22: Soul Purifying Dan

[Ding! Mission completed!

Task: showcase your talent

Reward: 1 lucky draw

Time limit: 30 minutes] the system's mechanical voice sounded off in Li fan's head, he ignored it and politely waited for the elders words..

"Amazing!" The Elder said as he leaped onto the stage, he occasionally whipped out his horsetail whisk as he walked towards Li fan..

"Lad, you are a genius in the ways of martial arts, you definitely have potential to reach the heavenly Qi realm and join the core-sect disciples, I have many expectations for you" the elder patted Li fan's shoulder with a smile as he said..

Li fan smiled before bowing slightly "elder, you are too kind" li fan said..

"Haha, it's good to be cocky with your achievements lad, go stand with those who have passed, there are still a few disciples left, I'm sure no one can show us profound martial arts surpassing your's" the elder smiled once again..

"Thank you, elder" Li fan politely smiled before walking off the stage and towards the group of disciples who had all passed..

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The competition went by and the number of disciples who had failed steadily increased, while the number of passed students barely increased..

No student was able to show profound arts that surpassed Li fan's skills, he would definitely be deemed to have the most talent out of this batch of outer disciples..

The elder would occasionally look at Li fan as if in deep thought, he would then concentrate back onto the stage..

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"System, use the lucky draw" Li fan suddenly remembered the lucky draw..

[Ding!Congratulations!

Reward: Soul Purifying Dan (sent to inventory)] the system's words sounded off n his head..

Li fan didn't know what the soul purifying Dan was, but from the name he had a slight idea of what it would do..

He instantly opened his inventory and pressed on the clear marble-like pill inside, the Dan was nearly transparent...

[Ding!

Item: Soul Purifying Dan

Info: able to strengthen and purify the soul] the system's words were heard once again in his head..

Li fan hurriedly closed the inventory page, he wasn't going to swallow the pill right here and now..

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It wasn't long before the competition ended, there was a huge group of failures and a small group of those who had passed..

A few older outer disciples went around and asked everyone for their names while also looking at everyone's disciple tokens, they held paper and ink and seemed to be taking notes..

Li fan finished saying his name and showed the outer-disciple his disciple token, the token was handed back to Li fan and the outer disciple walked back..

....

"I had fun today, the older outer-disciples will escort you guys back, stay close to them, this can also be considered a small test" the elder flashed around his horsetail whisk and stormed his long white beard, his robes danced in the wind before he slowly levitated, a small cloud appeared under his feet as he took off towards the direction of the sect..

Many disciples were shocked at the speed the elder took off at, they had never seen anything like it, even the could seemed to make way for the old man..

"All of you, follow us back to the sect, if anyone of you were to wander and end up being killed by demonic beasts or even demons, don't say we didn't warn you" a beautiful outer-disciple female walked up and said as she began walking down the mountain path, behind her the older outer-disciples followed her..

Slowly but surely everyone was in a line or cluster as they all followed the path set out by the older outer-disciples...

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Hearing the words of the old man and the beautiful female outer-disciple, no one dared to wander around, some were even scared to take a small step out of the line..

Li fan stood behind Li xiao as they followed them, xiao Hong was sleeping as always atop her head..

.....

Half an hour went by as they traversed he vast forest between the sect and the mountain peak they set off from, it wasn't as dangerous as the older-outer disciple made it sound, but many people were very cautious and kept their guards up..

"Wow"

"We are finally here"

"We have to climb another mountain?"

The disciples became loud once again as they saw the huge golden gate, not only that there was another lengthy stone step path leading up to the mountain peak...

"All outer-disciples stay on the mountain foot which doesn't have much spiritual Qi, only those inner-disciples can live on the peak, while core disciples are given their own mountain peaks" an older outer disciple said as he shouted, causing everyone to calm down..

"For those who passed the test just now, you will only be tasked to fight the demonic beasts at the foot of the mountain and patrol it, while those who failed will have to carry water buckets up the mountain daily, of course the main sect area is free to every disciples, and things can be bought by contribution points from your work" the female outer-disciple said as she pointed towards the mountain peak..

"The mountain peaks with many courtyards are home to inner-disciples, while those with only one Manor are home to core-disciples, there is a path on the side leading towards the main sect area where everyone can go to, follow me" the older outer-disciples thoroughly explained everything as they walked around the foot of the mountain, they soon reached a place surrounded by wooden small courtyards...

"These are where we outer-disciples live, everyone has to wake up every weekday to work, weekends are you only free time" the female outer-disciple said..

"We have said enough, your work starts tomorrow, the number behind your disciple token will indicate your new home" as the older outer-disciples explained about the sect they went their separate ways, leaving the group of new outer-disciples..

Li fan was happy to get xiao Hong, she could keep Li xiao busy while he went out to do his outer-disciple work, he didn't feel too bad about it, since he could become an inner-disciple and stop doing this type of work..

He pulled out his disciple token and followed Li xiao around as they searched for their new home...