Chapter Eleven: Radiant Sharpness

  Wishing the little fatty who followed behind to be careful, with the sunset in the Desolate Bones Domain, he cautiously moved forward, not hurrying back to fight for the ranking of the assessment.

  Two days passed in a flash, Zhu Jiu had no magical powers and wasn't fast on his feet. In the two days, he only carefully wandered around within a hundred or so li, during which time he hunted down three high-ranking zombie soldiers at sunset, but gained nothing else.

  The sky and the earth were still a deep gray, the terrain was also flat and lacked changes. Seeing that the three-day assessment deadline was approaching, Zhu Jiu took out a red hexagonal disk from his pocket.

  A brilliant red light rose from the disk and shot straight up into the sky as Shi Hai Fu Lu touched the six corners of the disk in a specific order.

  This red light was so bright that the surrounding dozens of meters were all a flash of blood, and it could be seen clearly hundreds of miles away. The range of motion and fighting between the demons within the scope were completely unaware, each doing their own thing.

  Zhu Jiu stood still, silently waiting for a few minutes. The air in front of him rippled and three figures appeared one after another. Zhu Jiu looked up to size them up, they were all examiners from the second round of assessment in the grand hall.

  Jiu Ke said with a smile:

  "I've troubled you all, I'm deeply uneasy about this."

  The three people's originally cold faces showed a slight relaxation, and seeing that Jiu was so polite at such a young age, their attitudes became even more gentle, and they nodded lightly.

  A young examiner in his mid-twenties looked at Xi Yang standing next to Zhu Jiu, and his eyes flashed with a hint of curiosity at Xi Yang's emerald green skeleton, which he had never seen before. He hesitated for a moment before turning back to Zhu Jiu:

  "No need to be so polite, you were first in the second round of assessment. This round's dark corpse seems to be extraordinary too. Entering the sect is not a problem, and you can call me senior brother."

  The other two also nodded in agreement, seemingly approving.

  The four of them exchanged a few simple pleasantries, and the three examiners joined forces to produce a ring-shaped magic tool about the size of a grain of rice. With the magic tool infused with the examiners' magical powers, it quickly expanded to over ten meters in diameter and landed steadily on the ground, forming a dazzling golden light circle.

  The three of them finished casting their spells and turned back, pointing at the halo of light.

  "Let's go back now! The time has come."

  Jiǔ followed the sunset behind a senior brother, stepping into the light circle. The other two also entered one after another. The circular magic tool shrunk and flew into the last person's hand. The light circle on the ground flashed and disappeared. The Yāo Shī Dead Realm restored its eternal stillness and indifference.

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  Zhu Jiu suddenly saw the scene in front of him clearly again, and found himself back in the grand hall where he had taken the Yu Fu assessment. The eccentric and sinister Green Eyebrow Elder was still sitting at the center of the hall, casting a sideways glance that gave Zhu Jiu a fright as he emerged to face him.

  The old man furrowed his green eyebrows, turned to see the sunset beside Zhu Jiu, and his eyes lit up. He sat up straight and examined him carefully.

  As the old monster gazed at the sunset, he turned his head to find that about sixty or seventy young men had returned to the grand hall. They were all looking at him, some secretly and some openly, each with a different-looking ghost standing beside them. More than ten examiners, including the three who came back with Zhu Jiu, stood not far away.

  Wishing Jiuxin a cool heart, he has already stepped on the last moment of time. Unexpectedly, the time has arrived, and among the more than 200 young people who participated in the three rounds of assessment, less than one-third successfully brought back the demon corpse.

  The old man with green eyebrows withdrew his gaze from the sunset, narrowed his eyes and said with a hint of joy:

  "Cheers to you, cheers to you, good, very good!"

  He turned his head and whispered to his entourage behind him:

  "The third round of assessment for collecting the demon corpse ranked Zhu Jiu as the first in this group, and in the fourth round of assessment for killing each other, he can be exempt from examination and directly sent to the Refining Hall for study!"

  The ninth great unexpectedly raised his head, but he endured and did not make a sound, only standing silently by, thinking that it was hard to be low-key, this old guy's eyes were so venomous, just slightly sizing up the sunset's extraordinariness, at the same time feeling somewhat curious, what does this group mean, are there many groups?

  Just as Jiǔ Niàn Tóu had not yet finished speaking, a slightly sharp voice suddenly rang out in the cold and dark great hall, loudly saying:

  "I heard that the other top student under Lao Zu's supervision is a girl named Su Xingchen. Although we haven't seen her, the public announcement said she was first because of her extremely strong soul-carrying capacity, and she directly advanced to become the first in another group after obtaining an orange-ranked Soul Corpse Guard. But Zhu Jiu's corpse is only a high-ranking corpse soldier, just like us, so why did he get first place in our group and directly advance into the Cultivation Hall? I don't accept it!"

