Chapter 304: The Battle for the Strongest Spiritual Sense (Second Update)

The day after!

On Mount Wudao.

Shooting down the opponent with one arrow, Lin Chen retreated to the steps.

Looked at his ranking on Mount Wudao.

【Mount Wudao Ranking: 85308】

【Points: 4700】

Since the panel was updated, his Mount Wudao ranking had risen by another two thousand, reaching two thousand consecutive victories.

Two thousand consecutive victories meant his martial arts comprehension had increased by two times, and his spiritual sense had also increased by twenty percent.

This kind of growth was extremely obvious, especially in the spiritual sense aspect. When performing the "Thousand Machines Refining God Technique", he had already reached eleven strands of spiritual sense from the nine strands he could divide after entering the Ranked Tier.

Looked at the moonlight in the starry sky, Lin Chen chose not to continue cultivating and chose to return to the room to rest.

A night without words.

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At the training ground behind the Yan Guo Academy.

When the sun rose, the martial artists of the nine nations were already standing in their respective areas of the training ground.

Yan Guo Royal Academy Principal Elder Murong Song and other powerhouses of various countries like Hou Zhan Tian were standing at the very front at this moment. A stone gate stood in front of the training ground.

The stone gate stood in front of the square, and clouds and mist continued to gush out, making the stone gate appear and disappear.

After the stone gate was completely covered by clouds and mist, Elder Murong Song opened his mouth: "The first round of the Academy Ranking Tournament points tournament, it starts now. Do you have any opinions?"

Seeing that Hou Zhan Tian and others didn't open their mouths, Elder Murong Song didn't hesitate, turned his gaze to the academy disciples at the scene, and smiled: "Everyone is a genius from the academies of various countries, I won't say much. This first level of the points tournament is to enter our Yan Guo's Thousand Illusions Secret Realm."

"Although the Thousand Illusions Secret Realm does not have danger, I still want to advise you, don't be brave. Once the spiritual sense is injured, the consequences don't need me to say much."

Once Elder Murong Song said this, the atmosphere at the scene also became tense.

How important the spiritual sense will is to a martial artist, everyone present knew. Flesh wounds are easy to heal, but spiritual sense wounds are hard to save.

There is no lack of martial arts geniuses in the nine nations who, because of spiritual sense damage, finally fell into ordinary martial artists, and even the realm stopped moving forward.

Lin Chen looked at the clouds and mist, and there was also a sharp glint in his eyes. The booklet provided by Elder Murong Yan recorded the situation of the Thousand Illusions Secret Realm in detail.

"But... the Thousand Illusions Secret Realm cannot accommodate so many people entering. After I and your principals of various countries discussed, we will first conduct a spiritual sense test. Those who fail the spiritual sense test are not allowed to enter."

With Elder Murong Song's voice falling, several martial artists carrying black cloth giant objects appeared on the square.

"Uncover!"

Elder Murong Song drank lightly. The black cloth was uncovered, revealing a stone tablet full of black runes.

The stone tablet, three zhang high.

It exuded an ancient and vicissitudes atmosphere. When martial artists stared at the tablet surface, the runes would flow faintly, producing a soul-absorbing fluctuation, as if to suck the spiritual sense into it.

Lin Chen had a moment of loss of consciousness, but with the small person in the dantian trembling, he woke up, and at this moment, a "cough" from Elder Murong Song also woke up many people at the scene.

Lin Chen looked at the Senior Brothers beside him, all of them woke up the moment Elder Murong Song coughed, but Meng Xing and several Junior Brothers had their eyes regain color only after a breath.

This tablet... is not simple.

"Everyone can put their hands on this soul-verifying tablet. After the spiritual sense meets the standard, the soul-verifying tablet will have light appear. Those with light full of one zhang count as passing, those lower than one zhang are eliminated, and those who pass accumulate ten points."

The rules are very simple, Elder Murong Song didn't say much, stood still with his hands behind his back, waiting for everyone to start testing.

"This soul-verifying tablet is so magical. At that moment, I felt like I fell into boundless darkness. If it weren't for that cough, I'm afraid I haven't woken up yet."

