Chapter 5873
The young deacon also noticed the anomaly. He re-examined Kai, his attitude becoming much more cautious: “Fellow Daoist, since you insist, then participate in the test. The test consists of three parts: cultivation level test, attack test, and defense test. Please follow me.”
Kai nodded and followed the deacon to the testing area.
The first part was the cultivation level test.
A spirit-testing crystal was placed on the testing table. The cultivator placed their hand on it and injected immortal power. The crystal would display the approximate cultivation level based on the quality and quantity of the immortal power.
Some cultivators would deliberately hide their realm or use drugs to enhance their realm aura.
If one relied solely on aura to discern the other’s realm, there would be errors.
This would be considered cheating, but there was no way to cheat in front of this spirit-testing crystal.
For the cultivators who had been tested before, the crystal mostly lit up with red, orange, and yellow lights, corresponding to the fifth, sixth, and seventh ranks of the Heavenly Immortal Realm, respectively.
When it was Kai’s turn, he placed his hand on the crystal and slowly injected chaotic immortal power.
The crystal first lit up with a faint white light, which was the weakest realm of the Heavenly Immortal Realm, the first rank.
Seeing the light, the young deacon’s eyes filled with disdain.
The others also began to point and whisper.
The burly man who had been frightened by Kai, seeing this scene, also revealed a fierce glint in his eyes.
This spirit-testing crystal couldn’t be faked; it seemed Kai’s realm was indeed the first rank of the Heavenly Immortal Realm.
In that case, he no longer needed to fear him.
That terrifying aura just now was probably created using some kind of magical artifact.
Thinking this, the burly man wanted to step forward and teach Kai a lesson, to vent his anger.
But just as the burly man was about to step forward, the spirit-testing crystal suddenly changed.
The white light began to shift, turning gray, and then within the gray, seven halos of red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, and purple emerged, the seven colors flowing and finally intertwining into a chaotic, undefined gray hue!
“What… what’s going on?”
The young deacon was stunned.
He had presided over tests for many years and had never seen the spirit-testing crystal react like this.
The surrounding crowd also whispered among themselves, bewildered.
The burly man’s eyes widened in shock, and he stopped in his tracks.
Kai understood.
The Chaotic Immortal Power encompassed all things, not to mention the baleful aura, the power of the Divine Dragon, the power of the three races, and the power of various supreme fires within Kai’s body. These mixed powers made it impossible for the Spirit Testing Crystal to accurately determine his cultivation level, hence this abnormal reaction.
“Perhaps there’s something wrong with the crystal,”
Kai said calmly. “How about we proceed to the next test?”
The young steward hesitated for a moment, then looked at an elderly man not far away who had closed his eyes to meditate. He was an elder sent by the Earth Fire Pavilion to supervise this recruitment.
The old man opened his eyes, gave Kai a deep look, and slowly nodded: “Continue.”
The second test was an attack test.
Three specially made test pillars stood in the testing area, corresponding to the defensive strength of the fifth, sixth, and seventh ranks of the Heavenly Immortal Realm, respectively.
The cultivator had to launch an attack from ten feet away, and the attack power was judged based on the degree of damage to the test pillars.
Most cultivators who had passed the test before could only leave deep marks on the fifth-grade trial pillar, and a few sixth-grade cultivators could leave shallow marks.
As for the seventh-grade trial pillar, no one had been able to budge it.
Kai walked to the testing position, did not take out the Dragon-Slaying Sword, but instead pointed his fingers like a sword, and pointed at the sixth-grade trial pillar in the middle from a distance.
A gray sword aura shot out from his fingertip, silent and not very fast.
“That’s it?”
someone muttered softly, “Weak and powerless, not even a sound…”
Before the words were finished, the gray sword aura had already lightly landed on the sixth-grade trial pillar. There was no earth-shattering explosion, no ear-piercing clang of metal.
Only a soft “hiss,” like a red-hot iron rod piercing snow.
Before everyone’s stunned eyes, the testing pillar, strong enough to withstand a full-force attack from a sixth-grade Celestial Immortal, was easily pierced by the gray sword energy!
A thumb-sized hole, smooth as a mirror, remained, completely transparent!
Even more bizarrely, the material around the hole wasn’t violently destroyed, but rather seemed… to have been wiped from the face of the earth by some force!
The entire arena
fell silent. A pin drop could be heard.
A few breaths later, gasps of astonishment rose and fell.
“This… how is this possible?!”
“A sixth-grade testing pillar… pierced through?!”
“What kind of supernatural power did he use? I didn’t even see it!”
“That sword energy is strange! It’s definitely not ordinary sword energy!”
The burly man who had previously mocked Kai the most was now deathly pale, filled with lingering fear.
He secretly rejoiced that he hadn’t actually attacked; otherwise, he would likely be the one with a hole in his body now.
The young deacon opened his mouth, speechless for a long time.
In all his years of overseeing tests, the strongest Celestial Immortal cultivators he’d ever seen only left a half-inch deep slash mark on the sixth-grade trial pillar.
A direct piercing like this… unheard of!
The supervising elder opened his eyes again, his gaze flashing with a sharp light, staring intently at Kai, as if trying to see right through him.
Kai, however, acted as if he’d done something insignificant, turning to the third test.
The third test: defense.
In the testing area, there were three puppets, each capable of launching attacks equivalent to fifth, sixth, and seventh-grade Celestial Immortals.
The cultivator had to stand in a designated position, neither dodging nor evading, and withstand three blows from the puppets, their defensive strength judged by the degree of injury.
Kai walked to the testing position.
“Please select the puppet level.”
The young deacon’s voice now carried a hint of respect.
“Seventh grade, I’ll say.” Kai said calmly.
“Seventh grade?” Another gasp rippled through the crowd.
The attack of a seventh-grade puppet—that was the real power of a seventh-grade Celestial Immortal!
Even a seventh-grade Celestial Immortal wouldn’t dare claim they could withstand three blows unscathed!
This young man, with only a first-grade aura, actually wants to challenge a seventh-grade puppet?
“Fellow Daoist, a seventh-grade puppet is extremely powerful, perhaps…” the young deacon kindly reminded him.
“No problem, let’s begin.” Kai interrupted him.
The young deacon looked at the supervising elder, who nodded slightly.
“Activate the seventh-grade puppet, first strike!” the young deacon announced loudly.
A three-zhang-tall, crimson metal puppet’s eyes glowed red, its right arm rose, and a blinding crimson light condensed on its fist, emanating a scorching and violent aura.
“Boom!”
The puppet unleashed a punch, the crimson fist shadow tearing through the air, carrying a scorching shockwave, heading straight for Kai’s face!