The Ganwu Dojo was extremely efficient.
In less than half a year, Lu Qingshan received an email from Mo Li through the Virtual Universe-the examiner from headquarters had arrived.
Lu Qingshan came to the Ganwu Dojo again. This time, he did not linger at the entrance, but walked straight across the vast training ground where tens of thousands of Stellar Level and Planetary Level students cultivated, and entered the administration building.
"Brother Qingshan, this is the examiner sent by headquarters, Lord Mitchell."
Inside the office, Mo Li made the introduction warmly.
Lu Qingshan noticed an additional person in the office: a burly man nearly three meters tall, with bronze-colored skin. Three golden leaves gleamed on the chest of his purple robe.
This was a powerful Three-Leaf Ganwu Practitioner, a World Lord Level existence!
"My respects, my lord." Lu Qingshan bowed respectfully. Faced with a powerful World Lord, he was humble.
No one would willingly offend such a powerhouse lightly, especially when the man was clearly no ordinary World Lord.
The faint purple light flickering between his brows was proof that he had gained the recognition of the Law of Lightning.
"You're Lu Qingshan? You were a Giant Axe Warrior at the Universe Level? Not bad." Mitchell nodded slightly, his tone flat.
The title of Giant Axe Warrior carried weight only in elementary Universe Countries. In a World Lord's eyes, it was merely average.
"I see you only recently broke through to Domain Lord. Why are you in such a hurry to take the assessment? Didn't Mo Li and the others tell you it's difficult to pass below Domain Lord stage five?"
"Mo Li explained the details. I insisted on trying," Lu Qingshan explained.
"In that case, let's begin the assessment. It will take place in the Virtual Universe. Just get ready." Mitchell asked no further questions.
"My lord, I'm ready. We can begin at any time."
Mitchell merely nodded. Then Nasus, his intelligent assistant, notified Lu Qingshan that he had been granted access to the assessment space.
The next moment, he connected to the Virtual Universe.
"This is..." Lu Qingshan looked around and found himself on a desolate, deathly silent planet. Opposite him stood a young man with the appearance of a dragon-man.
"My name is Sailisi. The rules are simple: break through my blockade and escape this planet, and you pass."
The cold voice came from the member of the Dragon-Man Race opposite him.
Mitchell, the examiner, stood outside the planet, looking down over the battlefield like a deity. Not a single detail escaped his sight.
I don't have to defeat my opponent?
Lu Qingshan's heart tightened. The simpler the conditions, the stronger the opponent often was.
"Begin!"
As Mitchell's voice rang out, Lu Qingshan shot off the ground without hesitation, charging straight toward outer space!
Since he only needed to escape the planet, why clash head-on with someone whose capabilities he knew nothing about?
"Trying to leave? Dream on!"
Sailisi barked coldly.
Whoosh!
A vast curtain of water appeared out of thin air. Fierce winds whipped up towering waves, instantly blocking every one of Lu Qingshan's escape routes.
"Break!" Lu Qingshan roared. Thunderlight, the Level 4 Origin Force saber in his hand, erupted with dazzling light. A surging blade ray tore through the sky and cleaved savagely toward the water curtain.
Riiip!
A huge opening was forcibly slashed through the water curtain.
Not good!
Just as Lu Qingshan was about to charge through, the split water curtain transformed into two ferocious flood dragons.
Bearing surging, tremendous force, the flood dragons came at him from left and right to swallow him. Their might was so fierce that once they entangled him, breaking free would be extremely difficult.
Lu Qingshan hastily retreated several hundred meters, unleashing his fused domain at full power in an instant.
The powers of his light and lightning domains intertwined into a barrier, forcibly holding the two water flood dragons outside his domain.
Yet the fused domain, which could strangle an ordinary Level 5 Domain Lord to death, could not harm the water flood dragons in the slightest!
The domain's light barrier trembled violently as the water flood dragons frantically wore away its energy. It clearly would not hold much longer.
