Chapter Fifty-Four: The Assessment of Inner Disciples

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  After Ji Fang Xiao Zhong, three more disciples failed one after another. For a moment, the examiner elder's face turned dark.

  "Next, Wang Xuemei!"

  Wang Xuemei was about sixteen years old, and she wasn't particularly beautiful. Her face was resolute as she responded with a "yes" and walked out of the ranks, step by step, until she stood ten paces in front of the bronze bell.

  Looking at the girl who walked out, the eyes of the assessment elder lit up slightly. The true energy of this girl is a bit empty and unstable, but it's much better than the previous five people. It should be her own cultivation, and she has gone through a period of hard work.

  "Let's begin!" The elder's tone was tinged with anticipation.

  Wang Xuemei nodded, her right palm, imbued with true energy, flashed out horizontally in front of her chest like lightning.

  Buzz!

  The copper bell rang faintly, but many people didn't even hear it because it faded away too quickly.

  Elder Examination smiled and said: "Wang Xuemei, qualified!"

  "Whoa!" Wang Xue Mei let out a breath, earlier she was somewhat arrogant, thinking that without using martial arts techniques, she could easily shake the bronze bell. Unexpectedly, it only slightly vibrated, and even she herself couldn't hear it very clearly, not to mention others.

  It seems that Wang Xuemei was emotionally driven, and among the next seven people, four of them successfully rang the copper bell, passing the first test.

  "Next, Ye Chen."

  Finally, the elder examiner called out Ye Chen's name.

  Without giving others much room for imagination, Ye Chen casually took a few steps forward, and when he was still some distance away from the copper bell, he threw a punch directly into the air.

  Bang!

  The bronze bell shook violently, its lingering sound echoing in the air for a long time, spreading far beyond the examination hall, shaking the surrounding area.

  The two inner disciples at the entrance were shocked. Who was this? Someone who had just entered the Condensing Reality realm could thoroughly shake the bronze bell, causing a huge commotion.

  Inside the hall.

  "Am I wrong?! Just now he was fifteen steps away from the bronze bell."

  "No, at least sixteen moves."

  "This is really abnormal, could it be that he has already entered the Condensing Reality Realm and has been secretly enduring without releasing?"

  The disciples who participated in the assessment were discussing and speculating, with all eyes fixed on Ye Chen.

  Ye Chen's expression was calm and composed. The resonating bronze bell across the air posed no difficulty for him; if it couldn't be shaken, that would be strange.

  The elder examiner was taken aback for a moment, then smiled and said: "Good, qualified, qualified!"

  He said two qualified ones in a row, and it can be seen how surprised the assessment elder was.

  After the first assessment ended, the second assessment officially began, and those unqualified disciples were asked to leave.

  Behind the examination hall.

  Here is an open-air venue, about 50 meters square, with a 20-meter lake in the center. On both sides of the lake, there are two flat wooden frames, each about 10 meters high. From a distance, it looks like a wooden bridge with the middle part removed, looking very strange.

  "The second test is to assess your agility, and agility emphasizes the purity of true energy. Now, stand on the wooden frame on the right side, and if you can jump over to the opposite frame, it will be considered a successful assessment. Of course, grabbing onto the frame with your hands also counts as qualified."

  He raised his head, and with a glance, he found that the distance between the wooden frames was equal to the width of the lake, which was twenty zhang, sixty-six meters. An ordinary practitioner in the Qi Refining stage would feel dizzy just by looking at it, let alone jumping across to the other side.

  Sure, here is the translation:

  As expected, except for Wang Xue Mei, the faces of several others turned pale.

  "Twenty zhang is too far! My cloud-stepping skill can only traverse more than 50 meters in the air, any further and it won't work."

  "How are you? I'm practicing the Light Body Technique, Cloud Walking Steps. I'm practicing the Tiger Pounce Skill, with one pounce covering over 30 meters, what about the remaining 30 meters?"

  Hearing a few people's discussions, Wang Xuemei's mouth corners curled up with an arc, looking extremely confident.

  Just as the elder was about to start the assessment, a group of inner disciples emerged from the assessment hall, chatting and laughing together.

  "How did you all come here?" The assessment elder said with some helplessness.

  "Elder, you don't know that at the end of the year, there are very few sect tasks, and even practicing can make one sick. I heard that many people have advanced to inner disciples today, so I came to take a look." One of them chuckled and said with a smile, seemingly familiar with the assessment elder.

  "Alright, you can watch but don't interfere with their assessment, otherwise I'll have you thrown out immediately."

  "Don't worry, we've never caused you trouble."

  The elder nodded and cleared his throat: "First, Wang Xue Mei!"

  At the words, Wang Xue Mei tapped her foot on the ground and jumped onto the wooden frame to her right. She took a deep breath, sprinted a few steps forward, then leaped high into the air, breaking through the void like a swallow.

  Ten meters!

  Twenty meters!

  50 meters!

  55 meters!

  Just as she was ten meters away from the wooden frame on her left, Wang Xue Mei's true energy was exhausted, and her body rapidly fell downwards, seemingly about to fail.

  "Qigong!"

  At the critical moment, Wang Xue Mei let out a low shout and suddenly pulled herself up from thin air, landing on the wooden frame.

  One of the inner disciples nodded and said, "Being able to practice the Introduction Technique to this level is already quite good. This technique can be used to quickly switch breaths when true energy is depleted."

  Next is the second assessment of the disciples.

  He was practicing the Cloud Traveling Step, and when he executed it, it seemed as if he were riding on clouds and mist, extremely light and agile. However, his realm was limited, and when he was only five meters away from the wooden frame, he fell into the lake with a splash, splashing up a patch of water flowers.

  The third one was even more outrageous, and after flying out for over 30 meters, it fell to the ground with a thud, causing a burst of laughter from the crowd.

  The fourth one was not bad, at the critical moment, he moved forward by half a meter, stretched out his hand to grab the edge of the wooden frame, and hung there.

  The fifth disciple who participated in the assessment swallowed his saliva and asked the assessment elder, "Elder, can I step on the water surface to get past?"

  "On the water surface!" The examiner elder looked puzzled, knowing that the height of the wooden frame was ten meters, and it was not easy to jump up by treading on the water surface. After all, the water surface is not like the ground, where one can borrow force.

  "Although there is no such provision, if you can jump up, I can give you a pass!" The assessment elder nodded in agreement.

  A look of joy on his face, this disciple who was taking the assessment sprinted up the wooden frame and then jumped into the water.

  Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

  As if a dragonfly skimming water, he sped across the surface with his body as light as nothing.

  "Haha, this should be the Floating Body Technique! No wonder he had such a suggestion. However, wanting to jump to a height of ten meters isn't that easy." Many inner sect disciples noticed the lightness skill being used and looked on with curiosity, wanting to see how he would pass the assessment.

  Hi!

  When he was still five meters away from the other shore, this disciple's right foot fiercely stomped and burst through the water surface. Amidst the splashing water, his body borrowed force to shoot up into the air.

  "It's Bursting Water Technique, no wonder!"

  His eyebrows twitched, he heard that the Exploding Water Technique was a martial skill that could condense water flow in a short period of time and then use true energy to detonate it, producing tremendous power. In this way, he could borrow the explosive force to propel his body and easily jump into the air.

  The elder examiner smiled wryly and said, "Qualified! Next, Ye Chen!"