Just as Li Yan stepped out of the cave, quite a few streaks of multicolored light were already rising into the air on both sides of him and ahead of him.
A month earlier, Li Yan had already sensed people constantly coming and going from the other caves on this mountain peak, their auras varying in strength.
Though Li Yan had not investigated closely, he knew that new cultivators had arrived. The day of the examination was drawing near...
After leaving the cave, Li Yan did not delay for even a moment. He immediately flew upward, toward the place where the lights were converging.
At the same time, his Divine Sense detected more than two hundred extremely weak auras on the ground below, some belonging to people with no spiritual energy circulating through them at all.
A large crowd of them stood on the ground, every face filled with envy as they looked up at the streaks of light crisscrossing the sky.
Above the mountain peak stood five cultivators dressed in white. Embroidered on the chests of their white robes was a small golden gourd floating above an auspicious cloud.
Their attire was the same as that of the Inner Valley disciple Li Yan had seen four months ago. This was likely the sect uniform of Yellow Qi Valley.
The five had differing cultivation levels. Only one was in the Void Refinement Realm, one was in the Spirit Transformation Realm, and the remaining three were all in the Nascent Soul Realm.
They stood in a line, coldly watching the cultivators flying into the sky.
Everyone had received the news at the same time, so they naturally emerged at roughly the same moment as well.
By the time Li Yan appeared, quite a few people had already gathered in the air.