First Place

The Martial Artist assessment was much stricter—and far more brutal—than the Martial Arts Apprentice assessment.

Because Martial Arts Apprentices were only preparatory-level martial artists, the country did not advocate using lethal methods for their assessments.

Martial Artists, however, were different.

Aside from the same Blood Qi Test as the Martial Arts Apprentices, the Combat Test—with its death quota—was a cruel assessment no one could afford to ignore.

The Combat Test was not a brawl between examinees. Each person had to kill a vicious beast at the Martial Artist Level.

Such an assessment had only three possible outcomes.

Either they killed the vicious beast, were unable to defeat it and were rescued by the examiner, or were eaten alive by the vicious beast.

The Martial Artist assessment did not set some empty title like first place.

Anyone who passed the assessment could become a Martial Artist.

Lin Shuguang was probably the youngest-looking person there, and that was only because he had deliberately dressed to look more mature.

Most of those who came to take the Martial Artist assessment were seasoned veterans who had seen blood. Naturally, no one meddled in other people's business for no reason.

Most of them sat silently in their own places. This scene was entirely different from the immature Martial Arts Apprentice assessment.

If the latter were flowers in a greenhouse, then the former were desperadoes who had witnessed blood running freely.

When the time came, the assessment began in a chilling atmosphere.

Lin Shuguang was facing a vicious beast at Bone Tempering.

The instant it was released from its cage, it was killed by a Saber Light of unparalleled ferocity.

Even the invigilators were stunned by this scene.

Several figures rushed to the vicious beast's corpse to examine it, thinking that something must have been wrong