To Lan Yingyue, the fact that a mole in her eyes told her to get lost was really hard for her to accept, and if it was in another place, she would have slapped Ning Cheng to death long ago.
Unfortunately, she still had to roll now, she really couldn’t figure out how Ning Cheng, a Qi gathering cultivator, could get to the Hua Continent, and how he could score a hundred percent in the fifth written test and come first. Lan Yingyue, who had been looking forward to the Five Star Academy Competition, was completely out of that mood this time.
She knew that Ning Cheng’s spiritual roots were very poor, but the Five Star Academy Competition was not only about doujinshi, but also about the rest of the competition. One of the competitions was the written test, and since Ning Cheng’s written test results were so strong, the Five Star Academy would definitely rush to take him, even if Ning Cheng’s spiritual roots were too rubbish to be used.
With Lan Yingyue gone, He Hong could only leave in disgrace. Luckily, Jia Han had regard for the face of Meteor Star Academy and did not do anything to He Hong.
Ning Cheng also knew that he could not do anything to He Hong at the moment, as He Hong was a Yuan Building cultivator of Meteorite Star Academy, unless he was much stronger than He Hong and could take the opportunity to teach him a lesson. It was simply unrealistic to let an outsider take action.
Jia Han smiled faintly at Ning Cheng, ”Not bad young man, to get the first place in the preliminary round among so many people, there is great promise for the future. According to the practice of the Five Star Academy of the Huazhou Continent’s unified disciple recruitment, after the preliminary round, the top ten will be able to join the Five Star Academy first before continuing to the rematch. Good luck.”
After Jia Han finished speaking, his figure had already disappeared with a spread.
Zhu Mu’er waited for Jia Han to leave and immediately said excitedly, “Ning Xiaocheng, even Deacon Jia Han congratulated you, Deacon Jia is a Xuan Liquid expert and will definitely look after you in the future.”
Ning Cheng knew that Zhu Mu’er was dreaming, Jia Han had only said that he wished himself good luck, but never said a word about coming to me for anything in the future. His first place finish in the preliminary round was not worth having someone like Jia Han come and befriend him.
Just now, Jia Han said he wished himself good luck, but that was just a casual remark, if he took it seriously, he would be foolish.
Zhu Mu’er suddenly said, ”Ning Xiaocheng, it seems that you are the only one of the top ten in the preliminary round who has not joined the Five Star Academy, the remaining nine are already disciples of the Five Star Academy.
Only then did Ning Cheng notice the top ten on the sixth large screen, and it was indeed this Huayu Sect that was indicated behind his origin, the remaining nine were indeed all already disciples of the Five Star Academy.
At that moment, the sound kyu on the big square of Moze suddenly sounded, “The preliminary rounds are now completely finished, five preliminary written tests have decided the thousand outstanding disciples, the final will be held in ten days. According to the pre-tournament regulations, the top ten in the preliminary rounds can choose the Five Star Academy to join first. As the cultivators from the second to the tenth place in the preliminary round have already joined the major five-star sects, only Ning Xiaocheng of the first place Hua Yu Sect has not yet chosen a five-star academy. I now ask Yun Bo, the head of the Huayu Sect, and Ning Xiaocheng, a disciple of the Huayu Sect, to go to the main altar in the centre of the square and choose a five-star academy to join.”
“The main altar has been established, Ning Xiaocheng, hurry up and go over there.” For Ning Cheng to go and choose a five-star academy, Zhu Mu’er was a little more eager than Ning Xiaocheng.
After saying that Zhu Muer felt still uneasy and once again whispered in Ning Cheng’s ear, “Remember to ask for more benefits, you are the first place in the preliminary written test, even if your spiritual roots are poor, Five Star Academy will rush to ask for you. The five-star academy competition to be held in two years’ time will be the first written test. Now those five-star colleges want you to compete for the six-star colleges in two years’ time.”
Ning Cheng, who was still a little apprehensive, immediately came to a sudden realization after hearing Zhu Mu’er’s words. He was still worried about his poor spiritual roots, if his spiritual roots were poor, even if he came first in the written test he probably wouldn’t necessarily be taken seriously by others. Little did he know that this time, the Five Star Academy was selecting its disciples by memory, in the service of competing for the Six Star Academy two years later. Since that was the case, what was he worried about?
