Senior Apprentice Sister

"Use your awakened power and attack me, don't hold back."

After Luo Er spoke, she waved her hand, signaling Nan Jin and Zhong Wei to move further away.

Immediately afterward, she closed her eyes.

The girl placed one hand behind her back, and with the other, pointed to her brow.

"Come on, attack."

Sweat trickled down Gu Shen's forehead... He hadn't awakened any so-called Transcendent power at all. Although the Truth Ruler was with him, he couldn't possibly take it out and activate it at this moment. This secret needed to be carefully guarded.

How was he supposed to attack?

He had no way to attack at all!

Nan Jin silently retreated, holding her saber, and stood with Zhong Wei, quietly waiting... Gu Shen's talent was only reflected in the files; they hadn't witnessed it personally.

Five seconds.

Ten seconds.

The training ground was so quiet you could hear a pin drop.

"..."

Luo Er slowly opened her eyes. There was no disappointment in her eyes, only a calmness like a mirror, and she smiled faintly, "As expected, you can't use it? You seem to be different from what those old guys in the Tribunal guessed... If you were to participate in the assessment now, you wouldn't even get a C grade, let alone an S."

Gu Shen silently clenched his fists.

"Alright."

A hand gently patted his shoulder.

Gu Shen's pupils constricted. He hadn't seen how Senior Apprentice Sister Luo moved at all; she had arrived by his side in an instant.

"Don't be discouraged. There are many cases where Transcendent power cannot be used due to overdrafting." Senior Apprentice Sister Luo chuckled, "Doesn't this just prove... that Zhong Wei and I are valuable in coming to Da Teng?"

Gu Shen was stunned.

He looked behind him and saw the smiles of the other two.

They all thought... that he couldn't use his Transcendent power because of "overdrafting"?

"Your destiny is in your own hands."

Luo Er turned around and walked towards the weapon rack filled with swords and sabers in the training ground, "The assessment is in fifteen days, and every hour from now is very important. Now... the special training has begun."

She arrived in front of the huge weapon rack.

Senior Apprentice Sister Luo didn't make any movements, but the entire weapon rack suddenly began to tremble. Those sharpened swords and sabers, one by one, floated into the air... You should know that these alloy-made equipment are extremely heavy, weighing dozens of pounds!

Even an untrained adult male would find it difficult to wield them.

These dozens of swords and sabers must weigh nearly a thousand pounds, right?

Luo Er slowly turned around, and at the same time, the swords and sabers turned their blades with her, as if swimming in the air like fish, swaying their blades and making clear, crisp sounds.

She asked, "Does this scene look familiar?"

Gu Shen looked at Senior Apprentice Sister Luo as if he had seen a ghost.

At this moment, Luo Er, within a ten-meter radius, was surrounded by the edges of swords and blades, much like the scene when he first used the Truth Ruler, trying to imitate Nan Jin's Sword Domain... How did she replicate it? Has the secret of the Ruler been discovered?

"I used 'Profiling'."

She smiled slightly, "I went to the scene of the fire last night, and the things that happened there... Through profiling, I restored a part of it. I originally wanted to directly determine your Transcendent ability through 'Profiling', but unfortunately, your image in the profiling was too blurry."

"My Transcendent ability should be... related to mental strength."

Fortunately, the Ruler hasn't been discovered... Gu Shen breathed a sigh of relief in his heart. He pretended to guess and slowly said.

Chu Ling mentioned "Profiling"... This is a power exclusive to the mental system. It seems that Senior Apprentice Sister Luo is a mental-type Transcendent! His use of the Truth Ruler is, in a sense, a concretization of mental strength. This statement should not reveal any flaws.

The backlash after using the Ruler is exceptionally rapid. Chu Ling said it was related to his insufficient mental strength... This special training with Senior Apprentice Sister Luo can just help him.

Gu Shen took a deep breath and helplessly described his symptoms: "After the fire, I always feel like my mental strength has been drained... After lying down for two days, my head is still empty, it's difficult to concentrate, and I often feel the pain of needles."

Luo Er listened attentively, nodding from time to time.

"Normal phenomenon. Your mental strength is too weak... It seems this is an item that requires rigorous training."

She beckoned.

Zhong Wei and Nan Jin both came over.

"Strength, speed, mental strength, control... The Tribunal's assessment is actually very simple, it assesses newcomers from these four aspects. No matter which of the three systems, it can be objectively evaluated in this set of quadrilateral scoring system."

Luo Er suddenly raised her hands, facing the empty space of the training ground.

That group of floating sword lights suddenly rioted, and short knives and long swords began to dance without warning.

"Swish swish swish—"

Silver light in the air was like snow!

The next moment.

Dozens of targets and wooden figures standing suspended in the training ground were hit in the bullseye, heart, forehead and other vital parts by the knives and swords that roamed the sky... For a time, the sounds of sharp weapons rang out in unison, piercing the eardrums.

"Transcendent power is not inherently superior or inferior, only the difference in combat wisdom and the degree of development. Newcomers who have just awakened, even if they possess a powerful Transcendent origin in their bodies, cannot perfectly control it."

Luo Er said: "Strength corresponds to power. Speed corresponds to dodging. Mental strength determines the length of time to use Transcendent power. And control represents accuracy and distance."

"Having a powerful source of power, but not being able to hit the opponent, even if you try your best, you can only have a fleeting bloom. Such a Transcendent... is difficult to be considered a truly strong person."

On Gu Shen's forehead, a drop of sweat formed, slowly sliding down, and finally dripping onto the blade of a dagger close at hand.

"Clang."

A crisp, slender ripple of water was shaken out.

That dagger, under the manipulation of mental strength, was suspended in front of his cheek, the invisible cold almost piercing his cheek and penetrating into his bone marrow.

This is... a monster in the true sense.

Simultaneously controlling dozens of knives and swords, how powerful is her mental strength?

This is not ethereal sword intent, without weight...

Unlike the frenzied slaughter on his rooftop, which targeted the same objective... every sword wielded by Senior Apprentice Sister Luo pierced the target with precision. The most terrifying thing was that she didn't use her eyesight to assist in aiming at all!

Clearly, this was also a kind of application of a mental Transcendent. She could see the world behind, and her "gaze" was sharper than an eagle's.

Gu Shen took a deep breath. He laboriously extended two fingers and moved away the dagger that was currently suspended in front of him.

This dagger was probably only one centimeter away from piercing his skin.

Gu Shen knew that if his hand had trembled just now, even a slight tremor would have drawn blood from the blade.

He didn't feel fear, only... amazement.

This time, when Gu Shen looked at Luo Er again, he seemed to see the powerful soul that was carried within this seemingly petite body, a soul that made people look up to her.

Like a mountain, like an abyss.

The lecture about the strong just now was actually somewhat empty and powerless.

But Luo Er said it.

It was so right, so correct... because she was, without a doubt, a strong person.

With a "buzz," the dagger slowly flew up and came to Luo Er's palm.

"Want to learn?"

"Call me 'Senior Apprentice Sister'..." She smiled, "I'll teach you."

"...Senior Apprentice Sister!"

Gu Shen nodded like a chicken pecking at rice, "From today on, you are my own Senior Apprentice Sister!"