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The endless scorching desert, the scorching sun in the sky, and the endless yellow sand stretching for thousands of miles.

An impressive young figure suddenly appeared out of nowhere in the desert. He had a tall figure, long flowing hair, sword-like eyebrows and bright eyes. He was none other than Ouyang Chen, the current eldest disciple of Tianyun Immortal Sect.

"Illusion? Or Xumi Universe?"

Ouyang Chen, who was originally flying towards the light column on his sword, was not too surprised when he found that the scene around him had changed suddenly. He was only in his early twenties but had already cultivated to the Spirit Transformation Realm. He was an undisputed genius in the world of immortal cultivation. The elders also taught him about his own knowledge from time to time, and he was familiar with all kinds of methods of trapping the enemy.

He immediately closed his eyes slightly, raised his hand and pointed a finger at his forehead. As sharp sword lights burst out from his forehead, the divine eye called "Sword Heart" opened.

The Sword Heart Divine Eyes then emitted an invisible sword light that swept across the entire desert. When countless sand dunes across the vast expanse of yellow sand were flattened in an instant, Ouyang Chen closed the Sword Heart Divine Eyes and opened his eyes again.

"It's not an illusion, but an extremely stable Xumi space. The Ascension Pavilion is quite capable. With my strength, I'm afraid I won't be able to get out in a short time."

After examining it with his Sword Heart Divine Eyes, Ouyang Chen came to the accurate conclusion that the Ascension Pavilion had used some space-related magic weapon to lock him up. Knowing that he could not break the unusually solid laws of space, he calmly accepted the reality and tried to save his life and wait for help.

However, at this moment, a strange voice suddenly sounded in his ears, making him feel surprised and confused.

"Dear examinee, your exam is about to begin. This exam is divided into three parts. You will get an opportunity after passing all three parts. After you finish all three parts, you will automatically leave the exam space. The first test is: intelligence test."

Ouyang Chen was still trying to figure out where the voice came from when he saw a towering ink painting appear in the boundless desert. A line of dark text slowly appeared on the painting, and the content left him speechless:

"First question: What is the weight of a thousand pounds of cotton or a thousand pounds of iron?"

"Of course it is... just as important! Such childish questions are simply insulting this genius!"

This thought flashed through Ouyang Chen's mind almost instantly. He did not speak or write the answer, but the result immediately appeared on the scroll:

"One point for a correct answer."

This scene immediately made Ouyang Chen, who had looked down on the questions, focus his eyes. How terrifying it was to have an existence that could spy on his heart at any time. He couldn't help but become more cautious, trying to figure out the secret of this big test space.

The second question that appeared on the huge ink scroll was still relatively simple, but the content had become a linear equation of two variables. With Ouyang Chen's level of mathematical knowledge, he could still easily solve it.

However, the following questions became more and more tricky and strange. There were complex case reasoning questions with a time limit, summary questions that required observing graphs and discovering patterns, verbal questions on how to behave in society, and even difficult math questions on proving the fastest descent line. Ouyang Chen, who claimed to be a genius, was completely confused and ended up with a total score of 62, but the full score was as high as 100.

"What kind of intelligence test is this? It's nothing but some tricks! You can't possibly destroy the mind of this genius!"

Although detailed analysis and answers were given after each wrong question, Ouyang Chen, who only scored 62 points, suppressed his blushing face, thinking that these were all jokes, meant to make fun of him, and he did not take it too seriously.

But when it came to the second test, he had no room for excuses, which was an area in which he was very good.

"The second test: combat test."

"In this test, you will fight an opponent of similar strength. The faster you win and the less you get hurt, the higher your score will be. If you lose, the test will end immediately. The battle begins now."

As the mysterious voice announced the start of the battle, a slender figure wearing a bamboo hat slowly emerged from the endless yellow sand. He then drew the long sword from his waist and rushed towards Ouyang Chen, who was a thousand feet away, stirring up a line of yellow dust.

"Not a cultivator? Interesting."

Ouyang Chen observed his opponent for a second and unexpectedly discovered that there was no spiritual energy in the opponent. It seemed that he was not a cultivator at all, which surprised him a little.

But although it was an accident, he immediately stretched out a finger and flicked it slightly towards the opponent, and several sword lights appeared out of thin air, strangling the swordsman in the bamboo hat who was rushing towards him on the sand from different directions.

This is a typical probing phase. For an opponent you don't know, you use the most common attacks to test him and gradually find out his background.