Kong Qing had a look of palpitations on his face. He just glanced at this soul-verifying tablet, and his whole mind was attracted and sank into it.

"Yan Guo Royal Academy recruits disciples, which is an assessment with the soul-verifying tablet, but there is no such high requirement. As long as you can observe the soul-verifying tablet for ten breaths without fainting, you can enter the academy."

Dang Baixuan, the First Lin Lin Shixiong of the same Qingyun Academy, heard his Lin Lin Shidi's words and turned back to explain.

"The entrance assessment requirement is to persist for ten breaths without fainting, and among the Royal Academy disciples, the highest record of the soul-verifying tablet is ten zhang." Li Yuan added.

"Ten zhang?" Lin Chen stared at the stone stele. Looking at it this way, making the stele emit a light that reaches a full zhang is not a simple matter.

"Mm, this is the highest record publicly announced by the Yan Guo Imperial Martial Academy. Most disciples of each generation of the Imperial Martial Academy can only make the stele reveal a glow; they simply cannot reach one zhang."

Lin Chen nodded. Therefore, this one zhang should be enough to eliminate half of the disciples from the various martial academies present.

While Li Yuan was explaining the situation of the Soul-Testing Stele to Lin Chen, Meng Xing, and the others, a commotion broke out in the crowd; some martial artists were already walking toward the Soul-Testing Stele.

"Fellow junior and senior brothers, since our Imperial Martial Academy is the host, let me, Wan Fei, be the first to throw out a brick to attract jade."

Wan Fei walked to the front of the Soul-Testing Stele. His words seemed humble, but the expression on his face carried an air of arrogance.

"It seems this person's spiritual sense is not weak."

"At the very least, one zhang is definitely no problem."

Kong Qing and Zhang Ming exchanged words in low voices. Everyone present was no fool; since Wan Fei dared to be the first to come out, he must be confident in his own results.

This Soul-Testing Stele itself was used by the Imperial Martial Academy to assess its disciples; Wan Fei must have tested it in advance.

Lin Chen blinked. The booklet given by Elder Murong Yan recorded that among the disciples of the Yan Guo Imperial Martial Academy, this Wan Fei's spiritual sense was the second strongest.

Under the gaze of everyone at the scene, Wan Fei pressed his hand onto the stone stele. Without any change in his aura, the entire stele erupted with black light. These black rays flowed through the runes on the stele's inscription, gathered toward the top, and finally shot directly out from the top of the stele.

One chi, two chi, three chi...

One zhang, two zhang, three zhang...

When the black light broke through the three-zhang height, it began to fall back slightly, finally stabilizing at a height of three zhang.

"I have embarrassed myself."

After three breaths, Wan Fei withdrew his hand. He turned back with the corners of his mouth raised, cupped his fists toward the crowd, and walked to the side of the stele.

With Wan Fei taking the lead and reaching a height of three zhang, the other martial artists present did not delay. The second person to take the stage came from Ze Guo and was the senior brother of the Ze Guo Martial Academy.

The opponent also made a black pillar of light appear at the top of the Soul-Testing Stele, but the height was only two and a half zhang.

With the two of them starting, the martial artists on the plaza went up one by one to test. Most of them met the one-zhang requirement, but no one broke Wan Fei's record.

"Fellow junior brothers, I'm going up first."

On the Liang Guo side, Li Yuan did not delay either. He walked up and pressed his hand onto the Soul-Testing Stele. Soon, the light pillar of the Soul-Testing Stele lit up, also reaching three zhang.

Seeing this scene, the disciples of the Canglan Martial Academy breathed a sigh of relief. Lin Lin Shixiong Li Yuan was on par with Wan Fei, which was also the current highest record.

In the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, forty people had already conducted the test, and all of them met the one-zhang requirement.

But the remaining martial academy disciples who had not yet verified did not have their expressions become relaxed because of this. The reason those senior brothers before were able to meet the one-zhang requirement was that they had sufficient confidence in their own spiritual sense strength. Those with weaker strength had not yet gone up to test.

