214 Chapter 214 (1/2)

She was apparently a candidate for an elder. This role became available after you reached the late stage of foundation establishment. In the lesser clans, this was already enough to be its leader. Here at most you would be allowed to be the lowest ranking senior. In the future core formation practitioners and up would only be allowed as elders. They still didn't have enough people for that jump.

He could see that Lan Fei took his advice to heart and was now using a whip weapon. She did have talent in that as well as high potential. This wasn't that important though, there were other thoughts going through his head.

'Uh… will Liena be angry if she meets a girl that I've been with before?'

He was a married man and already had kids. Normally having an ex-girlfriend wasn't a big deal but he wasn't sure how his lovely wife would react to this news. He didn't want to lie to her but he also didn't want to bring this information out into the open either.

”Oh interested in that one, Dong'er?”

Zhang Jin called out while glancing at the monitor that had the elder candidates in it. He had a somewhat similar face to Zhang Dong in his younger form but was slightly shorter.

”Gramps… keep it in the pants… you can't be doing this with our sect members. Think about your position...”

Zhang Dong wanted to give his grandfather a smack to the face. Ever since he got his hands on this transformation technique rumors started spreading. Some people even confused the old fart with him which got him in hot water with his wife. Luckily he only had to pull the old pervert over for an explanation and it ended at that. His wife trusted him enough and didn't make a fuss.

'Think I'm worrying too much…'

He thought to his child and to his wife. They had grown more fond of each other through the years and even started calling each other cute names. He was the hubby and she was the wifey.

”What, want her all for yourself?”

Zhang Dong narrowed his eyes and moved his fist up into the air. Zhang Jin just started laughing as he ran away acting as if he was a teenager.

”Anyway… Is everything proceeding as planned? Were there any issues with the artifacts?”

He asked while turning to the other sect members in the room. Everyone here was already used to how the sect leader and his grandfather interacted and were relaxed around the two. One of the people moved forward with some papers and started giving a report.

Zhang Dong nodded at the report, the sect member even mentioned a couple of people by name that were quite promising. He was only interested in the ceremony that was going to be held after they gathered the disciples as he had to make a speech. He had kind of grown accustomed to things like this by now but that didn't mean that he liked to do it.

The way this sect was handled was a bit unconventional. First, every disciple was required to take classes on things like reading and ethics. They had created large buildings that were similar to how schools back in his old world looked. The schools were separated and named differently to somehow produce an atmosphere of competition. There would also be regular competitions hosted between the schools, the ones that came out on top would be rewarded accordingly to their achievements.

He was slightly worried that some of the created schools would fall back behind the others. This was something unfortunate but it had to happen to give others motivation not to fail and to work harder.

There would be a four-year curriculum and then they would graduate becoming true disciples. The recruitment drive would then resume to get new students while the old ones started their work at the sect facilities. He deliberated on having a yearly infusion of new students to produce some upper and lower classmates. This would strain their budget too much as handling so many people each year was too much on this growing sect.

He remained in the command center and looked through the monitors some more. He could see people failing and succeeding. It was hard to watch the ones that didn't make it, the expressions of disappointment and sadness were plastered on their faces. Some were even breaking down into tears after getting removed from the trials.

He didn't like this part of his work. If he could he would accept everyone into his sect and form one big happy family. This wasn't feasible, his sect might have been a large faction but they still had limited resources. If they started sharing it with just anyone then they would just spread themselves too thin. He still needed to contend with the other powerful sects but he was slowly building up to a point where they wouldn't need to.

After going through the screens he decided to go check how things were going in the 'true' sect. Zhang Dong needed to perform a small task there. He was going find this task in his 'Dimensional Regalia' immortal treasure that had gone through a slight change.

He was the item's master so as long as he was within a ten-kilometer radius of it he could just teleport in. He didn't use that feature though as he wasn't in a rush, he just used what the other sect members did, a teleportation gate. These handy artifacts were now widely spread throughout the sect.