Chapter 1: The Yang Family's Trash

  "Of course it won't be like that. The first selection can be completed very quickly, at most it will only take one day." Gu Jing explained in response to Yang Lei's question.

  "Can it be completed in just one day? Isn't that a bit too fast? After all, there are over 8,000 people!" Yang Lei asked with some disbelief.

  "Yes, Jing Jie, this shouldn't be possible, 8,000 people, one by one, how can it be done within a day?" Yang Qing Shui also expressed his doubts.

  "It's not impossible, actually it doesn't even need a day." Gu Jing glanced at the two of them and said.

  Yang Lei saw Gu Jing's confidence and knew that her background was extraordinary. She and Gu Lao should have a close relationship with the Xuanji Gate, so she actually believed in Gu Jing's words for several points.

  "Doesn't need a day, is it directly measuring the root bone isn't formed?"

  Gu Jing shook his head: "No, how could it be about testing the root bone? Those who can enter Wu Shi before the age of thirty, their root bones are all good. And although Xuanji Gate has high requirements for root bone qualifications, root bone is not the only standard for selecting disciples."

  "What are the criteria for selecting disciples in the Xuanji Gate?" Yang Lei asked further.

  Cultivation.

  Yang Lei rolled his eyes, isn't this a waste of words? With age comes limitations, and the higher one's cultivation is, the better their innate talent should be. Isn't that about right?

  "What's the difference between this and the root bone?"

  "Of course, there is a difference. People with high cultivation may not necessarily have the best talent, which means that people with good talent may not necessarily have good cultivation. This also involves two issues: one is opportunity, and the other is whether this person is working hard enough." Gu Jing gave him a stupid look.

  Yang Lei was speechless when he saw it, and he was even despised by others.

  However, what she said was indeed a fact. Cultivation is not only related to talent, but also to opportunity and the time spent on cultivation. The more diligent the cultivator is, the higher their attainment will naturally be. As for opportunities and luck, those are mysterious things that can be encountered but cannot be sought after.

  "How can we select the first batch of people within a day?"

  "Put pressure on them and see how long they can hold out, see what their endurance is like? The last thousand to persist will be selected for the next round." Gu Jing said.

  "This... it's also difficult to select in just one day, right?" Yang Lei was stunned for a moment. Among these more than 8,000 people, even if they were testing endurance and perseverance, it wasn't that easy to test them out.

  "Really stupid, the elders who come to select from the Xuanji Gate will all bring a magical artifact with them. They'll put everyone inside the artifact and then have it apply pressure. The pressure will get bigger and bigger, those who can't hold on, can't bear it, will be automatically sent out by the artifact, that's how they're eliminated."

  "Magic artifact!"

  "More than 8,000 people enter at the same time!"

  Yang Lei involuntarily took a breath of cool air, such a magical artifact should be of a very high level, the Xuanji Gate has a great momentum. A magical artifact that can simultaneously test over 8,000 people at once is indeed powerful, worthy of being a major sect of the Immortal Path.

  "Of course, more than 80,000 people is just a small matter, even if it's doubled or increased tenfold, there won't be any problem." Gu Jing added.

  "Really amazing." Yang Qingshui sincerely praised, admiring in his heart, and yearning for the Mysterious Gate even more.

  Yang Lei was shocked in his heart, but he just smiled on his face. A magical artifact? He would own one sooner or later, and what he had was far more powerful than any magical artifact - the Omnipotent Cultivation System. With this system in hand, everything else was mine to have.

  "We're off, the test is about to begin." Gu Jing urged at this time.

  Three people walked together, and soon squeezed their way to the front.

  Now, for the several principals who were in charge of selecting the previous Xuanmen, they could all see clearly that the leader was Tianyi Elder, and there were also three others, a middle-aged man, an old-looking but yet having a fairy-like demeanor, and the woman was a beautiful and charming lady.

  "See? Those three are all sect executives of the Xuanji Gate, and their cultivation is at the Wu Sheng Da Yuan Man boundary. They're just one step away from entering the Divine Stage, and once they enter the Divine Stage, they can become the sect's guardian deities." Gu Jing explained to Yang Lei and Yang Qing Shui.

  Yang Lei was thinking that Gu Jing knew so much about the Mystic Gate, it seemed that she was originally a member of the Mystic Gate, and Gu Lao should be one of the elders of the Mystic Gate.

  "Quiet sister, you know a lot." Yang Qing Shui said to Gu Jing.

  "That's natural." Gu Jing raised an eyebrow, seemingly quite pleased with himself.

  At this moment, Elder Tianyi waved his hand and the originally noisy square suddenly fell silent.

  "This time, the selection of my Xuanji Gate has begun. Every time I select, I will choose the most excellent people among you to become my disciples. The number of people selected is not many, and now there are 8,632 people among you. The maximum number of people who can be selected will not exceed 30, which means that I will select 30 people from among the 8,632 of you to enter my Xuanji Gate." Tianyi Elder said, looking at the crowd.

  Yang Lei was somewhat puzzled, didn't Gu Jing say there were twenty people before, how did it suddenly become thirty people?

  Yang Lei looked at Gu Jing and found her shaking her head: "I don't know this either, Grandpa should know."

  Seeing her say that, Yang Lei had no choice but to give up. However, for some people, this is a huge benefit. The more people selected, the more opportunities they have.

  "Among these thirty people, some can become inner disciples, some may even become true transmission disciples, and of course, some are just outer disciples. All this depends on your efforts, and there is also luck involved. The selection of disciples in our Xuanji Gate is very strict, even for outer disciples. However, whether you can become my disciple or not, I hope you don't get discouraged. If it doesn't work out this time, there will be another opportunity next time. That's all I have to say, let me introduce the selection process directly."

