"Chen Xuan." The gray-bearded elder's voice came from the dais, his tone more solemn than before. "You have resonated with the Nine-Order Projections of both the Matter Dao and the Time Dao to a depth beyond all ordinary expectations. Under Exquisite Heaven's special recruitment provisions, you may skip the second and third rounds of assessment and become an Inner Disciple of Exquisite Heaven directly."
An uproar swept through the Martial Arts Arena.
Among the tens of thousands of cultivators taking the assessment, some looked indignant and others grumbled under their breath, but most merely watched Chen Xuan in silence, complicated emotions in their eyes.
They had all witnessed what had just happened. His Dao shadow had drawn two Nine-Order Dao projections toward it of their own accord. Resonance of such intensity was indeed beyond the scope of an ordinary assessment.
Such powerful resonance met Exquisite Heaven's special recruitment criteria.
For a Heaven-One Faction like Exquisite Heaven, the primary purpose of recruiting disciples was to find talented individuals capable of cultivating the Nine-Order Dao.
After all, becoming an immortal required proving one's Dao through strength.
That meant cultivating the Nine-Order Dao, then merging one's own Dao into a nine-order source seal to transform it into a Ten-Sequence Source Seal. Only then could one become an immortal.
There were only nine Dao orders governing the universe.
These nine were matter, creation, annihilation, space, time, karma, life and death, reincarnation, and destiny.
This was one of the Dao laws that had existed since the universe's birth.
When cultivators spoke of embedding their Dao into the universe, they meant first condensing a nine-order origin seal, then merging their self-created Dao into it to form a ten-order origin seal.
Thus, every Sovereign who proved his Dao through strength possessed a different ten-order origin seal, and