After listening to Hu Feiwen's account, Qin Fengming revealed a thoughtful expression.
"Fellow Daoist Hu, that enormous pillar is used to test the aptitude of the clansmen's cultivators. I wonder, can other cultivators use it as well?"
There were quite a few magical artifacts in the Cultivation World used to test a cultivator's aptitude. Moreover, such testing artifacts were not particularly profound. As long as one was an Artifact Refining Master of decent attainment, one could refine them.
But the towering pillar outside was in a league of its own compared with ordinary testing artifacts.
It was more than a dozen zhang thick and towered into the clouds. An object of such enormous size had definitely not come from the hands of an ordinary Artifact Refining Master. Just from the pillar's material alone, Qin Fengming could tell with his discerning eye that it was no ordinary substance—something that could not be found with ease.
"Outsiders can of course use it. Whenever our Black Pine City holds a Dao Seeking Assembly, quite a few cultivators from other clans in the surrounding area come to participate in the test. As long as they are at the Nascent Soul stage or above, they can take part.
"Although the Sky-Reaching Pillar does not bar Divine Connection or Profound Spirit cultivators from participating, the higher a cultivator's cultivation, the more powerful the terrifying aura released by the Sky-Reaching Pillar becomes. If one cannot withstand it, one will be hurled out by the pillar. It is not impossible to be injured or even die.
"The danger lies in the fact that cultivators of our level generally ascend to a height of a hundred zhang. If the Sky-Reaching Pillar hurls them away from there, the cultivator cannot circulate their magical power and can only rely on the