Eternal Life: Hundredfold Rewards-Chapter 31 - 30: Entering the Wind Moon Sect, The Number One Inner Sect Prodigy on the Surface
After bringing Qi Chuan to the Inner Affairs Hall, the steward left.
Qi Chuan contemplated for a moment and approached the Sand Table Magical Artifact inside the hall, silently observing without speaking.
During this period, Qi Chuan could sense that some of the ten young cultivators around him were stealing glances at him and whispering, but he paid no mind to it.
After a while, based on his observation of the Sand Table Magical Artifact and the reactions of the young cultivators around him, Qi Chuan made a rough guess.
"This large sand table artifact probably records the various peaks within the Inner Sect, and the red and blue dots on it represent the Cave Mansions in the Inner Sect?"
"No wonder these young cultivators are so concerned about this Sand Table Magical Artifact. These ten individuals should be the chosen candidates from other cultivation clans to enter the Wind Moon Sect’s Inner Sect. Are they now gathering here to choose a Cave Mansion?"
"This matter is quite important. A better Cave Mansion with a higher Spirit Vein Level and denser Spiritual Qi is undoubtedly beneficial to cultivation. I hope I don’t end up choosing a poor Cave Mansion this time..."
As these thoughts occurred to him, Qi Chuan, like the ten young cultivators around him, displayed a keen interest in the Sand Table Magical Artifact.
However, without understanding the peaks and the information marked on the Cave Mansions within the Sand Table Magical Artifact, Qi Chuan was clueless.
In Qi Chuan’s research into the Sand Table Magical Artifact, two or three more young cultivators, led by a steward, entered the main hall, and they too, like Qi Chuan, gathered around the Sand Table Magical Artifact, pointing at the markings within.
After these two or three arrived, the hall fell silent, with no more arrivals, indicating that all the chosen candidates from the cultivation clans had gathered in the Inner Affairs Hall.
The Inner Affairs Hall consisted of a front and a back hall. As soon as everyone was present, an elder who seemed to be in his fifties or sixties emerged from a door in the back hall. His attire was markedly different from that of the previous steward, appearing much more noble.
The elder had thick eyebrows, and upon his appearance, everyone’s gaze focused on him, feeling a tremendous pressure emanating from him.
Under everyone’s gaze, the elder in noble attire smiled faintly and said in a clear voice, "I am the Elder of the Inner Affairs Hall, Zhao Jing. This time, I will be assigning the Cave Mansions to you all."
"It’s an elder of the Wind Moon Sect; doesn’t that mean this person is at the Foundation Establishment Cultivation Realm? And they are indeed here to allocate Cave Mansions, but how will they decide?" Qi Chuan wondered in his heart as he looked at Elder Zhao Jing of the Inner Affairs Hall.
Upon hearing this, the young cultivators from various families appeared quite excited and expectant.
"May I ask, Elder, how will the Cave Mansions be allocated?"
At this moment, among the crowd, a young man in luxurious attire stepped forward, bowed to the elder, and asked warmly.
This young man in luxurious attire appeared to be about sixteen years old, carrying an air of nobility, with earlobes slightly longer than average, hanging below his ears.
His demeanor and speech exuded an incredibly gentle feeling, like a refreshing breeze, yet there was a hint of grim calculation hidden deep within his occasionally flickering eyes.
"It’s the pride of the Ye Family, Ye Liang."
The gazes of some knowledgeable young cultivators from cultivation clans fell on the young man in luxurious attire, revealing a trace of fear in their expressions.
The Ye Family, with its large and prosperous estate, has three Foundation Establishment Great Cultivators presiding, standing firm like a mountain. It is faintly regarded as the top family under the Wind Moon Sect and is renowned among the numerous nearby cultivation clans.
Ye Liang, being the indisputable candidate to enter the Inner Sect this time, possesses an Upper Third Grade Spirit Root. His cultivation talent needs no further elaboration. At only sixteen, he had already reached the Qi Refining Fifth Layer and was just one step away from the Qi Refining Sixth Layer, nearing the late-stage bottleneck.
In plain terms, on the surface, Ye Liang was essentially the top prodigy among all the candidates from the various families, and nobody dared to provoke him.
"I have here a Magical Artifact; who wants to come forward first to draw lots?"
