Ling Jan and the group went to register to enter the sect. After registering, he to wait in line where a test of talent and cultivation would be held.
There was a large crystal before the line. How the crystal tested talent was simple, there were two tests.
The first test was to comprehend at least one of the five techniques within the crystal within an hour.
The second test was to attack the crystal with your full strength. This crystal could take attacks up to earth immortal, so one was allowed to go all out.
Taking your cultivation, age, comprehension speed, and attack power. It will give you a score of 1 to 100. The higher the number, the higher one's talent would be.
Ling Han frowned when he saw the long line. It would take days to even weeks for him to get his turn. He waved his hands as a storage ring appeared in his hands. Skipping the line, he calmly walked to the person who was about to be next.
"this 100 rank 9 spirit stones of the high grade. take it and move." Ling Han said calmly
The guy who was about to go first was displeased, but hearing Ling Han's words and sensing the dense about of spirit stones within the ring, his heart skipped a beat.
Not even thinking twice, he let Ling Han take his spot and quickly ran off. a few days later, he would be killed, and all that spirit stone would be taken.
"next." A sect disciple said calmly as Ling Han walked forward.
Ling Han passed to him his identity token, which he got from registering.
"you are only 18 and are at the void-shattering realm." He yelled in shock, drawing a lot of attention towards Ling Han.
"yes, what about it? It's just cultivation." Ling Han said lazily,
The sect disciple was speechless, but he quickly calmed himself as he had Ling Han step forward to the crystal. Ling Han stepped before the crystal and placed his palm against it.
His mind was brought to space, where a stone tablet holding a cultivation technique stood. It was a moment technique known as the illusionary step.
Mastering this technique will allow one to leave behind an illusion of themselves which could be used to draw an enemy's attention. The illusions would move and act as if it was you, but once hit, it would disappear like smoke.
After reading the skill just once, he got the hang of it. He stepped forward as he left behind an illusion of himself. The illusion looked slightly after a second, he did it again, but this time the illusion he left behind seemed more real as it moved around.
With that, he mastered the technique, as a new technique soon appeared. This technique was of a much higher grade than before. Ling Han needed about double the amount of time to master this next one.
In a blink of an eye, 23 minutes passed, and Ling Han finished all five techniques. But a 6th technique appeared before Ling Han.
This technique was known as the burning heavens Sutra. A was incomplete, only holding the first level of the techniques.
The first level was simply a set of movements. Yet if one looked closely, they could tell that these movements could help one comprehend the heavenly Dao of fire.
Ling Han looked at the first level. to use this level, level attack. A set of movements had to be done. Through these movements, one could unleash fire with much stronger than before.
If before you turned your Qi into fire yet, you could at most unleash power up to level 3. with these movements, your power would more than double.
Ling Han quickly looked at this before he began doing the movements. It was like a dance, but each move was profound, holding deeper meaning.
Ling Han was closed as he tried to understand these deeper meanings. Just doing something was nothing compared to knowing what that something you are doing meant.
If you understand the meaning behind it, then the more active it would be.
You could get in a car for the first time and drive. You seen someone do it, you have read some books and have been told how to do it.
But compared to you actually doing it, and understand how the car works and other stuff. You would be hesitant and would have a hard time getting used to watching your speed, the road, and other stuff.
Ling Han was currently like that. He just read the technique and now was trying to comprehend the meaning behind each movement.
Thirty minutes, flames exploded off Ling Han as he punched out, sending a flamethrower.
With that, the stone tablet disappeared. Ling Han smiled slightly, seeing he had a few minutes left. He was truly talented since he didn't even use the martial space to speed up his comprehension speed.
He blinked and realized he was outside the stage world. The sect disciple looked at Ling Han strangely.
"that was 52 minutes and 46 seconds." With Ling Han's high cultivation, he expected him to do something like this. But he thought Ling Han would finish somewhere around 30 to 40 minutes.
The record placed on this part of the test was 34 minutes, a record set by the sect leader's personal disciple.
"move on to the next test. Attack the crystal with everything you have. No weapons are allowed," He said calmly, to which Ling Han held his hand at the sky.
Lightning flashed across his body for a split second before killing intent which made everyone heart drop was felt all across the sect
In a secret camper, a middle-aged man was cultivating before his eyes shot upon when he sensed the killing intent.
With a flash, he appeared outside as he looked towards Ling Han. His eyes shrink as sword intent, and lightning intent appeared before all three intents went on to fuse.
a large lightning ball, filled with killing intent, lightning intent, and sword intent slowly grew from Ling Han palm, covering the sky above everyone
More elders of the sect quickly rushed out, as all of their eyes fell on this scene. They watched as the lightning fall down on the crystal. Everyone by Ling Han was sent flying by the shock waves caused when the lightning ball hit the crystal.
"sect leader... he got a hundred." One of the elders of the sect said in a shaky voice as he looked at the middle-aged man. Their eyes were sharp enough to see the number placed above the crystal through all of that.
The middle-aged man ignored him as he clapped his hands. The world seemed to freeze for a second before the number on the crystal dropped to 91. The lightning ball disappeared as if it was never there.
"erase the memories of everyone. He should have comprehended the burning heaven sutra to gain a perfect 100%. Find out his origin, and report it back to me." The middle-aged man said with a deep frown.
"yes." an elder nodded as he disappeared. He appeared above Ling Han's. His eyes turned sharp as everyone who saw Ling Han's performance instantly. Memories of what happened were destroyed, as new ones were created.
Memories of two elders fighting on who will take Ling Han as his disciple, and began fighting on the spot. This was something more believable, and it didn't conflict every any other memory.
'so this is what happens when an MC doesn't hold back.' Ling Han thought as he looked at everyone happening around him.
He honestly didn't care about hiding his talent. Those who hide have something to fear. What did he have fo fear? Death? he will just come back to life.
The low key wasn't something Ling Han liked doing. He wanted to test his talent. so he tested it. There was nothing more to it.
Back to the sect leader, the elder returned with information on Ling Han.
"... lower realm? A treasure? I sense no treasure from him. He only used his pure talent." The sect leader said in a low voice.
"have him skip the exam, continue to look deeper into his background. Look into his karma and find which lower realm he came from. if his background is clean, I will take him to meet the ancestors." The sect leader said as he disappeared,