Within the temporary dormitory of the Cultivation Academy in the Tianyuan Dynasty, accompanied by a silent spatial ripple, Ye Lin was teleported straight back.
“Holy crap, I can accept having to participate in a special assessment every year as a handyman disciple, and I don't even mind being turned into a Dao slave if I fail.”
“But could you at least give me a general direction for the damn assessment? How the hell am I supposed to prepare when I don't even know what I'm being tested on?”
Having just been teleported back, Ye Lin couldn't help but grumble and curse.
He felt like he had been set up by that old geezer. After all, if this so-called Dao Palace assessment tested a massive range of subjects like alchemy, formations, artifact refinement, swordsmanship, music, and so on, how was he supposed to pass?
They wrote the exam, they decided what to test, and failing meant being turned into a Dao slave to be driven by others for eternity. Wasn't this exactly like being set up by greedy capitalists?
Looking at the special bagua-shaped mark on the back of his left hand that was fading into invisibility—the mark representing his status as a handyman disciple of the Creation Dao Palace—Ye Lin's face was completely dark.
Although he had the Desolate Ancient Dao Pagoda to obscure all heavenly secrets and isolate the aura of this mark, who knew if the Creation Dao Palace had other ways to track him down?
“Sigh, looks like I'm going to be incredibly busy over the next year. I have to raise my cultivation while also learning a whole series of auxiliary professions like alchemy and artifact refinement.”
Sighing helplessly, Ye Lin pulled himself together.
Even though the assessment for the Dao Palace handyman disciples was a massive trap, the benefits were also unimaginably immense.
First of all, after becoming a Dao Palace handyman disciple, an absolutely game-breaking buff had been added directly to his identity status: cultivation speed increased by 2,000%, and comprehension efficiency increased by 2,000%.
That was a full twenty-fold increase. If this was combined with his thousand-fold time acceleration and the hundred-fold returns of 【Diligence Compensates for Clumsiness】...
...it would add up to a staggering two-million-fold cultivation speed. In other words, with all these buffs active, cultivating for just one second would yield the equivalent of two million seconds of cultivation for an ordinary cultivator with a mid-grade Spiritual Root.
This cultivation speed absolutely surpassed that of Saint-grade Spiritual Root cultivators by countless times, and could even rival geniuses with Immortal Spiritual Roots.
The second harvest from this Immortal Hall trial was the body cultivation heritage from the hundredth floor, along with the storage ring and two Heaven-grade cultivation methods he had plundered from the giant ape Yuan Heng, plus the storage treasure of the Blackwater Serpent Clan genius.
The body cultivation heritage was divided into three parts. The first was an Immortal King-grade body tempering method called the 《Circulating Heaven Stellar Art》. Cultivating it allowed one to condense a special constitution known as the 'Circulating Heaven Stellar Physique'.
Once this constitution was condensed, even at just the Accomplished stage, one's recovery and defensive capabilities would increase tenfold—essentially making him incredibly hard to kill.
The second part of the heritage consisted of cultivation resources, which were entirely composed of a special crystal called Stellar Essence Crystals. The stellar energy within these crystals could accelerate the cultivation of the 《Circulating Heaven Stellar Art》.
The third part of the heritage was a weapon. This weapon was of the Immortal King-grade, and currently existed as a glob of black liquid resembling ink.
Whatever weapon he wanted—be it a sword, a saber, or a spear—it would transform into that shape with just a single thought. It was incredibly convenient.
Since Ye Lin cultivated the 《Heaven-Cleaving Sword Intent》, he naturally chose to turn it into a sword, replacing his original mid-grade spiritual sword to charge up his attack.
The two Heaven-grade techniques he had obtained for free from Yuan Heng were the 《Swimming Dragon Sky-Treading Steps》 and the 《Nine Cauldrons Soul-Suppressing Seal》.
The former was a movement technique. Once cultivated to great perfection, his body would move like a swimming dragon, allowing him to briefly step through the air and increase his speed fivefold.
The latter was a soul-type offensive technique that condensed divine sense into cauldrons. It could be used for both offense and defense, and once cultivated to great perfection, both soul offensive and defensive power would increase fivefold.
It could be said that both of these techniques were exactly what he desperately needed right now.
