"Young Master, Elder Luo has politely declined your invitation. So did Elder Cheng, and the Nine Swords Divine Ability expert, Zhang Tian, every one of them turning us down courteously…"

"So far, not a single Divine Ability expert has been willing to answer your call to recruit. If that's the stance of the Divine Ability experts, then recruiting a Golden Core True One is out of the question. As for Dao Foundation martial artists and Dao Lords, their demands are steep, to say the least. Young Master, perhaps we should give up on this…?"

Several of Li Guang's subordinates were reporting the situation to him. 

Now that Li Guang had formally entered the Li Clan's contest for the patriarch's successor and become one of the candidates, he needed to assemble a team of his own. 

Normally, a successor candidate's team was anchored by a number of Divine Ability experts, sometimes even a Golden Core True One, along with some Dao Foundation martial artists and Dao Lords. Nearly every candidate had such a team. 

However, it was nowhere near that easy for Li Guang, given his less-than-stellar reputation. He had essentially been "lain flat" early on, and his name was practically a byword for profligacy. Most people were convinced he would never reach the Divine Ability Realm. 

As such, even with his father Li Chengwu's support, not a single...