Chapter 13: The recruitment.
The next day,
The morning mist had yet to fade when a blinding golden scroll floated into the sky above the Ye Clan estate, pulsing with spiritual energy.
The clouds parted. Birds scattered.
A voice boomed across the Karki Mountain Region, shaking even the walls of distant sects.
"Heaven’s Calling. The Ye Clan Rises."
"By decree of Patriarch Ye Chen, the Ye Clan seeks cultivators, talents, beauties, and warriors. Spirit stones shall rain upon the worthy; 2 high grade spirit stones every year. The weak shall be refined. The talented shall be uplifted. And the beautiful shall sleep beside the lord and bear him children."
"From this day forth, Ye Clan accepts new disciples, servants, wives, concubines, alchemists, smiths, talisman crafters, array masters, and more.
All shall kneel or perish."
—Signed: Ye Chen, Patriarch of the Ye Clan.
The scroll burst into a golden lotus and scattered down as radiant sparks, leaving many across the mountain range stunned into silence.
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