Another three months passed.
The Xu Household raised one first-class martial artist after another, and at last, one of its guards became a Xiantian martial artist.
Among the young retainers trained since childhood, more and more became third-rate martial artists, though they were only just over ten years old.
They were all promising talents who could reach the Houtian peak in their early twenties.
Two or three with outstanding root bones could hope to reach the Houtian peak before twenty under the Xu Household's care.
The Dragon Elephant Martial Hall grew ever stronger.
After discussing it, the brothers Xu Mingwei and Xu Mingyuan opened Dragon Elephant Martial Halls in the four surrounding counties as well, recruiting martial talents and children with exceptional root bones for the Xu Household.
Moreover, every child was tested for aptitude for immortal cultivation.
Although every county now had an Immortal Registry Office, testing still required a fee. For the lineages in the county seats, having all their children tested was easy enough.
For the ordinary commoners in the surrounding villages, however, that fee was no small sum.
The Dragon Elephant Martial Hall tested root bones for free, and if it found someone worth nurturing, it waived the fees and trained them with care. To ordinary commoners, this was a Dragon Gate Step.
Even for a one-in-ten-thousand chance, they wanted to give it a try.
Publicly, the Dragon Elephant Martial Hall naturally claimed to be recruiting martial artists. Neither the aristocratic clans in the county seats nor the Immortal Registry Office would suspect that it possessed crystals capable of testing aptitude for immortal cultivation.
As a result, they actually discovered two children over those months.
One boy and one girl.
The boy was seven, and the girl was nine.
The Xu Household immediately sent someone to