he obtained the qualification to enter the Cang Lan Sect.
”There are two 3 star bone frames, the rest are average and not worth mentioning.” In the eyes of Chen Zongming, he couldn't be bothered with all of them except for Yang Kai and Zhu Hongxiu. The fact was that, if Zhu Hongxiu and Yang Kai didn't make top 5, he would make an exception to recruit both of them.
”Two 3 star bone frames? Congratulations Elder Chen, I too only have five 3 star bone frames.” Li Fangtao threw a look over the youths behind him.
Chen Zongming was slightly moved, ”Elder Liu sure is humble, five 3 star bone frames is plenty enough.”