Chapter 374: Fate Mystical: Talent Ancient and Modern (Seeking monthly tickets)

Personal Disciple Assessment Pavilion.

The pavilion was a hundred zhang high. The moment Lin Chen stepped into the pavilion, the opened door slowly closed.

Clap!

An ice-blue beam of light fell in the pavilion, enveloping Lin Chen's entire body.

Canglan energy.

This strand of Canglan energy fell on his body, and Lin Chen felt as if his entire body had been scanned once.

The next moment, the ice-blue beam of light disappeared.

However!

Three more beams of light fell from the top of the pavilion. When the beams of light dissipated, three ice-blue figures were revealed.

Battle puppets?

Lin Chen narrowed his eyes and looked at these three figures, thinking of battle puppets at the first moment. When he encountered battle puppets at the ruins of the Qingtian Sect, it was very normal for the Canglan Sect to have battle puppets.

"Defeat the battle puppets of the same stage, the shorter the time, the better."

In the pavilion, a majestic voice sounded.

Whoosh!

The three ice-blue battle puppets' bodies turned into afterimages and shot toward Lin Chen.

A bright light flashed in Lin Chen's eyes. According to the voice's prompt, the faster he defeated these three battle puppets, the higher the score would be, so he didn't hold back at all. His body suddenly expanded, turning into a ten-zhang-tall body, and there was even fire lingering around his body.

Bang!

Lin Chen, who had turned into a ten-zhang giant, swept out with one foot, and the battle puppet on the left was instantly hit and flew backward. At the same time, Lin Chen's right hand suddenly pressed down on the battle puppet attacking from the right, slapping it onto the ground with one palm.

Hiss.

The battle puppet coming head-on was the only one that had killed its way to Lin Chen's front, but before it could touch Lin Chen's skin, it was swallowed and burned by the fire burning around his body.

Three breaths of time.

One battle puppet fell to the ground, unable to move as it was stepped on by Lin Chen's right foot; one flew backward and hit a stone pillar in the pavilion, directly embedded in the pillar and difficult to break free; and one was burned by the fire, making a crackling sound.

The beam of light fell again, enveloping the three battle puppets. Soon, the battle puppets gradually turned ethereal and finally turned into ice-blue energy, dissipating along with the beam of light.

"First pass, time taken: three breaths."

The majestic voice came again. The next moment, the top of the pavilion changed again, and Canglan energy surged down like waves, wrapping Lin Chen.

Lin Chen did not disperse these Canglan energies because he did not feel any malice from these Canglan energies. And after his entire body was wrapped by the Canglan energy, the next moment the Canglan energy began to ripple, like sea waves crashing against the shore wave after wave.

Clap!

Every time a wave of Canglan energy came, Lin Chen felt his spirit soul shake.

"So, the first pass is to assess one's own martial arts combat strength, and this second pass is to test one's spirit soul."

This strand of Canglan energy not only crashed against his spirit soul every time it came, but also carried a suction force when it retreated, wanting to pull his spirit soul out of his body.

Lin Chen began to operate the Thousand Machine Evolution Technique, fixing his spirit soul, letting the Canglan energy crash against him continuously, while his spirit soul remained motionless.

Outside the pavilion.

The deacon who brought Lin Chen in was also waiting.

The sect's personal disciple assessment has a total of three passes, and finally, the total score of the three passes is taken, with one hundred points being the passing mark.

The first pass tests the disciple's actual combat ability. Those who can become personal disciples are all the best among the same stage. When encountering ordinary martial artists, even if they are of the same stage, they can achieve one against two or even three or four...

The three battle puppets are evolved from Canglan energy and will be at the same stage as the disciple entering the pavilion. If they fail to defeat the battle puppets, they get zero points, and defeating the three battle puppets is also based on the time taken to give points.

Within one breath, fifty points.

After that, for every additional breath, one point is reduced. After forty breaths, no matter how long it takes to defeat the three battle puppets, there is only a base of ten points.

The second pass is the spirit soul test pass.

The Canglan Tide has a shaking effect on the spirit soul. If the spirit soul is not stable or strong, it is difficult to persist under the impact of the Canglan Tide. And the Canglan Tide will also spontaneously decide to stop or continue based on the spirit soul condition of the examinee.

After all, they are all disciples of the Canglan Sect. The sect assessment is to verify the strength of the disciples, not to let the disciples get injured.

The longer the time in the second pass of the Canglan Tide, the higher the points. This pass has seventy points.

After exceeding ten breaths, there is a base score of ten points. Almost all disciples who enter can persist for ten breaths, while twenty breaths is twenty points. After that, for every breath increased, one point is added, until it reaches fifty points.

The first fifty points are one breath per point, but after fifty breaths, if one wants to get these extra twenty points, it becomes one point per ten breaths.

