Before Lin Feng stood a full hundred Sea of Reincarnation Realm spirit beasts.
Their roars and furious howls rolled over like waves of pressure, shaking the void. That aura was enough to make one suffocate.
"A hundred spirit beasts? It looks like they're all at the First Stage of the Sea of Reincarnation Realm."
Lin Feng was slightly excited.
First Stage of the Sea of Reincarnation Realm!
If it had been a single First Stage Sea of Reincarnation Realm beast, it would have been nothing much. But there were a full hundred here.
This was the best opportunity for Lin Feng to test his own strength.
Could these hundred First Stage Sea of Reincarnation Realm spirit beasts withstand a single strike from his sword?
Lin Feng strode forward steadily, while the roars of those spirit beasts grew louder and louder.
With such a formation, not to mention First Stage Sea of Reincarnation Realm cultivators—even those at the second or third stage would show fear and deliberate for a long while before making a move.
Yet Lin Feng was fearless. Without hesitation, he launched a brazen attack.
Heaven-Severing Sword Shadow!
At the same time, he unleashed the Three-Layer Sword Intent with all his strength.
The Heaven-Severing Sword Shadow, once cultivated to great mastery, was already terrifying beyond measure, absolutely among the finest of ninth-rank martial arts.
With the enhancement of the Three-Layer Sword Intent—
The terrifying energy of hundreds of sword shadows immediately swept toward the hundred Sea of Reincarnation Realm spirit beasts with the might of world destruction!
Boom!
At that moment, the roars vanished, and space itself seemed to fall into silent extinction.
More than a hundred First Stage Sea of Reincarnation Realm spirit beasts were ravaged by the wild and violent Heaven-Severing Sword Shadows until not a single one remained!
Not merely not a single one.
Not even one intact body remained among the spirit beasts! They had all turned into fragments, drifting through the space!
After all, these spirit beasts had been formed from a Spirit Formation. If they had been real ferocious beasts, it was unimaginable what the scene would have looked like. Surely, blood would have rained from the heavens, and the stench of gore would have filled the air.
"It's over?"
"They couldn't withstand a single blow!"
Lin Feng was slightly taken aback.
Were First Stage Sea of Reincarnation Realm spirit beasts really this weak?
It seemed he had barely made a move before directly slaughtering every last one of them.
One had to know, this was only his third move.
He had yet to use the fourth move he had deduced, Yellow Springs Phantom Slaughter.
And judging from the battle just now—
Not to mention a hundred First Stage Sea of Reincarnation Realm spirit beasts, even if there had been two hundred or three hundred—
The result would still not have changed!
They would still have been instantly slain!
A sharp gleam flashed in Lin Feng's eyes!
"This Spirit Formation... no longer poses any challenge to me."
"I wonder how strong the gifted descendants of those three so-called inner sect elders are? Can they withstand a single strike from my sword?"
With those thoughts in mind, Lin Feng continued forward!
Meanwhile, outside the formation—
Elder Zhu and the Cultivation Arts Pavilion elder, two great figures, watched from above. Their Venerable Realm pressure overshadowed all beneath them, leaving everyone afraid even to breathe loudly or discuss the matter aloud. They could only watch with incomparable excitement.
Among the onlookers were quite a few imperial nobles and heads of aristocratic families from around the Limitless Sacred Land.
They were tyrants in their own territories, yet upon arriving at the Limitless Sacred Land, they were no different from ordinary people.
At that moment, dozens of people suddenly fell out from the vast and ethereal Spirit Formation.
Many had purple faces, blood staining the corners of their mouths, as if they had been injured.
"Why did they come out first?"
"They seem to be injured too!"
The people around them were baffled as they stared blankly.
Elder Zhu, above them, said calmly, "They died once in the Spirit Formation. The spirit beasts killed them so thoroughly that both body and soul were destroyed, which is why they came out early."
Hearing this, everyone around them understood.
Before long, more disciples were kicked out one after another. They looked exceedingly miserable; many even had torn clothing, as though they had just experienced a life-and-death battle.
