The atmosphere in the hall had already become strange long before the final recruit remained standing. One after another, the top ten recruits were claimed.
The Rank Four recruits disappeared first, each eventually accepting an elder after lengthy discussions and negotiations. Some elders departed looking satisfied while others looked as if they had just suffered a financial catastrophe.
The Rank Three recruits followed soon after.
Both possessed enough talent that competition had been fierce, yet eventually they too selected their future masters.
The sword carrying young woman joined an elder from the Heavenly Edge Sword Division while the scholarly youth accepted an elder from the Strategic Records Pavilion, a division famous for producing advisors, tacticians, and administrators for the sect.
That left only three people: Little Bull, Lushi Tangmen and the butterfly bloodline genius.
The butterfly bloodline genius proved surprisingly easy.
