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Chapter 863: 863
"Let’s go to the Assessment Hall!" Lin Wei told his subordinate, Elder Lin Sen.
Over the years, he had visited Seventh Princess Huang Yan in the Eternal Divine Kingdom multiple times but was always refused an audience with her.
Knowing that Huang Yan was heading to the Assessment Hall, he decided to make his way there in hopes of encountering her.
"Yes, Young Clan Leader." Lin Sen hurriedly responded, then gathered a group of experts to follow Lin Wei to the Assessment Hall.
As Lin Wei and Huang Yan, among others, were on their way to the Assessment Hall, inside the hall itself, Yang Xiaotian was chatting sporadically with Dongfang Ao.
"Brother, you’ve come to sign up for the assessment; your talent must be quite good, right? What realm have you reached now?" Dongfang Ao inquired casually but purposefully.
He always felt that there was a peculiar strength in Yang Xiaotian. Otherwise, why would he, of his esteemed status, bother interacting with Xiaotian.
"My talent is average. After years of diligent cultivation, I’ve just made a breakthrough to the Divine Master Realm," Yang Xiaotian replied.
Upon hearing this, Dongfang Ao laughed and said, "Brother, you’ve just broken through to the Divine Master Realm and you’re already trying to take the assessment? Passing the Outer Sect Disciple assessment might be quite difficult."
Although the requirement for signing up for the Outer Sect Disciple assessment was merely to be above the Divine Master Realm, generally speaking, those who had just made the breakthrough found it difficult to pass the assessment.
Yang Xiaotian smiled upon hearing this but did not say much more.
At that moment, it was finally Yang Xiaotian’s turn.
Yang Xiaotian approached the Disciple from Heaven and Earth Divine Mansion in charge of registration.
"Name?" the Disciple asked without looking up.
"Yang Xiaotian," he answered truthfully.
"Stand on the Formation Map," the Disciple instructed nonchalantly.
As instructed, Yang Xiaotian stood on the Formation Map in front of the Detection Stone. With the Disciple’s Divine Power activation, the stone quickly surged with light, enveloping Xiaotian in a luminous glow.
Divine Light began to emerge all over Yang Xiaotian’s body.
Suddenly, a line of text appeared on the stone: "Bone Age: Seventy-two."
The registering Disciple from the Heaven and Earth Divine Mansion froze: "Bone age of seventy-two?!"
Even Dongfang Ao, who stood behind Yang Xiaotian, was taken aback: "Seventy-two?"
This young man in front of him had only cultivated for a few decades?
Immediately after, another line of text appeared beneath the bone age: "Realm: Early First Layer of the Divine Master Realm."
Both the Disciple from Heaven and Earth Divine Mansion and Dongfang Ao looked on incredulously, their eyes as wide as they could be, and at this time, many of the surrounding disciples registering for the assessment also noticed Yang Xiaotian’s test results, and all had their mouths agape.
"You’ve only cultivated for seventy-two years?" the Disciple from Heaven and Earth Divine Mansion stuttered, looking at Yang Xiaotian as if he had seen a ghost.
The Heaven and Earth Divine Mansion’s rule stipulated that anyone within a bone age of five thousand years and at the Divine Master Realm could sign up for the Outer Sect Disciple assessment.
Therefore, almost all the disciples who came to sign up were over four thousand years old. Never had there been a disciple with a bone age under one hundred, not just this time, but ever since the establishment of Heaven and Earth Divine Mansion; this Disciple had never encountered someone who managed to make a breakthrough to the Divine Master Realm with less than a century of cultivation.
Breaking through to the Divine Master Realm with less than a hundred years of cultivation—what kind of concept was that?
He simply couldn’t fathom it.
Dongfang Ao was also extremely shocked.
As the Young Master of the Dongfang Family, of course, he understood how incredibly difficult and terrifying it was to break through to the Divine Master Realm in under a hundred years. Their Ancestor had cultivated for over a thousand years to break through to the Divine Master Realm and was already the number one person in the Dongfang Family.
"What’s your name?" the shaken Disciple from Heaven and Earth Divine Mansion stood up and asked Yang Xiaotian.
"Yang Xiaotian," he said calmly.
