Chapter 682: Assessment

Two years later.

Inside the Eastern Zhenwu Talisman.

Fang Xing sat cross-legged and suddenly raised a hand.

A book appeared out of thin air, floating in mid-air, flipping open page by page.

Sheets of paper were projected out, turning into golden characters in the air:

【Dragon-Tiger Ranking Number One! Great Black Temple's 'Master Lianxin', martial art "Time Wheel Black Sun Sutra", one hand of 'Great Brightness Fist' undefeated under heaven... Battle record: Fought ten thousand rounds at Brightness Peak, defeated the Tianyang Sect Master 'Tianyangzi', once blocked three thousand Iron Pagodas with his own strength... One palm caused the 'Purple Swallow Waterfall' to flow backward...】

【Dragon-Tiger Ranking Number Two! Profound Yin Sect Master 'Profound Yin Yin Zi', the world's number one sword... Battle record: Once cut off Little Clear Wind Mountain with one sword, drew a chessboard, debated martial arts with Tianyangzi for three days and three nights, winning by half a point...】

【Dragon-Tiger Ranking Number Three! Mount Mount Qinglong Gate's 'Mount Mount Qinglong Boss', the overall leader of the world's underworld... Battle record: Blood hands slaughtered three gangs and six families to build a capital view...】

【Dragon-Tiger Ranking Number Four! Five Poultry Sect's 'Master Tianqin', battle record...】

This was the Dragon-Tiger Ranking that Song Jingang had "offered up."

The Dragon-Tiger Ranking listed the world's top experts, and it basically only changed every few years.

It was far less changeable than the ever-changing "Chu Wind Ranking"!

The so-called "Chu Wind Ranking" was compiled by the Five Poultry Sect and only ranked Chuzhou experts. There was also the "New Wind Ranking" specifically for those under thirty, and the "Women's Wind Ranking" specifically for female experts... In terms of entertainment value, it far exceeded the Dragon-Tiger Ranking.

"Although this Tianyang Sect is one of the nine major sects, Tianyangzi is so miserable, has he basically become a unit of measurement for combat power?"

Fang Xing had a strange expression, flipped through it again, and didn't find this person.

Seeing the note at the back: "Oh... it turns out that because he fought too many competitions and lost too many times... after returning, he died of depression, which was also due to the aggravation of old injuries... Otherwise, a First Rank expert like him could live for five hundred years, not to be angered to death... In the final analysis, he was beaten too miserably, damaging his foundation..."

Tianyangzi was actually not weak!

It was just that he specialized in fighting peak-level matches, and the outcome was very miserable...

"The Dragon-Tiger Ranking only lists experts of the top three ranks. The one temple, two sects, and six major sects all have grandmasters on the list... It can actually let me see the progress of martial arts in this world..."

Fang Xing looked at the descriptions of cutting mountains with one sword and cutting rivers with one palm, and shook his head: "It's only the strength of the Sixth or Seventh Realm, the peak might reach the Eighth Realm... but the lifespan is far inferior."

With this intensity, even a top expert wouldn't have the trouble of 'Pan Wu waking up in my body'.

Simply put, because they were too weak, Pan Wu's consciousness was difficult to wake up.

Not to mention resurrection or anything like that.

Furthermore, in the Heavenly Dao of this world, there was still 'Eastern Zhenwu' existence!

"It's time to guide the spread of the Eastern Zhenwu orthodoxy and start laying out the plan..."

"I have been in seclusion for so many years, and it's not without gain... At least, creating the beginning of the Eastern Zhenwu Great Dao is not a big problem..."

The current situation was that although Pan Wu was very strong, he was a vegetable.

Although Eastern Zhenwu was weak and still a child, he had the ability to act.

This was the unfairness brought about by using the 'Gate of Heavens' to cheat.

Otherwise, if Fang Xing wanted to open a path, he didn't know how many years would pass.

