Towards Eternity
Ch 558's. The Talented Disabled
*cloth!!*
The sound of a hammer echoed within a dark room that only had hot coals as lighting.
A large hammer was swung and hit hard on a metal the size of an adult's head that had been heated. The metal splashed sparks as the big hammer struck it, but there was no change in the metal.
But even so, the big hammer was still swung back and hit the hot metal continuously. Half an hour passed, at last the hammer stopped in swing, and the figure swinging it chose to put it on a table of stones.
The figure then walked in one direction where the entrance of the room was located.
*Cyi.....*
The door in the room opened, and showed a ladder that led straight up. Without further ado, the figure climbed up and arrived at the top and was immediately greeted by a warehouse room covered with dust entirely.
"Hachi!!!" Weng Lou sneezed as the dust got into his nose, and made the surrounding dust instantly fly into the air.
Quickly, Weng Lou covered his nose and stepped out of the warehouse and closed the door tightly, so that dust would not come out of it.
"Uhuk... Shouldn't this place have a maid who cleans all the rooms in the residence? Why is it that for two months the room was always dusty and never seemed to be cleaned?!" Weng Lou grumbled as he cleaned up the dust all over his body.
He walked away from the warehouse and crossed the first-floor hallway of the residence of Elder Meigui to the backyard of the residence where there was a field used by the disciples of Elder Meigui to practice every day.
"You're done practicing? Are you ready?" Suddenly, the figure of Elder Meigui appeared beside him and calmly walked out with him. Weng Lou was not surprised and simply nodded in response.
It had been almost three months that he had joined the Jade Bamboo Sect and become a disciple of Elder Meigui. Exactly two months he joined, Elder Meigui finished searching all of his background and found nothing suspicious other than him that appeared in the port controlled by Governor Haido and was seen by some ordinary members of the sect.
Martial Practitioners who join a group of criminals such as pirates is not something strange, it is precisely more than half of Martial Practitioners in the world must have a share in the crime action, he said, whether they realize it or not. Killing criminals actually includes a crime of murder, and Martial Practitioners cannot escape the name of murder.
After making sure that Weng Lou had a fairly safe background as far as Elder Meigui could get, it was finally decided that Weng Lou should try to join the ranks of the Core Disciples of the Jade Bamboo Sect, and today he was going to take his test which was held by several Core Elders and attended by all the other Core Disciples.
Keep in mind, all of the disciples of Elder Meigui had joined the Core Disciple, except for two female disciples who had only been disciples of Elder Meigui for a few months. Their level of practice was still too weak that Elder Meigui had absolutely no intention of including the two of them into this examination within a few months, at least until they he considered it already worthy.
"I wish you all the best, hopefully you can get away with no problems." Elder Meigui started wearing his face cover then in the blink of an eye his figure disappeared from beside Weng Lou.
Weng Lou's small smile was seen at the corner of his lips, and he began to open the back door of the residence, where it was seen that the other disciples of Elder Meigui had gathered and were seen talking to each other.
When Weng Lou's figure arrived, their attention was immediately drawn to Weng Lou and they all greeted him with different expressions. There was a big smile, small, there was also a click on his tongue as soon as he saw the face of Weng Lou, also there was a small run towards him and greeted him.
"You've been a long time, Junior Lou! We've been waiting here for a long time!" jiu De exclaimed, directly embracing the back of Weng Lou's neck.
Weng Lou laughed softly and apologized to all of them and immediately invited them all to go together to the place where the Core Disciple test would be held.
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Two months in the Jade Bamboo Sect was not Weng Lou to spend just practicing. He had used his ability to gather all sorts of information, whether it was from books or from the conversations of people he had listened to secretly.
He had also made some achievements for himself within the sect which made his name famous throughout the Jade Bamboo Sect.
Within the Jade Bamboo Sect, there was a fight within the arena which had a huge reward for the top ten rankers. This match was called the Life and Death Battle, whose system was about the same as the 100-challenge Battle held by the Northern Heavens Sect.
In this fight, the participant will make continuous fights to reach the limit and how many battles he can live will be the determinant of his ranking.