Seventy points is a full score, meaning one has to persist for two hundred and fifty breaths.

Since the Canglan Sect was founded, only two disciples have ever received a full score of seventy points.

The impact of the Canglan Tide on the spirit soul is stronger wave by wave, and the two who could persist to seventy points were both already stepping into the Innate realm when they participated in the assessment.

In the Canglan Tide, Lin Chen only felt his spirit soul being dragged into an ice-blue ocean, and countless Canglan energies crashed down layer by layer like waves carried by a storm, one wave more surging than the next.

Under the energy impact of this vast ocean, Lin Chen was not just passively defending. Around him, his spiritual sense turned into oars, constantly resisting these tide energies.

One breath, two breaths, three breaths...

Later on, the originally ice-blue Canglan energy had already turned into a rich purple-black tide, like the difference between shallow sea and deep sea. Lin Chen's entire consciousness began to become somewhat trance-like, and the spiritual sense around him turned into a light shield covering himself.

Clap!

The moment the light shield shattered, the Canglan Tide also suddenly disappeared. Lin Chen opened his eyes with a moment of trance, but immediately recovered his clarity.

"Persisted for two hundred breaths."

The majestic voice announced the time Lin Chen persisted, and at the same time, it opened the next pass: "Third pass, potential pass."

The voice fell, and ice-blue jade steps slowly descended from the top of the pavilion. The lowest step landed accurately in front of Lin Chen, and at the end of the jade steps, an ancient mirror was suspended.

"Potential?"

Lin Chen narrowed his eyes and didn't rush to step on it. The first pass was to assess his combat ability, the second pass was the spirit soul, and this pass assesses potential?

How should potential be assessed, and what does it have to do with the steps?

Does climbing more steps represent higher potential?

If this is the case, then it means these steps are harder to climb one by one, which is actually assessing the disciple's strength and spirit soul.

Isn't that redundant?

"The martial arts of the Yan Yan Yan Huang Chao are like heaven and earth compared to the Nine Countries. Perhaps there is something magical that I, a frog in a well, cannot understand. Maybe these steps have another way to test potential."

Unable to think of it, Lin Chen simply stopped thinking about it. After calming his mind, he stepped onto the first step....

Outside the pavilion.

"Du Zhanglao?"

The deacon guarding outside the pavilion saw Du Xiaofeng walk in and hurriedly spoke respectfully.

"Has Lin Chen not come out yet?"

Du Xiaofeng looked at the closed pavilion. The reason he came in was because since Lin Chen went in, more than two hundred breaths of time had already passed.

According to his estimation, Lin Chen should have come out long ago.

"Lin Lin Shidi Lin is still inside the pavilion, likely testing potential. Congratulations to Du Zhanglao for receiving a good disciple."

The deacon congratulated Du Xiaofeng, not entirely out of flattery for Du Xiaofeng's elder status. In his view, Lin Chen being able to persist for so long inside without coming out meant he should be staying for a relatively long time in this potential pass.

In the third pass of the personal disciple assessment, the potential pass, the longer one stays, the higher the potential.

As for saying Lin Chen stayed for a long time in the second pass, that was obviously impossible.

Any disciple who hasn't entered the Innate realm, in the second pass spirit soul test, very few persist to fifty breaths, with most being around forty breaths.

Forty breaths in the second pass, plus defeating the battle puppets in the first pass, calculated at the slowest speed of fifty breaths, then Lin Chen should have stepped into the third pass long ago, a hundred breaths ago.

Being able to persist for a hundred breaths in the third pass means at least stepping on thirty steps, which would be thirty points.

This final potential pass has a total of one hundred points, one step is one point, there are ninety-nine steps in total, and reaching the top can get ninety points.

However, like the second pass spirit soul test, wanting to get a full score is almost impossible. Since the assessment was established, no disciple who came in for assessment has ever received a full score.

The highest record was only eighty points.

Du Xiaofeng's old eyes narrowed slightly. In his estimation, Lin Chen should be able to get over thirty points in the first pass, at least twenty points in the second pass, and fifty points in the potential pass is no problem, so one hundred points is achievable.

Now that more than two hundred breaths have passed, he doesn't need to worry anymore, just wait for Lin Chen to come out.

Inside the pavilion.

Lin Chen walked to the fiftieth step, but he was still very confused until now.

After stepping on this step, the imagined test did not appear. He walked smoothly all the way to the fiftieth step. If he weren't sure he was in the pavilion, sure that this pass was to test potential, and that the ancient mirror suspended at the end had been enveloping him with a beam of light, he would have suspected that there was a problem with this pass, causing the test to fail.

At the end of the jade steps, there was ancient Canglan energy covering it. Lin Chen couldn't see the situation of the mirror surface, so he didn't know that there was a figure of him on the mirror surface at this moment, and as he stepped out on each step, the mirror surface would ripple like a water surface once.

