I work as a security guard at a cemetery, and I overhear the dead chatting about getting rich quick.

There will always be someone vying for a genius.

Ordinary people don't have that.

In the first ten days after cultivation was truly made public, this sentence became particularly jarring.

In the official compatibility test.

As soon as the top group of people releases their results, sects, companies, and research institutions will proactively contact them.

Those with medium to high fitness levels also have plenty of options.

It's now in the normal mode.

The reply changed immediately.

[It is recommended to continue with basic practice.]

[Does not currently meet the recruitment criteria for this program.]

[Applicants can apply to become registered disciples; resources must be raised independently.]

Many more people don't even receive a single message.

Zhou Qi was one of them.

Twenty-eight years old.

Deliveryman.

The spiritual energy response is below average.

Sensing Qi is not slow.

There's no problem with the meridians' tolerance.

Overall, it's quite ordinary.

He reported to three different sects.

None of them made it in.

I also inquired at a business training center.

The first phase of the course costs 28,000.

And that doesn't even include spirit stones.

At last.

He went to the "cultivation mutual aid point" on the outskirts of the Candle Shadow Society.

It's not because of the worship of the Candlelight Society.

He even searched online for what the Candle Shadow Society had done in the past.

But he did the math.

Commercial training centers are too expensive.

The sect doesn't want him.

The official open course has only reached the stage of feeling the breath so far.

Mutual aid points cost 1200 per month.

He delivers packages for several nights, barely managing to make ends meet.

"It can't be because I'm not particularly talented."

"To remain stuck at the first step for the rest of one's life."

This is what he said to Lin Ye later.

Lin Ye and Ji Nanxing ran into him when they went for a checkup.

The mutual aid point was located in an office building.

The lights are very bright.

The ground is very clean.

The course schedule, first aid procedures, and fee schedule are posted on the wall.

1200 a month.

It doesn't look like the Candle Shadow Society from before, which used to deal with remnant souls, steal ancient artifacts, and dig holes everywhere.

The person in charge was a 26-year-old woman.

I used to be a fitness instructor.

Two meridians have now been stably opened.

She knew Lin Ye.

But I wasn't nervous.

"Team Leader Lin."

"We're not scamming people here."

Lin Ye looked around.

"Where did you get the cultivation technique?"

"It was issued by headquarters."

"What about the risk data?"

"Three hundred and eighty-two people have practiced it."

"Thirteen players have been suspended from training."

"Both of them have been hospitalized."

"Everything is fine now."

Lin Ye frowned.

"You call this safe?"

The woman retorted:

"Where did they go?"

She pointed to the training area.

A dozen or so people were sitting cross-legged.

Food delivery rider.

Sales.

Programmer.

A taxi driver in his forties.

There were also nurses who had just finished their night shift.

None of them are geniuses that any sect would fight over.

Zhou Qi was also inside.

He just paid his first month's fee.

Hearing Lin Ye and the others talking, he couldn't help but stand up.

"Team Leader Lin."

"May I ask a question?"

"ask."

"If the authorities never teach the second step again."

"Is it wrong for people like us to learn on our own?"

Lin Ye looked at him.

"It's not illegal to learn it yourself."

"But you have to be aware that what you're learning might be risky."

Zhou Qi smiled with a hint of helplessness.

"I know."

"But sometimes it's not that we're unaware of the risks."

"There was no other choice."

This statement is more direct than the person in charge's previous string of excuses.

Ji Nanxing didn't say a word the whole way after leaving the training area.

He didn't speak until he got on the bus:

"The second phase can no longer be conducted according to the standards of genius."

Lin Ye looked at her.

"What do you mean?"

"I'll choose someone like Zhou Qi."

"The most ordinary."

"If the course can only help highly fit individuals succeed."

"That's no different from a sect."

"The official teaching only covers the stage of sensing Qi."

"The sects chose them."

The remaining people also wanted to go down.

"Team Leader Lin."

"Tell them where to go."

Lin Ye then saw another chart on the wall.

[Contribution Points]

Organize the classroom space.

Participate in the test.

Submit publicly available boundary information.

Complete the routine tasks assigned by the organization.

Both can be exchanged for points.

Points can be used to offset course fees.

You can also exchange spirit stone fragments and medicinal bath slots.

This system is smarter than simply charging money.

People without money can still get in.

As long as you are willing to contribute your time.

Lin Ye pointed to one of them.

"Submit boundary information, what information?"

