Chapter 43: Returning to the Sect
Chapter 43: Returning to the Clan
“Anything else?”
Xu Chuniang stopped in her tracks, her gaze a little puzzled.
“That, I have an unfavorable request.”
The beautiful female cultivator ruffled her hair and lowered her head somewhat shyly.
This was a trick she was accustomed to using on male cultivators, but Xu Chuniang was just a little girl of less than twelve, so naturally she didn’t understand the situation, and just stood in place waiting for her to finish her sentence.
The beautiful female cultivator waited for a long while, but when she saw that Xu Chuniang refused to answer, she had to continue, “That, I want you to help introduce me to the captain and join your team. My cultivation is at the fourth level of Qi Practicing, and I definitely won’t drag my feet for the team!”
Xu Chuniang suddenly realized that she was doing it for this, but she was all alone, how could there be any team for her to add to?
She refused without hesitation, “I’m sorry, I’m just an odd-job errand boy in the team, it’s not my turn to recruit new team members like this.”
A trace of embarrassment and shyness flashed across the beautiful female cultivator’s face, which was quickly replaced with a smile.
“Senior sister is joking, even a medium grade spirit weapon needs you to handle it, so it’s obvious that you have a status in the team, so how could you be just an errand boy.
With a word from senior sister, getting me into the team would be a matter of minutes. As long as senior sister is willing to help me, I will definitely spare you the benefits.”
Xu Chuniang still shook her head, “I can’t make the call on this matter, but I’ll tell the captain about the situation, and as for whether or not she’s willing to take in more people, it’s not something I can influence.”
After saying that, she no longer stayed and directly stepped out of the Multi Treasure Pavilion.
Looking at the departing tiny back, the beautiful female cultivator could no longer control herself and gritted her teeth in hatred.
“An ugly bitch at the third level of Qi cultivation, but an errand boy, on the basis of having climbed up to a senior sister at the sixth level of Qi cultivation to fox and pretend to be here, what’s so good about tugging in front of me!”
For all this behind her, Xu Chuniang naturally did not know, and even if she did, she would only be unimpressed.
Anyway, there were plenty of people who had scolded her, so this one wasn’t so bad.
After getting the soft armor, Xu Chuniang couldn’t refine it in time and rushed towards the sect.
The day after tomorrow will be the clan’s big exam, so if she doesn’t move, she’ll really be late.
After rushing all day, Xu Chuniang finally arrived at the north gate before dark.
The gatekeepers were still the same two disciples from before, and they still had an impression of Xu Chuniang’s distinctive-looking senior sister, who insisted on going on her own to practice.
Upon receiving the identity token for registration, one of the disciples really couldn’t hold back his curiosity and opened his mouth, “Are you really going to the Hundred Demon Mountain Range to practice alone?”
Xu Chuniang smiled and nodded, “But I only went to the outskirts of the Hundred Demon Mountain Range and caught a few lai rabbits, and didn’t encounter any powerful demonic beasts.”
“That’s also rare, after all, the most dangerous thing in the Hundred Demon Mountain Range isn’t the demonic beasts, but the people.”
He said with some admiration, after all, even if he knew that the outer reaches of the Hundred Demon Mountain Range were not dangerous, not everyone had the courage to go alone.
Xu Chuniang felt the same way, the human heart could be much more complicated than demonic beasts.
“I didn’t wear the clan’s clothes, and I didn’t run into anyone along the way by keeping a low profile, looking for some herbs and avoiding people along the way.”
Xu Chuniang didn’t lie, except for White Lion Ridge which had more people, Rabbit Slope and Tiger Poyang Mountain didn’t have many people.
“Then you’re pretty lucky.”
After saying that, the gatekeeper disciple couldn’t help but lament, “This term’s new disciples are really something. In previous years, I’ve never heard of anyone who dared to run to the Hundred Demon Mountain Range alone at the third level of Qi Practicing, but there are actually two this term!”
Xu Chuniang’s heart stirred, was there someone else like her who went to the Hundred Demon Mountain Range alone?
“Who is that person?” She didn’t hold back from inquiring. “Name I remember, it’s called Su Chen, only returned yesterday.”
Xu Chuniang went over the name in her mind and found that she had no impression at all, not someone she knew, so she only secretly wrote down the name.
After returning to the cave, Xu Chuniang, who had rushed for a day, was not half tired, instead, she took out her soft armor with some excitement, this was a medium grade spirit weapon!
Even a son of a cultivation family like Qi Haozhi might not possess a medium grade spiritual weapon like this, right? But she relied on the ruthlessness of fighting for her life with the Cloud Tiger Beast to earn one back.
After taking a deep breath to suppress the excitement in her heart, Xu Chuniang began to refine the soft armor without any distractions, the middle-grade spirit weapon had six layers of formations painted on it, making it more difficult to refine than the lower-grade spirit weapon.
Rushing to the eve of the big exam, Xu Chuniang only had time to refine the three layers of formations on the outside, which were barely usable.
“Tomorrow is the big exam, so let’s refine it to this first, it’s not good to be almost late like last time.”
Xu Chuniang didn’t continue refining, putting the soft armor on snugly and resting early.
On the second day, the big exam came as scheduled.
There were a total of two exams for the Grand Exam, the first being the literature exam, which was the theoretical knowledge.
The literature test was further divided into two classes, the basic class and the specialized class.
Among them, the basic class examination is what all the disciples in this batch must attend, as for the professional class examination, the examination questions are different because of the different specialties chosen.
The examination hall for the literary exam was set in the Hall of Instruction, and due to the sheer number of people, the new disciples would take the exam by cultivation from high to low.
With Xu Chuniang’s demonstrated cultivation of the third level of Qi cultivation, she managed to get the first batch of qualifications to take the exam.
Xu Chuniang’s chosen specialty was the Spiritual Plants category, and after finishing the morning’s basic exam, she was arranged to go to the Spiritual Plants specialty’s examination hall for the afternoon’s specialty exam.
After entering the exam room, Xu Chuniang realized that there were actually only about a hundred people inside the entire exam room.
There were thousands of new disciples in total, so this ratio was really extremely low, and it seemed that the Spirit Plant specialty was really quite unpopular.
These thoughts only passed through her mind for a moment, and Xu Chuniang quickly returned her mind to the exam.
Although she didn’t intend to become an inner disciple’s squire, the examination still had to be taken seriously.
Because it was a new disciple assessment, more of a test of what they had learned in three years, the questions weren’t too difficult, and Xu Chunniang quickly finished writing the test questions.
After handing in her papers and walking out of the examination room, she saw that the other examination rooms were filled with people inside, and there were even many people waiting in line outside, in stark contrast to the coldness of the Spirit Plant specialty.
Xu Chuniang only glanced at it before withdrawing her gaze and walking out towards the outside.
The literature test took three full days to conclude, and from the fourth day onwards, the martial arts test would begin, which was also the main event of this grand examination, with many inner disciples coming to observe and select suitable escorts.
Originally, the sect used to not have this part of selecting escorts.
Many of the outer disciples stayed in the outer sect for nearly a hundred years until they were too old to break through the foundation, and in the end, they could only sit down and die after exhausting their lifespan.
After all, to be able to kill through the outer door competition into the top ten, to obtain the foundation pills smooth foundation so as to enter the inner door, will always be a minority, strength and luck is indispensable.
A part of the outer disciples are not willing to stop practicing qi in this life, aiming at the inner disciples in the hands of the excess foundation pills in exchange for the qualification, willing to lower their status to follow the inner disciples, for that line of opportunity to build a foundation.
(End of chapter)