The Sword Palace is more united than the Source Saint Church, but it is only relatively so. As a force within the Source Saint Church, the Sword Palace is not only a place for sword masters to communicate, but also aims to cultivate sword masters. The resources in the Sword Palace are all taken out by the ancestors and the high-level officials of the Sword Palace. Naturally, it is impossible to give them to every practitioner who joins the Sword Palace at will!
Yang Qi is already a cultivator at the Martial Emperor level. After practicing for so many years, he is naturally very clear about this principle.
Whoosh~
Yang Qi's figure flashed and he rushed directly to the central formation of the hall, and disappeared into the formation in the blink of an eye.
Looking at Yang Qi disappearing in the formation, Emperor Yijian couldn't help but feel a little excited, muttering to himself, "I wonder what results you can achieve?"
Although Yijian had told Yang Qi not to feel any pressure and just do his best, after being ridiculed by Emperor Mokong just now, Emperor Yijian still hoped that Yang Qi could achieve a good result, at least not worse than Emperor Mokong!
Speaking of which, for this assessment, Yijian Emperor still has some confidence in his heart. After all, Yang Qi is now much stronger than Zhuo Qi and Wei Xuan who took the assessment at the beginning. Coupled with Yang Qi's terrible understanding, it is not difficult to surpass the results of the two at the beginning!
Wow~
After entering the formation, Yang Qi immediately felt the scenery in front of him change, and he came to a huge stone tablet.
"Inject energy into the stone tablet!"
Just as Yang Qi was wondering what the test before him was, an ancient and desolate voice sounded in his ears.
Buzz~
Hearing this, Yang Qi activated his Yuan power without hesitation and injected it into the stone tablet in front of him. With the injection of Yuan power, the stone tablet in front of him immediately emitted a ray of light, and the next moment, the stone tablet disappeared.
"Is it approved now?"
Looking at the disappearing stone tablet, Yang Qi was stunned. He passed the first test just by injecting Yuanli. Isn’t this test too easy
Buzz~Buzz~
At this moment, strange waves began to spread, and then several figures appeared in front of Yang Qi, exuding extremely strong aura.
Feeling the might emanating from the energy body, Yang Qi's eyes could not help but focus, "It seems that it is not just an energy body!"
He felt the same fluctuations from those figures as those of normal practitioners. Although they had no vitality, they were definitely not simple energy bodies. They were more like a means of splitting one's body!
Whoosh~ Whoosh~
When these figures gathered together, they immediately swung their swords and killed Yang Qi.
"Actual combat!"
Looking at the figure coming to kill him, Yang Qi raised his eyebrows and urged the Black Phoenix Sword to meet him.
For weak practitioners, talent and potential play a greater role, while their own strength is not that important, because their path has not yet been finalized. But for the Martial Emperor Realm, they have already walked out of their own path. Talent and potential are certainly important, but their own strength should not be underestimated!
Therefore, after reaching a certain level of strength, actual combat testing becomes an extremely important step in selecting disciples.
The figures in front of him were quite powerful, and each of them was close to the peak strength of the five-star martial emperor in the Tianxuan Sword Realm. Facing the siege of several figures, even Yang Qi could not defeat them for a while. However, although the figures were not weak, Yang Qi's ability to save his life was stronger. Relying on his strong ability to save his life, Yang Qi quickly gained the upper hand and defeated the figures.
Wow~
As the last figure disappeared, the scenery in front of Yang Qi changed. A strange force hit his mind, making his consciousness feel fuzzy.
"It's not a soul attack!"
Feeling the abnormality in himself, Yang Qi quickly tried the soul defense method, but found that even if he used the soul defense and virtualization methods, it was completely useless!
“Dao Heart!”
Yang Qi's eyes focused, and he immediately understood why this situation happened to him, because the test at this moment was aimed at his heart of Tao, not his soul!
"break!"
After understanding this, a gleam of light flashed in Yang Qi's eyes. With the blessing of the Heart of Sword, his Dao Heart was like an immortal sword, which directly broke through the strange power. In an instant, he felt a sense of clarity.
"No wonder Wei Xuan is unaffected by my soul attack!"
Yang Qi murmured to himself. Having personally experienced the situation where his Dao heart was affected, he finally understood why Wei Xuan was not affected by his soul attacks.
Because Wei Xuan's sword heart was directly added to his own soul, his soul and the heart of Tao became one. As long as the heart of Tao was not broken, his soul would not be affected!
"Unfortunately, this method is not suitable for me." Yang Qi sighed.
Although he understood Wei Xuan's methods, Yang Qi knew that Wei Xuan's method was not suitable for him at all, because if he wanted his Dao heart and soul to merge into one, he had to make his Dao heart and soul fit together and focus on one thing. Sword cultivators were absolutely loyal to the sword, so they could do it, but although Yang Qi followed the sword path, his Dao was only based on the sword path, not just the sword path!
Wow~
The scene in front of him changed again, and the next moment, Yang Qi appeared in the hall.
"Yang Qi, not bad, not bad!"
Just as Yang Qi appeared in the hall, he heard the hearty laughter of Emperor Yijian.
Seeing this scene, Yang Qi knew that his test results should be good, but he didn't know his test results, so he hurriedly said, "Senior, my test results..."
"Just barely ranked in the top ten thousand." Emperor Yijian chuckled.
Ten thousand
Yang Qi was stunned, a bitter smile appeared on his face. He could only barely rank within the top ten thousand
Seeing this, Emperor Yijian quickly said, "Boy, don't think that the ten thousandth place seems low. Do you know that this ranking is the history of all the rankings in my Sword Palace through assessments over the past billions of years?"
"Billions of years of lists?"
Yang Qi's face changed slightly. He thought that this list was only for the practitioners of this generation, but he didn't expect that it was a list of billions of years. Billions of years were equivalent to tens of thousands of generations of Martial Emperors. He was able to rank among the top ten thousand, which was indeed an extremely impressive ranking. After all, countless practitioners had participated in the Sword Palace assessment over the past billions of years!
"Don't be too happy too soon. This ranking is still a bit exaggerated. After all, not every practitioner is at your level to take the test." Emperor Yijian glanced at Yang Qi and continued, "And there are quite a few practitioners who have never taken part in the Sword Palace test."
Yang Qi nodded. When he joined the Yuansheng Sect, he knew that there was an optimal period to participate in the Sword Palace assessment, and during this period, the difficulty of passing the assessment was the lowest. For practitioners who were not in this period, the difficulty would increase, and the ranking would naturally not be 100% accurate.
Emperor Yijian looked at Yang Qi in front of him, chuckled and said, "However, your ranking this time is far higher than the practitioners under Mokong!" (To be continued)