"Ye's guests have already taken their seats. There are no more guests in this main hall. What is this talk of waiting for guests?"
Ye Zhen's stance in those words was exceedingly clear.
You lot were not Ye's guests at all, so what was there to wait for!
There was even a rather extreme saying: if not a friend, then an enemy.
Ye Zhen's warning could not have been more obvious.
Yet Xiao, Lie Yu, and Gu Yue were truly anxious—genuinely 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, and that Su Chilun of the Heavenly Luck Sect would distribute the recruited disciples among the other sects.
That was practically strangling them by the throat.
The Five Immortals Sect had cowered overseas for tens of thousands of years. Its greatest difficulty had always been its severely 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 people from the Five Immortals Sect who had traveled through the Great Wilderness to recruit them, most of them orphans.
After all, if someone had a home and family, who would be willing to follow them overseas to cultivate?
Did they have water in their brains?
Thus, the Five Immortals Sect's greatest weakness was its lack of disciples worth nurturing. Wealth, however, was something the Five Immortals Sect did not lack.
Since settling in Ye Zhen's North Sea Three Commanderies these past few years, the Five Immortals Sect had made up for this weakness. The wealth it had accumulated over the years had begun to be poured fully into these disciples.
It could be said that