Chapter 257: Powerful Magical Beast (1/2)

”What in the name of heavens just happened?! Am I imagining things or did he just decapitate the special training puppet that even Spirit Warriors cannot destroy?!”

One of the disciples there mumbled in a dazed voice as he stared at the silver head that had rolled a few meters away after being detached from its body.

Meanwhile, the training puppet that Yuan had decapitated continued to function, turning colors.

Light green, dark green, light yellow, dark yellow, light red, dark red… black!

To everybody's surprise, the special training puppet had suddenly turned black— a color they didn't know existed, much less seen before!

Yuan looked at the broken sword in his grasp with a dazed expression on his face. He didn't expect the sword to break so easily; it felt like he'd smashed a rock with an egg. However, to his surprise, he'd still managed to decapitate the training puppet.

Of course, it was the spiritual energy released from the sword that had sliced the training puppet's head cleanly off its body, as the sword was destroyed the moment it touched the puppet's tough body due to the immense force behind it.

Sometime later, once she snapped out of her daze, Elder Tantai approached the training puppet to examine its damage with a perplexed look on her face, seemingly trying to figure out what the heck just happened.

She then looked at Yuan's broken sword.

”I don't recognize the technique you'd just used. What rank is it?” she then asked him.

”Earth-rank,” he calmly responded.

”...”

Elder Tantai questioned her own existence after learning that Yuan had managed to decapitate a special training puppet with an Earth-rank technique while she can't even damage it with a technique of the same rank and a cultivation base of 7th level Spirit Warrior.

”A-Anyway… you passed…” Elder Tantai said after a moment of silence.

Even if she can't comprehend what just happened, she couldn't deny what was right before her eyes.

Fortunately for her, Yuan was the last person to take the test, or she would've needed to find another special training puppet, which would have delayed the examination for at least two to three hours since nobody could've expected an Outer Court disciple destroying a special training puppet that even Core Disciples cannot destroy.

”As expected of the one who defeated the Mad Tiger without lifting a finger… If he'd lifted his finger, perhaps that match would've ended up as a deathmatch…”

The disciples there wholeheartedly believed that Wu Laohu had lucked out when Yuan decided to let him survive.

Sometime later, Elder Tantai gathered the disciples again and said, ”There are twenty-four of you left, and we will be heading to the final test where you must defeat a magical beast before you become an Inner Court disciple. If you have any questions, ask away.”

One of the disciples immediately raised his hand and asked, ”What kind of magical beasts will we be fighting?”

Elder Tantai then responded in a calm voice, ”It's a powerful magical beast that is mostly found within the Jade Forest— the Jade Frog.”

”The Jade Frog?!” The disciples expressed shock upon hearing this name.