As for the storage treasures of Yuan Heng and the Blackwater Serpent Clan genius, they contained mostly spirit stones, with mid-grade spirit stones alone numbering in the hundreds of thousands.
If he used the 【Random Replication】 trait to replicate them, he would instantly become filthy rich.
Aside from spirit stones, their storage treasures also contained many pills, natural treasures, weapons, talismans, and other items.
All in all, the loot was quite generous, as expected of top geniuses. As for whether these storage treasures had aura tracking or tracking marks, Ye Lin wasn't worried at all.
This was because his Desolate Ancient Dao Pagoda could block and conceal all auras and detection.
The third harvest from this Immortal Hall trial was the special achievement reward he obtained when opening the dungeon, along with the blood, vital energy, luck, and evil spirit lifespan he acquired from killing evil spirits.
In particular, his luck had surged, upgrading him from a Tier 1 Child of Fortune straight to a Tier 2 Child of Fortune, which would greatly increase the multiplier when using 【Random Replication】.
Opening the special reward, it had undoubtedly unlocked another trait for him.
The trait was called 【Endless Dantian】. Its effect was that his dantian's size would grow by one zhang every day. It was a long-term, high-yield trait.
Although his sea of elixir was vast and supported by the backup Sea of Spiritual Power from his Dao Seed, the spiritual power he could store was ultimately limited.
But with 【Endless Dantian】, as time passed, his stored spiritual power would become infinite. When that time came, he would have infinite firepower. Just thinking about it was exhilarating.
“The most important task next is to log off, return to Blue Planet, and deal with Ye Tian.”
After reviewing all his gains from this trip, Ye Lin began to plan in his heart.
This trip into the Immortal Hall trial had taken a total of over two days.
Today was the last day of the academy's three-day holiday. Tomorrow, the academy would rank the trials based on the demon-slaying points in the new disciples' tokens and the evaluations of their team captains.
Those with high rankings would have priority in selecting cave dwellings, and they could cultivate freely within the academy for the next six months. Whether they wanted to attend lectures or do missions, no one would disturb them.
It precisely because he valued this privilege that he chose to log off the game and return to Blue Planet during this period to completely settle his score with Ye Tian.
After all, one day on Blue Planet was equivalent to one year in the game world. This meant he could stay on Blue Planet for half a day at most, or his game progress would be disrupted and severely delayed.
But half a day was more than enough to just go back, deal with Ye Tian, and make arrangements for his cheap family.
“However, before I leave, I must select my cave dwelling. As for joining the Demon Suppressing Division, that will have to wait until I return.”
After fully finalizing his upcoming plans, Ye Lin prepared to head to the Outer Academy cafeteria to get some food and pack some to bring back.
After all, he could only select a cave dwelling tomorrow. Once he finished eating, he still had to complete his daily task of swinging his sword ten thousand times and convert as much of his recent gains into combat power as possible. Time was incredibly tight.
What Ye Lin did not know was that after he was teleported out of the Immortal Hall trial, a major event occurred here.
With all the core heritages taken, the hunched old man had swept all the remaining geniuses of various races out of the tower and fled with the entire Immortal King's Tower.
This action left all the geniuses utterly dumbfounded.
“Holy crap, I was just about to clear the thirtieth floor and get a Saint-grade reward! What the hell does it mean to suddenly teleport me out?”
“Oh no, the Immortal King's Tower has vanished! A genius must have cleared the hundredth floor of the trial and taken the Immortal King's Tower along with all the inheritance treasures inside!”
“That shouldn't be possible! All the top geniuses of the Southern Domain are cultivating in the Lesser Immortal Realm of the Outer Heavens. How could any of us mid-tier geniuses have cleared the hundredth floor?”
Initially, the geniuses who had been inexplicably teleported out were still cursing and grumbling.
But when they discovered that the Immortal King's Tower had vanished, they all realized what had happened.
The Immortal King's Tower was a top-tier immortal artifact. One had to know that countless top-tier major forces only had a single quasi-immortal artifact guarding them.
Yet now, a top-tier immortal artifact had likely been taken by a mere Qi Condensation Stage cultivator. Furthermore, this immortal artifact contained a vast number of inheritance treasures and opportunities for immortal ascension.
Faced with such a fat piece of meat, no one could remain calm. They immediately took out their voice transmission jade talismans to message the ancestors of their respective forces.
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