Chapter 150: The Rogue Cultivator Shows His Prowess

On the cloud platform, Bai Jinfeng pressed the air below him, and suddenly a silver door appeared out of thin air. The door had no door, and inside the door was pitch black with occasional flowing light and shadows - this was a teleportation portal.

"The world inside the door is exactly the same as the assessment place in the Nine-Layered Pagoda. After you enter the door, you will be teleported to different independent assessment voids, and there will be no interference between them. At the same time, you will be suppressed by your cultivation, and you will no longer have any spiritual power, and naturally you will not be able to open the storage bag to use magic weapons. In the assessment, you can only use your own divine thoughts, and giving answers to the void with divine thoughts is what you have to do."

"You can quit after completing the selection test in advance, or you can give up and quit voluntarily, but no one is allowed to stay in it for more than one hour. After one hour, whether you have completed the identification or not, you will automatically be transmitted from the assessment world."

"Now, quickly enter the selection test gate and start your first round of assessment!"

With Bai Jinfeng's loud shout, the group of cultivators below began to walk into the assessment gate one by one.

"Brother Ji, brothers and sisters, I am waiting for you to come out and await your good news!" Huan Yin bowed to all the casual cultivators around him and shouted.

...

An hour later, all the cultivators returned to the square again. At this moment, there was a Taoist boy beside Bai Jinfeng. This Taoist boy had a loud voice and was announcing the results of the first round of talent identification assessment one by one.

In the first round of assessment, only more than 300 of the more than 1,300 cultivators of Yijianfeng passed, not even 30%. However, among the more than 500 casual cultivators, nearly 300 passed, which exceeded half of the total number of casual cultivators.

The first round of Yijianfeng weapon master selection was over, and in the first round of this session, a situation that had never happened before appeared, that is, the passing rate of casual cultivators actually far exceeded the passing rate of Yijianfeng's own weapon cultivators.

The reason for this situation is not because the weapon cultivators of Yijianfeng have regressed. The passing rate of the weapon cultivators of Yijianfeng in the first round has always been around 30%, and the weapon cultivators of Yijianfeng have always been proud of this result. Even many elders in Yijianfeng are very satisfied with this result. Because in the past selection tests, the number of external participating cultivators who have not been eliminated after the first round of assessment has never exceeded 10%. So this time, the reason why the external participating cultivators surpassed the weapon cultivators of Yijianfeng is because the cultivators have made amazing progress. And this progress is not for a certain person, but for the progress of the entire group of cultivators.

The emergence of this situation instantly shocked the weapon cultivators of Yijianfeng, including Bai Jinfeng. You know, the cultivators have always been inferior characters in the eyes of the weapon cultivators of Yijianfeng, and this time, they were completely defeated by the characters they looked down upon, which is simply a great shame.

The results of the first round of the selection test of Yijianfeng weapon masters attracted great attention from the Yijianfeng sect. They suddenly felt that they seemed to be accustomed to the weakness of the external cultivators and forgot that they had never made any progress. However, there are also many Yijianfeng weapon cultivators who attribute this result to Huan Yin. Huan Yin, a young man who has repeatedly created miracles in Yijianfeng, is also one of the outsiders who participated in the test. So some Yijianfeng weapon cultivators think that perhaps Huan Yin, who has amazing attainments in identifying talents, privately taught these casual cultivators some tricks or secret methods of identifying talents. So as long as the results of the second round of selection tomorrow are announced, the casual cultivators will be exposed.

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That afternoon, on the eighth step of Yijianfeng, the old man with a Taoist style was playing chess with his apprentice.

“Master, have you seen him?” The young apprentice asked the old man after dropping a piece.

“Many times.” The old man also dropped a piece and answered.

“How is he?” the apprentice asked again.

“He can recognize himself and study hard. With this mentality alone, his future achievements are limitless. No one in my Yijianfeng can match him.” The old man answered again.

The young disciple thought for a while and said, "Then Master, do you think the result of the first round of selection is really because of him alone?"

"Yes, and no. It is true that he has outstanding ability to identify talents, but the way to identify talents depends on accumulation and understanding. There is no shortcut. No matter how strong his ability is, it is impossible to pass it on to others. Some people in the sect actually said that the casual cultivators obtained his secret method. It is really stupid. In my opinion, the casual cultivators were able to make such great progress this time. It should be influenced by his spirit of learning, and it is also because Zhao Wo brought them a lot of help."

The young disciple shook his head and sighed, "I hope that the performance of the casual cultivators this time can teach those guys in the sect who are complacent."

