Zhu Jiao dropped to the ground clutching his Dantian as the deep red light gradually disappeared forming a golden light that encapsulated his body.
Hong Man Yuan, couldn't hold it in anymore and started heckling as he pointed at Zhu Jiao that was on the ground.
"HAHHA! You fool! You crippled your own cultivation and ruined your own Dantian! Who asked you to be so gullible! Looks like the Lin Family has lost their hope once again! What a loser!"
The examiner dashed forward, appearing behind Zhu Jiao as he slowly helped Zhu Jiao up.
"Erm… Is my Dantian going to be alright?"
Zhu Jiao innocently asked, looking at the examiner, strangely there was nothing wrong with his body and contrary to feeling in pain or broken, he felt amazing! He felt like a million bucks.
The examiner who was holding onto Zhu Jiao started sweating bullets as he started to tremble.
"This…. I …."
'Crash!' The sky turned dark as a bolt of lightning streaked across the sky, a silhouette could be seen soaring through the sky.
At this moment in time there were already a lot of potential students who had condensed their qi and removed a portion of their blockages, they immediately turned to the sky and pointed exclaiming in excitement.
"It's a XianTian level expert!"
"But what is he doing here!? At the outer courtyard? Maybe he's here to seek a disciple?"
"We better put on a great show!"
The XianTian expert landed on the ground in front of the examiner and looked towards Zhu Jiao and Hong Man Yuan's direction smiling widely.
Seeing the XianTian expert walking towards him, Hong Man Yuan brushed off the dirt from his shoulders waiting to greet him. Raising his hands to his chest he did a deep bow
"Hi elder, I am…"
Before he completed his sentence he had already been cut off as the XianTian expert bypassed him entirely walking over to Zhu Jiao, before grabbing onto his wrist and checking his vitals. His eyes lit up instantly and started to laugh wildly.
"Good! Good! Good! Come with me, you will be promoted to an inner disciple immediately!"
The surrounding students watched on in shock, even Shi Tou and Lin Chen who had just woken from their meditation stared on with a questioning gaze.
"Elder, aren't you calling out to the wrong person? I have cleared 80% of the blockages in my body and I've already condensed qi! He just destroyed his Dantian, why is he the one to become an inner disciple?"
Hong Man Yuan's face turned red from anger as he watched the opportunity to become an inner disciple slip through his fingers.
"Kid, you did well and you can make it to be an inner disciple after you've taken the test. But comparing you to him, is like comparing a pebble and a planet."
The Xiantian expert turned to look at Zhu Jiao, "Young man, what is your name?"
"You can call me Nan…. I mean, Lin Dong. That's my name that has always been my name…"
"My name is Huang Xiao Zhang, I am the dean of the inner disciple school and also an elder of the black tiger school. I am here to bring you to get your identity plate as an inner disciple."
Huang Xiao Zhang smiled as he spoke to Zhu Jiao gently.
"Oh… That's good to hear… My Dantian became a solid ball… Is that a bad thing or…" Unsure of his situation now, he had no choice but to ask Huang Xiao Zhang.
Scratching his beard, he slowly replied.
"On top of fully clearing all your blockages in your meridians, attaining the perfect cultivation body, you have directly jumped stages and directly created a core to become a HouTian level cultivator."
"Oh…. cool stuff. It totally scared me for a moment, I thought I messed up bad this time round." Zhu Jiao breathed a sigh of relief.
"Let me explain to you more clearly. At the beginning of your cultivation journey, one cultivates the body, so that your meridians are strong enough to go through the widening process and the clearing of blockages. This stage is Body strengthening
When you clear the blockages and form strands of qi, you then draw the qi into your Dantian, where once it reaches the maximum capacity it will start to condense into liquid. This stage is Qi Gathering.
The next stage is condensing all the qi in your Dantian into a liquid form. This stage is called Qi Condensation.
When you gather your Qi in your body reaches maximum capacity in a liquid form it turns into solid slowly. This stage is Core formation, when one completely solidifies their core, you will become a Houtian cultivator and this is the stage that you are … are you listening to what I'm saying?"
Huang Xiao Zhang finally looked at Zhu Jiao who was looking into the distance once again.
"Oh, sorry, it was that Katsu cloud again… You were talking about being an inner disciple right? Are there perks?"
"Of course there are perks, but of course the perks are way more for a core student, which is what you are going to be. When an inner student reaches the Houtian level they will be promoted to a core student of the academy. But this old man's jurisdiction only lies within the inner academy, so you will have to become an inner student before you get to become a Core student."
Huang Xiao Zhang replied while stroking his beard.
"Alright… but if I become a core disciple, will there be someone who will look over me?"
Zhu Jiao questioned. He really hated to be restrained by someone and he really doesn't like teachers from the bad experiences he had before.
"Hohoho, you're an interesting student, there are many qualified mentors when you get to the core cultivator stage, but there is one particular teacher who stands out, just that he is a bit eccentric, but I think you will be alright with each other. Teacher Wu! Stop sleeping in the bushes and come out! You finally have a student here!"