The Coming of Age Ceremony for those at the ages of 10-12 was a test for those to join one of the Five sects the Golden Fire Sect, The Yun Star Sect, The Rising Sun Sect, Origin Temple and Lightning Hall.

These Five sects were the main sects of Ven Country however considering the entire Empire there were two sects which stood at the top and they were the Divine Zhenren Sect which people of Royal blood (General Country-Empire Royalty under the Empire) could enter into.

As well as the Venerable Yuan Sect known for having most of the heroes of the Empire coming from the sect thus earning them the name of venerable.

If one was to fail to join the sect after the age of 12 then they would have to join outside the normal means such as doing a test, getting someone to recommend you or having someone invite you into the sect.

Whilst it was possible to join one the five sects by other than at a Coming of Age Ceremony doing so at the Ceremony would be the best way as the sect will have a greater degree of trust if one did join by the Coming of Age Ceremony as the Sect would have almost complete information about the person and their life to see if they or there family had ever had any past grievousness with anyone in their sect already.

The Golden Fire Sect was known for the second strongest and having predominantly fire cultivators and a secret art allowing for them to emit golden flames which was especially useful in the process of purifying and defeating demon spirits or demonic monsters and the alike.

Their sect head was said to be at Peak Spirit Fusion and had tried to break through to Soul several times however failed once again and again. They were a Titanium power and had a Domain at Ven Country near the Capital called Ven Domain.

The Yun Star Sect was the strongest Sect and its leader was a Soul cultivator! They were an Obsidian power (country power) and had owned a country called the Yun Country far away from the Ven Country.

After one became an Inner member of the sect they could relocate to the Yun Country to become a Outer member after all they could not allow for just anyone to join their sect so easily... At the branch at Ven Country the leader was a Late Spirit Fusion and their special arts were divinity arts which allowed them to see what the enemy would do.

The Yun Star Sect naturally were not able to create such an art rather their Soul cultivator found it in an random cave and cultivated it then spread it around to only his sect members and claimed he himself made it and that it would not be of use to those above the Soul Stage to try and avoid those cultivators who were above Soul to take it from him.

The Rising Sun Sect was the weakest of the five sects and its leader was an Initial Spirit Fusion cultivator they had no special arts and had started just a few years ago they were the basic sect which had no unique heritage or the alike however what they did have was an abundance of disciples and elders in the sect but other than that they were no different to a normal sect. 

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Origin Temple was the 4th Strongest however their leader was also a Soul cultivator however he rarely made any interactions with anyone else if not any and the second strongest was only at Initial Spirit Fusion because of this they were the 4th strongest instead of the 2hd or 3rd Strongest.

Origin Temple was an extremely exclusive sect which usually had a group of 5 genius's who would always represent them however... the Ven tournament which happened every 3 years a sect could have about 5-10 people which made Origin Temple unable to fight within those unless the enemies themselves had 5 people in their group. Origin Temple had never lost a single duel in its history however Origin Temple never fought in any team fights strangely....

Lightning Hall was the 3rd Strongest with their leader being a Peak Spirit Fusion whom in the past slew several Souls by summoning lightning from the skies and instantly killing them.

However the lightning took an large time for it to all be ready and not just that their leader was a Refiner who could refine treasures even though refining treasures were something only Soul cultivators could do... Lightning Hall's special heritage was the ability of calling down lightning and using it to refine their bodies, move as quick as lightning as well as in the process eventually be immune to weak lightning.

If Zhou Ye had to choose one he would definitely choose to be in the lightning hall with Ye Cheng as Zhou Ye practiced Celestial Origin he could use the Lightning Hall's cultivation as a cover on how he could use the lightning however he felt that if he did join the Lightning Hall it would be a waste as they predominantly had lightning based cultivation materials and methods whilst he had Celestial Origin making what the Lightning Hall had useless for him.

It may of been somewhat more useful to Ye Cheng however since he whilst did know Celestial Origin by a soul strand inserted he wasn't able to properly control it and Lightning Hall could help him in such a thing.

The Coming of Age Ceremony was done by three tests the first one was mental capacity and how strong the will of the person was and after that was the potential they had and finally the combat experience or combat they were able to do.

Spiritual capacity showed the maturity and understanding of how the person was like if a Spirit Fusion had the same understandings as a Soul then they would be able to break through at any time they wanted.

If not and the Spirit Fusion had the same understandings as a Great Soul then they could defeat even Soul cultivators and break through to Great Soul immediately however this would be almost impossible as not just an understanding but the body would also have to be able to withstand the pressure that immediately appears from stepping into the Great Soul realm.

Potential as the name implied was the most simple test simply just testing how much the potential the person had as well as their affinity to the elements as well as how the elements are distributed.

Combat experience was a test based on how a person could do in real combat or how they're combat skills we already at such as their cultivation bases. Whilst Zhou Ye's cultivation of disciple may have been noticable at all places below Domain his ability of matching a Practitioner would be acclaimed in even some of the lower countries!

Whilst this did not may seem like much it was definitely alot considering an entire country even if it was a low ranked country but this was actually more due to rather his age instead of skills. Afterall most genius's who were at practitioner and master were 15-16 whilst the even greater ones were at general countries or perhaps even kingdoms.