Ancient Fiend Dragon Emperor

Chapter 1092: Chapter 1091: The Second Trial

About an hour later, the third person finally appeared.

It was a young man, not particularly handsome, but somewhat delicate. His face was pale, his body thin, and he had no cultivation base whatsoever, appearing just a weak ordinary person.

All his other aptitudes were around the second segment, but his magic aptitude directly reached the fifth stage!

When the extraordinarily dazzling blue light appeared, a commotion arose, and many people marveled in their hearts, thinking this person was about to reach the heavens in a single bound.

”What is your name?”

Liuyun stood up directly, his eyes fixed on the young man, and asked.

He was the captain of the Regiment of the Purple Night Divine Guard, naturally paying extreme attention to those with magic aptitude.

In fact, many possessed magic aptitude, but most were at the first or second segment, even inferior to members of the Regiment of the Purple Night Divine Guard. How could such aptitude allow him to accept this person as a direct disciple?

As the number of people dwindled, Liuyun felt a little anxious, not expecting such a person with this level of aptitude to actually appear.

”Junior Ye City.” The young man was also full of excitement, his body trembling slightly.

”Ye City?”

Liuyun turned his head to look at Ye Longhe and his brother, and asked, ”Is he from your Ye Family?”

”No.” The two shook their heads.

Ye City said, ”Senior misunderstood. I merely share the same surname with the Ye Family, but I dare not claim any connection.”

”No matter.”

Liuyun waved his hand directly, tossing out a token: ”Take this token from now on, you are my direct disciple.”

”Thank you, Master!”

The young man quickly put away the token, knelt on the ground with a thud, and kowtowed to Liuyun several times.

In fact, Liuyun and the others felt that such kowtowing was unnecessary, yet this was a formal acceptance of a disciple, watched by so many, and rules are rules, they cannot be casually disrupted.

...

In the time that followed, a few more individuals with outstanding aptitudes were accepted as disciples by the high level of the Phoenix Sect.

However, most of these people had outstanding martial path aptitudes and were enlisted under Xiao Yuhui’s command. As for Hong Chen, Lian Yuze, and the Purple Demon King Shen Li, as well as the God Slaying King Ling Xiao, none received direct disciples.

On Su Han’s side, he was interested in a few among them but not to the extent of immediately accepting them as direct disciples. If they performed outstandingly in the next two stages, he might issue a personal disciple token.

Over five million people, in this first stage, it took about seven hours to evaluate them all.

And after the screening of the first stage, those qualified to enter the second stage were less than seventy thousand.

The second stage required entry into the Demon Beast Mountain Range to obtain certain items.

And this stage undoubtedly depended on cultivation base and strength.

Those in the first stage who had neither strength nor talent were naturally directly eliminated.

And those possessing cultivation base and strength were very few, so, in the end, only these nearly seventy thousand were qualified to enter the second stage.

Such large-scale screening had never appeared in other sect disciple competitions; the Phoenix Sect here was experiencing it for the first time.

But those eliminated, though regretful, did not feel discontent. They originally lacked aptitude and strength. If the Phoenix Sect forcibly compelled them to participate in the second stage, they might end up dead in the Demon Beast Mountain Range.

...

The second stage lasted three days.

During these three days, those who obtained the Phoenix Sect’s designated items the most, up to one thousand individuals, would qualify for the final third stage.

As for the rest... all would be eliminated!

These people entered the Demon Beast Mountain Range, and naturally, Su Han and others could not follow them in. With a wave of his hand, ten massive illusory screens floated above the void.

”The rules of the second stage, I will first explain.”

Su Han looked at the people below, and said plainly: ”In the Demon Beast Mountain Range, you may fight against demon beasts, but you must not snatch others’ items, nor can you engage in combat with each other. What the Phoenix Sect wants to assess is your actual strength. As for schemes and stratagems, keep them to yourselves. We will be watching here, none of you can escape our eyes, if anything is discovered, your qualifications will be revoked immediately!”

Upon hearing this, among the nearly seventy thousand qualified to participate in the second stage, some felt disheartened. They had initially planned to take advantage by obtaining task items from others, but now it seems impossible.

Only by playing fair and securing things themselves could they qualify for the third stage.

”You all are aware of the task items, which are demon beast crystal cores. Ten first-order demon beast crystal cores equals one second-order demon beast crystal core, ten second-order demon beast crystal cores equals one third-order demon beast crystal core, and so on... In a total of three days, the top one thousand who obtain the most demon beast crystal cores can enter the third stage.”

Lian Yuze stood up, and said: ”You all have heard the Sect Master’s words, no taking shortcuts, no killing others, or else your qualifications will be revoked!”

”Now I announce... the second stage, begins!”

”Whoosh whoosh whoosh...”

As Lian Yuze’s words fell, nearly seventy thousand people scrambled forth, rushing towards the Demon Beast Mountain Range.

Time is money, with only three days, the sooner the better.

And since the Phoenix Sect was already near the Demon Beast Mountain Range, soon, these people all rushed into the Demon Beast Mountain Range.

Su Han and others remained seated in mid-air, watching all the actions of these people through the illusory screens.

”Hong Chen.”

Su Han glanced at the illusory screen, pointing to a woman among them, and smiled: ”I find this woman quite promising, her magic aptitude is at the fourth stage, though not top-grade, it is quite outstanding among these individuals, and her martial path cultivation is also at Dragon God Realm Late Stage. To achieve such a level at her age is commendable.”

”I am thinking about it too.”

Hong Chen nodded and said: ”This woman seems to be called Lul Jiayun? She is only twenty-nine, yet her martial path cultivation has reached this level, indeed impressive. Her martial talent is only at the third stage, apparently this woman has tremendous determination, otherwise, with such talent, it’s impossible to reach this level at this age.”

”In the path of cultivation, talent is actually secondary to mindset.” Su Han remarked.

Hong Chen couldn’t help but glance at Su Han, then said: ”I understand.”

Many believe that talent is the foremost consideration in cultivation, but in reality, Su Han understands best; cultivation first considers mindset, not talent.

In his previous life, he had ordinary talent, yet solely relying on a resolute mindset, he reached the level of Sovereign of the Holy Domain, which already demonstrated everything.

Especially when cultivation reaches the later stages, the importance of mindset gradually becomes evident.