The Spirit Stone Exploded...

"Next tester, Lin Yu!"

After spending a long time mentally bracing himself, the elder in charge of testing finally seemed to have returned to normal.

Heaven-tier talent!

Compared with Xiaobai, both Tang Yu and Ling Yiran, who had tested before her, paled into insignificance!

In this elder's eyes, the remaining trials were nothing more than a formality.

Heaven-tier talent was surely the ceiling of this sect recruitment assembly!

It might even remain the sole ceiling for tens of thousands of years to come!

The elder had already begun dreaming of Xiaobai leading everyone in the Qianyuan Sect into the Immortal Realm, and had lost all interest in the testing at hand.

"Hello?"

Lin Yu raised his hand and waved it in front of the elder's eyes, indicating that he still wanted to take the test.

"Sorry, sorry..." Only then did the elder snap out of his daze and hand the Qianyuan Spirit Stone to Lin Yu.

"Look, that's the young man who came with Miss Xiaobai!"

"Wow, I didn't look closely at his face earlier. Now that I do, he's actually pretty handsome!"

"What good is being handsome? Strength is what counts! I wonder who he is. Being able to travel with Miss Xiaobai is an enormous honor!"

Everyone in the crowd was filled with curiosity about Lin Yu's identity.

At the same time, their attitude toward Xiaobai had become incomparably reverent!

Many of those calling her "Miss Xiaobai" at every turn seemed to have completely forgotten that they had been mocking her name not long ago!

This was the supremacy of strength! This was reality!

The strong would be treated as honored guests wherever they went!

Meanwhile, Tang Yu, who had drawn so much attention earlier, was now completely ignored.

After all, this was a world where no one even remembered second place.

Tang Yu's talent grade had first been surpassed by Ling Yiran, then utterly crushed by Xiaobai.

In this sect recruitment assembly, he had already lost the right to anyone's attention!

"Damn it, how could things turn out like this!"

Tang Yu clenched his fists, his nails digging into the flesh of his palms, his face twisted with overwhelming fury!

According to his original plan, today should have brought him applause, flowers, beauties, and the eyes of the world!

Yet the situation had now spun completely out of his control!

"Those elders, Ling Yiran, Xiaobai, and this Lin Yu!"

"Once the sect recruitment assembly ends, not one of them is to be spared!"

"I want to see them alive or see their corpses! Try to capture them alive. I'll kill them myself and let them taste what it's like to have something precious taken away!"

Madness flashed in Tang Yu's eyes as he focused his voice into a thread, repeatedly issuing orders to the Tang Household elders outside the venue!

"No matter how strong you are or how great your talent, your cultivation is only at the Golden Core Stage!"

A cold sneer curled Tang Yu's lips. "Before a supreme expert at the Nascent Soul level, you won't have the slightest power to resist!"

"Once you're dead, I'll be the strongest person in this year's Qianyuan Sect intake!"

"All the brilliance and glory belong to me!"

Tang Yu screamed madly in his heart, his jealousy and fury reaching their peak at that moment!

Meanwhile, Lin Yu toyed with the testing Spirit Stone in his hand.

He did not immediately inject spiritual power into it.

The earlier cultivation test had only measured the strength of his cultivation, so Lin Yu could easily control his spiritual power to obtain the result he wanted.

But this talent test offered no standard for reference.

Just look at Xiaobai. Even after diluting her power so many times over, she had still produced a golden legendary result.

All of this was thanks to Yun Qian, that fellow with a full belly and nothing better to do.

He just had to come up with some talent test.

Lin Yu shook his head as he toyed with the Spirit Stone. In his previous life, that fellow Yun Qian had screwed him over plenty.

Never mind all the flags he had planted in the Qianyuan Sect.

Later, even after ascending to the Immortal Realm, he had actually run into that damned troll Yun Qian again!

Lin Yu still remembered how, when they met in the Immortal Realm, that damned troll Yun Qian had heard about all the ways he had been screwed over, then laughed heartily and told him:

"Fate-wondrous beyond words!"

