He felt warm inside as the pressure gradually reduced.
"W-What? The gravitational force can also make the warm current flow?" He expressed his shock as he took another step, feelinglittle pressurepared tothe other participants.
He increased his speed, walking with a straight posture as he began to surpass the participants ahead of him."Hahaha, isn''t this test just designed for me?" he thought internally.
Everyone was struggling to take a step ahead, however, he moved like climbingnormalstairs, and that too with a smile.
Inside the Phoenix Feather Sect observation hall,
The peak masters all looked at the floating screens in the air that showed the scenes of the test.
"Who is this boy? Even under such pressure, it''s like walking in the park!" One of the peak masters wondered.
"This boy looks like a good seedling, Ishould keep an eye on him." Another peak master nned in his mind.
The peak masters were sitting on chairs with the screens floating in front of themsothey weren''t interacting with each other. Also, since they were from different peaks, they werepetitors in getting their desired disciples.
Meanwhile, in the test,
"Ha..ha.. Brother Mo Fan, wait for me!" Luo Can''s voice reached his ears as he turned around to realize that he had just surpassed him.
Luo Can caught up to him as heplimented: "Brother Mo Fan, what is your secret? It''s like you''re walking without anypressure"
Mo Fan rubbed the back of his head bashfully as he was about to answer, however, he saw Luo Can''s eyes widen and his mouth open to shout: "Brother Mo Fan, Watch out!"
Mo Fan didn''t knowbuthefelt an iing attack behind his back as he rolled forward to dodge it.
It was then that his gaze fell on the attacker, however, he didn''t recognize him.
"Who are youandwhy did you attack me for no reason?" He asked with a re filled with anger.
However, the manjustsneered at him in response: "You don''t need to know!"
At thismomentfour more men appeared and surrounded him.
Mo Fan took a defensive stance, ready to engage.
"Attack!" The attacker shouted before pouncing at Mo Fan along with the other four men.
Mo Fan attempted to dodge, however, another punchnded on his face. All the five men were throwing punches at him at the same time.Even if he dodged one or two punches, three more would hit him.
However, he had a smile on his face, feeling the warm current flow even more rapidly.
"Haha, fools! You''re just helping me likethis" He mused, taking the beating with a happy smile.
But, to his surprise, a kicknded on his knee that made his knee bend. Thenmorekicks began tond at the same knee.
His eyes widened as he cursed: "Oh no, they are trying to make me kneel. I wouldbe disqualifiedlike this!"
Worry started to settle in as he began to fight back. He conjured the Mo Family''s palm skill as a purple aura enveloped his palm. He, gathering enough force, attacked with his palmaimingfor the man''s chest who was in front.
However, to his surprise, the man,just before his attack could connect, jumped to the sideas if knowing how his skill worked.
Because if hewasunaware of his skill, he wouldn''t risk it by dodging as every skill would take different time to prepareandtheconfidence of the manshowed that he was aware of his skill.
Also, by the constant attacks of the men, his kneewas going totouch the ground, however, at this moment, the warm current inside him increased, giving him a breakthrough.
He advanced to the second stage of the nascent soul realm, giving him the extra strength he needed to get away. He pushed the men away from him before retreating to the lower steps, getting some distance from them.
"Just who are these menandwhy are they attacking me?" He wondered while conjuring another skill. He clenched his fist as a fiery aura enveloped it. The menwho wering at him saw this as they stopped at a distance, noting close to him.
Mo Fan''s eyes widened in disbeliefat this: "They know about this skill too?"
This skill has one weakness.
Itwasdifficultto maintain for long.
Andit appeared that these men knewabout this weakness as they waited for the fiery aura to die down.
Meanwhile, Mo Pianwhohad climbed high, looked at this scene with amusement: "Sure enough, Young Master Mo Chen''s idea of bringing the geniuses of the branch families to disqualify Mo Fan was brilliant. Let''s see how you escape from this Mo Fan!"
Yes, these men were the five best geniuses of the Branch family of Mo Family. They all had a cultivation of Nascent Soul first stage atsucha young age of 28.
As these men were from the Mo Family, they naturally knew the weaknesses of the Mo Family''s skills.
They hadbeen givenonly one task.
Disqualify Mo Fan!
