On the Phone Plane, family constraints were still quite strong... and the elders' reasoning did make a great deal of sense.
So the next day, only ten people expressed their willingness to follow Baili Adept to the Cultivation World.
All of them had been selected by their families. At the very least, each had helped install an air conditioner and could be considered an experienced hand.
Don't laugh, that really was how it worked. In this society, people guarded their trades very closely. Any special skill was absolutely not to be passed on, so although Feng Jun had taught them how to install air conditioners, only these four families had mastered it.
The Mu Family had not even been qualified to get involved at first. It was only because Mu Fengtang had gotten in touch with Lang Damei, and Lang Zhen had put in a word, that the Mu Family became the fourth family.
Competition within those four families was fierce. It was true that their skills could not be taught outside the family, but resources related to the trade could still be coordinated to some extent within the same family.
Thus, the ten people they selected were not only fairly familiar with installation work, but also relatively young and clever. They were all people their families thought highly of—after all, everyone still held onto a trace of hope. What if they encountered Immortal Fate?
Tian Yang Ni's grandson had not been selected—because he was the clan chief's close relative and could not possibly learn too much rough work. Although installing air conditioners was a highly sophisticated field, it was ultimately manual labor, involving climbing up and down in wind and rain. It was not the kind of job where one directed others.
The clan chief's grandson was not especially