Leng Yan continued, "You should be quite clear on what a true disciple signifies, given your experience."
Su Shi'er nodded. "This junior has indeed heard a little about it, but... the Phantom Star Sect seems somewhat different from what I know."
Leng Yan said, "For the Phantom Star Sect to preserve its inheritance unbroken for nearly ten thousand years, it naturally has its own rules for maintaining that inheritance."
"The Illusory Evolution Realm stands apart from the sect and is not bound by the sect master. From the Transmission Elder down to ordinary servants, everyone within it grew up in the sect from childhood."
"Every hundred years, the elders responsible for taking disciples select from the outside world a group of children with top-grade Spiritual Roots. Every one of these children is a one-in-ten-thousand, one-in-a-hundred-thousand, or even one-in-a-million talent."
"After entering the Illusory Evolution Realm, they are nurtured by the sect from their earliest schooling and supplied with the finest cultivation resources. Even so, becoming a true disciple requires passing exceptionally strict assessments. The most basic requirement is to form a Golden Core before the age of fifty!!!"
"And they will possess the highest degree of identification with the sect, while bearing the Phantom Star Sect's inheritance upon their shoulders!!"
"Forming a Golden Core... at fifty?"
Even though Su Shi'er had long been mentally prepared, he could not help drawing in a sharp breath at those words.
Having cultivated all the way to this point, he knew full well how difficult it was to form a Golden Core. ??
Among the places he had visited and the cultivators he had encountered, more than ninety percent of cultivators—never mind forming a Golden Core by fifty—would already be considered outstanding talents if they could enter the Foundation Establishment stage before turning fifty.