After estimating his rough strength, Ling Xiao realized that he had surpassed many of his peers.
However, thinking of existences like General Ninth Month and Dai Yuling, he knew that he could not relax.
Naturally, when you encounter a bottleneck, relaxing a bit was good to give you some new perspective.
As he left the room, Leng Mei walked over.
“Noble Son, Lady Yixue is still in seclusion. A piece of news is circulating in the Hidden Dragon Battalion. Perhaps, you might be interested in it.”
“Oh? What?”
Ling Xiao asked.
Leng Mei replied: “The legendary number one expert of White Cloud Province, the White Cloud Great Master, always returns once every three years to recruit disciples. That day is close at hand. The site will be Hollow Cloud City. However, only the disciples of Heavenly Ren Academy and Hidden Dragon Battalion truly have a chance to be selected.”
“Is this White Cloud Great Master even stronger than Wan Ben and Commander Lin?”
Ling Xiao asked in surprise.
“According to rumor, he might be a transcendent martial artist!”
Leng Mei replied.
“A transcendent martial artist! Truly a transcendent martial artist, then I have to try!”
If he could become a disciple of a transcendent martial artist, it would definitely be of great benefit to his cultivation.
“Noble Son, don’t treat it lightly. White Cloud Great Master has always selected youths below the age of sixteen. Moreover, he only looks at the natural talent, not cultivation base or strength. Aren’t the Twelve Tiger Guards powerful? None were chosen by him.”
Leng Mei explained.
“Has anyone ever been selected?”
Ling Xiao asked curiously.
“Yes, two people of Heavenly Ren Academy and a genius of the Governor Residence were selected in the past. White Cloud Great Master has maintained this rule for over a hundred years, but he has only five apprentices in total!”
Leng Mei nodded and said.
From Leng Mei, Ling Xiao could tell that this White Cloud Great Master was very harsh in selecting his disciples.
“In any case, we must try. If we don’t, our possibility is zero. If we try, at least it is not zero. Thank you for telling me this information.”
Ling Xiao said with a smile: “Let’s drop this matter. Come swap pointers with me! I want to test something in battle.”
In the next three days, Ling Xiao basically spent all his time cultivating and swapping pointers. As a result, his cultivation, strength, and combat power improved.
On the afternoon of the third day, General Ninth Month summoned all the disciples of the Hidden Dragon Battalion again and announced a piece of news——
“In one day, White Cloud Great Master will return to Hollow Cloud City and recruit disciples at White Cloud Temple! All disciples under the age of sixteen can give it a try. Your cultivation base doesn’t matter.”
This news directly caused an explosion in the Hidden Dragon Battalion. Like a volcanic eruption, everyone chattered about it.
All the disciples under the age of sixteen rubbed their fists and palms, ready to become a carp leaping over the dragon gate.
It was very reasonable for them to be like this.
Allegedly, no matter how bad your current strength was, as long as you were selected by White Cloud Great Master, within a year, you would surely advance to Rank Eight Martial Vein or even Rank Nine Martial Vein!
This was an excellent opportunity for many disciples who couldn’t keep up with their cultivations to change their destinies.
Even White Cloud Governor Wan Ben and Side General Lin Ze treated White Cloud Great Master with respect, which showed how glorious it was to become this man’s disciple.
With the spread of this news, all the young martial artists from White Cloud Province under the age of sixteen were excited.
All the young martial artists regarded as geniuses continuously rushed to Hollow Cloud City.
Hollow Cloud City grew overcrowded, so many couldn’t even enter the city unless they had a good reason. Idlers were banned, and only genius martial artists who had come to try their luck were allowed to enter.
Ling Xiao gradually calmed down after the initial excitement.
He didn’t like to give his destiny to other people.
It would be best if he could become a disciple of White Cloud Great Master, but if he couldn’t, it wasn’t very important. He believed that he could do better than anyone else simply by relying on the Landscape Martial Soul.
Under this huge pressure, quite a few disciples in the Hidden Dragon Battalion actually rushed to make a breakthrough.
Among them, the most conspicuous was Yin Ran.
Yin Ran broke through to Rank Seven Martial Vein and became a Martial Master.
From Martial Disciple to Martial Master, it seemed like he had just advanced a single realm, but his status was completely different.
Once you became a Martial Master, many people would revere you.
Ling Xiao went in person to congratulate him and gave Yin Ran a Rare Peak Martial Art.
Although this grade of martial art was not too useful to him, it was completely different for Yin Ran.
Now, Yin Ran urgently needed Peak Martial Arts to improve his strength.
After this, Ling Xiao returned to his courtyard and continued his cultivation.
Even though there was only a day left, he still didn’t want to waste any time.
At present, <Snow Lotus True Solution> was his main internal core law, and he was constantly trying to improve it.
Although the level of true essence within his body had already reached the level of Peak Rank Seven Martial Vein martial artists, no one disliked getting stronger.
Naturally, as a Quasi-Transcendent Internal Core Law, it would be very beneficial if he could cultivate it to the perfection or sublimity realm.
One clone cultivated <Heavenly Dragon Golden Body>, his sole Transcendent Martial Art, which was vital to his strength.
Another cultivated <Duplicate Shadow Sword Technique>.
The might of <Duplicate Shadow Sword Technique> was much stronger than he had imagined. At present, Ling Xiao had cultivated it to just the perfection realm, but even like this, its attack power was not any weaker than a Quasi-Transcendent Martial Art.
In the afternoon of the next day, he suddenly gained enlightenment while cultivating <Duplicate Shadow Sword Technique> and finally stepped into the sublimity realm, comprehending its second certain kill technique——Giant Spirit Kill!
This certain kill technique was used in coordination with Giant Sword Incomplete Soul to increase its power.
Compared with Shadow King Kill, its might was even better.
When Giant Spirit Kill was displayed, wind and cloud discolored, heaven and earth trembled, and a huge sword slashed. It actually gave the vague hint of a Transcendent Martial Art.
It could be said that the power of this move surpassed even Rank Eight Martial Vein Martial Masters.
This was Giant Sword Incomplete Soul still not being a complete soul; moreover, <Heavenly Dragon Golden Body> was not used.
Against Giant Spirit Kill, Shadow King Kill seemed a bit weak.
However, it didn’t matter. Ling Xiao similarly transformed Shadow King Kill by combining it with Blood Blade Incomplete Soul to create Blood Blade Shadow King Kill.
Although this move was still no match for Giant Spirit Kill, it was less predictable.
In the past, when Shadow King Kill was used, it had depended on speed, but now an opponent would basically not know where this move would attack
They would also be unable to see through the blood blade’s afterimages.
A day quickly passed.
General Ninth Month announced: “Rest well today, and go to White Cloud Temple tomorrow!”
At this moment, Ling Yixue had also left seclusion.
Although her realm was still at Mid Rank Seven Martial Vein, she gave Ling Xiao the subtle feeling that she wouldn’t fear any Peak Rank Seven Martial Vein Martial Master.
He actually had the feeling of being unable to see through her.
The Soul Race was truly mysterious.
