Strength test

"Everyone who is going to participate form 3 lines, we will start with the strength test as soon as you get organized, we will explain how the test will work."

Quickly all the children began to form lines, the number of children in the village was not very large, there were approximately 400 children and quickly they all organized themselves into three lines.

Seeing this Noah nodded and said: "Okay, the strength test is very simple, you just need to hit that pillar with all your strength, you will have 3 attempts in total and you need to reach a minimum strength requirement according to your cultivation."

Then Noah took out a list from his space ring and placed it on a wall that everyone could see and said: "The strength standard is on this list you can see and get ready we will start in 30 minutes."

Cyrus looked at the list and the strength pattern was as follows:

3rd stage of body refinement - 300 kg

4th stage of body refinement - 500 kg

5th stage of body refinement - 700 kg

6th stage of body refinement - 900 kg

7th stage of body refinement - 1200 kg

8th stage of body refinement - 1500 kg

Cyrus looked at this and thought, "No wonder many are unable to enter these martial schools; this is just the first test and the standard is already so high, I fear that perhaps a third of the participants will be eliminated."

In the body refinement stage, strength grew steadily in the first 3 stages, each advance increased strength by 50 kg, in the middle 3 stages strength increased by 100 kg and for the last 3 stages by 150 kg, but with the use of martial skills and with training the martial artist could release much greater strength and basically the strength standard of this test was twice the strength that a martial artist would normally have.

Cyrus then thought, "The test might be a problem for others, but it won't be a big deal for me because of my body transformation technique, my strength is far superior to someone at the same stage as me."

The high strength requirements caused many of the children to panic as most of them would not be able to reach this standard so soon a huge commotion began to form.

Seeing the group of children start to make a lot of noise, Noah interrupted speaking in an irritated voice: "Silence all of you the strength standards are already far below what they should be if you were taking the regular exam of my martial school these standards would be a joke so be quiet."

Hearing Noah's irritated tone, the children remained silent, but it was clear that they were very nervous and lacked confidence because they knew they did not meet the martial school's standard.

Noah was satisfied with the silence of the group and then said: "Then let's start, the first in line can come."

Then a boy who looked to be 10 years old left the line and went towards the pillar, but he seemed to have no confidence at all. The boy stood in front of the pillar, prepared himself and hit the pillar with everything he could, then the numbers on the pillar changed quickly.

Noah looked at it and loudly announced the result: "4th stage - 350 kg, failure you can try again."

The boy nodded with a sad expression and tried again, but nothing changed and the result remained the same, so the boy left and went towards his parents.

Seeing this the children became even more nervous but Noah didn't give them much time to think when he said: "Next in line come and take the test."

And so, the continuous test, unsurprisingly, the vast majority failed and those who passed could barely meet the standard.

Noah looked at this and thought, "A bunch of trash most can't even pass such a low standard and the ones that pass barely meet the requirements with such low talent they dare to call themselves martial artists."

The test continued and soon it was Ryan's turn he walked confidently to the pillar and quickly prepared himself and landed a powerful blow.

The numbers quickly increased and Noah announced them loudly: "4th stage - 780 kg, passed."

The people of the village were surprised by the numbers.

"He passed the standard as expected, Ryan is quite strong like his father."

Ryan's father was one of the strongest martial artists in the village, his name was Tyan.

Seeing his son's results, Tyan was very proud despite being quite lazy his son was very talented so he was always strict with him and now the results of the training were there for everyone to see and his son was clearly one of the strongest children in the village.

Noah looked at Ryan and thought, "That's a little talented at least not everyone here is a complete waste." He then said: "Very good, you are quite strong."

Ryan was even happier with Noah's compliment; it was the first time he had praised someone.

Then he left and went towards the group of children who had passed, after a few more children took the test, it was Cyrus' turn.

He walked slowly and you could see a confident smile on his face, seeing this Ryan thought: "Damn my 15 minutes of fame are over, now this monster is going to show his strength."

Ryan understood Cyrus' strength better than anyone, since they were born they played and trained together and were basically inseparable so he knew how strong Cyrus was when he gave his all.

Cyrus stopped in front of the pillar and began to prepare himself and soon with his fists covered in flames he landed a large blow on the pillar.

Soon everyone heard a loud boom and the numbers on the pillar began to change at great speed and for the first time Noah seemed surprised by the result.

Noah then looked at Cyrus for a while and spoke out loud, "5th step - 1 600 kg, passed."

Everyone in the crowd then stood dumb in complete disbelief Cyrus' result completely surprised them they had more than doubled the minimum requirement.

Even Noah looked at the boy with a bit of shock and thought, "That would be a good result even in martial schools so a place like this can produce a talent like him... a shame he fell into our hands."

Noah then smiled and said: "Well, I didn't expect someone with your talent to be in such an isolated village, train well, I'm sure you'll become someone with many achievements in the future."

Cyrus nodded and walked towards Ryan who said to him: "As expected you are indeed a freak; I don't doubt that your result is good even among martial school students."

Cyrus smiled and replied: "I don't think I'm that good, without a doubt these schools must have real monsters that I can't compare to, but I'm not going to give up, I'm going to train until I surpass them."

Ryan shrugged and said, "That's why you're so strong, I on the other hand don't want to train that hard I'm fine being average, not too bad not too good and enjoying a good life with no problems exploring the world that's my objective."

Cyrus couldn't help but laugh at his friend's lack of ambition, Ryan was always like that, he always wanted to have fun and play and hated training and was always getting into some kind of trouble and ironically, he ended up becoming best friends with Cyrus, who was his complete opposite.

Cyrus laughed as he spoke, "If your father heard what you said now you would no doubt be in big trouble."

Hearing Cyrus talk about his father, Ryan trembled and looked around to make sure he wasn't around and seeing that he wasn't around, he regained confidence and said: "My old man doesn't know how to have fun, he just cares about training and more training, just like you Cyrus, you really have to let go but you know, enjoy and have fun, that's how life should be."

Soon all the children were tested, without any surprise, the majority had failed the test out of more than 400 children, just under a hundred had passed the test.

With that Noah finally spoke: "Now those who passed follow Yan to the next test."

Then the children followed Yan to a place a little further away where there was a large crystal with some runes embedded in its exterior. Cyrus looked at this and thought, "They must use this for the test, I wonder if I have a good elemental affinity, I never had the opportunity to test it so I don't know if I have talent in that area."