Legendary Ruler
Arrive at the Selection Place

The sun has begun to rise with its orange radiance. Their journey continues. Now the distance from the Nui Sect was already not far away for them. It only takes about two hours to reach that destination.

The Nui Sect is one of the largest sects in the five countries. The Nui sect opened a disciple reception once every twenty-five years. Students who will register and participate in the selection are required to be under seventeen years old. The placement of disciples is divided into three namely core disciples, inner disciples, and outer disciples.

Now Bai Long, Luo Ji, Ruo An, and Ruo Ning had to climb the plateau where there were many rocks. "Aaa.".", cried Ruo An who almost slipped. Bai Long quickly grabbed onto Ruo An's shoulder. "Are you okay?" said the worried Bai Long. "Yes, I'm fine, and thank you for that one" Ruo An said with an embarrassed face.

Whereas Luo Ji and Ruo Ning were just smiling looking at the scene before them. 'It seems like there is a seed of love that will soon grow nih', Luo Ji's inner self with full of hope.

"Here the air is moist so that the rocks around here become slippery. We should be careful not to slip by the rocks here" Bai Long told them. Bai Long then started walking beside Ruo An, to keep him from slipping again.

Arriving there, they saw many people gathered in front of the barrier. The place where the new student selection will take place. "Gee, there are already a lot of people who have come besides us". Luo Ji looked at the surroundings that many people had already come to take the Nui Sect examination. While Bai Long was just smiling looking at the many people who had gathered to join the Sect selection.

"Well, I hope I can pass this selection" said the person next door wearing a red shirt. "I also hope so, because I heard many people who failed the third exam" said the person wearing green. "By the way have you prepared the artifacts to pass this first test" the red-clothed person asked the green-clothed person. "I've prepared it". The person in green clothes took out an artifact of a blue-colored sphere filled with the power of the water element.

Bai Long became astonished from hearing their conversation and saw a water artifact issued by the person in green clothes earlier. "Luo Ji have you also prepared an artifact for this first test?", asked Bai Long. "Of course I have prepared it, because in the first selection we are all required to pass through the sea of fire of suffering" Luo Ji replied.

'The sea of fire of suffering ? Means I don't have to worry about the matter with fire, since I already have the Phoenix God Body that is resistant to all the heat of fire', inner Han Chen. He recalled the time when he had faced off against a group of fifth level fire lizard monsters. At that time his body felt nothing from the monster fire spray.

Suddenly from the direction of the sky was seen a large bird with a length of ten meters and a height of six meters. The bird was a White Eagle which was a level seven beast that had been tamed. On the bird's back were two teenagers sitting on it. The bird came down and made a scene with its wings in front of many people.

The two teenagers were now descending from the back of the White Eagle. The White Eagle who saw the two teenagers had already descended from his back, flew straight back to Shui Kingdom and left the two teenagers beside the crowd.

"I didn't think that the beauty rumors about Princess Nan Mei turned out to be true". Luo Ji looked at the beauty of Nan Mei who was already like a fairy descending from the sky. While Bai Long was only silent to see Nan Mei, but actually in Bai Long's mind he was still amazed by the beauty of the girl he had helped at that time.

Ruo An was irritated at the sight of Bai Long constantly looking towards the princess. While Ruo Ning smiled as she was aware of her brother who was irritated. "Ah.. does big brother feel jealous if Kak Long notices other girls besides big brother?", Ruo Ning teased her brother. "What ? Why should I feel jealous just because Bai Long is paying attention to another girl. And of course it is natural for a man to see the princess in front of them" said Ruo An who was embarrassed. "Maybe big brother's mouth did say that, but big brother's heart said another right?", Ruo Ning replied to her brother. Ruo An could only look down embarrassed to hear the words of his sister, because what was said by his sister was indeed the truth.

"Please pay attention to all of you!", shouted a man wearing all-white clothes. The man was a senior in charge of taking care of this first stage examination. Everyone who heard the screams immediately turned their eyes to the senior who was hovering before them. It could be seen that the senior had reached the Gold Core stage where if one had already reached that stage then the person could fly with their own strength.

"I am the one who will take care of this first stage exam. In this first stage of the test you will pass through the sea of fire of suffering. You can use the help of any artifact to assist you in passing this first stage test. After you have passed the sea of fire, you only need to walk straight and you will arrive at the second stage of the examination. Do you understand !?", said at length by the hovering senior.

"We understand senior!", said everyone simultaneously.

"Now I'm going to open this barrier so you can enter". The senior instantly fused his hands together to open the dividing array for everyone to enter and conduct the exam.

Everyone now entered into that barrier array with great enthusiasm. Bai Long also felt excited when he saw everyone enter and disappear just like that as he passed through the barrier array.

"Well, this is the time we've been waiting for. Let's go in and pass this first stage exam" Bai Long said to his friend. Luo Ji, Ruo An, Ruo Ning nodded in reply to the words from Bai Long. They now entered together and disappeared in the perimeter.