216: Chapter 216 Introductory Assessment

Senior Sister Tao Tao walked over without saying a word, simply standing to the side with a cold expression.

The reason this Inner Sect Disciple invited her over was just to have her supervise the assessment process; if they passed, she would issue the Inner Sect or Personal Disciple token. As for Lin Qing's assessment, she did not need to guide him.

However, looking at Senior Sister Tao Tao's expression right now, she seemed somewhat reluctant.

Senior Sister Tao Tao had an official Revered Master at Wanyan Spirit Pavilion. Her Revered Master had five Disciples in total, one of whom was a Senior Brother who had entered the Kunxu Secret Realm with her previously, but unfortunately, he had fallen in the Forbidden Ground.

Her Revered Master intended to recruit another Disciple. Seeing that Senior Sister Tao Tao could not move on from the pain of losing her Senior Brother, he had her come out to supervise the assessment and personally select a Disciple to be her Junior Brother.

After bringing Senior Sister Tao Tao over, the aforementioned Disciple walked back to Lin Qing's side and said very politely, "Senior Brother, please come this way. I will first guide you through the first stage of the assessment."

Upon hearing that Inner Sect Disciple's address to Lin Qing, Senior Sister Tao Tao frowned. Logically, Lin Qing had not yet officially joined the Sect, so he should not be calling Lin Qing "Senior Brother."

In Senior Sister Tao Tao's view, this Disciple was a bit too sycophantic and lacked the bearing of the Wanyan Spirit Pavilion. However, she had been in a bad mood lately and had no interest in dealing with such trifles, so in the end, she didn't say anything more.

Senior Sister Tao Tao had been taken in as a Personal Disciple by a God Realm powerhouse the moment she entered the Sect; how could she understand the hardships these ordinary Disciples faced daily?

The way these super powers in the Central Continent recruited Disciples could indeed attract more Geniuses, but compared to the Chuyun Immortal Sect, these Geniuses who joined later did not have a strong sense of belonging to the Sect.

They didn't care if you were a fellow Junior Brother; as long as they caught an opportunity, they would plunder your cultivation resources.

And precisely because those high-level officials or Law Enforcement Hall Disciples who maintained order had grown up the same way, they couldn't be bothered to interfere as long as it wasn't something particularly serious, like killing fellow Disciples.

As for leaving the Sect after being bullied, that was just courting death. Once you were targeted, staying within the Sect at least meant the chance of facing life-threatening danger was much lower.

The Inner Sect Disciple before him had clearly encountered such situations, so having finally met a Disciple like Lin Qing who had high strength and a chance to become a Personal Disciple, he naturally had to fawn over him, at least to get familiar.

"Senior Brother, this first stage is a strength test. You just need to place your hand on this and release your spiritual power with all your might."

The Inner Sect Disciple brought Lin Qing to a giant crystal sphere. The mechanism of this sphere was not complex; it would emit different lights according to the intensity of the spiritual power, and it was specifically used for Disciples with Ling Realm cultivation to test their strength.

Moreover, this sphere was only an eighth-rank Magic Treasure and was relatively simple to refine, so there were many of them; every five registration desks would be equipped with one such sphere Magic Treasure.

As for the Magic Treasure for testing bone age, it had to be at least at the Divine Artifact level, and the refining was more complex, so there were fewer of them; it took dozens of registration desks to be equipped with one.

To prevent the number of people being tested from being too high, the bone age test was placed at the very end, so that the preceding stages could filter out some people.

Lin Qing placed his hand on the crystal ball and released a trace of spiritual power, and the crystal ball immediately emitted a dazzling light.

"Congratulations, Senior Brother. Your spiritual power is indeed at the Early Stage eighth-rank level."

Lin Qing's control, naturally, went without saying; releasing spiritual power of Early Stage eighth-rank intensity was quite simple. Of course, this intensity was not what he himself had been like at the Early Stage eighth-rank.

He had previously killed many Demon Seeds of the Xuanye Demon Court, among whom there were no shortage of Early Stage eighth-rank Cultivators. When he crippled their cultivation, he had used his spiritual power to enter their bodies, so he knew what the standard Early Stage eighth-rank spiritual power intensity was like.

The second stage was the Heart-Nature stage. Within the assessment area, a small illusion Formation was set up, and then there would be some multiple-choice questions. Under the effect of the Formation, the test-takers would make the choices that most aligned with their true inner selves.

These questions were also very simple; for example, if a fellow Disciple was injured and you had a healing Medicinal Pill on you, would you be willing to use it on them?

The passing criteria for this stage were relatively lenient. After all, everyone knew what Cultivators were like, so as long as one wasn't truly a vile and evil person, like Zhou Yichen, it was quite simple to pass.

With Sitting in Oblivion, even the illusion array of the Kunxu Immortal Sect's Forbidden Ground couldn't do anything to Lin Qing, so this kind of small illusion Formation naturally had no effect on him.

However, he didn't give perfect answers; that would be too eye-catching. In the end, Lin Qing passed the second stage with a standard score.

The third stage was the bone age test. Apparently, the accuracy of the Magic Treasure used for testing was not very high. Lin Qing's final test result was that eleven notches on the Magic Treasure lit up, indicating his age was between one hundred and one hundred and ten years old.

As for why Lin Qing yielded such a result, it was naturally because of the Will of Life. The Will of Life was a high-level will on the same level as the Five Elements Will and the Will of Destruction. It was quite simple to deceive such a crude Magic Treasure.

Seeing that Lin Qing had finished the test, Senior Sister Tao Tao walked over, first handed him the Personal Disciple token, and then asked: "Are you willing to join my Revered Master's Sect?"

Senior Sister Tao Tao had been here for several days and had previously met a few other Disciples who were qualified to be Personal Disciples, but they were either too low in strength or looked wretched. Lin Qing was the only one who was decent in all aspects, so she didn't want to wait any longer.

Low strength didn't mean there was no possibility of becoming a Personal Disciple; as long as one's talent was good enough, it was fine, for example, reaching the seventh rank around the age of fifty.

Senior Sister Tao Tao's Revered Master rarely taught Disciples personally; most of the time, he let the Senior Brothers and Senior Sisters under him teach. She herself had been taught and raised by that previous Senior Brother.

For the Disciple recruited this time, the Revered Master would most likely have Senior Sister Tao Tao guide them. But she didn't want to spend time teaching others, so she hadn't wanted those previous Personal Disciples with lower cultivation, choosing instead Lin Qing, who had already reached the eighth rank.

Lin Qing actually didn't want to have too much contact with Senior Sister Tao Tao, but if he refused, it would be too abnormal.

A God Realm powerhouse takes you in as a Personal Disciple, and you refuse? Wouldn't that be telling others openly that you have a problem?

Lin Qing cupped his hands and responded: "This Junior Brother is willing."

"Good. Come with me; I will first take you to pay respects to Revered Master."

After saying this, Senior Sister Tao Tao immediately took flight and flew toward the inside of the Sect, and Lin Qing followed closely behind, leaving amidst the congratulations of the Inner Sect Disciple.

A Sect of Wanyan Spirit Pavilion's level could no longer be contained by a single mountain peak or a single lake. Here, there were all kinds of terrains: mountain ranges, lakes, forests, grasslands, and there were also floating islands just like the Chuyun Immortal Sect. Lin Qing even saw some Disciples flying out from underground caves.

Finally, Lin Qing followed Senior Sister Tao Tao to a volcano.