The righteous path punishes Heaven

Chapter 141 Taoist Sect Accepts Disciples

Zhongzhou, the Daotian Continent.

Several months ago, after the various clans and forces obtained their own opportunities in the Immortal Ruins, everyone tacitly chose to start improving their own strength to avoid meaningless internal strife.

Everyone knows that the flood disaster eight hundred years ago caused enormous damage to Zhongzhou, and cultivators need to use the legacy left by their ancestors to begin restoring their original strength.

In the western part of the mainland, the Su family, one of the four major families of Zhongzhou, has made new moves.

The Su family patriarch, Su Hongshan, sat upright in the council hall, with other family elders seated on his left and right. These dozens of people gathered to discuss one matter: the reopening of the three major Daoist sects to recruit disciples.

Since the third natural disaster struck, the major sects and forces in the Central Continent have taken the initiative to lower their requirements and conditions for recruiting disciples in order to quickly replenish their ranks with fresh blood, and have recruited many young cultivators who survived the natural disaster.

However, resources are limited. After bringing all the elite disciples with excellent cultivation and talent under their command, the three major Daoist sects took the lead in stopping the recruitment of disciples and began to use the best cultivation techniques and the richest resources to train these new disciples.

The quality of other sects is uneven. Even though a few famous sects are still recruiting, everyone knows that no matter how severely they are ravaged by disaster, the three major sects are still the strongest and most profound sect forces in the Central Plains.

Su Hongshan had two sons and a daughter. His eldest son, Su Junliang, was originally supposed to be the successor of the next generation of the Su family patriarch, enjoying the best cultivation resources and becoming a prodigy admired by thousands.

But the truth is quite the opposite. Su Junliang is a complete spoiled brat who often uses his status as the eldest son of the Su family to bully others. He has a violent personality and his cultivation is also very poor. Su Hongshan dislikes this eldest son very much.

The second brother, Su Zeyu, was different. He didn't have the airs of a young master. Instead, he was kind and gentle, handsome, and elegant. He also had excellent talent in cultivation, having reached the Great Perfection of the Golden Core Realm at the young age of twenty-five.

Of course, this is definitely related to the Su family's abundant cultivation resources, but compared to his elder brother Su Junliang, Su Zeyu's performance is already very good, and the patriarch Su Hongshan also has higher hopes for him.

This time, the three major Daoist sects reopened their recruitment of disciples after three hundred years, with each sect recruiting twenty disciples. These sixty spots became the target of competition among the major forces in Zhongzhou.

No one really knows the current strength of the three major Daoist sects, but even the glorious history left by the three major Daoist sects a thousand years ago is enough for all cultivators in the Central Continent to admit that no matter what era comes, the three major Daoist sects will always be at the top of the pyramid of strength in the entire Central Continent.

The Su family, one of the four major families, originally planned to send two sons of the patriarch Su Hongshan and the eldest son of the Grand Elder to participate in the selection of Daoist disciples.

However, because Su Junliang was really disappointing, Su Hongshan had no confidence in him, so he left a spot open and planned to let his third daughter, Su Jiamo, try it out.

The reason she suffers from this prejudice is ultimately because Su Jiamo is not a legitimate child, and could even be considered an illegitimate child.

She was a beautiful maid who served him in bed. It happened shortly after Su Hongshan became the clan leader and won a clan operation. He was drunk at the banquet and, in a drunken stupor, raped her.

Su Hongshan was not a heartless person, so he allowed the maid to give birth to the child, who became Su Hongshan's third daughter, Su Jiamo.

She inherited her mother's beauty and her father's talent for cultivation. At only twenty-two years old, she has already reached the half-step Nascent Soul realm, and the golden core in her body has shown some signs of transformation into a Nascent Soul.

However, because of her humble origins, even with such talent in cultivation, many people still secretly mocked and ridiculed Su Jiamo.

But Su Jiamo never cared. From childhood to adulthood, she never harbored any resentment towards anyone. She treated her maid mother with utmost care, showing her gentleness and filial piety.

She also deeply respected her clan chief father. Even though Su Hongshan held a patriarchal view and only accepted her out of pity, Su Jiamo kept this kindness in her heart and silently repaid her clan chief father in the days to come.

Three days later, at the Su family compound.

The Su family patriarch Su Hongshan, the second young master Su Zeyu, the third young lady Su Jiamo, and the elder's son Su Jing, the most talented young talents in the entire Su family, carrying the family's expectations, traveled thousands of miles to Taiping Dao, one of the three major Daoist sects, to participate in the disciple recruitment ceremony, also known as the Immortal Fate Assembly.

Su Hongshan handed the three storage bags to the three boys respectively, and instructed them:

"You are going there on behalf of the Su family and the face of the four great families of Zhongzhou. Even if you are not completely confident, I hope you will all do your best to give it your all! The family has nurtured you into talents, but you will have to walk your own path from now on. You must all live for your own future!"

"Yes!" the three answered in unison, accepting the storage bag handed over by the clan leader and bowing respectfully.

Su Hongshan turned to the group of burly men and ordered, "You are the most skilled family soldiers in the Su family. You will lead the convoy and escort them safely to their destination!"

"Yes!" Several soldiers bowed respectfully.

Similar situations were unfolding in other clans and factions, with everyone fiercely vying for the right to recruit disciples from the three major Daoist sects.