The wind blew, and the snow fell in the distance.
In his dreams, he did not know how old he was. In the hazy world of mortals, who would ascend the heights?
The night was vast, and smoke rose in spirals.
What was not true and what was false was a bridge. How many cycles of reincarnation were there?
Su Ming left. He did not care about whether the city behind him had disappeared. The old man's words still lingered in his mind, but they could not taint his heart. His Dao and his determination would continue down his path.
Seven Moons Sect was Su Ming's first goal. He wanted to enter the sect and seize back the will that belonged to him. Even though the red-robed man in the part of the sect that Su Ming had noticed was much stronger than him and was a true powerful warrior in Dao Spirit Realm, he could not stop Su Ming's footsteps.
He went through seasons and years. On a rainy day that never stopped, Su Ming stared at the vast sky in the distance. He saw mountains surrounding it and the huge stone monument that pierced the clouds.
Seven Moons Sect, Sky Beyond the Sky!
Su Ming stared at the stone monument quietly, then sat down on the crown of a tree in a forest located some distance away from the mountain. Rain poured down, and lightning howled in the night sky. Su Ming closed his eyes.
He was not in a hurry. He wanted to wait for a chance to step into the sect.
That chance finally appeared after Su Ming waited for a month. It was still raining. At noon, eight long arcs charged past Seven Moons Sect's mountain gate. They belonged to eight Seven Moons Sect disciples.
The person in the lead was an old man, and behind him were seven men and women. In a flash, they charged into the distance from the forest where Su Ming was.
Su Ming opened his eyes. When he looked over, his gaze landed on the old man. His level of cultivation was equivalent to that of the Sublime Paragons of Harmonious Morus Alba Expanse Cosmos, and he was rather outstanding. There was a girl behind him. She was beautiful, but there was a hint of coldness and arrogance in her eyes. Occasionally, she would turn her head around to look at the boy behind her in disdain.
The boy's face was pale, and his eyes were tightly shut. They might seem to be eight people, but in truth, the boy was like a puppet. He was controlled by a string of bells in the girl's hand.
The others weren't very old either, but they all had nervous expressions. Occasionally, they would look at the old man at the very front as they silently advanced.
Su Ming did not pay too much attention to the boys and girls. Once he swept his gaze past the old man, he stood up from the tree crown. Just as he was about to follow the old man, a glint suddenly appeared in his eyes, and he looked in the direction of Seven Moons Sect. There were dozens of long arcs charging in the direction where the old man had gone. Further into the distance were nearly one thousand long arcs.
In fact, there were nearly ten thousand long arcs charging over at the same time from further away. A thought appeared in Su Ming's mind. When he looked over, he saw that these long arcs had formed a single entity. Within each of them was a senior leading several youths. There were seven to eight people at the least, and there were dozens of them at the most.
One by one, they sped off into the distance. Most of them looked nervous, but a few of them looked calm.
As for these teenagers, most of them were in Heaven Cultivation Realm and had yet to reach World Plane Realm.
Su Ming fell into a moment of pensive silence before he took a step forward and followed behind the crowd. When dusk arrived, the ten thousand figures stopped at the edge of an canyon.
"The annual competition of seven moons has arrived again. Most of you have been in the sect for more than ten years. In the past, you only saw other people go through the Disaster of Seven Moons. Today, it's your turn.
"All disciples, enter the canyon. There are three thousand spirit plates inside, and there are nine thousand of you. Only those who obtain the spirit plates will have the right to become inner cultivator disciples in the sect.
"Those who do not obtain the spirit plates will become food for the beasts in the canyon after eighteen hours. I believe that all of you know this very well. The rules will not change. Those who obtain more than one hundred spirit plates will be able to enter the sect and be chosen by the sect elders to become disciples of different sect elders. Only by doing so will you have the chance to obtain the recommendation from your sect elders to enter the inner sect for one year of training." Besides the teenagers, there were hundreds of middle-aged or old men with extraordinary levels of cultivation among the ten thousand cultivators. Among them was a middle-aged scholar in white robes. At that moment, he spoke flatly, and his voice reverberated in all directions.
"My fellow Daoists of the same sect, we might be at the bottom of the sect and have to guide the disciples who have joined the sect within a hundred years to train, but if the disciples under us have outstanding performances, we will also be rewarded by the sect. In fact, we might even have the chance to advance. This happens every year. I wonder who among us will be lucky this time.
"But no matter what, my fellow Daoists who have advanced, do not forget that if you have the chance, please help us." Once the middle-aged scholar finished speaking, he wrapped his fist in his palm and bowed deeply towards the hundreds of cultivators around him.
Anticipation appeared on the faces of the cultivators. All of them wrapped their fists in their palms and bowed politely.
"All of you, get ready. The sect elders will come later. At that time, the entrance to the inner sect for seven moons will begin!" The middle-aged scholar stood up and swept his gaze past the nearly ten thousand anxious teenagers. There was an awe-inspiring look on his face, and to these teenagers, there was an incredibly great pressure on them at that moment.
Su Ming watched this scene from the distance with a pensive look on his face. He got rid of the thought of Possessing the cultivators in the area, and with a glint in his eyes, he looked towards the sky.
Before long, when the sun at noon was at its brightest, the rain seemed to have fused with the sunlight. At the instant it turned into seven colors, a loud bang suddenly rang out in the sky. It was as if the sky had been torn apart, and a person slowly walked out from within.
