"Bang..."
"Bang, bang..."
Xi Qingsheng brought her delicate fists down hard three times.
A ray of light immediately emerged on the golden membrane, which was about ten feet across, and a number appeared at the same time: sixty-one.
It meant Xi Qingsheng had passed.
The person administering the test had just said that fifty points was enough to pass!
"Congratulations, Martial Aunt Xi..." He Pingsheng cupped his hands toward Xi Qingsheng.
Looking delighted, Xi Qingsheng said, "Congratulations to you, too. I never imagined you were this strong!"
As she spoke, a trace of disbelief showed on Xi Qingsheng's face.
From the very beginning, she had never paid attention to He Pingsheng, yet she had never expected this fellow at the ninth layer of the human immortal stage, ranked tenth in the sect, to make it through all three rounds.
And his high score of seventy-eight in the third round had truly shocked her.
He Pingsheng chuckled and said, "That's no surprise. I'm a body-refining cultivator, so I have boundless strength and formidable defenses. That's why I performed a little better in the second and third rounds. There's nothing strange about it!"
"So that's it!" Xi Qingsheng said. "I'd heard you were a body-refining cultivator, but I still had my doubts. I never expected it to actually be true!"
"But the final round tests speed. Generally, body-refining cultivators aren't very fast. How about you? Have you prepared?"
"I have!" He Pingsheng nodded and said, "Though I'm not fast, I'm proficient in an immortal technique that can increase my speed. Once I use it, I can reach several times my usual speed. As long as I have enough immortal essence in my body, I should be able to pass!"
Xi Qingsheng immediately saw He Pingsheng in a new light. "You know quite