Chapter 795: Chapter 686: Assessment? Of Course, I, Tang Heishou, Have the Final Say (Long Chapter)_2
After a short while,
to the left side, right side, and above the assessment area, numerous light screens appeared, each displaying many names covering all the examiners, nearly obscuring the sky.
One row of names with scores attached was magnified and highlighted in red, standing out among the ordinary names.
“Cheng Yuankui, talent assessment, Grade B; Comprehension assessment, Grade C; Disposition assessment, Grade E… Eliminated.”
The two large characters for ‘Eliminated’ were so red that they turned dark, just like how it appeared before Cheng’s eyes at that moment.
His legs seemed to have lost all strength, those ‘Grade C’s and ‘Grade E’s stinging his eyes.
This was the first time he had seen a ‘Grade E’ rating; previously, the worst rating for Inner and Outer Sect disciples had been ‘Grade D,’ but…
“How could I possibly be rated as Grade E? Can a person of Grade E cultivate to Great Perfection? I don’t believe it, I don’t accept it! You must be deliberately targeting me! Yes, you are afraid that I will grow up and threaten your positions, right——”
Cheng was cut off as if someone had grabbed his throat, his eyes filled with fear.
Yan Dingtian snorted coldly and reined in the abruptly released aura.
The few Unity Realm powerhouses exchanged glances, also showing fear in their eyes.
Merely from the aura, they involuntarily had a sense of danger!
Cheng had collapsed on the ground, his eyes murky, continuously shouting words like “don’t” and “save me.”
Others around him also looked at Cheng with different expressions.
It seemed that Cheng’s disposition was indeed very limited.
He couldn’t handle even a bit of setback and was full of self-importance and delusional rants; such a person, even with good cultivation talent, how could he handle significant responsibilities? It was only normal for the Tao Sect to turn him away.
Only a few ‘geniuses’ still seemed unconvinced.
They believed that the Tao Sect valued intangible qualities like ‘Comprehension’ and ‘Disposition’ too highly.
Clearly, the cultivation talent was the most important; without sufficient talent, it would likely be impossible for them to break through the Stepping Void in their lifetime, but they were definitely the top talents who could break through before the age of a hundred.
Yan Dingtian noted the changes in the expressions of some people.
He recalled what the great and handsome Lord Tang had mentioned when assigning him tasks previously, saying that there would be some who would not be convinced, including those eliminated and some of the selected Outer Sect disciples.
Preparations were already made.
Thinking this, Yan Dingtian’s gaze towards Cheng Yuankui and other so-called geniuses carried a hint of pity.
Child, only by suffering some heavy blows can you understand that there are always people better than you and realms above you, only then can you mature.
Just like when I first arrived at Green Shadow, I was beaten half to death by a little girl… uh, a female general, and in just a few days, I was utterly outclassed in the trial scores of the ‘Trial Tower’; sometimes, a… group of young powerhouses would appear, making one lament that their whole life had been in vain.
Allowing others to experience this occasionally…
Yan liked to see and hear this; it was the part he looked forward to the most.
He maintained his expressionless Grandmaster demeanor and said, “Is being in Great Perfection before thirty so great? Is breaking through the Stepping Void before a hundred so prideful? Thinking back to my days… ah, I digress, in this elder’s view, you so-called Great Perfection geniuses, heh, are just so-so.”
“Rather than saying you have extraordinary talents, it’s more like, with a good background, and with resources piled up, even a pig can become a Great Perfection pig!”
“Our Tao Sect recruits disciples not for their current cultivation, as long as you can become an Outer Sect disciple, an Inner Sect disciple, why worry about low cultivation? Casually cultivating for a year or two will achieve Great Perfection.”
Some people gasped in shock, but others didn’t believe it.
No matter how much you talk, we won’t believe it.
Do you think we don’t understand cultivation? Great Perfection in one or two years? Why don’t you say Perfection in one year, Stepping Void in two, Unity in three!!
They scoffed at this.
Coincidentally, Elder Yan continued, “Three years ago, the Sect Master Tang of our Tao Sect took on a disciple. She had just started cultivating then, her talent… was decent, her strength… was so-so, barely making her a genius. Today, she just happens to be in the sect, let you all see what a real genius is.”
Yan Dingtian swore that the words he said were completely true, just that the point of comparison wasn’t himself; compared with Lord Tang, compared with those from Green Shadow, whose age was not much different but whose strength had breached the heavens, Shanggong Ling was indeed… quite average.
Shanggong Ling came stepping through the void from Kowloon Mountain.