After the Fiery aura died down, the five geniuses once again pounced at Mo Fan, continuing their assaultmuchto the horror of Mo Fan.
At thesamemoment, The peak masterswho werewatching this asked questions, expressing their shock.
"W-Why are these boys attacking that boy? Is it because of how easily he was climbing up?" A peak master asked with wide eyes open in shock.
"But shouldn''t we stop them? Isn''t this unfair? This testis only meantto see the determination and willpower of the seedlings that appear. We should stop them this instant!" Another peak master suggested in a righteous tone.
"But we aren''t allowed to leave this observation hall until the end of the test. Only Elder Lo Pu and the disciplinary team have the right to stopthis" One of the peak masters reminded.
"Right! Disciplinary Team, What are they doing? Why aren''t they stopping this?" An old peak master, remembering about the disciplinary team, questioned.
At this moment, one of the disciples who was there to take care of the needs of the Peak masters answered: "Respected Peak masters, I have a friend in the disciplinary team who told me that the new disciplinary team head ordered the disciplinary team not to act without his order. I think It is him who is stopping them from interfering!"
"What? What kind of absurd order is that? Isn''t the disciplinary team there to actindependentlysince theyhave tocover the entire test area? If theyare madeto ask for permission every time before taking action, wouldn''t that create multiple idents in the test that could''vebeen avoided?" The old peak master roared out in anger before asking:
"Just who is this disciplinary team head this time tonot be ableto see this?"
"It''s... Young Master Wang Ashen, the seconddiscipleof the sect leader!" TheDiscipleanswered respectfully.
*Silence*
Everyone became silent before the old peak master cleared his throat beforebreakingthe silence: "Ahem... If it''s Wang Ashen, we can understand his decision since he doesn''t have much experience in the sect. It''s Elder Lo Pu''s mistake to appoint him as the disciplinary team head!"
Everyone nodded in agreement with his words.No one wanted to speak ill of this genius since no one knewjustwhat height he would reachin the future.
Even if he didn''t help them, they didn''t want to offendhimand be his enemy.
Thiswas just what an 8-star spirit meant. It not only provided speed in cultivation but also a high potential.
"Sigh... We can only hope that Elder Lo Pu takes actionhimselfand stops this unfair treatment that boy is going through!" The old peak master said with pity.
Meanwhile, Elder Lo Pu, who was going to stop the troublemakers, was stopped by Ashen in between: "Elder Lo Pu, where are you going?"
"Ah, Young master Ashen, Good that you are here. Let''s go and stop those troublemakers who are ganging up on a single boy!" Lo Pu suggested before beginning to leave.
"Huh? Why stop them?" Ashen asked: "Aren''t they helping the test?"
"What? How are they helping?" Lo Pu was confusedandif thiswasan ordinary disciple, he wouldn''tevenwaste time here!
Ashen smiled as he exined: "Elder Lo Pu when you announced the rules of thisstage of the test. You said that this test was simr to the path of cultivationandthe one who wouldhave the determinationto take the next step would be the one to reach higher heights, right?"
Elder Lo Pu nodded: "Yes, I said that!"
"Then tell me, aren''t those boys helping in creating this test more like the path of cultivation?" Ashen asked.
"Huh? How?" Lo Pu didn''t understandandhe was getting impatient. Mo Fan wouldbe eliminatedif he didn''t hurry.
"In cultivation, there would be hurdles in your path and people will pull you down. Aren''t these boys doing the same? Why don''t we just let this y out and don''t interfere? If that boy gets eliminated, it would be his bad luck and would prove that luck also ys a factor in cultivation!" Ashen suggested with sweet words.
Lo Pu''s eyes widened, realizing the sense in his words, however, this was a testandit would be unfair to let that boy get eliminated by a group.
But,he also couldn''t reject Ashen openly, wouldn''tthat be like spitting on his face?
He couldn''t do that, hewanted to maintain good rtionships with him.
Then, his human mind beganparing the pros and cons.
On one side was a stranger, a powerless and helpless boy who needed his help, and on the other side was a once-in-a-lifetime genius and his rtionship with him was at stake.
Well, the choice was clear.
It was the boy...Whowas rejected!
"You are right, Young Master Ashen!" Lo Pu said with a smile.
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(A/N - Thanks for reading. ^..^)