The woman answered quickly.

"Changes in spiritual energy in public areas, spiritual plants discovered by the public, and small, unclaimed anomalies."

"Those located in controlled areas will not be accepted."

At least they made their words very clear.

Lin Ye, however, knew.

An information network covering ordinary practitioners across the country is in no way less valuable than the course fees.

The Candlelight Society is using the idea of ​​"giving ordinary people the next step" to regenerate its tentacles.

Lin Ye didn't answer.

Because this problem is real.

Ji Nanxing took the latest version of Zhuyinhui for testing.

The conclusion came out tonight.

risky.

But it is not an evil practice.

They removed the most dangerous early crash course and added two sets of ancient basic cultivation methods as a buffer route.

Still fast.

Still radical.

But it is indeed getting better.

Wanling cursed after hearing this.

"This bunch of scum has actually produced someone who can modify cultivation techniques."

the next day.

There are seven mutual aid points that have not been sealed off.

The only requirement is to suspend the third high-risk pulse and to mandate the registration of emergency medical contacts.

People online immediately started criticizing.

Some people are criticizing the authorities for condoning the Candlelight Society.

Some people also criticized the Seventh Bureau for suppressing folk practitioners.

Lin Ye didn't reply to any of them.

He became increasingly clear about it.

As long as the Candlelight Sect stops blood sacrifices, killings, and practicing evil magic.

Some of its peripheral activities will increasingly resemble those of ordinary grassroots organizations.

This is much more difficult than trying to eliminate everything at once in the past.

What's more troublesome is that the Candle Shadow Society itself is also changing.

The female manager of the mutual aid point told Ji Nanxing privately.

She had never even met the so-called leader.

They also didn't care about those things from the past, like "welcoming the ancients to cultivate and seizing spiritual artifacts."

She had only one reason for joining.

This place is willing to provide ordinary people with cultivation techniques and resources.

There are more and more people like her.

Old candlelight will be like a tree.

After returning to the boundary, it began to grow completely different branches.

Some are still black.

Some are walking into the dust.

It will become increasingly difficult to equate the three characters "Zhuyin Society" with an enemy in the future.

This aligns with the latest assessment from the seven departments.

Arrest criminals.

We will no longer just target one name.

The task force held a meeting in the evening.

There is only one issue.

The second phase is general education courses.

That is, after stabilizing the Qi sensation.

How to safely introduce spiritual energy into the first meridian.

The medical team thought it was too fast.

The three ancient restoration advisors also objected.

"Most people are just beginning to understand what qi is."

"Going further down the line, the accident rate will definitely increase."

Xie Hongyi, however, unusually sided with Ji Nanxing.

"You don't teach."

"They will go elsewhere to learn."

The head of the medical team remains concerned.

"If problems arise in the second stage, it won't just be dizziness."

"It really damages the meridians."

Ji Nanxing submitted the data of the Zhuyin Society's mutual aid points.

"Therefore we can't wait any longer."

"They are already injured."

"The only difference is whether we have a better alternative after the injury."

Lin Ye also spoke up:

"Let's do a closed beta test first."

"Slow down."

"I'd rather have a lower success rate."

"Let ordinary people have a second option first."

She glanced at Lin Ye.

"The past few days have proven that."

finally.

The project has been approved.

We won't disclose it yet.

A closed-loop test involving 1,000 people.

We don't hire geniuses.

Instead, they prioritize ordinary people who are not well-suited to a particular style or have no lineage or master.

Because the project is designed to verify just one thing.

If the qualifications are average.

Can we take the next step safely by relying on a standardized system?

Registration is open.

Zhou Qi also applied.

His conditions perfectly match those of a typical sample.

I received the acceptance notification the next day.

Number 037.

Before entering the experimental area.

He recognized Lin Ye.

A little nervously, she asked:

"Team Leader Lin."

"Someone with my qualifications."

"Can it really open the meridians?"

Lin Ye looked at him.

No chicken soup for the soul.

"I have no idea."

Zhou Qi's expectant expression froze instantly.

Lin Ye said again:

"Precisely because we don't know."

"That's why I sent you."

"If you can."

"There will be many people like you in the future."

"There will always be a way."

Zhou Qi was stunned for a few seconds.

Nods emphatically.

A thousand ordinary people.

A thousand paths that might never have been taken seriously by the sect in the past.

They were placed in the same experimental field.

The second step in modern cultivation is truly difficult.

it has started.