Since the righteous and demonic paths invaded the various nations years ago, the Three Sects of Yunmeng had not recruited disciples for many years.
Even when they took in fresh blood, they only recruited directly from affiliated cultivation clans. They had never opened their gates wide to independent cultivators within the Xi Kingdom.
Until today, when the Ancient Sword Sect suddenly announced to the world that it intended to recruit a batch of disciples from among the independent cultivators.
The young independent cultivators were invigorated. Amid their delight, they could not help but speculate about the reason behind this abrupt move.
Some said that after the previous string of great battles, the Ancient Sword Sect had lost many people and urgently needed fresh blood. Others said that the Heavenly Dao Alliance now stood on equal footing with the righteous and demonic paths, with the three powers forming a tripartite balance. No major war would break out anytime soon, so they were recruiting disciples to restore the old order.
But no matter how they guessed, they could never have imagined the true reason behind it.
Even many Ancient Sword Sect disciples had only received the notice suddenly and had no idea why the sect was recruiting disciples at such a time.
They only knew that the sect's higher-ups attached immense importance to this disciple recruitment ceremony. Not only had the Core Formation cultivators from the major sword peaks and their Sect Master all arrived, but no fewer than three Nascent Soul Stage Grand Elders had come as well!
Aside from the most distinctive Fire Dragon Child, the other two Nascent Soul ancestors were both characters who had appeared in the original work.
One wore a mask, making his true face impossible to see. He was likely the Elder Tian from the