Chapter 23: Jiang Wushuang

On the day of inheritance

Tang Liuyue looked around and asked Xu Zhi. "Uncle Zhi, brother Ren still haven't arrived?"

Xu Zhi nodded. "Lady Saintess, You don't have to care about him."

Tang Liuyue pouted and she looked around. Many people gathered here. The largest among them are Azure faction!

Wang Xueyao, at this time, is sitting in Azure faction along with many Wang family members. They have already reunited about a month ago. 

At this time, a huge shadow descended from the sky. Long Yifan looked at it and frowned. 'Whirlwind Eagle' He murmured inwardly.

From the top of it, Ren Ying, Li Yuxong and Huang Ling came down. 

Seeing Ren Ying, Wu Tianlei and Long Yifan's face turned red with anger. Long Yifan shouted. "You traitor, you dare to come here?"

Ren Ying laughed at him. "Come here if you dare."

Long Yifan didn't speak anymore and his face turned ugly. Even if he has 10 guts, he didn't dare to run in front of Rank 6 peak stage beast!

Looking at Li Yuxong, Li Cheng became happy. He shouted. "Xong-er here!"

Li Yuxong looked at them and smiled and went there alongside Huang Ling. Li Ming looked at Huang Ling and his eyes lit up. He immediately asked: "She is?"

Li Yuxong looked at Li Ming and narrowed his eyes, but before he could speak. Huang Ling spoke. "I am Huang Ling, from Shadow Phoenix faction"

Li Yuxong looked at her. She indicated at him not to reveal her identity. Li Yuxong nodded.

Li Cheng was suddenly surprised. "You reached Rank 4?!" 

Li Yuxong smiled. "Yes Uncle Cheng, this is thanks to her. Not only that, I also reached Rank 5 peak stage in Soul cultivation!"

Li Cheng was shocked. "It seems you have faced some fortuitous opportunity!"

Li Yuxong nodded.

Tang Liuyue, who has been waiting for Ren Ying, ran towards him and hugged him. "Brother Ren, I have been waiting for you for a long time!"

Ren Ying touched her head and nodded softly. "I arrived, didn't I? You have worked hard, and even reached Rank 4 peak?!"

Tang Liuyue smiled happily.

Ren Ying looked at her smiling and frowned. But, he rejected all his thoughts. 'Don't think too much.' Reminded himself.

Tang Liuyue suddenly asked. "Why did you come so late?"

Ren Ying looked at her affectionately and answered. "I arrived a long time ago, but I didn't come here, because I have enmity with those Spirit Dragon faction and Thunderous Peak faction. If I come early, they would have enough time to prepare something against me."

She looked at him innocently and pouted.

He suddenly asked. "Can you tell me one thing?" Tang Liuyue was puzzled.

Ren Ying looked at her and said. "This isn't your style. Normally, you would just ask few times and start ignoring. But, you kept on initiating the connection with the token. Even now, if it were your previous self, you would just be happy that I arrived, but you asked why am I late. Can you tell me why? This isn't like you."

Tang Liuyue subconsciously glanced at his shoulders and said. "Isn't it because I am worried about you! Are you suspecting me?" She glared at him with a pout!

Looking at her cute and innocent face. Ren Ying pinched her cheeks and said. "Let's go I have some of your favourite sweats prepared, especially for you!"

Tang Liuyue was excited. "Really?" Ren Ying nodded.

Ren Ying started hanging out with her, while Huang Ling and Li Yuxong spent time together. But, good time didn't last long and a huge commotion shook the small world!

Everyone shouted in excitement. "The Inheritance is opening!"

A huge pillar appeared out of thin air, a large platform formed, and a huge stair reaching heavens appeared. There were also countless small buildings appeared from the bottom of the Earth.

In the middle of all these, a middle man's shadow appeared, who made everyone feel awe from the bottom of their heart. They only had one thing in their heart after seeing him. 'Monarch's majesty!'

Inheritance finally opened!

Everyone appeared together.

The old man's word resounded through the Small World. Everyone felt as if this voice directly entered their soul.

His soul was so strong, that he could create any cloth he want on top of it. His appearance was that of a slim old man with short beards, with sharp eyes and strong muscles. He was wearing a blue robe.

"My name is Jiang Wushuang. I was 4th generation Sword Gate sect master, but it's a pity, I failed to breakthrough the Emperor's realm and died. I have lived my whole life honing sword and cultivated till the Sword Soul. In my later years, I found this small world, where I stepped into half step Emperor realm, but I failed to enter the Rank 9, Emperor realm!"

"I set my inheritance in this small world, to choose the finest successor who can inherit my position. In this inheritance, only worthy ones will succeed."

