Battle Twenty Guardians, Break the Record!

"Reporting to Hall Master, I ran into Ye Fan by chance last night. I found this lad extraordinary and specially invited him to Star Martial Hall for testing."

Wu Xie reported truthfully.

At that moment, his heart was filled with excitement and wild joy.

He had struck gold!

Meanwhile, Bai Nuoli and his nephew—

were completely dumbfounded.

It seemed the plot was not supposed to unfold in this direction.

And once the Hall Master appeared, he had not even glanced at the uncle and nephew.

Instead, he was currently chatting eagerly with Wu Xie.

"Good, good. You deserve such luck. Even after getting off work, you did not forget to unearth talent. Heaven rewards the diligent!"

"From what I can see, this boy should possess an exceptionally powerful bloodline physique."

"Even this incomparably fierce fist technique of his should be... King-grade!"

Hall Master Yin Shanyue looked down at Ye Fan below as though he had discovered an uncut jade.

"King-grade!"

Upon hearing that it was a King-grade Martial Art, all three people present were startled.

After all, they were currently all in the Spirit Stream Realm and were not suited to cultivating King-grade Martial Arts.

This was because King-grade Martial Arts not only placed extremely high demands on a martial artist's Martial Arts Mastery.

King-grade—and even Martial Arts above King-grade—also required high-level star meridians to activate.

They truly could not understand it.

Why could a little fellow who had only just entered the Spirit Stream Realm activate a King-grade Martial Art?

Wu Xie was likewise immensely shocked.

Last night, he had personally watched Ye Fan cultivate this set of fist techniques.

From awkwardness, to smoothness, to the later rounded perfection.

Yet this little fellow had mastered it in an extremely short time. It seemed he had entered the legendary state of enlightenment!

Could it be that, just as the Hall Master had said,

he had found a little monster?!

"Could it be..."

Suddenly thinking of a certain possibility,

Bai Nuoli cried out.

Hall Master Yin glanced at him and nodded lightly. "That's right. This boy is highly likely to possess a Supreme Bloodline Physique."

"Legend has it that such physiques are like divine beasts, born with inherited memories."

"The reason this boy can perform a King-grade Martial Art should be related to his bloodline physique."

"Moreover, this proves that his Martial Arts Mastery is certainly not low!"

Hall Master Yin Shanyue said, a trace of anticipation in his eyes.

Upon hearing Yin Shanyue's words,

Bai Nuoli's face darkened even further.

He wanted nothing more than to slap himself twice.

At this rate, not only was the cooked duck about to fly away,

but would he end up trying to steal a chicken and lose the rice used to lure it?

Everyone looked through the Glazed Screen.

In the second trial's actual combat test,

Jin Lian's practical combat ability had stopped at three early-stage Cloud Stream Realm Silver Guardians.

Yet Ye Fan had now reached the point of fighting seven Silver Guardians alone.

"Phew, phew, phew, phew..."

Surrounded by seven Silver Guardians, Ye Fan slowly exhaled a breath of stale air.

At this moment, he could feel a trace of pressure as well.

"I'll go all out. Since I came to take this test, I must reach my limit.

Only then can they see my potential and give me better training.

Father is still waiting for my life-saving money, so... fight!"

At that thought, Ye Fan instantly felt his Nine-Star Hegemonic Body seemingly respond to his will, his blood beginning to boil!

The tearing sound of wind rang out from all directions around Ye Fan.

But at this moment, Ye Fan

felt not the slightest nervousness or fear.

Instead, his fighting spirit surged!

It was as though he had been born for battle.

With his Mental Power raised to 15, Ye Fan's perception had become incomparably sharp.

As he darted and shifted, he narrowly evaded the Silver Guardians' attacks every time.

The sight made Instructor Wu Xie before the Glazed Screen tremble with anxiety.

Bang!

Yet whenever a Silver Guardian took one of Ye Fan's punches, it exploded with a boom, turning into a mass of silver liquid and flying backward.

Eight.

Nine.

Ten!

Gradually, as the number of Silver Guardians increased,

it looked as though Ye Fan was being gang-beaten by the Silver Guardians.