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Early in the morning of the next day, more than 600 weapon cultivators who passed the first round of the selection the day before returned here again. What is different today is that today, the selection square is surrounded by people watching, and even many senior masters from Yijian Peak have come here.

The appearance of these people watching made many uninformed participating disciples feel confused. Because all previous weapon master selection tests were conducted in an independent void and could not be seen by outsiders, naturally no one would come to watch.

After all the selected disciples arrived, Bai Jinfeng, who was sitting on the cloud platform, stood up and said loudly: "Today is the second round of the selection of Yijianfeng weapon masters. The assessment item of today's round is sword forging. The place of the assessment is still in the void of the trial gate. Each disciple will have an independent assessment space and will not be affected by the outside world."

"The assessment space is no different from the illusion furnace space you are familiar with. There is only one kind of flame in it, the furnace fire, and there are fifty choices of sword forging materials. The assessment time is three hours. Within three hours, those who can forge a second-grade or higher immortal sword can pass this round of assessment, and the rest will be eliminated!"

The difficulty of today's selection is still amazing. You must know that the steps of sword forging are complicated. Three hours is too short. It is difficult to make a sword, not to mention that these new disciples who participate in the test are required to forge a second-grade or higher immortal sword. What's more, there are so few flames and materials to choose from.

Bai Jinfeng paused for a moment and then said: "Today and tomorrow's assessment will be different from the past. That is, your situation at the assessment site will be projected for people outside to watch."

The rule that the situation at the assessment site will be projected outward is something that has never been seen in the selection of weapon masters at Yijianfeng. When Bai Jinfeng received this news, he was also surprised. However, this new rule passed down from above seems to be set by the ancestor Lan Yanzi himself, which made Bai Jinfeng think about it carefully.

Bai Jinfeng thought that the reason why the ancestor decided to do this temporarily might be because the performance of the casual cultivators in the first round was too eye-catching and caused a strong shock to the weapon cultivators in the sect. Therefore, he wanted to let everyone come and see whether the progress of the weapon cultivators was just a coincidence as some people said, or whether the casual cultivators had really surpassed the new weapon cultivators of Yijianfeng.

"Okay, the second round of the trial begins, quickly enter the trial gate!" Bai Jinfeng shouted, and all the participating weapon cultivators here began to walk towards the gate.

For Huan Yin, today was his first time to participate in the test of weapon master selection. He had already guessed the items for today's test. After all, sword forging is the job of all weapon masters. If the weapon master selection test of Yijian Peak does not even test sword forging, it would be too strange.

Soon, Huan Yin entered the world of the test. This place is exactly the same as the world in the illusion furnace as Bai Jinfeng said. In the void, there is nothing else except a large furnace for sword forging.

Soon, a series of information entered Huan Yin's mind-that is, the information about the materials he can call here. After Huan Yin's mind emerged with fifty kinds of materials, he couldn't help but frowned. Because the materials that can be called here are too basic, the best are like heavy single leaves, and the most common ones are even refined iron.

The conditions given for this test are really not very good. Not only is the flame ordinary, but the materials are also extremely ordinary. Although such conditions seem to be suitable for these new weapon cultivators who are participating in the selection test, with their sword-making attainments, how easy is it to use these ordinary things to forge a second-grade or higher immortal sword?

You know, the weapon cultivators who have become weapon masters can generally forge immortal swords of the first to third grade, and there is no restriction on the materials they use. In fact, often when weapon masters can forge high-grade immortal swords, it is because he uses some uncommon materials. After all, materials are too important for a sword. If a person only has fine iron, no matter how high his sword-making attainments are, how many grades of immortal swords can he make?

Huan Yin walked to the side of the sword furnace and lit the furnace fire to start preheating, and then he sat cross-legged. He needed to sort out his thoughts on forging swords today.

At this moment, in the square outside, more than 600 light curtains of the same size were spread in the sky. Each of these light curtains was a projection of the assessment situation of the participating disciples at the moment, and the light curtain where Huan Yin was located was naturally the most eye-catching. Because everyone knows that Huan Yin is amazing at identifying materials, but no one has ever seen how good he is at sword-making.

"Brother, what do you think he can do today?" An old man sitting on the sidelines asked another old man sitting next to him. Obviously, these two old men are both senior weapon cultivators of Yijian Peak.

"The way of sword-making requires extremely high experience. Although he is good at identifying talents, he is still a teenager. How many swords can he make? In my opinion, he will not survive today!" The old man called "brother" answered.