'Fortunately, the internal time flow of this world is extremely fast, so there is basically no need to worry about missing the Zerg war in the Great Xia universe.'

'Taking a ten-thousand-step back, even if I miss it, then miss it... I will avenge human civilization later and then rebuild civilization...'

Fang Xing closed his eyes and fell into comprehension.

Outside the Eastern Zhenwu Talisman.

A group of fourteen or fifteen-year-old boys and girls were sparring with each other.

Master Xiong, Master Yu, and other masters were watching from the side, commenting from time to time.

"Yuchi Gang is still number one, he has reached the Upper Seventh Rank now, right?"

"Situ Yanyan is also okay, barely breaking through to the Seventh Rank..."

"These two are both aristocratic disciples with abundant financial resources to support the hard work training of the lower three ranks... Shouldn't the most surprising one be Song Jingang? He actually broke through to the Seventh Rank, and his golden silk and silver veins are not inferior to Situ Yanyan's..."

"I see his family background is still okay, didn't his old father come to send silver several times? I don't know how many family assets he sold..."

Master Yu listened and let it pass, her gaze fixed on one person, Jiang Yuer: 'Yuer is not bad, the key is that her temperament is superior. Even though I only supported her with a little gold and silver, she has now cultivated to the Upper Eighth Rank... It won't be long before she breaks through to the Seventh Rank.'

As for the remaining dozen or so boys and girls, they were all at the Ninth Rank cultivation. Ye Fengchun was also among them, but he was not taken seriously at all.

After three years, those who only cultivated to the Ninth Rank would probably only be able to struggle in the lower three ranks for the rest of their lives.

After leaving the White Deer Academy, they would either join the army or become guards or bodyguards... Of course, those with worse character might even become bandits.

However, in this era, being a thief or a big bandit was very risky, and there were many young heroes who wanted to use them to make a name for themselves.

Even the Five Poultry Sect would send an army of martial artists to encircle and suppress them from time to time, and no deep mountains or dangerous places would work.

"Assemble!"

Accompanied by a sharp shout, more than twenty boys and girls gathered.

Song Jingang saw this scene and sighed in his heart: 'Three years have passed... of that wave of admissions back then, these are the only martial artists who have entered the ranks who have persisted until now.'

'Your batch is already very good.'

Around his neck, inside the Eastern Zhenwu Talisman, Fang Xing's voice went directly into Song Jingang's sea of consciousness.

This was a capability Fang Xing had recently "developed," allowing him to communicate mentally with the host, similar to telepathy, without needing to speak the words aloud.

Song Jingang didn't think much of it, assuming this was a function the "Eastern Zhenwu Talisman" had possessed all along.

For Fang Xing, however, it was a step closer to breaking free and letting the Eastern Zhenwu Talisman move on its own—a cause for celebration, a cause for celebration.

'My strength... should have already surpassed Yuchi Gang, right?'

Seeing the handsome youth ranked first, Song Jingang thought to himself.

'The cultivation of the lower three ranks is to lay the foundation for internal energy... The stronger the physique, the faster the speed of refining internal energy in the future, and the more vigorous the internal energy.'

Fang Xing said: 'This is also the reason why I let you stay at the Seventh Rank for a while longer. Your current state is already considered the Seventh Rank perfection, and you can break through to Sixth Rank internal energy at any time...'

The internal energy of the Great Zhou Ninth Rank martial arts goes from outside to inside. Once broken through, one possesses incomparably vigorous internal energy.

It is not the kind of path that slowly cultivates and gradually increases, but one that is achieved in one step! And the destructive power of internal energy is quite fierce and overbearing.

Therefore, the foundation must be laid firmly so that the benefits can be greater.

Song Jingang's current main practice is New Martial Arts, supplemented by Ancient Martial Arts, and his foundation is already incomparably vigorous; he has even completed six of the twelve body anomalies.

It can be said that even if he encounters a Sixth Rank martial artist, he can fight them.

"Hehe..."

