When Feng Daofei burnt the clothes of his assailants with his flames, the men screamed in pain and rolled on the ground with charred skin.
"Aah!"
It caused many cries to rang out in the audience rang out at the same time.
"Shameless!" Bai Ling's face was red as a tomato when she witnessed the scene. As a pure young lady, how could she stand it?
Feng Daofei heard her words and lightly smiled, "Beautiful miss, it is not me who is shameless, but Cang Xuan. Who knew that his underlings would suddenly undress in front of everyone? Maybe they were trained by their master for this!"
"Hmph!" Bai Ling blushed and no longer looked at the scene.
It was him who had burnt their clothes. However, he still put all the blame on Cang Xuan.
The latter was so angry that he almost spat blood. He had lost too much face in front of everyone.
"Hmph! A useless bunch!" He coldly snorted.
However, inwardly he was fearful that he hadn't attacked along with his men. Otherwise now he would be rolling on the ground along with his men in his birthday suit.
This Feng Daofei, what kind of monster was he?!
All the men around the place were looking at the fight with interested gazes. If this Feng Daofei didn't die, he would surely become a peerless figure in the future!
"That young man is quite interesting. What do you think Fellow Daoist Yun?" Bai Qingsong was very interested in this Feng Daofei.
Someone with such outspoken character and outstanding battle prowess, he was worth making friends with!
Having his eyes fixed on the fight ahead, he didn't notice that Tianlong's eyes were shining with a mysterious evil light while looking at Feng Daofei.
It was the same look that he gave while looking at some kind of delicacy.
"Fellow Daoist Yun?"
Bai Qingsong's words snapped him out of his thoughts. Collecting himself, he carefully replied, "I think he's a bit too… rambunctious."
"Oh? Why do you say so?" Bai Qingsong raised his eyebrows.
"That man has offended too many people. He is strong, very strong but this strength isn't enough to overpower all the forces he has offended. Yet he acts in a boisterous manner. Sooner or later, he'll find himself in a bad situation…"
Before Tianlong could finish, the Bai Ling'er lightly harrumphed. "Hmph, men should act unrestrained. It's you who act too cautious!"
Even though she was attracted by Tianlong's looks previously, she didn't like how he had ignored her.
This man surnamed Feng was much more interesting.
"Ling'er mind your manners!" Bai Qingsong sternly reprimanded his sister.
Although the man rebuked his sister, he inwardly agreed with her.
Men should act unrestrained and do whatever they want to. Only with such free disposition would one walk far in the martial path.
His evaluation of Yun Fan had decreased quite a bit.
Without courage, this man would be just like his name Fan, which meant ordinary.
"I should help this young man. He is quite valiant." Bai Qingsong unsheathed his sword when he saw that quite a few terrifying auras had locked onto this place.
Probably the Jade Core cultivators from the three clans wanted to personally kill Feng Daofei after seeing that their younger generation wasn't able to harm him.
That youngster might be able to handle Yin Yang Cleansers, but he wouldn't stand a chance against the Jade Core experts.
"Brother Ta Kong, brother Wang Wei, let's work together and kill him now!" Cang Xuan was getting worried that if the person was selected in the Xia palace, they wouldn't have any more chances of killing him.
If someone like Feng Daofei grew up, then it would mean the end of his Cang family!
Ding~
However, just as he was about to step forward, a bell chime rang out. As the sound passed through the place, everyone felt that their spiritual energy had suddenly vanished.
"Everyone, get ready, we'll start the examination now."
The person who spoke was none other than the man called Zhao Yu who was overseeing the entire examination.
What kind of treasure could dissipate the spiritual power of so many cultivators at once?
Their expressions were grave.
"You should all be aware of the rules, right? Among the thousands of you present here, we'll only select a hundred of you with the highest points!"
"The jade piece that you have received while registering yourself would record and store your points. The easiest method of obtaining points would be to steal from the jade tokens of other cultivators. Every day, you can steal half the points of someone else."
"However, the primary method of obtaining points is by killing beasts. Early ranked beasts would give 10, 100, 1000 points depending on whether rank one, rank two or rank three. Subsequently, the points would double for mid-ranked beasts and triple for late ranked beasts."
"There are many among you who are unmatched in your realms. All of you will definitely hunt beasts above your cultivation realm. For such people, the points would be doubled if you kill beasts that are one great realm above your cultivation realm! If it is two levels above, then the points would be quadrupled!"
Hearing this, there was a clamour among the exam candidates.
While the rogue cultivators might not know, those from the prestigious families knew that the points that they obtained here were used as currency inside the Academy. Usually one could only obtain points by completing the academy's missions.
Using these points, one could exchange cultivation resources and treasures from the Academy's pavilion.
Moreover, since the exams were held for three different cultivation bases separately, there were lots of people here with a peak stage cultivation of their respective realms.
Many of them had killed someone exceeding their cultivation realm!
