Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil in the Cultivation World

Instantly, Lian Miheng waved his hand, leading Xue Zhiheng onto the back of the Spiritual Crane.

Before long, the Spiritual Crane gently flapped its wings and flew into the sky, heading towards the Outer Sect Peak.

An unusual force enveloped Lian Miheng and Xue Zhiheng, protecting them from the buffeting air currents around them.

As they passed, they soared over lofty mountain peaks.

The mortals on the ground appeared as tiny as ants.

Amazing cities and buildings unfolded in their view.

”Is this the view from up high?”

Xue Zhiheng said excitedly.

Soaring through the sky, riding the crane, he felt like only this way could he truly be called a cultivator.

Boom~~

Before long, under the flight of the Spiritual Crane, Lian Miheng and Xue Zhiheng arrived at the Outer Sect Peak.

Though it’s called Outer Sect Peak, it refers to a vast area, not just a single mountain.

Here stood hundreds or thousands of peaks, stretching continuously to form a mountain range.

The area it covered went on for who knows how many acres.

On the peaks were built rows of stone houses made of bluestone, stacked layer upon layer, constructed along the mountainside. Stone walls creeping with dark vines emitted a gentle glow, nourished by spiritual qi.

These stone houses came in various shapes; some were square and solid, others carved out of natural boulders. Arched stone doors embellished with ancient spirit patterns appeared and disappeared with the flow of spiritual qi.

Newly added stone-paved stilted buildings scattered along steep cliff sides, wind chimes tinkling under vine-draped eaves.

Between the buildings lay stairs of spirit-patterned stone carved from whole rocks, winding sometimes into the mist, sometimes appearing in full view, resembling the cloud ladders of a fairy palace.

This left Xue Zhiheng quite astounded; he never expected the Outer Sect Peak to be so colossal.

”Senior Brother, just how many Outer Sect Disciples live here?”

Xue Zhiheng couldn’t help but ask.

He felt the scale here was simply immense.

”Not too many, about a hundred thousand Outer Sect Disciples.”

”As of now, our Primordial Talisman Sect already has a hundred thousand Qi Cultivation Stage Cultivators.”

”With the increasing population, the number of Outer Sect Disciples continues to rise rapidly.”

Lian Miheng smiled ever so slightly.

”A hundred thousand Qi Cultivation Stage Cultivators and a hundred thousand Outer Sect Disciples?”

”Is the competition this intense?”

Xue Zhiheng was utterly dumbfounded.

He never imagined the number of Outer Sect Disciples in the Primordial Talisman Sect would be so immense.

Originally, he thought thousands would be enough.

But now it was ten times more than he had imagined, which was staggeringly excessive.

It’s no wonder the Outer Sect Peak’s area is so vast.

It’s simply beyond his wildest imagination.

”This is quite normal.”

”For any cultivator with a Spirit Root, they are brought here.”

”We have to understand, our Ten Thousand Beasts Secret Realm has six hundred million people.”

”Yet even so, only a hundred thousand have Spirit Roots.”

”That’s already one in ten thousand.”

Lian Miheng shook his head. While on the surface, the number of Outer Sect Disciples seemed plentiful, compared to the vast human population, one hundred thousand was pitifully small.

They, as innate Spirit Root cultivators, were considered one in ten thousand geniuses.

Of course, compared to ordinary people, they were lucky enough.

In fact, compared to the Southern Continent, the Primordial Talisman Sect managed to find a hundred thousand Qi Cultivation Stage Cultivators because every mortal can undergo Spirit Root testing.

In this way, every cultivator with a Spirit Root was discovered.

But in the Southern Continent, Spirit Root testing only covered parts of the area.

So comprehensive testing was impossible.

This led to many cultivators with Spirit Roots going undiscovered.

More importantly, those sects didn’t want to recruit so many disciples.

After all, resources in the Cultivation Realm are limited.

If too many disciples are recruited without enough resources for cultivation, chaos is bound to occur.

There’s a risk that many disciples with low Spirit Roots might turn to the Demon Dao, practicing Demon Techniques.

Attractions of Demon Techniques are too great to resist for some disciples.

Therefore, these sects would deliberately reduce the number of disciples, recruiting only those with at least Middle or Upper Spiritual Root Talent, where there is hope for Foundation Establishment.