Opening Ceremony

Senior brother Yang and Chen Wu arrived shortly afterwards. The location of the opening ceremony was at the entrance of the outer sect. The outer sect was where disciples who have not reached a certain rank in cultivation stayed in. This included new disciples who had passed the Sky Sword Sect trails.

To the young youths who attempted the Sky Sword Sect's trials, a certain criteria needed to be met.

The youths needed to be under the age 18 and needed to be minimum rank 5 in the opening realm. What determined the rank of an individual in the opening realm was how concentrated their spiritual aura was. If it covered 50% of their body that meant they had reached rank 5. Higher rank cultivators could easily assess individuals mainly by sensing their aura, however, a specific stone was used to determine the rank of the youths who passed. The Stone is called the White Aura Stone, in which the youth placed one hand on it. The Stone contained 2 rows of 9 dots. The first row was for Opening realm cultivators and the second row was for Foundation realm cultivators. The amount of aura the individual possessed provided triggered the dots to light up. Though the White Aura Stone was quite common, the quality of the Stone varied as some could have only 1 row, or only a few dots etc

In large open space stood 100 youths who had rigorously passed the Sky Sword Sect trails. Facing towards the Sect with Vigour, they knew their lives would change forever. They recounted how difficult the Sky Sword Sect trails were. Not only did they had to be under the age of 18, they needed to also be in the opening realm rank 5. From there, they were thrown in large forest for 2 weeks to battle it out with the ferocious beast that laid there. Although the elders looked out for them, anytime an elder took action to save the youth, they would be disqualified immediately. The idea behind the trail was to assess the individuals, thinking, strength, flexibility and other traits that could appear. Unfortunately, in the cultivation world, strength triumphed, and morals were severely lacking.

Senior brother Yang looked outwards towards the 100 youths who had passed the sect trails before greeting the 5 Elders of the sect that were seated upon a tall pagoda. They oversaw the opening ceremony including the trials the youths had completed.

"Good afternoon Sect Leader, Qing, Vice Sect leader Chen, Grand Elder Mu, Elder Li and Elder Lu"

"Just in time my disciple" replied Sect Leader Qing.

"I need you to do the opening speech for our new disciples who have passed the sect trails".

"Chen Wu, thanks for bringing my Disciple. You can go back to the Inner Sect. We'll handle it from here"

"As you wish Sect leader. Goodbye Senior brother".

"See you Junior brother Wu". With that, Chen Wu disappeared.

Senior brother Yang then faced towards the 100 youths who were looking at him with a curious expression. The Sky Sword Sect Hanfu robe was a combination of white and blue, with sets of swords decorating the robes. Outer sect disciples robes would have the swords decorated on 1 arm depending on the individuals choice. This showed others their rank but also signified the individuals mastery over the sword.

"Good afternoon everyone"

The eyes of the new disciples looked at Senior Brother Yang attentively.

"I would like to congratulate you all for passing our Sky Sword Sect trials. From today onwards, you will now be Sky Sword Sect Disciples".

"You are probably wondering who I am, so let me introduce myself".

"I am Yang Ning a disciple of our current Sect Leader, however, please just call me Senior Brother Yang as that is what I am called inside the Sect".

"Today marks the day where you will have the identity of Sky Sword Sect disciples".

"As disciples of our sect you will defy what is common logic in the mortal world and display strength that surpasses your imagination".

"You are no longer individuals but members of a large family that aims to unlock your potentials".

"There are a few rules in the sect that you need to memorise and follow however, we will provide you all the details when you enter the Outer sect and obtain your outer sect robes".

"However amongst the rules that exists in the Sect, mark these 2 rules in your heart"

"Do not kill your fellow disciples and Do not betray the sect"

"If you are found to have committed these deeds, we will act immediately in which your punishment would most likely spell death".

"Other than that, I wish you all best. May you all persevere and advance in your cultivation"

With that, Senior brother Yang ended his speech.

He looked towards the 100 youths who's faces all had varied expressions. One from excitement, fear, shock, awe etc. The new disciples were then guided by several outer sect disciples to enter the sect.

Yang Ning then flew in the air and examined the new disciples who were entering the sect. Yang Ning couldn't help but think back when he first did his first speech. The Sect itself had the architecture of ancient China but was more refined with added spiritual materials used. The outer sect compound existed of housing, kitchen, cultivation area's etc They were allocated 5 spirit stones a month and could earn more by doing Sect missions located in the mission hall.

After Yang Ning paused momentarily to think of the past, he then flew towards the 5 Sect elders overseeing the ceremony. Yang Ning then faced the 5 elders seated and bowed.

"I have completed the opening speech"

"You still kept the same speech as last year, I was hoping you'll change it this time" replied the sect leader

"I don't necessarily want to think of new speeches ever year master. Having to come up with new speeches to inspire the new sect disciples is tiring".

"And besides, I don't think the new disciples will notice anyway" shrugged Yang Ning.

Grand Elder Mu then chimed in the conversation.

"Just let him be sect leader Qing. Nothing wrong with saying the same speech over and over"

"Even I would be tired having to think of new speeches ever year" chuckled Grand elder Mu

"Alright, so be it" sighed sect leader Qing

"With opening ceremony now over, let us discuss the potential of each disciple that have entered the sect".