Chapter 359: Chapter 359: Aristocratic Disciple, Shu Hongyu’s Entrustment
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“Thank you for your assistance, fellow cultivator.” Ye Feng bowed his hands in thanks.
“Sect Master Ye is too polite. I merely unsheathed my sword to right the injustice I witnessed. From here on out, please feel free to do as you will,” responded Ancestor Ning with a slight smile and a nod of his head.
Upon hearing this, Ye Feng nodded. He turned his gaze to the three middle-aged men who were wailing in pain, and asked coldly, “Who are you and why are you interfering with the recruitment ceremony of the Misty Sect?”
An invisible force of Heroic Spirit Power spread out, lifting them into the air and grasping their throats.
A dreadful feeling arose from deep within the three men.
“I’ll talk, I’ll talk!”
“We were ordered to slander the Misty Sect. We took the money for this job, please spare our lives, Sect Master Ye!”
The three men hastily begged for mercy.
“Who asked you to do this?” Ye Feng’s aura shook violently, and one of the middle-aged men was sent flying and landed on the ground with a thud.
The remaining two inhaled sharply from the shock.
Indeed, this Ye Feng was merciless and ruthless!
The two men felt an ill premonition rising within them.
“Spare us, Sect Master Ye!”
“The person who gave us the Spirit Stones to speak ill of the Misty Sect was very mysterious; clad in a black robe, wearing a mask, and never revealing their true identity,” they quickly confessed everything in fear for their lives.
A man in a black robe?
Wearing a mask?
Ye Feng’s expression darkened. Could it be someone from the Heaven-Devouring Demon Sect?
With this thought in mind, he looked at them coldly and said, “Whether you’re doing this for money or deliberately causing trouble, you dare interfere with the Misty Sect’s recruitment, and you’ve chosen a path to your death!”
Crack!
Ye Feng instantly killed the three men on the spot, scattering their ashes to the wind.
Arriving as a newcomer and being publicly slandered; without making an example of them, he could not win people over with reason (or force).
At this moment, Han Er was hiding in the shadows.
“It’s a good thing they didn’t expose me, or else I would have been in big trouble today!”
Han Er watched Ye Feng warily and quickly slipped away.
The three men were the ones he had bribed to disrupt the Misty Sect’s recruitment ceremony.
Who could have known that Ancestor Ning would intervene, unveiling the trio who had hidden themselves well, and in the end, they were vaporized on the spot by Ye Feng, leaving no trace of their bodies.
“Sect Master Ye, I am Ancestor Ning of the Ning Family, Ning Jian.” At that moment, Ancestor Ning bowed his hand toward Ye Feng.
Ancestor Ning did not show the slightest pity for the three fallen cultivators.
The reputation of a Star-Level Force is not to be tarnished by the likes of petty thieves.
If it were him, he would also have such slanderers executed.
“Thank you for your intervention just now, fellow cultivator. I am deeply grateful,” Ye Feng thanked him once again.
“There’s no need for formalities, Sect Master Ye,” Ancestor Ning said with a light smile, then withdrew to a nearby spot.
Ye Feng took his seat and announced loudly, “The Misty Sect has come to County King City to recruit disciples. Those fated may join our Sect; we do not intend to compete with other forces. However, anyone who troubles us will face the unforgiving blade of Ye!”
His voice boomed like thunder, deafening to the ear.
Many cultivators started to realize that Ye Feng, though seemingly mortal, actually harbored an immensely terrifying power.
“Indeed, Sect Master Ye excels at concealing his aura. Though he appears to be a strong cultivator, he often plays the pig to eat the tiger.”
“I think so too.”
Some cultivators murmured to each other in low voices.
Following Ye Feng’s powerful annihilation of the three troublemakers, the onlooking crowd dared not discuss the matter loudly.
Near a stilted building.
A young woman dressed as a maid was instructing a group of hundreds of young men and women, “Listen carefully. When you go over, claim you wish to join the Misty Sect, understand?”
The youths exchanged glances.
“Sister Yue’er, if the Misty Sect accepts us, what should we do? Won’t that mean we have to leave County King City?” asked one bold youth, echoing the concerns of the group.
The maid Yue’er chuckled and responded, “The Misty Sect has great potential. If you can be accepted, you should be overjoyed; instead, you worry. You really don’t know what’s good for you!”
“Oh, we get it now!”
Upon hearing that the Misty Sect was impressive and even Sister Yue’er spoke highly of it, the young men and women replied in unison.
