68: The assessment begins; route determined.

Several deacons from the Taixuan Holy Land flew out from the gates of Taixuan Pass and stopped at the entrance.

"The assessment begins now. Please hold your Assessment Tokens."

"After we have verified them, enter the gate in an orderly fashion!"

The middle-aged man flickered into existence beside several deacons and announced loudly.

As soon as he finished speaking, the Disciples from various Affiliated Sects present became restless.

They scrambled to fly toward the gate, each wanting to be the first to enter.

"Don't block the way! I'm going in first!"

"On what grounds?"

"On the grounds that I am stronger than you!"

"Take this!"

"Who's afraid of who! Come on!"

"Stop fighting, teams from many Sects have already gone in!"

"Hmph, I won't fight you anymore, it's a waste of time!"

"Tsk, me too. I'll deal with you once we reach the Taixuan Holy Land!"

...Su Yun led several people leisurely toward the gate for inspection.

"Junior Brother Yun, shouldn't we hurry?"

Lu Siqi said with some anxiety from the side.

"No rush. There might be pitfalls; let the others step on them first."

"This is an assessment, it's not just a matter of who is faster."

An Yuyao, who was to the side, stared at Wang Shiyan and said huffily,

"Wang Shiyan, shouldn't you have taken the teleportation array directly to the city to meet up with us later?"

"Why are you still hanging around Su Yun and refusing to leave?"

"Sister Yaoer, I just want to walk a bit further with Su Yun!"

"Besides, I have the Personal Disciple token of the Tianyang Holy Land. I can enter through this gate just the same!"

After Wang Shiyan spoke, she took out a deep red token and walked straight toward the gate.

The deacons of the Taixuan Holy Land only gave her a slightly surprised look before signaling that she could enter.

Once Su Yun and the others entered the gate, they found a large number of Cultivators collapsed on the ground.

These Cultivators were the ones who had scrambled to enter the Great Profound Domain gate first just now.

"Ouch, my butt! There's actually a flight-restriction formation in the Great Profound Domain?"

"I had just flown up when I felt a surge of powerful pressure, and I ended up falling flat on my ass!"

"In my estimation, one needs to be at least at the Spirit Transformation Realm to fly in the Great Profound Domain!"

"I was wondering why the assessment seemed so simple!"

"It turns out we can't fly!"

Seeing this, Su Yun suddenly remembered that An Yuyao's spirit boat might be of use.

"Yuyao, can your spirit boat be used?"

"Let me try?"

With a wave of her delicate hand, An Yuyao took out a golden spirit boat from her Storage Ring.

Then, she injected spiritual power and, with a thought, the spirit boat flew into the sky.

However, before long, the spirit boat began to wobble and sway.

She reacted quickly, using her mind to control the spirit boat to land, preventing it from falling straight down.

"It seems it won't work!"

"My spirit boat is only a Medium Grade Spiritual Artifact. I expect a High Grade spirit boat is required to fly here."

An Yuyao's tone was somewhat disappointed.

Su Yun quickly comforted her:

"It's fine. Let's first go to the city closest to Taixuan Pass to buy a map, and then we can discuss the next route."

"Okay, we'll do as Junior Brother Yun says!"

"I have no objection!"

"Senior Sister Mu, are we really going to follow this kid?"

A Disciple from the Lingfa Sect said with a look of resentment.

"Hmm? You have an objection?"

Mu Wanning turned her head and gave him a look.

That Disciple was instantly scared into a cold sweat; he seemed to have forgotten that the Senior Sister in front of him particularly enjoyed beating people up.

The memory of being knocked down by one of Senior Sister Mu's moves last time suddenly surfaced in his mind.

So he quickly explained:

"No, Senior Sister Mu, my tongue slipped just now. What I meant was that we must follow Brother Su Yun closely!"

...Inside Liufeng City.

"Wow, there are so many high-level Cultivators here!"

"As expected of a cultivation city within the Great Profound Domain! There isn't a single Cultivator at the Qi Refinement Realm on the streets."

"Even the vendors selling accessories at roadside stalls are at least at the Foundation Establishment Realm!"

"Of course. This is a city near the Holy Land; the residents are all Cultivators."

