Ancient Fiend Dragon Emperor

Chapter 1375: Chapter 1374: Cruelty

”Don’t rush to cultivate yet.”

Chen Fan smiled at the crowd and said, ”Fellow junior brothers and sisters, how does the scenery here compare to your hometowns?”

”Refreshing!”

”Hahaha, the Spiritual Energy here is almost condensed like a liquid, it’s extremely rich.”

”Cultivating here for a year is like cultivating for a hundred years back home! Of course, that’s just in terms of Spiritual Energy.”

”Hmm.”

Chen Fan smiled, clearly satisfied with the crowd’s answer, and added, ”This is the Star of Heavenly Mountain, the headquarters of our Heavenly Mountain Pavilion. However, you haven’t truly joined the Heavenly Mountain Pavilion yet, you’re not even considered Registered Disciples, so for now, I can’t take you to the Heavenly Mountain Pavilion.”

”Hmm?”

The crowd frowned, and someone asked, ”Senior Brother Chen, how can we join the Heavenly Mountain Pavilion?”

Chen Fan thought for a moment and said, ”To join the Heavenly Mountain Pavilion, you must go through certain tests. Moreover, every time the Heavenly Mountain Pavilion recruits disciples, there is a limitation on the number. Look around you; everyone here has come from Abandoned Planets, and some have been waiting here for over three hundred years yet still haven’t joined the Heavenly Mountain Pavilion.”

Upon hearing this, everyone was slightly taken aback, feeling a sense of deception.

Three hundred years and still not joined the Heavenly Mountain Pavilion? Wasting time all along? Why did we come to the Heavenly Mountain Pavilion then?

”No need to rush, either.”

Chen Fan continued, ”It’s not only like this with the Heavenly Mountain Pavilion; all forces in this Lower-Class Star Region are similar. The Heavenly Mountain Pavilion is relatively better; it holds tests once every thousand years. If the top ten thousand disciples succeed, they can become true disciples of the Heavenly Mountain Pavilion. Other forces, the longest I know of, hold tests once every fifty thousand years.”

”Really...”

Some were skeptical, but only Su Han nodded silently.

These matters were all experiences of his previous life.

”You might not believe me now, but you’ll find out later.”

Chen Fan said with a smile, ”You all are relatively lucky, as there are only thirteen years left until the thousand-year test. When I arrived here, the test had just passed, and I waited here for nine hundred and ninety-eight years... So who do you think is worse off, me or you?”

Hearing this, everyone couldn’t help but smile, feeling pity for Chen Fan.

Although there was still some dissatisfaction, seeing Chen Fan’s politeness, they didn’t say anything further.

Of course, the real reason was that saying more would not help and might provoke the Heavenly Mountain Pavilion to dislike them.

”Next, your task is to nourish these Spirit Beasts here.”

With a wave of his hand, Chen Fan distributed a thousand Crystal Stones to everyone.

”Inside, it records the methods to nourish these Spirit Beasts and your annual rewards. You can take a look.”

Su Han frowned, scanning with his Divine Sense, and saw the reward.

One year, one Spirit Crystal.

In thirteen years, it’d merely be thirteen Spirit Crystals, hardly of any value.

”Wow!”

Chen Fan took out some Spirit Crystals to hand them to the crowd, saying, ”These are Spirit Crystals; you probably haven’t seen them before. The Spiritual Power within is countless times denser than what you obtained on the Abandoned Planets.”

”Is this a Spirit Crystal?”

”My heavens, it’s so dense, no wonder they give us just one per year...”

”It’s reasonable enough, considering we haven’t completely joined the Heavenly Mountain Pavilion. Likely, as actual disciples, we’ll gain even more.”

”If I could cultivate using these Spirit Crystals regularly, my Cultivation Base would’ve already broken through.”

It was apparent this was everyone’s first time seeing Spirit Crystals, much like when Su Han first saw them in his previous life.

Like a country bumpkin entering the city, everything aroused their curiosity.

”In these thirteen years, after nourishing the Spirit Beasts, you can each cultivate. After all, time shouldn’t be wasted, so prepare well and strive to qualify as formal disciples of the Heavenly Mountain Pavilion.” Chen Fan spoke again.

”Senior Brother Chen, the test for advancing to disciples only recruits ten thousand people, but how many will take part in it?” someone asked.

Chen Fan hesitated for a moment, saying, ”Originally, I wasn’t planning to tell you this early as it may pressure you, but since you’ve asked, I’ll let you know.”

”In the test, there will be close to ten million participants, meaning that out of every thousand, only one can stand out!”

”So many?!” The crowd opened their mouths wide, unable to believe it.

The chances of standing out were incredibly slim!

”What if we can’t become formal disciples?”

”For those who don’t become formal disciples, about ten percent, or around one million people, will become Registered Disciples and gain another chance at testing in the future.”

”So really, this time’s test won’t involve only ten million people, but about eleven million. These one million people, with prior experience, have certainly made the utmost preparation and are much stronger than you newcomers facing the test for the first time; they are the ones truly competitive,” Chen Fan answered.

”What if... we can’t even become Registered Disciples, then what?”

Chen Fan shot a glance at the one asking, his tone turned slightly cold: ”Wandering the Starry Sky!”

”What?!”

The crowd’s expressions changed drastically; wandering the Starry Sky would be suicide, wouldn’t it?

”To put it bluntly, if one can’t even become a Registered Disciple, then within the Lower-Class Star Region, one is no better than trash.”

Chen Fan said, ”I know you were all top individuals on your respective planets, but this is a Lower-Class Star Region, not your planet. Here, abandoned planets like yours are far too numerous to count, even by the billions.”

”So, don’t judge yourselves with your former mentality; that is a grave mistake.”

”This Lower-Class Star Region is an extremely harsh place; no force here would nurture a group of useless people. Resources are limited, and these forces won’t waste them on the useless. If you can’t even become Registered Disciples, the Heavenly Mountain Pavilion will expel you; if you’re lucky, the Starry Alliance might take you as servants or laborers. If you’re unlucky, you’ll be thrown into the Starry Sky, leaving your life or death to fate, and no one will care.”

At that moment, everyone fell silent.

The harsh reality, for the first time since their arrival, had truly awakened them.

This place wasn’t as idyllic as they had imagined!