Logically speaking, the proportion of cultivators in the cultivation world is high, and 80% to 90% of mortals are descendants of cultivators, so the chances of finding spiritual roots are much higher than in the secular world.

However, there are also many troublemakers in the cultivation world.

First of all, the wild environment is full of dangers.

Monsters roam freely, and they often appear to block their path.

Although Lin Yitang and his group outnumbered the enemy, they dared not be careless in the face of powerful demonic beasts. They had to remain vigilant at all times while passing through the wilderness, ready to fight at any moment.

Secondly, the power dynamics within towns are complex and intertwined. Local lords, overlords, and other powerful figures may refuse to cooperate with the apprenticeship recruitment efforts for various reasons.

Lin Yitang and others need to communicate and coordinate with these forces, and sometimes they even need to use certain means and resources to achieve their goals.

Even in seemingly ordinary villages in the cultivation world, there are some treacherous individuals harboring impure motives. They might obstruct Lin Yitang and the others' apprenticeship recruitment efforts for their own selfish gain.

In the mortal world, most villages treat immortal masters with utmost respect and dare not disobey their words. However, villages in the cultivation world seem to care less about immortal masters.

This was the first village Lin Yitang visited.

Because the village has a spirit-testing stone, the village chief intends to keep the genius within the clan instead of giving him to a sect, thus hiding the genius away.

It was only after Lin Yitang scanned the village with her divine sense that she discovered this. In this village, three out of more than ten children possessed spiritual roots, and one of them even had dual spiritual roots. If the clan leader didn't grant them the points, then everyone in this group would lose four hundred points.

When Lin Yitang discovered that the person wanted to take him away, the ignorant clan chief said that a person with dual spiritual roots could shine anywhere and did not need the protection of the Taique Sect. The village had enough resources to allow the child to grow to the Foundation Establishment stage!

These words made Lin Yitang laugh in anger. How much resources could a village with only a few cultivators have? Even she, with her golden finger, had to obtain them from the sect. Leaving the child in the village would only ruin the child's future.

His men had to plead and explain to the villagers before the village chief finally agreed to release the man.

Lin Yitang then arrived at the next village, where she encountered something even more terrifying.

Some families in this village actually only send their boys to be tested for spiritual roots, while keeping their girls at home.

Fortunately, Lin Yitang had developed the habit of using her divine sense to explore the area, which allowed her to find the group of girls. The final result was also very satisfying: none of the boys in the village had spiritual roots, but a full five of the girls did.

One of them is even a genius with a single spiritual root!

The whole team was overjoyed to see this result.

When Lin Yitang was about to take the girls away, some of the girls' parents grabbed her skirts and wouldn't let her go, crying and demanding that Lin Yitang take their boys with her as well, threatening to kill themselves if she didn't.

Lin Yitang knocked the people unconscious with a few blows and threw them aside, ignoring them.

Some parents, who were cultivators themselves, actually tried to stop Lin Yitang, saying that their daughter was to be given to the rogue cultivator next door as a furnace, and that they would not let her take her away.

This made Lin Yitang lose her temper, and she beat these cultivators up with two slaps, leaving them bruised and battered, almost losing half their lives.

Then, dragging his limp legs, he made him lead the way to the so-called 'neighboring rogue cultivator's' house, where they arrested the evil cultivator who was raising the furnace cauldron.

The girls behind her hid timidly, watching their parents being beaten, but they showed no signs of unhappiness.

Some looked numb, while others trembled with fear.

Lin Yitang turned and glanced at them. Children like them would probably need some time to move on from the past. But since they've entered the world of cultivation, they'll surely recover gradually.

The tradition in the cultivation world is that strength is paramount, and under the influence of this atmosphere, most people's mentality will change.

The original owner was an exception. The original owner entered the sect at a very young age and accepted the idea that he was a genius from childhood. That's why his mentality collapsed so much and he fell into an abyss of no return when Ye Qiuli stole the limelight and the care of those around him.

They put the children back on the flying boat, and everyone regained their confidence.

It seems that the reason we couldn't recruit disciples before was because the proportion in the secular world was too low. It's only normal in the cultivation world!

Everyone put in their best effort to recruit disciples. The number of disciples on the immortal ship also increased from one hundred to more than two hundred.

However, Lin Yitang has been running herself ragged during this time.

She needs to communicate with the city lord of the immortal cultivation city, the immortal cultivation forces, the immortal cultivation lords, various village chiefs and town mayors, and even with the demon beasts in some areas.

She felt like a high-speed gear in a machine, never expecting that being a team leader would involve so much work, leaving her no time even to take on disciples.

This left her feeling quite helpless. Usually, this kind of work is done by supporting characters in novels; she never realized that being a supporting character could be so tiring! If it weren't for the captain's points, she wouldn't want to do it at all!

As expected, people still have to bow to life's demands. Who would have thought that the work done by various supporting characters would earn the most points?

A week gradually passed. Every place within the territory of the Taique Sect in the cultivation world had been thoroughly searched.

The gathering of over two hundred outer disciples and more than two hundred new disciples on the Immortal Ship made Lin Yitang feel incredibly fulfilled.

It's a sure thing, this time we've really made a killing with points.

She has a record of all the children that these disciples have taken in. Even though she didn't participate in many disciple recruitments after arriving in the cultivation world, the number of people she had taken in in the mortal world had already reached several thousand points, so she wouldn't have to worry about cultivation resources for a long time to come!

To her surprise, the number of people received by the cultivation world was almost the same as the number received by the mortal world.

Logically, children in the cultivation world should have a higher chance of possessing spiritual roots, so there should be more. Why then did the mortal world receive one hundred students, while the cultivation world only received one hundred?

She asked her squad leader, "Why have you only received so few people from the cultivation world? Have you really searched every place?"

The squad leaders shook their heads helplessly. They admitted that they had indeed been to every corner of the place, but to be honest, most people with spiritual roots came from families or powerful forces. Those regional sects had separate quotas and did not need them to recruit.

In comparison, the proportion of children with spiritual roots in villages and ordinary families is not much different in the secular world and the cultivation world. In the cultivation world, more people go to sects on their own, so there are fewer disciples that can be deliberately recruited.

Lin Yitang nodded to indicate that she understood. She assigned a few people to take care of the ordinary children's food, clothing, and daily necessities, and then led the rest of the people to the border of the Taique Sect's territory.

This time, she's going to start doing a real mission, which is to investigate the beast tide.

In fact, she had been searching for traces of the beast tide for the past two weeks, but had not received a single piece of information.

She suspected that these early small beast tides might not have occurred within the sect's jurisdiction, but rather in unclaimed areas belonging to the sect and other forces.

After all, the monsters that launched the beast tide are also intelligent. They know they cannot have conflicts with major sects. They will only attack major forces when they have become powerful enough.

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