Chapter 21: The Assessment Begins

  Three Golden Elixir practitioners, two men and one woman, an old man with white hair, a middle-aged big man, and a beautiful woman in her thirties.

  The old man smiled and bowed to the tens of thousands of low-level cultivators who had come to participate in the Lei Yan Sect's entrance examination, saying: "I am He Xing, the Grand Elder of the Lei Yan Sect. I am honored that you young talents have traveled far and wide to come to the Lei Yan Sect to take part in our entrance examination. The two people beside me are Zuo Guangming, the Elder of Tianling Peak, and Li Lixia, the Elder of Tiange Peak. We three will be presiding over this sect's examination!"

  His voice was not loud, but somehow it seemed to carry, and everyone heard it as if he were speaking directly into their ear.

  "Those who wish to be assessed as outer door disciples, please stand on my left side. Those who wish to participate in the inner door disciple assessment, please stand on my right side!" Ge Xingzi instructed.

  As He Xing's voice fell, Lin Tianyang and the other two immediately went in the direction of He Xing's right hand. After everyone was divided into two groups, Lin Tianyang discovered that among the tens of thousands of people on this empty land, nearly two-thirds were going to participate in the inland disciple assessment!

  After the division, the only female cultivator on the high platform, Li Lian, walked forward and said: "Those who want to participate in the inner door disciple assessment, follow me!" After finishing speaking, she suddenly leaped into the air and flew towards the nearby mountain forest!

  Lin Tianyang and others saw her say a word and flew away, immediately throwing out flying artifacts to follow up. Many others did the same, and for a time, the scene of thousands of people flying in the air was quite magnificent. Those who didn't have flying artifacts also followed behind the crowd with their own means.

  Li Lifen's speed was not fast, and Lin Tianyang and others using flying artifacts followed behind him without fear of being shaken off. However, just after flying into the mountain forest, a strong gravitational force suddenly struck, causing the flying artifact to lose its ability to fly, and it rapidly plummeted towards the ground.

  Because gravity suddenly became five times that of usual, Lin Tianyang almost failed to stand firm after falling to the ground. He took a glance at Fang Jin and Leng Qingfeng, who were similarly affected. There were also many people nearby who directly fell on their buttocks, with some even getting injured.

  The three of them put away their flight instruments one after another. Cold Qingfeng shook his head and said, "Under such gravity, it's fundamentally impossible to use the flight instrument to continue flying. Even if we manage to take off, our speed won't be any faster, and the consumption of spiritual energy will be extremely high. I'm afraid we won't be able to sustain flight for much longer."

  "I think it's possible that getting out of this gravity forest is the first test of the inner gate!" Fang Jin speculated.

  Lin Tianyang thought Fang Jin's words were likely, so he looked towards Li Li and saw that she had already flown to the top of a high mountain thirty miles away. After she landed on the mountaintop, he heard her voice coming from beside his ear: "The first test, you must reach the mountaintop before 5 pm, otherwise you will be eliminated!"

  Upon hearing this, Lin Tianyang and the other two exchanged a glance, then almost simultaneously employed their Divine Movement Techniques, dashing towards the summit of that mountain peak with incredible speed.

  Because the forest on this mountain has become extremely heavy for some reason, the consumption of the divine movement technique is also extremely large. After an hour, he barely ran to the foot of the mountain, and his magic had already been consumed by more than half.

  At this time at the foot of the mountain, some people who arrived earlier sat down on the spot and took out their spiritual stones to replenish their magical powers, while more continued to move forward up the mountain.

  "Brother Lin, shall we take a rest for a moment or continue climbing up the mountain?" Fang Jin asked after taking a deep breath.

  Fang Jin finished speaking and Leng Qingfeng also looked at Lin Tianyang, as if waiting for his decision.

  Since Lin Tianyang beheaded three people on the life and death stage, he and Leng Qingfeng unconsciously took him as the center. Lin Tianyang looked at the people who continued to climb the mountain and said: "This mountain road is not wide, there are not many people climbing now, so it doesn't feel crowded, but when more people climb later, it will be extremely crowded, which is not good for us. Let's continue climbing up the mountain and rest when we reach the middle of the mountain!"

  "En, Lin brother said it's good, Leng brother, let's continue!" Fang Jin nodded and said.

  After the three people climbed up the mountain, it didn't take long to discover that if the gravity at the foot of the mountain was five times the normal gravity, then every hundred feet they climbed upwards, the gravity would increase by another fold. The summit of this mountain is about a thousand feet high, and when they reach the top, they will probably have to withstand fifteen times the normal gravity. No wonder Li Li gave everyone such ample time; it turns out that there was still this kind of test on this mountain.

  The three of them climbed to a height of three hundred zhang, at which point Fang Jin, who had the weakest cultivation base, was already somewhat exhausted and had to stop to rest. Lin Tianyang and Leng Qingfeng also knew that it was impossible to reach the summit in one breath, so they decided to take a temporary rest here as well.

  Because Lin Tianyang generously gave them five thousand spirit stones, at this time the three of them simultaneously took out mid-grade spirit stones to recover their consumed spiritual power, which shocked the cultivators passing by behind them with the trio's wealth.

  In less than a minute, another group of five people caught up from behind. A short and stout man saw the three using mid-grade spirit stones to recover their spiritual power. Seeing that two of them were only at the ninth and tenth levels of Qi Refining, he immediately shouted at the three: "You three, hand over the spirit stones in your hands for us to use!"

  "What did you say?" Lin Tianyang's expression immediately turned gloomy as soon as he heard that someone dared to rob him.

  The short and stout man was about to say a few more threatening words when suddenly, "slap!" he was slapped in the face by a tall and thin man standing next to him.

  The short and stout man stared at the tall and thin man in shock, shouting: "Big brother, why did you hit me?"

  The tall, thin man did not respond to him, but instead glared at him before immediately turning to Lin Tianyang with a flattering smile and saying: "Brother Lin, please calm down. Just now it was my younger brother who had a muddled brain. I'll apologize to you here!"

  Lin Tianyang narrowed his eyes and looked at the tall and thin man, asking: "Do you know me?"

  The tall and thin man immediately replied: "Of course, a few days ago I was fortunate enough to witness Brother Lin's magnificent display of his divine might on the Mortal Arena, this life will probably be unforgettable!"

  "Well, you can leave then!" Lin Tianyang didn't want to waste any more time on them either, and directly waved his hand at them.

  When Lin Tianyang let him and his men leave, the tall and thin man was overjoyed and immediately called out to the people beside him to continue climbing up.

  After walking a hundred feet away, the short and stout man couldn't help but ask: "Big brother, isn't that Lin guy the one who won three consecutive matches on the life-and-death stage? We five aren't inexperienced in killing people either, why be so afraid of him?"

  The tall and thin man looked at his sworn brother and said with a tone of hatred, "You fool, you almost caused big trouble, and yet you still dare to speak wildly. Do you know who he killed on the life-and-death stage?"

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