The Card Cultivation System
CCS-183

A slash!

The bags!

Xingli's slash managed to cut off a few strands of Xika's hair.

"Let's go, all right...I was wrong, I was wrong....." Finally Xika admitted wrong and raised both her hands a sign of surrender.

Xingli still swung his sword a few times just stopped. From beginning to end, his face had no change. But Xika managed to catch some changes in her eyes. And at this moment Xingli's eyes still showed annoyance at Xika who was only responded with a wide grin by the man.

The girl threw away face in response to Xika's grin, making the man turn his grin into a dry smile. Then he turned his gaze to the crowd of disciples who had already arrived before him. Out of the many disciples, no one wore a pin like Xingli.

So Xika guessed that those who came were divided into two groups, namely examinees and spectators. Those with powerful auras obviously came to become Inner Disciples while the rest were about to witness the prowess of their seniors. Xika was able to see some of the disciples who fought yesterday.

The elders took note of the crowd of disciples while nodding occasionally. Finally his gaze landed on Xingli and Xika. An indecipherable complicated look filled his eyes. And that view was not only aimed at a Xingli, but at Xika, Huo Bing, as well as Heiliao.

After observing the four for a while the old men turned their faces away. Even though they were carrying papers that seemed like they would be used for the exam, but they did not look like they were going to start the exam. Instead, those elders looked as if they were waiting for someone.

Xika looked at the other students and they all seemed to be waiting for someone, so she waited. He himself wondered who the elders were really waiting for?

While killing time, Xika tried to chat with Xingli, but the girl only gave him a fierce cold look without answering her in the slightest. Even so, Xingli occasionally rolled her eyes as Xika gave a silly joke.

Not getting any more reactions from Xingli, Xika sighed and complained to Heiliao and Huo Bing. Without realizing it, he again becomes the target of the curse of the men. Although Xingli did not answer him, but the girl still responded.

It was very different from the response he gave to other men. It couldn't even be called a response because Xingli simply completely ignored every single man who was bothering her. But not with Xika. Because of that many people are curious at once annoyed with Xika.

"Huo Bing, she really is a strange girl. She's a fierce girl but also cold."

"Hm? What's the difference?"

"Look, if a girl is called a fierce girl, she usually talks a lot. It's just that he is easily angry and often nagging is not clear. But he always responds to people's questions. While cold girls usually do not talk much, but also do not respond to people's questions. Normally, the cold girl was actually shy.

But Xingli was different. He's a mix of fierce and cold. He does not respond to people's questions, but he is irritable and often nagging vaguely. Hahhh..I wonder where such a creature comes from....."

"........"

"Good luck Xika."

Seeing Heiliao and Huo Bing's strange gaze Xika so felt a bad premonition.

"What do you mean may it be yellow" Xika's words came to a halt as she turned around and looked at Xingli who was now holding two swords. This time it emanated a murderous lust from the girl.

"Damn! Why didn't you tell me?" xika whispered in annoyance which only Huo Bing responded with a whistle.

WHUSHES!

Just before Xingli started swinging his sword, a strong wind blew against all the disciples. It was not an ordinary wind that came from nature, but came from cultivators. Along with the wind, Xika and the others felt a powerful aura approaching.

Not long after that the wind along with the unusual aura disappeared. Xika guessed that the appearance of the unusual wind was related to the person the elders were waiting for. But he didn't see anyone coming.

The set!

Xika turned her head and found all the disciples had already lowered their half-bodies. Xingli also lowered his head despite not being half body. Xika followed Xingli's gaze and found someone who wasn't there before was sitting in the middle of the elders.

He decided to follow Xingli, looking down as well, but not half as much.

"Honor to Elder Fen!"

All the disciples said their greetings in unison. The man called Elder Fen just nodded casually. For some reason, Xika felt that Elder Fen was paying attention to her. Just a quick glance, but he was sure.

Xika could see the man was not a respectful madman. Although there was an elder pouring tea for him, Elder Fen accepted it with the attitude of a friend, not a superior at subordinates.

