August had already turned cool. Since White Dew had just passed, droplets hung everywhere in the mornings. Some refined folk even liked collecting this dew to brew tea.
But today, the summit of Xinyue Mountain was absolutely not a good place to gather tea water. The place was packed shoulder to shoulder, kicking up no small amount of dust. If some unlucky person collected dew here, they would probably drink half a cup of dust with every cup of tea.
Today was the day this year's ten great immortal academies sent their ten thousand new disciples off to their respective sects.
Although the martial examinations had ended in mid-July, and tallying the scores in the Myriad Immortal Illusion Realm was a matter of minutes, new disciples generally still had to pass the Heart Inquiry Trial before entering a sect. Conducting a "Heart Inquiry" for ten thousand people one by one was no small undertaking. Nor was everyone like Wang Qi, who had two Free Wanderers and a Grandmaster personally arrange an early Heart Inquiry Trial for him.
Only after the Heart Inquiry Trial ended did the other cultivators learn which sects they had been assigned to.
Mao Zimiao got her wish and became an inner disciple of Spirit Beast Mountain in Sky Spirit Ridge. Judging from the cat-eared girl's expression and her twitching ears, she thought she had overperformed. But Wang Qi knew this was the expected result.
After all, who had given her pre-exam tutoring but someone like Ai Qinglan?
Wu Fan chose City of Mountains and Rivers, a first-rate sect beneath the Five Excellences. Among the inner disciples of the same batch, he ranked fairly high. In three years, he might well contend for the position of True Disciple.
Among Wang Qi's friends, however, the most astonishing was