  "This selection will be conducted in three stages. The first stage will select 1,000 people from among the more than 8,000 of you, the second stage will select 100 people from the remaining 1,000, and the final stage will select 30 people from the remaining 100. These 30 people will become outer disciples of my Tianyi Sect." Elder Tianyi said, looking at the more than 8,000 people below.

  "Now the first round of selection is about to begin, this selection will test everyone's perseverance and endurance. Anyone who can persist until the end will be selected out of the 1,000 people, while those who cannot persist will be eliminated."

  "Now, no one should resist. I will bring you all into a different space, where the pressure will become increasingly greater. Those who cannot withstand this pressure will be sent out, which means that anyone who is sent out is considered to have failed." Tianyi Elder looked around at everyone, "Do you understand now?"

  "I understand." The crowd shouted in unison, their voices deafening.

  Heaven nodded slightly: "Understood is good, so now you all relax, don't resist, I will take you all into the hyperspace."

  Then, with a wave of his hand, the old man led everyone to feel a momentary blackout, and soon they found themselves in a huge palace. The palace was enormous, and even 8,000 people standing inside seemed very spacious.

  Yang Lei felt his surroundings.

  Is this inside the immortal artifact? This immortal artifact is indeed powerful. Yang Lei displayed his True Eagle Eye and found that the interior of the immortal artifact was extremely vast, while the palace where everyone was located was only a tiny corner of it, not even one ten-thousandth of the entire internal space of the immortal artifact. It can be seen how vast the interior of this immortal artifact is. This is simply a small world.

  Soon after everyone adapted, the pressure in the great hall gradually began to increase, but for Yang Lei, this was nothing at all. The Iron Cloth Shirt that Yang Lei had cultivated didn't even put this small amount of pressure in his eyes.

  Of course, this pressure is not only physical pressure but also mental pressure. Yang Lui cultivated the Ice Heart Technique, his mental strength far surpasses that of others, and even compared to the strong ones in the Martial Emperor's realm, it's nothing to be afraid of, so this bit of pressure is just a small matter.

  She glanced at Gu Jing beside her, who was also very leisurely, just like nothing had happened.

  Yang Lei was clear that Gu Jing's cultivation was at the fourth stage of Wu Huang, and he wouldn't put too much pressure on this point. However, Yang Qing Shui should have some slight difficulties, but the current pressure wasn't too great, and Yang Qing Shui could still hold on. After all, Yang Qing Shui was a martial artist in the Wu Wang realm.

  When Yang Lei left the Empty Fantasy Cave, he saw that Yang Qing Shui's cultivation was at the first stage of Wu Wang. Now, after so much time has passed, his cultivation has also advanced to the second stage of Wu Wang, and he will soon be able to break through and enter the third stage of Wu Wang.

  Looking around, in just a short period of time, only about ten minutes or so, many people had already been eliminated. There were still quite a few people present who were already drenched in sweat, but they persisted with gritted teeth.

  But Yang Wei knew they wouldn't last much longer. Sure enough, in less than a minute, the figures of these people disappeared into the great hall.

  In this grand hall, there were a few people who were as leisurely as Yang Yue and Gu Jing.

  One of them was Zhao Xiahuan, the eldest son of Zhao Yuanchen, who was 22 years old and had a cultivation level of Wu Huang third stage.

  Another person who is also considered a familiar face to Yang Wei is Dongfang Xiaoyu's younger brother, Dongfang Xiaodao, who is 21 years old and has a cultivation level of Wu Huang third stage.

  In addition, there were four others who were also good, one of whom was a member of the royal family named Gan Wuzhi, 21 years old, with a cultivation base at the level of Wu Wang Da Yuan Man.

  One was Wang Jia's Wang Feng, twenty years old, and his cultivation was also Wu Wang Da Yuan Man.

  One of the two remaining was a family member, a grandson, no, a granddaughter of Gu Wang Gu Wanyue, Gu Ziyan. She was disguised as a man, and if Yang Lei didn't have his keen eyesight to see through all disguises, he might not have been able to tell. Gu Ziyan was 18 years old and had reached the second stage of Wu Huang. Her root bone had reached 11, which was rare, with a variant attribute of thunder root bone. With such a root bone and talent, becoming an inner disciple was a certainty, and becoming a true disciple wouldn't be difficult either, as long as she received some cultivation. In less than ten years, she would definitely become a Wu Sheng, or maybe even in just five years. Yang Lei knew that in the Xuanji Gate, such talent would be fought over by all the elders, who would all want to take her on as their disciple.

  The mutation attribute is rare and it's a good quality mutation attribute.

  There is another one with a dark attribute, with a higher cultivation level, reaching the fourth rank of Wu Huang, at the age of 19, named Zhou You. However, what makes Yang Wei curious is that his appraisal technique couldn't see through his background at all, it's a string of question marks, so this Zhou You is absolutely not a simple person.

  Of course, apart from these people who particularly caught Yang Lei's attention, the others were also quite good, very relaxed, but compared to those six, they were a bit inferior.

  In addition, among those who were eliminated, Yang Lei used his appraisal technique to appraise them and found that several of them had excellent qualifications. Among them, two had a root bone that reached ten stars, but they couldn't withstand the pressure. Yang Lei knew that these guys had great qualifications, but they were lazy in their cultivation, thus wasting their superior qualifications.

  P.S: In order to stay on the new book chart for a little while longer, tomorrow's update might be a bit late!