Chapter 955: The Competition for Disciplehood


    In the vast cosmos, a spirit cruiser was mid flight.


    The spirit cruiser had reached a nebulous zone before it was devoured by the sudden appearance of a ck entrance.


    The ancient self-standing space inside the ck entrance was where the core of the Oracle Fey Empire in the Ten Thousand Fey Empyrean Heaven was. Legends said that at the formation of the Ten Thousand Fey Empyrean Heaven, an Ancient Fey had died, leaving behind the world that was in its body. After a long period of time, the world had transformed into a space.


    In the ancient space, there was arge floating ind, with several small inds surrounding it. These inds were where people of high status lived in the Oracle Fey Empire. There were restrictive rings around the area, preventing people from approaching them.


    And on therge floating ind, there was the vast and bustling Fey empire. In the middle of the Fey empire stood more than tenrge towers, with surging martial intent exuding from them.


    Chi Zhuiyun lived in one of the towers. Ever since he had lost to Yi Yun in the Luo n, he had entered reclusion inside the tower.


    People woulde to visit him, either tofort him or to gloat, but Chi Zhuiyun did not meet them.


    Yu Tianfeng came to the tower’s entrance and he transmitted his voice to the tightly-closed door, “Do you still n on attaining a higher level of martial arts, or do you n on always losing to Yi Yun?”


    Just as Yu Tianfeng said this, the door opened.


    Chi Zhuiyun stood at the door and while looking at Yu Tianfeng, he said, “Yi Yun is no longer my goal. My goal is my own martial path.”


    He had thought through it. There were heavens beyond heavens, and people beyond people. Even if he did not lose to Yi Yun, he would have lost to someone else.


    Yu Tianfeng was surprised before he shook his head. “I came to tell you that all hope isn’t lost for you to be Felicitous Rain Lord’s disciple.”


    Chi Zhuiyun’s expression changed.


    He no longer treated Yi Yun as his opponent, but he obviously still wanted to be a Divine Lord’s disciple. That was his greatest regret.


    “Felicitous Rain Lord is about to leave the Oracle Fey Empire. He has failed to recruit a personal disciple, but he has agreed to the Oracle Imperial Patriarch to expand his recruitment by taking in a few in-name disciples,” said Yu Tianfeng.


    In-name disciples?


    Chi Zhuiyun’s eyebrows pricked up. A Divine Lord might only have a few personal disciples, but in-name disciples could number in the hundreds or thousands. Divine Lords that lived especially long might even have in-name disciples who die of age, resulting in them having tens of thousands of in-name disciples in total.


    A person like Felicitous Rain Lord had only be a Divine Lord for tens of thousands of years, but the number of in-name disciples that he had was already in the dozens.


    “Don’t underestimate in-name disciples. A Divine Lord’s in-name disciple isparable to the top geniuses of arge faction. Furthermore, by working for a Divine Lord, their status would not be low. Most importantly, there is a chance of bing a personal disciple by bing an in-name disciple!” Yu Tianfeng said as he could tell what was on Chi Zhuiyun’s mind.


    A Divine Lord’s personal disciple could sometimes be chosen from his in-name disciples.


    “In the disciple recruitment this time, in-name disciples of Felicitous Rain Lord will being, so they canpete for a spot as a personal disciple,” said Yu Tianfeng.


    Felicitous Rain Lord’s choosing of personal disciples was done through a selection throughout the Ten Thousand Fey Empyrean Heaven. Therefore, his in-name disciples were naturally eligible topete for it.


    “A chance to be a personal disciple!”


    Chi Zhuiyun’s eyes lit up.


    “It’s not possible for the Imperial Patriarch to block the spread of the news, and now, there should be geniuses from variousrge factionsing here. However, with your strength, in addition to you having gained Felicitous Rain Lord’s approval, it should not be a problem for you to be an in-name disciple.”


    Yu Tianfeng still had a grudge with Yi Yun. Chi Zhuiyun had gained Felicitous Rain Lord’s approval, and if not for Yi Yun’s putting his foot out, causing Chi Zhuiyun to miss the chance of bing a personal disciple, Chi Zhuiyun would not have topete to be an in-name disciple.


    Now, with the one year finishing, the surprisingly difficult requirement was not something that Yi Yun could aplish, even if he had three heads and six arms. It was not so simple to be a personal disciple of a Divine Lord.


