I Want to Burn the Sky

It was indeed the case in Floating Cloud City. People usually stayed in the city. Even if they went hunting, they wouldn't go deep into the ancient forest.    

Just like during the great battle with the black-robed man, even though Guu Feng was at the edge of the ancient forest, he had encountered a Rank Four Demon Beast, the Earth Lizard. If he went deep into the forest, it would not be as simple as a Rank Four Demon Beast.    

Upon hearing Guu Feng's words, Ye Nan said with a bitter face, "Sigh, it's still better to have children at the border. Let's see how free you are. Unlike me, I am always under the control of my family. I cultivate every day. I have no idea how fun it is in the outside world."    

"If I were in your little town, I would definitely personally catch a powerful and heroic Demon Beast as my mount."    

Ye Nan's tone was filled with desire.    

Guu Feng smiled. Just as he was about to say something, he saw a rumbling sound coming from the Martial Training Field Mountain not far away.    

Guu Feng did not bother to talk to Ye Nan. He looked at the Martial Arts Practice Hall seriously.    

Guu Feng saw a stone platform quietly rising from the ground on the originally flat and wide martial arts field.    

After a while, the stone platform had risen to a height of several dozen feet. The stone platform was at least a thousand feet tall. That kind of majestic feeling made people want to kneel down and worship it.    

And at this moment, a group of people stood on the stone platform.    

Guu Feng counted and found that there were exactly ten of them.    

"Do you know who these ten people are?" Guu Feng was looking at them seriously when Fatty Ye, who was standing beside him, said complacently.    

"What do they do?" Guu Feng asked.    

Ye Nan smiled proudly, "They are the ten palace masters of Spirit Heaven Palace. Besides the Palace Master, they are the ten strongest people in Spirit Heaven Palace. Each of them has an unfathomable cultivation base."    

Ye Nan didn't stop talking. He continued proudly, "Look at the bearded man standing in the middle. It's him. He was the palace master of Heaven Soaring Palace, the leader of the ten palaces. Many people want to enter Heaven Soaring Palace."    

Ye Nan sighed, "But I have no interest in entering the Heaven Soaring Palace."    

In fact, he was not interested in cultivation.    

Ye Nan was not interested, but Guu Feng was interested.    

"Heaven Soaring Palace, is it the strongest amongst the ten palaces? Can I, Guu Feng, enter the Heaven Soaring Palace?" While Guu Feng was thinking, someone finally spoke on the stone platform.    

It was the master of the Heaven Soaring Palace who spoke.    

"Candidates, the reason why all of you are gathered here today is to select thirty official disciples from the many candidates to enter the ten palaces."    

"Thirty?"    

Hearing this, the initially quiet Candidates exploded.    

"It can't be, only thirty? No matter what, there are close to a thousand of us here. Why would we only choose thirty? This is too harsh."    

"That's right. The quota for this year's assessment is much lower than last year. I heard that a hundred people were selected last year."    

Some people who knew about the number of people selected last year were very surprised.    

This elimination rate was indeed too scary.    

On the stone platform, the Heaven Soaring Palace's Palace Master seemed to have heard the discussions of the crowd below the stage.    

His deep voice once again said:    

"Many people have also seen it. The number of people selected this year has been greatly reduced compared to the previous years. That's right, we have been reduced."    

"Because our Spirit Heaven Palace has a clearer direction. That is, we will only cultivate geniuses and use the abundant cultivation resources on those qualified people."    

"As for those mediocre people, they will just have to fend for themselves."    

Guu Feng listened attentively to the words of the Heaven Soaring Palace's Palace Master.    

The Heaven Soaring Palace Master's words were cruel, but Guu Feng knew that the path of cultivation was always cruel. The weak could only be manipulated by others.    

The voice of the master of Heaven Soaring Palace wasn't loud. He was speaking with a strong cultivation base, but his calm voice was powerful enough to let everyone hear him clearly.    

"You all think that our Spirit Heaven Palace is cold-blooded, right? That's right, our Spirit Heaven Palace is cold-blooded. This is a heaven for geniuses, a purgatory for mediocre people."    

