Chapter Eighty-One: The Shock of the Dead Sea

  Some people say that if you don't take the Central Trial Assessment, you'll never know how many freaks there are in the world. Others say that if you don't enter the Central Academy to cultivate, you'll never know just how weak you really are.

  After three days of assessment, Bai Jian's spirit was low and his fighting spirit had dissipated by more than half. In just three days, three people with the Spirit of Life had appeared: Xi Ruochen, Mo Qingxiu, and Xue Yuxuan.

  One of the four attributes, don't take it lightly.

  One of the three attributes, Chi Ru Chen.

  Nine people with various dual attributes, Feathered Flight, Cloudy Sky, Hidden Star, Swallow Seventeen, Xiahou Spear and others.

  There are dozens of variant attributes for feet.

  This is just the attribute spirit sea, who knows how high their cultivation is. Just like Mo Qingchou, she entered the third realm at the age of 15, and two years have passed since then, so what kind of cultivation should it be? There's also Xi Ruochen, no one knows his true cultivation, maybe he has also condensed attribute spirit yuan. Apart from this, the cultivation of Yu Hua Fei, Yun Jing Tian and others is all profound and unpredictable.

  Bai Jian was disheartened by the group of arrogant and talented students, but Chen Luo didn't have any particular emotions. Whether they were geniuses or not, it had nothing to do with him. You don't provoke me, I won't provoke you. If you provoke me, no matter if you're a genius or not, I'll beat you up without hesitation. Even if I couldn't defeat you in a fight, I'd use formations to exhaust you to death. After all, the trial assessment didn't have any rules against using formations.

  However, he is not worried about this issue now, but rather worried that when it's his turn to detect later, what reaction will the mysterious spirit array have? His own opened spiritual sea may or may not be a boundary spiritual sea, and neither he nor Butcher can sense it. Can the mysterious spirit array sense it? Also, there is the issue of the variant attribute - others' variant is the spiritual sea, while his own variant attribute is a stone heart; it's unknown what will happen later.

  After about several hours, it was finally Chen Luo's turn to go on stage for inspection.

  As soon as the two words "Chen Luo" were heard, there was a lot of discussion among the people in the field. Every year before the Central Trial Assessment, some business houses would record the geniuses and talents of each domain, compile them into books for sale, and even include some of their stories. Chen Luo was also listed among the geniuses of Jinshui Domain, and his stories were recorded. His deeds, such as "Invasion of Darkness", "Ruthless Expulsion", "Qingshi Platform Battle", "Jinshui Conference Trial", "Eight Pulse Variation", "Five Great Perfection Spirit Technique" and so on, caused a lot of discussion. After all, whether it was the Eight Pulse Variation or the Five Great Perfection Spirit Technique, they were already among the ranks of the abnormal.

  So, when Chen Luo walked onto the high platform, many people were watching him, including Yu Hua Fei and Xue Yi Xuan, some of the talented individuals such as Yun Jing Tian, Cang Xing, Yan Shi Qi, and Xia Hou Ji, because they all possessed dual attribute Spirit Oceans. If Chen Luo successfully opened up his Destiny Spirit Ocean, it would also be a dual attribute, with the power of Fate's Stone and Variation, which was much more powerful than their own Bloodline Power and Variation Power. Apart from them, there were others watching him as well, namely Mu Huang, Ding Zi Xuan, Ye Qing, and others from Xiao Luo Tian Academy, who although had lost in the Golden Water Domain trials, did not hinder them from participating in the Central Trial Assessment.

  In everyone's opinion, since Chen Luo has appeared here today, he should have opened up the Spiritual Ocean. However, it is unknown whether he has opened up an ordinary Spiritual Ocean or a Life Spiritual Ocean. Just because one has opened the eighth spiritual vein does not mean they can open up a Life Spiritual Ocean. It is already extremely rare for one person out of ten to succeed, let alone Chen Luo's case, which involves an abnormal variation of the eight veins. The difficulty of opening it is much higher than that of an ordinary eighth spiritual vein.

  When Chen Luo walked onto the high platform and into the Xuanling Array, the array began to rotate, a milky white light enveloped him. One breath, two breaths, when the third breath came, the Xuanling Array suddenly emitted a humming noise, indicating that his spiritual sea was either tainted by darkness or successfully opened up. Which one was it? Everyone was waiting for the result.

  If it is the invasion of darkness, the formation will burst out with black light. If it is the mutation of the spiritual sea, the formation will burst out with colorful lights. If it is the spiritual sea of life, the formation will burst out with a radiant starlight.

  But after waiting for a while, the formation didn't show any signs of brilliance, neither black nor colorful lights, nor did it shine with starlight.

  What on earth is going on here?

  Just now, the formation clearly made a humming noise!

  Not only were all the students surprised, but also the twelve examiners were puzzled. Had the formation gone wrong? After checking, it was found to be operating normally, without any errors. The examiner asked Chen Luo to re-examine again, and still there was a buzzing sound, still no light flashing.

  "Come out, young man, I'll examine you myself."

  An old man walked over, reached out and pinched Chen Luo's wrist, after examining it, the old man's expression became strange, the several inspectors beside him were puzzled and hurriedly asked questions.

