172: Battle Spirit Assessment

Rules displayed: Release the War Spirit and strike the monument face with full force! Triggering the three apertures of the Exquisite Stone is considered a pass (600 points), and for every additional aperture, the score increases! Triggering all nine apertures achieves a perfect score of 1000!

"My turn!" Xiang Zhan, eager to wipe away his recent humiliation, was the first to rush out. Lightning exploded around him, accompanied by a deafening bear roar that tore through the air! A giant bear War Spirit, ten zhang tall and formed entirely of violent thunder, suddenly manifested! The giant bear's eyes were like pools of molten lava, and it roared as it swung its massive claws, which were wrapped in thick lightning chains, slamming them fiercely into the center of the Profound Iron Monument!

Boom—! It sounded like a giant drum being struck! The monument shook violently! On the pitch-black surface, three clear claw marks were branded. At the edges of the claw marks, wisps of purple electric snakes danced and burned wildly! Inside the monument, three heart apertures suddenly became bright and rapid, emitting a thunderous resonance!

[Lightning Prison Mountain Xiang Zhan War Spirit: Thunder Demon Bear (Divine-Grade Low Grade) Triggered three apertures of the Exquisite Stone. Final score: 620]

Xiang Zhan's expression cleared slightly; 620 points was acceptable.

Clear Emptiness gently stroked the bronze ring on his hand and walked forward slowly. He did not manifest a massive War Spirit but simply pointed his finger lightly at the monument surface. At that touch, space-time rippled like water surface when a pebble is thrown into it. On the surface of the Profound Iron Monument, a vast scene of ten thousand stars rotating, appearing, and vanishing suddenly appeared! As the galaxy rotated, seven heart apertures within the monument were triggered simultaneously, emitting a distant and profound sound of stars!

[Time-Space Divine Temple Clear Emptiness War Spirit: Time-Space War Spirit (High Grade Immortal) Triggered seven apertures of the Exquisite Stone. Final score: 860]

"Immortal War Spirit! Seven-aperture resonance!" Exclamations arose. Clear Emptiness nodded slightly and returned to his original position.

Suddenly, a terrifying aura that extinguished all things and froze the Soul erupted! In the northwest corner, Luo Hou moved! He didn't have any flashy moves; a phantom of his Destruction War Spirit stepped out from behind him and instantly overlapped with his actual body! At this moment, Luo Hou was Destruction itself! He pointed his fingers like an axe, and a beam of dark red destruction axe light, pure to the extreme, tore through space and silently slashed onto the Profound Iron Monument!

Chi—! There was no earth-shattering loud noise, only a teeth-aching sound of metal being forcibly torn apart by extreme power! A giant crack, three zhang long and bottomless, appeared in the center of the Profound Iron Monument! At the edges of the crack, the profound iron looked as if it had been melted by high heat and then instantly cooled, presenting a strange dark red glass-like appearance! Inside the monument, seven heart apertures pulsed wildly, emitting a wail as if on the verge of shattering!

[Destruction Temple Luo Hou War Spirit: Destruction War Spirit (High Grade Immortal) Triggered seven apertures of the Exquisite Stone. Final score: 880]

"Seven apertures! 880 points!" The exclamations rose like a tide. Luo Hou withdrew his hand, his destruction aura receded, and his gaze was like electricity, sweeping toward Lin Yuan with undisguised provocation.

Luo Shen floated like an immortal, and a light of eternity bloomed from her fingertips. As the light touched the monument, the entire Profound Iron Monument was covered in a layer of pure, flawless eternal ice crystals at a speed visible to the naked eye! Inside the ice crystals, eight exquisite heart apertures shone with Supreme brilliance like frozen stars!

[Eternal Temple Luo Shen War Spirit: Eternal War Spirit (Supreme Low Grade) Triggered eight apertures of the Exquisite Stone. Final score: 910]

The breathing of the nine examiners became a bit heavy! Eight apertures! A Supreme level War Spirit quality, 910 points! This was the highest War Spirit score in the Dharma Domain Realm assessment in nearly ten million years!

Just in the lingering resonance of this Peak record, Lin Yuan walked toward the Profound Iron Monument again. All sounds disappeared, leaving only countless gazes that seemed ready to pierce through him.

He stood before the monument without gathering momentum, without shouting. His heart moved slightly.

Boom!

An indescribable aura, ancient, Chaos, encompassing all things yet seemingly transcending all things, awakened like a Creation god that had slept for billions of years! A figure emerged from behind Lin Yuan. It was not a deliberately manifested giant War Spirit, yet it seemed naturally more towering than this Profound Iron Monument!

It wore armor flowing with Chaos starlight, and on the armor were naturally engraved dao patterns of the Tree of Life, the Eye of Death, and the Devouring Vortex, finally converging on the chest into a slowly rotating Chaos vortex that seemed capable of swallowing all light. The face was blurred behind Grandmist mist, with only a pair of eyes clear—the left eye full of vitality like an endless forest, the right eye dead and withered like the end of all things! A vertical mark on the forehead emitted an aura of Chaos Return to Ruin that caused space to collapse!

Origin War Spirit!

Its mere existence here caused the surrounding space-time light to undergo strange deflections and collapses. The Profound Iron Monument shook violently, and the countless traces left by predecessors on the monument began to silently melt and annihilate under this pressure originating from the Origin, like snow under the scorching sun!

Hum!

The pulse of the nine-aperture Exquisite Stone inside the monument was unprecedentedly violent! Nine exquisite heart apertures were instantly fully lit, erupting with nine-colored divine light that pierced the sky! The light intertwined, projecting a grand vision of the beginning of Chaos and the separation of Grandmist above the monument!

But this was just the beginning!

The nine-colored divine light seemed to possess life, crazily pouring toward the Origin War Spirit behind Lin Yuan, like subjects worshipping their king! Wherever the light flowed, the incredibly hard Profound Iron monument, which contained divine metal, began to soften and deform! Like a wax figure under high heat!

Under the shocked gaze of everyone, the massive Profound Iron Monument, wrapped in nine-colored divine light and under the invisible traction of the Origin War Spirit, was kneaded and reshaped as if by an invisible pair of Creation hands! In a few breaths, the pitch-black divine monument completely disappeared, and what stood in its place was a Chaos War Spirit statue that was completely identical to Lin Yuan's Origin War Spirit in form, aura, and even every single dao pattern!

[Spirit Martial Hall Lin Yuan War Spirit: Origin War Spirit (Supreme Level) Triggered nine apertures of the Exquisite Stone vision. Final score: 1200]

The numbers were branded on the chest of the War Spirit statue, like a beating heart of Chaos.

The square fell into a silence more complete than before. Reshaping the divine monument? Nine-aperture resonance? 1200 points? This had already exceeded the category of "Genius"; this was a subversion of existing rules and cognition! The White-Robed Examiner stared fixedly at that Chaos Profound Iron statue, his lips opening and closing silently.

"The... the second item is finished! War Spirit score recorded!" The White-Robed Examiner's voice was unusually dry. "Next item, Physique Origin! White Jade Divine Monument!"

The third divine monument rose, carved entirely from warm and flawless mutton-fat white jade, emitting a soft radiance that nourished all things. The monument surface was as smooth as a mirror, capable of reflecting the tester's most fundamental life aura, Bloodline roots, and the core potential of their Physique.

Rules displayed: The divine monument reflects the Origin, and Physique potential is manifested. Base score: 300 (for possessing a special Physique). The higher the Physique grade (Spirit Body, Divine Body, dao body, etc.), the greater the base score and bonus coefficient at the same degree of Awakening.