Jin Lian, in the other passage, had long since finished the second trial.

Yet the alloy door leading to the third trial remained unopened.

This meant

Ye Fan was still attempting the second trial.

"No way, has he been tangled up with one Silver Guardian for so long without deciding a winner?"

"Hehe..."

A mocking curve rose at the corner of Jin Lian's delicate lips.

"Seventeen!"

"Eighteen!"

"Twenty!"

The few people before the Glazed Screen outside were utterly numb.

Even Bai Mufeng felt goosebumps rise all over his body.

Because when he had taken the trial back then, he had only defeated two Silver Guardians.

Thinking of how he had just been certain that Ye Fan's practical combat ability was weak and that he was a complete combat noob,

he now felt as if a slap had viciously struck his face, leaving it burning with pain.

"I surrender!"

Surrounded layer upon layer, coupled with the nonstop challenge, his fatigue soared in a straight line.

Finally, when Ye Fan was fighting twenty Silver Guardians of the same rank by himself, he chose to surrender.

"Twenty people... Hiss, I seem never to have heard of a martial artist taking the qualification test at our Star Martial Hall being able to fight as many as twenty Guardians!"

Wu Xie was so excited that he nearly forgot himself.

"Indeed. Even in Chaoge, Magic City, or the Martial Halls of Kunlun, I have never heard of such a thing!"

Hall Master Yin Shanyue said.

"Challenger, to help you recover quickly, the reward for the second trial—Recovery Spirit Liquid.

After consuming it, you can rapidly restore your strength and sweep away exhaustion."

Just after Ye Fan finished his battle with the Silver Guardians in the second trial, a voice rang out through the space.

Ye Fan did not know whether it was an illusion.

He only felt that the initially cold, mechanical voice now seemed much gentler.

Then, he saw a Silver Guardian carrying a test-tube-like container.

Inside it, green liquid rippled, as though it was brimming with life.

In this high-martial world, spiritual energy had revived.

The Human Race had set off a tide of evolution, and naturally countless heavenly treasures had appeared as well.

This Recovery Spirit Liquid should be one such treasure, or perhaps it had been refined from heavenly treasures.

But in the past, Ye Fan could only rely on his body to recover.

These things were extremely valuable. He simply could not afford them.

A single small tube of Recovery Spirit Liquid cost at least ten thousand Huaxia Coins.

"Gulp, gulp, gulp~~"

Since it was a reward, there was no reason not to take a freebie.

Ye Fan no longer hesitated. He took it directly and drank it all in one go.

Not a drop remained.

Ice-cold and refreshing, it chilled him to the core.

In an instant, his fatigue from earlier was swept away.

Even the hunger caused by not eating his fill that morning vanished in an instant.

"Awesome."

For the first time, Ye Fan experienced the exhilaration and charm of spending money.

Clack...

The alloy door leading to the third trial opened.

Ye Fan no longer hesitated and strode inside.

To be honest, the third trial was the one Ye Fan felt the least psychological pressure about.

After all, he held three Enlightenment Points in his hand.

He was not nervous in the slightest. In fact, he almost wanted to laugh.

"Heh... Ye Fan, you're really something, still struggling with one Silver Guardian until now."

It turned out that the third trial was a space resembling a large cultivation room.

On the racks lining both sides were all kinds of weapons—sabers, spears, swords, halberds, axes, polearms, hooks, forks, and more.

Ahead stood vast spaces resembling bookshelves.

They contained many Martial Arts and combat techniques.

Moreover, the separate, isolated trial passages from before had actually merged together in the third trial.

In other words, he and Jin Lian would undergo the aptitude assessment together in this space.

"One Silver Guardian? Heh... you look down on people with dog eyes."

Ye Fan sneered coldly.

"You... at most defeated two Silver Guardians, and you definitely surrendered."

Jin Lian was extremely angry that Ye Fan had insulted her.

The old Ye Fan had attended to her in every possible way and cared for her deeply.

"The third trial, aptitude assessment..."

A voice sounded from above the space.