It is tradition for the children of the family to receive the blessings of the family before they leave probably forever. But since the boy didn't want to go, he had to push the blame to someone else.
If the boy's father had given him the permission to avoid the party, then he would have beaten the boy's father and punished him for breaking tradition.
On the side, Arthur returned and began preparing to leave. They were going to throw a party for him for the day. Then he would leave the following morning.
After the invitations were sent out, everyone was given a week to decide which sect they wanted. They have to reject or accept every invitation that they have received.
If an invitation is not accepted in a week, it will be automatically rejected. After a week, a new round of invitations would be sent out by the sects to fill up the spaces that had been rejected.
This cycle of sending out invitations will occur once every week until the sects have filled up their admission quota or for a maximum of one month. This break of one month is also the time given to everyone who accepted an invitation to register at a sect.
Most of the examinees will wait for this one month to see if they will be lucky enough to receive an invitation when a slot opens up. But a few of them will go home.
The people that go home are the examinees from the rich and powerful cultivation families like the Dysons. They are the ones that can go home and return in one month in time to register for their sects.
Even with the flying ship, it will take two weeks for them to go to Agate and return. So half of the one month will be spent on the road.
Another week will be spent on preparing for the party and throwing it. He would rather not waste one month doing that, so he decided to register as soon as possible.
Lady Vena wanted to throw a party for him before he left because she didn't want him to easily forget her now that he had become a big shot. He didn't mind the short delay because it would give the family time to prepare his gift and give it to Augustus to send to him.
Everything was ready the following morning. He didn't have much to take with him, and he couldn't bring much anyway if he had it.
He got dressed and then left the ship with Roar. It was the same way that he left his house in Aget City. The main difference was that he had a black leather bag on his back and his hands were bare.
The leader bag was a backpack. It contained things like the dossier he got from Patriarch Calcetti, his gauntlets, and the gift that Augustus gave him.
The gift itself was a sack containing 10,000 low-grade energy stones. They are the reason why he decided to wear a backpack.
He was the only one from the family going to register, but he wasn't the only one going to register. There was a throng of people lining up to register.
The throng was a sea yesterday. A lot of people had decided to register yesterday. What he was seeing this morning was the leftover from yesterday's traffic.
The registration was done the same way people registered for the exam. The difference was that no test for talent was done. Everyone was just directly sorted into different teleportation platforms, which will take them to the sect whose invitation they accepted.
Everyone's identity card was checked to ensure that they received an invitation from a sect and they have accepted that invitation. Then everyone going to the same sect was put together and directed towards a teleportation platform.
He took Roar with him and entered the teleportation. Then he and 998 others were sent away after ten minutes.
When they appeared, they were in a large hall. The hall was domed. Its walls formed a barrier around the teleportation platform and secured it. Everyone had to pass through the only door that led out of the hall in order to leave.
When they came out of the hall, they found someone waiting for them. The person was a man.
The man had small red tattoos all over his exposed skin. But that wasn't the first thing they noticed about him.
The first thing they noticed was that the man was in the air above them. The man was flying above them and looking down on them.
The man was also wearing black robes. The robe had a picture of a red skull on it. The red skull was on the back of the robe, and the two halves of the front of the robe came together to form another red skull.
Another feature of the man that drew Arthur's attention was that the man had red hair and red eyes. When other new disciples noticed this feature, they all turned to Arthur.
Even Arthur was suspicious of the man's identity after seeing his red hair and red eyes. He also thought that the man might be related to him in one way or another.
The man spoke to them after all of them had left the teleportation hall. He said, "Welcome, everyone. I am Daoist Bloodhound. Today, I will be your guide. I will take you around the outer sect and introduce the Blood Skull sect to you."
Then he turned his back on them and said, "Follow me. Remember to conduct yourself properly. If you behave inappropriately, you will be treated with disrespect or worse."
After the man spoke, the tattoos on his body squirmed and left his skin. They drew a line of blood from his skin when they left him. Together with the blood, the tattoos formed the phantom of a large dog behind.
The dog was completely red. It was also large. It was more than ten meters tall standing on the ground.