At the same time, a line of words appeared on this mirror surface: 【Heaven-defying body-refining physique, talent ancient and modern; Fate mystical, fitting the ultimate realm of martial arts】

Every time Lin Chen stepped on a step, this line of words would reveal a luster along with the rippling of the mirror surface.

Seventieth step, eightieth step, ninetieth step...

Lin Chen walked as if on flat ground, and at this moment he could already see the ancient mirror at the end of the steps, and also saw the words on the ancient mirror.

"Heaven-defying body-refining physique, talent ancient and modern; Fate mystical, fitting the ultimate realm of martial arts?"

Seeing the words on the ancient mirror, a bright light also appeared in Lin Chen's eyes. He was not a fool; he knew clearly that the words on the mirror surface should be a comment on himself.

Do I have such a high comment?

"Body-refining physique, because I practiced the Zhenyue Spectrum and the subsequent Wujin Divine Phase Body."

"Talent ancient and modern, should be talking about my martial arts talent. Blessed by 【Martial Way Long-Lasting】, my martial arts talent has now reached a terrifying degree."

【Fate mystical...】

Lin Chen's mouth opened slightly when he saw this sentence, and there was a look of shock in the bottom of his eyes. What is his fate? It is 【Water Flows, Canal Forms】, it is that there is no bottleneck in cultivation. The reason why he hasn't broken through to Innate until now is just because one of the five elements energy is missing. As long as he absorbs the last five elements energy, he can immediately step into the Innate realm; there is no such thing as failing to break through.

But Lin Chen was not shocked by the mirror's comment on his fate, but shocked that this mirror could actually reflect his fate? The fate on the panel is his greatest reliance and also his greatest secret. Can this mirror reflect his fate? Does it mean that the Yan Yan Yan Huang Chao also has other means to know about the existence of his panel?

If this is the case, it means that his greatest secret is extremely likely to be exposed.

"Or maybe this is just this mirror feeling that my fate is somewhat special, and I am worrying too much."

Lin Chen decided that after stabilizing in the Canglan Sect, the first thing he would do was to understand the information about 【Fate】 in the Yan Yan Yan Huang Chao, or wait until he went out to ask his master.

As for now, a problem placed before him is, should he reach the top?

He didn't know what the situation would be if he reached the top, and was afraid of attracting too much attention, which would expose his secret.

However, three breaths later, Lin Chen smiled helplessly. He was a bit too indecisive. Since this mirror surface had already displayed these words, if the sect had means to look back later, it would still be known by others what the mirror's comment on him was.

Although his master only said that satisfying one hundred points would count as passing the assessment, and didn't say whether a high score would have rewards, Lin Chen knew without thinking that the higher the score, the more the sect would value him, and the better the resources and treatment given would be.

Giving up eating for fear of choking is not advisable!

Ninetieth step, ninety-first step...

When Lin Chen stepped over the ninety-ninth step and stood at the top of the steps, the dome of the pavilion was almost within reach.

Boom!

The dome suddenly erupted with an ice-blue energy beam of light with a diameter of over ten zhang.

This beam of light, carrying countless flickering stars, pierced straight into the clouds. The energy fluctuations it emitted caused the Canglan clouds and mist around the entire Canglan Sect to surge violently. When this beam of light reached a height of a thousand zhang, the surrounding Canglan clouds and mist also began to condense into a beam of light, like a long rainbow piercing toward the beam of light above the dome.

All the disciples of the Canglan Sect who were not in seclusion at this moment could look up and see these beams of light in the sky.

"Single-color Canglan, is there some disciple who got a full score in one item in the assessment?"

In several courtyards of the Canglan Sect, several old men looked at the rainbow-like beam of light in the sky, with looks of surprise in their old eyes, and the next moment their figures disappeared on the spot.

At the same time, Qu Guanfu and the others who were still in the Elder Hall naturally also sensed the changes in the sect above. Several people looked at each other, and all saw shock and regret in each other's eyes.

At this time, the one who set a full score record in an assessment was none other than Lin Chen.

What was shocking was that this Lin Chen was even stronger than they had imagined. What they regretted was that if they had known earlier, they would have been like Du Xiaofeng, not wanting face and taking Lin Chen as a disciple.

Canglan Sect personal disciples, there will be at least one every few sessions, but a full score in assessment, even if it is just one item, might not appear in decades.

At the same time, many youths also looked up at the vision in the sky, with bright light in their eyes. Which junior brother is this who achieved a full score in the assessment?

Inner sect disciple assessment?

Personal disciple assessment?

It should be the former. Those few in the sect who are qualified to become personal disciples shouldn't have the strength for a full score.

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