Disappointed?

Xueming's face was still pale. His eyes slowly opened and could see clearly again, slowly staring at the faces of those who were waiting for his test result in the Sphere of Illusionary Spell room. Despite not knowing the test result yet, Xueming felt somewhat anxious as he saw Zi Hui’s facial expression. However, the fighting experience and the strange power from the left eye that accidentally appeared were all great benefits beyond his expectation. Even if he failed the test, Xueming would not feel discouraged. He had already decided to continue on the path of a cultivator who would not give up on destiny, and he would never choose any other path. Even though he wasn’t admitted to the Azure Dragon Academy, there were also many other schools for cultivators in the Purple Jade City.

… The burning incense stick just went out in front of Xueming.

Silence lingered on Xueming's mind. Most of the people in the room were silent for they understood his feelings of almost passing the test, should the burning incense stick had lasted for just a little longer.

But the silence could only last for a moment. Li Biao's laughter burst out loudly.

"Hahaha, a scum is indeed always a scum." Although those words appeared to be rhetorical, Xueming knew that a wicked person like Li Biao was deliberately speaking to hurt his feelings.

"Hmm ... Young boy, what's your name?” When Elder Buzhen's voice sounded, all of the actions in the room immediately stopped, and the room fell silent once more.

"Eh ..." Xueming was still disappointed and dazed by the recent event, thus answering the question a bit late. "My name is Long ... Long Xueming, Sir."

"Hmm." Elder Buzhen moaned a low voice in his throat. "You’re extraordinary. Despite having only the second level of the basic Qi cultivation, you were able to slaughter the beast with the first level of the basic Qi."

... The words "slaughter the beast with the first level of the basic Qi" of Elder Buzhen resounded in the two ears of everyone in the room and caused Li Biao to almost collapse to the ground. Zi Hui, having thought that Xueming had to face disappointment, now jumped with joy and ran to Xueming to congratulate him.

Having said that, Elder Buzhen explained the supporting reason. Actually, to see if one could kill the beast or not was easy. If the notifying character did not go out of light after the tester woke up, that means the person could kill the beast. However, this time everyone was staring at the incense stick and speculating that Xueming could only dodge around to buy time. Therefore, this issue of the character’s light was overlooked.

Seeing that the incident was messed up, Li Biao intended to turn over the decision by saying a word of protest. But when he looked at Hong Kun who was in charge of the test platform, he found that Hong Kun was looking at Xueming in shock. When Li Biao’s eyes met Hong Kun’s, Hong Kun immediately understood Li Biao’s thoughts, thus swiftly shaking his head showing disapproval. Because Hong Kun was the only person in the room who knew that Xueming did not fight against a beast with the first level of the basic Qi, but actually one with the third level. Most importantly, Xueming could kill it in just one incense stick. In the future, he would undoubtedly become a great figure.

... This kid is definitely a devil.

Seeing Hong Kun now distancing himself, Li Biao wanted to go and ask for the reason why things had happened like that. But at this moment, everyone in the room was under the eyes of Elder Buzhen, causing him to refrain from doing anything imprudently. He knew well that with his inner disciple status, he was still one step away from the Elder level of the Academy. But if he were the main disciple of the Academy, he would have had the right to protest the Elder.

Realizing that the story did not go as expected, Li Biao gritted his teeth, venting anger on his minions who were all in trouble. Then, he turned around, preparing to flick his head and walk away.

"Wait a minute!" Xueming's voice came chasing after.

Li Biao immediately recognized Xueming's voice. He could not keep a cold face no more. Instead, his face was distorted with anger, before turning around with a loud voice, "You scum don't have the right to speak to me!"

"Hahaha." Xueming suddenly laughed madly, before uttering only one short simple word "Disappointed?" Both men’s bright eyes were staring at each other. It was acknowledged by everyone around that the two declared themselves unequivocally antagonistic. But due to Mu Jinlan’s involvement, people believed the cause of hostility was the young woman, while the truth was not as the rumor had spread. For Xueming, Mu Jinlan's story had ended since he had left the Golden Bird City. In fact, Xueming's resentment was all from the new events that had just happened in this Purple Jade City.

After hearing the word "Disappointed?" from Xueming, Li Biao's bulging veins almost burst apart. But because now he couldn't do anything to Xueming, he could only keep resentment inside. Then, he flicked his head and hastily stepped away.

"You’ve got quite a dirty mouth." Zi Hui spoke with half laughter to Xueming in a relaxed manner.

