Ancient Fiend Dragon Emperor

Chapter 999: Chapter 998 Recruiting Disciples

The next day, the Phoenix Sect began recruiting disciples once again.

With Su Baliu’s return, the Phoenix Sect came back to life at full strength, shaking the Dragon Martial Continent.

Especially after the events in the Central Domain, countless people have held great admiration for Su Han, but Su Han had always remained unseen, leaving them unable to make contact.

Upon hearing of the Phoenix Sect’s recruitment, countless loose cultivators came from all directions, and many even left their original sects in hopes of joining the Phoenix Sect.

However, the Phoenix Sect released news stating that while talent and cultivation base were considerations for recruitment, so were character and integrity.

Regardless of whether one could become a Phoenix Sect disciple, anyone wishing to join would undergo scrutiny. If found to have betrayed their original sect, no matter how talented or powerful, they would not be accepted.

Of course, if they left their sect through proper channels, and with the original sect’s consent, the Phoenix Sect would still accept them.

...

As time passed, half a month slipped by in the blink of an eye.

The Nine Clouds Immortal Illusion Formation opened wide, revealing clouds that spread out gloriously to either side, with the people of the Phoenix Sect standing amidst them like they were walking between giant waves.

Outside the sect residence of the Phoenix Sect, countless figures gathered densely, forming long lines of hundreds of people engaged in orderly assessments.

The Five Divine Guard Corps of the Phoenix Sect were all deployed, accelerating the assessment process.

Though rumors spread like wildfire that the Phoenix Sect had offended countless grand powers, including declaring an undying rivalry with the Chen Family, opposing dozens of medium and small-scale powers, and holding a deep-seated grudge with the Five Great Super Sects...

Nevertheless, the number of people wishing to join the Phoenix Sect was immense.

Unlike the previous recruitment, where the crowd did not exceed a hundred thousand, this time, the vast grounds outside the Phoenix Sect were completely packed, with numbers easily over two million!

The disciple recruitment of the Phoenix Sect spurred rapid economic growth in Yuanshan County, with inns, hotels, and other venues packed daily, leaving numerous loose cultivator business owners grinning from ear to ear, and even the local branch of the Myriad Treasures Pavilion seeing profits multiply several times over.

When one achieves the Way, even their chickens and dogs ascend to the heavens!

This saying holds true.

For Yuanshan County, Su Han is a native-born, and the sect residence of the Phoenix Sect was established within its borders.

The Phoenix Sect is a landmark power of Yuanshan County, the largest power within a radius of a hundred thousand miles.

Just the act of recruiting disciples alone created such a grand scene. If they were to hold events or festivities, countless powers would come from all directions, further accelerating the development of Yuanshan County.

The county government of Yuanshan County had already reported the matter, hoping for the higher-ups to do some planning and upgrade Yuanshan County to a city, claiming that only this way could they keep up with the Phoenix Sect.

The higher-ups readily agreed, granting the request with a wave of the hand!

Of course, these matters were of little concern to Su Han, who focused his attention on the disciple recruitment.

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Inside the grand hall.

”Sect Master, since the start of disciple recruitment, ten days have passed, and the assessments show that we have identified a thousand two hundred and thirty-three individuals with array master talent. In addition, there are one hundred and twenty-eight in the Dragon God Realm, and over four thousand three hundred with talent in artifact refining and alchemy.”

Lian Yuze reported to Su Han, summarizing the results of ten days of disciple recruitment.

As he reported, Lian Yuze’s face was full of excitement, having never anticipated such smooth recruitment.

”So many?” Su Han’s eyes lit up.

Beside him, Shen Li added, ”Indeed, we didn’t expect it before, but seeing the countless throngs outside, you shouldn’t be surprised, Sect Master. With such a large base of people wanting to join the Phoenix Sect, even after ten days, there are still millions waiting, and countless more are coming from all over. Because of the distance, they haven’t arrived yet.”

”Sect Master, in my humble opinion, our Phoenix Sect’s disciple recruitment shouldn’t be confined to just the sect residence.”

Hong Chen pondered for a moment and said, ”Although many have come, a large portion traveled from other places, and on the whole Dragon Martial Continent, the most talented are surely in the Central Domain. But the Central Domain is too far from our Phoenix Sect, and even a Dragon Emperor would take a long time to get here, let alone ordinary cultivators, who would take a year and a half just to arrive.”

”These cultivators earnestly wish to join the Phoenix Sect, but they would definitely feel concerned that by the time they reach the Phoenix Sect, disciple recruitment might be over. So they simply discard the idea of joining, which is a huge loss for us, missing out on many talents.”

”And that’s just concerning the Central Domain. There must be too many with such thoughts across the Four Great Territories of the Dragon Martial Continent.”

”Indeed.”

Su Han nodded, ”So, what do you propose we do?”

”I think we should decentralize disciple recruitment, sending renowned strong members of the Phoenix Sect to various regions for recruitment,” Hong Chen suggested.

”Let’s do it this way.”

Su Han mused for a moment and said, ”In a few days, I will head to the Four Great Territories and the Central Domain, setting up teleportation formations in all five regions. Then, the captains of the Five Divine Guard Corps will personally lead their respective corps and a squad of ordinary disciples to each of the five territories for recruitment.”

Given Su Han’s current cultivation base, establishing teleportation formations spanning the Dragon Martial Continent is challenging but not impossible, merely costly.

But to Su Han, what is this cost?

With over twelve trillion spirit stones at his disposal, Su Han could easily meet the requirements to construct the teleportation formations.

Moreover, Su Han did not set up these formations solely for recruitment. He had long thought about using teleportation formations to earn spirit stones, and now the time had come to realize this plan.

He had once considered collaborating with the Yun Family, but apart from Yun Qianqian, the rest of the Yun Family had disappointed Su Han greatly.

Now that the Phoenix Sect had risen, capable of securing the teleportation formations, naturally, the Phoenix Sect should collect this enormous profit.