The figure of Weng Lou who was a new disciple within the sect, did not attract much attention as he followed this fight. In his first to tenth fight, he was only considered like a fly passing by the spectators, and could be defeated at any time once an opponent that was strong enough for him to face.
Currently, in a field that was somewhere in the Jade Bamboo Mountain.
Some of the stages that became the seating of hundreds of people were built in a circle and made a field that had an area of almost a thousand square meters.
In the field, that, Weng Lou parted with his seniors and headed towards the middle of the field while his Senior-Seniors immediately went to one of the stages where they saw the Core Disciples who had been sitting there as well as some Elders in the front row.
Weng Lou who went to the middle of the field saw some other students like him who also wanted to take the Core Disciple test today. Some looked younger than him, some looked much older with the oldest being in their late twenties and at most easily thirteen years old.
"See who has come, Disabled Gifted One, hahaha!!" A male disciple with a large body and a distended stomach scoffed as Weng Lou arrived at their place.
Hearing the disciple's ridicule, Weng Lou smiled slightly and 'softly' stomped his right leg and caused a crack in the ground. The disciple immediately choked on his own breath and slowly moved away from Weng Lou.
Things like this often happen to Weng Lou, where some students who are not happy with extraordinary achievements ridicule him who does not have a Dantian, and seem like a fake Martial Practitioner. Yes, the fact that Weng Lou who does not have a Dantian is not hidden at all by Weng Lou, and instead used it to help him gain tremendous popularity.
Even miraculously, Weng Lou had a few groups backing him up for having incredible physical strength beyond his limitations.
"Brother Lou, it's good to see you're not coming as late as you usually do in the physical training area." There was the sound of a female disciple who then approached Weng Lou.
It was a disciple that Weng Lou had met in these few weeks in the crater where the disciples trained their physiques using the pressure from the strange meteors. This female disciple, was accidentally familiar with Weng Lou because she also trained her physique rather than her Qi.
He was named Nu Qianren, and he was at the current intermediate stage 1 Soul Cleansing realm after one month ago he officially broke through ascending to the Soul Cleansing realm. Arguably, his physical strength was above average and Weng Lou was quite impressed because of his dedication to strengthening his body like that every day.
"Sister Qian, I didn't know you could greet me first. You should have done that since we met a few weeks ago," teased Weng Lou.
Qianren seemed annoyed by Weng Lou's words, and quite forcefully kicked Weng Lou's shins to the point of making him scream in pain, even though it was just a natural reaction from Weng Lou.
"Hey, I'm just kidding, there's no need to use force!" weng Lou protested that stroked his bones.
The two chatted for a while before the person whom everyone had been waiting for finally arrived and immediately everyone saluted him.
Above the sky, the figure of the old man who was none other than the Jade Bamboo Sect Patriarch flew slowly and stood right in the middle of the field.
""GROOM THE PATRIARCH!!!""
""""GROOM THE PATRIARCH!!""""
Respectful cries echoed throughout the field and it was seen the old man nodding softly in return. Immediately, all the voices disappeared and left only the voice of the Patriarch himself.
"Good morning Jade Bamboo Sect, we are today gathered in this place to hold a Core Disciple Test held every few months. This time, over a hundred disciples took part in the test that took place today. Amongst these hundred disciples, you will be eliminated and the rest will continue to advance until they eventually become part of the Core Disciple.
You all know, that this test is not just an ordinary test, but a test that will risk your own life. This test will determine whether you deserve more than what you have been able to during this time, or will remain that way until the end of your life.
For that, I ask all of you, anyone whose heart is not ready, please leave the field and join the people on the stage. I don't want any of you to die silly just because of your readiness problem."
The Jade Bamboo Sect's Patriarch spoke calmly, but his voice could go inside everyone's head and make Weng Lou look at him with a serious look.
"Soul Unification realm level 9 peak, half a step towards the sky, Sovereigns," Weng Lou muttered as he clenched his hand violently.
The lords referred to by Weng Lou were those who had been in the realm of Soul Mastery and were the highest realm known to Weng Lou so far. It was the level of strength he was after, and he would definitely achieve it like Yi Chen.