As for the special reward of the system's main task, Lin Feng did not accelerate his own time and withdraw it in advance. Instead, he patiently watched the disciples under his sect slowly cultivate, and more and more young people grew up.
Lin Feng himself also calmed down. While practicing his magical powers, he also paid attention to Taixu Temple's attempt to reopen the Spiritual Sea.
During this period of time, the main theme in the Divine Land was to eliminate the Underworld Hall cultivators. Every once in a while, there would be news of progress.
With the passage of time, the frequency of the news gradually decreased, but correspondingly, the cultivation and status of the Underworld Hall cultivators who were captured and killed also increased.
Especially recently, a big fish was caught.
King Dushi, one of the ten sub-temple masters of the Underworld Hall and one of the Ten Infernal Kings of the Underworld Hall, was captured by Taixu Temple. This immediately triggered a chain reaction. The sub-temple under King Dushi's jurisdiction was quickly uprooted from top to bottom, and it even began to spread to the other ten Infernal Kings of the Underworld Hall.
Zhu Yi, Wang Lin, and the others also had their own gains. For a time, the Underworld Hall seemed to have fallen into a state of turmoil.
The storm outside did not affect the orderly internal operations of Xuanmen Tianzong. Xiao Yan lived in the Netherworld Sea Realm for a long time. While continuing to strengthen his communication with the Netherworld Sea, he also refined the Nine Sun Divine Light he obtained from Wen Chiyang.
On Yujing Mountain, Zhu Yi's Hao Yang doppelganger, Wang Lin's Great Devil doppelganger, Yue Hongyan, Yang Qing, Luo Qingwu, and the others were also concentrating on cultivating, improving their strength, and preparing for the real storm that might come at any time.
The matter of Xuanmen Tianzong reopening the mountain gate to recruit disciples was also carried out in an orderly manner. Now that the second-generation successor disciples had grown up, many affairs had been entrusted to their respective disciples by Xiao Yan, Zhu Yi, and the others. The rules and inheritance of Xuanmen Tianzong had been formally established. Without any major accidents, the daily operation was completely systematic, and Lin Feng and his disciples did not need to worry about it anymore.
They would go to various places to set up spots to accept disciples, carry out preliminary selections, and then bring them back to Cloud Mirror City to temporarily stay. After passing the test and review of the Heart Reflecting Staircase under the Cloud Peak, a young talent could become an official disciple of the Celestial Sect of Wonders, a foundational disciple.
After Lin Feng perfected and fine-tuned the Heart Reflecting Staircase many times, not only can it test if the disciple harbors evil intentions, but it also has a comprehensive examination of the disciple's aptitude. Many of the techniques were created by Lin Feng.
The process seemed simple, but there were actually layers upon layers of tests. It was complicated but systematic, and they were all summed up through repeated experiences.
Those who could not pass the test of the Heart Reflecting Ladder would be expelled if they had ulterior motives. As for those who had shortcomings in certain areas, if they were willing, they could arrange to live in Cloud Mirror City and wait for the next opportunity to be apprenticed to a master.
Those who wanted to enter Mirror Lake Academy to study were also completely voluntary. Those who wanted to move their families to Cloud Mirror City, or move to Sand Continent City or Mystic Heaven Domain to live, Xuanmen Tianzong would also have an outer sect steward to help with the arrangements.
According to the gradually formed practice, after a new batch of disciples entered the sect, the disciples who had laid the foundation earlier would also welcome another successor disciple test.
First, there would be an overall test. Those who passed the test could become a successor disciple. Then, these successor disciples would go to Fen Tian Cliff, Qian Tian Palace, and other cave dwellings to choose their desired targets.
After choosing, they would undergo the second round of cave dwellings selection. Those who passed would be apprenticed to a master, and those who failed would not be returned. Instead, they would be randomly assigned to the cave dwellings of other lineages.
At this moment, at the foot of the white mountain rock where Luo Qingwu's Light Dance Pavilion was located, there was a group of junior disciples who had passed the overall test on the empty space connected to the rainbow long bridge. Their cultivations varied.
The main purpose of the successor disciple selection was to test the disciple's future potential, and not their current strength.
Lin Feng was originally meditating. Suddenly, his heart moved slightly, and his gaze fell in the direction of the Light Dance Pavilion. He revealed a trace of a smile, "Interesting."
This time, the number of disciples who passed the overall test was not large, but the number of people who chose to be apprenticed to the Light Dance Pavilion was not small, catching up with the number of disciples who chose the most popular choice of Fen Tian Cliff and Qian Tian Palace.
There were many reasons for this. On one hand, it was because Tang Jun and Lin Tong of Fen Tian Palace, and Yang Tie and Ying Luo Zha of Qian Tian Palace were not there. On the other hand, it was because the second generation Chief of the Light Dance Pavilion, Han Yang, was now famous. He was recognized as one of the top three second generation disciples, and was on par with Tang Jun and Zhou Yuncong. He was quite prestigious among the junior disciples.
Another factor was that everyone in the Celestial Sect of Wonders knew that the Light Dance Pavilion specialized in cultivating sword cultivators within the sect. This caused some of the younger disciples who were either talented in the way of the sword or interested in the way of the sword to flock to it.
However, if it was just this, there would still not be so many people who wanted to be apprenticed to the Light Dance Pavilion. According to the previous news, the assessment of the Light Dance Pavilion had always been very strict.
But knowing that the assessment was strict, there were still many newly promoted true disciples who wanted to be apprenticed.
Because as everyone knew, the Master of the Light Dance Pavilion, Luo Qingwu, only accepted eight true disciples.
Now, there were already many third generation true disciples in the Light Dance Pavilion, but the eight places for the second generation true disciples were not full yet.
