Chapter 1448: Dao Rhyme Levels

"What? You saw the Mighty King?"

Upon hearing this, the burly man's expression changed instantly.

"That's right. At the time, I heard it intended to steal from our Heavenly Palace Academy's treasure vault, so I rushed up without hesitation to try to stop it. Unfortunately, I was a step too late. It teleported away directly. If I haven't calculated wrong, it must be in the treasure vault right now!" Xu Que said with a face full of regret.

"Damn it, why didn't you say so earlier?" The burly man glared at Xu Que, extremely annoyed.

"You didn't ask either!" Xu Que said righteously.

"You..." The burly man was choked up. "Forget it, it's not too late now. I'll report this matter to the Elder first. You hurry to the Martial Arts Field. If we can catch the Mighty King this time, you will be credited for it!"

After saying that, the burly man left in a hurry, not even bothering to guard the mountain gate.

Clearly, capturing Er Gouzi seemed more important than guarding the mountain gate.

However, with the status of the Heavenly Palace Academy, whether the mountain gate was guarded or not was of no consequence. In this era of the Heavenly Continent, probably no one dared to break into the Heavenly Palace Academy's mountain gate directly. The reason the burly man was there was probably just to be responsible for receiving the cultivators who came to participate in the Recruitment Conference.

However, Xu Que watched the burly man go far away, a smile of success rising at the corners of his mouth.

With a thought, he summoned the system interface, took out a few small items from it, and waved his palm gently.

"Whoosh!"

Several small objects instantly transformed into streams of light, darting toward the four corners of the mountain gate and merging into the array patterns on the ground. The mountain-protecting array at the gate flickered slightly, but the movement was so minuscule that no one noticed.

"Done, I can relax and have some fun now!" Xu Que smiled and turned to walk toward the Martial Arts Field.

He didn't need anyone to lead the way in this place. Tens of thousands of years later, he had come here once. At that time, this place was holding some Heavenly Selection Ceremony, so he came and directly robbed the Imperial Physician Heavenly Stone here.

However, returning to this slightly familiar place now, Xu Que felt a sense of astonishment in his heart.

When he first entered this place, although everything was brand new and intact, it felt empty and lonely, permeated with a dead and desolate atmosphere.

The vast Heavenly Palace Academy was left with only those dozen or so old-school Immortal King and Immortal Venerable powerhouses he had unsealed.

But now, this Heavenly Palace Academy, which belonged to tens of thousands of years ago relative to Xu Que, was in its peak period, and even Xuan Yuan Wanrong hadn't fully grown up yet, but this Heavenly Palace Academy had already dominated the Heavenly Continent, being the only one in power, looking down on the world.

Xu Que had heard this statement before and hadn't taken it seriously, but now seeing it with his own eyes, he felt it was unbelievable and somewhat shocking.

Just passing through the mountain gate and stepping toward the Martial Arts Field, Xu Que had already seen hundreds of Heavenly Palace Academy disciples in the Imperial Physician True Immortal realm.

What were they doing?

Holy shit, they were sweeping the floor and wiping the houses!

Beside them, a man in the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm was responsible for supervision, occasionally scolding a few words with an expressionless face.

"What are you doing? Can you sweep? Can you wipe?"

"How did our Heavenly Palace Academy produce a group of trash like you? You couldn't even complete the assessment of killing a hundred demon beasts of the same cultivation level in ten days. Compared to the other hundreds of disciples who entered the academy in the same period, the worst killed a hundred and fifty, and there are ten outstanding disciples who killed over eight hundred demon beasts of the same cultivation level!"

"Ask yourselves, are you ashamed? Are you worthy of the Heavenly Palace Academy's cultivation of you?"

"The Elder sealed your cultivation and punished you to do these things, which is also for your own good, to cultivate your state of mind and give you a chance to comprehend higher Dao Rhyme..."

Listening to the lecture from that Great Luo Golden Immortal realm man, the hundreds of Imperial Physician True Immortal realm disciples all lowered their heads in shame.

When Xu Que passed by here, he also lowered his head, almost crying from listening.

Damn it, does the Heavenly Palace Academy tens of thousands of years ago have to be this monstrous?

However, walking further forward, Xu Que saw hundreds of Great Luo Golden Immortal realm disciples, driving Dharma treasures, turning into streams of light and flying past in mid-air, extremely hurriedly.

Behind that group of Great Luo Golden Immortal realm disciples, an Immortal King realm cultivator, wearing black and blue robes, clearly an elite disciple, was chasing after them.

"Senior Brother, show mercy, we admit defeat in this assessment!" hundreds of Great Luo Golden Immortal realm disciples shouted while fleeing.

"Yeah, Senior Brother, we are from the Bing-character courtyard, how strong can we be? Can't you show some mercy?"

The Immortal King realm elite disciple snorted: "The Elder has ordered that the standard for your Bing-character courtyard is ten moves. If you can't even take ten moves from me, you must continue the assessment. Those who suffer heavy injuries will be demoted to the Ding-character courtyard!"

