Chapter 32: The Founder’s Boon (1)
Whether or not a disciple could obtain the Founder’s boon was the clearest reflection of their innate talent. However, despite standing for a long time and watching six groups of disciples taking their turns, Wei Yuan saw only one disciple who received something from the Founder.
Right now, Zhang Sheng was currently standing a good distance away from Wei Yuan and conversing with Sun Yu. All the other elders and seniors were waiting there as well. As per the rules, they must stand at least ten zhang away from the main hall.
The scholar looked over the new disciples once before commenting, “There were more disciples this year than in the previous years.”
“Is it? We’ve only accepted a total of one hundred and fifty disciples from seventeen provinces. That’s not even ten disciples per province.”
“There were only eight-four disciples in my year,” Zhang Sheng countered.
Sun Yu replied, “True Lord Yan Shi advocates for opening our gates to all people and teaching without discrimination. In my opinion, taking on more disciples isn’t necessarily a bad thing.”
“I hope so.”
It was at this moment a new group of disciples stepped inside, and a change took over the Founder’s statue. A dot of light had flown out of his hat and entered a young girl’s body. Not far away, an old man burst into uncontrollable, ecstatic laughter as he exclaimed, “Wonderful, wonderful! The Jiao Clan could not have asked for a better blessing! Our ancestors are truly watching over us! Hahahaha!”
The old man was weeping and laughing at the same time. Naturally, he drew a lot of attention. One person couldn’t stand his outburst and said to his companion sarcastically, “Do you know what the hat means?”