Chapter 473 - 360: Cultivation Test, Shocking Everyone, Forced Recruitment?

"Dong dong dong—"

From not too far away, deep chimes echoed again and again.

The area was packed with young disciples hoping to enter the Refining God Sect, each one stepping forward to take the test.

"Seven chimes, Early Stage of Void Refining! You’re qualified to enter the sect and compete!"

As the bell rang, an elder sitting high up nearby announced loudly.

Everyone watched as a stunning young woman in her early twenties slowly lowered her fist, straightened up, and wore an expression full of pride.

The woman’s figure was graceful, her nose was straight and defined, her forehead full and bright—she was truly a sight to behold.

She drew second glances from quite a few young men.

"Which sect’s top talent is this?! Early twenties and already at the Early Stage of Void Refining? Even the top ten powers of the Immortal Realm barely compare!"

"You seriously don’t know? That’s Yu Tingting, the Sect Leader of Piaomiao Sect’s granddaughter!"

"No wonder! Piaomiao Peak is one of the top ten forces in the Immortal Realm, so their top disciples reaching Void Refining isn’t anything unusual."

"Still, this Yu Tingting really is a beauty! I wonder who’s lucky enough to share her life."

"You don’t need to worry about that—it won’t be you anyway!"

...

The crowd started to buzz, some admiring, others jealous.

After all, reaching the Void Refining Stage at Yu Tingting’s age was true genius among geniuses.

Yu Tingting didn’t say much, just smiled and walked into the crowd.

Plenty of people were already waiting within.

"Blue truly surpasses its source—Junior Sister Yu, I bet you’ll reach the Middle Stage of Void Refining in no time!"

A young man smiled as he spoke.

The man had sword-like brows and star-bright eyes, quite handsome and charismatic—many girls’ gazes lingered on him.

But his eyes focused only on Yu Tingting.

"Senior Brother Zhou, you flatter me! I doubt I’ll ever catch up to your cultivation in this lifetime!"

Yu Tingting laughed.

"Ahem—let’s go, up the mountain!"

A burly middle-aged man standing off to the side coughed heavily, breaking up their conversation—he had no patience for their flirty banter.

"Uncle-Master, you all go on up to the sect! I want to stick around and see what other geniuses show up—so I’ll have an edge come the contest!"

Yu Tingting explained; once inside the sect, she’d have nothing to do, and honestly, she loved being at the center of attention here.

"Fine! Don’t wander off! Zhou Qibai, stay with Tingting and inform me immediately if anything happens!"

With that, Wu Kui led the rest of the disciples quickly toward the Refining God Sect, hoping to claim a good spot ahead of time.

So Yu Tingting and Zhou Qibai remained as the crowd watched them with envy, continuing to observe the other young disciples testing their cultivation.

Right now, Lin Chang’sheng and Zhao Shuang’Er were also in line, waiting for their turn.

Gu Shan stood off to the side, waiting.

Gu Shan’s bulky figure drew plenty of eyes.

It wasn’t just that he was huge—his fists were a whole size bigger than normal people’s, clearly not someone you wanted to mess with.

"Is that dude a Body Refinement cultivator? His fists are massive compared to anyone else’s!"

"Body Refinement? Who still does that these days? Immortal Techniques and Spirit Treasures have totally outclassed it!"

"Keep it down, his cultivation’s no joke—you don’t wanna make him mad!"

"Whatever, a big fist doesn’t mean he’s tough! I’m not scared!"

...

Some in the crowd, full of themselves, kept hurling provocation his way.

If Gu Shan were in the mood for trouble, he’d probably flatten those ants with a single punch.

"Dong dong dong—"

People ahead of Lin Chang’sheng kept testing one after another.

Most cultivators were getting around three chimes.

Lin Chang’sheng soon figured out how each chime matched the cultivation levels.

This copper bell was only for testing cultivators at Divinity Transformation Stage and above.

You needed at least Divinity Transformation to use Primordial Power and make the bell sound.

One chime meant Early Stage of Divinity Transformation, two was Middle Stage, three was Late Stage.

Six was Early Stage of Void Refining, nine was Middle Stage, twelve was Late Stage of Void Refining.

"Dong—"

The last person ahead of Lin Chang’sheng put everything he had into it, barely managing one chime.

Barely qualified to enter the Refining God Sect.

Then it was Lin Chang’sheng’s turn.

"Who’s this kid? Which sect? Never seen him before!"

"Who knows! Probably just some nobody trying to fill out the numbers!"

"Hey, at least he gets to see all the top talents—this is probably the biggest event of his whole life!"

"Guys like this are just here to get stepped on by the true geniuses. Without them around, how would the stars shine so bright?"

"Exactly, all just a bunch of nobodies pretending to be contenders!"

...

Lin Chang’sheng hadn’t even started his test and the crowd was already tossing out all kinds of harsh words.

Thankfully, Lin Chang’sheng didn’t bother arguing—he knew what he was truly capable of.

"Let’s see who steps on who!"

Lin Chang’sheng thought, gathering all his Primordial Power into his palm, and then smashed his fist forward.

A golden Fist Aura instantly slammed into the copper bell in front of him.

"Dong dong dong—"

The bell shook violently under Lin Chang’sheng’s blow, the sound rolling over itself again and again.

That shut up everyone who’d just been looking down on him.

"Six—six chimes, this kid’s at Early Stage of Void Refining?"

"Dong—"

Before one young man could finish, another bell ring sounded.

The chimes reached seven, then eight, and finally settled at nine—then everything went quiet.

"Nine—nine chimes! That means Middle Stage of Void Refining? Unbelievable! How has nobody ever heard of this kind of talent?"

Not far away, even a middle-aged man couldn’t help but gasp in admiration.

He was probably a sect elder from one of the major schools—even he hadn’t seen a prodigy like this before.