Ning Cheng had already seen that the main altar in the middle of the square had long been filled with people, and on the main altar was divided into five pieces, each of which had a Five Star Academy’s sign displayed above it.
Ning Cheng walked over to Ji Luofei and grabbed her palm, who blushed and was about to urge Ning Cheng to hurry over. Then she heard Ning Cheng whisper in her ear, “Help me put this away and give it to me later.”
After greeting Ji Luofei and stuffing a storage pouch into her hand, he quickly walked towards the main altar at the centre of the square. This storage bag contained all the things that Ning Cheng felt were relatively precious, including the Jade Seal, the Five Elements Falling Treasure Bronze Coins, the Soul Raising Wood, and so on. He was going to the main altar to face experts who were countless higher than him, and in case he was checked, it was very unsafe to keep these things on himself.
The Xuanhuang Pearl that was something Ning Cheng had no choice about, there was no way he could take the Xuanhuang Pearl out. The good thing was that he had obtained part of the Xuanhuang Origin, and the Xuanhuang Pearl was one with him. Coupled with the fact that he was now in first place and not going to be censored, the Xuanhuang Pearl should be unharmed.
Before Ning Cheng could reach the main altar, Yin Bo greeted him with immense excitement, rubbing his hands together as he whispered, “Brother Ning, I really didn’t expect you to help my Huayu Sect win a first place, I really ……”
Ning Cheng understood Yin Bo’s excitement, he patted Yin Bo’s hand and said, “Right now I am still a disciple of the Huayu Sect, and you are the head of the Huayu Sect, try to maintain a little bit of the head’s manners. I took the Huayu Sect’s quota, it’s only right that the Huayu Sect gets some rewards.”
Some people with high cultivation levels on the main altar had obviously heard Ning Cheng’s words, and everyone did not take it personally, this was how this selection of disciples was supposed to be. If all of them came through the Five Star Academy to select and then took the written test, the Five Star Academy did not have so much energy yet. What’s more, the rest of the sects also needed to recruit some disciples. If the Huayu Sect could pick Ning Xiaocheng, then it showed that the Huayu Sect had an eye for talent, and it was only right that they should be rewarded.
Seeing Ning Cheng and Yun Bo, the head of the Huayu Sect, walk up to the main altar, all sorts of chagrined noises were heard from the crowd of onlookers around the square.
“Ning Xiaocheng turned out to be him, I know, he went to our Golden Feather Sect’s residence to beg for a spot and we didn’t give it to him, I should have known that it wouldn’t matter if we gave it all to him, sigh.”
“I know that too, he’s also been to our Jade Tripod Academy’s residency ……”
“Our Liuguang Sect Ning Xiaocheng has also been there, what a pity ……”
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There were many voices of pity, simply because there were really quite a few places that Ning Cheng had gone to in order to find a place in the preliminary round. It was just that he was rejected without exception, people simply didn’t give him a chance once they heard that he was a multi-system Miscellaneous Spiritual Root.
“How could Ning Cheng come here?” Ji Yaohe also saw Ning Cheng and froze, then she understood that Ning Cheng was the one who got the first place, Ning Xiaocheng.
After she understood that Ning Cheng was Ning Xiaocheng, a shocking wave rose in Ji Yaohe’s heart, what she was shocked about was not that Ning Cheng had obtained the first place in the preliminary written examination, what she was shocked about was that Ning Cheng was already at the first level of cultivation. When she first saw Ning Cheng, Ning Cheng was still a trash with four miscellaneous spirit root qualifications. How could such a qualification advance to the first level of True Condensation so quickly? There was definitely something wrong with this.
Unlike Lan Yingyue, who was still at Condensing True cultivation, Ji Yaohe could only vaguely sense Ning Cheng’s cultivation even if he did not conceal his cultivation. She had a preconception and definitely did not believe that Ning Cheng was a Condensed True cultivator, so she simply did not care.
