Chapter 53: Rushing to Xuán Jī Mountain (Three)

  Everyone quickened their pace as they traversed the mountain, and after another two days of rapid travel on the mountain road, the sky was about to darken. Thick fog gradually gathered in the mountains, covering everything in a vast white expanse that obscured visibility. The ground beneath their feet was slippery, and each person proceeded with caution, afraid of falling.

  Wang Wanyu's face turned bitter, and she muttered softly:

  "This fog came so suddenly, it seems like we won't be able to make it to Xuanji Mountain today again."

  The Grand Instructor walked ahead, smiling but not speaking, leading the crowd to hurry and rush, jumping over a small hill, from a stone path into a mountain valley, turning around the mountain wall, countless tents in the valley suddenly appeared before everyone's eyes, startling them all.

  The wolf's eyes widened suddenly: "These are..."

  Wang Shou Dao laughed again:

  "This is the foot of Xuanji Mountain, and this thick fog didn't come down suddenly. This is the spiritual fog summoned by the mountain's protective array, which will last all year round. Do you see those tents? Those are the disciples from other cities who arrived a few days ago. We also need to wait here until everyone arrives before we enter the mountain together."

  Seeing new arrivals, many people in the valley came up to chat. Seeing so many people, the mountain wolf was startled. The tents in the thick fog were not just over a thousand, and there were still continuous latecomers.

  It seems that what the Grand Instructor said about cruel competition is true.

  Wang Wanxuan smiled wryly and tucked the hair by her cheek behind her ear: "What does Xian Shan really look like, anyway? We've arrived at the foot of the mountain but can't see anything."

  Wang Shou Dao chose a location, and the disciples set up their tents together, then merged into the crowd that had arrived early to gather information. Everyone wanted to first understand the opponent's strength from the side.

  Li Ran had seen too many things in his past life, and these things no longer sparked much interest. He stayed in the camp, cultivating alone.

  After waiting for four whole days in the valley, there were still many teams rushing to arrive. The number of people gathered in the valley was increasing, and thinking that only twenty people would be recruited, many young men were desperate.

  Everyone's eager heart was like a raging fire, and on this day, several loud and clear sounds suddenly came from the dense fog in the distance, like dragons and phoenixes soaring through the mountains, suppressing all the sounds in the valley.

  Everyone was surprised and rushed out of their tents to watch. They saw five figures in green robes slowly emerging from the dense fog on the high mountain.

  One of them smiled: "Senior brother, there are more people participating in the assessment this year than in previous years."

  Another person also smiled and nodded slightly: "For these children, this is a chance to make their family proud. If they can enter the sect, it will bring glory to their ancestors, why wouldn't they rush for it?"

  A few people walked down to the foot of the mountain laughing, with one person in front loudly announcing his identity:

  "The mysterious mountain's green-clad guide invites you, please follow us up the mountain."

  Almost two thousand people were all stirred up, and they packed their bags one after another. The mountain wolf looked at the five of them in surprise and exclaimed: "The Xuanji Xianpai is indeed powerful, with just five messengers having such a strong presence, I think they must have at least eight layers of Jingyuan strength."

  Just as the wolf's words fell, one of the five men in green suddenly took out a pale purple jade board about the size of a foot from his bosom and threw it into the air. Seeing this man point upwards with one hand, a beam of light shot into the jade board, and in an instant, the jade board burst forth with a purple glow over a foot long, suspended in the dense fog, shimmering with colorful lights.

  Several people smiled, taking out jade plates of different colors and tossing them into the air. Five rays of light swirled around each other like a rainbow phoenix, suddenly forming a five-colored golden lotus in mid-air. The golden lotus spun with great radiance, shooting colorful lights forward and backward for miles, fiercely dispersing the surrounding thick fog and revealing a straight stone path leading into the mountains.

  Five people used their divine consciousness to sacrifice the golden lotus and walked forward towards the top.

  The vast majority of people behind were stunned.

  The divine sense rises, and the spiritual instrument flies in mid-air. This is something that only a master of the Essence can accomplish. These five people are obviously all powerful masters of the Divine Movement stage.

  The wolf's face showed a look of horror again, and it swallowed a mouthful of saliva with a gurgling sound.

  The mere dispatch of a single guide has sent out five divine dynasties, this momentum far exceeds the mountain wolf's expectations.

  Almost two thousand people followed behind him and walked towards the mountain. The head teacher, Wang Shou Dao, walked in the middle, lowering his voice to say carefully to a few people:

  "In the Xuanji Sect, all the blue-robed ones are strong in the Divine Movement stage, while the gray-robed ones are only refined and vigorous disciples. It's not strange that the blue-robed one is leading you here. The Xuanji Sect is too big, even among those in the Divine Movement stage, their status isn't high. Actually, the only people who can be valued by Dan Sheng, the Upper Immortal, are a certain kind of person..."

  Qin Fengchuan walked alongside and anxiously asked: "Headmaster, what kind of person is it?"

  Before everyone could finish speaking, several grey-robed disciples came down the mountain path. Seeing the strong man in green robes who had just passed by, they all stood respectfully at the side of the road and paid their respects.

  Rank represents identity and dignity. Many methods of the strong in the Divine Movement period are unimaginable to Jingyuan Jin disciples, and respect is a matter of course.

  The five men in green robes nodded slightly and continued to move forward, the golden lotus light on their heads shining like a dazzling sun in the thick fog. This momentum made the countless young people following behind them feel hot-blooded, and their desire for even stronger power secretly stirred them up.

  Just as they were winding their way up the mountain road and turning a bend, two more grey-robed disciples appeared walking down the mountain path.

  The five men in green robes at the front saw the two figures, suddenly put on a solemn face and stood aside, first to pay their respects to the two of them. Their manner was quite respectful, while the two disciples in gray robes just nodded slightly, glanced unintentionally at the crowd of two thousand people, and walked away from a small path.

  Qin Feng and the others were all stunned, but they felt that these two men in gray clothes didn't have anything outstanding about them, except for the golden sword emblem on their chest which looked dazzling.

  "Wang Shou Dao's eyes were blazing with excitement, and he lowered his voice to say: 'Do you see? Do you see? That is the kind of person I was talking about, a ranked master on the Xuanji Sect's Golden Sword List. Someone like that, even if they're in the Divine Movement stage, deserves respect.'"

  Qin Feng was confused and didn't understand, Wang Shou Dao continued to explain:

  "The disciples of the Xuanji Sect who have been selected over the years are all exceptionally talented individuals. However, are you really a once-in-a-lifetime genius? Within the sect, among the Jingyuan Jinshi disciples, there is the Golden Sword Ranking, which is determined through brutal elimination and competition, where only one in ten thousand can be selected from countless geniuses."

  The top disciples of the Golden Sword List, even those with strength surpassing ordinary Divine Movement stage experts, are the core elite of the Mysterious Mechanism Sect. They have a much greater chance of achieving the Golden Dan Great Dao than those ordinary Divine Movement stage cultivators.

  As long as the disciples on the Golden Sword List successfully break through to achieve the Divine Movement Period, they will inevitably be promoted by Dan Sheng Xian and accepted as his disciple. These people have a status in the Xuanji Sect that is not ordinary."

  "Jin Jian Bang... will inevitably be taken in as a disciple by Dan Sheng Xian..."

  Li Ran Dao's heart was also stirred upon hearing this, in his previous life he hadn't even been able to take the entrance exam for Xuán Jī Mountain, and had no knowledge of these details.

  Qin Feng's face was filled with excitement, and he clenched his fists tightly in the dark, lowering his voice to say: "Headmaster, I've decided to compete for the Golden Sword List."