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    The news of Felicitous Rain Lord’s recruiting in-name disciples quickly proliferated throughout the alliance!


    In theing days, there were spirit cruisers that constantly arrived at the ancient self-standing space.


    The capital of the Oracle Fey Empire was immediately where many geniuses gathered.


    There were geniuses fromrge factions who were gathered in the restaurants and tea shops every day. Yi Yun’s name would be mentioned from time to time.


    “Perhaps, Yi Yun from the Luo n mighte as well.” A warrior said.


    “Topete for a spot as an in-name disciple? That’s very possible!” Another warrior said. They had heard that Fairy Ningshuang had listed the requirements on Felicitous Rain Lord’s behalf. The requirements were prohibitively difficult. Even a genius like Yi Yun could not meet the requirements.


    “He has no chance of bing a personal disciple, but the chance of bing an in-name disciple obviously cannot be missed. If hees, wouldn’t our chances of bing in-name disciples be slimmer?” Another warrior shook his head with a wry smile.


    Aftering, they realized that the spots as in-name disciples of a Divine Lord were also extremely sought after. Top geniuses hade, and even Chi Zhuiyun was participating in it.


    However, they did not leave either. Since they had alreadye, they might as well take the opportunity to watch the recruitment. It was possible for them to gain insights from the performance of top geniuses.


    “The requirements that Fairy Ningshuang mentioned to be a personal disciple are impossible toplete.”


    “That’s right. Even Yi Yun could, it’s really too demanding.”


    While these warriors were conversing, they suddenly heard a cold snort. “A few frogs in a well. How can Martial Aunt Ningshuang be maligned by people like you?”


    This voice made the geniuses who were drinking wine frown. They were geniuses from various countries as well. So how could they be ridiculed? They immediately took an angry nce.


    The snort came from one of two ck-robed warriors who wore jade bands on their heads. One of them had long hair, with two white horns on his head. He was sneering as he looked at the warriors.


    The warriors looked at them with frowns on their faces. It was unknown what faction those two people came from. The clothing that they wore was something the warriors failed to recognize. They could only see the profound patterns on the jade bands.


    “Only shallow people will think that others can’t aplish what they can’t do.” The warrior with the horns on his head said with a tone of arrogance.


    “Such impressive blowing of one’s own trumpet, aren’t you afraid that the wind will get too strong and cut your tongue? Try aplishing it for me to see!” Anger shed on warrior’s face as he retorted.


    “My Senior Brothers, Song Wuchen and Tian Xun, would be able to aplish it.” The warrior said lightly.


    Song Wuchen? Tian Xun?


    The warriors present looked at each other. They had never heard any of those names before.


    “Junior Brother Zhang, why do you bother to talk to them?” said the warrior beside the horned warrior. “At the recruitment meeting, they will naturally know that Senior Brother Song Wuchen would definitely be able to be promoted to a personal disciple! These people actually believe that Martial Aunt’s requirements were given to Yi Yun, but Yi Yun is just the number one genius of a tiny country, so how can he be worthy to be given the requirement by her? Martial Aunt Ningshuang’s requirements were originally given to Senior Brothers Song Wuchen and Tian Xun.”


    The two warriors continued to speak,pletely ignoring the dirty looks from the other people in the restaurant.


    “Let’s go. It’s just a bunch of people dreaming to ascend to the heavens in a single step. In my point of view, Yi Yun and Chi Zhuiyun can only barely be in-name disciple. They can forget about bing a personal disciple!”


    The youth who spoke left behind a relic and left.


    “Promoted to a personal disciple? They called Fairy Ningshuang Martial Aunt? Could... they be Felicitous Rain Lord’s in-name disciples!?” A warrior suddenly said in shock.


    After Felicitous Rain Lord came to the Oracle Fey Empire, he lived on one of the independent floating inds. There were heavy restrictions ced around it. But now, the recruitment meet was chosen to be held at the Oracle Fey Empire’s capital to prevent the gathered geniuses from disturbing Felicitous Rain Lord. The disciples that lived on the independent inds with Felicitous Rain Lord naturally came to the royal capital as well.


    With that said, the two people were most likely Felicitous Rain Lord’s in-name disciples. The Song Wuchen they mentioned was likely one of Felicitous Rain Lord’s in-name disciples as well.


    These warriors quickly looked in the direction that the two had left in, but the two had taken two steps into the crowd before vanishing, with no traces of them being left behind.