(Author’s Note:- Affinity and sensitivity are the same. So, don’t confuse when you see affinity in the place of sensitivity)

A working disciple came forwards and placed his hands on the crystal orb and immediately after that, the orb lit up with a faint red coloured with a small number in the crystal orb. ​​

’24 percent affinity with the fire element, lower region’

Seeing the number in the crystal orb, the sect leader announced the results himself with a smile on his face.

Just like how the Blazing inferno sect was divided into outer, inner and the core sect, the outer sect again classified into the three regions namely; lower, middle, and higher regions.

Depending on the level of affinity, a newly entered outer sect disciple would be given a cultivation abode in any one of those three regions.

In the lower region, all the cultivation abodes have only a few fire elements in them whereas the fire elements in a cultivation abode would be increased with middle and higher regions.

The higher the affinity with the fire element, the higher the fire elements in their cultivation abode that were given to them.

“Thanks, sect leader, I will cultivate harder and improve my strength as soon as possible,” When he saw the smile on the sect leader’s face, the disciple didn’t even bother about the fact that he had only got a cultivation abode in the lower region of the outer sect.

Seeing how the sect leader talked with him, that disciple worshipped the sect leader.

There were many times, a lowly working disciple like him was bullied by many others and not even in his wildest dreams didn’t think that an outer sect leader would speak with him with a smile on his face.

Soon, he returned back to his place and another disciple came to test his element affinity.

’22 percent affinity with the fire element, lower region’

The sect leader once again announced the result with the same smile and the second disciple also felt just like the first disciple.

’29 percent affinity with the fire element, lower region’

’34 percent affinity with the fire element, lower region’

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As time passed, the sect leader patiently checked the affinity of every disciple and announced the result.

Even after checking for more than half of those disciples, no one managed to get a cultivation abode in a middle region not to mention a higher region.

‘Why is he wasting time by checking the fire element affinity for each and every disciple,’

‘Right! I would have been an easy thing to give cultivation abodes in the lower region to all of them,’

The ten elders muttered to themselves as usual as they were bored by the actions of the sect leader.

They would not have bothered much if they got a few disciples with high fire element affinity; however, all of the newly promoted working disciples would only have low fire element affinity.

So, according to them, the sect leader was just wasting his own time and their time.

However, they could only mutter to themselves and they knew that if their sect leader became angry, he wouldn’t even listen to the main sect leader of the Blazing inferno sect.

’41 percent affinity with the fire element, Middle region’

Finally, when checking the affinity for the 20th disciple, the crystal orb glowed with red coloured that was not very bright nor very light.

“What? A disciple with 41 percent affinity has emerged from this group of working disciples?”

All the elders, who were showing dissatisfaction with the sect leader’s actions became shocked all of a sudden and immediately replaced those shocked expressions with joyful expressions.

Because, if a person had a high affinity with a particular element, they would have a smooth cultivation journey when compared to the person with low element affinity.

“Next”

However, the sect leader maintained the same smile on his face and asked the other disciple to come for the test.

The next few disciples didn’t have much luck and could only get a cultivation abode in the lower region.

Nevertheless, they were satisfied with it as the sect leader looked at everyone equally without any partiality.

At last Henrick and Nick were the only ones remaining among the 30 disciples.

“Nick, you can go first,” Henrick asked Nick to go before him and to which Nick had accepted and went to test his affinity.

“Place your hands on the crystal orb,” The sect leader asked Nick to place his hands on it and at the same time, he thought inside his head, ‘These two managed to last the pressure in the enchanted ground for much longer than others. I feel they will have some good percent of the element affinity.’

With that thought, he was looking forward to seeing their percent of element affinity.

When the sect leader was busy with his thoughts, Nick placed his hands on the crystal orb and as soon as he placed them, the crystal orb started glowing with bright red-coloured.

“Woah!”

“A high-level one?”

“Impossible! How can he be a working disciple if his element affinity is that high?”

They were already surprised with a 41 percent element affinity; however, now another disciple, who had more element affinity than before had appeared making them shocked and thought, ‘From now on, the recruitment for the working disciples need to be done carefully.’

Nevertheless, they were happy because now their outer sect had another talented disciple.

’74 percent affinity with the fire element, higher region,’

The sect leader finally announced the percent that made all the elders smile from ear to ear.

‘I need to take him as my personal disciple,’

‘Damn that first elder, always takes any disciple with a little high affinity with thinking about other elders. I will go all out and take him as my personal disciple,’

‘I should offer some good rewards and bring that disciple into my tutelage,’

When they heard the percent of the element affinity, they silently thought in their heads and waited for the assessment to be over with.