There was a long stairway with thousands of stone steps spanning as far as the eyes could see.
At the foot of the mountain was Moonlight Sect’s huge entrance gate.
Disciples guarded the gate all year around, so ordinary people basically couldn’t enter at all.
All other directions of Moonlight Sect were just cliffs. Even ordinary birds couldn’t fly here, let alone martial artists.
Therefore, there was only one path to enter Moonlight Mountain, unless you stepped into the Celestial Realm and could fly.
Otherwise, even if you had a flying-type martial soul, those cliffs were insurmountable because no martial artist would have enough internal energy.
“Let’s go! We’re already late!”
White Cloud Great Master was already worried about being late, so he instructed his disciples to set out ten days in advance. Nevertheless, when they arrived, they discovered that several hundreds of people had already gathered.
Among them, all the teenagers and youths under 20 years old should be geniuses who had come to participate in the assessment.
As for those above 20, they should be the experts accompanying these teenagers and youths. After all, the journey was dangerous.
The trio followed White Cloud Great Master to the foot of the mountain.
“White Cloud Old Man, I trust you have been well since we last met!”
“Xu Ling!”
They had just arrived at the foot of the mountain when they heard someone shouting for White Cloud Great Master.
White Cloud Great Master looked over and couldn’t help exclaiming.
Ling Xiao similarly looked at that person.
At 40 years old, his cultivation was not inferior to White Cloud Great Master’s. In fact, the most surprising thing was that there were four people standing next to this person; three among them were actually acquaintances.
Zhu Hua, Die Wu, and Lu Xing!
As for the last one, she was very unfamiliar to him. She looked to be 14 or 15 years old and was dressed gorgeously. As for her cultivation base, she was actually much stronger than the other three. She had already reached Initial Rank Nine Martial Vein.
Her qualifications seemedcomparable to Ming Tian and Zuo Leng’s.
Ling Xiao knew this person was called Xu Ling. On the way to Moonlight Sect, White Cloud Great Master had given them a brief explanation of the current situation of Heavenly Dragon Continent, especially the general situation of Transcendent Martial Artists.
At present, Xu Ling was the only Transcendent Martial Artist of the Ren Race. That girl whose cultivation base had already reached Initial Rank Nine Martial Vein was his daughter, Xu Ying.
In Ren Country, Xu Ling was a royal kin, a real descendent of Xu Dao.
The interesting fact was that Xu Ling was also a disciple of Moonlight Sect, but his status was higher than White Cloud Great Master’s. Therefore, he had four recommendation quotas.
“White Cloud Old Man, there is no need to be so excited. In the past, you and I just had a little grudge, but since the sect has decided to increase recruitment, we belong to the disadvantaged group. We have to cooperate in good faith. The other three are not up to much, so there is no need to introduce them, but this is my daughter, Xu Ying. Her potential is not inferior to Ming Tian and Zuo Leng’s.”
Xu Ling was quite proud as he spoke.
Originally, he had been quite worried about who to recommend, but who would have thought that White Cloud was actually targeted by Demonic Flame Celestial Worthy, which caused several disciples of the Ren Race to leave White Cloud’s tutelage. That had been a great help for him.
Although Zhu Hua, Die Wu and Lu Xing’s potentials were not comparable to Xu Ying,’s since it was an expanded recruitment, the requirements were slightly lower than before. It should be possible for them to enter the sect.
There were many people who had these kinds of thoughts.
Ling Xiao casually looked around. Among the youths gathered here, the oldest was just 20 years old, and the youngest was just 12 or 13 years old.
The strongest people had reached Peak Rank Nine Martial Vein, but they were already 20 years old.
As for the weakest, they were Rank Seven Martial Vein. These youths were just 12 or 13 years old. In other words, in this assessment, they were relying on their potential, not their strength.
Facing these geniuses, Ling Xiao didn’t have any emotional fluctuations.
His cultivation had already reached Peak Rank Eight Martial Vein, and he was just 14 years old. Moreover, this was because of a delay of more than ten years.
He had truly started to cultivate from 13.
Otherwise, his cultivation might have reached a heaven-defying level by now.
After all, it had been only a bit over a year, and he had reached Peak Rank Eight Martial Vein from Rank One Martial Vein.
In terms of potential, he was not afraid of anyone.
All these youths were geniuses who had been brought back by the outer disciples of Moonlight Sect scattered outside.
Since Moonlight Sect was located within Northern Han Country, most of these geniuses came from there.
There were also geniuses that from Ren Country, Blue-Eyed Country, and Barbarian Country.
Naturally, there were also geniuses from other vassal states of the Sacred Human Dynasty.
Merely, these people were comparatively few.
“The four princes and one princess of Northern Han Country are also here. I wonder how many of them will be selected?”
Dai Yuling pointed at several people surrounded by a group.
Ling Xiao’s eyes followed her finger and looked.
Among the crowd, there were indeed five gorgeously dressed people with aristocratic airs.
The ages of these five all lay between 14 and 18, meeting the age requirements.
Among these five, the most conspicuous one was naturally the beautiful princess, ‘Zhao Ci.’
Zhao Ci was about the same age as Ling Xiao, and her cultivation base was also similar at Peak Rank Eight Martial Vein, which indicated that her potential was pretty good.
Naturally, although those five people were the most eye-catching, their potentials and cultivations weren’t the strongest.
Ling Xiao just took a glance at them before observing other people.
Under Enter Soul State, he could easily judge these people’s aptitudes and potentials.
Among these people, the two people with the best potential were Xu Ying and Zhao Zhi, the third prince of Northern Han Country.
The potential of these two people wasn’t inferior to Ming Tian and Zuo Leng.
Sure enough, outside of White Cloud Province, there were too many geniuses.
But even like that, he had no emotional fluctuations. He just remembered them in his heart.
He had already killed Zuo Leng.
Potential was one part: fighting skills were equally important. Otherwise, the result would be the same as Zuo Leng’s.
Not to mention his current potential was not inferior to Ming Tian and Zuo Leng’s, even if that were not the case, he wouldn’t be afraid.
Sometimes, living longer might be more important than one’s potential.
“Humph, Xu Ling, you don’t have to be hypocritical in front of this old man. Who doesn’t know that you often go flatter Demonic Flame Celestial Worthy? No wonder these three juniors are willing to come with you without fearing Demonic Flame’s suppression.”
White Cloud Great Master snorted. Although he could understand Zhu Hua and the others’ choice, he was still very unhappy in his heart.
Which Master could tolerate the betrayal of his disciples?
Just not ruthlessly killing them was already showing great restraint.
“Hehe, that is called a wise man. You don’t flatter him, but your best disciple, Ming Tian, was still taken away by Demonic Flame Celestial Worth, isn’t that so?”
Xu Ling sneered.
“Humph!”
White Cloud Great Master snorted without explaining anything.
He didn’t want to expose Ling Xiao’s potential even if he had to endure his anger.
Xu Ling smiled and suddenly looked at Ling Xiao.
“Is this the kid who killed Zuo Leng?”
“Yes, that’s me!”
Ling Xiao nodded.
There was nothing to hide, nor could it be hidden.
“Good! Very good! You dared to kill even Zuo Leng! You are truly good enough! Good girl, remember him! He is the murderer of your fiancé!”
Xu Ling looked at his daughter and extolled with a cold smile.