Facing the inquiry from the young man in luxurious attire, Ye Liang, the Inner Affairs Hall elder, ignored him and instead brought out a bamboo tube-shaped Magical Artifact. Inside it were some Bamboo Seal Orders with faint, power-obscured writing that was difficult to read.
"So it’s a random draw by lot." Seeing this, Qi Chuan nodded slightly, realizing this method doesn’t rely on connections but pure luck. Moreover, given the elder’s high status, they likely disdain any cheating, making it a very fair process.
Now the question arises, as a transmigrator, will my luck be bad or good?
On the other side, upon seeing the elder disregard him, a trace of discomfort flashed in Ye Liang’s eyes, but he quickly suppressed it. He stepped forward and said with a warm smile, "Elder, let me be the first."
The elder from the Inner Affairs Hall glanced at Ye Liang indifferently and had no objections, presenting the bamboo tube Magical Artifact to him.
Ye Liang observed carefully a few times, decided on one with certainty, and confidently drew it out. Then he opened his palm to reveal the Bamboo Seal Order, which showed: Tier One Middle Grade.
"Elder, this is..." Ye Liang looked toward the elder from the Inner Affairs Hall.
The elder summoned the Bamboo Seal Order back with a gesture, rubbed it between his hands, and a beam of light shot across the space, falling into the Sand Table Magical Artifact not far away, connecting with a blue dot on a peak model.
The elder then took out a token and handed it to Ye Liang after glancing at the blue dot.
Upon receiving the token, Ye Liang understood that the bamboo tube Magical Artifact had a ’child-mother’ connection with the Sand Table Magical Artifact. Each Bamboo Seal Order represented a Cave Mansion, and the "Tier One Middle Grade" inscribed on the Bamboo Seal Order indicated that the Cave Mansion he drew had a Spirit Vein Level of Tier One Middle Grade.
"It seems all new Inner Sect disciples are assigned a Cave Mansion with a Tier One Middle Grade Spirit Vein; the drawing only determines the Cave Mansion location."
Holding the Cave Mansion Token, Ye Liang thought.
He then turned to examine the peak model and location of the blue dot and nodded silently, "The location is not bad, should be one of the better ones among these Cave Mansions."
With this in mind, Ye Liang stepped back, satisfied.
"Who else?" The elder from the Inner Affairs Hall looked at the group again.
"I’ll go."
At this moment, a young man in gray stepped forward, ordinary in appearance. He was Murong Fan, the pride of the Murong Family, now fifteen and at the Qi Refining Fourth Layer.
He stepped forward and drew a Bamboo Seal Order, opened it, and found that it too read Tier One Middle Grade. Then, the elder assigned him a Cave Mansion with a Tier One Middle Grade and handed him a Cave Mansion Token.
Subsequently, one by one, the young cultivators from the families stepped forward to draw, and without exception, all resulted in Tier One Middle Grade.
This brought a smile to Ye Liang’s face, clearly confirming his previous guess.
Seeing that everyone else had drawn, Qi Chuan, who had been watching from the side, finally walked up to the elder of the Inner Affairs Hall to draw a Bamboo Seal Order.
Having observed the process for so long, Qi Chuan knew clearly about the draw for the Cave Mansions, knowing they were all Tier One Middle Grade, so he was in no hurry and waited till the end.
Then he took a glance at the Bamboo Seal Orders in the tube, didn’t deliberate much, and casually drew one, knowing there wouldn’t be any surprises.
From a distance, many young cultivators from the families watched Qi Chuan, their eyes showing no curiosity, as if they already knew the result would be on the Bamboo Seal Order.
The elder from the Inner Affairs Hall merely looked at him blandly from in front.
Qi Chuan, harboring no particular expectations, casually opened his palm, and when his eyes fell on the writing on his Bamboo Seal Order, he was momentarily stunned, then slightly surprised.
"This is..."
"Tier One Upper Grade Cave Mansion!" Just as Qi Chuan was puzzled, the elder Zhao Jing from the Inner Affairs Hall smiled faintly, looking at Qi Chuan, and said, "It seems you have good luck. Although there are a few vacant Tier One Upper Grade Cave Mansions in the Inner Sect, the odds of drawing one are quite low."
As his words fell, the formerly indifferent gazes of those young cultivators around instantly locked onto Qi Chuan’s palm, many of them showing some shock.
In the palm, the Bamboo Seal Order was impressively engraved with the words "Tier One Upper Grade"!
