Wolf in sheep's clothing

"Don't play dumb you assholes. We know your group did everything, otherwise how can we lose 700 people in one night. We even used guards."

The entrance exam of the Tranquil Dragon Sect was famous. A few people died every year during this exam. This unique way of recruiting was very effective and the sect decided to continue this tradition exactly because of this. A case like this where 700 cultivator died never happened before. Thus, no one complained. The point of the exam was to search for talents. Also, no one wanted to offend other big families and clans. Thus, the death toll was always low. No one expected that something like this can happen. The two teams started arguing with each other like it was cheating or something.

"No, listen, one of our members left and seems like he knows something. Can we talk to him? He's that ponytail who tricked everyone before the entrance exam."

"What? He's not with us. The 200 cultivator who joined us yesterday all said that he was the one who kicked them out."

One of the guards suddenly regained his consciousness during the conversation. There was a cut on his throat, his face was pale due to excessive blood loss, but Wei Yuan was careless and the guard still managed to survive somehow. The members of the wolf and sheep team rushed there immediately.

"What happened to you? Do you remember something?"

"That tricky ponytail... He killed everyone, but... his token was broken."

The two groups helped the guard cultivator to recover and asked him more questions. This case was incomprehensible. The ponytail broke his token and still killed the sheeps? The white haired girl already knew that was not the case. She knew that it was another trick and she was sure that the token was not broken. Then how? He can't hide his real token. The girl got confused and decided to stop pondering. Instead she started focusing on the guard who just recovered.

"He came here last night. He was seriously wounded and looked like someone who is going to die. He showed his broken token and asked us to help him get revenge. He also said that you guys wanted to kill him because of his first trick."

"He said something like this? We didn't do anything with him. You guys got tricked again. This guy is crazy cunning, he intentionally injured himself. Also, I think that his badge is still not broken and it's just another trick, but I still don't know how can he do this.

Said the white haired girl. Everyone started thinking and eventually their expressions turned darker and darker. Especially the sheep group.

"Now what do you want to do. The wolf group can kill the whole sheep group easily."

"We won't do that. This is not an exam anymore. We need to catch that ponytail and kill him. We can just try the entrance exam in the next year if we fail"

Everyone agreed on this. The only problem was the result. Trying the entrance exam again in the next year was indeed an option. However, one year was a long time and skipping a year is a big setback.

TOP OF THE MOUNTAIN

The elders loudly argued back and forth around the table.

"What can we do now grand elder? The kids decided to search for that monster. They can't get more points this way and we end up with only one new disciple. We recruited around 200 last year. This is a big setback to our sect."

"Let's just wait for now. We can just randomly recruit the other 199 and say that we observed them or something. Getting a normal talent is still better than to get nothing. We can also help them with resources. The damage is not that big in the end."

The grand elder ended his speech and the others nodded, but one of the elders raised another question suddenly.

"What about that ruthless boy, I think he is dangerous and we can't let him enter the sect."

Another elder nodded.

"I also think the same. He is strong and smart, but he is a walking disaster. He offended too many this time and who knows what will happen in the future. He is a bomb."

The other elders agreed with this but the grand elder started shaking his head.

"No, he only killed the sheeps and didn't break the rules. He also probably knew what he did. Do you really believe that he will offend the half continent just to pass the entrance exam? His performance was just too good and we didn't expect this."

These were words filled with experience. The elders nodded in understanding. Soon, an old man walked inside the room. This old man was the sect master. His long white beard indicated his old age. His face was calm and his eyes fierce. He looked at the elders and asked

"What happened? You all look so troubled."

The elders explained everything slowly. They started with the first trick where Wei Yuan fooled everyone and gained advantage. Then, next was the trick with the tokens. Lastly, the elders told the sect master about how Wei Yuan tricked the guards and killed almost everyone in the sheep group. The sect master became shocked.

"What's with this boy. He acted like a wolf in sheep's clothing. He found unique ways to gain points and advantage. He is more than qualified to join our sect. Killing was allowed. No one can complain. Let's end this exam here. Accept the boy and test the talent of the remaining cultivators with spirit stones."

Spirit stones were little transparent stones. The sect used these little stones to check the talent of new disciples. The Tranquil Dragon sect never used them before because their entrance exam was different. Thus, many elders forgot the existence of spirit stones and panicked in this new situation. Luckily, the sect master was wise.

INSIDE THE FOREST

Wei Yuan currently meditated silently on a big tree. He reached stage 8 of Qi condensation and planned to find a new place soon. He knew that the two groups will search for him. The sheep group will attack him because they lost their friends and the chance to win. The wolf group will attack him because Wei Yuan was too dangerous and they also knew that killing more sheep in this situation is too cruel. No one wanted to do that. The biggest reason was that Wei Yuan is currently first place with 700 points. Killing Wei Yuan and then kill a sheep. Every member of the wolf group wanted to do this. The sheep group just wanted to kill him and the reason was obvious.

Wei Yuan was just about to stand up when he suddenly got teleported away. He found himself in the same white room. The sheep group and wolf group suddenly appeared in this white room. Everyone looked at Wei Yuan, someone even started running towards him, but the elder stopped him.

"Let me go! This monster killed my brother! I will kill him."

The elder just tossed back the crying young boy. He understood his feelings, but this is not the right time and place to do this.

"Get stronger and get your revenge."

Said the elder and looked away to continue his speech.

"We decided to end this exam due to the circumstances. Of course, everyone will get a chance to become a disciple tommorrow. We will measure your talent just like the other sects."

The elder pointed at Wei Yuan and continued

"You are the only one who passed this exam. Come with me."