Great Family Foundations, One After Another Eliminated!

In each class, only a little over ten students could meet the standard for entering the Martial Arts Class.

At this moment, each homeroom teacher stood before their class, stopwatch in hand, observing the students below while holding a registration book, ready to record at any moment.

"Every ten seconds, the Demonic Might will grow markedly denser and stronger. During the final five seconds, it will increase once every second."

"The total time is sixty seconds. Any student who can endure all sixty seconds without their breathing meditation technique's rhythm becoming disordered will receive full marks!"

"During this time, what is being tested is your mastery of the breathing meditation technique, as well as your temperament and Spiritual Power."

Sun Rui's clear voice rang out as he explained the rules to the students below.

Standing among them, Su Ye swept his gaze over the tense yet resolute students around him, a thoughtful look in his eyes.

"Though eighty percent of this tests the breathing meditation technique, it also tests temperament and Spiritual Power."

With a thought, the progress of his breathing technique appeared before his eyes.

[Azure Cloud Breathing Technique (98/100)]!

In one week, Su Ye needed only two more points of progress to cultivate the Azure Cloud Breathing Technique to its ultimate state of perfection!

Su Ye's eyes flickered. He was still quite confident about this trial!

"Activate your breathing meditation techniques!"

With a low shout from Sun Rui, all the students focused intently and began circulating the Azure Cloud Breathing Technique!

The next instant, the Azure Tiger Demon Core floating in the air abruptly released a terrifying pressure that spread in all directions, blanketing the entire area!

Many students' expressions changed at once!

The sensation was like a ferocious tiger pouncing at their backs, raising goosebumps all over their bodies and filling them with the helpless feeling of facing a natural predator they could not resist!

Fear!

Powerlessness!

Terror!

"So this is Demonic Might! The suppression exerted by a being of a higher realm upon those of lower realms!"

Su Ye steadily circulated his breathing technique. This level was naturally still easy for him, though he could also feel a wave of pressure.

Pressure!

A Martial Artist of a higher realm could even directly suppress those of lower realms, making their whole bodies tremble, even forcing them to crawl or kneel, unable to muster the fighting spirit to resist.

"What is a Martial Artist?" On the platform, Sun Rui's previously mild gaze gradually sharpened as he said calmly:

"They are those who protect their homes and defend their nation, those who fight Demon Beasts!"

"Many people may possess outstanding Spiritual Power and decent progress in their breathing meditation techniques, but those lacking perseverance and temperament are not worthy of being called Martial Artists!"

The moment those words fell, the students throughout the grounds felt their blood boil. They gritted their teeth, their gazes gradually growing firm!

Demon Beasts!

More than 300 years ago, those two words had brought despair to humanity!

They had claimed countless human lives and destroyed more than half of humanity's former culture!

Even today, Demon Beasts remained an enormous threat to humanity. Every human city was covered by corresponding Formation Arrays to prevent Demon Beasts from attacking the city!

Yet even so, Monster Tides would still enter cities, and traitors colluding with the enemy, Demon Beast mutations, and all kinds of other causes would lead to Demon Beasts slaughtering human civilians!

Over generation after generation, humanity and Demon Beasts had long formed a blood feud as deep as the sea!

Ten seconds passed!

The Demonic Might suddenly surged!

It was like a natural predator drawing near, baring its fangs as saliva dripped from its jaws!

Many students' faces changed sharply. Their breathing techniques stalled, and their rhythm fell into disorder in an instant!

Meanwhile, the teachers leading each class nodded slightly, glanced at the timers in their hands, and wrote down the students' times on the registration forms.

Ten seconds was a dividing line!

It had directly eliminated a full half of the students!

They showed dejected, helpless expressions and let out sighs.

As time passed, more and more students were helplessly eliminated!

Sun Rui nodded from above.

As an entry-level breathing meditation technique, the Azure Cloud Breathing Technique was highly compatible with the Tiger Form Bone Forging Method.

Once perfected, it allowed one to perfectly wield the power of all Forty-nine Martial Bones.

For ordinary students, tempering Forty-nine Martial Bones was already extremely difficult.

His gaze shifted across several figures, and an astonished expression appeared on his face.

"That little girl from the Ye Family... was eliminated?"

