She couldn’t help being curious why this thing would make Lin Fan act so strongly.
After all, no matter how she looked at it, it just seemed like a very normal token.
She couldn’t help asking, “What’s special about this token? Does it have a special use?”
Lin Fan revealed an awkward look when he heard this.
He actually wanted to ask this question as well, but there was no one for him to ask. So when Yue Lan asked him this, he really didn’t know how to answer.
Seeing this awkward look, Yue Lan quickly said, “Never mind, that isn’t important.”
As an understanding woman, she knew that men would have their secrets and she knew better than to pry. She knew that all she had to do was listen to him and do what he asked her, that was the best way to support him.
Lin Fan couldn’t help revealing a look of appreciation when he saw this.
He leaned in and placed a kiss on her forehead before saying, “Thank you.”
A blush appeared on Yue Lan’s face as she lowered her head.
Even though they had been together for a while now, these small things that Lin Fan did still filled her heart with warmth and made her blush like this.
After settling that matter, Lin Fan asked, “What about the other matter that I asked you about? Has that been taken care of.”
Yue Lan took a breath to calm her heart before revealing a serious look and saying with a nod, “I’ve already had them gather the children and they will be brought over in a few days. A few of them have already arrived.”
Lin Fan gave a nod before standing up and saying, “Then let’s go have dinner.”
Yue Lan nodded and followed him.
As for the children that they mentioned, of course they weren’t trafficking children.
Lin Fan knew that they needed disciples to revive the Love Sect, so he had Yue Lan help him with this.
Using the various branches of the Royal Style Store that they had, they started gathering children from every city that they set up in.
It didn’t matter if these children had talent or not, all that mattered was…that they were orphans.
They couldn’t take the children that had parents, so they turned to the ones that didn’t.
Yue Lan’s subordinates worked with the City Lord Manor of each city on this endeavour. These City Lord Manors were more than happy to send these children away since they were nothing more than a burden on their cities.
Taking care of these orphans would put a strain on their finances since it would cost money to feed and clothe them. But if they didn’t take care of these orphans and let them wander the streets, it would make their city’s public security worse.
These orphans had to take care of themselves and since they couldn’t do normal jobs because people wouldn’t hire them, they would usually do things like pickpocketing or moving drugs for gangs.
So no matter how they took care of these orphans, it would be a problem for them.
So when Yue Lan’s subordinates showed up with this solution for them, they accepted it without hesitation. That was even before they learned that Yue Lan was sweetening the pot by offering to pay them for each orphan that they took away.
They would be able to handle their orphan problems and they would be able to earn money from it, this was a win-win deal no matter how they looked at it.
So the City Lords immediately ordered their troops to round up these orphans.
And to make them more enthusiastic, they offered a reward for each of the orphans that they caught. This was a small portion of what they would receive from the Royal Style Store for each orphan, but it was a large amount for these lowly guards that barely earned anything.
However, this was the wrong move on their parts.
Yes, it made the guards more enthusiastic, but it also made them a bit more ruthless.
To earn more money, some of the guards of some of the cities with poorer reputations started going into the slums and taking away the children of poor families. They didn’t care if they were orphans since in their eyes, if their parents weren’t around anymore…they would be orphans.
As soon as Yue Lan’s subordinates found out about this, they immediately shut it down.
Most of them were abandoned women in the first place, so they knew how these orphans felt. Especially these children that had been turned into orphans by the guards.
They immediately had the City Lords of these cities crack down on them and many of these guards were executed in the end. This was just how much influence each of the Royal Style Stores had in the economies of each of these cities.
At the same time, they also impose strict restrictions on the rules of orphans that were turned over to them so that the same thing wouldn’t happen again.
As for the kids that had already suffered through this, all they could do was take care of them as much as they could before sending them to enter the Love Sect. Their futures would be up to them, they couldn’t take care of them forever.
The kids were scared at first at being rounded up by the guards like this, but they were kids in the end. It was easy to win them over with food and toys, but they also knew that they couldn’t keep them happy like this.
So they told the kids where they would be sending them and the eyes of the kids immediately lit up.
They didn’t know what the Love Sect was, but they knew the word “sect”.
For mortals like them, this was something that they couldn’t be more enticed by. Immortals were people that were looked up to and revered in this world, so if they had the chance to enter the path of cultivation, they didn’t care what they would have to sacrifice.
Not to mention that they didn’t have anything to sacrifice but their lives in the first place.
So all of the kids willingly came to the dungeon town after being given the option.
In total, there were a thousand kids that were recruited from the various cities, but that was just the beginning. There were still plenty of orphans, but they only had so many places that they could take these kids from right now.
In the future, there would be more, but a thousand kids was enough for now.
It took a few days to bring them all to the dungeon town. During this time, there were many residences that were prepared for the kids.
All of them were dorm rooms since there were just too many of them.
They also hired some caretakers to take care of these kids, but in the future, that would be replaced by the kids themselves.
After all, not all of the kids would be able to become cultivators. Whether they could become cultivators or not, that would depend on their talent that would be tested once they arrived.
Those that couldn’t wouldn’t be abandoned and would have the chance to become worker disciples of the sect. They would be given a basic cultivation technique and would work for the sect. If they ever broke through into the Qi Gathering Realm, they would have the chance to join the sect.
But of course, those without talent would find it hard to ever reach the Qi Gathering Realm without heaven defying opportunities.
This was just giving them a bit of hope and a way to make a living in the future so they wouldn’t be filled with despair.
It wasn’t as if they could just take care of all the kids for free.
Lin Fan was a good person, but he wasn’t a saint. He wouldn’t just take care of kids out of the goodness of his heart.
Perhaps he might have when he first came to this cultivation world, but he had also slowly changed from his experiences.
Once the kids had all arrived, Yue Lan’s subordinates tested their talents with a special token that Mu Bao Bao gave them. This was a token that they had used to test talent back when the Love Sect had been at its peak.
It would test a person’s spirit root, their comprehension, and their physique.
The token was split into three parts and as long as one part lit up, it meant that they were suited for cultivation. Naturally the three parts represented spirit root, comprehension, and physique.
As long as one passed the necessary grade, it meant that they were suited for cultivation.
With these tokens, the kids were cut down from a thousand to one hundred.
Only one in ten had the talent for cultivation and it wasn’t even top grade talent.
There were only ten that were able to light up more than two parts and there was only one that was able to light up all three parts of the token.
However, that was already considered very lucky since normally it wouldn’t be more than one ten thousandth that would light up three parts like this.
At the same time, it was most likely because they had lowered the requirements for these tokens that there were so many that passed in the first place.
As a sect that was rebuilding, they didn’t have the choice to be choosy and took in as many with the bare minimum talent as they could.𝒩𝞸𝑽𝒍xt.𝗇𝓔t
After the tests were finished, the kids that had passed were brought forward to the building that was considered the new sect main hall. There, Lin Fan, Mu Bao Bao, and the rest of the Love Sect survivors were waiting.
They were there to pick their new disciples.