"Damn!"

Xu Que looked at this scene and almost vomited blood.

Great Luo Golden Immortal realm cultivators having to take ten moves from an Immortal King realm cultivator to be considered qualified? And this was just the standard for the Bing-character courtyard?

Then there must be the Yi-character courtyard and the Jia-character courtyard above it. Wouldn't those Great Luo Golden Immortal realm disciples be even more formidable?

Awesome!

Xu Que had gained a lot of knowledge along the way. After all, this was something he truly couldn't see in the era he belonged to.

So many Imperial Physician Immortals and Great Luo Immortals, so many Immortal King realm elite disciples, and the key was that the strength of these people was far more powerful than those cultivators of the same realm in later generations.

Even the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm cultivator who guarded the mountain gate earlier, Xu Que admitted that without opening the system's retaliation mechanism, he could only fight him three-to-seven.

Of course, with him at seven and the opponent at three, his odds of winning were still quite high, but compared to those Great Luo Golden Immortal realm experts he had easily killed in one move in later generations, the one guarding the gate was already very strong.

"Fellow Daoist, you've gone the wrong way!"

At this moment, a voice came from not far away.

Xu Que was stunned, looked in the direction of the voice, and saw a thin young man in a blue shirt saying to him: "That side is the assessment area for the Imperial Physician Immortal realm. Our assessment area for the Great Luo Immortal realm is over here!"

Xu Que was stunned, and found that he had really gone the wrong way when he was lost in thought.

He had already unknowingly arrived at the Martial Arts Field, and there were various assessment areas marked on the ground, divided into three major areas: the Imperial Physician Immortal realm area, the Great Luo Immortal realm area, and the Immortal King realm area.

In other words, this Recruitment Conference was recruiting new disciples, and the minimum requirement was the Imperial Physician Immortal realm!

And the position where the thin young man stood was the assessment area for the Great Luo Immortal realm, where thousands of cultivators had already gathered.

"Many thanks, Fellow Daoist!" The other party reminded him out of kindness. After Xu Que walked over, he bowed in thanks with a face full of smiles.

"No problem, maybe after today, we'll be fellow disciples!" The thin young man smiled, while also sizing Xu Que up, the corners of his mouth raised: "How should I address you, Fellow Daoist?"

"Thanos of the Zha Tian Bang!" Xu Que maintained his polite and gentle image, bowed: "How should I address you, brother?"

"Eh, don't be so formal, just call me A-Qi!" The thin young man smiled.

Xu Que hadn't felt anything about this thin young man at first, but when the other party smiled, Xu Que couldn't help but be stunned for a moment.

This smile was inexplicably a bit familiar, as if he had seen it somewhere before, but he couldn't remember where!

Damn, this wouldn't be someone he knew tens of thousands of years later, right?

But among the people he knew, it seemed there was no one called A-Qi!

"Brother Mie, your affiliated power is a bit peculiar. Zha Tian Bang, daring to despise the Heavenly Dao. I, A-Qi, have walked the cultivation world for so many years and have never heard of such a power name." A-Qi said with a smile.

"A small gang, it's normal that Brother Qi hasn't heard of it!" Xu Que responded with a polite smile, his brain still recalling the other party's identity.

However, after thinking about it, he couldn't come up with anything.

A-Qi didn't see that Xu Que was lost in thought again, and enthusiastically greeted: "Alright, Brother Mie, don't stand here. I'll take you over there to report. I also arrived not long ago. After I finish the assessment, it will be your turn!"

After saying that, he turned and walked toward the front of the crowd, leading the way for Xu Que.

Xu Que looked forward and saw a wooden table placed there, with an Immortal Venerable realm old man sitting there, his eyes fixed on the center of the crowd.

After a few breaths, the old man was expressionless, his tone indifferent: "Dao Rhyme Level 3, low grade."

Pfft...

Xu Que almost laughed out loud. These familiar lines!

He hurriedly swept his gaze toward the center of the crowd and saw a young man with his head lowered, his fists clenched tightly, facing the mocking gazes of others around him, the young man's face revealing a sense of unwillingness.

"Thirty years..." the young man suddenly opened his mouth.

Xu Que was startled. Could it be...

"Give me another thirty years, I will definitely enter the Heavenly Palace Academy!" After saying that, the young man turned around, pushed through the crowd, and left angrily.

Xu Que breathed a sigh of relief. Damn it, he thought he was going to shout that "Don't bully the young for being poor" line that was popular in the web novel circle back then.

"Alas, Dao Rhyme, the threshold for entering the Heavenly Palace Academy is truly too high!" At this moment, A-Qi sighed with emotion.

Xu Que came to his senses upon hearing this.

That's right, the Heavenly Palace Academy is recruiting at least cultivators in the Imperial Physician Immortal realm and above. Those who can cultivate to this realm must have top-notch spiritual root qualifications. What standard are they testing according to now?

Dao Rhyme?

Are there levels to Dao Rhyme?

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