25: 7-Floor Golden Pagoda

A long week went by as Li fan boringly did his outer-disciple jobs daily, even so he was only able to accumulate a little over 100 contribution points, which from zhao wang's words, that was considered an abnormal value especially since it was his first week in the sect, Li fan ran into a lot more demons, some would be beasts covered in demonic red aura.

Li fan bid farewell to Li xiao xiao Hong before rushing out of his courtyard and towards zhao Wang, in this long week, Li fan and zhao Wang have gotten a lot closer, after all zhao Wang was the only person Li fan knew in the sect..

"Brother fan, i hope we are both going to become inner-disciples today" zhao Wang said with a little laugh!

That's right, Li fan managed to breakthrough to the 7th stage, actually, he had broken through 3 days ago, he used the last three days to calm his cultivation and practice his sword arts..

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Somewhere in the soaring cloud sect, on a mountain peak..

There was a huge 7 story golden pagoda on the mountain peak, the huge and towering pagoda gave off a profound aura as two inner-sect elders stood in front of it, they stared intently at the crowd of outer-disciple patiently waiting and not making a sound..

"Many of you may not know, but this golden pagoda has been in the sect for hundreds of years, with the help of a formation we will be able to start this outer-disciple promotion exam, those able to pass the 3rd floor will be able to become inner-disciples, the ranking of each student will be based on how many monsters, demons and cultivators they have defeated during the trial, the higher one goes in the golden pagoda formation, the stronger the opponents are, I wish you all good luck, let the promotion trials began" an elder said loudly, his voice was heard all throughout the mountain peak as hundreds of outer-disciples listened intently..

Some would make it and become inner-disciples, while others would fail and have to wait to retake the trials..

Boom!!!

The huge gates of the golden pagoda blasted open, a huge cloud of dusts erupted out as many disciples rushed in..

Shua!!

The two elders made a hand seal and the area around the pagoda seemed to light up, talismans flew out as the golden pagoda gave off an even more profound aura..

"Good luck, brother fan" zhao Wang rushed into the golden pagoda after waving towards Li fan, Li fan also hastily rushed in.

It was as if all the students disappeared and he was the only one on the first floor, the whole floor was empty.

On the wall, a large number "1" was carved deeply into it, indicating that this was the lowest floor..

From zhao wang's words, the golden pagoda's first level released opponents at the 5th stage of the body refining realm, and on the second level it was 6th stage opponents, and so on..

To surpass the 3rd level, one would need to beat many opponents at the 7th stage, which was not an easy feat, especially since it was more than one opponent.

Li fan was planning to go all out to find where he tru strength was, the stronger the opponents the better..

"It's finally starting" Li fan pulled out his sword and rushed out, there were 3 cultivators at the 5th stage in front of him..

With a few sword slashes they all turned into dust and disappeared..

Li fan felt his body become light as he appeared on the second floor..

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"Ohh?, someone has already passed the first floor?, that was fast" an elder said as he held the hand sign..

"Seems like it's the disciple we heard about a week ago" the other elder said as he held a hand sign while levitating above the golden pagoda.

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Not long after, many disciples started waking out of the pagoda, most weren't even able to deal with 3 5th stage cultivators even while being at the 7th stage..

They all went And stood in front of the pagoda with gloomy faces..

More and more disciples came out of the golden pagoda, those who were able to make it to the second floor were instantly killed and sent out of the pagoda...

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Shua!!

Li fan calmly awaited his opponents as he appeared in the third floor, his progress speed was second to none in the golden pagoda..

Just like always, he easily made it to the fourth floor, but this time he used more strength than expected...

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Few disciple's came out of the pagoda furiously after failing the third floor, if they had passed they could have instantly became inner disciples..

Once again, Li fan appeared in the 5th floor after clearing the 4th floor with two-swords style, he could feel the strength of the opponent's increasing sharply on each floor.

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At this time, disciples who failed the 4th floor were separated from those who failed the floors below the 4th floor, it was clear that they had passed...

Li fan appeared onto the 6th floor after a while of fighting, his opponents were getting so strong that head even Starting to break a sweat...

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Some disciple's who passed the 4th floor were eliminated after a while on the 5th floor, even zhao Wang was apart of this batch of disciples..

Since the start of the outer-disciple promotion exam, it has been exactly 2 hours, the higher one went in the pagoda, the longer the battles were and the more intelligent the opponents..

Only one disciple was able to beat the 5th floor, immediately ascending to The 6th floor..

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"I will have to take this seriously" Li fan said, he had no idea of the situation outside, but he felt that reaching the 6th stage was a huge accomplishment..

He gained a lot of trouble on the 5th floor since the martial artists and opponents were at the 9th stage..

Which could only mean, the opponents on the 6th floors would be at the heavenly Qi realm..

Li fan became shocked at the opponent not far from him, a white-robes martial artist floated freely in the air with a sword in its arms, it had a blank and burly face as if it was covered in small clouds..