205: Terrible assessment

【Sunflower Hand Initiation — Practice three hundred times daily, consume Secret medicine daily, master in three years!】

【Promotion Conditions: 1: Appreciate the Sunflower one hundred times, 2: The Sunflower sees me as a god!】

Sunflower Hand truly lived up to its reputation as a Cultivation Technique of the Bingjia Sect, possessing immense power.

Even at the introductory level, it was several times more potent than Cultivation Techniques like Mantis Fist.

“No wonder Aristocratic Descendants and Sect disciples look down on those with humble origins.”

“It turns out that even if their Golden Bone Realm is slightly weaker, the powerful martial arts they master can still close the gap.”

“Fortunately, I’m not an ordinary person.”

He had practiced so many Limit Breaking Techniques.

Although they were all the lowest grade.

However, after hundreds, even thousands, of them were applied, they brought him immense benefits.

Otherwise, trying to cultivate so many Golden Bones in just a few months with such limited resources would have been impossible.

As for Black Gold Bone, he wouldn’t even dare to dream about it.

Mastering Sunflower Hand was actually not difficult.

Chu Qing decided that in the next few days, he would find a few unlucky individuals, unleash a few more ‘sunflowers’ on them, and appreciate the results to achieve promotion.

It was dawn.

Chu Qing looked for Mo Yang.

Mo Yang didn't open the door, muttering, “Wait until I’ve washed up, then you can come in.”

Chu Qing remained silent.

Soon after, Mo Yang opened the door, radiant and bright.

She circled Chu Qing, her small nose wrinkling, and she mumbled, “The smell of blood is so strong!”

“How many people did you kill?”

Chu Qing coughed once and said, “Not many.”

Mo Yang rolled her eyes; she didn’t believe him.

However, she didn’t press further, instead urging Chu Qing to quickly collect his resources.

On the way to Hall Number Nine, Chu Qing said, “If you have time, practice some low-level martial arts.”

“Practice them to their extreme.”

“It can accelerate the speed of cultivating Golden Bone.”

Mo Yang nodded and said, “It can really accelerate it?”

Chu Qing thought for a moment and said, “It really can.”

“After practicing one hundred types of Limit Breaking Techniques, you’ll be able to feel it.”

Mo Yang’s eyes widened, a look of disbelief on her face: “One hundred types?”

Chu Qing said, “That’s right, at least one hundred types.”

Mo Yang counted on her fingers and mumbled, “I’ll give it a try!”

Chu Qing thought for a moment and said, “Low-level Limit Breaking martial arts may seem useless, but they can strengthen your foundation.”

“Practice more of them; it will benefit you.”

“Mm!”

Mo Yang nodded.

A few minutes later, they arrived at Hall Number Nine.

As soon as he entered the hall, Chu Qing noticed that the gazes of many students were filled with pity, even schadenfreude.

After collecting the resources.

Lead Big Brother handed him a box and said, “Chu Qing, this is the assessment from the Instructor of the hall.”

Chu Qing was stunned for a moment and said, “Aren’t assessments usually chosen by oneself?”

Lead Big Brother sighed and said, “Instructors can also assign them.”

“And assigned assessment tasks are very difficult.”

“The danger level is even more terrifying than a collective assessment.”

“Did you offend the Instructor?”

“If you have a thousand taels of black gold, let me work something out; I can get the Instructor to change it to a simpler assessment.”

Chu Qing shook his head.

All his black gold had been used to advance his Secret Inheritance.

Moreover, even if he had black gold, he wouldn’t bribe an Instructor he had never met.

If he bribed this time, what about next time?

If he kept bribing, wouldn’t he just become a leek?

Give up?

If he gave up this time, there would be a next time.

After three times, he would be expelled from the martial arts academy.

Mo Yang, who was beside him, said, “You’re being targeted.”

“Let’s look at the assessment content; I’ll do it with you.”

Chu Qing didn’t shy away and directly opened the box.

Lead Big Brother, who was beside him, said, “Whatever you do, don’t reveal the contents.”

“If someone with ill intentions finds out, they will target you during the assessment.”