An Yuyao looked at the sights in the city like a curious child.

Although she was the Young Miss of a Cultivation Family, her An Family didn't count for much among the families of the entire cultivation world.

Mystic Spirit City, where her An Family was located, was also far inferior to this Liufeng City.

"Su Yun, which shop are we going to to buy a map?"

"Let's go to the Treasure Pavilion. I just heard that there is a Treasure Pavilion nearby."

As soon as Su Yun finished speaking, he saw a luxuriously decorated shop in the distance.

It was indeed the Treasure Pavilion.

It looked even more Advanced than the Treasure Pavilion in Azure Sun City; even the shop assistants were at the Nascent Soul Realm.

"Let's go in and take a look together!"

"Okay!"

Su Yun led everyone into the Treasure Pavilion... Soon, Su Yun came out from the Treasure Pavilion after finishing his purchases. At this moment, the System's prompt sounded in his ear.

[Ding, detected that the Host has successfully plundered Yan Lie's Opportunity, gaining 200,000 Luck Points.]

Coming to a quiet spot, the group began to discuss the next route.

"Junior Brother Yun, which route shall we take from here?"

"We cannot use teleportation arrays for this assessment, so to save time, we can only travel in a straight line."

Su Yun took out the map Jade Slip he had just bought at the Treasure Pavilion. After injecting spiritual power, the Jade Slip projected a map light screen.

The Taixuan Holy Land was right in the center of the map, while dozens of cities were densely scattered along the map's edges.

The only city near the Taixuan Holy Land was Taixuan City.

"If we set out in a straight line for the Taixuan Holy Land, we must pass through three relatively dangerous places."

"These three places are the Poisonous Miasma Forest, Rosy Cloud Valley, and Sword Qi Cliff."

"These places sound quite dangerous?"

"I expect this is the Holy Land's test for us. We only have two ways to pass this first assessment."

"One is to cross the three danger zones in a straight line, and the other is to take a high-level spirit boat."

"I asked the Treasure Pavilion assistant just now, and they said that currently, no merchant caravans with high-level spirit boats are providing passenger services."

"It's likely a secret requirement from the Taixuan Holy Land."

"Unless you own a high-level spirit boat yourself, you have to honestly travel in a straight line to the Holy Land."

"Su Yun, then let's set out quickly!"

An Yuyao said hurriedly after hearing this.

"Okay."

"Does anyone else have other thoughts?"

"No, we'll do as Junior Brother Yun says."

"None."

Seeing that everyone had no objections, Su Yun led the group toward the gates of Liufeng City... Just as they arrived near the gate, a group of Cultivators entered the city dejectedly.

They were covered in bloodstains, and one could tell from their clothing that they were also here to participate in the Holy Land assessment.

"What bad luck! If I hadn't run fast, I would have been poisoned to death by that toxic gas!"

"If I had known, I would have asked more questions earlier!"

"Who knew that the white mist in the Poisonous Miasma Forest was toxic? You can't enter when the mist rises!"

"When will the mist dissipate?"

"When I was escaping the Poisonous Miasma Forest, a kind-hearted person said the white mist won't dissipate until tomorrow!"

"The white mist appears in the Poisonous Miasma Forest every three days and lasts for seven days."

"Today happens to be the last day. From tomorrow, the white mist will disappear for three days."

Su Yun stopped his pace and carefully observed that group of people, finding that they seemed to be deeply poisoned and their auras were withered; it didn't seem fake.

He immediately checked their life script's turning point column, which showed that these people had entered the Poisonous Miasma Forest today and escaped after being poisoned.

Back at Taixuan Pass, he had only focused on the supporting characters and glanced over the other Ranks, so he hadn't noticed this matter.

It seemed that in the future, he couldn't omit the information in the life scripts of passersby either.

So Su Yun said directly to everyone:

"We should wait until tomorrow to set out!"

If it were just him alone, the white mist likely wouldn't affect him, and he could just set out directly.

However, as the leader of the Xuanji Sect team, he couldn't just leave the others behind.

So it was better to find a place to rest, and he could also take the Opportunity to spend points to improve his strength.

Seeing that several people nodded in agreement, Su Yun led them to an inn.