With these words, this leading disciple was about to lead the crowd onwards.
Only then, a man pointed to a mountain in the distance and said in astonishment, “Look guys, that mountain is actually white in its entirety! It’s so beautiful!”
When the crowd heard this, they looked in the direction the man was pointing and saw that an extremely large mountain stood next to the main peak, the Divine Martial Peak.
What was surprising was that the whole mountain was covered by a layer of white plants, and from a distance, it looked like a layer of white snow was covering the whole mountain, which looked extremely strange!
When that leading disciple saw this white mountain peak, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
“This mountain is called White Mountain, and it is the residence of our Divine Martial Sword Sect’s chief true disciple, Senior Sister Luo!”
The disciple leading the group explained.
“Chief True Disciple?!”
“Surprisingly, it’s a woman?”
“This Senior Sister Luo must be an extremely powerful existence, right?!”
The crowd all looked very interested.
“That’s natural, our Senior Sister Luo is the only disciple in the sect who has received the true transmission from the Sect Leader, and has been allowed to enter the secret realm to cultivate, so her future attainments are absolutely unlimited! There are even rumours in our sect that Senior Sister Luo will be the next Sect Leader of the Divine Martial Sword Sect in the future!”
The disciple leading the group said gleefully.
“My goodness, so powerful!”
The crowd could not help but gasp in amazement at his words.
The disciple who was leading the group seemed to be getting more and more energetic when he mentioned Senior Sister Luo, and then said, “Not only that, Senior Sister Luo is also extremely outstanding in looks and temperament, and is the number one beauty of our Divine Martial Sword Sect!”
When this disciple said this, his eyes seemed to be glowing with a certain longing.
When the crowd heard these words, they all became even more excited.
More than 80% of the people who came to the selection today were men.
For men, the topic they liked to talk about the most was naturally women.
This Senior Sister Luo, not only could she become the next Sect Leader, but she was also a stunningly beautiful woman, to the crowd, this Senior Sister Luo was simply too attractive!
“This Senior Sister Luo is simply too perfect!”
“Yes, it would really be great if I could chase after this senior sister!”
“That’s right, it would really be worth dying for!”
The crowd was all in an uproar.
But after that lead disciple heard this, he snorted coldly.
“I think you guys should stop thinking so much! Even our Senior Sister Luo dares to covet it, maybe, in the end, you will really die!”
The lead disciple said in a cold voice.
Hearing those words, those who were up in arms all hurriedly shut their mouths.
“Really?”
“That’s for sure! Although our Senior Sister Luo is the number one beauty in the Divine Martial Sacred Land, her personality is extremely cold, especially towards men! If she were to hear those words of yours, she would definitely be killed on the spot!”
The leading disciple made a chopping motion with his palm on his neck, scaring those people’s bodies into a tremble.
“No way, it’s so exaggerated!”
“I can tell you responsibly, it’s not exaggerated at all! That Senior Sister Luo’s temper is indeed cold and stern, even our Eldest Senior Brother Wu Ziyu doesn’t dare to joke with her, so I advise you all to behave honestly in the future even if you join the sect, and especially to stay away from this Senior Sister Luo, otherwise, I’m just afraid you won’t even know how you’ll end up dying!”
This leading disciple bridge knocked.
“Thank you for reminding me, senior brother!”
Those who were up in arms all hurriedly arched their hands and said.
“Alright, no more nonsense, better hurry up, it won’t be good if we miss the selection time!”
With that, this leading disciple led the crowd and continued to march forward past.
All those who participated in the disciple selection were divided into batches, and for every 10,000 people, there was one such disciple leading the group.
After another half an hour, the crowd finally advanced into the hinterland location of the Divine Martial Sacred Land.
Immediately afterwards, a mountain peak towering into the clouds appeared in front of the crowd.
The peculiar thing about this mountain was that its entire body was covered with ancient swords!
These ancient swords were just like grass and trees growing in the mountain, and there were so many of them that, as far as one could see, the number of ancient swords on this mountain was at least hundreds of millions!
“My goodness, so many swords!”
“Is this the legendary sword mound? This is too spectacular!”
When the crowd saw this huge mountain in front of them, they could not help but marvel.
Even Li Nan felt shocked beyond measure when he saw this huge mountain in front of him.
The appearance of so many ancient swords at the same time was truly awe-inspiring.
At the same time, many people had already recognised the identity of this huge mountain, this was the Sword Mound of the Divine Martial Sword Sect!
Rumour had it that this sword mound was a sacred mountain with the ability to absorb sword intent from all over the world.
The ancient swords on this mound all came from ten thousand years ago.
This sword mound was also the key to the selection of disciples for the Divine Martial Sword Sect!
