Sacrificial Artifact System: From Bell-ringer to the Ancestral Patriarch of the Sect-Chapter 148 - 127 Empress Dowager Becomes a Heavenly Phenomenon (Request for Monthly Ticket)_2

Chapter 148: Chapter 127 Empress Dowager Becomes a Heavenly Phenomenon (Request for Monthly Ticket)_2

"Just some perfunctory action will do, after all, those below know what to do... haha, this Senior Brother Li really puts on quite an air, I don’t believe he can truly do anything."

An Inner Sect Disciple with the surname He sneered.

The unspoken rules of the preliminaries, those above are aware of it, and they have tacitly consented.

These Inner Sect Disciples guarding the Divine Sword Mansion, taking advantage of the recruitment preliminaries to rake in some profits, had long become customary.

...

In the blink of an eye, three days passed.

Li Qian, who had been staying in the Divine Sword Mansion, suddenly said, "Starting today, we shall conduct preliminaries in every county, town, and village."

"Ah? Senior Brother Li, conducting preliminaries one by one like this is too inefficient and troublesome, it’s better to let those below bring the participants over here."

He, the Inner Sect Disciple, quickly responded.

"Though it’s a bit troublesome, this way we won’t miss out on the true martial arts talents. Just do as I say."

Li Qian said indifferently.

He, the Inner Sect Disciple, showed a troubled expression...

Because the notice he issued only reached the county level, whether the counties had informed the towns and villages was unknown, and the likelihood was very low.

"What? Is there a problem?"

Li Qian asked sternly.

"Senior Brother Li, no...."

He, the Inner Sect Disciple, quickly shook his head.

Reluctantly, he could only follow Li Qian out of the Divine Sword Mansion, but he secretly signaled someone to pass the message along.

The preliminary selection site in Pingze County City.

Hundreds of young men and women gathered. ƒгeewebnovёl.com

Many of them were civilians’ children.

"Only so few people?"

Li Qian frowned slightly.

"Senior Brother Li, everyone is here..."

He, the Inner Sect Disciple, promptly replied.

"I remember the population of Pingze County City is around 800,000, right? Have the officials from the household office bring over the registries of all eligible youngsters aged ten to eighteen from the entire Pingze County. I want to inspect each one’s Root Bone."

Li Qian declared with a wave of his hand.

He, the Inner Sect Disciple, turned pale. If they were to inspect based on the household registries, the true intricacies of the recruitment couldn’t be concealed anymore.

"Senior Brother Li..."

"What, is there a problem?"

Li Qian’s expression darkened.

The reason he made the trip himself was to find out just how serious the corruption in recruitment was.

"Senior Brother Li, I’ll immediately send someone to the household office."

He, the Inner Sect Disciple, quickly said.

Since this Senior Brother Li insisted on investigating, let him do so.

But once he discovered the insides, he probably wouldn’t be able to investigate further.

"Never mind, I’ll go there myself."

Li Qian said.

He didn’t want an event like a fire dragon burning the granary to occur.

So, he mounted a fast horse and headed towards the household office.

He, the Inner Sect Disciple and others could only hurry to follow.

Upon reaching the household office, the chief official came out to greet him immediately, and under Li Qian’s order, stacks of household registries were brought out.

"According to the consolidated list, call the people here to the household office by household."

Li Qian instructed.

Now, many clerks in the household office were compiling lists of eligible youngsters between ten and eighteen.

"Yes, Senior Brother Li."

He, the Inner Sect Disciple, felt very helpless but could only comply.

With a large number of Government Officials mobilized, eligible youngsters from various districts of Pingze County came together.

Li Qian directly used Spiritual Perception to inspect Root Bones, the efficiency was very high, although the proportion of good prospects was not high, it was still quite substantial.

But the sheer numbers were overwhelming.

After registering according to the household registries, the number of eligible youngsters in Pingze County City alone reached over a hundred thousand.

Even with a low proportion, Li Qian still selected around three hundred good prospects,

And even several had especially high root bone qualifications.

This was just one county city.

There were over a dozen more counties and even more villages and towns below.

"I really thought there were no good prospects among the civilians."

Li Qian smiled lightly.

He, the Inner Sect Disciple and other Inner Sect Disciples felt their hearts go numb.

Actually, they had no idea how many good prospects there were among civilian children.

They had never counted and would not likely ever count.

But now seeing Senior Brother Li selecting so many, which clearly all had decent Root Bone qualifications,

In the next half-month or so, Li Qian visited about a dozen counties and hundreds of villages and towns in Pingze County City.

At each place, he first went to the local household office to look for registries of eligible youngsters.

Eventually, the number of eligible youngsters he inspected exceeded a million...and ultimately he initially selected about two thousand good prospects.

Moreover, that youth he encountered at Pingze Lake was coincidentally selected too.

Finally, he brought these good prospects directly back to the Divine Sword Sect.

As for other counties...he couldn’t possibly inspect each one by himself.

Just in Pingze County alone, he had spent about a month.

To truly cover all eighteen counties, it would possibly take two years.

He was just surveying through Pingze County.

Through the situation at Pingze Lake, he could essentially grasp the actual situation of the entire Divine Sword Sect territory.

Even if the counties varied in size, population, added with war turmoil and other circumstances, a county could surely pick out a thousand qualified prospects, right?

This way, for eighteen counties, not to speak too much, initially selecting twenty to thirty thousand good prospects should be quite reasonable, right?

When Li Qian returned to the Divine Sword Sect with two thousand eligible youngsters, elder Kang from the Assessment Hall did not look too pleased.

He already knew what Li Qian had been doing in Pingze County. It was simply too meticulous, performing preliminaries from village to village, even according to the household registries.

"Elder Kang, my requirement is that each county, according to the population ratio, must send at least another thousand people here, and the minimum standard for Root Bone must be at the Silver Bone level...."

Li Qian stated.