Sea Cultivation: Giant Ships and Heavy Artillery Knock on the Door to All Races

Chapter 62: The First Level of Assessment: The Level of Mind
An unquestionable voice came from the clan temple, and the two groups of people entered the inner hall one after another.

The clan temple is the ancestral temple and the hub where the family’s faith is concentrated.

In the inner hall of the clan temple, from top to bottom, the Lin family's golden elixirs, fake elixirs, foundation-building cultivators of all generations, as well as a few Qi-refining cultivators who have made outstanding contributions to the family are enshrined.

These ancestors are not divided into main and branch branches, they are all heroic spirits.

As the two elders took the lead in lighting incense and candles and kowtowing,
Lin Qianfan and other younger generations followed suit and picked up incense and candles to burn incense and candles to their ancestors who had worked hard to create and carry forward the family.

There is no distinction between main and branch branches here. Those who can come to kneel down are all heroes of the Lin family, and no one will feel uncomfortable here.

...

"You are all outstanding young people from the Lin family of the Yulong Islands. However, our family resources are limited, and it is impossible to meet everyone's foundation-building needs."

"So today, you will be divided into three levels: Foundation Establishment Seeds, Potential, and Eliminated. Each of you will receive varying degrees of support from the family."

"This assessment will be fair and impartial. I, the two elders, and everyone present will supervise each other. There will be no favoritism!"

"Those who fail the assessment shouldn't be discouraged. Those under the age of twenty-five can return and work hard to make up for their shortcomings. They can still participate in the next assessment ten years later. Those who are over the age limit can still receive some support from their families, so they are not completely without the opportunity to build their foundation."

"So, regardless of whether you can become a Foundation Establishment Seed in the end, I hope that you won't become jealous of your family or hate other relatives because of this. Do you understand what I mean?"

"understand!"

The person giving the lecture has an impartial stance.

He is one of the very few people in the family who belongs neither to Yulong Fairy City nor to Yanglong Bay. He guards the family ancestral hall and will only come forward for the continuation of the family. He will not unilaterally protect anyone.

"Very good! I hope you will remember what I just said."

"Let's get back to the point. The first assessment is about character!"

A cultivator who wants to become strong and make a leap forward is affected by many dimensions.

Among them, talent, opportunity, resources, character, understanding, and ability to protect the Tao are particularly important, and they have different priorities for different people and different situations.

Among them, talent is innate. If you are born with it, you have it. If you don’t have it, you don’t have it. It is difficult to expect your parents to be strong and powerful, and it is also difficult to force it to change after birth.

Those who can take part in the assessment are all talented.

Moreover, talent can only be used to predict the upper and lower limits of a cultivator, and cannot absolutely determine a person's future.

Even those with strong natural spiritual roots will be stuck before the Nascent Soul Tribulation, and those with weak five spiritual roots have also achieved great power in history.

Opportunity, in short, is a person's luck.

Luck is an elusive thing, difficult to control and quantify, and most people's luck is just average.

So chance and luck are not taken into consideration.

Resources are acquired, can be fought for, and can greatly change the fate of a cultivator. They are also what everyone gathered here today is fighting for.

"Everyone, enter the illusionary formation. No matter what the outcome, you are not allowed to interfere with others in any way. Violators will be disqualified from the assessment, severely punished, and will never be used again!"

The foundation-building seed assessment is divided into three regular levels: character, comprehension, and ability to protect the way, as well as two additional levels: cultivating the hundred arts of immortality and industrial management.

The results of each level are divided into four categories: excellent, medium, qualified and direct elimination.

If you get any one of the three regular levels, you will be eliminated directly and become an eliminated player.

Eliminated persons have no advantage in exchanging for foundation-building pills, but can exchange for other foundation-building spiritual objects at cost price.

Those who get three excellent results in a row in the three regular levels will be directly promoted to foundation-building seeds, and can exchange them for a high-quality foundation-building pill at cost price. In addition, there are many additional supports.

Potential people are easy to understand. They are neither outstanding nor eliminated due to their shortcomings. Potential people can also be exchanged for Foundation Establishment Pills first, but the price is higher than that of Foundation Establishment Seeds, and their priority is also lower.

When the number of Foundation Establishment seeds who can be directly promoted after three consecutive excellent results is insufficient, the potential ones can continue to distinguish the differences through additional competitions and add more Foundation Establishment seeds.

After all, the Lin family has a stable production capacity for foundation-building pills, and they can use what they can digest on their own family members as much as possible.

The three regular levels are all achieved through formations, which is also the common method used by most forces to assess their juniors. The more powerful the force, the more realistic and delicate the illusion simulated by the formation.

Only those with a firm mind and as unshakable as a rock can excel in this test of character.

Seeing the big picture from the small details, only those with a strong mind will not yield, compromise, or give up when facing various difficulties in the future. Only then can they face difficulties head-on, rise against the trend, and climb to the top.

A strong mind is an extremely precious and excellent quality, and is an indispensable prerequisite for becoming a strong person.

The fact that the character assessment is ranked first in the formal assessment shows its importance, and it is also to prevent it from being affected by other assessments.

"The so-called character assessment is to amplify all kinds of negative emotions and memory loopholes in the heart, greed, lust, fear..."

All the hardships that Lin Qianfan experienced in his previous life for two hundred years turned into resources to strengthen himself.

This kind of assessment of the strength of illusions for Qi-refining cultivators is simply child's play and can be easily dealt with without any difficulty.

"Huh? It's him."

Lin Qianfan did not try to hide his abilities, nor did he use too much force. With just a little effort, he became the first person to escape from the illusion, received an "excellent" test score, and became the first person in this level.

"Not bad!"

Although the Fourth Elder, as the assessing elder, needed to remain fair, he was proud to see that the well-educated Lin Qianfan from Yanglong Bay became the first person to pass the first round.

Look, this is the descendant I trained at Yanglongwan!

After a while, the exit of the formation fluctuated again, and the talented girl Lin Qianxue and Uncle Niu walked out almost at the same time.

"Ok?"

Lin Qianxue, who has a pure heart, passed the test easily. She could accept that someone was tied with her for first place. After all, the others were decades older than her, so it was normal for someone to complete the test perfectly.

But when Lin Qianfan stood with the elders and looked at her with admiration as if an elder were looking at a younger person, her heart was moved for the first time.

"Grandpa Tao, I lost."

"Good boy, you didn't lose. You all completed the assessment perfectly."

"It's just that everyone holds different beliefs. Others have their own reasons for winning, and you have yours. Life is a long race, and a moment's speed isn't important; looking back in the future, it will all become a joke."

Elder Tao had no intention of belittling others; he was simply trying to instill in Lin Qianxue a sense of invincibility.

She came here to compete with a group of adults today not for the Foundation Establishment Pill, so she would be the winner no matter what the result was.

At the age of twelve, she was in the late stage of Qi Refining, and her upper limit was too high and too exaggerated. If it were not for the need to take into account the growth and development of her body, after all, growing taller was more important before adulthood, she could even practice faster.

"Grandpa Tao, I understand."

How could such a chosen one admit defeat?

"Well, a boy can be taught!"

The illusion test is different for each person, so there is no standard answer. Anyone who escapes the formation within the corresponding time period will get full marks.

Although the rankings are different, the assessment results are all excellent.

(End of this chapter)