"The first of the four basic trials begins now. Everyone, line up and proceed in order. No crowding!"
"Those who pass, take your number tokens to the second trial!"
"Those who fail, leave immediately!"
Inside the City Lord's Manor, a long queue had formed before an enormous hall.
Each row held a hundred people!
The densely packed crowd stretched all the way to the manor gates, and even out onto the street.
He Pingsheng and his fellow disciples had arrived fairly early, and with Chu Sheng pulling strings for them, they stood relatively near the front, somewhere around the tenth to twentieth rows.
Heads bobbed in the crowd, and conversations buzzed everywhere.
No one knew what this first trial would test.
They would only find out after entering the hall.
"First and second rows, enter the hall!"
"Third and fourth rows, get ready!"
Before long, the competition began!
Rows of cultivators entered the hall, and roughly seventy percent of them were eliminated.
Once eliminated, they could leave directly.
The Immortals who passed the first trial followed the attendants here to the next one!
The testing proceeded very quickly. After about the time it took two incense sticks to burn, He Pingsheng's turn came.
"You two rows, come inside!"
A woman led the two rows containing He Pingsheng, two hundred people in all, into the hall!
After entering, He Pingsheng saw a black stone stele standing in the middle of the hall.
Several dozen meditation cushions had been placed around it, more than ten zhang away.
Farther behind the stele stood a tall jade lotus dais.
A woman sat upon it. She was none other than Deputy City Lord Linglong.
In front of Linglong were another seven or eight Earth Immortals from the City Lord's Manor, overseeing the competition here.
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