With Tianlong's intelligence, he wasn't blinded by the benefits and was able to quickly see through the matter.
"I'm going to be rich!"
"Hehe, I heard that Grand Xia's treasury had quite a few good items."
"I have always fancied their Immortal Clouds. With these points, I'll definitely be able to buy one!"
However, unlike others, Tianlong felt no happiness from it. In fact, his mood became serious.
"The hundred participants who would be selected would all strength to battle across realms. These many points would cause the academy's internal economy to inflate… Hm, what kind of beasts are they planning to release on us?"
Tianlong wasn't the most intelligent person here. There were quite a few others who had reached the same conclusion using their deduction.
The elder generation's mood especially became gloomy.
One of them couldn't handle it anymore and asked,
"Sorry for the interruption, but lord protector, could you please tell us where the examination will be conducted?"
As if conforming to their fears, Zhao Yu gave a cold smile at the candidates and replied, "The Violet Sea."
Silence.
The two words 'Violet sea' caused the place to become deathly silent.
"Did he… Did he just say the Violet sea?"
"I also heard the same…"
"This… this…"
Suddenly huge discussions erupted from the participants as well as the people who had accompanied the participants.
However, this time their tone wasn't excited, but extremely fearful!
Even Bai Qingsong who was usually smiling couldn't help but have a gloomy expression. His hands were tightly clutching his sister's hands.
"Ling'er why don't you wait for the next…" His words got stuck in his mouth when he saw that his sister was shaking her head.
Since she had already decided, then he couldn't change her mind.
Cang Xuan's mood had also become gloomy. He was plotting to kill Feng Daofeo inside the examination area but with the venue that Zhao Yu had declared, it would be difficult to save his own life, where would he have time to kill others.
"Damn it!" He lowly cursed.
While the others were despairing, Feng Daofei looked ahead fearlessly. No matter what, he had to get into Grand Xia's Academy.
"I, Feng Daofei, am destined to rise above others! Cang Xuan, Ta Kong and Wang Wei, the only reason they can bully me is because of their realm advantage! Once, I reach their cultivation realm, they would be nothing but flies! At this event, I must stun everyone and become an inner disciple!"
While he was having his inner monologue, he suddenly felt a sudden chill from his back. At that moment, he felt as if his blood was suddenly flowing in reverse.
It was as if an extremely sinister person was gazing at him.
"Who is it?" He immediately scanned the area.
He was sure that the person who looked at him wasn't from the three who were opposing him.
"Strange, why did I react so much? I'm constantly surrounded by enemies so why did this specific person make me feel so much danger?"
His expression immediately became cold. "My policy is that as long as someone doesn't provoke me, I won't provoke them. However, since you want to kill me, you should be prepared to be killed as well!"
However, even when he looked around for a long time, he couldn't locate the person. The only remarkable people around him were his enemies and the Bai Siblings.
When his eyes fell on Bai Ling, his expression softened. She was far prettier than his previous fiancée Leng You.
"What are you looking at?" Bai Ling sensed that he was looking at her.
Feng Daofei awkwardly laughed and shifted his gaze. He knew the reputation of Bai Qingsong. He was a morally upright person. The person who made him feel so much danger should be somewhere else.
This assumption of his caused him to totally miss Tianlong who was standing behind Bai Ling. Her beauty forming a distraction for Feng Daofei who was in the prime of his youth.
"This man, his body holds something beneficial for me. I may need to devour him!"
Tianlong's eyes were looking at protector Zhao Yu but in his mind, he had already considered Feng Daofei as his target.
From the moment he had laid his eyes on the latter, he had felt that Feng Daofei had something that he desired. It was an instinctual reaction from his bloodline that he wouldn't mistake.
Since Tianlong had no relationship with Feng Daofei's and the latter's death may benefit him, Tianlong would kill him if necessary.
It wasn't because the latter was an enemy of his, but because he felt that doing so would benefit his cultivation.
"That man seems to be searching for someone. Did he notice that I was spying on him with my lightning sense? Hm, quite perceptive."
His eyes had an evil glint at this moment. He would find out why that man was making his demonic blood boil in excitement. However, he wouldn't directly clash with him like the other ones. Doing so would only expose his trump cards and in the case, the other party runs away, he would lose his advantage.
"So, since everyone now knows that they'll be going to the Violetsea, is there anyone who wants to back out?" Protector Zhao looked at the thousands of candidates who were standing here.
His words caused everyone to become silent again.
In the end, no one backed out.
When Zhao Yu saw that, he gave an appreciative nod. "My Martial Hall doesn't accepts weaklings. Since you are going in a trial of combat, then prove your worth in might."
As he waved his hands, a huge formation lit up across the whole plaza.
The formation eyes each released dense spatial fluctuations and covered all the candidates in white light.
As the spatial fluctuations subsided and the white light dimmed, the figures of thousands of candidates vanished at once.
"Good luck to you all."