As time passed, more and more people took part in forming contracts, and failures gradually began to appear.
That was unavoidable.
But from what Li Ling and the others observed, fully half of the Longevity Hall juniors participating in the ceremony successfully found spirit beast companions and embarked on cultivation. That was rather astonishing.
Li Ling privately transmitted his voice to Mu Qingsi. "I suspect the people before us are the cream of the crop from several nearby villages."
Mu Qingsi laughed inwardly and replied through voice transmission, "I noticed that too. Their success rate is far too high. They can't possibly all come from Jiayuan Stockade, as Elder Gong Chi claimed."
These young pupils of the Longevity Hall were, at most, equivalent to the Incense Accumulation Sect's Named Disciples. They had only just graduated from the outer courtyard and were preparing to awaken their faculties and refine qi.
Normally, having ten or twenty out of a hundred succeed would already be quite good.
Naturally, they had done this to save face.
Distinguished guests from an overseas immortal sect were watching this ceremony. If the results were too ugly, they would inevitably make a spectacle of themselves.
But Li Ling was the founding Old Ancestor who had established his sect single-handedly. He knew perfectly well how often qi-refining cultivators emerged among mortal people, how often Named Disciples successfully refined qi, and how often qi-refining disciples reached Foundation Establishment or Core Formation.
Overall, on the traditional path of the Spell Dao, roughly one in a thousand could refine qi. Taking into account those lost in the vast sea of humanity whose root bone went to waste because various mishaps buried their potential, that became one in ten thousand.
Once someone successfully entered the Immortal Sects, the chance of their potential being