She wore the Tao Sect garb modified from the clothing of the Immortal Gate disciples, white with golden patterns, ribbons fluttering.
Her appearance seemed to still linger from that summer three years ago when she met her master.
Only, her face was no longer youthful.
In public, she was the senior sister of the Immortal Gate, her cultivation speed and realm admired by all.
In a few breaths’ time, Shanggong Ling had descended from the sky and arrived at the testing area for Cultivation and age, taking several steps forward, she pressed her hand against a testing stele.
The people around had already guessed something, and they couldn’t help but hold their breath.
The Sect Master’s disciple looked very young, very likely under the age of a hundred, possibly even less than fifty years old.
Her realm was undoubtedly Stepping Void.
An elder of the Outer Sect had mentioned that she was a true genius, then could it be she was in the Senior Stepping Void Realm?
Under fifty years old yet in the Senior Stepping Void Realm, indeed, she was many times more monstrous than the talents of their own race.
Still, there were Unity Realm experts frowning, feeling as if they had overlooked something.
Before they had time to think further,
Buzz buzz buzz—
The testing stele started to tremble violently, mystical patterns on the stele lit up one after another, turning from white light to blue light then to purple light and finally to golden light…
The brilliance was so dazzling that it nearly blinded their eyes.
Many were amazed; compared with the previous outstanding disciple, the spectacle produced by this Sect Master’s disciple was much stronger.
But some insightful individuals had already discerned the levels represented by the patterns and the brilliance from the results of various tests.
“Twenty-one years old, Unity Realm Basic Period?”
“What, she is a Unity Realm expert? Wait, she’s only twenty-one years old?! That’s impossible!”
“Burp~, had Elder Yan not just mentioned that Sect Master’s disciple only started Cultivation three years ago, just three years!”
When Shanggong Ling stepped void arrivals, they all subconsciously neglected the ‘started to cultivate just three years ago’ from Elder Yan’s words.
It wasn’t that they didn’t dare to believe it, but… Well, in their conventional mindset, there just wasn’t a novice who had only cultivated for three years that could achieve Stepping Void.
It was like before the apocalypse, suddenly the news said someone had awakened the ability to fly, subconsciously considered it merely a jest, and ignored it.
But now?
Three years! Unity Realm!
One year to Perfection! Two years to Stepping Void! Three years to Unity!
Monstrous wasn’t enough to describe her!
We have Cultivated for three years and another three years, over and over, and now three hundred years have passed, why are we still just in the Stepping Void Realm?!
The Unity Realm experts also had complex expressions.
They were beings standing at the pinnacle of the Human Race, but now… Was it still possible to apply for entry into the Sect?
Shanggong Ling came floating lightly and left just as lightly, leaving behind a field of shock.
“Indeed worthy of the Human Race Holy Land ‘Tao Sect,’ no wonder the Sect doesn’t value Awakening Tier Perfection ‘geniuses.’ In our eyes, they are top geniuses, but in the eyes of ‘Tao Sect,’ they might just be average; cultivating an Awakening Tier Perfection talent, might truly be very easy.”
“We, as Inner Sect, Outer Sect disciples, achieve Awakening Tier Perfection every one or two years; Stepping Void in two and Unity in three years is too exaggerated for me, but if I can breakthrough to Stepping Void Realm within ten years, I will break the youngest historical record in our Dachang Dynasty.”
“Wake up, I am also an Inner Sect Disciple, perhaps I can make a breakthrough within five years.”
“Now that I think about it, we were foolish, with ‘Tao Sect’s’ strength and foundation, how could there possibly be any underhanded schemes? Who could make ‘Tao Sect’ resort to manipulation? We really overestimated our so-called talents… With ‘Tao Sect’ here, the rise of the Human Race is merely a matter of time.”
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“Manipulation? Sorry, there truly is.”
Inside the Sect, Nancy, a spectator munching on snacks, asked.
Grandmaster Tang, with an indifferent shrug, revealed something shocking enough to astonish all Races.
The first official recruitment of disciples by Tao Sect, how could there not be any manipulation?
Cough, something seemed off.
But after all, there were over a hundred thousand Human Race and Alien Race with hidden motives, if such high talents weren’t weeded out, would they leave it for an eighty episode Sect intrigue drama within the Sect in the future?
During the assessment, what were all those mysterious and formidable tasks made for? If not for this moment to play some role.
Look, you failed because you cannot sing and dance, how does that relate to Grandmaster Tang’s big dark hand?