[You finish the trial!]

[You completed 90% of the trial]

[Reward: Accumulated Stats (From Mortal Realm) will increase by 90%]

[You have reached Transcendent Mortal Realm!]

Above-Average Mortal (Level 26)

HP: 2940/2940 MP: 6680/6680

STR: 445 VIT: 147 Qi: 245

AGI: 326 LUK: 57

INT: 334 MAG: 66

Skill:

Martial Artists: Fiery Palm Lvl 1, Shadow Clone Lvl 10, Water Sword Technique Lvl 10, Wind Run Lvl 1, Destructive Stomp Lvl 1, Cultivation Technique Lvl 10, Mortal Realm Lvl Max, Transcendent Mortal Realm Lvl 1

Classless: Physical Abilities (Tier-2) Lvl 10, High Willpower Lvl 5, Tenacity Lvl 1, Mana Manipulation Lvl 7, Mana Sword Lvl 10, Fire Mastery Lvl 8, Earth Mastery Lvl 8, Water Mastery Lvl 7, Wind Mastery Lvl 7, Mana Shield Lvl 10, Double Slash Lvl 10

Title: Pure Bone (+20 VIT), Pure Meridians System (+40% Efficiency)

Dong!!

Dong!!

Dong!!

Loud bell noises resounded throughout the Peerless Sky Sect. It's from the giant tower located at the Fighting Hall located near the headquarters of Peerless Sky Sect. The sound of the bells signified that today is the day the tournament among the disciples started.

"Master! You finally woke up. What happened to you while I am sleeping?" Xiao Xue asked worriedly.

'Hm? The time didn't stop when he's in the trial?'

Zhen Lun just got out from the trial and he is sitting beside Xiao Xue the entire time while he was undergoing the trial.

"It's nothing, I'm fine." Zhen Lun said.

"Master, You look... more handsome?" Xiao Xue noticed that Zhen Lun's got taller and smoother skin than before.

"Did I?" Zhen Lun really doesn't know what happened to his body, the only thing he knows was that he got stronger.

But at this moment the most important was the bell! It's the sign that the tournament has started! Though I won't have to participate in the qualifier stage, I still have to go.

"I'll have to go somewhere, Do you want to come? Many people will admire your beauty again if you follow me." Zhen Lun bluntly said. The arena will be packed with people, even normal citizen from Xin Hai City will be going there to watch. A battle between Martial Artists is something that rarely seen in daily life.

"...I'll go." Xiao Xue really wanted to follow Zhen Lun. Even if she doesn't like to be watched by others, she wanted to follow Zhen Lun badly.

"Then... We'll get you a cloak to cover up your appearance. We'll buy it when we're in the city." Zhen Lun smiled.

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Meanwhile, at the Fighting Hall of Peerless Sky Sect.

People filled all of the seats that are available, cheering and encouraging the martial artists that are fighting in the arena.

Nine arenas on the field, all of them have people fighting on it. The people that are spectating was exhilarated that they don't know which one to watch, each one of them is eye-catching to them.

"Hmph look at those people. They are watching normal disciple fight and they got excited already, We, the core disciples haven't joined the frays yet." One of the men snickered.

He ranks 65th place among the core disciples, has the cultivation of Intermediate Spiritual Refining Realm and His name is Wang Shi. He's simply an arrogant boy

"Haha, All of them will be dropping their jaws when they see us in action." Another man laughed excitedly.

He ranks 78th place among the core disciples, he's even weaker than the arrogant boy. So there's no need to mention him too much.

The guest elders that have the special seats at the top was also enjoying the view.

"This year is not too shabby, All of them manage to do some flashy moves. With so many people coming to watch our pay must be raised right?"

"Well, I do hope so. If it didn't I think I'll have to find another job."

"...Both of you be quiet! Aren't you shameless for talking about your pays here!" An Elder scolded them. "Bunch of outer disciples elders, so rude."

"Well, It's true that this year. Our students are doing pretty well. Isn't that right? Elder Fei." An Elder tried to smoothen the atmosphere. He decided to ask Elder Fei the most respected elders.

Elder Fei is one of the High Elders like Elder Yu, If people would be scared of, it would be him than Elder Yu. He's much scarier than Elder Yu, he uses his fist to talk, no warning at all to who offended him.

"Tch, These bunch of trashes does not worth my attention." Elder Fei simply replied. "Can we just skip to the fight between core disciples?" He is bored to death already. 'Bunch of weaklings fighting... What's fun in it?'

