Xu Yi smiled faintly. "Thank you for your favor, Young Master. I'm used to wandering free as a cloud and a wild crane. I came to the Chaotic Star Sea seeking freedom and don't wish to be bound by anything. But rest assured, Young Master: since I've joined the Blazing Fire Legion, I'll obey your orders for as long as I'm here."
Hearing him say this, the young master in yellow no longer tried to persuade him.
The Boundless Sea had great promise, but once a cultivator reached the Soul Sensing Realm, nothing mattered more than strengthening his Yin Soul. The Boundless Sea wasn't valuable enough to warrant pulling out all the stops to recruit him. And there was no telling whether he'd survive until the war ended.
After all, in the Chaotic Star Sea, geniuses appeared in numbers like stars in the sky, but vanished just as quickly as grains of sand on an endless riverbank.
"Very well. I won't force you. All you need to know is that during the war, as long as you don't fear death and obey orders, I won't treat you unfairly."
With that, the young master in yellow left the platform and disappeared into the passageway on the west side.
The middle-aged man in crimson stepped to the center of the platform and announced, "The selection is now over. Thank you all for coming."
Before he had finished speaking, the crowd seemed to plunge into a gigantic pit and vanished in an instant. The hubbub that followed was all about hurrying off to the next recruitment.
Clearly, all kinds of recruitment drives were underway across the Autumn Wind Plain.
After the selection ended, Xu Yi and nearly a hundred others who had been chosen were led by the middle-aged man in crimson through