  The old man furrowed his brow, looked at Chen Luo with a complex gaze, and then said to the other inspectors: "This old man can't sense his spiritual sea, but only his spiritual power. He may have failed to open up, his spiritual sea is dead, or it's a dead sea."

  Dead Sea two words come out, the whole audience is shocked.

  Everyone knows that if the spiritual vein changes or opens the eighth spiritual vein, the successful ones will naturally open up a variant spiritual sea or a life spiritual sea. Even if the opening fails, most of them are ordinary spiritual seas. However, if the luck is relatively bad, then the opened spiritual sea will wither and die as soon as it appears, this kind of spiritual sea is called dead sea.

  As soon as the other inspectors confirmed it, Bai Jian was shocked. He had originally thought that Chen Luo had opened up the Spiritual Sea of Fate, but unexpectedly... it was actually a Dead Sea. Xue Xiangyun was also shocked, she still clearly remembered seeing Chen Luo two days ago and congratulating him on opening up the Spiritual Sea of Fate, and at that time he had also responded with gratitude, thinking that he had really opened up the Spiritual Sea of Fate, but unexpectedly it was actually a Dead Sea.

  Not only were they shocked, but also Mu Huang, Ding Zixuan and Ye Qing. The three of them could be said to have hated Chen Luo thoroughly. At this moment, when they found out that Chen Luo's opening had failed and opened up a dead sea, the three of them were shocked, then overjoyed. Ding Zixuan sneered, staring at Chen Luo and shouted: "Heavens are helping me! Hmph! Chen Luo! You've failed in your opening, the Spiritual Sea is dead, let's see how you dare to be arrogant with me again!"

  The three of them were more delighted than shocked, they had been so, those dual-attribute geniuses who still had some worries before, such as Yun Jingtian, Cang Xing, Yan Seventeen, Xia Houji and others, finally had a stone that had been hanging in the air land, one less opponent, naturally worth rejoicing.

  "Kid, your spiritual sea is dead, I advise you to give up on taking the assessment."

  On the high platform, the blue-clothed youth stood tall, his handsome and delicate face seemingly without any expression of depression, only calmness and serenity. He asked, "Even if my spiritual sea is dead, I can still participate in the Central Trial Examination, right? The conditions for participation are that one's cultivation has entered the second realm, and one must be under eighteen years old; I completely meet the conditions."

  "It's according to the rules, but I still advise you to give up."

  The examiners' meaning is clear, you do have the qualifications to participate in the central examination, but with Ling Hai dead, your combat strength has been greatly discounted, and it's almost impossible to pass the examination. Even if a miracle happens and you pass the examination, and get into the Central Academy, there will be no future prospects afterwards.

  "Thank you, but I still insist on participating."

  Seeing him so persistent, several inspectors could only sigh and let him participate after all Chen Luo fully met the conditions.

  The four-day inspection finally came to an end, and on the fifth day, the Central Academy announced the rules for the trial assessment. The rules were simple, with only one clause: no killing was allowed. This single rule seemed straightforward but held great significance, meaning that apart from taking lives, anything else was permissible. After announcing the rules, each participant in the trial received a wristband and a brocade pouch. The wristband was called the Trial Wristband, which would instantly transport its wearer to safety if their life was threatened during the trial, activated by mental intent. The brocade pouch was called the Trial Brocade Pouch, containing eighteen pellets of Spiritual Grain, enough to sustain one for eighteen days.

  Because the content of this trial assessment is eighteen levels, each day represents a level, and the later it gets, the more dangerous it becomes. The Central Academy has not announced how many levels need to be passed to pass the assessment, which is the usual practice. Only after the assessment ends will it be announced.

  On the sixth day, the trial assessment officially began. All students were not allowed to bring anything except for the trial cuff and trial pouch, as well as a change of clothes, especially spiritual treasures, even those used for cooling down in daily life were not permitted to be carried.

  The apprentices lined up to enter the transmission array. When it was almost Chen Luo's turn, Bai Jian said very seriously and solemnly: "Chen Luo, I'm sorry!"

  "What?" Chen Luo raised an eyebrow and asked.

  "I don't know what you're talking about, Dead Sea, and you don't have to take what I said the other day to heart."

  Chen Luo shook his head and smiled, patting him on the shoulder.

  "No matter if you are the Dead Sea or the Spirit of Life, you are my idol, White Sword. You were in the past, you are now, and you will be in the future." White Sword was a very particular person, Chen Luo had always thought so, although sometimes his particularity was a bit inexplicable. Just as they were about to enter the transmission array, White Sword said again: "Once we transmit to the Tianji Small Spirit Realm, we will separate. You must be careful at that time, I will do my best to find you. As long as I, White Sword, have one breath left, I will strive to help you pass the assessment."

  "Particular about people, nothing to say."

  Chen Luo didn't have many friends, and he hadn't expected that Bai Jian, this guy, would be willing to help him even after learning that the place he had opened up was a Dead Sea. He felt quite moved in his heart, saying: "A few days ago when I met that witch, she said you were going through a trial with a blood calamity, so be careful."

  "On such a solemn occasion of farewell, how could you say something so depressing!"

  Chen Luo burst out laughing three times, then stepped into the transmission array.

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