"Thirty-six seconds?"

That result already placed her among the top twenty percent of students.

But it did not match Ye Xingli's performance during the Martial Bone and punching-power tests at all, nor did it fit her identity!

Like bone-tempering methods, the vast majority of breathing meditation techniques could only be cultivated after one turned eighteen, when one's Essence, Qi, and Spirit, along with one's blood, had begun to take shape.

But the descendants of those great families were different!

They possessed extraordinary foundations and could obtain breathing meditation techniques of even higher grades.

They could begin training their spirit ahead of others at sixteen, or even fourteen, so they often achieved exceptionally outstanding results in breathing meditation technique tests!

"Indeed, if the College Entrance Examination did not require the Azure Cloud Breathing Technique as an exam subject, many descendants of great families would not even deign to cultivate the Azure Cloud Breathing Technique!"

Of course, those extremely exceptional students capable of receiving special admission might truly never have cultivated the Azure Cloud Breathing Technique.

Ye Xingli's early elimination came as a surprise to him!

Lin Qingyue had clearly noticed it immediately as well, and she could not conceal the delight on her face!

Though it was unexpected!

It seemed your Spiritual Power and breathing technique progress, Ye Xingli, were inferior to mine, Lin Qingyue's!

A burst of pleasure rose in her heart!

She had been suppressed in the first round, but now she had finally regained some face!

The next moment, she thought of something, and her eyes abruptly turned toward Class Six!

Su Ye!

"Su Ye, do you think a little natural talent in your bones lets you show off before me? How laughable!"

"How could the foundation of a great family be shaken by your tiny, insignificant talent!"

"My Lin Family's 'Blood Phoenix Breathing Meditation Technique' was comprehended by an ancestor through a fortuitous encounter. Its upper limit allows one to temper up to ninety Martial Bones, and it can be cultivated from the age of fourteen!"

"Even in Shenyun City, it is absolutely among the most elite breathing meditation techniques. It is my family's foundation. Only the military's two great breathing techniques, 'Nine Suns' and 'Nine Yin,' derived from the Nine Extremes Yin-Yang Breathing Meditation Technique, can compare to it even slightly!"

"I began cultivating it at fourteen. If I had cultivated the Azure Cloud Breathing Meditation Method instead, I would have surpassed the realm of perfection long ago. What do you have to compare with me, Su Ye?!"

Especially as time passed and the Demonic Might surged again at fifty seconds, she saw Su Ye's expression abruptly change, his entire body trembling!

He was clearly about to reach his limit!

Probably within just a few seconds!

The students in the field all had disordered breathing. As they glanced at the students around them, their expressions changed slightly!

There were only four people still holding on in the field!

Lin Qingyue from Class One, looking composed and incomparably proud!

Class Six... actually had as many as three!

Su Ye, Fang Yuan, and Yao Hong!

This was beyond the expectations of many students. "Has Class Six gone insane this year?! How did so many freaks suddenly appear?!"

However, judging by their expressions, the three of them clearly could not hold on much longer either!

At almost exactly fifty-three seconds, Yao Hong and Fang Yuan were eliminated at the same time!

"What a pity!"

"This guy..."

Fang Yuan looked at Su Ye, sighed inwardly, and revealed an unwilling expression!

His Fang Family's breathing technique could be cultivated from the age of sixteen.

Although he had not yet tempered Martial Bones, making it difficult for his essence and strength to merge, and his cultivation progress had been slow, he had still accumulated two years of practice.

Yet he was actually inferior to Su Ye, who had cultivated for only one month?!

Amid his unwillingness was a trace of helplessness!

Still, he could see that Su Ye would not be able to endure more than three more seconds. He had already reached his limit!

After fifty-five seconds, the difficulty would rise by another level!

"Brother Ye, hold on!"

Zhang Yuan clenched his fists, already drenched in sweat, and stared fixedly at Su Ye.

At this moment, Su Ye had already focused himself to the utmost, so absorbed that he seemed oblivious to everyone else.

Within his mind, a stream of information flowed like warm water:

[Azure Cloud Breathing Technique (99/100)]!

And as he circulated the Azure Cloud Breathing Technique once more, purple light flashed within his mind!