"Please step back for now and stand on the Formation Map again later," the shaken Disciple from Heaven and Earth Divine Mansion instructed.
Yang Xiaotian did as told and stepped back. After a while, he stepped onto the Formation Map again.
The disciple from the Heaven and Earth Divine Mansion once again activated the stele, and the glow that enveloped Yang Xiaotian soon after revealed new characters on the stele.
"Bone Age: Seventy-two."
"Realm: Early stage of the First Layer of Divine Master."
The results were still the same as before.
At this time, other disciples from the Heaven and Earth Divine Mansion who were overseeing the registration gathered around, all with shocked faces looking at the outcome. The other disciples registering for the assessment were incredulous, causing a stir throughout the hall.
"Is that all?" asked Xiaotian to the registering disciple from the Heaven and Earth Divine Mansion.
Regaining his composure, the disciple nodded hastily, "Yes, yes." He then proceeded to register Xiaotian, handed him an assessment identity token, and branded Xiaotian’s name onto it.
Taking the assessment identity token, Xiaotian did not linger and left the hall with Black Master.
Now, he needed to find a place to stay.
However, with the assessment only a few days away, the inns in the city were likely filled to capacity, and finding a place to stay wouldn’t be easy.
Not long after Xiaotian had stepped out of the hall, Black Master started barking a few times, appearing excited and agitated, gesturing something to Xiaotian.
"You’ve detected the presence of the Demon Clan Holy Ancestor?" Xiaotian asked, astonished.
Black Master nodded and then made a gesture.
"You want to leave for a bit and come back later?" Xiaotian understood what Black Master meant.
Black Master nodded again before leaping away and vanishing in the blink of an eye.
Just as Black Master left, Seventh Princess Huang Yan, who was on her way to the Assessment Hall, spotted Xiaotian from a distance.
With a look of surprise and uncertainty, she watched Xiaotian, finding that the source of the agitation of her Godhood was actually this young man in blue!
Elder Shi, noticing Huang Yan staring intently at Xiaotian, asked with confusion, to which she responded, "Elder Shi, it’s him! He’s the one causing the disturbance within my Godhood."
Elder Shi was astonished. This young man?
As he watched Xiaotian, his expression grew more and more serious.
Could it be the Selfless Realm?
And perhaps a level above Perfection of the Selfless Realm! 𝘯𝑜𝘷𝘱𝘶𝑏.𝘤𝘰𝑚
Meanwhile, Lin Wei, accompanied by experts from the Silver Sky Blood Demon Clan, was approaching from afar. Upon seeing Huang Yan, his face lit up with joy, and he walked over to her, bowing with a fist, "Your Highness Princess, it’s such a coincidence to run into you again."
However, Huang Yan, as if deaf, headed straight for Xiaotian.
Xiaotian frowned when he saw Huang Yan approaching him with a cohort of the Eternal Divine Kingdom’s powerhouses.
"I am Huang Yan of the Eternal Divine Kingdom. May I know how to address you, young sir?" Huang Yan asked, her voice melodious and pleasant to the ear.
Xiaotian was taken aback, not expecting the visitor to be Seventh Princess Huang Yan from the Eternal Divine Kingdom.
Since arriving on the Desolate Continent, the two most talked-about individuals were Lin Wei of the Silver Sky Blood Demon Clan, and Huang Yan, standing before him.
"Yang Xiaotian," he nodded slightly, then turned to leave.
As Xiaotian began to walk away, Huang Yan, slightly startled, stepped forward and said, "So you are Young Master Yang." Glancing back at the Assessment Hall, she asked, "Are you here to register for the Inner Sect Disciple assessment of the Heaven and Earth Divine Mansion?"
Xiaotian kept walking and nodded, "I am here to register for the Outer Sect Disciple assessment."
Outer Sect?
Huang Yan and Elder Shi were both surprised.
As Xiaotian continued on his way, Huang Yan opened her mouth as if to say something but ultimately remained silent.
Watching from a distance, Lin Wei’s eyes shimmered with a chilling light as he stared at Xiaotian’s departing figure and instructed his subordinates, "Find out which family this Yang Xiaotian comes from!"