"Who is the strongest among the core disciples?" Elder Fei asked as he sits in a casual manner while picking his nose.

"The first rank among the core disciples is Lin Wei from Lin Family, he has the strength of Half-Transcendent Mortal but there are also two people that reached the half-transcendent mortal."

"One of them is Tang Wu, she's a normal girl with no background, She's really hardworking and the other is a boy name Fang Long, he's from Fang family but unlike Lin Wei, he's not arrogant at all but I heard he has a crush on Tang Wu." The elder explained.

'Hmm... We got three promising youngsters.' Elder Fei was actually surprised, Last few years there is mostly only one or two but this year there are three.

"How about Zhen Lun? Any news about him?" Elder Fei asked.

"Zhen Lun? Never heard of him, Why?"

"Tch, Useless piece of shit, why would we even hire you?" Elder Fei mocked.

'...Is it my fault?' The elder cried.

'Sigh, I didn't see him here, Is he not interested in the tournament? Elder Bai told me that he gave him the scroll.' He used his eagle sharp eyes to scan all of the crowd but didn't see someone that resembles Zhen Lun.

"Go! Don't lose!"

"I place my bet on you! Why the fuck you lose!"

"Hey! He uses underhanded tricks!"

The crowd was pretty lively, everyone is cheering their beloved ones as they bet money on them.

Sigh*

'Why did we even run this school.' Hearing what the crowd's yelling, Elder Fei's mood was totally gone. They actually host this tournament to gain more funds instead of testing the capabilities of their disciples. 'This is embarrassing.'

'Please end this farce quickly, I cannot watch anymore.' Elder Fei closed his eyes.

"Look a giant bird!"

"You fool! That's not a normal giant bird, It's Lightning Eagle with the strength of Transcendent Mortal!" A young boy among the spectators interrupts the man.

"How did you know, Little Brat?" The man sizing up the young man that is sitting beside him. He looks like a spoiled rich kid, judging from his fancy clothes and haughty attitude. He looks like a prince.

"I may not look like one but I'm actually at Body Harmonizing Realm!" The boy said. "Since I cannot sense the beast's cultivation means that it is either higher and me or no cultivation realms at all. Obviously, the last answer was incorrect, so it has a higher realm than me!"

"You? Body Harmonizing Realm?" The man was shocked.

"What? You want to try?" The boy smugly asked.

"No... I rather not risk my life." After all, he's just a normal person that came to watch.

"I came from the capital, to see if the rumors are real and It turns out to be real, they are really paying this lowly academy respect by sending someone over to here!" The boy smiled. "That one is from Mountain Sword Sect! and that's from Azure Cloud Sect!"

"Not only that, the others really came too, look at that side!" The man pointed to the other side.

"Wow, Luckily I moved to Xin Hai City, despite being recently established city they actually managed to attract so many strong people."

The crowd was shocked to see many powerful beasts landing on top of the wall of the giant arena.

"Mountain Sword Sect pays respect to Elder Fei!" A thirty years old looking man came down from his mount, Lightning Eagle to greets Elder Fei with a bow.

"Azure Cloud Sect pays respect to Elder Fei!" a young woman came down from her beautiful Red-neck Crane mount. Unlike, Lightning Eagle, the Crane mount is much stronger than the Eagle as it was at The Third stage of Transcendent Mortal Realm.

There is a total of ten representatives from different academy came to pay respects to specifically toward Elder Fei.

Elder Fei didn't stand up to greets them at all, He is still sitting casually in his seat as he nodded his head.

The guest elders that saw the representatives panicked as they gave up their seats to them and stood at the side.

"This year is quite livelier than last year." One of the representatives commented.

"Elder Fei, How many geniuses appeared this year?" A man that represented Mountain Sword Sect asked.

"This year almost all of the core disciples have decent talents but there are four that stood out the most." Elder Fei answered as he keeps scanning through the crowd hoping to find Zhen Lun.

"Four? What realm are they?" The man asked.

"Three of them are half transcendent, the other...." Elder Bai suddenly tensed up as he finally found the person he is looking for.

'He's here!' He spotted Zhen Lun on the entrance of the arena, he has just arrived along with a cloaked youngster. 'He is....'

