Chapter 127 Balloting the Group Number (2)
One by one, the protégés had queued in one line to pick the ballot ball from a big box that was with Elder Hua Zixia and the other elders.
Many of the protégés that were drawing the ballot number of their group were nervous as they were all hoping that they would be grouped into a powerful group or a group with many beauties.n)-OvelB1n
Naturally, many of the protégés had also another wish and that was not to be grouped with Shen Lie, who was the weakest cultivator in their cohort and he had a messy spirit root in his cultivation core.
With a messy spirit root, he was destined never to become a 4th realm cultivator. Even for the 3rd realm cultivation, it would take him forever and that was why many of the protégés had thought that he would fail to become an official protégé in the first place.
Also, Shen Lie did not have any powerful cultivation sect as his background and he was merely a commoner.
This caused many of the young masters of the cultivation sects that had come to this holy land for their cultivation training to despise Shen Lie in their hearts.
Some had even thought that Shen Lie had purposely damaged the property of the Holy Carnation Sanctuary in order to stay in the place.
There was even one protégé in Shen Lie's cohort that tried to do the same as Shen Lie but he was given the death sentence by the Holy Saintess Sheng Feiyan for breaking the divine rule of her Holy Carnation Sanctuary.
After that, no one had dared to try anymore because the Holy Saintess Sheng Feiyan was renowned for melting her punishments on a whim; no one knows if the punishment would be light or heavy.
They concluded that Shen Lie was given a light punishment instead because the mood of the Holy Saintess Sheng Feiyan was good that day.
Eventually everyone had drawn their group number and many were looking at the number that Shen Lie had drawn.
Shen Lie flashed the ballot ball that he had drawn and a number 13 could be seen if one would to use their divine sense to read his ballot ball.
Many of the protégés were relieved that they were not in the same group as Shen Lie.
However, for Jie Ying and Yu Lingyue, they were quite delighted that they were in the same group as Shen Lie.
Yu Lingyue smiled coyly to herself as she thought that it was 'fate' that brought Shen Lie and her much closely together.
Mei Xuan was also looking quite delighted that she had also picked group 13.
Wang Xiao who had drawn number 7 was furious that Yu Lingyue was in the same group as Shen Lie and he was even fearful that Shen Lie may be able to pass his experiential training due to the higher cultivation realm of Yu Lingyue.
"All of you should be grateful in your hearts to our two Holy Saintess Sheng Feiyan and Qian Yufeng that give you this opportunity to obtain your lucky occurrences in the demonic cultivation lands. There are no more generous holy saintesses than our two holy saintesses..."
Many of the protégés were secretly cursing the two holy saintesses in their hearts instead. In fact, there were few cultivators that were grateful to them.
Shen Lie was also not grateful for this opportunity to find his lucky occurrences.
However, there were still some hardworking and honest cultivators that were grateful to the two holy saintesses for giving them an opportunity to improve their cultivation practice and to hone their profound arts in the hostile demonic cultivation lands.
There were also many maidens among the cohort that were chaste maidens the night before but they had decided to give up their chastity as the demonic cultivators won't be kind to them if they were captured by them.
This was a most dangerous undertaking for all the protégés in this cohort.
Elder Hua Zixia continued to say to them, "I will brief you again on your mission objectives once we are in the demonic cultivation lands and in your proper groups. Now, follow me to the Teleporting Hall."'
And with that, everyone began to follow Elder Hua Zixia and the other elders to the Teleporting Hall.
In the Teleporting Hall, there was another elder that was in charge of the Teleporting Hall with her protégés.
Elder Zixia nodded at this elder before she turned to say to all her protégés, "The teleporting array has now been activated. You may all go inside now."
And with that, the protégés began to walk into the teleporting array that were shimmering a blue light.
As they walked in, they began to vanish from view.
Shen Lie also walked into the shimmering portal with Jie Ying, along with several protégés as well. They all entered and vanished from view as they were sent 30 000 miles away.
Finally when all the protégés had entered the teleporting array, Elder Hua Zixia and her elders also began to walk inside the teleporting array.
Only Nangong Shu and Fairy Yue Shuwen did not enter into the teleporting array.
Nangong Shu muttered softly, "Good luck..."
Even Fairy Yue Shuwen was quite worried for Shen Lie and she was still thinking why the two holy saintesses would want to send Shen Lie or their precious protégés for such a dangerous undertaking.
The minds of the two holy saintesses were extremely difficult for them to read.