Targeting

Su Hao and the others squeezed through the crowd and looked toward the raised platform ahead. Several elderly men sat upon it, while beneath them stood several disciples participating in the selection.

"Su Hao."

A delighted voice rang out. Luo Tianying approached and said, "You really came. I wonder which Immortal Sect you want to join. There are four places recruiting this time, all of them first-tier Immortal Sects."

"Blazing Fire Immortal Sect excels in fire-element techniques."

"White Jade Immortal Gate excels in qi cultivation methods."

"One Sword Immortal Sect excels in sword techniques. Moreover, among the four great first-tier Immortal Sects, One Sword Immortal Sect is the most powerful and has a chance to advance into a second-tier Immortal Sect."

"The last is called Ten Thousand Flowers Valley, but Ten Thousand Flowers Valley rarely accepts male disciples. That is a place for beauties."

"With your talent, you can definitely enter an Immortal Sect. Why not join One Sword Immortal Sect with me? I've already passed the selection."

Luo Tianying introduced them in an unending stream.

"No second-tier Immortal Sect is recruiting disciples?" Su Hao frowned.

"Your ambitions really aren't small. Second-tier Immortal Sects have incredibly harsh requirements for taking disciples. None of us would dare try." Luo Tianying looked at Su Hao in surprise.

"Wouldn't dare try?" Su Hao keenly seized upon those words. "You mean there's a chance to take the selection for a second-tier Immortal Sect?"

"Are you really the head of a clan? You don't know such things?" Luo Tianying looked at him as though he were an alien. "Whether it's a first-tier or second-tier Immortal Sect, you can go to its mountain gate for testing. As long as you withstand their trials, you can enter directly."

"That's good, then."

Su Hao smiled. He could simply give up on this disciple selection.

However, just as he was about to leave, a pair of venomous eyes fixed upon him. It was Su Wuyong.

He walked behind one of the elders on the platform and whispered a few words into his ear.

"Oh?" The elder in crimson robes slightly raised his head and swept a cold glance over Su Hao. He nodded and said, "Very well. I understand."

After saying that, he rose to his feet. "Anyone else who wishes to be tested, come up at once. But if you haven't reached a third-grade spiritual root, you'd best not come here and make a fool of yourselves."

"Besides that, the one called Su Hao, get the hell out at once. The Immortal Gate does not want such a vicious person."

Su Hao.

At the Immortal Gate elder's words, many people frowned and immediately began searching for Su Hao. In the end, all their gazes converged upon him.

"Damn it, he wants to cut off your opportunity." Grand Elder Su Jingshan gritted his teeth.

"How exactly did you offend that elder?" Luo Tianying was also stunned.

"Why aren't you getting out?" The crimson-robed elder stared straight at Su Hao. "I'll give you three breaths to vanish from here. Otherwise, this old man will take your life!"

He was domineering and arrogant, his hands clasped behind his back like a heavenly king clad in armor, looking down upon Su Hao from above.

"This place is not solely for Blazing Fire Immortal Sect to recruit disciples. I, Su Hao, did not come here to Blazing Fire Immortal Sect's territory either. Why should I get out just because you say so?"

Su Hao asked calmly.

"Because none of us have any interest in you."

Another elder rose. He wore white robes, with white hair and the ruddy complexion of youth. He looked quite impressive, like an old immortal, but his voice was icy cold.

"Since Brother Zhang has spoken, naturally we have no interest in you either. Besides, in my view, your aptitude is nothing but trash." The third person spoke. He came from One Sword Immortal Sect. Though the iron sword on his back remained sheathed, its cold gleam was already exposed.

"Elder, Su Hao, he—" Luo Tianying immediately spoke up.

"Do not speak rashly. You are a disciple of the Luo Family, so I am showing respect to your elders. But I will not tolerate you acting recklessly here. Stand down." The elder with the iron sword rebuked him.

Luo Tianying gritted his teeth and looked at Su Hao with some difficulty.

The three great elders on the platform had already spoken. As for the final middle-aged woman, she merely sat with her eyes closed in quiet repose. Ten Thousand Flowers Valley did not accept male disciples, so there was no need for her to involve herself in this matter.

As the elders spoke, the people around them immediately began whispering among themselves. Some looked at Su Hao with deep contempt and scorn.

In their hearts, Immortal Sect elders were supreme figures. Whatever they did had to be right.

If several elders rejected Su Hao at once, then Su Hao must be guilty of monstrous crimes.

"Get out! If the Immortal Sect elders are targeting someone like you, you must be an evil man."

"Hmph, who knows what outrageous, heaven-incensing deed he committed."

"Once an Immortal Sect elder is angered, one finger is enough to crush you to death."

Some could not help but speak out directly.

Grand Elder Su Jingshan's expression changed drastically. Gritting his teeth, he said, "Clan Head, let's go. These people are colluding with one another. There is no place for us here."

Lin Yaoyao clenched his fists, his eyes bloodshot. In his heart, anyone targeting Su Hao was unforgivable. With just one word from Su Hao, even if it meant death, he would charge forward at once and fight for his life.

Yet Su Hao remained calm. He swept a glance over those people and said, "I never intended to join a first-tier Immortal Sect anyway. I'll take my leave."

He would remember this debt.

"Stop!"

But just as he turned around, a cold shout rang out again. "You don't understand what I meant. I told you to roll. Roll your way out of here."

It was that crimson-robed elder.

"Hahaha, Su Hao, my master told you to roll. Can't you understand? Careful, or he'll slap you to death."

"You ungrateful wretch. I gave you a chance, yet you refused to cherish it."

"When an elder of an immortal sect speaks, his words are golden rules and jade laws. Whatever I tell you to do, you will do it."

Su Wuyong and the others pointed at Su Hao's nose and coldly berated him.

Su Hao's gaze gradually turned icy as he stared straight at the Blazing Fire Sect elder. "Aren't you going a little too far?"

"Are you courting death?" Elder Zhang's expression darkened. To him, Su Hao's calm retort was already an enormous offense. In his eyes, once he had spoken, Su Hao should immediately obey—even if he told Su Hao to eat shit, he had to comply.

"Old bastard!" Lin Yaoyao could no longer endure it. He abruptly stepped forward and said, "My Brother Hao never provoked you, yet you won't let him enter the immortal sect. Fine, forget that. He's been more than polite to you, but you still keep targeting him. I've long found you unbearable."

"Impudence!"

Elder Zhang flew into a rage, his expression incomparably grim. As an elder of an immortal sect, who in the mortal world dared act so insolently before him?

Yet today, Lin Yaoyao had actually dared to talk back. His heart blazed with towering fury. With a fierce sweep of his sleeve, a stream of blazing flame shot forward, transforming into a tiger's head that savagely lunged at Lin Yaoyao and Su Hao. The surrounding temperature instantly surged.

Everyone nearby immediately retreated in explosive haste, unable to withstand that terrifying heat.

Su Hao and Lin Yaoyao's expressions changed as well. They immediately circulated their magical power, turning it into howling gales that swept forward, but they could not stop it at all—the other party's magical power was far too profound.

"Seventh level of Qi Condensation!" The Supreme Elder's expression changed drastically. Disregarding everything, he unleashed the magical power of the sixth level of Qi Condensation, transforming it into frost that sealed the area.

The three of them joined forces and destroyed the tiger's head, but all three were forced back repeatedly, their blood and qi churning.

Su Hao flew into a rage and shouted, "You old stick! Don't mistake courtesy for weakness!"...