Invincible Beyond Heavens: Cultivating With A Broken EXP System

“Next, Qin Baoluo.”

Hearing the silver-haired elder’s voice, Qin Baoluo immediately became nervous.

He clutched a large roasted chicken leg in one hand and chewed faster as he trotted forward. Combined with his round and chubby build, his appearance looked somewhat comical, drawing even more attention from the crowd.

“Hahahaha. Look at that sloppy little fatty.”

“As expected of someone from a small place like the Southern Martial Domain. Even his behavior is embarrassing.”

“How can such a person represent the Southern Martial Domain in the assessment? Being tested alongside him is truly humiliating.”

Seeing Qin Baoluo’s appearance, many people in the crowd immediately burst into laughter.

“Damn them.”

The mockery made Qin Baoluo’s face flush red with anger, but he did not dare argue with the crowd. In the end, he could only suppress his frustration and place his hand on the Spirit Talent Pillar.

Swoosh.

The Spirit Talent Pillar flickered slightly, and the light began climbing upward.

It moved toward the sixth ring.

However, just as it seemed to be only a hair’s breadth away from reaching six rings, the radiance slowly stopped rising.

It had not even reached six rings.

“Exactly. I knew this fatty came here only to make people laugh. He could not even reach the basic six-ring standard. This fatty really is trash.”

“It is not just this fatty. Aside from Su Fengyan, the other four people from the Southern Martial Domain are probably all trash who cannot even reach the passing line. They came here full of excitement, only to crawl back home in disgrace. What was even the point?”

The laughter from the crowd grew even louder.

The ones laughing the hardest were those cultivators whose own talent had barely crossed six rings. Their results had only just reached the passing line, which meant they were originally among the lowest-ranked participants. Now that someone had appeared with an even worse result than theirs and had taken the bottom position, how could they not feel secretly pleased?

“Everyone, shut up.”

The silver-haired elder suddenly shouted in a stern voice.

His voice boomed across the plaza like thunder, causing everyone’s hearts to tremble violently. Cold sweat immediately seeped from their backs, and the noisy crowd fell silent in an instant. Not a single person dared to speak again.

“A group of ignorant fools. Is my martial nephew someone you are qualified to mock?”

The silver-haired elder’s cold gaze swept across the crowd, sharp enough to make many people lower their heads. Then, when his eyes landed on Qin Baoluo, the coldness on his face actually softened, and a kind smile appeared.

That smile was even more gentle and friendly than the one he had shown Princess Yuehan.

He looked at Qin Baoluo and said warmly, “Only twenty-three years old, yet you are already a Rank Five Artifact Refiner. Your extraordinary talent in artifact refining has long been reported to the sect’s higher ranks. Before this assessment began, Elder Yunlu, who oversees the Divine Forge Hall, personally instructed me that as long as your martial talent surpassed Rank Three, he would be willing to take you as a named disciple. If your martial talent surpassed Rank Five, he would directly take you as his personal disciple.”

The silver-haired elder paused for a moment, then smiled even more warmly.

“Congratulations, Martial Nephew Qin. From this moment onward, you are the personal disciple of Elder Yunlu.”

A personal disciple of Elder Yunlu?

Hearing these words, Qin Baoluo, who had been dejected only moments ago, froze completely.

The people around him were even more dumbfounded.

A twenty-three-year-old Rank Five Artifact Refiner?

Generally speaking, those who could become Rank Five Artifact Refiners were usually at least fifty or sixty years old. If someone reached that level in their forties, they would already be considered a genius in artifact refining. As for becoming a Rank Five Artifact Refiner at only twenty-three, such talent was simply unheard of.

What shocked everyone even more was the fact that Qin Baoluo had directly become Elder Yunlu’s personal disciple.

Everyone knew that Elder Yunlu was a true heavyweight of the Heavenly Sword Sect. He controlled the entire Divine Forge Hall, and his status within the sect was extremely high. Even if he was compared to the Sect Master of the Heavenly Sword Sect, his position was not much lower in certain matters. The status and treatment of his personal disciple would be completely comparable to that of a True Disciple.

The person they had just mocked as a useless fatty had, in the blink of an eye, become an existence whose status rivaled that of a True Disciple.

This reversal was no different from a merciless slap across their faces.

It was too humiliating.

More importantly, aside from a small number of exceptional geniuses, most of the people present might not even pass the assessment. Even if they did pass, they would only become ordinary Outer Sect Disciples. Compared to Qin Baoluo’s current status, they were still far inferior.

Before even entering the Outer Sect, they had already offended someone with such a powerful backing. How could their expressions possibly look good?

“Junior Qin, since you have already become Elder Yunlu’s personal disciple, you no longer need to take the remaining assessment stages seriously. Just go through the process casually.”

The silver-haired elder smiled as he spoke.

“Thank you, Senior.”

Only then did Qin Baoluo finally return to his senses. He hurriedly bowed to the silver-haired elder, while wild joy surged in his heart.

Jian Wuchen had already introduced Elder Yunlu to Li Yun and the others before. He was one of the true top figures of the Heavenly Sword Sect, the person in charge of the Divine Forge Hall, and a master whose name carried great weight throughout the sect.

Although his cultivation realm was not especially high among the elders, and could even be considered near the lower end compared to some of them, his artifact refining skill ranked among the top three in the entire Azure Void Region.

For Qin Baoluo, being able to become the disciple of such a master was undoubtedly a tremendous opportunity.

With his face full of excitement, Qin Baoluo quickly returned to the Southern Martial Domain camp.