Even someone with a waste spiritual root wasn't allowed to leave, and had to wait over there?
Zhang Yuan raised an eyebrow and looked toward an open patch of ground, where some forty people were standing.
Considering that elders and sect masters generally watched recruitment ceremonies like this from the shadows, leaving outright would draw too much attention. After a moment's thought, Zhang Yuan nodded and walked over to join the forty-odd people.
Perhaps because of his five-element waste spiritual root, Zhang Yuan's arrival caused no stir beyond a few extra glances at his appearance. No one approached him to strike up a conversation, either.
Happy to be left in peace, Zhang Yuan stood there and divided his attention between observing the spiritual root tests and using his celestial person status to trace Karma, working out why he was here and why someone had called him up to have his spiritual root tested.
After tracing things through, a look of understanding appeared on Zhang Yuan's face.
As the saying went, a celestial person was one with Heaven and Earth, and the greatest hermit hid amid the bustling marketplace. Although he had only just arrived, his celestial person status had automatically arranged a plausible identity for him upon his descent, making him one of the participants in today's recruitment ceremony.
"Besides my own status, the fact that everything fell into place so naturally seems to owe something to the help of this world's Heaven and Earth. They want me to join this sect and do something."
Zhang Yuan furrowed his brow and was about to continue following the threads of Karma. Unfortunately, he knew too little at present. He did not even know this sect's name, making it difficult to get to the bottom of things, so he could only give