In front of the mountain gate stood several hundred young people.
They were students from Tianyu Academy who had graduated early and rushed to Qingyang Commandery, all for the purpose of joining the Iron Bones Sect to follow Sect Leader Jun and learn the martial way.
“Students,” Sect Leader Jun stood before the main gate and declared loudly, “Once you join my Iron Bones Sect, you’ll be Iron Bones Sect disciples for life. You must think this through carefully.”
System: “…”
Readers already thought you were begging people to recruit disciples, and now that people are voluntarily coming to join, you’re putting on airs. This guy is truly shameless!
“Teacher Jun!” a student said. “We’ve already thought it through. We’re willing to be Iron Bones Sect disciples for life!”
“Since that’s the case, then enter the sect in order,” Jun Changxiao said.
He handed the task of processing entry procedures to Li Qingyang and Xiao Zuiji and others, while he himself returned to his study.
Recruiting disciples would continue for a long time yet—he definitely couldn’t handle everything personally forever.
“Name.”
“Huang Chengquan!”
“Name.”
“Li Haiyi!”
“…”
Ding! Ding!
Just as Sect Leader Jun sat down in his study, notification sounds for disciples entering and contribution points increasing rang out continuously.
Beautiful, comfortable.
“Little Dragon,” looking at the fire dragon sleeping in its small nest, Jun Changxiao interlaced his ten fingers and murmured, “When will you wake up?”
The little fellow had fallen into hibernation before the three hundred thousand troops from Zhenyang Commandery attacked, and to this day still hadn’t awakened.
“Last time you woke up, you could completely dominate a second-rank Wuwang. After waking up this time, will you be able to completely crush a Wuhuang?”
Jun Changxiao was very much looking forward to it.
“Ding! Sect members: 5301/10000.”
“Ding! Sect contribution points: 10001/10000.”
“Ding! Contribution points overflow, please host…”
“It’s full already?”
Jun Changxiao focused his thoughts and opened the system shop.
He didn’t browse through items but instead selected the Muscle Sculpting Chamber and directly spent 2000 contribution points to purchase 100 Muscle Sculpting Chambers.
With more and more disciples, basic equipment naturally needed to be purchased in greater quantities.
“The training hall will need to be expanded,” Jun Changxiao murmured. “Otherwise it’ll be difficult to fit so many sculpting chambers.”
Dusk arrived.
There were over six hundred students who came to join, and after recruiting them all, the Iron Bones Sect’s numbers rose from 5042 to 5662.
This was just the beginning.
Over the next few short days, students continued to come and apply for entry.
Students who could enter Tianyu Academy definitely all had outstanding aptitude, so Sect Leader Jun accepted everyone without discrimination, taking them all as disciples.
Someone came to spy on the sect’s secrets?
Fine, this seat will generously welcome them in. If they can take away even a single useful piece of information, I’ll write my previous sect leader’s surname backwards!
Five days later, students who had graduated early had all gradually arrived.
The Iron Bones Sect’s numbers jumped directly from over 5000 to 9002.
“Sect Leader,” Jiang Xie’s mouth twitched. “On this trip to the Royal City, you practically emptied out Tianyu Academy’s students, didn’t you?”
Strictly speaking, he really did empty it out.
Some students who didn’t come were mainly just enrolled—once they cultivated for a year or two, they’d definitely also come join the Iron Bones Sect.
After the battle at Sacred Spring Sect, the Iron Bones Sect had gained enough prestige in Qingyang Commandery to attract almost all young people with decent aptitude.
Now, throughout the entire Southwest Yang Province territory, talented and gifted students had almost all been caught in his net.
No wonder when the various sects’ branch offices learned of this matter, they sighed that once the Iron Bones Sect rose, it would be unstoppable!
Gathering all the geniuses of an entire province, with a sect leader who himself had extremely high martial arts attainment—once these disciples matured, it would definitely be terrifying!