Some emerged with dazed expressions, and no one knew whether their minds had been overly drained.
As more and more people came out—
The surrounding crowd could only shake their heads and sigh.
For many of those who emerged were descendants of imperial nobles and aristocratic families.
These people did not have poor talent either!
Every one of them was at the Seventh Layer of the Blood-Quenching Realm or above, and they carried trump cards prepared by their imperial clans or families.
Yet they still came out in such a miserable state!
"After so long, has not even one person cleared the fifth stage?" Elder Zhu's gaze turned cold. Somewhat dissatisfied, he felt this batch of disciples was far too weak.
The Spirit Formation had ten stages in total. Clearing five stages merely counted as barely passing.
Clearing seven stages counted as elite, while clearing nine stages meant absolute excellence. Entering the inner sect would be as certain as a nail driven into a board, and one might even qualify to contend for the position of core disciple!
Among the disciples who had been killed and expelled early, not a single one had cleared the fifth stage!
The Cultivation Arts Pavilion elder's eyes held interest. Lin Feng had yet to emerge; what stage had he reached?
Among the million Registered Disciples, more and more people came out in batch after batch. Many had fallen within the first five stages.
Such strength kept Elder Zhu frowning. He finally said, "Those who have not cleared the fifth stage have failed outright. There is no need for them to participate in the next round of assessment."
Everyone who heard this underwent a drastic change in expression. Their faces turned pale, or filled with unwillingness.
But no one dared voice an objection.
The one who had spoken was a Venerable Realm expert of the Limitless Sacred Land! Would defying the words of such a peerless figure not be courting death?
Batch after batch of disciples left in dejection.
Just then—
Boom!
Lin Feng emerged from the Spirit Formation. His expression was calm, and there was not the slightest trace of battle upon him. Though he was plainly dressed, his bearing was outstanding, truly extraordinary!
Seeing him, the Cultivation Arts Pavilion elder froze slightly.
He had come out at this point?
Then Lin Feng's performance in the trial apparently had not been much to speak of!
After all, if he had reached the tenth stage, he would surely have spent quite a bit of time.
To emerge in such a short time, Lin Feng had likely only cleared around six or seven stages.
The Cultivation Arts Pavilion elder shook his head inwardly. As expected, he had held his expectations too high. This person did have talent, but who within the Limitless Sacred Land was not a genius? The geniuses of the Sacred Land were all one in ten thousand, so someone like Lin Feng was not particularly remarkable!
Yet Elder Zhu, standing beside him, suddenly stiffened!
He stared at Lin Feng, uncertainty and astonishment flickering in his eyes!
"Hm? He, he... Why don't I recognize this boy?" Elder Zhu's words startled the Cultivation Arts Pavilion elder.
"Elder Zhu, what is it? Is there something wrong with him?" the Cultivation Arts Pavilion elder asked.
Elder Zhu took a deep breath. "This boy cleared the tenth stage! What a surprise. I thought only those three boys could accomplish that at the tenth stage, but an unexpected person has appeared! Is he an ordinary Registered Disciple? I never imagined he could clear the tenth stage as well! I simply don't know what method he used!"
"Did he directly sweep aside the spirit beasts, or did he exploit a loophole and clear the trial early by avoiding battle?"
This was extremely important.
If he had swept through the spirit beasts within the stages, it meant his combat strength against opponents of the same realm had reached a terrifying level.
In previous disciple assessments, some people had relied on extreme movement techniques and clever tactics to clear all ten stages, but they had killed very few spirit beasts.
Elder Zhu did not think highly of such opportunistic methods.
Thus, there was another set of assessment data.
That was the total number of spirit beasts killed!
At the side, the Cultivation Arts Pavilion elder's expression immediately changed upon learning that Lin Feng had actually cleared all ten stages!
The tenth stage! This boy had actually done it?!
And his speed was clearly faster than that of Chen Yunjing and the other two geniuses!
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