"Ye's guests have already taken their seats. There are no more guests in this main hall—what talk is there of waiting for guests?"
Ye Zhen's stance was exceedingly clear.
You people were not guests of mine, Ye.
What was there to wait for?
There was even a rather extreme saying: if not friend, then enemy.
Ye Zhen's warning could not have been clearer.
However, Xiao, Lie Yu, and Gu Yue were anxious—truly and thoroughly anxious.
Because Ye Zhen had just said that he would hand the matter of recruiting disciples for the Five Immortals Sect entirely to the Heavenly Luck Sect. The disciples recruited would then be distributed by Su Chilun of the Heavenly Luck Sect among the various other sects.
That was practically choking them by the throat.
The Five Immortals Sect had been huddled overseas for tens of thousands of years. Its greatest difficulty had been its extremely limited source of disciples.
Though there were many Overseas Remnants, few possessed good aptitude, and their languages and customs differed greatly. The core disciples of each sect were all gathered by Five Immortals Sect members who traveled the prehistoric lands, and most of them were orphans.
After all, if someone had a family and relatives, who would be willing to go overseas with them to cultivate?
Did they have water in their brains?
Thus, the Five Immortals Sect's greatest weakness was its lack of disciples worth cultivating. Wealth, however, was something the Five Immortals Sect did not lack.
After settling in Ye Zhen's North Sea Three Commanderies these past few years, this weakness of the Five Immortals Sect had been remedied. The wealth they had accumulated over the years had begun to be poured into these disciples with all their strength.
It could be said that the Five Immortals Sect's