Just Southwest Yang Province?
No, no.
Jun Changxiao wanted to expand outward.
His ultimate goal was to gather all the outstanding talents under heaven into the Iron Bones Sect, establishing the strongest sect that would make the world bow down in worship!
Nearly four thousand students joining gained him 4000 contribution points.
Sect Leader Jun didn’t refresh the shop or purchase shop items, but instead invested everything in basic infrastructure.
Over several days, he bought 200 sculpting chambers alone.
Combined with the previous ones, all uniformly placed in one large room, the scene presented was quite spectacular.
Newly entered disciples, regardless of what kind of cultivation they’d experienced at the academy or how good their foundation was, all had to undergo sculpting.
And so, over these several days, we would often see many people lying on the ground with expressions of utter despair.
Many disciples meant high consumption.
Jun Changxiao went to the Medicine Hall to have warm exchanges with the members, encouraging them to focus more intently on cultivating medicinal herbs.
At the same time, he also established a Procurement Hall, with Hall Master temporarily concurrently held by Li Luoqiu, responsible for going into the city to purchase various medicinal herbs, seeds, and other items.
“Sect Leader,” Elder Wei said, “the Medicine Hall lacks manpower.”
“Tomorrow during morning exercises, you can personally select some,” Jun Changxiao said.
“That works.”
The next day, Elder Wei selected a hundred relatively steady disciples from the newly entered disciples, expanding the Medicine Hall’s scale.
Xue Rengui said, “Sect Leader, my Wolf Cavalry Hall also needs to expand recruitment.”
Although the wolf cubs hadn’t fully grown yet, disciples could be trained in advance, so once they were equipped with mounts, they could go directly onto the battlefield!
“Select freely.”
And so, Xue Rengui selected 1000 disciples, breaking through the Wolf Cavalry Hall’s numbers to 2000.
Li Luoqiu naturally wouldn’t miss out, selecting several dozen clever disciples.
“Just a thousand more disciples needed to upgrade from sect to grand sect.”
When the gap was still nearly 5000 disciples, Sect Leader Jun wasn’t too anxious, but now seeing it was about to reach 10000, he was definitely getting a bit impatient.
“Sect Leader!” Li Qingyang came to see him and said, “Outside there’s a young man named Jing Wugou who says he wants to visit our sect and challenge our Iron Bones Sect disciples!”
Jun Changxiao was startled, then his mouth twitched as he said, “This guy really dares to come!”
…
Iron Bones Sect, martial arts arena.
Jing Wugou stood proudly in white robes.
Although at the academy he’d been sent flying by Jun Changxiao’s loving iron fist, his determination to challenge the Iron Bones Sect had already been made.
He wasn’t here to show off—he just wanted to see for himself: if even a little girl was that strong, just how profound was the cultivation of the other disciples!
The newly entered disciples gathered together, whispering and discussing among themselves.
They never imagined that the Elite Rankings’ tenth-ranked senior would actually come to the sect to challenge them!
Impressive! Brave!
Jing Wugou cupped his hands and said, “Teacher Jun, your sect was rated among the top three, so your disciples must have extraordinary qualities. This student has specially come today to seek instruction.”
This guy wants to challenge us?
Su Xiaomo and Li Fei immediately grinned.
This person’s emanating aura was at most that of a first or second-rank Wuzong. To dare come knocking to challenge them—his courage was commendable!
“No problem,” Jun Changxiao said. “Standing below are my Iron Bones Sect’s inner sect disciples. Choose anyone you like.”
Looking at those twenty disciples, Jing Wugou said, “This student would never exchange blows with a girl, so…” He paused, then pointed at one person and said, “I’ll spar with him.”
“…”
Su Xiaomo and Li Fei’s mouths twitched.
Because this fellow had actually chosen to spar with—Ye Xingchen!
Little brother, may you be able to leave the Iron Bones Sect with your dignity intact.