But in the next second, as the sword light chopped at him, Ouyang Chen suddenly frowned, turned around abruptly and slashed behind himself with a sword, clashing swords with the swordsman in the bamboo hat who appeared out of nowhere, stirring up layers of waves in the desert below!
"This guy's movements are weird and unpredictable. He was just running on the ground to confuse me, a genius. But what if you rushed in front of me? I have never been afraid of anyone in a competition!"

As the eldest disciple of the Tianyun Immortal Sect, Ouyang Chen is not a flower raised in a greenhouse. His opponents have always been the elites of the same sect and geniuses from other sects. He has more combat experience than many of his predecessors. He immediately engaged in a close combat with the swordsman in a bamboo hat who suddenly rushed to his side.

The figures of both sides flashed continuously like lightning in the sky above the desert, and fierce collisions continued to occur. Every fight would cause large-scale space vibrations, causing the desert below to constantly change shape and huge pits to appear one after another.

This process lasted for about half an hour. When the vast desert had lost its original shape due to the aftermath of the battle between the two men, there was still no sign of a winner in this fierce battle, which made Ouyang Chen, who was originally full of confidence, feel a little irritated.

"This guy has profound skills and is proficient in swordsmanship. He is simply invincible! We can't continue to fight like this! Only by using magical powers can we kill him!"

Ouyang Chen, who had not gotten any success in close combat, decisively used all his skills to force back the swordsman in the bamboo hat who was entangled with him with a single sword. Then he turned into a sword light and instantly distanced himself from him, displaying his best sword skills.

"Sky Cloud Sword Technique! Dark Cloud Pressing the Sky Style!" In an instant, as he shouted, a huge flying sword with a length of one hundred thousand feet and a width of one thousand feet quickly took shape in the air. The sword was completely black and emitted a terrifying law of pressure, as if a heavy dark cloud covered the entire sky, about to crush the earth and plunge the vast desert under the scorching sun into darkness.

And the hugeness is only the most insignificant feature of this sword. What makes it even more terrifying is that it possesses the true power of laws. When the sword is out, the heaven and earth shake, and even the essence of space can be cut easily. It is completely unstoppable!
Of course, this piece of test space was specially reinforced by Wang Zhifan, and it could not be destroyed by the spatial power burst out by Ouyang Chen. Ouyang Chen himself also understood this, so he concentrated his magical power on his opponent, the swordsman with a bamboo hat, leaving him with no way to avoid or escape and could only take the blow that was enough to break the space.

The swordsman in the bamboo hat who had been entangled with him for a long time also seemed quite cooperative at this time. He did not make any evasive movements, but just stayed in mid-air, sheathed the long sword in his hand, and then aimed at the direction of the huge flying sword, and suddenly drew his sword and slashed!

The terrifying sword light appeared in an instant, and the crescent-shaped sword wheel, which was thousands of feet wide, carried a powerful force of laws and collided head-on with the Dark Cloud Giant Sword. Both sides produced an extremely terrifying explosion in the blink of an eye. The vast expanse of yellow sand below, which had already been devastated, was instantly annihilated and evaporated, creating a huge empty space.

In other words, the vast desert that served as a combat platform was completely destroyed by the two men, and the great test space where they were located revealed its true appearance, empty and closed. Only the scorching sun in the sky continued to pour out its scorching heat. After all, it was located outside the closed space, and no matter how fierce the fighting in the great test space was, it could not affect it.

"This opponent...I must defeat him!!!"

At this moment, Ouyang Chen, a young man who roamed the world of immortal cultivation, also became truly angry and aroused an unprecedented fighting spirit. He used his subsequent magical powers to attack the swordsman in the bamboo hat without any cost.

In fact, Ouyang Chen was not very serious at the beginning of the combat test, because he was conceited and did not think that there was really an opponent who was equal to him. Even if there was, he could crush the opponent with his talent in combat, and everything would go smoothly as usual.

But the fact is that this opponent is exactly as the mysterious voice reported, and is not inferior to him in any aspect, whether it is the level of cultivation or combat skills. He can put tremendous pressure on him and makes him dare not be distracted at all.

Ouyang Chen did not hate such challenges. On the contrary, he had always longed for such an opponent. He just did not expect to meet one in the examination space of the Dengxian Pavilion. This made him lose the idea of ​​finishing the combat test quickly and getting high scores, and he became more and more aware of the mystery of the Dengxian Pavilion.

At the same time, there were thousands of other cultivators taking the test in the examination space. Some of these people were also from the Tianyun Immortal Sect, and some were independent cultivators nearby. Each of them was severely tortured by the test items, but no one chose to give up, because giving up was not an option.

