Chapter 2062: Just hop up?

After all, this is the first time Dao One Immortal Sect has opened its doors to recruit disciples, so even if Qi Xiong and the others are unreliable, they still made thorough preparations.

The examination items were simply copied from the Dao Yi Shengdi of the Zhu Tian Wan Jie, so they are very familiar.

But everyone forgot one thing: this is not the Zhu Tian Wan Jie, but the Immortal Realm.

So those tests from the Dao Yi Shengdi may not work well when brought to the Immortal Realm.

For example, right now, facing the first test of climbing the stone steps, all the young cultivators present wore strange expressions.

Do we even need to test this? It's just a simple gravity formation, a child's toy.

But seeing the Immortal Clan descendants step onto the stone steps without a word, the other young cultivators didn't have time to dwell on it and hurriedly followed.

But they didn't know that the Immortal Clan descendants remained silent and went straight up the steps entirely because their ancestor was secretly watching.

What dare they say?

Upon stepping onto the stone steps, they expected considerable pressure, but the leading Immortal Clan descendants felt, a second later, that there seemed to be no pressure at all.

"Brother, did the Dao One Immortal Sect forget to adjust the formation? The pressure is way too low."

"Cut the chatter, the ancestor is watching; we just need to perform well."

"But how are we supposed to perform? There's no difficulty at all."

"If there's no difficulty, won't you make it harder for yourself?"

"Make it harder ourselves?"

"Yes."

The Immortal Clan descendants climbed while secretly transmitting their discussion.

Soon, amid everyone's chatter, they indeed began to increase the difficulty for themselves.

Before coming, the ancestor had said they must perform well, and outstanding performance would be rewarded by the family.

So, facing this first round of evaluation with virtually no difficulty, everyone could only think of ways to stand out.

Since there's not much pressure, I'll try going up on one foot.

If you're saying that, I'll go up upside down.

In a moment, on the stone steps, the leading group of Immortal Clan descendants began to play around with fancy moves.

When Qi Xiong, Lin Potian, and Qin ShanHai finished their private talk and turned to look, they were all dumbfounded.

What the hell is this?

In just a dozen breaths or so, the foremost person had already climbed halfway up the mountain, a speed that cannot be called slow.

But that's not the main point; the reason Qi Xiong and the others were stunned is because these guys, what the hell are they doing……

Some hopped up on one leg, some climbed upside down, and even more absurdly, some would take a single step to the summit, then……step back down.

You little rabbit bastard, you passed.

Watching those brats repeatedly hopping sideways on the Shanmen stone steps, Qi Xiong's face turned black.

It's not harmful, but extremely insulting; reaching the summit in one step is bad enough, but what does stepping back down mean?

His gaze grew icy, his face darkened, and he turned his head to look at Lin Potian.

Although he didn't speak, that look said everything.

"Is this the arrangement you said was settled?"

Under Qi Xiong's stare, Lin Potian also froze in place, hastily pulling out the formation disk to check.

But after checking, the formation disk is fine, the gravity intensity is indeed turned up to the max—this shouldn't be happening.

"Senior Brother, there's no problem."

He looked up at Qi Xiong with an innocent face and said that; hearing this, only the sound of Qi Xiong's teeth grinding could be heard.

"If there's no problem, why is this happening?"

"I……I don't know."

Lin Potian was completely bewildered; he truly didn't know, and seeing those kids still hopping back and forth on the steps, Qi Xiong's forehead veins bulged.

You're humiliating people like this, right?

Just as Lin Potian's fury flared up, Qin ShanHai spoke up.

"Senior Brother, actually this is a good thing— the higher the disciples' talent, the better for the sect, right?"

Qin ShanHai rarely spoke to offer comfort.

But at this moment Qi Xiong wouldn't listen, gritting his teeth and shouting.

"Is this about high talent? You don't understand anything—get lost."

As his words fell, Qin ShanHai's face was expressionless, yet his hand unconsciously moved to his sword hilt.

Seeing that, Qi Xiong's heart sank; he almost forgot that the speaker was his junior brother Qin—this guy is a lunatic.

He quickly forced an ugly smile and said.

"Junior Brother, I was just joking; you're right— the higher the disciples' talent, the better for the sect. Look, I'm happy."

"Really?"

"Really, absolutely, heaven and earth as my witness."

Hearing Qi Xiong say that, Qin ShanHai slowly withdrew his hand from the sword hilt; seeing this, Qi Xiong finally relaxed.

Being the Sect Master is really stifling.

Not only must I endure humiliation from these juniors, but I must also constantly guard against my junior brother's blade.

The first round of evaluation, under Qi Xiong's continual scowl, was quickly completed without issue.

Moreover, among the many who came for the evaluation, not a single person was eliminated.

Achieving a 100% pass rate is simply outrageous.

Yet regarding this, Qi Xiong felt no happiness at all; facing this scene, he couldn't bring himself to be happy.

At the same time, there were also many young cultivators already standing on the mountain peak with calm faces.

Having passed the first round of evaluation, but for some reason, this unprecedented inner calm brought no sense of accomplishment.

Indeed, who would feel accomplished just from climbing a few stone steps?

Even facing the praise of the dark‑faced Qi Xiong, everyone remained expressionless.

"Not bad, it seems you are all heaven's chosen ones."

Huh???

This is what you call heaven's chosen?

Seeing no reaction to the praise, Qi Xiong instead felt it was fine, thinking he was being redundant in saying that.

After speaking, Qi Xiong fiercely glared at Lin Potian, his eyes full of warning, and sent a mental transmission.

"Are you sure there's no problem with the next round of evaluation?"

"Senior Brother, rest assured, there's absolutely no problem; the second round is a practical combat test, and those puppets are all newly refined, full of pressure."

"Then that's good, don't hold back; this time I want to at least break through half of the people."

Looking at those many young cultivators with calm faces, Qi Xiong gritted his teeth.

You think my Dao One Immortal Sect is some place you can just casually enter?

Tell you, wanting to enter my Dao One Immortal Sect requires passing five gates and slaying six generals; it's not that easy.

The first round of evaluation had a slight mistake; this second round will definitely not be like that again.

In the practical combat evaluation, we must definitely eliminate more than half of the people.

Thinking this, Qi Xiong also loudly announced the content of the second round of evaluation.

Just hearing this, the young cultivators below, one by one, their faces turned strange again.

Practical combat evaluation? And using those low‑quality puppets, what's there to evaluate?

You might as well just catch a few demon beasts to play with; wouldn't that be more interesting? Someone couldn't help but complain.