Human Realm Divine Tomb, Violet Empyrean Imperial Palace

Drawing in the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, receiving the essence of sun and moon.

Within Jinhua Mountain, over three thousand cultivators each meditated and regulated their breathing, circulating their cultivation arts as they gradually purged the turbid, impure qi from their bodies and replaced it with pure spiritual energy.

Jiang Sheng stood before the cloud palace atop the mountain, gazing at the cultivators spread across the mountainside below. His expression was calm, and no one knew what he was contemplating.

Zhao Yanling stood attentively at Jiang Sheng's side. As she looked at the True Immortal in the blue crown and dark robe before her, her eyes were filled with reverence.

Zhao Yanling differed from the cultivators below on the mountainside. Jiang Sheng had directly used an empowerment method to replace the mixed, turbid incense-and-faith spiritual energy within her with pure energy.

Now that Zhao Yanling possessed pure spiritual energy of heaven and earth throughout her body, not only did she have hope of becoming a Nascent Soul True Lord—even Spirit Transformation was not beyond her reach.

Yet Zhao Yanling had no mind to think of such matters now. At present, she served as an outer court elder on Jinhua Mountain, responsible for the daily administration and cultivation of the more than three thousand cultivators there, while also overseeing discipline.

"These cultivators have performed diligently. In another month or so, disciples capable of replacing the spiritual energy throughout their bodies and circulating the heavenly cycle should emerge."

"Make preparations. Once someone from this batch of cultivators can enter the inner sect, recruit another batch to come up the mountain."

Hearing Jiang Sheng's words, Zhao Yanling cautiously asked, "May I ask, True Lord, what time limit shall there be for this recruitment of disciples?"

Jiang Sheng said, "Set the limit