Ancient Fiend Dragon Emperor

Chapter 1382: Chapter 1381: The Assessment Begins!

Wow!

As soon as Xiao Yaozi said this, the entire place was instantly shaken.

They had never heard anyone say that the Grand Elder would also accept direct disciples; the highest position mentioned was just that of a top elder.

If one could become a direct disciple of the Grand Elder, wouldn’t that be a meteoric rise within the Heavenly Mountain Pavilion?

Countless people were restless, with excitement and impatience flashing on their faces.

”Chen Fan.”

Mu Lie’s voice came from the side: ”We have competed several times, let’s see who between us wins this time!”

”Then come on.”

A surge of momentum rose from Chen Fan, completely different from his previous calm demeanor.

”My hopes rest on you.” Chen Fan patted Su Han’s shoulder.

Su Han did not speak. A formal disciple position was something he must have, not for Chen Fan, but for himself.

And on Mu Lie’s side, he obviously heard this too. The scar-faced man beside him snorted disdainfully, ”Rely on him? You better pin your hopes on someone else.”

”Shut up!”

Chen Fan’s face turned cold, shouting at Scarface, ”What are you? Not even a registered disciple, and you think you have the right to talk to me like this? Believe it or not, I will cripple you right now!”

Scarblade’s face changed. Mu Lie, standing beside him, transmitted a message. Though his expression remained gloomy, he said nothing more.

”Now, the disciple qualification test begins!”

At this moment, the voice of Grand Elder Xiaoyaozi spread out.

”Shoo shoo shoo...”

Immediately, figures rushed onto the stone platform.

On top of the stone pillars of that platform, there are over a thousand of them, allowing a thousand people to test their talents simultaneously each time.

And at the top of the pillars, there are five recessed pits, each containing five different colors, respectively red, blue, purple, black, and golden yellow.

These five colors represent five levels of aptitude.

Red is the lowest, golden yellow is the highest.

”Wow!”

As people pressed their palms on the stone pillars, colors burst forth from the light columns.

It took a full minute before they removed their hands.

Without exception, all were red!

However, some people’s red only shone one zhang, while others shone ten zhang. The most formidable person’s shone one hundred and thirty-five zhang.

The talent tested here is not the same as what was tested on their abandoned planet; this test is a whole level higher than the one on the abandoned planet.

If the test on the abandoned planet was for First Level Talent, then here is testing Second Level Talent.

This is equivalent to the difference between the Mortal and Spirit Realms. On the abandoned planet, they tested Mortal Realm aptitude, while here it’s Spirit Realm aptitude.

So, no matter how strong their previous so-called aptitude was, it was essentially useless.

”It’s not working...”

”Yeah, the highest was only Red Talent at one hundred and thirty-five zhang, not even reaching one hundred and fifty zhang.”

”It seems these one thousand people are going to be eliminated.”

”Isn’t this a common occurrence?”

”True, every thousand years, at least tens of millions get eliminated; it’s nothing new.”

”Alas, what a pity.”

”I’m truly worried for those people, being eliminated in the first stage. What are they supposed to do next? Become drifters or do hard labor for the Starry Alliance? If it were me, I’d choose hard labor. At least I’d be alive, though it’s not a life anyone would want...”

As red aptitude shone from these people, sighs spread among the disciples of the Heavenly Mountain Pavilion.

The numerous high-level officials in the sky were evidently dissatisfied, shaking their heads without hiding it.

This scene instantly chilled the hearts of those being tested. Those with a weak state of mind even began trembling.

You can’t blame them; if they were eliminated, the days ahead would be tough to bear.

They returned to their starting point, and the disciple from the Heavenly Mountain Pavilion who brought them here had a gloomy expression, constantly speaking though no sound could be heard.

It could be easily guessed that he was cursing them.

After all, with them being eliminated, the disciple’s reward was gone too.

...

In the following time, figure after figure ascended the high platform.

The lights kept flaring, but there was still no standout person.

Among tens of thousands of people, the most notable was someone whose Red Talent reached four hundred and thirty-three zhang.

Unfortunately, such aptitude still likely won’t qualify for the second stage, possibly just as a registered disciple.

The disappointment on the faces of many high-level officials of the Heavenly Mountain Pavilion was easy to see.

It’s been so many years, with over a hundred million people undergoing assessment, yet none had been truly exceptional, leaving these high-level officials without a sense of pride.

Until over four hundred thousand people had been tested, finally a beautiful woman caught everyone’s attention.

As her hand was placed on the light pillar, her red aptitude instantly burst forth, directly reaching... one thousand zhang!

And regardless of which aptitude, a thousand zhang was already at the pinnacle.

After this thousand zhang red aptitude erupted, the blue aptitude above it flickered and then burst forth with a roar!

One zhang, five zhang, ten zhang, twenty zhang...

Fifty zhang!

At a full fifty zhang, the light finally stopped rising, drawing many gazes towards the woman.

”Not bad, fifty zhang of blue aptitude.”

”Actually, that doesn’t count for much. It’s just that compared to the garbage before, this woman seemed particularly shining.”

”You can’t say that. A Blue Aptitude definitely qualifies for the second stage.”

”Indeed, and from past assessments, Red Aptitude is the most common, Blue Aptitude is acceptable, Purple Qualification represents excellence and can be considered a genius; above that is Black Aptitude, which is startling and rarely achieved; as for the final gold... that’s a freak!”

”Yeah, so having fifty zhang of Blue Aptitude is already pretty good.”

As the crowd discussed, the beautiful woman also appeared somewhat excited.

Aptitude is something beyond control. As long as she passes this stage, the second and third stages are up to her skills and abilities.

”Hahaha...”

When the woman returned to her place, the Heavenly Mountain Pavilion disciple with her laughed heartily, constantly praising her.

Among a thousand people, having just one person stand out like this was already quite remarkable, at least saving him from losing face in the first stage.

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