  Immediately afterwards, another voice sounded and said:

  "I don't agree either."

  Zhu Jiu thought to himself, indeed they were divided into several groups. It seemed that he had come back a bit late and missed some news. At the same time, following the sound, he found that the ones who were dissatisfied were two boys over ten years old. Seeing Zhu Jiu looking over, they both gave him a resentful glare, revealing deep hostility and discontent.

  The old monster sitting upright heard that someone actually dared to refute his words, and he smiled gloomily, causing Jiu to shiver inexplicably and secretly curse the two young men as fools.

  "It's interesting today, with unexpected events happening one after another. You two were originally the first and third in this group, but now one of you has lost the qualification to directly enter the Refining Hall due to a drop in ranking, and the other is harboring resentment for being squeezed out of the top three?" The old monster asked in a gloomy and hoarse tone.

  Two discontented youths nodded together, though wary of the old monster's ferocity and somewhat regretful of their own rashness. However, both being young, their eyes still shone with unyielding stubbornness, not daring to confront the old monster, they instead lifted their heads again and glared fiercely at Zhu Jiu.

  The green eyebrowed old monster continued to say to himself:

  "I'm in a good mood today, so I'll give you two a chance. You can join forces and have your demonic corpses fight against Zhu Jiu's demonic corpse to the death. What do you say?" He said with a chuckle, seemingly taking great interest in having others engage in a life-or-death battle.

  "What an old pervert, if you don't agree, I'm afraid it's instant death. These two idiots, looking for trouble and dragging me down with them, since being low-key doesn't work, let's see the effect of making people fear me!" Zhu Jiu thought helplessly.

  Unlike Zhu Jiu, the other two boys had a pleased expression on their faces, nodded in unison and turned to look at Zhu Jiu with disdain.

  Deciding to take the initiative, Zhu Jiu didn't hesitate and walked to an open area in the hall. With a swift thought, he ordered the sunset to quickly settle the battle. At the same time, he narrowed his eyes and carefully sized up the two demon corpses standing beside the two young men.

  These two brainless youngsters, so impulsive and arrogant, actually have some capital. Both of their corpses are high-ranking undead, one is a beast form, with a skeletal structure similar to that of an ox, with a pair of horns on its head, looking bigger than the sunset by a circle, with a crystal clear and white skeleton.

  Another was a humanoid corpse with dark, shriveled skin, holding a bony curved knife. The eye sockets of both corpses flickered with dark red soul fire, and they seemed to be quite powerful, no wonder the two young men were among the top three previously.

  The two demons opposite each other stepped out together, forcing their way towards the battlefield as the sunset lazily walked in from beside Zhu Jiu's side.

  Many young men in the hall and examiners, including the old monster sitting upright, all silently watched this battle that was about to take place.

  The battle was beyond everyone's expectations, and in the next moment it suddenly broke out. The sunset, which had been walking slowly, changed its lazy appearance in an instant, and the soul fire burst into brightness in the empty eye sockets. With a surge of power, it leaped into the air and rushed towards the cow-shaped demon corpse opposite.

  The two-headed demon corpse opposite reacted quickly, the ox-shaped demon corpse facing the sudden and violent attack did not retreat, shaking its horns, also charging head-on towards the sunset.

  On the other side, the humanoid corpse quickly raised the bone knife in its hand and swiftly chopped towards the neck of the leaping Evening Sun.

  The setting sun in the sky, fiercely raised its left front paw to the extreme, swung it in mid-air, and slapped it towards the oncoming bull's head position, ignoring the incoming bone knife.

  The two young men opposite each other had a faint smile at the corners of their mouths, as if they were already confident of victory and certain that the setting sun would be beheaded with one sword.

  The next moment, the sunset claw and the bull head that came crashing into each other collided together, while the humanoid ghost's bone knife also slashed at the sunset's neck.

  In the vast and empty hall, a skull of a cow-like demon flew up. It was the skull of a cow-like demon that was slapped flying by the setting sun with one palm, while the bone knife stuck in the neck of the setting sun made a "ding" sound, and actually burst out a gap.

  The head of this humanoid zombie was also slapped off by the setting sun with a backhand slap, and the battle had just begun to end.

  The entire hall was in an uproar, with many young people unable to believe the outcome of this battle. The gaze directed at Zhu Jiu was filled with incredulity and reverence, including more than a dozen examiners who also looked at him with a strange light in their eyes, along with Xi Yang.

  Only the old monster sitting solemnly in the center of the grand hall, still expressionless, with only a flash of light hidden deep in his eyes.