In recent years, Xiao Yan, Zhu Yi, and the others basically did not personally accept disciples. Even if there were rare good seedlings, they would be sent to Tang Jun, Yang Tie, and the others to prepare for the next inheritance of the sect.
In this case, the Light Dance Pavilion gradually became another popular choice for the junior disciples to choose cave residences.
The threshold for disciples in Xuanmen Tianzong was originally very high. The junior disciples also had their own confidence and pride, and naturally hoped that they could go higher.
In front of these junior disciples stood seven people in purple clothes, five men and two women. Six of them were carrying long swords, and only the leader was empty-handed.
The leader was a young man of medium build, with sword-like eyebrows and starry eyes, a jade-like face, and an extraordinarily handsome appearance. But with a smile on the corner of his mouth, he gave people the feeling that he was not as sharp as ordinary sword cultivators.
But all the junior disciples in front of him did not dare to look down on this handsome young man, because he was the only Yuanying cultivator among the seven people, and also the Head of the Light Dance Pavilion's second generation true disciples, Han Yang.
The daily affairs of the Light Dance Pavilion had been mostly handed over by Luo Qingwu to Han Yang, and Han Yang handled them. The junior disciples saw him more than they saw Luo Qingwu.
Although Han Yang was not very old, he was already a Yuanying cultivator. Outside of Yujing Mountain, when cultivators with lower cultivations saw him, they would respectfully call him Supreme Tian Shu, or even Ancestor Tian Shu.
On one hand, it was because of the power of the Celestial Sect of Xuan Men. On the other hand, it was because of Han Yang's own terrifying strength. All these years, he had been out adventuring, and the number of Nascent Soul cultivators and Monster Kings he had defeated or killed was not small. Among them, there was no lack of late Nascent Soul or Monster Kings.
On the left and right of Han Yang stood three young cultivators. One of them, a round-faced woman, smiled, looked at Han Yang, and said, "Senior Brother Tian Shu, let me do it."
Han Yang nodded indifferently. He did not care about the form, after all, the rules were set by him.
When the round-faced woman saw this, she stepped forward, looked at the junior disciples in front of her, and said with a smile, "My Light Dance Pavilion's assessment is very simple, but it will take a long time to complete."
"In front of you, there is a mountain road that leads straight to the pavilion at the top of the mountain. The space on the mountain road is distorted, and it will send you to our sect's Great Law Hall. The arena of the Great Law Hall has already formed a huge foreign space. You need to find the road mark left behind by Senior Brother Tian Shu within three days. Through the road mark, you will be transported back to the mountain road, and from there, climb to the top of the mountain."
She paused for a moment, and then continued, "In the foreign space, you will encounter all kinds of attacks and dangers. Although the Great Law Hall has a magic power restriction to protect you from death, it can also cause you to be disabled. Therefore, you can now choose to withdraw from my Light Dance Pavilion's assessment."
Everyone looked at each other, and after a moment of contemplation, their bodies did not move.
The round-faced woman nodded with satisfaction, and then continued, "If you cannot find the road mark within three days, then you will be eliminated. If you suffer a deadly attack, and activate the magic power restriction of the Great Law Hall, then you will also be eliminated. Do you understand?"
Everyone nodded with dignified expressions, and the round-faced woman immediately said, "Then, you can now climb the mountain road."
The group of disciples bowed to Han Yang and the others, and then climbed the mountain road together. Afterwards, they were transported by the distorted space into the foreign space created by the Great Law Hall.
After going in, they understood what they were facing.
Everyone was separated from each other, and they could only move by themselves. At the same time, they were unable to use magic power to communicate with each other.
The foreign space they were in was like a real world, and there were all kinds of demon races, as well as unknown people attacking them.
Although the cultivation of these demon races and enemies were suppressed to a certain degree, it still made the disciples who participated in the assessment suffer greatly.
The strength of the opponents actually did not hold much of an advantage against the Xuanmen Tianzong disciples, and they were even at a disadvantage. Although the cultivation of the disciples who participated in the assessment was different, but under Han Yang's careful control, the individual opponents that they encountered were limited to be lower than the Xuanmen Tianzong disciples.
But this did not mean that the opponents were weak, on the contrary, all of the enemies, regardless of demon race or human race, were extremely vicious, cunning and vicious to the extreme.
Besieging, assassinating, ambushing, traps, these were the most basic and most common household chores, and any opponent could use them.
Although the individual strength of the enemies was not as strong as the Xuanmen Tianzong disciples, but every time the disciples who participated in the assessment encountered an ambush, the opponents never had the intention to fight them alone, and always came in groups to besiege them.
The enemies who looked like human cultivators would also pretend to be friendly, and help the Xuanmen Tianzong disciples kill the demons, to gain their trust, and then suddenly launch sneak attacks at the critical moment.
Sometimes, the disciples who participated in the assessment obtained clues about the spatial waymark, but other times it turned out to be a trap laid by the enemies.
Some Xuanmen Tianzong disciples did not know the situation at first, and acted bravely, subconsciously saving the human race who was attacked by the demon race, but the next moment, the other party might bite the hand that feeds them, and stab them in the back, causing the Xuanmen Tianzong disciple to die with everlasting regret.
Sometimes, there were also some human cultivators who treated others with kindness, and formed friendships with the Xuanmen Tianzong disciples, but there would always be other villains who secretly framed, sowed discord, and made the disciple unable to explain himself, and fell into the crowd's siege.
For all these reasons, there were countless, but there had never been an enemy who openly fought with the disciples who participated in the assessment.
At the foot of the Light Dance Pavilion, Han Yang looked at all this calmly, and a serious-looking woman next to him turned to look at him. "Senior Brother Tianshu, what you do is not good for the disciples' temperament, and is very likely to lead them to evil."
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