After seventy people, a disciple from Wu Guo took the stage, but this time the black light pillar on the stele only reached three chi.

This was the first martial artist who did not meet the requirement. The appearance of the first failed martial artist was like opening a valve for failure; the next ten disciples in a row all failed.

Lin Chen understood in his heart that it seemed the number of people who could pass the test would be around eighty.

Those who could meet the requirements had already been tested. The remaining ones who could meet the requirements but hadn't been tested yet were not in a hurry, but the number was definitely not large.

Nine countries, sixty martial academies, ten disciples from each academy, totaling six hundred disciples, yet in the end, fewer than a hundred people could meet the requirements. This elimination rate was truly high.

Fortunately, on the Daliang side, the four martial academies had a total of eight senior brothers who met the requirements. If one added himself, that would be nine people. In terms of numbers, it was currently only one less than Han Guo, but those three from Han Guo who were on the Heavenly Ranking had not yet made a move.

"It seems there are no dark horses. Since that's the case, two senior brothers, I'm going."

The three Heavenly Ranking martial artists from Han Guo stood in a row by themselves. At this moment, the man on the far right gave a light laugh and walked toward the stele.

Seeing this person walking toward the stele, a disciple from Wu Guo who was originally going to walk toward the stele hurriedly stopped his steps.

"Lu Chuanning, seventh on the Heavenly Ranking."

Li Yuan whispered. As Lu Chuanning walked toward the stele, the scene also lost its previous noise.

There was naturally no problem for a Heavenly Ranking martial artist to pass the test, but what they wanted to know was what height this Lu Chuanning could reach.

"I wonder if there is an extra point reward if the height exceeds a certain amount?"

Lu Chuanning, who walked to the front of the stele, was not in a hurry to put his hand on the stele, but instead looked at Elder Murong Song and the others in front.

As soon as these words came out, there was a commotion at the scene.

"He wants extra points? Could it be that he can reach five zhang?"

"Five zhang is definitely not enough; at the very least it must be six zhang. The current highest record is already four and a half zhang."

As of now, the highest record came from Zuo Fei, the senior brother of the Yan Guo Imperial Martial Academy, reaching a height of four and a half zhang.

"Those who can break nine zhang will get ten points for every additional zhang!"

Elder Murong Song spoke indifferently. This was the point reward rule discussed by the various countries yesterday.

"Good."

Lu Chuanning nodded. The next moment, his right hand was placed on the stele. A black light pillar erupted from the stele instantly, and the speed was a few points faster than everyone before.

At this moment, everyone at the scene held their breath and waited. They also wanted to know what level Lu Chuanning, seventh on the Heavenly Ranking, could reach.

One zhang, two zhang, three zhang...

The speed at which the light pillar grew was extremely fast, and it only slowed down after seven zhang, finally stopping at a position just over nine zhang.

Seeing his own results, Lu Chuanning shook his head with a look of regret, appearing not very satisfied with this result, but the raised corners of his mouth exposed his true thoughts.

"Lin Lin Shixiong Lu actually broke through nine zhang, just a little bit away from breaking the record of the Yan Guo Imperial Martial Academy."

"He exceeded Zuo Fei, who had the best results, by two times. He is worthy of being Lin Lin Shixiong Lu."

The Han Guo martial artists had a look of excitement on their faces when they saw this scene, while the disciples of the other countries had despair in their eyes. One Lu Chuanning alone suppressed everyone, and Han Guo still had two people whose rankings on the Heavenly Ranking were even higher than Lu Chuanning's.

Once these two took the stage, the points of the four Han Guo martial academies would be a large chunk higher than theirs.

"Lin Lin Shidi Ling, should you go first or should I go first next?"

"I will go first, Lin Lin Shixiong."

Ling Tianhao also walked toward the stele confidently. The disciples of the Han Guo Martial Academy had a look of anticipation in their eyes. Lin Lin Shixiong Ling was ranked fifth on the Heavenly Ranking, two places higher than Lin Lin Shixiong Lu; perhaps he could break the ten-zhang record.

Slap!

