Servant disciple

Immediately it was noon the kids were stopped from practicing.

The Female Commander stood up and said, " Line up in front of the stone monolith containing the battle technique you learnt, there would be someone to access your progress.

Zhan Wei stood in spot as he watched the rest of his peers move towards a stone monolith, as someone relatively new into Qi cultivation and battle techniques Zhan Wei didn't really know the stages involved in the mastery of battle techniques but he was sure he had at least mastered the three battle techniques to the extent where he could use them freely and display their might but this female Commander was asking everyone to queue up in front of one stone monolith.

Zhan Wei didn't think there was anything wrong with what she said, after all with the time frame it was already difficult for the kids to attain much progress in learning even one battle technique.

After standing for while Zhan Wei also moved and stood in front of the stone monolith of the " Jade Breaking fist ".

he could have have called any of the guards or the female Commander and told them he had practiced all three battle techniques but there was no need to do so.

Based on his performance in the previous stages it was almost certain he wasn't going to enter the Mystic Heaven Sect, since he wasn't entering there was no need to cause any exaggerated display in the final round.

One by one the kids displayed their chosen battle techniques in front of the guards as they inscribed their progress on their tokens.

The guards used words they could understand and from the words of those around Zhan Wei could understand the levels of comprehension of battle techniques.

(Basics - Mastery - Large Success - Great Attainment - Perfection).

Most of the youths had just reached the basics of the battle technique they practiced while the more talented ones had attained Mastery.

Qi cultivators primarily made use of their spirit qi, weapons and treasure, few people practiced fist techniques and even those who practiced them still practiced weapon techniques, after in all in a life and death situation could one's fist contend with a sword, although Fist techniques also had their own might and were not necessarily weaker few used them and the queue for the Jade Breaking Fist was the shortest.

As for Zhan Wei the reason he chose to line up in front of the stone monolith of the Jade Breaking fist was because it had the shortest queue, most of the geniuses choose the more practical and powerful Extreme light sword and Life Severing Saber battle techniques so it was not surprising the only thing he could hear from the guard in front was " basic " with only a few " Mastery " on his queue.

Obviously it was less talented ones that chose to learn the Jade Breaking fist.

On the other lines there were more impressive results, of the most eye catching geniuses only Duanmu Yan and Li Xiaqing had displayed their practice, with Duanmu Yan having reached the Peak of Mastery in the Life Severing Saber and Li Xiaqing Normal Mastery in the Extreme light Sword.

Due to the short queue after a while it was Zhan Wei's turn and the person in front of him was the impulsive guard who had almost exploded in anger when he saw Zhan Wei practicing the battle techniques earlier

he had a disdainful look on his face seeing it was Zhan Wei.

The guard watched Zhan Wei look at him calmly and almost could not restrain his anger, " this trash had wasted most of his time looking at the stone monoliths and when he even practiced he was just playing around, if he wasn't just a normal guard, if only he was a Commander or the City lord or Elders with power he would have slapped this piece of shit aside ".

Calming himself he said coldly, " Show me your practice ! " and like the rest Zhan Wei took his stance.

One should not think of the name when imagining the Jade Breaking fist, it wasn't forceful at all.

One's qi had to be vibrated and compressed according to the qi circulatory route of the Jade Breaking fist before punching causing the qi to explode from within the target.

Revolving his qi according to the meridian pathway of the Jade Breaking fist Zhan Wei punched out,

Unlike those before him, his display of the Jade Breaking fist didn't seem powerful and looked unimpressive but the air exploded just few meters in front of him.

The explosion attracted the attention of everyone and the guard froze in shock.

The Jade Breaking fist was a yin type of technique, meaning it required subtle use of force rather than might, of the three battle techniques it was the easiest to learn but hardest to master, but ..!

The Jade Breaking fist the kid was displaying had already exceeded the realm of Mastery.

The impact of the explosion using the Jade Breaking fist technique and his qi by virtue of his cultivation level was already at the " Large Success" realm.

One should not underestimate the various levels of comprehension of battle techniques, the difference between the realm of Mastery and Large Success was much.

If the realm of Basics was just familiarity with the battle technique then the realm of Mastery was when one's understand of the battle technique had reached a proper levels of ease, it was simply mastering the forms of the battle technique till one could use it freely.

But the Large Success realm and beyond was when the real might of battle techniques was displayed, before now the rest had being displaying their battle techniques and although it was impressive it had not really caused too much of an effect but the might of the Large Success realm of Zhan Wei's Jade Breaking fist was enough to garner the attention of everyone.

From the platform the Elders and Lu Zhenchuan all had looks of approval but no one said anything, unlike the rest they could monitor Zhan Wei's qi flow so they knew he had made some progress in the learning the battle techniques, but seeing him display the Large Success realm of the Jade Breaking fist was enough to earn their approval.

if only Zhan Wei had good results in the previous stages he would have been a good seed for cultivation, but the halo of the " Origin Void Constitution" was enough to offset any form of worth he had as a battle genius, the Origin Void Constitution made him not worth investing in.

Yet surprisingly the Elder of the Crimson furnace peak " Jia Hong " looked at Lu Zhenchuan and said, " City lord Lu , have someone check if the kid has made some progress in the other battle techniques, if he has and is still willing to become enter the Mystic Heaven Sect, tell him to earn enough credit and my Crimson furnace peak would accept him as a servant disciple ".

As a top Sect in the Canglan Continent, the disciple recruitment test wasn't the only way for the Mystic Heaven Sect to accept disciples.

Members of the vassal forces of the Mystic Heaven Sect also had the opportunity to become members of the Mystic Heaven Sect if they had enough credits and some of their upper echelons were even members , some wealthy families and nobles clans would even buy credits for their younger generation to be allowed into the Sects.

This was one of the ways the Mystic Heaven Sect rewarded it's vassal forces, amassed wealth and also formed relations.

Of course one could only became a servant or outer disciple in the Mystic Heaven Sect with credits.

Even the amount of credits required to become outer members was enough to deter most people except if one had a powerful clan as backing while the remaining ranks of discipleship were strict with talents and cultivation level requirements.

Still becoming even a servant disciple was enough fortune to most of the masses , by asking Zhan Wei to earn enough credits and telling Lu Zhenchuan directly the Crimson furnace peak Elder was simply telling Lu Zhenchuan to allow became a member of the guards of the Bright Jade City and earn enough credits to become a servant disciple, it was simply a favour.

Lu Zhenchuan smiled as he cupped his fist, " This Lu would do as Elder Jia says ! ", Even without Elder Jia telling him Lu Zhenchuan was already looking for to keep Zhan Wei close in order to find out and obtain his treasure.

Elder Jia suggestions perfectly aligned with his plans and the only difference was Zhan Wei was going to die !.