Chapter 825

The only doubt remaining was whether she could reach the ninth layer of Heart-Questioning.

Besides Huayue, there was another little fox girl beside her, who had also reached the third layer of Heart-Questioning.

It could be seen that although her talent was not as good as Huayue's, she was still outstanding compared to others.

It was just that what surprised Lisa and the others was that this little fox girl would stare straight at Xiao from time to time, and that blushing look...

One could guess the situation with their toes.

This gave Lisa and the others some interest in gossiping.

Fortunately, Kiana and Mei had been to the Qingqiu Fox clan with Ganyu, and at that time, this little fox girl had also asked about Xiao's situation...

Listening to Kiana and Mei's words, a sense of satisfaction from gossiping arose spontaneously in everyone.

They couldn't help but want to see Xiao's expression when he was followed by this little fox girl.

On the other side, Zhongli also heard what Kiana said and immediately had a strange expression, but...

he didn't resist Xiao having feelings; in fact, he was quite supportive.

Anyway, Xiao wasn't young anymore; finding a Dao companion...

wasn't impossible.

Shushan didn't forbid disciples from having private relationships; Ganyu and Yae Miko had already become representative figures.

Besides that, there were Lisa, Ningguang, Furina, and others, whose thoughts were almost written on their faces.

Suddenly, Zhongli's expression toward that little fox girl became a bit kind.

Besides these two, there was also a little girl with only one wing; she was the daughter of the leader of the Bi-Wing Bird clan.

She was also someone Kiana and the others had seen, and she had already reached the fourth layer of the Heart-Questioning Array.

She looked like she was still handling it with ease; I reckon that among the disciples joining Shushan this time, her talent should be second only to Huayue's.

Of course, the three people above were the most prominent; besides them, there were some particularly excellent existences.

For example, the young master of the East Sea Jiao clan, who had a single horn on his head and a cold face.

The young man with bright golden sharp eyes that seemed to see through everything, the son of the Golden Eagle leader of the Peng clan.

These geniuses were all offspring of leaders of large clans; seeing them perform excellently in the recruitment ceremony,

these leaders were blooming with joy.

Their children joining Shushan meant that their own clans had a close relationship with Shushan.

In this world, they would be secure.

However...

they still had to tell them about the Shushan survival rules.

Otherwise, these Spirit clan prodigies were all arrogant, and it would be troublesome if they caused trouble.

552. Recruit disciples, Zhongli

The scale of this recruitment ceremony was huge, lasting almost three full days, and finally, the number of people joining Shushan was barely determined.

Fifty million people came for the assessment, and the final number of people who passed was thirty-four thousand.

Among them, there were only eight core disciples.

Nahida, the Dendro Archon of Teyvat, and Siegfried of the Honkai world; both were at the early stage of Refining Qi into Spirit.

The remaining six...

had quite significant backgrounds.

Huayue, leader of the Qingqiu Fox clan, peak Refining Qi into Spirit.

Yiming, daughter of the leader of the Bi-Wing Bird clan, early Refining Qi into Spirit.

Ao Bing, young master of the East Sea Jiao clan, early Refining Qi into Spirit.

Jin Yi, young master of the Southern Peng clan, early Refining Qi into Spirit.

Hua Ling'er, daughter of the leader of the Flower Immortal clan, early Refining Qi into Spirit.

The above five people just happened to correspond to the five major clans currently in Shushan; as for the last one, it was Shi Man, the young master of the Stone Spirit clan.

The Stone Spirit clan had few people, and their birth was not like other Spirit clans; they were solitary, only born from stones filled with spiritual energy.

Counting them all up, the entire Shushan Stone Spirit clan only had a few dozen people.

But even so, the Stone Spirit clan was definitely the strongest in individual strength.

Any Stone Spirit clan member, once born, was at the late stage of Refining Essence into Qi.

However, it took at least eight thousand years for a Stone Spirit clan member to go from gestation to birth.

The Stone Spirit clan members were good at close-quarters combat, and their bodies were incarnations of various top-tier minerals; their defense was also in a class of its own in the world.

If it weren't for the small number of people, they would be enough to become the sixth largest clan in the Shushan world.

However, the Stone Spirit clan members had slow brain circuits; generally, they had no interest in dominating the world, and every day they either cultivated or turned back into stones to sleep.

That Shi Man also had the characteristics of the Stone Spirit clan; everyone else was struggling to pass the Heart-Questioning Array,

but Shi Man fell asleep.

If he hadn't been pulled out at the end, I reckon this guy would have slept until the ninth layer of Heart-Questioning ended.

This kind of array involving the Dao heart and divine sense was really useless for the Stone Spirit clan.

After all...

one couldn't expect a pile of stones to be full of thinking power.

However, this was also an advantage.

Besides the eight core disciples above, there were nearly four thousand Inner Sect disciples, and the rest were Outer Sect disciples.

It is worth mentioning that the Valkyries seemed to have innate resistance in this regard.

There were as many as one hundred and ten thousand who passed the first layer of Heart-Questioning.

In other words, the Honkai world produced at least one hundred and ten thousand Outer Sect disciples.

This made Ningguang and the others very envious.

However, currently, Teyvat still had more high-end combat power in Shushan.

High-end combat power is the true foundation of the cultivation world.

Regardless, this recruitment ceremony had come to a successful conclusion.

Many Outer Sect Elders took away the Outer Sect disciples, while the Inner Sect and core disciples were taken by Zhongli toward Tongtian Peak.

Many Spirit clan geniuses also became increasingly nervous.

For people from the Honkai world, joining Shushan might be enough, but for those who had lived in the cultivation world for a long time and understood it better,

only by taking a master could they be considered to have a true backer.

They didn't dare to think about becoming a disciple of Shushan Sect Master Jiang Yan.

Jiang Yan had only taken one disciple, Klee, who was known to the entire Shushan world as the strongest prodigy in the current world.

On the prodigy list ranked by busybodies, others' positions might be questioned, but only Klee firmly occupied the top spot.

Having cultivated for less than half a year, she went from the middle stage of Refining Essence into Qi to the early stage of Refining Qi into Spirit, and was even about to break through again.

This kind of talent was truly rare.

But even if Jiang Yan didn't take disciples, they weren't without other targets.

Without Jiang Yan, there were other Head Seat Elders.

Just say that the Head Seat Elders of Shushan hadn't taken disciples yet; if they took them as their first disciples, then...

Thinking of this, Ao Bing and the others became excited.

Before long, everyone arrived at Tongtian Peak.

Here, Ningguang and the others had been waiting for a long time.

Ao Bing and the others didn't dare to delay and immediately bowed to greet them.

Ningguang and the others nodded slightly and looked at the cultivators within their own forces.

This time, Xiangling, Yaoyao, and others also joined Shushan and became Inner Sect disciples.

Counting it up, it made Ningguang and the others quite satisfied.

Everyone didn't make a noise, and after waiting for a while, the gate of Tongtian Peak suddenly opened wide.

Everyone looked with awe at the young man sitting at the very front; that was the legendary Shushan Sect Master.

Beside him sat Ganyu and Yae Miko, and Klee was clinging to Jiang Yan, hugging him and dozing off.

"Greetings, Sect Master."

Thousands of people bowed in unison, a grand display, and Jiang Yan looked at everyone with satisfaction.