"..." Xueming did not reply, only smiled knowingly before asking Zi Hui. "Zi Hui, do you know who was controlling this magic sphere?"

Zi Hui nodded. Hearing Xueming's voice, Zi Hui could have guessed that in the magic sphere, there must have been something fishy. "Usually, the mechanisms in the Azure Dragon Academy were supervised by the senior disciples. As for the controller’s name, I'm not sure.” Zi Hui said as he turned to point his finger at Hong Kun. When Xueming turned to look at the endpoint of Zi Hui's finger, his gaze immediately met with Hong Kun’s.

Xueming did not utter any words to Hong Kun. He simply stared at him with a cold eye before sending him a dry smile. Hong Kun felt like he had fallen into an icy quagmire. There was no word to say to his foolish mistake because now he knew that he had messed with the wrong person. However, due to his ability to go with the flow, Hong Kun could survive to this day. Having realized his own blunder, he swore to himself that whenever Xueming became a disciple of the Azure Dragon Academy and came to use any service that he supervised, he would serve this young boy with special treatment to make up for the mistake made today.

After the test in this round was finished, the next round would be the final test. Zi Hui told Xueming that the final round had no effect on the Azure Dragon Academy’s admission, meaning that everyone who passed the test in the second round had already become a disciple of the Academy. They only had to wait for the end of the third round before the final results would officially be announced.

The third round of the entrance examination was held in the center hall of the Academy. Here, Elder Buzhen was not in control anymore. But the person in charge was the Vice President of the Azure Dragon Academy named ... Jiu Ing.

Vice President Jiu Ing, a large and tall man with long silver hair reaching down to the middle of the back. The white eyebrows—adorned on a long, pointed face—were in line with the small, slender, and sharp eyes. When looking at people, the Vice President resembled a hawk staring at its prey. When sitting, he looked as if he had possessed the glory of the noble, and when standing, as harsh as a tiger horse. Just the aforementioned personalities made him many times superior to the generals in Purple Jade City. The superhuman traits of Jiu Ing demonstrated the greatness of the Azure Dragon Academy and confirmed that the Azure Dragon Academy was the strongest force in the Purple Jade City.

"My respects to Vice President Jiu." Elder Buzhen, who walked ahead of the 171 who passed the test, bowed first, before the followers came in to crouch afterwards

Jiu Ing, despite his great talent, was cold, arrogant, and manipulative. His overflowing talent since childhood helped to make his power and skills noble and outstanding. He was able to reach the intermediate level of the supernatural Qi before the age of 50, and this was the main reason that he could maintain the position of Vice President of the Azure Dragon Academy for the last ten years.

"Don't be too formal." Jiu Ing said in a plain and solid tone before ordering the outer disciples to lift the baskets of black stones outside and hand the stones to all the 171 contestants, one piece per person.

"What you have received is called the Qi test stone." Jiu Ing’s moderate but powerful voice was broadcast to every nook and cranny of the hall.

“Those of you who are still not above the fourth level of the basic Qi still cannot discover your own Qi talent. Therefore, the stone you obtained is a tool that can be used to test what level of Qi talent you have, and whether you’re worth the resources that the Azure Dragon Academy would invest.” Jiu Ing's keen eyes swept across. "All you have to do is concentrate and steer the breath you feel into the black stone that you have. The black stone will act as a medium, attracting the natural Qi energy into it. After that, the black stone would be split according to each person's ability to attract the Qi. The number of pieces of shattered stone will indicate the level of your Qi talent. The talent manifested determines one’s ability to learn martial skills and speed of training from the fifth level of the basic Qi and above.”

While Jiu Ing spoke, the outer disciples gave away the black stones until they had almost reached all the contestants. "According to the evaluation criteria, those capable of breaking the black stone into less than four pieces were considered as having an ordinary talent and would be appointed as a level-two outer disciple. the lowest level of all. The ones who broke the black stone into at least four pieces but less than six would be appointed as a level-one outer disciple. As for those who could break the stone into six or more pieces, they would immediately become an inner disciple of the Academy."

At the end of Vice President Jiu Ing's words, the crowd immediately became loud and stirred up, because the saying ... “break the stone into six or more pieces, and one would leap into the inner disciple position” would provide such a golden opportunity for them. But who knew that since the establishment of the Azure Dragon Academy, only one person had broken the black stone into more than five pieces, and that person was no one else but Jiu Ing's granddaughter named Jiu Xin, one of the two Purple Jade Flowers alongside the young beauty queen of Fei Xiang’s merchant association.