"Did you two both choose the Evil Slaying Sword Sect?"
Inside the private office, Taihua Tianji stared at the young man and woman before him, speechless.
These two would be welcome at any immortal sect. Why did they have to choose the Evil Slaying Sword Sect?
Then again, applying to the Evil Slaying Sword Sect wasn't actually a bad choice.
For plot purposes, many xianxia novels forced their protagonists to apply to some lousy sect, saddling them with a main storyline about revitalizing it and so on.
Even when the protagonist applied to one of the Ten Great Immortal Sects, it was usually the most obscure one among them.
Or else the sect would have been doing just fine, only for some major disaster to suddenly strike from within, leaving the protagonist to turn the tide.
That might make readers feel good, but it was obvious that such a sect wasn't recommended for ordinary people.
In the eyes of the nobodies in those books, the protagonist was throwing away their future by applying to a sect like that.
But the Evil Slaying Sword Sect was different.
It wasn't some obscure sect. In fact, it ranked among the top five of the Ten Great Immortal Sects.
Sword Sect graduates also had plenty of career options.
Graduates of the Evil Slaying Department could move straight into the Enforcement Bureau and become bona fide civil servants, with sky-high social standing.
The Sword Dao Department offered both scholarly and martial paths: graduates could join a Sword Dao sect and hone their skills, or become flying sword racers and compete in the Blue Star Federation's most popular flying sword races, gaining both fame and fortune.
Even graduates of some of the Sword Sect's less popular majors, such as meteorology and civil engineering, could put their