"There will be four tests. First one is Pillar test, which tests one's talent and potential. Put your hands on the pillar, and it will tell us what is the grade of your Talent, and Spiritual Imprint!"

"Then, there is ladder test. It will test your perseverance. Without hard work, no talent can become great. In this test, the difficulty will be corresponding to the cultivation realm. Thus taking away the advantages of higher cultivation."

"The third one is Battle Prowess. Everyone will face puppets in the same realm as their cultivation level, and as one wins, number of puppet increases. The one who defeats more puppets will be the winner."

"And finally the fourth one. It would test the mindset of an individual. We would place everyone in a special formation, and the one who can last longer and do not fell into the illusion will be the winner!"

"The successor will obtain all of my life experiences, my sword arts, and my formation experiences. There are also tons of resources that I have saved when I was still alive and various spiritual herbs!"

Hearing the rewards, everyone's eyes lit up.

Wang Xueyao's eyes deepened and there were traces of disdain in her face. 'Those exercises are useless. Currently what I lack most are resources.'

Li Yuxong has entirely different idea. 'Those sword arts. I must win this inheritance.'

Huang Ling also had expectations. 'If I get mastery over formations, then it would boost my alchemy methods. There are many techniques that incorporate formations into alchemy furnaces to increase the success rate.'

Ren Ying looked at these rewards and sighed. 'They are not even close to the ones I obtained in that cave. For me, increasing my soul was greatest benefit. Though, from other person's perspective, that is just useless. Because not only they can increase their soul power with cultivation, they don't need to face such pain to do so.'

The old man Jiang Wushuang looked at everyone and nodded with satisfaction. "The first test will start right away, the second test will start right after the everyone's potential is measured, since the first test doesn't exhaust you much.

Similarly, the third and fourth test will be held 1 week from now together. The fourth test, also doesn't exhaust much, so it will be fine conducting them together."

"Now, without delaying anymore, come one by one, put your hands on the pillar and give the name. Let it test your potential!"

Everyone was filled with excitement. Long Yifan looked at the crowd with disdain. He believes this is something he would never fail in! He glanced at them and mocked. "A bunch of clowns"

A young man, named Qin Yi went to the pillar first and put his hand on the it. Soon a bright light flashed and it showed:

Name: Qin Yi

Talent: Grade C

Spiritual Imprint: Grade 5

Soon, one by one, everyone started testing. 

Name: Li Ming

Talent: Grade C

Spiritual Imprint: Grade 5

Name: Han Long

Talent: Grade D

Spiritual Imprint: Grade 3

Name: Wu Tianlei

Talent: Grade B

Spiritual Imprint: Grade 7

Looking at Wu Tianlei's talent, everyone's face turned into disappointment. Everyone wants to be the best, but when they think about it, they realise that it is to be expected as the leader of Thunderous peak faction. 

One by one, many people came and even though they knew the result, they still tried and returned in disappointment.

Soon, most of them have already finished and only few remained. Tang Liuyue, Long Yifan and Huang Weimin also prepared to go one by one.

Name: Tang Liuyue

Talent: Grade B

Spiritual Imprint: Grade 8

Name: Long Yifan

Talent: Grade A

Spiritual Imprint: Grade 8

Name: Huang Weimin

Talent: Grade B

Spiritual Imprint: Grade 8

At this time, nearly all of them have already finished. Huang Ling also moved towards the pillar. Her face was covered with a veil.

Name: Huang Ling

Talent: Grade S

Spiritual Imprint: Grade 9

Looking at the potential, Long Yifan's face turned ugly. He has always thought he was the most talented person in Southern region, and he has always enjoyed the glory! He looked at Huang Ling with murderous aura. 

But, at this time, another person reached the pillar.

Name: Li Yuxong

Talent: Grade S

Spiritual Imprint: Grade 9

Looking at this, the crowd from Azure faction went into commotion.

"Didn't the awakening ceremony revealed him to have only Grade 8 Spiritual Imprint?"

"Did he hid that somehow?"

"It seems Li Minghui can even tamper with Awakening Ceremony, or may be he asked them to not reveal the correct information!"

Everyone was surprised at his talent.

Long Yifan's hands were clenched. He was dropped to rank 3 directly from rank 1!

But, this is not over yet. 

Wang Xueyao entered and went straight towards the pillar. She put her hands on it and again, a bright light flashed.

Name: Wang Xueyao

Talent: S

Spiritual Imprint: Grade 9

Long Yifan gritted his teeth, and immediately left the place.

Jiang Wushuang nodded with satisfaction and gave the list of the top talents.

1. Li Yuxong

2. Wang Xueyao

3. Huang Ling

4. Long Yifan

5. Huang Weimin

6. Tang Liuyue

7. Wu Tianlei

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34. Wang Haoran

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