Ling Tianhao slapped the stele with a light palm. The light of the stele surged violently, instantly reaching six zhang, and the growth speed remained fast thereafter.

Nine zhang, ten zhang, eleven zhang, twelve zhang...

Twelve and a half zhang!

The height of the black light pillar made many martial artists feel despair.

The expressions of Li Yuan, Dang Baixuan, and the others were also serious. Although a martial artist's strength is not determined solely by spiritual sense, spiritual sense has a huge benefit in the control of martial will. The stronger the spiritual sense, the more exquisite the application of martial will.

"Lin Lin Shixiong Bian, please."

Ling Tianhao's gaze looked toward Bian Xinjie, and the gazes of everyone at the scene also fell on Bian Xinjie, this third-ranked person on the Heavenly Ranking from Han Guo.

Of the ten people on the Heavenly Ranking, Han Guo occupied four, but the one ranked first on the Heavenly Ranking did not come.

Under the gaze of everyone, Bian Xinjie stepped to the front of the stele and also slapped it with one palm.

Boom!

The light pillar that erupted from the stele this time instantly broke through to a height of ten zhang, and in the blink of an eye, it reached fifteen zhang.

"At this speed, won't it break through twenty zhang?"

Someone at the scene exclaimed, but fortunately, although the growth speed of the light pillar was very fast, it stopped directly after reaching fifteen zhang.

Seeing the light pillar stop at fifteen zhang, many martial artists at the scene breathed a sigh of relief. However, Hou Zhan Tian, who was standing in front, frowned.

The reason why the light pillars of other disciples rose slowly was that their control over their own spiritual sense was not strong, and the Soul-Testing Stele had to slowly sense the spiritual sense strength of these disciples. But Bian Xinjie reached fifteen zhang instantly, which not only represented the strength of his spiritual sense but also represented that his application of spiritual sense was already extremely proficient.

"Fifteen zhang, sixty extra points. His points alone are worth the sum of the points of two martial academies. How can we compete with this?"

The atmosphere on the Daliang side instantly became quiet, and at this moment, Bian Xinjie's gaze happened to look over, the corners of his mouth hooking into a cold, grim smile.

"It is not surprising that Bian Xinjie, as the third on the Heavenly Ranking, has this strength. Even if we lose the point competition, it is only a lower ranking. In the end, we still have to rely on fighting. We must not be discouraged."

Although Li Yuan was also shocked by Bian Xinjie's strength in his heart, as the senior brother of the Canglan Martial Academy, he could not let his junior brothers become discouraged, affecting the point competition and subsequent fights.

"In my opinion, there is no need to enter the Thousand Illusions Secret Realm. Let's just determine the ranking directly according to the points of the major martial academies. Who can surpass the three of Lin Lin Shixiong Bian?"

Someone from the Zheng Guo Martial Academy spoke, his words full of flattery.

"Or, if some people are not reconciled, they can continue to come up and try?"

The person who spoke looked toward the Liang Guo side. Everyone knew that Han Guo and Liang Guo had disputes, and at the moment, Han Guo's points were already completely crushing Liang Guo.

Kong Qing was about to speak back when he heard this, but he was pressed down by Dang Baixuan.

"There is no need to engage in a war of words. Lin Lin Shidi Lin, you..."

"I also want to try."

When Dang Baixuan spoke, Lin Chen was already walking forward. Hearing Dang Baixuan's words, he responded with a smile.

"What does he want to do?"

Seeing Lin Chen walking toward the stele, a look of doubt appeared on the faces of the martial artists at the scene.

After the battle yesterday, the martial artists from various countries present already knew Lin Chen and also acknowledged that Lin Chen's strength was enough for them to value him.

But even if you can leave your name on the Soul-Testing Stele, you shouldn't go up at this time.

At the very least, you should wait for some more people to finish testing before going up. Going up now, even if you can reach one zhang, in front of Bian Xinjie's fifteen zhang, it will only appear ridiculous.

It's not like this Lin Chen thinks he can surpass Bian Xinjie.

PS: Continuing to write, there is another update before 2:00 AM!

(End of chapter)