“No, it’s not that there are no buildings. You just can’t see them. After you step into the Transcendent Realm, you will be able to see some shadows and gradually get used to it.”
White Cloud Great Master smiled and continued leading these three people upward.
At this moment, the sun had already reached the center of the sky, but the sunlight hardly penetrated the forest, leaving only specks of light on the ground.
Ling Xiao continued to pay attention to the situation on the mountaintop. He had a feeling that there was a special ancient power in this Moonlight Mountain.
Because of this power, ten more golden dragon cells had actually awakened within his body. Now, he had thirty golden dragon cells.
The small golden dragon hovered and dangled among the cells, looking very happy.
Not only that, but his Landscape Martial Soul also seemed to have felt a familiar power and circulated automatically.
At this instant, Ling Xiao discovered that the things he could see during Enter Soul State had become clearer, and his thinking had also become sharper.
All his abilities had made a big leap.
He naturally didn’t dare to tell the others or ask White Cloud Great Master about this matter.
After all, whether it was his golden dragon cells or the Landscape Martial Soul, both were great secrets that shouldn’t be revealed even if he were beaten to death. Otherwise, he might have to face big troubles.
The mountain path of Moonlight Sect was much longer than White Cloud Temple’s. The stairs were also four to five times longer.
The most frightening thing was that these ordinary-looking stone steps had a strange pulling force. Those who stepped on these stone steps would feel like their legs were filled with lead.
Ling Xiao suddenly thought of White Cloud Temple’s assessment.
Since White Cloud Great Master was a disciple of Moonlight Sect, he must have referenced Moonlight Sect in many of his assessments.
Perhaps, these stairs were one of the assessments!
Thinking of this, he glanced at White Cloud Great Master.
However, White Cloud Great Master just made a wry smile without saying anything.
It seemed that White Cloud Great Master couldn’t speak about everything he wanted to after arriving here, especially when it came to the assessments. If he revealed the secrets, they might be disqualified.
Ling Xiao wasn’t sure if this was the case, but his instincts told him that his guess was correct.
He started to speed up.
Dai Yuling and Leng Mei followed.
Since he couldn’t expose his full potential, he had to get more points in the other tests.
Since this might very well be the first assessment, he wouldn’t slack and would for at least full points on this test.
Good physical strength wouldn’t attract much attention.
Moreover, he believed that there would be many people who would get full points.
Along the way, he found that some young geniuses were riding on their family members or servants, and he couldn’t help but shake his head.
If they couldn’t even endure such a small hardship, how could they pass the assessment? They might get zero points on this test.
Among them, there was a 12 or 13-year-old youth who was fairly handsome, but his body looked very weak.
It seemed that he would be blown away by the wind.
This person was just 12 or 13 years old, but his cultivation base was not inferior to Ling Xiao’s, which showed that his potential was outstanding. Nevertheless, he would also get zero points in this test because he was actually riding a kind of mechanical beast.
This mechanical beast just had two legs, but sitting on it, he seemed very comfortable.
After about 15 minutes, Ling Xiao and the first batch of youngsters arrived at the thousandth step.
This was not a mountaintop but rather somewhere on the mountainside.
There was another gate here obviously made with special materials. Even Transcendent Martial Artists might not be able to break through it.
Here, Ling Xiao and the others got a numbered jade plate.
Ling Xiao’s number was ‘3’ because he had been the third person to arrive here.
The first was Zhao Zhi.
The second was Xu Ying.
Leng Mei was fourth, while Dai Yuling was slightly slower, at twentieth.
There were several disciples of Moonlight Sect handing out jade plates here. There was also one person sitting on a stone seat with seven or eight Transcendent Realm disciples beside him.
White Cloud Great Master and Xu Ling stepped forward and cupped their hands to this middle-aged man sitting on a stone seat before bowing.
“We pay respects to Elder White!”
This person, however, was just 40 or so in age. Moreover, his cultivation base seemed very terrifying.
Ling Xiao didn’t dare check this middle-aged man’s cultivation base. However, he could sense that this person’s cultivation base was a lot higher than his master’s.
Since he was an elder, even if he hadn’t stepped into the Celestial Realm, he should be close.
In Moonlight Sect, there were Inner and Outer Elders.
This middle-aged man must be an Outer Elder. Therefore, there was no hard requirement of having a ‘Celestial Realm” cultivation base, but his strength should definitely be the strongest among the outer sect.
“Mmm!”
Elder White just glanced indifferently at everyone.
He continued to drink his tea and wait. The others stood respectfully to one side, not daring to talk too loudly, let alone fight. After waiting for two hours, all the youths who had come to participate in the assessment finally gathered.
“Oh, I forgot to tell you all: these stone stairs were the first assessment. In this assessment, some people got a full 10 points, while some people didn’t get a single one. The second assessment will be carried out below.”
He seemed too lazy to explain anything. He just stood up and walked towards the huge gate.
“I’m not convinced. You didn’t explain before that it was an assessment. Otherwise, I would have never gotten zero points!”
In this world, there were all kinds of people, including countless impulsive and arrogant people. When they got zero points, some of them would definitely not be happy.
A young genius stepped out and shouted rather foolishly.
“Who else is not convinced?”
Elder White smiled and asked without seeming to be angry.
“I’m also not convinced!”
“This is unfair!”
More than a dozen youths stepped forward. Their elders wanted to stop them. Unfortunately, some were too late or simply couldn’t stop them.
“16 in total, very good! Hei Suo, take back their jade plates and immediately make them scram. If they don’t obey, you can throw them down the mountain and feed them to the dogs!”
After speaking, Elder White ignored them and walked straight to the huge gate.
Ling Xiao couldn’t help but inhale a mouthful of cold air.
The people of Moonlight Sect were truly overbearing. For such a small matter, they were actually directly disqualified.
Then, he looked at Hei Suo.
This Transcendent Martial Artist had severely injured White Cloud Great Master before but had also been injured by his ‘Void Breaking Strike.’ Now, half his body was obviously a mechanical puppet-like replacement.
His metal body was somewhat stiff; however, it seemed to be very hard.
This should be the result of the Blue-Eyed Race’s mechanical research.
Actually, the mechanical research of the Blue-Eyed Race had been derived from the Human Race. The mechanism research of Moonlight Sect should be more authentic and older.
Hei Suo gave Ling Xiao a cold look but didn’t dare to do anything.
With Elder White here, he didn’t dare to act rashly.
“You three don’t need to worry. Hei Suo is nothing more than a Rank Two Transcendent Martial Artist. In front of Elder White, he would never dare to act. It’s fine to take the assessment tests at ease.”
White Cloud Great Master was worried that these three disciples would perform poorly due to their fear of Hei Suo. Therefore, he comforted them in advance.
