Assessment Begins (Please Vote)

From Xiao Kuangdao, Qin Ze felt something akin to familial affection. It was like having a grandmother!

"Only half a year remains before the assessment begins. How are your preparations coming along?" Xiao Kuangdao had Qin Ze sit on a stool beside the wooden chair.

Qin Ze said, "Don't worry, Teacher. Everything is ready. Once the assessment is over, I'll accompany you to Shrek City."

"Don't let your guard down." Qin Ze's talent could be called the greatest among this batch of disciples, so Xiao Kuangdao was naturally at ease. But as his teacher, he still had to remind him. Complacency was the prelude to failure.

"I understand." Qin Ze smiled faintly and said solemnly, "I have always remembered one saying: pride and complacency are the prelude to a person's destruction. I will always bear it in mind."

"Good lad, well said." Xiao Kuangdao burst into laughter, extremely pleased by Qin Ze's words.

"Go get some rest. Come back when it's time for dinner," Xiao Kuangdao said.

Qin Ze nodded and rose to his feet. "Teacher, I'll be going now."

"Alright!"

With that, Qin Ze turned and left.

"No wonder Uncle Xiao took this disciple as his apprentice." Not long after Qin Ze left, an exceedingly refined voice reached Xiao Kuangdao's ears from somewhere unknown.

Xiao Kuangdao turned his gaze and smiled. "This old man is almost two hundred years old. Finding a disciple with such a resolute character is not bad at all."

Outside the house stood two people who had appeared at some unknown time.

One of them was handsome, his smiling face carrying a soothingly refined air. He was tall and slender, dressed in an extravagant white Soul Master robe, with a ring set with a golden crystal on his finger.

The other was an Elder who looked about the same age as Xiao Kuangdao. He had white hair and a youthful complexion, and though his body was somewhat thin, the power contained within him was terrifyingly immense.

"Sect Master! Old Zhang!" Xiao Kuangdao said with a smile. "Sit."

As he spoke, Xiao Kuangdao casually took out a table and chairs from his Soul Tool.

The refined middle-aged man was none other than the Sect Master of the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect, Ning Guanqing!

As for the other man, he was Zhang Shengtian, Qiankun Douluo, one of the sect-protecting elders!

A Level 94 Titled Douluo, with the Qiankun Staff as his martial soul!

Ning Guanqing and Qiankun Douluo Zhang Shengtian were both quite casual. This was not their first time here.

"Sect Master, what brings you here today?" Xiao Kuangdao asked after pouring the tea.

A hint of a smile appeared on Ning Guanqing's face. "Nothing in particular. I heard Uncle Wu going on all day about how a fine disciple had been snatched away, so I became curious and came to have a look. This child truly is impressive. No wonder Uncle Wu has been thinking about him."

Hearing that, Xiao Kuangdao immediately laughed heartily. "Who told that fellow not to make his move earlier? It's too late for regrets now!"

Zhang Shengtian glanced at Xiao Kuangdao. "It's rare for you to be willing to accept a disciple. Have you finally let go of what happened back then?"

Xiao Kuangdao's expression darkened and brightened unpredictably. "How could I possibly let it go? The murder of my wife is an irreconcilable hatred. If I forgot it, I would not be a man."

Ning Guanqing frowned slightly. "The Holy Spirit Cult's strength truly exceeded our estimates. We never expected them to have a Limit Douluo among them. When that happened back then, the sect failed you, Uncle Xiao."

"You can't blame the sect for that. Who could have imagined they would be so bold as to directly ambush our main sect?" Xiao Kuangdao waved his hand. "Let's not talk about this anymore. Right now, all I want is to nurture A Ze properly."

Ning Guanqing and Zhang Shengtian exchanged a glance.

Every day that followed, Qin Ze carried out an orderly routine without fail.

In the mornings, he absorbed Purple Qi and attended classes. At noon, he refined his body. In the afternoons, he went to the library to read, and at night, he meditated.

His days were exceedingly fulfilling.

The only thing Qin Ze found regrettable was that although he could absorb Purple Qi, it did not enhance his strength at all. Every bit of it was devoured by the Azure Dragon phantom.

What Qin Ze could not have guessed was that, as the Azure Dragon gradually solidified, an enormous opportunity was beginning to reveal itself.

Half a year passed in the blink of an eye.

At last, the day of the assessment arrived for all the new disciples.

When Qin Ze arrived at the cultivation room, it was already full of people. Some looked relaxed and composed, while others were extremely nervous.

One group of people, two entirely different states of mind.

As for Wu Feng, she had stopped chasing Qin Ze around for a one-on-one fight. During this period, she had been spending every day immersed in her sisterly bond with Ning Tian.

Before long, someone entered through the cultivation room's doorway.

Yu Ying swept her gaze over the crowd and said, "All disciples who entered through the advancement competition are to follow me to the Soul Fighting Arena immediately. Over the next three days, we will conduct the assessment."

At her words, Qin Ze noticed that quite a few faces in the cultivation room changed. After a year of Attribute Body Refinement, his Spiritual Power had increased considerably.

There had originally been twenty people when they were divided into five groups.

At this moment, all of them stood up.

The directly admitted disciples, watching them, remembered that they would also undergo testing in half a month and began to feel nervous as well.

Yu Ying led the group out of the cultivation room.

"Good luck!" Just as Qin Ze, walking at the very end, was about to leave, Wu Feng softly called out to him.

A curve appeared at the corner of Qin Ze's lips, and he raised a hand in farewell.

By the time they reached the ground floor, the open space was already crowded with people. They were all disciples who had entered through the advancement competition.

Since they were not from the same groups, they were not particularly familiar with one another.

The middle-aged man named Yan Renyi had come again. He was responsible for leading the team.

Qin Ze frowned slightly. He had noticed that this man had looked at him several times.

Yan Renyi swept his gaze across the crowd and said, "Next, we will head to the Soul Fighting Arena in batches. The details of the assessment will be announced one by one. What you should be thinking about now is not being nervous, but how to pass the assessment. If a single assessment scares you this badly, then go home and farm instead of becoming Soul Masters."

At those words, traces of shame appeared on many faces. They truly had begun to lose heart. At the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect, they had met many geniuses—geniuses who utterly outclassed them. The thought that they would surely be unable to remain had plagued them for an entire year.

"Set off!" Yan Renyi took in every expression on their faces.

Under the lead of five instructors, the group began making its way toward the Soul Fighting Arena outside the inner city.

Naturally, carriages were indispensable. Rows of them were quietly waiting in the plaza outside.

Once he boarded a carriage and his body began to sway with its movement, Qin Ze looked over the vast inner city. A year had passed just like that. He had gone from a Level 12 Soul Master to a Level 15 Soul Master, advancing three levels in a year.

Though his Soul Power Level had not increased much, his physique far surpassed that level. Even many Soul Grandmasters could not compare to him. At the same time, the quality of his Soul Power had become exceptionally solid. That was why Qin Ze's Soul Power Level had not risen much: he required twice as much Soul Power as ordinary people to advance a level.

Xiao Kuangdao had taught him all these things. If a Soul Master wanted to break through to Titled Douluo, he had to build a solid foundation while young. Otherwise, he might very well become stuck at Level 89 in the future, unable to break through for the rest of his life.

And once he did break through, the difficulty of condensing a Soul Core in the future would decrease, while the Soul Core's strength after it formed would increase by at least twofold.

These were all experiences Xiao Kuangdao had accumulated over the years, and he had taught them to Qin Ze without holding anything back.

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The more I explained, the worse the criticism became.