“Who is that Liu Quan? She’s so pitiful.”
“I heard she’s also a young lady from a wealthy family. Her divine artifacts are quite high-level.”
“Shi Yuzhi was already pursuing her back at their Chu Sect, but he was rejected every time. I never expected him to go as far as becoming a girl just to follow her to the Spiritual Moon Sect.” The whispers rose again from the crowd below.
Mu Yanxi really hadn’t expected a cultivator to go so far as to turn themselves into a woman just to pursue a dao companion.
He even used the Spiritual Moon Sect’s rules to force her into double cultivation. ‘The problem is, now that his “bird” is gone, is there even any point in chasing the girl?’
However, this probably wasn’t just Shi Yuzhi’s idea alone. He had just mentioned that Headmaster Mo sent people to actively recruit him, likely promising many benefits.
From this, Mu Yanxi gathered two pieces of information.
First, the Spiritual Moon Sect would proactively scout outstanding disciples from Chu Sects to join them, and the conditions they offered were likely quite high—high enough to attract talented disciples who could have originally attended a heaven-grade High Sect.
She guessed other Earth-grade High Sects had similar operations.
Thinking about it this way, the top ten disciples were probably all at the level of a heaven-grade High Sect, perhaps even among the elite tier. For instance, both Shangguan Yun and Shi Yuzhi had been ranked first in their respective Chu Sects.
Second, contrary to her initial assumption that the Spiritual Moon Sect was mostly composed of commoners and students with poor grades who had no choice but to come to an Earth-grade High Sect, a significant portion of the disciples were actually daughters of wealthy families.
For example, Shangguan Yun, Ruo Xuan, and that Liu Quan who was being pursued by Shi Yuzhi all seemed to come from affluent backgrounds.
‘What’s going on? Logically, with their family wealth, these young ladies shouldn’t need to trade their bodies or looks to climb the social ladder, right?’
While Mu Yanxi was lost in thought, Liu Quan, looking dejected, walked slowly toward the podium. Shi Yuzhi grew impatient and stepped down to pull her up, pulling her into an embrace as if flaunting her victory.
Although Liu Quan showed a look of disgust and her body wanted to reject the advance, she didn’t dare truly resist due to the pressure of the sect rules’ punishments.
Besides, she was no match for a physical cultivator like Shi Yuzhi. Unless she brought out her divine artifacts, her delicate body would never be able to resist successfully.
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Next, the top ten disciples took turns stepping onto the stage to choose their double cultivation partners. Just as Mu Yanxi had guessed, the top ten female cultivators were all hidden talents.
As soon as they stepped up, girls in the crowd would recognize them; they were geniuses who had already made names for themselves back in their Chu Sects.
They had long since received a promise from the Spiritual Moon Sect that they could choose their own double cultivation partners.
Therefore, they had already scouted their candidates. Some, like Shangguan Yun and Shi Yuzhi, designated specific people, while two pairs had even discussed it beforehand and decided to partner up directly.
The designated double cultivation partners were mostly chosen for having special constitutions, especially those suited for double cultivation. There were quite a few such disciples in the Spiritual Moon Sect.
The female disciples who were named rarely showed as much reluctance as Liu Quan. Most of them accepted readily, even with ecstatic joy, as if they had won the lottery.
After all, it was an opportunity to enter the elite class directly.
Once they had finished their selections and the disciples below who had already formed pairs had reported and registered with the teachers, Headmaster Mo pulled up a crystal wall panel.
With a few taps, the system automatically sorted the remaining disciples into pairs.
According to the results Mu Yanxi had previously found on the Dao web, this was also an immortal brain.
However, an external immortal brain was not considered immortal remains; only an immortal brain implanted into a human body was a type of immortal remains.