"Ekhem! So we'll just start testing now."

Hearing Elder Fen's words, the disciples came back noisy. They discussed guessing what the exam was like this year. The test is never the same every year. But they usually have similarities with each other. Normally, the ranking exam consisted of two parts, a theory test that tested how deep the disciples understood the cultivation path, and a practice test that tested the fighting prowess of the disciples.

This year is different than usual. This year's ranking exam was led by the notoriously strange Elder Fen. Once upon a time he made a ranking exam consisting of two parts into one part. The test was very strange and unpredictable.

He once abolished the theory exam, which was welcomed by many students, so students only had to fight each other in order to become inner disciples. He also once omitted the test of practice, which drew much protest from the students, until there was only a test of theory. The students who passed the test were less than half as expected.

So it was no wonder the current disciples were so nervous. Xika managed to find out that information from the disciples discussing. Huo Bing taught him to use his aura for various kinds of things. One of them is to steal like this. While other uses are still many.

"alright. I think you've had enough of a discussion. Now I'll announce the test. Since I'm bored, then in this exam you should....."

No one's talking. This time not because of their respect for Elder Fen, but because they waited anxiously while hoping.

"Fight."

The words were immediately greeted by cheers from the disciples. How not? Most disciples attach more importance to fighting power than understanding cultivation. Both are equally important in the path of eternity.

"Ah, one more. In order not to be boring, all the disciples here had to participate, no matter what student. The twenty strongest Outer Disciples would rise to become Inner Disciples. The top five of the whole will get a reward from me."

The words of Elder Fen who had been greeted with vigor now instantly extinguished the spirit of the disciples. Usually, the disciples who passed in one rank examination numbered forty to fifty people. But this time only twenty disciples would pass, that number of course made the disciples drip in cold sweat.

If previously they were sure they would pass because the test was only fighting, then now most of them were not sure they could become the top twenty.

"You will continue to fight until only twenty people are left. After that, the fight will continue tomorrow."

This time the disciples instantly stared at each other warily. Some of the smarter ones form teams to be able to pass this exam. The matter of who was the strongest and weakest within the top twenty was not an affair. The important thing is that they graduate first into the top twenty.

Xika who saw the atmosphere getting hotter was about to step her foot back and give up. He did not plan to join this fight. After all, he had only been a student here for a day. Isn't it too soon to take the Ranking Exam on the second day?

The spring!

But unfortunately a sword closed its way back. And the owner of that unsheathed sword was Yin Xingli.

"Excuse me? I have no intention of getting involved in this fight."

Xingli shook his head refusing to draw his sword. He looked at Xika with a firm look. If it is interpreted in a sentence, this is how it sounds:

'I'm sure you can pass this test. Instead of waiting another year, why not just now? There are gifts waiting.'

Xika became hesitant to see Xingli's gaze. Should he take this exam? Isn't that too attention-grabbing? But after all they had already attracted attention from the beginning. It is too late to hide now. So Xika finally decided to take this exam.

After all, there was no prohibition on forming a group so he should be safe for a while. With Huo Bing, Heiliao, Xingli as well as herself, Xika was sure that not many disciples could defeat them.

When Xika finished thinking, there were already many disciples who formed their respective groups. Some form based on trust, some are based solely on strength. But, of the many groups, the Xikalah group is the main target.

Regarding the cause, it was of course because of jealousy with Xika. Most of the students here are men. Clearly they were not happy to see their goddess close to another man whose origins were unclear.

At this moment, as many disciples began to stare at each other warily, the two old men inside the main building of the academy were watching what was happening in the Main Courtyard clearly.

"Batle Royal yes..lumayan also the idea of Old Man Fen....."

"But isn't he overreacting? Wasn't the Ranking Examination held the day after the Entrance Examination to show the strength of the seniors at the incoming juniors? Why did he even require all the disciples to participate?"

"Either....Who knows? It's possible that he did that to lure out a special seedling." replied the last man with a mysterious smile that his partner did not understand.