Free Web NovelChapter 61: Chapter 61: Inner Disciple Test [1]
The Azure Dragon Sect’s grand arena was an enormous, gleaming pale stone, filled far beyond its intended capacity.
Disciples gather in the towering grandstands, their voices a thunderous against the surrounding peaks.
Today was the Inner Disciple Promotion Test—a momentous event held only when the sect deemed its outer disciples ready.
The requirement was simple yet grueling: reach the True Spirit Realm.
For ordinary cultivators, breaking through the Elementary Spirit Realm bottleneck could take decades, or a lifetime.
Thus, merely a few hundred eligible disciples stood at the arena’s center, their auras radiating the weighty pressure of the True Spirit Realm.
However, the noisy chatter of the thousands of observing outer disciples abruptly died down. A strange, rippling silence washed over the eastern entrance of the arena, slowly spreading through the stands like a wave.
Walking through the grand archways were two figures who immediately capture the attention of everyone present.
Damon strode forward. He wore the standard white and azure outer disciple robes with silver trim, but the garments seemed entirely different on his lean body.
His thick, jet-black hair fell stylishly around his handsome face, and his golden eyes swept the arena.
He carried no visible weapon aside from the dark wooden sword fastened to his waist.
Right beside him was Ariel. Her presence was ethereal, carrying the dignity of a noble-born lady.
Her long, dark blue silk-like hair cascaded flawlessly down her back, and her skin was as flawless as white jade.
A gentle aura radiated from her delicate figure, naturally cooling the morning air around them.
Though she walked subtly behind Damon, clearly displaying her absolute devotion to him, her own aura was undeniably powerful.
"Is that... Damon?" a disciple gasped from the front row of the stands, leaning over the stone railing in disbelief.
"It’s him! The madman who killed Young Master Jack in one strike during the deathmatch!" another whispered frantically, shrinking back as if Damon’s gaze would strike him dead on the spot.
"Wait, look at the path they are taking. They are heading toward the testing candidates’ zone!" a third disciple shouted, pointing a trembling finger.
"That area is strictly for those at the True Spirit Realm! Are they insane?"
"Impossible!" someone else argued heatedly.
"They just joined the sect a few weeks ago! I saw their selection test with my own eyes. Damon was at the Eighth Level of the Elementary Spirit Realm, and Ariel was also at the Eighth Level! How could they already qualify for the Inner Disciple Promotion Test?!" ƒreewebɳovel.com
The murmurs quickly escalated into an uproar. Breaking through multiple stages of the Elementary Spirit Realm and crossing the massive bottleneck into the True Spirit Realm in just a few weeks defied all known laws of cultivation logic.
Damon heard every whispered doubt and envious gasp perfectly, but his expression remained a mask of calm amusement.
’Let them talk, if they only knew the truth, their heads would simply explode.’ Damon thought, completely unfazed by the sea of eyes upon him. freewebnovёl.ƈom
Currently, the aura Damon was projecting to the outside world was at the First Level of the True Spirit Realm.
In reality, after his wild dual cultivation sessions and massive lust point expenditure, Damon was hiding his power of the Ninth Level of the True Spirit Realm. He was merely one step away from the Earth Spirit Realm.
’If I showed my true cultivation now, the sect would likely lock me away in a hidden peak to study me as a freak of nature, or worse, my enemies would stop sending weak lackeys and start sending assassins I can’t currently handle,’ Damon reasoned, a cunning smirk playing on his lips.
’Young Master Kai and the Frostborn family are already gunning for me. Let them think I am just barely at the True Spirit Realm.’
He glanced lovingly at Ariel. Thanks to his incredibly potent Yang Qi and the flawless pills from his Lust System, her cultivation had genuinely stabilized at the First Level of the True Spirit Realm.
She didn’t need to hide her strength; being a recognized genius of the Aquaria Family with Peak Earth Grade Sea Spiritual Roots gave her the perfect excuse for her rapid advancement.
"Damon, everyone is staring at us," Ariel murmured softly, her vivid blue eyes glancing around the arena. Maintaining her graceful, modest noble exterior, no one could possibly guess the insatiable, lustful tigress she became behind closed doors.
"Let them stare, Ariel. They are merely witnessing the difference between the earth and the heavens," Damon replied smoothly, wrapping a comforting hand around her slender waist for a brief moment before they joined the ranks of the eligible candidates.
The older outer disciples waiting in the center of the arena instantly parted, giving Damon a wide berth.
Many of them were in their late twenties, having spent years grinding for sect points just to reach this stage. Now, an eighteen-year-old upstart who had slaughtered a noble on his first day was casually standing among them.
They swallowed their pride and looked away, terrified of meeting his luminous golden gaze.
Suddenly, the noisy chatter of the stadium was utterly snuffed out.
The air pressure in the grand arena shifted violently, growing incredibly heavy. The ambient temperature plummeted, and a suffocating, majestic spiritual pressure blanketed the entire mountain peak.
"The Elders have arrived," an older disciple whispered and started to bow, thousands of disciples followed suit, into bow of respect.
From the clouds above, streaks of people descended toward the elevated platform.
An assembly of some older men and women, projecting the immense, untouchable auras of the Heavenly Spirit Realm, gracefully took their seats.
Among the descending lights, one aura was vastly different from the rest. She was not old like other Elders.
A woman descended onto the platform, her robes a pristine black and deep, azure-blue trim. She possessed an icy, mature beauty, her face sculpted like a flawless porcelain doll, but her eyes were entirely devoid of warmth.
’Selene Frostborn’
Damon identified her instantly, recalling the rumors and the facial similarities to the arrogant fool he had cut down in half weeks ago.
Elder of the Azure Dragon Sect. The older sister of that idiot Jack.