Ji Yaohe was a Yuan Building Realm cultivator, and since Ning Cheng did not conceal his cultivation, she could see at a glance that Ning Cheng was at the first level of True Condensation cultivation.
After understanding that Ning Cheng was at the first level of True Condensation cultivation, Ji Yaohe’s heart suddenly jumped wildly. Ning Cheng had definitely had a heavenly encounter, otherwise it would be impossible for him to advance to the first level of True Condensation so quickly. At this moment she focused almost all of her attention on Ning Cheng, she wanted to know what Ning Cheng would explain about his cultivation advancement.
Ning Cheng walked up to the wide main altar, cupped his fist and turned in all directions, “Ning Xiaocheng has met all the seniors.”
He did not know any of the people up here, but he also knew that none of the people up here were simple goods, they were all incredibly powerful existences. The worst of them were estimated to be Yuan Building cultivators.
Ning Cheng had just finished his greeting when he felt countless divine senses sweeping past him. This caused Ning Cheng to be secretly alarmed, fortunately he had taken away the contents of his storage bag a long time ago, otherwise, it was not certain if the contents of the storage bag would be exposed.
“Not bad, not bad, not even close to those pure spirit root geniuses.” An old man sitting underneath the Qing Yun Academy’s sign smiled and commented a few words before saying to Ning Cheng in a pleasant manner, “You sit down first, I am Ming Hao Cuo, a rank four talisman master from Qing Yun Academy. You have performed calmly on stage and your memory is so strong, no matter what your spiritual roots are, the doors of my Qing Yun Academy are open to you.”
“What’s the use of talismans? Ning Xiaocheng has such a clear memory of spirit herbs, and it is only when he joins my Luo Throat Academy that he can bring his strengths into play. Ning Xiaocheng, I am Cheng Chengxuan of Luo Throat Academy, I can allow you to worship under my Luo Throat Academy Dan Master Yu.” Not waiting for Ming Haoguai of Qing Yun Academy to finish his words, a middle-aged cultivator from Luo Throat Academy interrupted Ming Haoguai’s words.
Immediately afterwards, people from Meteor Star Academy, Divine Wind Academy and Thunder Academy narrated the benefits of their academies to Ning Cheng, and promised Ning Cheng all sorts of things.
Ning Cheng knew very well in his heart that these old guys were all crossing the river and tearing down the bridge, don’t look at how polite these guys were to him now, a first level Condensing Truth cultivator. That was definitely not how good his qualifications were, besides, even if he had pure spirit root qualifications, it was probably not possible for so many people to come and steal him.
The reason for this was still to cope with the upcoming Six Star Academy competition, and as long as they got him, it would mean that they would have a big extra point in the written test level. At the moment, he was some points in the eyes of others.
It was not him, Ning Cheng, that they were grabbing, but the points for the competition for the Six Star Academy a*sessment. Once the Six Star Academy was chosen, he, Ning Cheng, would go wherever he wanted to go, and none of these old guys would definitely look at him with a straight face.
Understanding this Ning Cheng behaved even more calmly and comfortably as he once again clasped his fist and said respectfully, “Thank you all seniors for your love for junior, junior was originally planning to go to the Qing Yun Five Star Academy ……”
“Yes, yes, it would be right to come to our Green Cloud Five Star Academy, you definitely won’t regret it.” When Ming Hao Cuo heard Ning Cheng’s words, he immediately stood up with a smile on his face and said, he was already planning to welcome Ning Cheng to join.
Ning Cheng deliberately sighed and said, “I even found a Green Cloud Order in order to enter the Green Cloud Five Star Academy, but as a result, when I went to register, the Order was confiscated by the Green Cloud Academy not to mention that it had to teach me a lesson, fortunately, I was very sensible and hurriedly did not want the Order anymore, so I escaped.”
“What? Which b*****d dared to confiscate the Qing Yun Order and drive away the first place winner of the preliminary round? I’ll pick his skin.” Ming Hao Gao almost jumped up to a height of three feet, this was still too much.
Ning Cheng laughed coldly in his heart, “I will slowly pay you back with interest for what you owe me, so that you can lose your grandfather’s Green Cloud Order.