Accompanied by a light laugh, the ball-shaped "Taiyi Hand" Zhang Dazuiba also arrived at the plaza.

"Greetings, Dean."

Song Jingang hurriedly saluted, but thought in his heart: 'Even the Dean has come, there must be a big event!'

'What big event could there be, isn't it just the graduation assessment?'

Fang Xing's voice came: "Looking at this, it's highly likely they are going to play some kind of actual combat."

"Students, your assessment task this time is actual combat."

Zhang Dazuiba raised his hand with a smile.

Swish, swish, swish!

Sheets of paper flew up and accurately landed in the hands of every student.

"Eh? A wanted poster?"

Song Jingang took the wanted poster and saw a handsome face on it, carrying a bit of a sinister aura: "Howling Xiao Tianquan Xiaotianquan Gou San?! Seventh Rank Golden Silk Realm martial artist? Reward: 3,600 taels?!"

"Not bad, this is your assessment task, capture this person!"

Zhang Dazuiba said with a smile: "The reason? Naturally, it's not about helping the weak, but because this person has been unscrupulous in recent years, even digging graves to the maternal family of a manager of the Five Poultry Sect..."

It could be seen that he was very dissatisfied with the sect's random allocation of tasks, and he directly revealed the bottom line.

"Our wanted poster... is all this Howling Xiao Tianquan Xiaotianquan Gou San!"

Yuchi Gang said: "Can only one person pass the assessment?"

As soon as these words came out, all the boys and girls changed their expressions!

"Of course not, we are just a lower branch of the Five Poultry Sect, how could the assessment be so cruel?"

Zhang Dazuiba said with a smile: "Directly capturing or killing this owl will naturally guarantee a pass... Besides that, there will be masters secretly observing you. If you perform brilliantly during the capture process, you can also get a high score. And, this is based on your strength. For example, him..."

Zhang Dazuiba pointed at the Ninth Rank Ye Fengchun: "Such a student, as long as they can contribute a little during the capture, whether it is surrounding..."

"attack, or providing certain clues during the tracking, it can be judged as qualified..."

As soon as these words came out, many Eighth and Ninth Rank martial artists breathed a sigh of relief.

They couldn't even beat their Seventh Rank senior brothers, and they were going to fight a real Seventh Rank Jianghu person? It was simply seeking death!

A difference of one rank in cultivation meant a difference in martial arts that was boundless.

Even if it wasn't a one-move kill, they basically couldn't support more than three moves or two styles.

And at this time, Fang Xing was observing Song Jingang's expression with interest.

He saw Song Jingang's expression was normal, and he even dealt with Ye Fengchun's request to team up, which was actually a request to hug a thigh.

Until nightfall, after closing the door, he sat cross-legged on the bed, gripping the "Eastern Zhenwu Talisman" hanging around his neck: "Senior... do you have anything to say?"

"I can only tell you that the Eastern Zhenwu Talisman was originally a funerary object... brought out of an ancient tomb by your father."

Fang Xing's light laughter came out.

"Howling Xiao Tianquan, grave robber... frequently committing crimes in recent years." Song Jingang thought of the back that sent him silver, and even seemed a bit humble...

"Senior... I thought you would hide this matter."

After a long time, Song Jingang said in his mind.

"Hide this matter, and then watch you father and son kill each other? What good does that do me?"

Fang Xing sneered: "I don't have that kind of bad taste..."

"I thought, you would hate him?" Song Jingang was clearly a bit puzzled.

"Could it be that you think being buried with someone else is a very willing thing?" Fang Xing's voice carried a bit of speechlessness: "Strictly speaking, your father brought me out and dug up that guy's grave, I am very happy..."

Well, that ancient Great Xia person probably regarded the "Eastern Zhenwu Talisman" as some source of chaos, so he chose to suppress it with his body, wanting the Eastern Zhenwu Talisman to be buried for a long time...

Strictly speaking, this statement actually had no problem. ===== CHAPTER 683 =====