Sword God Sovereign v1c26

December 9, 2017

Vol 1, Chapter 26: Test Rankings

TL: Godspell

The Inquiring Sword Sect recruits about 2000 disciples every year and the number of people appearing on this list, touches approximately about 2000 people, in other words, if the Meridians test and comprehension test in the afternoon is excluded out, then this list, can be regarded as the final admission list, how this cannot arouse the attention of these young people?

Ding Hao stood aside from the crowd and clearly looked at the above names.

From right to left, five names who had ranked on the top, does not know why all are covered by a red paper, these people had clearly occupied the position, but it seems their name is not announced to the public.

Starting with the sixth place, the names start appearing clearly.

And Ding Hao’s name is ranked at tenth.

In other words, in the morning all those youths that had participated in the test among them Ding Hao talent are ranked at the No.10 position from all these peoples.

"I really did not expect this, there are really many youths with very strong outstanding abilities, if one mountain is big enough then another mountain appears to replace it which is higher than the previous, this elder brother had thought, with his Divine Rank Attribute and monster like talent in sword arts and in addition to Rank 2 meridians, it is clear enough abnormal, I cannot believe that there are even more abnormal fellows existing, compared to them I am just a nobody."

Ding Hao is very much surprised in his heart.

Unfortunately, it is a pity that Inquiring Sword Sect has only published the rankings, but has not announced individual scores of everybody, even the total score is not disclosed, therefore it is impossible to judge the before and after gap between the places, how much difference actually there is.

However, soon Ding Hao still is able to understand his own weakness, it is clearly his age and possibly his Rank 2 meridians.

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An hour later, the afternoon test had begun.

Along the flow of people, Ding Hao arrived at the fifth test site.

What tested here is one’s physique.

It is rumored that present human beings in the Endless Continent are the descendants of the people from ancient times, just because the generation gap is too long, it is still have been unable to prove, but in the present world, there are still some people in all the living mortal beings, who possesses a faint trace of an ancient immortal bloodline in their body, although it is extremely meager but once it is awakened, it can produce very fearful abilities.

If someone has a special bloodline physique, in terms of Martial Dao practice, it can produce an inconceivable talent and what more fearful is that it can even surpass someone with an Innate Divine Attribute Physique.

These people have a special name, they are specifically called as "Bloodline Martial Practitioners."

And specifically, this type of Martial Arts Physique is examined at this fifth test place whether a youth possess it or not.

The detection method is also very simple.

All the youths are lined up and are made to pass through a very exquisite looking a Profound Martial Sword Array arrangement which is been laid down on the ground, while the elders in a silver robe at the same time are recording the reaction from the arrangement and are judging the final results.

At the same time, because a bloodline martial practitioner is very rare, therefore the final outcome of this test will not be announced to the outside peoples, as it is considered as one of the hidden achievements, it can only be counted into the total score evaluation.

Ding Hao also lined up, then he also passed through the Profound Martial Sword Array.

There seems to be nothing strange about this sword diagram, but only there are some sword-shaped patterns carved on the above of this bluestone, there are also some thin lines of silk which are connecting these array with each other and vaguely producing a flow of Qi, miraculously in the air, like a ripple, sweeping everyone’s body.

Ding Hao slowly walked through the sword array, it seems he had not realized any sort of abnormalities around him.

Nearby many Elders in silver robe, without displaying any sort of emotions, clearly are not showing a smile or shaking his head to anybody, therefore it is impossible to judge from the expression whether one has Bloodline Physique.

The test gets completed very fast.

After the test, Ding Hao immediately did not leave but carefully from the back starts observing the sword array on the ground, but he is not able to understand it even a bit, finally can only shake his to leave disappointedly.

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The final test is perseverance.

For a Martial Practioner, besides the innate conditions such as talent and meridians, personal willpower is also very important for cultivating profound martial arts on the road of Martial Dao.

After all innate conditions is not always a deciding factor in everything.

In this world, there are many outstanding talented people who ultimately degenerate to become a mediocre person finally, and those who are termed as waste/cripple, ultimately rely on their unparalleled willpower to slowly blooms, they step by step strides to become a strong powerhouse.

In the history of Inquiring Sword Sect, after the accumulation of many cultivation experiences, the sect had finally summarized a set of the system to improve one’s Martial Dao path.

Regarding the inspection of willpower, it is one of the systems that had been set up by the sect.

It is also very similar to the previous test of detecting the bloodlines, this time also one had to wait for a period of time in a Sword Array Formation.

The only difference is that, the range of this Sword Array Formation, had a very fearful force of oppression, if stepped into it, one will suddenly feel a very large pressure on the whole body as if he is pressed by a thousand jin heavy rock to be exact, this process is extremely painful to bear on both physically and mentally for anybody.

One had to meditate on the sword array for a period of time until the elders tell to stop.

This is indeed a good way for the detecting one’s willpower.

With Ding Hao altogether a total of 100 people, were arranged in the No.8 Sword Array Formation.

Whenever somebody sit cross-legged to meditate on the ground, the Silver robe elders outside the big array will immediately start the formation, suddenly, the gravity around the array seems to be enhanced several times, like an ancient mountain suddenly pressure on the back, some youth seemed to be unprepared, screaming out there lungs out and were directly pressed on the ground.

Some youths only lasted up to less than three or four minutes, there are even some youths who starts screaming to withdraw from the test and some people directly become unconscious, it seems that the disciples monitoring the test had already anticipated this so they had had already prepared them to be lifted them out from the array by someone.

100 people were soon done with their test, now only more than 60 people are left.

Most people are trying to endure it painstakingly closing their eyes tightly, big drops of sweat had seeped on their forehead, cheeks, and back.

Some even because of the unbearable pressure unable to withstand, directly bite their lip to endure, a plume of red bloodstain continuously starts flowing from the corners of their mouth and also their whole body starts issuing a jolting sound.

Of course, there are also some people that are very relaxed, it seems that they have a good Martial Dao foundation, their whole body is glittering a faint glow of the flame, that is the indication of profound qi, it seems they are using the power of the profound Qi, to fight the pressure, naturally rather than relying on the physical strength it is better to use Qi.

Only Ding Hao is an exception.

After the fortuitous encounter in the cave, his body is reborn, his physical strength is no less inferior than a Martial Apprentice Realm Martial Practioner with one acupoint open, his bone tenacity had also become very strong, he already had a total of 2000 jin of strength in his bones, for the youths in his generation, he is like a crane standing among the chickens.

Therefore, without much effort, extremely relaxed, with still some energy he can0 clearly observe the people’s expression all around him with ease.

"Well?  Isn't that Zhang Fan? And that is Li Canyang from the Sunset Town!"

Ding Hao suddenly discovered, on the front at his right, a boy is sitting bare chest. Sticking his chest out, showing his large muscular body, a youth with a dark skin color, he is one of the contestants that had participated in the Attribute test, his natural talent is really poor and was determined as a D rank Earth Attribute, he is the one from the Hunting Household, his name is Zhang Fan.

Perhaps as the ancient times says, because every year he goes hunting, Zhang Fan willpower is more powerful than compared to any other youths.

His muscles are sticking out under the shining rays of the sun, his dark skin shines smoothly, like a cutting axe, full of strength, this let him have clearly a better performance in the sword array, a lot better than any average person, although there are still thin layers of sweat on the surface of his body but from the expression on his face, it seems it is not very painful.

And at the side of Zhang Fan, Sunset Town Young Lord Li Canyang is sitting cross-legged with both his eyes closed, his face looks very calm, appearing as if he is extremely relaxed.