Feng Jun truly had no idea what the white token was, but he felt it ought to carry some persuasive weight.
However, the moment Huangfu Wuxia saw the token, she froze.
Then she rose to her feet and bowed to the token. "Greetings, Busheng the Real Person."
Feng Jun gave her a suspicious look. He wanted to say something, but ultimately held back, grumbling inwardly, Busheng the Real Person, my ass. There isn't even any divine sense attached to this token, is there?
Yet Huangfu Wuxia caught that look. After bowing, she smiled and asked, "You seem rather unconvinced?"
"I am," Feng Jun admitted with a nod. "I don't even know what kind of token this is."
"A Talent-Recruiting Token—the xian from 'worthy and virtuous,'" Huangfu Wuxia replied with a smile. "It looks like a Recruitment Token, but it is far more valuable..."
Talent-Recruiting Tokens were privileges exclusive to the Four Sects and Five Platforms. When they took notice of some outstanding talent but, for one reason or another, could not bring them back immediately, they would give them such a token.
Broadly speaking, Talent-Recruiting Tokens and Recruitment Tokens served the same purpose. Recruitment Tokens recruited promising immortal cultivators, while Talent-Recruiting Tokens recruited great talents among cultivators. The two could not be mentioned in the same breath.
Two Peaks and One Valley also had a need to recruit talents. Regardless of the era or circumstances, true talent was always in demand.
However, they would not issue any Talent-Recruiting Tokens. When they encountered someone talented, they would generally resort to threats and inducements. If that failed, then... Soul Search.
Why? Because only Golden Core True Adepts were qualified to issue Talent-Recruiting Tokens. It was not that Emergence from Dust Stage adepts could not issue them, but what difference was there between