'Why so early,' she thought. But remembering what kind of character he had, she was sure that something extraordinary had happened in the first stage. As she took the jade stone in her hands, she heard the voice of the elder.
[Sect Master, thanks to your good timing, I have found some good seedlings that will be very useful to the sect. In the time that has been allotted to our sect I have met three young cultivators and all of them are already in the realm of Earthly Ascension(2)]
Sect selection took place in the main city of the Blue Wind Empire for many reasons, but the main one was to prevent quarrels between sects, so that no such thing would happen the emperor came up with a rule that pleased all the higher sects of the righteous and demonic way.
It was simple, each member of the sect, i.e. their elders, was allocated a certain amount of time during which they had to not only conduct the selection stage, but also to look for good seedlings for their respective sects.