Chapter 454 Third Level (2/2)

Challenging the third level was an act that required a tremendous amount of courage.

Zhou Yuan slowly nodded his head. Wasn’t all the tough training he had racked up over the past year for the sake of the impending chief disciple selection? If he failed, he would have no choice but to wait for next year...

But he clearly did not have that much time to wait.

Therefore, he needed to use the most extreme of methods to force out all of his latent potential… even if it would be rather cruel.

At the end of the day, one needed to have the courage to boldly advance on the path of cultivation.

Back then in the Great Zhou Empire, his eight meridian channels had not appeared, making it impossible for him to begin cultivation. At that time, if he had given up inside, there would not have been today.

He had not given up back then… and it was even more impossible for him to give up now.

Old Xuan pulled in a deep breath from his pipe. Smoke rose into the air as he stood up and looked at Zhou Yuan with a solemn expression. “Kid, the third level is a little too strong for the current you. If you insist on going through with this, you have to be prepared for a tremendous amount of pain.”

He placed extra emphasis on the words ‘tremendous amount of pain’, clearly trying to tell Zhou Yuan that this was not going to be child's play.

Zhou Yuan merely smiled in response. His figure moved, appearing on the stone stage, before looking straight at old Xuan. Zhou Yuan had already conveyed his answer through his actions.

Old Xuan was a little taken aback, as he gave a slight nod, while deep admiration seemed to surge out from the depths of his murky eyes.

The road of cultivation was filled with countless difficulties and obstacles, and would never be a smooth journey. He had seen amazingly talented geniuses over the years, but at times, willpower and courage were more important than any talent.

Old Xuan did not say anything else, merely gently waving the broom in his hand as a Genesis Qi ripple pulsed.

Moments later, the third scale on the two stone dragon heads gradually brightened.

Rumble!

The entire land seemed to shake at this moment as high temperature and intense cold quietly spread, filling half the horizon.

In the end, the two stone dragons opened their gigantic mouths as vast torrents of water and fire burst out.

On the stone stage, Zhou Yuan’s seated figure was instantly engulfed. Half of the stage turned burning red, while the other half was covered in frost.

At the same time, a desperately suppressed howl of pain hysterically rang out from the torrential water and fire.

An incense stick of time later.

When the water and fire torrents finally began to wane, old Xuan hastily cast his gaze over, only to find a figure emitting steam from every inch of his body. All of Zhou Yuan’s skin had split open, as if he had been badly flayed. It was an exceedingly pitiful and torturous sight.

However, his eyes were tenaciously kept open as a very faint breathing sound was emitted from his nose.

His expression was extremely tense, finally reaching his limit when the water and fire stopped, and his body fell from the stage.

He had evidently fallen unconscious.

A stream of Genesis Qi surged over, wrapping around Zhou Yuan’s falling body. It lifted him up and gently placed him on the edge of the cliff.

Old Xuan gazed at the unconscious Zhou Yuan. The former could see faint dark green patterns emerging from under his skin, pulsing with vital energy that sustained Zhou Yuan’s life force as his skin gradually began to heal at a rate that could be seen by the naked eye.

Old Xuan’s gaze seemed to penetrate through Zhou Yuan flesh and blood, seeing a sliver of silver light flash past.

Old Xuan wet his lips as he sighed inside, feeling a little admiration at the kid.

“What a crazy little lunatic…”

…

While Zhou Yuan began his crazed training on the water and fire tempering dragon stage, time quietly passed in the Cangxuan Sect as the date of the chief disciple selection grew ever nearer.

The atmosphere that had been brewing over the sect grew more and more volatile, as every gaze in the entire sect converged towards the most major yearly event.

The chief disciple selection was fast approaching.

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