He was dressed in a long blue robe, and he was a white-haired old man. His gaze was awe-inspiring, and when he walked out slowly, the rain in the sky seemed to have stopped.
At the instant he appeared, the hundreds of cultivators, including the middle-aged scholar, wrapped their fists in their palms and bowed respectfully towards the sky.
"We … greet Sect Elder Wen!"
The old man in the blue robe nodded slowly. When he swept his gaze past the near ten thousand teenagers on the ground, a fierce glare shone in his eyes.
"Today is the test for you to enter the inner sect. Those who succeed will enter the inner sect. All those who enter the inner sect will be the most precious disciples of Seven Moons Sect. You will also be the future of Seven Moons Sect.
"Over the years, the test to enter the inner sect has been held. There are plenty of people who have reached Avacaniya Realm within one thousand years. In fact, if you can obtain one hundred plates, you can even enter the inner sect and be personally chosen by the sect elders as disciples. If you have enough talent, you can obtain a spot to train in the inner sect's Sky Beyond the Sky." In the history of Seven Moons Sect … there have been twelve people who have reached Avacaniya Realm within one hundred years!
"Now, the selection to enter the inner sect of Seven Moons Sect will begin!" When the old man in blue spoke, he swung his arm. Immediately, booming sounds shook the sky and earth. The fog in the canyon tumbled about, and in an instant, it turned into a huge vortex. The faces of the near ten thousand teenagers standing at the edge of the canyon turned pale. They could not help but be dragged into the vortex by the suction force.
Su Ming's expression remained the same. He stared at the incredibly awe-inspiring old man in blue in the sky. That person's level of cultivation had already reached Avacaniya Realm, but he was only in the initial stage. If Su Ming wanted to kill him, even if he no longer had his will, with the power of his Dao Divinity, he would only need to snap his fingers to kill him.
'Seven Moons Sect has unfathomable depths. There are as many powerful warriors as there are clouds in the sky … and I don't even know how many of them are in Dao Divinity Realm. If I Possess this old man, even if I have the chance to retrieve my will, it will be difficult for me to escape … and the pearl is in the red-robed man's hands, so it will be difficult for me to snatch it.
'If that's the case, since I chose to Possess someone to enter Seven Moons Sect, then instead of Possessing the old man, it would be better … for me to Possess one of the teenage disciples …
'There are only twelve people in Avacaniya Realm within one hundred years, huh? If I reach the first level of Dao Divinity Realm within one hundred years as a disciple, I wonder just how great of a ruckus I will cause in Seven Moons Sect. By doing so, I will have more chances to get close to the red-robed man!' Su Ming sank into a moment of pensive silence before a glint appeared in his eyes. A resolute look appeared on his face, and with one move, he charged towards the vortex in the abyss.
With his level of cultivation, if he did not want others to see any traces of him, then no one, not even the blue-robed old man, would be able to notice him. Su Ming moved, and his figure disappeared into the fog in the abyss.
Once he fused with the abyss, Su Ming charged downwards. On the way, he saw a corpse lying in a crack on the walls by his side. That corpse belonged to a teenager, and Su Ming had seen it before. It was the teenager controlled by the woman like a puppet.
At that moment, the teenager's body was thin and shriveled up. He had turned into a corpse, as if all his life force had been forcefully taken away by someone with a Secret Art to stimulate his power for a short period of time.
Su Ming swept his gaze over the area, but did not pay any attention to it. He charged downwards, and in just the span of a few breaths, an invisible barrier that others would find difficult to notice appeared in front of him.
The barrier did not have any use in blocking people. Instead, it seemed to have divided the world in the abyss into two. At the instant he approached the barrier, Su Ming's footsteps came to a halt. He levitated above the barrier, and a glint appeared in his eyes. When he lifted his right hand and pressed it against the barrier, he closed his eyes.
After a moment, he opened his eyes, and a frown appeared on his face.
'These young disciples are indeed highly valued by Seven Dao Sect. There are actually a dozen something divine senses in the trial world behind the barrier that are constantly observing everything …
'Among these divine senses, there are three … who are very strong. If I barge in recklessly and don't Possess them, then I might be discovered …' Su Ming fell into pensive silence for a moment, then a thought suddenly appeared in his head. He lifted his head and looked at the top of the cliff, at the crack where the boy's corpse lay.
"You and I are fated to meet. Then I will borrow your dead body … and make you … the strongest prodigy in the history of Seven Moons Sect!" Su Ming said faintly, and with a single move, he charged upwards.
At that moment, the red-robed man was sitting in the huge square Su Ming had seen with his divine sense in the past in Seven Moons Sect. Around him were a dozen something men and women with calm expressions. Most of them were sitting indifferently, but their gazes were all on the huge crystal floating at the center of the square.
There were countless pictures in the crystal, and each of them was a teenager. There were nearly ten thousand pictures, and all of them … showed everything that was happening in the abyss.
"This woman is pretty good. She managed to find a spirit plate so quickly."
"This lad is also pretty good. He's ruthless, and he's decisive when he attacks. If he has good potential, he'll be a good seedling." The dozen something people in the field talked to each other with indifferent expressions on their faces.
"The next chapter will be a small climax … I've also uploaded pictures of Yu Xuan and Ling Tian Hou, the Renegade Immortal's Sword Paragon. Everyone, you can take a look at them in the Prestige section.
"Finally … we'll rest for another day tomorrow. The day after tomorrow, we'll continue erupting with power and rush to the top!
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