Chapter 17
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Fifteen minutes later, there were already people who had successively finished climbing the stone stairs. Long Bufan had also reached the top. His physical strength hadn't been used up much as he stood calmly in the crowd. Compared to the surrounding laborers who were sweating profusely and gasping for breath, there was an extremely large contrast.
Outstanding laborers also appeared in the following batches of examinees. The number of laborers who passed the strength testing stage this time was around a hundred, double the number of previous years.
"Looks like this year's laborers aren't too bad." The male examiner's voice was flat as he spoke.
"There's still one that's not bad." The female examiner nodded, her long and narrow phoenix eyes looked towards Long Bufan in the crowd as she praised, "When climbing the stairs, his speed wasn't considered fast, but under the circumstances of the gravity formation, he was able to easily dodge other people's attacks. He's concealed his strength quite deeply."
"You're talking about that kid!" The male examiner beside her similarly looked towards Long Bufan. What was different was that his eyes actually revealed a trace of anger.
The male examiner was called Yang Feng. He became an outer hall deacon at the age of eighteen and was in charge of the trial examiner this time. If nothing unexpected happened, he would be able to advance to the inner hall and become an inner court disciple in another two years. His future was limitless. However, despite his outstanding talent, he had a younger brother with mediocre aptitude. The unlucky fellow that Long Bufan had just kicked was his younger brother. Yang Feng originally wanted to use the advantage of his position as long as his younger brother passed the strength testing stage to deceive others and then let his younger brother enter through the back door. He never expected that Long Bufan would ruin his plans, causing him to be extremely angry in his heart.
At this moment, Long Bufan didn't know that he was being hated by others. After ascending here, he'd been constantly paying attention to the changes in the beast origin spirit within his Dantian. He discovered that the little golden dragon seemed to have become much fatter, and the scales on its surface had become even more lustrous. A string of rune circles surrounded its body. Long Bufan didn't recognize these dense tadpole-shaped runes, but if it was a rune master, they would definitely be able to recognize that these were formation runes with a glance. Moreover, it was the gravity formation that the beast origin spirit had just absorbed!
Long Bufan was very curious about this. Although he wasn't literate, he knew how to operate it. Thus, he separated a strand of his spiritual sense and sunk it into the beast origin spirit. In the blink of an eye, the string of runes outside the beast origin spirit rapidly revolved like gears.
BOOM —!!
Suddenly, with Long Bufan as the center of the gravity formation, a pressure radiated outwards. In the blink of an eye, the surrounding ten meters were enveloped by it. Qin Duan and the dozen odd odd-job workers who were closer to it all felt their bodies tremble. The heavy pressure seemed to have descended from the sky. Caught off guard, everyone fell to the ground one after another.
"What's going on? Wasn't the Gravity Formation lifted?!"
"Ouch, my butt …"
The odd-job workers had a bewildered expression, and Qin Duan was even more miserable. The place his butt sat on was coincidentally a fist-sized rock, and the pain of sitting down with a loud bang was something he would never forget for the rest of his life. He, who had mistakenly thought that this was a trial test, could only be angry but not dare to say anything, and his face was filled with grievance.
"It's actually this skill!"
Long Bufan was shocked and excited at the same time. Fortunately, he was cunning and immediately sat down on the ground, imitating others to rub their buttocks and groaning.
By the time Yang Feng and the other female examiner noticed the situation, Long Bufan's Gravity Array had already been removed and nothing had been discovered. As for the odd-job workers with low cultivation in the surroundings, they were even more unaware that this was Long Bufan's doing.
"Could it be that the Gravity Formation has aged and malfunctioned?" Yang Feng was puzzled. However, when he saw Long Bufan's figure in the unlucky crowd, he felt a little schadenfreude in his heart. He could not wait for the Gravity Formation to directly crush Long Bufan to death.
The female examiner nodded and said, "It's possible. I just heard that this trial actually consumed an entire piece of elemental spirit stone. It's really too exaggerated."
Then, the hundred odd odd-job workers who passed the strength test followed the examiner into the Outer Hall of Ling Xuanwu Province, preparing to accept the next trial test. As for the odd-job workers who failed at the foot of the mountain, their faces were filled with dispirited expressions. They shook their heads and sighed as they walked towards the odd-job area. After failing this time, they could only wait for another year. However, by that time, their age would already be a problem.
This was reality. If one did not work hard when they were young, they would only be sad when they were old. Of course, other than hard work, luck was also the key to success or failure!
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