As soon as Wu Xiaotian enters the barrier, the oppressive aura pressing down on the disciples of the Purple Lightning Temple instantly disappear, their face flushed with humiliation as they never thought that they would be done like that twice by the immortal-like young man.
Looking at them as if they’re fools, the four other groups passed by them as they rushed towards the entrance, only large enough to fit one person at a time.
“How cunning of him…” the young man wearing a daoist robe said as they stare towards the barrier’s opening, while praising in his mind the scheming ability of Wu Xiaotian as he also thoughts, ‘I wish I could play some chess or go with him someday’
“So, we gonna fight to test who’s going to enter first?” the tall, barbaric-looking young man asked while looking at the other groups, gripping his weapon, a club, tight enough as if he’s ready when a fight breaks out anytime.
“Let’s not waste precious time fighting here kay~~? There are already people ahead of us in the competition for this inheritance so it will be better for everyone to just take turn and let each of our sect enter right?” a seductive young lady interrupted with a smile on her face, defusing the situation starting to escalate from the barbaric young man’s words.
“Enchantress, it’s better for you to just not state the obvious, as it clearly makes you look like a fool” the other young lady that arrive with them said, her taunting voice clearly laced with some discontent towards the seductive young lady.
“Oh my sister Feng, you’re quite aggressive today, aren’t you? Just who is it that has the audacity to make you mad?” the seductive young lady retorted, mockery clear from her voice.
“Get the fuck out of the way weaklings, let me and my sect through unless you want to get eliminated before even having the chance to compete for the inheritance” another young man, an arrogant-looking one wearing a purple uniform leading the group that was just previously suppressed, finally arrives at the location, his bad mood from being humiliated by a ‘mere’ Pedestal Establishment Realm cultivator once again causing him to lash out to the people, the other leaders of each group not taking his words lying down.
“Lei Xing, you better think about your next word lightly if you do not want the words you just said happening to you and your Purple Lightning Temple” the phoenix-like young lady threatened, pointing a sword towards the arrogant young man, it’s tip shining with a fervent crimson glow.
“Feng Qing, you’re so arrogant just because your team-up with Hong Lian and Hua Xian’er made me injured” the arrogant-looking young man retorted before showing a completely unharmed arms towards them before saying, “You think I will get weak because of that, you’re not even close to understanding the limits of my power!!!”
“Stop acting so arrogant Uncle Lei, you think you can handle four of us altogether? You might be strong but inside this secret realm, you’re dreaming” the seductive young lady also replied towards the young man’s taunting, clear from her voice just how much she hated the young man donned in a purple attire.
“You…” seeing that the four leaders seem to be prepared to duke it out with him here, even Lei Xing is not confident with his chances. Seeking to compromise, he just sneered before descending on the ground, distancing him and his group a bit from the others as disciples from each of the group enters one after another in an orderly way.
After a few minutes of waiting, the only one left outside are the five strongest among the group, the phoenix-like young lady, the seductive enchantress, the daoist and the barbarian, and finally, Lei Xing, who was eyeing all of them with hatred.
Going first, Lei Xing disappeared from their sight, after this happens the others also starts entering one by one, the enchantress entering last as she took one good look towards the light capturing stone, committing the appearance of the young man in her mind before entering inside.
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Meanwhile, Wu Xiaotian was roaming around in an endless and desolate plains, the appearance of the surrounding completely different from what is projected outside.
The plain, completely void of any signs of living life is completely dry, the land beneath his feet all cracked with remains of already decaying trees standing on it, the ambience completely horror movie like when partnered with the dark sky, without a moon hanging on it.
“It’s really a separate plane” he said to himself as he already speculated that the inheritance area is another plane inside the secret realm, and his speculations are proven to be right given the different feeling that he gets here compared to the outside, partnered with the phone not connecting to any of his friends despite the seemingly small range of the area.
Before he could ponder on the nature of this place even more though, an emotionless, mechanical voice starts sounding across the place, along with a projection appearing in the sky, hanging directly on top of the area he was in.
“New challenger detected, now beginning the independent part of the inheritance test, first part, aptitude and talent test” the mechanical voice announced, the voice seemingly waking up something slumbering on the depth of this place as countless creatures seems to rise up from the ground, coming in different size and forms, ranging from complete bones of ferocious beasts, humanoid figures and occult creatures to even intact body of them, all with their eyes dyed with the color of blood as they single-mindedly charged towards the only thing that seems to be different from them, the figure of Wu Xiaotian.
“First test, survive assault from one hundred Intermediate State Pedestal Establishment Realm puppets with peak foundations” the mechanical voice sounded causing Wu Xiaotian to smile, as he thought that this is a good chance to find out where his current limit truly lies.
Scanning through the puppets all around, he can clearly understand what that ‘peak foundation’ means, as all of them approaching towards him seems to have a max out stat for an average cultivator of the same level, the absurd fact prompting him to complain in his mind.
‘So I’m fighting genius level puppets now huh…’ he said while reading their stats.
[Name: Celestial Puppets]
[Age: ???]
[Affiliation: ??? (Increase the understanding of True Sight Technique to advance level to reveal information)]
[Cultivation: Intermediate state Pedestal Establishment Realm]
[Stats]
[Strength: 4,000,000]
[Agility: 4,000,000]
[Intelligence: 4,000,000]
[Stamina: 4,000,000]
[Vitality: 4,000,000]
Closing in on him, some of the more bestial figures starts pouncing, seemingly trying to trap him in but failed as he effortlessly decapitated them with a simple swing, the light from his sword leaving behind a white, moon-like crescent trail on the beasts’ neck, their heads lopped off and their bodies falling down on the ground with a loud thud.
“Well that was a good swing…” he said while looking at his sword, nodding in acknowledgement as the scene just now plays in his mind, thinking of how to improve the already crazy, normal horizontal swing, that made him feel like his sword is a hot knife cutting through butter when used.
“I should make the most out of this test to practice my basics” muttering as he looks at the puppet approaching him like they’re good training dummies, Wu Xiaotian dashes towards them and started performing techniques after techniques, Myriad Transformation Orb in his hand transforming into numbers of weapons, from swords and blades, to spears axes and mazes, all coming in different shapes and sizes.