In addition to the first intelligence test and the second combat test, the third is the most critical character test. Wang Zhifan uses this test to select those who are most determined to become immortals, so it is more difficult than the previous ones, and most people will score very badly.

Among the first group of people who took the character test was an acquaintance of Wang Zhifan, the low-level casual cultivator Wang Xiang.

Wang Xiang scored no more than 50 in both the intelligence test and the combat test, which meant he had relatively poor aptitude for cultivation. However, in the test of character, he performed quite well.

His memory was tampered with in the character test and he was transformed into an old man in the Qi Refining stage. Surrounded by a group of young people in the same Qi Refining stage, he kept making fun of and mocking him, making him feel extremely mentally humiliated.

"Old man, old man, when will you break through to the foundation building stage? Do you have to wait until you are a hundred years old?"

"Oh, don't forget, the old man has been refining Qi for 87 years and still hasn't reached perfection! He must first complete Qi refining before considering building the foundation!"

“Hahaha! I’m dying of laughter! How can there be such an idiot in the world? He has been refining Qi for almost a hundred years and still hasn’t reached perfection… What kind of immortal is he…”

"The old guy is really stupid! With his lousy qualifications, why would he still practice Taoism? If he had gone home earlier to sell sweet potatoes, maybe he would have had great-grandchildren by now, instead of becoming a joke! He can only make the lowest-grade talisman paper! No one wants it because they think it's unlucky!"

"Yes, his existence is a disgrace to our Baizhou Immortal Cultivation World! I'm afraid there is no one more useless than him in our Baizhou Immortal Cultivation World! I think it would be better for him to commit suicide as soon as possible to avoid embarrassing us!"

……

Sharp words surrounded the white-haired Wang Xiang who was leaning on a cane. His memory and physical condition were completely tampered with at this moment. He seemed to have fallen into the most realistic dream and was experiencing tremendous psychological torture.

In his current understanding, he is indeed a well-known old waste. He has been practicing Taoism since he was a child and has been practicing for almost a hundred years. His former fellow disciples have already become big figures in the Taoism world above the Nascent Soul stage, or realized that their personal talents are limited and returned to the secular world to create great foundations. Only he has spent his entire life on Taoism, but the results are not even as good as those of an ordinary cultivator who has practiced for a few years, let alone compared with a real genius.

"I really shouldn't practice Taoism...My practice was a mistake...Practice Taoism misled me..."

A stark and cold conclusion suddenly emerged in Wang Xiang's mind. He planned to give up, give up the ridiculous immortal path he had been pursuing for his entire life, and also give up his own life and leave in shame.

But just as this thought flashed through his mind, another voice sounded in his heart, quickly overwhelmed his pessimism and despair.

"Don't give up! As long as you're still alive, there's hope! So what if I can't build a foundation at 100 years old? If I can't build a foundation at 100 years old, I'll build it at 110 years old! An old horse is still eager to run a thousand miles! Cultivating immortals is my only pursuit in this life! Even if I have to sacrifice everything, it doesn't matter! I have no regrets in embarking on the path to immortality!"

At this moment, the old Wang Xiang, who was leaning on a cane, slowly straightened his back, faced the verbal humiliation of the people around him with a weathered smile, and took slow but firm steps amid the ridicule of others.

He has figured out that cultivating immortals is his only purpose in life. It doesn't matter if he fails. As long as he is still alive, there is hope for progress. Even if that hope is as fragile as a candle in the wind, he cannot give up, because this is the value of his life!
The next moment, the laughter around him quickly disappeared, and the cane in his hand shattered like a phantom. The white-haired and old Wang Xiang felt that his body became younger in the blink of an eye, and those lost memories came back like a tide, making him open his eyes wide and his eyes became moist.

"Congratulations on passing the character test, with a score of 88. The total score of the three tests is 182. You are qualified to register as a disciple of the Ascension Pavilion, and you will receive a chance gold pill."

The mysterious voice's announcement also followed, giving him more surprises and letting him know that not only had he not aged, he had also passed the final test of the Ascension Pavilion's opening examination, catching up with the previous two lagging tests with a high score and obtaining the result he most desired.

"I have become a disciple of the Ascension Pavilion! I have become a disciple of the Ascension Pavilion!"

In endless joy, the figure of Wang Xiang, a low-level casual cultivator, disappeared from the examination space and entered the grand ceremony. (End of this chapter)