Legend of the Heavenly Fruit
Eps. 59 — Selection Testing
It took nearly an hour to queue up until Zhou Yuan arrived before the sect's administrative board.
The administrative manager was an official in the Green Bamboo Sect, a man in his 40s.
Zhou Yuan was asked about his identity there while Zhou Bing let Zhou Yuan take care of everything by himself, he wanted to see how his grandson was acting independently here.
"You're 12, are you sure?"
The administration manager frowned hearing Zhou Yuan's true age, he looked at the young man from the ground up, looking like a 15-year-old.
"Senior can check the quality of my bones if I lie."
The attendant noticed Zhou Yuan's face for a moment before shaking his head. "No need, honestly or unequivocally, you're under the age of 20."
The organizer then pointed to the side, where the capability testing was located. "You can check your strength there, your ability will show whether you pass the selection competition or not."
Zhou Yuan nodded, he immediately shifted and stepped into the testing ground, before he started Zhou Bing abruptly patting him on the shoulder.
"Yuan'er, make sure you show your true abilities here..." Zhou Bing smiled meaningfully.
Zhou Yuan smiled faintly, he understood his grandfather's intention and then nodded in response.
There were two tests for a participant to take part in the competition in the Green Bamboo Sect, this was to reduce the number of young warriors who signed up. Moreover, this competition is quite dangerous, those who have substandard abilities can lose their lives if not careful.
The first test is the physical strength test and the second is the internal power control test.
A physical strength test using a large, sturdy stone, the registrants were required to hit the stone to demonstrate its physical strength. There is a committee standing guard there to make sure the person taking the test is not cheating.
A registrant must not use inner strength to hit the stone, they must purely rely on his physical strength.
One can be said to escape at least when the big stone was cracked or arrogant, otherwise if it did not experience any changes then the participants were declared a failure.
With Zhou Yuan's physical now, it was certainly not a difficult matter. Zhou Yuan took a deep breath before making preparations to hit the stone.
A BANG!
The sound of a loud punch suddenly startled everyone who was there, their attention fixed on the source of the sound to find something shocking had happened.
The test committee standing guard near the stone glared after Zhou Yuan hit the stone, Zhou Bing who watched from the beginning until coughed at it.
"My granddaughter, she's still hiding her powers..."
The huge stone that the sect had prepared in testing was instantly split apart after Zhou Yuan hit him hard. It was soon witnessed by other participants who were waiting in line.
"Don't I tell you, you can't hit the stone with deep energy!" The committee who took care of the stone to the point of choking its own breath saw Zhou Yuan's behavior.
"But Senior, I did not do it with deep strength." Zhou Yuan put on a confused face.
The committee scratched his head in frustration, in fact he knew about it but chose not to believe Zhou Yuan managed to split the stone with his physical exertion alone.
The committee knew very well how the testing stone was so hard, it was not even sure it could split the stone like Zhou Yuan did in a single blow.
'Looks like I'm overdoing it this time...' Zhou Yuan smiled awkwardly looking at the people who saw him now.
Zhou Yuan did not think of them any further, he chose directly to the second test which was the internal power control test.
This second test required the participant to hold a crystal in one of his hands before the crystal was drained by deep energy.
If one succeeds then he will make the Crystal react and shine, the brighter the crystal the more expertly he controls the inner power.
All pairs of eyes were still fixed on Zhou Yuan, after seeing his physical strength they wanted to see also the results of his inner power control test.
Zhou Yuan closed his eyes before pouring a deep energy into the crystal.
Slowly the crystal Zhou Yuan was holding began to tremble and glow within. The light was getting brighter until it finally seemed to be dazzling, even though it was still bright but the crystal light Zhou Yuan touched was brighter than the sunlight.
"It's..."
"How could he do that?"
The participants who watched were stunned and had difficulty speaking to see the incident.
Actually this incident is not foreign in the martial world, as long as they train the inner power control to a certain degree, the crystal light can shine bright from now on even more.
The problem that made them surprised was that the person who did this incident was a teenage boy.
It must be underlined, internal control is not an easy thing to do for a swordsman, requiring decades in the training process.
Power control helps a swordsman in many ways, but mastering it is also very difficult.
Controlled inner power is able to heal external wounds, make internal energy shields, strengthen physical energy, and so on. At higher levels they can convert it into energy and make a change of type.
Jiang Qisha for example, because he was an expert in manpower in making him able to make changes in the type of fire as well as the formation of a weapon.
Of course in the martial world, inner strength was not the only factor in the strength of a swordsman. Weapons, combat experience, and techniques also have an effect on it.
Zhou Yuan then removed his hand from the crystal, making the embossed light immediately dim before finally disappearing. Zhou Yuan then returned to the administration earlier to see the results.
The administration manager coughed softly, still shocked by Zhou Yuan's actions.
Although invisible, he had actually underestimated Zhou Yuan for coming from a middle-class Noble Family, not himself expected, Zhou Yuan was a very extraordinary child.
'His physical strength as well as his inner power control are almost the same as that youngster in the Xi Family, no. He is even more than that." The administration manager wanted to see Zhou Yuan's tiers but did not manage to read them.
The administration then gave Zhou Yuan a silver plate, indicating that he had qualified for the competition.
Zhou Yuan again met Zhou Bing, he saw his grandfather smiling with satisfaction over his test results while Zhou Yuan could only smile faintly.
With Zhou Yuan showing a bit of his strength, at least the Zhou Family was taken into account here. It could be a promotional event for the Zhou Family to show its strength.