9: Chapter 9: The Core Formation Clan Vies for a Disciple!

In any cultivation land, a Wood Attribute Heavenly Spiritual Root Aptitude is a favored son or daughter of heaven in any School or any Family.

One could say that as long as one possesses a Heavenly Spiritual Root Aptitude and does not perish prematurely, they are guaranteed to at least become a Core Formation Stage Cultivator who condenses a Golden Core in the future.

In any School or any Family, Core Formation Stage Cultivators are almost always figures at the level of a Family Old Ancestor, serving as the pillars of the foundation.

Under these circumstances, upon learning that Zhao Changsheng possessed a Wood Attribute Heavenly Spiritual Root Aptitude, the entire Yellow Maple Valley fell into a state of ecstasy.

After all, having an additional Disciple with a Heavenly Spiritual Root Aptitude was equivalent to ensuring a Core Formation Stage Cultivator for the School in the future; if luck was good enough, they might even become a Nascent Soul Stage Cultivator.

Given this situation, the entirety of Yellow Maple Valley was naturally filled with incomparable joy and happiness.

Zhao Changsheng was also settled in a palace. Because this matter was of great importance, the Yellow Maple Valley Sect Head needed to report to the Core Formation Stage Cultivators within Yellow Maple Valley, and even to the Nascent Soul Stage Old Ancestor of Yellow Maple Valley, Old Monster Linghu, for them to decide how to settle Zhao Changsheng.

Regardless, Zhao Changsheng's future was filled with infinite possibilities and hope. As long as he did not perish early, his future achievements would at least reach the level of a Core Formation Stage Cultivator.

In this situation, no one dared to be negligent, nor was it possible to be so.

After all, once Zhao Changsheng became a Core Formation Stage Cultivator in the future, dealing with a Foundation Establishment Stage Disciple or manager would be far too easy.

Even if he were to perish by then, his descendants, Disciples, and Family would remain safe and sound.

Besides, there were simply too many Disciples and managers who wanted to take Zhao Changsheng as their Disciple.

Zhao Changsheng also could not refuse to receive them, especially those managers—he would need their help to establish himself in Yellow Maple Valley in the future. Thus, he did his best to host these managers and avoid being negligent.

As for the other Yellow Maple Valley Disciples who came to visit this Heavenly Spiritual Root Disciple, he received those he could and politely declined those he couldn't. He truly didn't want to become a giant panda for everyone to gawk at.

Eventually, Zhao Changsheng simply declined all visitors and focused on Cultivating alone in his palace, while asking the Yellow Maple Valley Disciples guarding the outside to help turn away the Disciples and managers who came to visit.

Regarding this request, although the two Yellow Maple Valley Disciples outside were both at the Foundation Establishment Stage, they didn't dare to be negligent and immediately agreed—after all, Zhao Changsheng's current status was completely different from other Disciples.

To put it bluntly, even if Zhao Changsheng claimed to be the Saint of Yellow Maple Valley now, no one would dare object, because his current status was essentially that. It was just that a proper arrangement had not yet been made.

For one, Zhao Changsheng had entered Yellow Maple Valley through an immortal ascension token. This wasn't a huge deal—though immortal ascension tokens hadn't appeared for centuries, they weren't unheard of.

The trouble, however, was that the Cultivation Family behind Zhao Changsheng had completely vanished, leaving him without a single connection to the other Cultivation Families in Yellow Maple Valley. This made it easy for various Cultivation Families to clash and fight over him, and there would certainly be many more overt and covert struggles in the future.

They did this to win over a future Core Formation Stage Cultivator for their Family, ideally through marriage—marrying a woman from the Family to Zhao Changsheng as his Dao Companion, or at the very least, a concubine.

In any case, they absolutely could not let a future Core Formation Stage Cultivator like Zhao Changsheng slip away; otherwise, if the Family declined, it would be too late for regrets.

Such were the thoughts of the managers from the various Cultivation Families in Yellow Maple Valley.

Besides the various Cultivation Families in Yellow Maple Valley, the Cultivation Families of several other Schools outside Yellow Maple Valley shared similar thoughts.

By now, the news of Yellow Maple Valley gaining a Heavenly Spiritual Root Disciple who joined the School through an immortal ascension token had spread throughout the entire Yue Country Cultivation World.

The fact that a Disciple with a Heavenly Spiritual Root Aptitude had come to them voluntarily made the Sect Heads, managers, and Elders of the other Schools itch with envy.

They simply couldn't imagine how such a stroke of good luck had fallen upon Yellow Maple Valley.

Although a Heavenly Spiritual Root Aptitude didn't guarantee reaching the Nascent Soul Stage in the future, it at least ensured the Core Formation Stage—how could they accept that such a choice piece of meat had fallen to Yellow Maple Valley, and of his own accord at that?

But no matter how unacceptable it was, they had to accept it. Who told Yellow Maple Valley to have such luck?

Thus, after living in the palace for a full month, Zhao Changsheng was finally invited by the guarding Disciples to return to the previous Discussion Hall. This time, besides the Yellow Maple Valley Sect Head, Sect Master, the rest were a group of middle-aged male and female Cultivators; as for the previous managers, not one appeared. Before these six or seven people, the Sect Head was as humble as a Disciple—undoubtedly, these middle-aged Cultivators were the Core Formation Stage Cultivators of Yellow Maple Valley.

When Zhao Changsheng entered the hall, all eyes fell upon him. Although he kept his head low, he was secretly sizing up the Core Formation Cultivators in the hall. He recognized a few: one was a Daoist nun in red robes with a fierce Qi between her brows, clearly Hong Fu, the strongest Core Formation Cultivator in Yellow Maple Valley; the second was a large fat man, the fattest Zhao Changsheng had ever seen, practically a round ball, undoubtedly Lei Wanhe; as for the last one, it was Li Huayuan, whose position was at the very end, exerting the least pressure on Zhao Changsheng. He didn't recognize the remaining Core Formation Cultivators, so he didn't look further, only bowing respectfully to each of them as instructed by the Yellow Maple Valley Sect Head.

If it were any other Disciple, even one with a Variant Spiritual Root Aptitude, they would have to wait until after Foundation Establishment to be chosen by these Core Formation Cultivators.

If they were a step too slow, the Disciple might be picked by someone else.

In that case, not to mention letting themselves down, they would be letting their Family down. Moreover, as a Disciple with a Heavenly Spiritual Root Aptitude, there was simply no such thing as being unable to achieve Foundation Establishment; even Core Formation was just a matter of time and an absolute possibility. Naturally, Zhao Changsheng was qualified to become their Disciple.

This was mainly because the Grand Elder, Old Monster Linghu, was currently contemplating how to advance further and couldn't be bothered with such matters of taking a Disciple—after all, Zhao Changsheng was not yet a Core Formation Stage Cultivator, so there was no need for him to take him as a Disciple yet. Old Monster Linghu primarily believed his own cultivation was more important; as for the matter of the Heavenly Spiritual Root Disciple, it was enough to leave it to these Core Formation Cultivators to handle.