Shortly after, they made their way one by one to the Sect Main Plaza.
At his seat.
Ye Feng observed that despite his stern actions earlier, a large number of youths were eager to join the Misty Sect.
“If it weren’t for the System’s restrictions, not just a thousand disciples, but even ten thousand would be no problem!” Ye Feng mused to himself.
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He reached out his hand to take the pulse of a young girl.
“Eh, what’s your name?”
“My name is Ning Xiangxiang.”
The girl’s pretty face blushed slightly, showing a bit of restraint.
“Very well, you are fated to join our Misty Sect. Would you like to become a second-generation disciple?” Ye Feng picked up the Book of Names, ready to register her.
“I can join the Misty Sect? Really?” The girl’s eyes lit up, and opening her mouth, she revealed a set of pearly white teeth.
“Would I lie to you?” Ye Feng said with a smile.
“I’m willing!” Ning Xiangxiang said excitedly.
“Mhm, that is very good.” Ye Feng’s face broke into a broad smile. While inquiring about the girl’s background, he registered her, but gradually his expression turned strange as he twisted his head towards the teahouse near the Sect Main Plaza.
Ancestor Ning was sitting by a window seat, catching Ye Feng’s eye and initiating a nod to signal.
“No wonder Ancestor Ning personally took action to capture those who slandered us. It seems he is paving the way for the descendants of the Ning Family,” Ye Feng suddenly understood.
Ning Xiangxiang was indeed from the Ning Family of the County King City.
This young woman was not from the direct line, but she carried the Ning Family’s bloodline as a member of the Ning Family.
However, Ye Feng didn’t care too much about the girl’s background.
As long as she met the System requirements, he would choose to accept her.
“Ding, Registered Disciple ‘Ning Xiangxiang’ received, Middle Grade root bone, Qi Refinement Fourth Layer.”
As Ye Feng stamped the Sect Leader’s Seal, the System prompt sounded in his mind on time.
“Go and get to know your first-generation senior brothers and sisters!” Ye Feng pointed to Mo Ying and the others standing behind him.
“Yes, Sect Leader.” Ning Xiangxiang walked past the wooden table, sheepishly looking at Mo Ying and the others as they got acquainted.
“Next!” Ye Feng continued to recruit.
Perhaps because Ning Xiangxiang set a good example, for every ten people that followed, there was one who met the requirements and joined the Misty Sect.
An hour later, Ye Feng had already accepted over a dozen disciples, whose root bone qualities were Middle Grade and Lower Grade.
As for Upper Grade, none yet.
Under normal circumstances, such genius talents were generally earmarked by the major sects in County King City when they were still young.
“Among these disciples, quite a few are from the Ning Family, and the rest are from the other nine noble families. It’s quite unexpected,” Ye Feng glanced at Ning Xiangxiang and the others, thinking to himself.
But then, why could he also recruit disciples from noble families?
Filled with doubt, Ye Feng inquired with the System.
“Ding, strictly speaking, disciples of noble families are merely members of a certain family’s power and can choose to join other sects without conflicting with their families,” the System explained.
Upon hearing this, Ye Feng had an epiphany.
Tap tap tap!
At that moment, several hundred more boys and girls approached, forming a long queue in an orderly manner, as though they had been trained.
“Why have so many people suddenly arrived?”
Not only were Ye Feng and the disciples of the Misty Sect surprised but also the surrounding onlookers.
“Sect Master Ye, we wish to join the Misty Sect!”
The leader of the group, a boy with a stout and tiger-like appearance, raised his head and puffed out his chest, announcing loudly as if reciting a script.
Ye Feng blinked.
His first reaction was that these people must be plants, and he was just as baffled as to why there would be any plants present.
But, Ye Feng still chose to take their pulse.
“Ding, meets the requirements.”
Ye Feng heard the System’s prompt, becoming even more surprised.
If they were plants, how could they still meet the requirements?
Could it be that he was overthinking?
“You have a destiny with our Misty Sect, welcome to join.”
“Thank you, Sect Leader!”
Clap!
Ye Feng quickly wrote down the tiger-headed boy’s name and information and stamped the Sect Leader’s Seal.
“Ding, Registered Disciple ‘Lei Xiaohu’ received, Upper Grade root bone, Qi Refinement Third Layer.”
Upper Grade root bone?
He had found a treasure indeed!
Ye Feng’s eyes widened.