"Hahaha." Elder Fei suddenly laughed, making the representatives confused. 'A few days ago he's only Spirit Condensing Realm. Now he's at the transcendent mortal realm. This is getting interesting! Will he get stuck for years again?'

Zhen Lun's amazing cultivation was unheard of, only the high elders and the sect leader knew this. The guest elders were either unconvinced by the information they received or either don't care about the rumors they heard.

"What's wrong Elder Fei?" The representatives were confused. They followed the gaze of Elder Fei and found out that he's staring at a lad.

"That's..., Is he disciple of Peerless Sky Sect?"

"Hmm... His talents are not too shabby for him to reach transcendent mortal realm at that age."

What they don't know is that it only took him a few days to reach that realm, if they knew it they would be shocked by it.

The representatives don't get it, why did Elder Fei interested in him? They would rather choose a younger disciple that reached Half transcendent mortal at a younger age than someone like Zhen Lun. If they were given some time they could catch up with Zhen Lun, that's what they thought.

Below the arena, where the crowd gathers, Zhen Lun is heading toward his seats which were specially prepared for him. In fact, Every Core disciples have their own seats and they don't need to pay money to get inside.

'There is our seats.' Zhen Lun heads over to core disciples seat section where most of the seats are still available and not crowded.

Some of the core disciples that watched Zhen Lun came whispered to each other.

"Who's that guy? Have you seen him before?" One of the guys asked.

"Never seen him." The man shook his head.

Out of all people, Sister Tang waved her hands to Zhen Lun. "Hey! Brother Zhen come here!"

At first, there's only a few of them that noticed Zhen Lun, now all of them turned over to look at him.

"He knows Goddess Tang??!?!"

"Ow, Brother Fang gonna beat him up if he goes there."

The crowd suddenly felt pitiful toward Zhen Lun, They knew who approaches Goddess Tang will get beat up miserably.

As the crowd said that, Zhen Lun just smiled to Sister Tang and waved his hands back. He was about to go to Sister Tang side but stopped by a bulky man.

"You... What's your relationship with My Sweet Tang?" The bulky man stood in front of Zhen Lun not budging at all.

Zhen Lun remembered him, He's the giant guy that stands in front of his room to sightseeing. "We are friends." He bluntly answered.

"You're not interested in her?" Fang Long asked.

"No, In fact, I owe her for helping me when I first came here." Zhen Lun replied to the man.

Hearing the response, He finally loosened up. "I see, Then there's no problem." The man stopped blocking his way and even smiled at him.

"I see that you have advanced to Transcendent Mortal." Sister Tang congratulates him.

"Un, I have met a few lucky encounters." Zhen Lun humbly replied.

'...Lucky encounters that allow you to advance so many realms?' She bitterly smiled as doesn't trust his words at all. Zhen Lun wasn't going to talk about it so she changed the topics to avoid awkward atmosphere. "Who is that?" She pointed to the cloaked person.

"Um... Xiao Xue, My servant?" Zhen Lun doesn't really know what to say. He doesn't really treat Xiao Xue as his servant but instead, he treats her as his own little sister.

"A girl?" Sister Tang expression tensed up as she heard the name.

"Yes."

While Zhen Lun and Sister Tang are chatting among themselves. The people surrounding them gritting their teeth with jealousy.

"Brother Fang! He is getting cheeky after you let him go. You shouldn't let him get so close with Goddess Tang."

"Yeah, Yeah! Look at him, I don't know why but Goddess Tang is also smiling at him."

Fang Long can't help but sigh. "That guy is strong. He has the right to be intimate with her. Besides, He already said he's not into her." The last time he saw Zhen Lun, he's only at Spirit Condensing Realm. Now he can't even sense his cultivation, which means he's already way above himself.

Right now, Even Fang Long who was usually brave dares not mess with him. The cultivation speed of his was unheard of.

"But, Goddess Tang clearly into him! You will lose if you let him do as he pleases!" The guy kept complaining.

"Enough! I already lost to him in strength, I don't want to lose to him in personality too." If he gets in and interrupts him between his goddess, he will be hated by her.

"This... Lost by strength?" The man was confused by the words muttered by Fang Long.

"He's at Transcendent Mortal Realm, not a fake transcendent mortal like me, a true one." He really doesn't want to admit his loss but he can't help but swallow his pride this time. Though the man is stronger than him, he doesn't plan to give up.

'I will give my all when we fight, you better be prepared to receive my anger!' Fang Long clenched his fist tightly as he promised himself.