The corners of Lin Yu's lips lifted slightly as he thought.

In this life, the first thing he would do upon reaching the Immortal Realm would definitely be to give Yun Qian a beating.

Poor Yun Qian had no idea that, in the blink of an eye, his fate had already been neatly arranged.

"Look, why does that kid seem to have suddenly frozen up? Is he afraid to take the test?"

"Did Sister Xiaobai's result scare him stupid?"

"Sigh, it really is hard on him. Anyone would feel enormous pressure standing beside someone as outstanding as Sister Xiaobai..."

"Yeah, but surely that wouldn't make him too afraid even to take the test... Even yellow-grade talent would at least let him pass!"

Only a few minutes had passed, yet Xiaobai's form of address had been upgraded again, transforming from Miss Xiaobai into Sister Xiaobai!

Sure enough, people were fickle!

Now, seeing Lin Yu holding the Qianyuan Spirit Stone without any response for so long, the watching crowd erupted once more.

Could this mysterious man accompanying Xiaobai be nothing but a good-looking, useless piece of trash?

At this sight, Tang Yu, who had been watching coldly from the sidelines, also revealed a sneer.

It seemed this man was just trash.

When he dealt with Xiaobai later, he could simply deal with him as well.

"Trial participant Lin Yu, please pour your purest spiritual power into the Qianyuan Spirit Stone as soon as possible!"

"If you still refuse, your talent will default to white human-grade, and you will be eliminated!"

The testing elder's urging voice rang out. He sounded as though he could hardly wait to clock out.

"I'll just dilute it ten million times."

Urged on by the testing elder, Lin Yu could not be bothered to think any further and casually poured a stream of spiritual power into the Qianyuan Spirit Stone.

One second,

Two seconds,

Three seconds...

The Qianyuan Spirit Stone seemed completely unchanged.

All the disciples froze at this sight!

Could this really be all Lin Yu amounted to?

With strength like that, he did not deserve to stand beside Xiaobai!

"Lin Yu, talent grade: human-grade. Elimi-holy shit, what's going on!"

Seeing that the Qianyuan Spirit Stone remained white, the testing elder was about to announce Lin Yu's elimination.

However, before he could finish saying "eliminated," the Qianyuan Spirit Stone's color changed at that very instant!

White, yellow, black, red.

Gold!

In just a few short seconds, the Qianyuan Spirit Stone's color actually made five shocking consecutive jumps!

The golden color Xiaobai had taken several minutes to reach had taken Lin Yu only five seconds!

Everyone present had turned completely to stone, standing there dumbstruck.

Silence reigned, without so much as a crow's cry or a sparrow's chirp!

Many rubbed their eyes, repeatedly checking whether their vision was playing tricks on them.

Others pinched the people beside them, listened to their cries of pain, then asked with bewildered faces, "I'm not dreaming?"

Even Yun Tianci, who knew the inside story, wore a look of utter shock!

He still remembered a line recorded in the Qianyuan Sect's ancient texts:

"Only those who make the Qianyuan Spirit Stone turn gold within thirty seconds possess the makings of an Immortal!"

These words, too, had been left by Yun Qian, the Qianyuan Sect's founding sect master!

"The makings of an Immortal..."

Yun Tianci looked at the young man before him, an unusual gleam flashing through his eyes.

Perhaps this was the opportunity for their Qianyuan Sect to truly soar above the nine heavens!

Yet the shocking spectacle was not over!

Even after the Qianyuan Spirit Stone turned gold, its golden light still showed no sign of ceasing to grow!

The golden light grew ever stronger, shining so brightly that the crowd could barely open their eyes!

"Bang!"

Under everyone's utterly stunned gazes, the Qianyuan Spirit Stone, filled with golden light, seemed finally unable to withstand the power of that spiritual power and exploded with a thunderous blast before their very eyes!

Everyone was shocked, and deathly silence fell!