Time gradually passed.
In the blink of an eye, it was the end of the month.
Just as the rumors had said, the Ling Clan relocated several spirit veins into the crude residential district outside Ice Snow Marketplace on schedule. There was even a Second Rank Spirit Vein among them, and they set up a formidable Near Third Rank formation.
Meanwhile, the Ten Thousand Talents Competition and the Ling Clan Academy's disciple recruitment were also held.
Because of this, even cultivators who had originally used every sort of method to secure places to live within Ice Snow Marketplace could not help leaving the marketplace for the residential district. Large numbers of Rogue Cultivators also arrived from beyond.
For a time, the residential district gathered more than a hundred thousand cultivators.
If not for the immense size of the district, it likely could not have accommodated such numbers.
Yet it was precisely the presence of these people that drove both the Ten Thousand Talents Competition and the Ling Clan Academy affair to a climax.
It was not until a month later that these two matters gradually came to an end.
Among the Ten Thousand Talents Competition participants, a full thousand talents were ultimately chosen by the Ling Clan for their promising potential, exceptional gifts in combat, aptitude for spell arts, and other such qualities. They were directly admitted into the Outer Affairs Hall, which had been specially established for Rogue Cultivator Guest Elders.
As for the Ling Clan Academy, it recruited more than five hundred young Rogue Cultivators of varying aptitudes.
The Rogue Cultivator Xiao Zhang Qing was among them, though he had not entered the academy through the trials.
Although he had long since reached the Qi Training Third Layer, was skilled in many spells, and possessed an offensive magical