Examination Starts!

"He's one of the core elders of the Flying Sword Sect, an expert at the Nascent Soul Realm!"

Qing Yi's mouth opened slightly as she focused her eyes on Xuan Hao, she was shocked beyond belief upon listening to the chatter surrounding the young man walking besides the Sect Master.

He looked only a few years older than her, but he was already at the Nascent Soul Realm?!

"Everyone, since you've come all the way here to join the examination of my Flying Sword Sect, I won't waste anymore of your time. Now, I'll announce that the Flying Sword Sect's first round of examination will officially begin!"

After briefly welcoming the younger generation, Feng Chen personally announced the start of the examinations first test.

The first test was divided into two steps. Firstly, to test the bone age of the participants and making sure nobody over the age limit entered and secondly, their current cultivation realm.

Those with a bone age less than eighteen and a cultivation level at the third stage of Qi Condensation Realm, could directly enter the second stage of the examination.

The first part was not difficult. Most of the people who could appear here already knew about this test, as it would happen every time the Flying Sword Sect prepared to accept new disciples.

Children under the age of fourteen had a whole other set of tests they had to go through, so as to make it fair for them to be able to enter as well. After all, having a child the age of ten reach stage three of the Qi Condensation Realm, was a little too much to ask.

The first part was not difficult and mostly served so as to separate the children from the young adults. The second part of the examination was the difficult one.

The second part would contain actual battle, where the ordinary would be removed and the extraordinary would be able to shine brightly.

At that time, those who managed to pass the first round of test would be led by an outer elder of the Flying Sword Sect to one of several location, though one of the most used testing grounds, was a demon beast forest. Located not too far away from the Flying Sword Sect.

The forest of demon beasts under the Flying Sword Sect was exceptionally large, but the demon beasts inside were not considered too strong. Under the management of the Flying Sword Sect, the strongest demon beast inside was only at the ninth stage of the Qi Condensation Realm.

After the participants entered the forest of demon beasts, every demon beast that they killed would be recorded by an elder. In the end, the elders of the Flying Sword Sect would rank all of them according to how many demon beasts they managed to kill.

In the end, the top 1000 people would become outer disciples of the Flying Sword Sect, the top 10 would be promoted directly to inner disciples if their performance was satisfactory.

This, however, was not what caused most of the youths present to give it their all in the upcoming tests!

The most attractive part was to appeal to the higher-ups of the Flying Sword Sect and hope to be accepted as a personal disciple! Becoming a personal disciple of any of the three core elders would be the same as ascending the heavens in a single step.

It was also worth mentioning that it wasn't just because one's cultivation realm was higher than others, the higher one's ranking would become. The second part of the examination was not about their cultivation realm of the participants, rather, it focused on evaluating the youths' combat strength and their ability to react to different and most certainly deadly encounters.

Even if they were at the third stage of the Qi Condensation Realm, if they could still not kill a demon beast that had the same cultivation realm as yourself, you would most likely not be able to enter the top 1000.

On the other hand, if your cultivation base was high, but the combat strength you exerted did not match your cultivation base, then even if you were at the 6th stage of the Qi Condensation Realm, you might not end up in the top 1000.

While the thousand spots did sound like quite a lot, people from all over the northern region of the Heavenly Sky kingdom had gathered for the examination.

More than ten thousand people had gathered and were ready for the second part of the examination. Meaning nine out of ten people would be eliminated in the upcoming test!

...

What the Flying Sword Sect used to test the bone age of the people present was a special kind of spirit tool called a talent tester, as it could measure a person's cultivation base at the same time as well.

This kind of tool wasn't considered to be valuable, even Qing Yi's clan had a few of them back home.

After Feng Chen announced the beginning of the first test, the people in the examination ground began to line up and take the test in an orderly manner.

"Ying Lu, bone age 16, Qi Condensation Third Stage, Pass!"

"Tao Tao? Bone age 17, Qi Condensation Fifth Stage, Pass!"

"Yuan Meow, Bone age 19! Disqualified!"

"Fang Fan, bone age 17, Qi Condensation Second Stage, Disqualified!"

"Meng …..."

Most of the people who were able to appear here had a prior understanding of the Flying Sword Sect's standards for accepting disciples and with this in mind, most of them ended up passing the test. Apart from a few who tried to cheat the system and squeeze in...

Xuan Hao, who was located on a platform standing above the examination ground looked down at the group of people in the examination ground.

"hah…"

Xuan Hao only wanted to sit quietly inside the pavilion and scout around with his divine sense to find a talent and take him or her in as a disciple. Sadly, the two Wang brothers had other ideas for him and the moment they discovered that he was spreading out his divine sense and not paying attention, they came up with a devious plan.

"Ah, this child Xuan Hao is still young and is going to pick his first disciple! Feng Chen, why don't you take him with you for the start of the examination?"

"Yes, yes! This way he will be able to see the new blood of the sect personally, it will definitely be easier to find a disciple this way!"

"Hmm… Indeed, I also chose my first disciple this way. Xuan Hao, why don't you come with me for the start of the examination? If you just stay here you won't be able to see the new disciples personally."

"… Fine, I will come."

Not even getting a chance to refuse, Xuan Hao was chased out of the pavilion and now stood quietly besides the Sect Master Feng Chen on the platform.

"Sigh…"

The first test had just begun, so Xuan Hao decided to throw the thoughts of the two scheming muscle heads aside and instead focus on finding a disciple.

"Natural talent 4, no…."

"Talent at 6, no."

"Ah, someone with a talent of 9, why couldn't you just have one more! Still not good enough and the fellow also looks like a troublesome type…"

"Sigh…"

Almost half of the disciples had gone through the first test by now and Xuan Hao had still not found a person with 10 or more talent.

Not to mention more than 10, the highest he found was only someone with 9!

"Even within the Flying Sword Sect, Ling Song, who is known as the number one person in the younger generation, only has a talent of 15..."

Xuan Hao shook his head, and felt disappointed with the group of young people trying to enter the Flying Sword Sect. It seemed like the side quest would probably be impossible to complete if nobody with decent talent showed up.