It was just as Wang Yan had expected.
The registration process was extremely simple. They merely checked their cultivation and barely examined their aptitude. Not having the Summoning Order Talismans issued by that Firecloud Sect cultivator posed no obstacle, either. The two of them were registered without any fuss.
Still, seeing that Wang Yan and Ye Shisan had no Summoning Order Talismans did strike the cultivator handling registration as somewhat odd.
But Wang Yan bluffed his way past it with a few words.
Coming to register so late at night was unusual, but that caused no difficulties, either. Everything went exceedingly smoothly.
Before long, registration was complete.
"These are your temporary Identity Tokens! Don't lose them!" the young cultivator handling registration said indifferently. He handed two blue tokens to Wang Yan and Ye Shisan, then told the female cultivator beside him, "Take numbers five hundred thirty-one and five hundred thirty-two to their rooms! Explain the rules to them!"
"Yes!" the female cultivator promptly replied with deference. "Fellow disciples, please follow me!" With that, she gestured for Wang Yan and Ye Shisan to accompany her.
"All right! Thank you!" Wang Yan promptly replied. The Firecloud Sect certainly knew how to handle people. They had only just joined, yet they were already being called fellow disciples-clearly an effort to strengthen the new cultivators' sense of belonging.
"Fellow disciples!" the female cultivator said as she led Wang Yan and Ye Shisan down a long corridor. "Since you've just joined our Firecloud Sect, you'll be sent to our main headquarters on Firecloud Divine Mountain within the next few days. So, during these next few days...!"
The so-called rules amounted to this: once Ye Shisan and Wang Yan entered this Firecloud Sect branch, they were not to leave, but were to wait for the sect's