Since when did water laws become this destructive? Just how deeply has this man comprehended the laws? The difficulty of this assessment... Lu Qingshan very much wanted to ask Mitchell whether this was what he meant by something a Level 5 Domain Lord could pass.
Boom!
In the instant Lu Qingshan was distracted, a breach was smashed through his domain. With unstoppable momentum, the two water flood dragons slammed viciously into the ground where he had just been standing.
The earth shook violently. A crater several hundred kilometers across was blasted into the planet's solid surface. Had this not been the Virtual Universe, the planet would long since have turned to cosmic dust.
Taking advantage of the moment when the vicious flood dragons struck the ground, Lu Qingshan decisively pushed his speed to its utmost and shot skyward again.
This time, he held nothing back, pushing the speed of his ninth-level Light Domain to its limit.
The flood dragons on the ground coalesced again and swiftly chased after him from behind. In the sky, the water curtain abruptly exploded, transforming into countless tiny water snakes, densely packed and endless.
"Slash!"
Facing the sky full of water snakes formed by the exploding water curtain ahead, Lu Qingshan held nothing back. His Thunderlight saber became a world-shaking bolt of lightning.
The seventh move of Nine Thunder Blades.
Severing Space!!!!
Hiss, hiss, hiss.
Wherever the blade ray passed, countless snakes were annihilated. The raging power of lightning forcibly cleaved a passage through the impenetrable net of water snakes.
Lu Qingshan became a streak of flowing light and shot through it without hesitation.
A moment later, all the clamor behind him fell silent.
Lu Qingshan hovered outside the planet, but there was little joy on his face.
He looked down. Sailisi's figure was slowly dissipating on the planet. From beginning to end, his opponent had not moved a single step. Yet aside from his trump card, the Star-Eating Grass, Lu Qingshan had almost exhausted everything he had.
This guy...
"Lu Qingshan, you've passed the assessment. You may leave." Mitchell's voice sounded beside his ear.
"Yes." Lu Qingshan acknowledged him and exited the Virtual Universe.
The instant his figure vanished, a voice echoed through the assessment space. "Mitchell, why did you raise the assessment's difficulty without authorization?"
"No particular reason. Just satisfying my curiosity," Mitchell replied indifferently, his figure dissipating as well.
The office of the Ganwu Dojo on Qiu Long Star.
Mitchell confirmed once again.
"Lu Qingshan, are you willing to join the Ganwu Dojo and become a Two-Leaf Ganwu Practitioner?"
"My lord, I am willing," Lu Qingshan answered solemnly.
Beside him, Mo Li, Qianxue, and the others were so shocked they could not speak.
They had never imagined that Lu Qingshan would actually pass the assessment, let alone so quickly! Could it be... that the dojo had lowered the difficulty of its assessment standards without their knowledge?
Mitchell nodded. "Good. Since you have no objections, sign the contract. A Two-Leaf Ganwu Practitioner's contract is signed once every ten thousand years. But rest assured, Ganwu Practitioners are different from students of the Ganwu Mystic Region. They enjoy considerable freedom and usually won't be forcibly dispatched on dangerous missions."
"Understood." Since Lu Qingshan intended to join the Ganwu Dojo, he had naturally looked into this beforehand.
He quickly read through the contract's terms, confirmed that everything was correct, then signed his name and left an Origin Force imprint.
He also entered his Universe Galaxy Bank account number in the salary account field.
Becoming a Two-Leaf Ganwu Practitioner came with generous benefits: a fixed annual salary of ten billion Ganwu Coins.
To obtain more wealth or rare resources, he would need to take on point-earning missions after fulfilling his basic duties. Points could be exchanged for precious treasures and immortal secret manuals.
If he wanted to improve his strength, becoming a Ganwu Practitioner was only the first step. He would still need to work desperately to earn points.
Of course, if he only sought a carefree, comfortable life, ten billion Ganwu Coins a year would be enough for a Domain Lord to live quite lavishly in the Ganwu Universe Country.
(End of chapter)