My Perfect Immortal Cultivation Life

Li Yu felt a cool sensation between his eyebrows.

Like the morning dew, it instantly awakens a drowsy mind.

The illusion began to crumble bit by bit, and the senior sister, elders, and ancient palace all vanished into nothingness, just like turning from a VR immersive scene back into a two-dimensional plane.

Suddenly, a mirror as tall as two or three stories appeared before him. The material of the frame was as deep as the night sky, with flowing golden patterns.

Strangely, outside the mirror was the main hall where Li Yu was conducting his assessment, and all the disciples taking the assessment were sitting cross-legged on the ground.

However, the image reflected in the mirror was not the main hall, but the scene Li Yu had just experienced. All the elders and senior sisters were frozen in the mirror, their expressions, demeanor, and eyes remaining exactly as they had been.

"Where am I?"

Linglong Daoxin explained: "The place you are in is the inner world of magical artifacts."

The world is hidden within?

Li Yu had heard this term when playing games in his previous life, but had never seen it before. This is because only top-grade magical artifacts can nurture the power to contain the world within.

In the previous game version, the game was only updated to level 59, which is the peak of the sixth realm. Only cultivators at the eighth realm or higher were qualified to forge super-grade magical artifacts. Therefore, not a single usable super-grade magical artifact appeared on the entire game server.

Li Yu said, "Linglong Dao Heart... Hmm, that's a bit of a mouthful. I'll call you Linglong from now on. Linglong, explain your current state."

"The Heavenly Mirror, a superior magical artifact, has the ability to deduce."

It can project certain scenes of the user's future. During the introductory assessment, all registered disciples were passively subjected to the deduction function.

Li Yu thought for a moment: "Linglong, now that you've pulled me out of that state, can I still use the Heavenly Mirror to continue the deduction?"

"Sure, do you want to continue watching?"

"Can I fast forward?"

"certainly!"

The celestial mirror in front of me suddenly flashed with white light, and then the image resumed its flow, albeit at a much faster speed than before.

[Six Months After Beginner Level: You received a top-tier rating in the assessment, and all sect resources are now focused on you. You successfully broke through to the first realm within a month and reached the third realm within six months, just in time for the Spirit Condensation Ranking Competition six months later.]

Linglong said, "It looks great and glamorous! Do you want to give it a try? With my help, you'll be the most dazzling genius in the world!"

Li Yu laughed and said, "It's not that simple. There's a saying that goes around where I come from: every gift of fate comes with a price tag."

Time continued to flow downwards.

[One Year After Beginner Level: In the Concentration Ranking Competition, you defeated a host of experts with your cultivation at the first level of the third realm. You ultimately achieved the second-highest ranking on the Concentration Ranking. Many elders within the sect want to recruit you to their respective peaks.]

[Two years into your training: An assassination attempt against you has silently unfolded. The neighboring Zhongzhou Dynasty and Beichuan Dynasty have both dispatched elite assassins to trap you in a secluded cave realm. Within this realm, you continue your arduous and tenacious cultivation without food or water.]

[Five years into your training: The entrance to the hidden realm has reopened, but you tragically find the assassins still guarding the gate. You're still no match for them and have no choice but to return to the realm to continue your training.]

[Ten years into my career: The Assassin is still around.]

[Thirty Years of Beginner Skill: You finally broke through to the fifth realm in the secret realm. Confident you could avenge your previous defeat, the assassin broke through to the sixth realm, and you were captured alive and brought back to the Beichuan Dynasty.]

[Sixty years into your cultivation journey: The Beichuan Dynasty treated you as a cultivation "talent," extracting your meridians and marrow to refine you into elixirs. You silently endured this, cultivating a demonic and evil art you accidentally acquired. Finally, in this year, you comprehended the mental technique, condensed your Dao heart, and successfully stepped into the eighth realm.]

[Sixty-one years into your journey: You have finally escaped. When you returned to the Dao Yi Sect after destroying the Bei Chuan Dynasty's royal family, you found everything had changed. Your senior sister, Qin Shufan, had also been betrayed and left the Central Plains. The Dao Yi Sect had suffered several blows, and its size was reduced to less than a third.]

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As Li Yu watched these images, his expression grew increasingly grim.

Linglong: "Ah...this...this is terrible..."

"That's why I told you, the gifts of fate come at a price. When Heaven is about to place a great responsibility on a person, it will first test their will, exhaust their body, and starve their bones."

Linglong exclaimed excitedly, "What you said makes so much sense! Heaven is about to place a great responsibility on this person! I understand now, all this pain and hardship is necessary!"

"You don't know anything."

Although Linglong's abilities are quite invincible, her mind seems immature, almost like that of a five or six-year-old child.

Li Yu said, "You're still young, you'll understand later. As for me, I just want to cultivate peacefully and steadily, I don't want to suffer at all."

After watching the deduction video of the Heavenly Mirror, Li Yu had a general understanding of what the content of this assessment was.

When you win first place, how will you face the ensuing glory, fame, resources, challenges, and difficulties? These disciples present probably all won first place in the illusion.

This tests one's character.

However, Li Yu suddenly thought: "I can feel everything in the illusion."

If I hadn't used my exquisite Dao Heart to break the illusion, wouldn't I have been trapped in the secret realm for thirty years, and then imprisoned for another thirty years?

Wow!

What kind of entrance exam is this? It's clearly like those spy organizations in movies from my past life, using psychological manipulation on their disciples! So that even if the disciples are captured in the future, they won't betray the sect.

Li Yu got goosebumps all over his body.

Fortunately, I had the exquisite Dao Heart to assist me, otherwise I would have really suffered a lot.

However, the Heavenly Mirror's deductions weren't that precise. At least, it didn't deduce Li Yu's system and exquisite Dao Heart.

Once you understand these things, you should unlock the achievement.

"The system told me to get a mediocre score in this exam. There are eighteen people in total, and I only need to get ninth or tenth place."

The elder just said that the shorter the time, the higher the score, but it seems to be the opposite. The longer you can survive in the illusion, the higher your score.

Because of the illusion, Li Yu now has a very bad impression of Elder Zhao Shushi.

That old rascal is really wicked; he really wants me to suffer in this illusion!

"Linglong, when will the other disciples wake up from the illusion?"

"Hmm... three more breaths, Zuo San'er's disciple is about to wake up."

Sure enough, three breaths later, the figure of the second disciple in the third row from the left disappeared into the inner world of the Heavenly Mirror.

Then, the second and third disciples also finished their assessments.

Li Yu suddenly became curious about what other people's illusions were like, and whether their experiences would be the same as his.

"Linglong, can you show me the deductions made by the other disciples?"

"Sure, whose segment would you like to see?"

"That arrogant-looking one," Li Yu pointed to the genius disciple who had previously caused a dazzling light in the azure sky.

The Mirror of Heaven flashed again, reflecting the person's illusion.

He was covered in blood and was being tortured while chained to an iron chain.

"I can't tell you anything! Even if you kill me, I won't say a word!" In the illusion, the evil cultivator was too lazy to waste words and used lightning magic to shock him again and again.

Li Yu was satisfied.

Seeing that everyone else isn't doing so well makes me feel really good.

When the figure of the ninth disciple disappeared from the Heavenly Mirror, Li Yu also left this place with the help of the Exquisite Dao Heart.

The assessment is over.

Li Yu opened his eyes, and there before him was the physical form of the supreme-grade magic artifact, the Heavenly Mirror.