At the foot of the great mountain on which Mountain-Slaying City stood.
An open space on the mountain's western side teemed with people and bustled with activity.
A group of City Guards in gleaming armor, their presence imposing, surrounded an area and kept the surrounding crowds outside.
In the center, several hundred, nearly a thousand martial artists had gathered, seemingly waiting for something.
At that moment, Gu Chenfeng stood among those thousand martial artists, dressed in a black martial outfit, a Silver Mask covering his face, with two short spear sections strapped to his back.
Like him, these people were martial artists who had come from all across the Chaos Star Domain and earned the right to take Mountain-Slaying City's assessment.
Gu Chenfeng's attire seemed somewhat unusual, but among this crowd, he did not stand out at all.
For the martial artists taking the assessment wore all manner of different clothing, including every kind of outlandish outfit.
Moreover, besides Human Race and Demon Race martial artists, there were quite a few Foreign-Race Martial Artists.
One example was a Shell Armor Race martial artist covered in a carapace, with bone spurs growing from the joints and eerie green eyes.
There was also a member of the Stone Human Race nearly three meters tall, with skin like gray-white granite and a faint lava glow seeping through the cracks in the body.
There was even a Tree Human Race martial artist with a trunk like intertwined vines and luxuriant branches and leaves growing from the crown of the head.
As the sight broadened Gu Chenfeng's horizons, he secretly probed their strength with his divine sense.
Almost everyone taking the assessment was a ranked martial artist, with third-rate martial artists making up the majority.
There were also quite a few second-rate martial artists,