“At that time…”

Chu Qing laughed and said, “Since they’ve already assigned me an assessment, it’s bound to be very dangerous.”

“A little more danger won’t make a difference to me.”

Lead Big Brother and the other students suddenly understood.

They asked curiously:

“What is the assigned assessment?”

【Monthly Assessment — Thirty li outside the city, bandits are entrenched in Huangniu Town; clear out the bandits.】

Mo Yang pouted and said, “So simple!”

“Huh… why are your faces pale?”

“Everyone here is a Prodigy, a Young Master of a Prominent Family.”

“Clearing out bandits is very simple.”

“Back then, we cleared out bandits on Caotou Mountain.”

As she spoke, her voice trailed off.

She wasn’t foolish.

A group of Prodigies, upon hearing “Huangniu Town,” all turned pale.

That place was definitely not ordinary.

Lead Big Brother looked at Chu Qing with pity and said, “This assessment task was the collective assessment task for Hall Number Ten last year.”

“During that assessment, over thirty students from Hall Number Ten died there inexplicably.”

“The remaining ones didn’t even go in.”

“Later, that assessment was sealed away.”

“You’re dead for sure.”

Chu Qing… was speechless.

Mo Yang’s face was pale.

Even if these Young Masters of a Prominent Family were incompetent, they were still very powerful.

Over thirty students could easily kill a thousand to eight hundred soldiers on a slightly complex battlefield.

And yet, they all died inexplicably in Huangniu Town.

There was definitely something wrong with that.

“Qing Ge, give up this assessment.”

Chu Qing pondered for a moment and said, “What about next time?”

Mo Yang quickly said, “We’ll worry about next time, next time.”

Chu Qing paced back and forth, saying, “If I can’t handle it this time, I won’t be able to handle it next time either.”

“In fact, if I give up this time, my enemies will discover my weakness and then strike me with a thunderous blow.”

“At that point, I’ll still die.”

“What’s more, there’s also the collective assessment in a few days.”

“If I give up this time, they will definitely tamper with the collective assessment.”

“It will be even more dangerous then.”

Chu Qing’s eyes flashed with fierce light, and he mumbled, “Since both are very dangerous, why don’t I deal with the first danger first?”

“If I can handle this assessment, then… next time they want to make a move against me, they will have to think twice.”

“And… Huangniu Town, it’s just an assessment location.”

“No matter how powerful the bandits are, I have a way to deal with them.”

Mo Yang worriedly said, “I’m just afraid they aren’t ordinary bandits.”

Chu Qing laughed and said, “I’m not an ordinary person either.”

Mo Yang sighed.

The assessment task didn’t actually specify whether it had to be completed immediately.

As long as it could be completed within the allotted time, that was fine.

Chu Qing decided to prepare first.

Mo Yang said, “I’ll write to Mo Yang and the others, asking them to come and help.”

Chu Qing shook his head and said, “The Prefecture City is engulfed in war; they might even need help more than I do.”

Mo Yang fell silent.

Lead Big Brother, who was beside them, clapped his hands and said, “Alright, students.”

“This afternoon, everyone go out and buy some yellow paper and braziers; tonight, we’ll burn paper for Chu Qing in advance.”

“So that when he goes underground, he can also be flamboyant and grand.”

Chu Qing wanted to stab Lead Big Brother to death… The Fat Instructor was in a very good mood.

He had spoken to his friend.

That friend immediately arranged a death assessment for Chu Qing — Huangniu Town.

Huangniu Town was extremely terrifying.

An Anomaly was once schemed against there, humiliated, and died.

That Anomaly, before his death, cursed Huangniu Town.

Therefore:

Huangniu Town became an Anomaly Zone.

To clear Huangniu Town, either ordinary people had to find the anomalous object, or an Anomaly had to take action.

However:

This Anomaly Zone was cursed by the death of an Anomaly.

Other Anomalies were simply unwilling to clear it.

Therefore, only one method remained: find the anomalous object and solve the problem.

But… no one had ever succeeded.

Never.

So:

If Chu Qing went this time, he was certain to die.

If he didn’t go… the subsequent blows he would face would be even more terrifying.

“Country bumpkin, let me see if you truly have any ability!”