GBP Chapter 150 An Explosion of Geniuses
Chapter 150 An Explosion of Geniuses
For the past thousand years, there has only been one way to become an extraordinary person—by becoming an apprentice.
Those sects that have been around for many years often have a fixed way of recruiting disciples.
Either the elders of the sect would go out and find a disciple they liked, and bring him back to the mountain to teach him skills.
Take the current Celestial Master Zhang Zhiwei, for example. He was brought back to the Celestial Master's Mansion by the previous Celestial Master Zhang Jingqing.
There are also cases like Wugensheng being found by a Taoist priest and Quanxing Wang Yaozu encountering Li Muxuan, which are all examples of extraordinary people finding their own disciples.
The advantage of this approach is that the disciples are often chosen by the master himself, and the relationship between master and disciple is usually quite harmonious.
However, its drawbacks are also quite obvious: disciples selected based on personal preference may not necessarily have high talent.
If the boy you find appealing happens to be exceptionally intelligent, that's fine. But if he's incredibly stupid, then you're in trouble, and you can't really just kick him out of the mountains.
Therefore, another method is more popular among those with supernatural abilities: recommendations from other individuals.
As the saying goes, dragons beget dragons and phoenixes beget phoenixes; a gifted person's children often have good talents as well.
Major sects all like to recruit the offspring of their own extraordinary individuals. Not only are they closely related and naturally considered as one of their own, but these individuals often possess considerable talent.
Even families like the Lu family, who don't have family-inherited techniques and don't pass on techniques learned from other sects, and more importantly, they have quite good talent.
For a long time in the past, every descendant of the Lu family was sought after by various sects.
Barring any unforeseen circumstances, the methods used by sects of extraordinary individuals to recruit disciples will likely continue in this manner.
But everything was ruined by something called "Qi-training radio gymnastics".
The various sects suddenly discovered that there were actually so many exceptionally talented young talents in the world!
Even if they are considered one in ten thousand geniuses, given the huge population base, the number of geniuses is still astronomical!
Countless people who were once hailed as geniuses of their families and the future hope of their sects bowed their heads in the face of those true geniuses who had successfully sensed Qi in just a few days, as described in the documents.
You said you sensed Qi in just one week? Are you the most outstanding one in your family in recent decades?
But a large number of people sensed it in less than a day.
You're a genius? But other people are even more talented!
The reason you have achieved what you have is simply because there is no one competing with you.
With the World Society officially hiring Lin Qi, a competition called the "Great Battle to Win Him Over" has officially begun!
This is a race without an end.
All-in-One, Celestial Master's Mansion, Wudang, Shaolin, Tang Clan...
One sect after another did their utmost to recruit those geniuses who had successfully sensed Qi to join them.
Qi cultivation gymnastics is merely a method of cultivating Qi and cannot be directly used in combat.
After the geniuses successfully sensed the Qi, the next important decision they faced was what type of cultivation method to learn.
Weapon crafting, divination, internal energy cultivation, body tempering...
Everyone has a different personality, and everyone likes different things.
Perhaps some unparalleled genius happens to fall in love with the kung fu of a small sect, and every sect will do its best to recruit students.
Although they were unsure whether these Qi-sensing geniuses would eventually become powerful superhumans, they knew that if your sect lost in this battle for talent, then only annihilation awaited you!
Although the people at Na Du Tong have been trying their best to win over geniuses, there are simply too many geniuses, and as a state agency, Na Du Tong cannot promise them too much.
Therefore, almost every sect snatched a few geniuses from Na Du Tong, and they all successfully recruited a group of genius disciples into their own sects.
Apart from a few special forces.
……
Wang family.
Wang Ai sat in the head seat with a gloomy expression, looking at the clansmen kneeling before him.
"Is this how you recruit people? Look at how few people you've recruited in all this time! At this rate, they'll all be snatched up by the end!"
Wang Ai, the head of the Wang family, one of the four major families, also keenly sensed the importance of this talent war. He immediately dispatched younger members of his family to recruit talents from the surrounding area.
However, almost all of them refused after hearing that the visitors were from the Wang family.
Putting aside the fact that the Wang family's reputation on the internet has been poor due to their theft of Feng Tianyang's Spirit Binding and Commanding skills.
More importantly, the Wang family is a powerful clan.
What genius would be so foolish as to join a family conglomerate?
No matter how well you do, you'll never have a chance to inherit the position of family head.
This resulted in almost no one being willing to join the Wang family. Only a few teenagers from poor families were persuaded by the Wang family to join after they talked to their parents.
The person kneeling on the ground wanted to explain to the head of the household that it would be difficult for them to recruit people given their circumstances.
But when he saw Wang Ai's furious face, he took back what he was about to say.
"I don't care what methods you use! I need to see twenty people successfully sensing Qi within three days!"
Upon hearing Wang Ai's orders, the Wang family members on the ground nearly fainted.
This is basically an impossible task!
Over the past two days, he has basically searched the entire neighborhood, but has only managed to recruit three people.
They need to recruit twenty people within three days! That's practically impossible!
But the thought of the consequences of disobeying Wang Ai's orders filled the Wang family members on the ground with fear.
"Yes...yes, I will definitely complete the mission!"
Watching her junior leave in a panic, Wang Ai couldn't help but sigh.
He knew that recruiting outsiders was a very difficult thing, but in order to maintain the status of the four major Wang families, he, Wang Ai, had to do it!
Among the four great families of the Extraordinary Realm—Wang, Lu, Lü, and Gao—the Lu family has no family-inherited skills, and their disciples are sent to various sects.
They had no intention of recruiting disciples.
The four major families were a great honor to them in the world of supernatural beings. Even if they were gone, it wouldn't stop them from sending their descendants to various sects.
Wang Ai's old friend Lü Ci has been staying in Lüjia Village without leaving his side ever since his double-handedness was exposed.
He didn't even glance at the Northeastern Fiend who appeared.
With the incredible innate ability of the Dual Hands, as long as the Lü family can safeguard their future, they'll be fine!
Although the Gao family did not have any family-inherited methods, they had long been closely associated with shamanic practices in Northeast China.
The household spirits worshipped by shamans are limited to a few, and the upper limit of disciples they can recruit is fixed. They basically have no need to recruit from outside; they just need to guard their own little territory.
The Wang family is different!
They have family-inherited techniques, and their techniques are not unique.
Neither divine magic nor spirit summoning is so special as to be irreplaceable in the world of supernatural beings.
If any family seizes this opportunity to grow in the future, they could potentially replace the Wang family and the other three major families at any time!
To prevent this from happening, Wang Ai was willing to pay any price!