At this moment, not only Li Nan’s team, but also the other teams participating in the disciple selection had also arrived.
There were almost 10,000 people in a team, with a total of 50 teams.
According to the previous ratio, out of these 500,000 people today, only nearly 3,000 would be able to enter the sect, which meant that on average, out of the 10,000 people in this team, only nearly 60 would be able to enter the sect and become official disciples of the Divine Martial Sword Sect.
This ratio was already very low.
However, this was only a proportion, in reality, whether these people could be chosen by the Divine Martial Sword Sect depended entirely on their talent, that is, the degree of sword intent in their hearts.
If the sword intent in their hearts could meet the Divine Martial Sword Sect’s requirements, then they would naturally become official disciples; otherwise, they would have to leave directly.
At this moment, half a million people were gathered in the open space at the foot of the Sword Mound, and it had to be said that the sight of so many people gathered here at the same time was truly spectacular.
After everyone had taken up their positions, they heard a few sounds of breaking air.
Then, they saw several figures flying from the distance and hovering in mid-air directly in front of them.
When the crowd saw this scene, many of them were excited.
“Immortals! This is an immortal’s tactics!”
Although this was the True Martial Realm, it was rare for ordinary people to have seen a strong person above Earth Immortal, so they were also rather excited at this moment.
At this moment, when Li Nan looked at these few incoming people in the air, he also could not help but frown.
At a glance, he could see that the cultivation levels of these people in front of him were not weak.
In particular, the young man standing at the front had a cultivation level that was almost at the middle stage of Heavenly Immortality!
Even the few people behind him also had cultivation levels at or below Heavenly Immortal!
Obviously, these few people were definitely not of low status in the Divine Martial Sword Sect, and were at least true disciples!
As expected, the disciple leading the group said to the crowd with his divine thoughts, “The one at the front is our Senior Brother of the Divine Martial Sword Sect, Wu Ziyu, Senior Brother Wu, you all be quiet, don’t bump into Senior Brother!”
Hearing this, the crowd quieted down.
At this moment, Wu Ziyu was hovering in the air, his clothes were flowing, his looks were handsome, his aura was extraordinary, and he had the aura of an exiled immortal in the dust, which drew a low gasp from the crowd.
The girls, in particular, looked at Wu Ziyu with eyes that almost glowed with light.
At this moment, Wu Ziyu looked down at the crowd below and said, “Welcome to the current disciple selection of the Divine Martial Sword Sect. Regarding the rules of the selection, I think the disciples leading the team have already told you all about them, so I will not repeat them here. I declare that the selection of this year’s disciples officially begins!”
As Wu Ziyu gave the order, the disciples of the inner and outer sects, who had already prepared themselves in front of them, were all ready in front.
Those disciples were also divided into fifty chokepoints, waiting at the front for their respective teams to come forward, one after the other, for the initiation test.
On the way here, the disciple leading the group had already briefly explained the rules of the selection process to the crowd.
The key point of the selection was still the sword intent!
All the disciples would come forward and awaken the sword intent in their hearts according to the requirements of those disciples in charge of the examination.
Once they were able to have their sword intent awakened, that would at least mean that they had the qualifications to enter the Divine Martial Sword Sect and become a disciple of the sect.
However, whether one becomes an inner disciple or an outer disciple depends on the strength of the sword intent!
This sword intent is closely linked to the ancient sword on the sword mound!
The ancient swords in the Sword Mound are divided into nine grades according to their rank.
Among them, grades one to three are the lower grades.
Grades four to six are the middle grade.
Grades seven to nine are the upper grades.
As each person’s sword intent is awakened, they will attract the ancient sword on the sword mound to recognise their master.
If one is of ordinary talent, one will have the lower grade of ancient swords recognise their master, and this is an ordinary outer disciple.
If one’s talent is even higher and one is able to have a medium-grade ancient sword recognize one’s master, then one can become an inner disciple.
However, the amount of sword intent required to make a middle-grade ancient sword recognise its master was absolutely enormous, and for those disciples who had not yet entered the sect, it was almost impossible to do so.
Therefore, when ordinary people entered the sect, it was already very good to be able to awaken a lower-grade sword intent, and only very few people in the history of the Divine Martial Sword Sect had been able to do so.
Those who were able to possess a medium-grade sword intent before they entered the sect could be considered to be geniuses, geniuses who practised the sword dao!
It was almost unheard of for a person to awaken a top-grade sword intent and become a true disciple straight away.
Most of the time, the inner disciples and true disciples are the ones who cultivate step by step from the outer disciples, and then through the cultivation of their own sword intent, they are able to achieve this!