Speaking up to this point, the Heaven Soaring Palace's master paused for a moment and said, "Alright, let's not talk anymore. The awakening ceremony, begin!"    

When the Heaven Soaring Palace Master said this, he heard Ye Nan sigh, "Aiya, it's finally going to start. This is really troublesome."    

Guu Feng still didn't know how to test it. When he saw that Ye Nan seemed to know everything, he asked, "How do we test it?"    

Ye Nan said lazily, "It's like this. This awakening ceremony is divided into two stages. The first stage is the infusion of spiritual energy into the body. It is to test the capacity of our Dantian."    

"So, what we need to do now is to walk to the bottom of the stone platform and place our hands on it. The spiritual energy in the stone platform will naturally flow into our Dantian."    

"It will flow into our Dantian automatically?" Guu Feng was puzzled.    

"That's right. That's not an ordinary stone. This stone platform is made from a rare Spirit Gathering Jade. Every year after the awakening ceremony, the Spirit Heaven Palace will sink this stone platform into the underground spirit mines to nurture it."    

"That's why this stone platform has a lot of spirit energy. It is more than enough to test almost a thousand of us."    

Guu Feng finally understood what was going on. He nodded his head.    

At the same time, Guu Feng followed the crowd and walked towards the stone platform. He wanted to see what level his Qi Sea Dantian was at among the martial artists.    

Soon, all the candidates were standing in a row.    

Ye Nan stood in front of Guu Feng. They were in the back, and there were only a few people left.    

Therefore, it would take a long time for them to be tested on their Dantian and Qi Sea.    

Guu Feng's eyes were fixed on the stone platform. The disciple who was at the front of the line had already walked towards the stone platform.    

Guu Feng saw that there were many identical circles drawn on the stone wall of the stone platform. There were at least ten of them.    

The disciple walked to the stone platform and nervously placed his palm in the innermost circle.    

"Weng!"    

The next moment, the circle on the stone wall lit up along the disciple's palm. The circle of light spread outward in circles.    

One round.    

Two rounds.    

Three rounds.    

After the third ring lit up, the spreading halo stopped and no longer spread towards the fourth ring.    

"Three rounds of Qi Sea, eliminated."    

When the halo condensed, the voice of a hall master on the stone platform rang out.    

Hearing this, the disciple walked back with his head lowered. It was obvious that his Qi Sea aptitude made him very depressed.    

"He's eliminated. This person is directly eliminated."    

Guu Feng was a bit shocked. He didn't know what kind of level he had to reach in order to qualify.    

Ye Nan's voice sounded at the right time, answering Guu Feng's question. "If you want to keep the awakening ceremony in Spirit Heaven Palace, you need to have at least five rings in your Qi Sea. You need to make at least five rings on the stone wall light up."    

Hearing Ye Nan's words, Guu Feng stared at the rings on the stone wall and said to himself, "Do you want to light up five rings?"    

As Guu Feng was thinking, the second ranked disciple had already walked onto the platform. Without any time to think, Guu Feng once again looked at the stone wall seriously.    

This disciple also placed his hand at the center of the ring. In the next moment, as the spirit energy poured into his body, the rings lit up one by one.    

"Buzz!"    

One round.    

Two rounds.    

...    

Five rounds.    

When the five rings lit up, the spreading radiance stopped.    

"Five rings of Qi Sea, pass!"    

The voice of the hall master on the stone platform sounded once again. Hearing this, the disciple with five rings of Qi Sea laughed complacently.    

After that, one disciple after another walked to the stone platform and placed their hands on the stone wall's ring.    

"Six rings in his Qi Sea, pass!"    

"Four rings of Qi Sea, eliminated!"    

"Seven rings of Qi Sea, pass!"    

"Three rounds of Qi Sea, eliminated."    

Guu Feng took a closer look and discovered that almost half of the candidates had less than five rings in their Qi Sea and were eliminated.    

One had to know that this was only the first round of the awakening ceremony!