My Master Knows It All

"Come, as your master, I will pass on to you some special Divine Skills. These skills were not available for your senior brothers and sisters to cultivate at the time."

Back then, when Ling Xi was at the Golden Immortal Realm, the cultivators he had access to were limited, but later on, he accessed more cultivators and mastered more spells and Divine Skills.

However, since Ling Xi and the others have surpassed the Earth Immortal Realm, he no longer imparts those Divine Skills to the disciples. Now, he can pass these Divine Skills on to Xingchen Zi.

These skills come from the Golden Spirit Sage, Fairy QiongXiao, and others.

If Xingchen Zi masters these Divine Skills and wields the Divine Weapon I gave him, his combat power at the Golden Core Stage will not be weaker than Ling Xi and others at their Golden Core Period Limit.

"I know that because you are my disciple, a disciple of Four Treasures Peak, you bear immense pressure. Your every move will be magnified, and sometimes, even if you win against your opponent, others might question you because of certain issues.

This is your first time participating in a martial arts tournament, and the pressure is enormous for you. Therefore, you don’t have to appear as Xingchen Zi.

You can disguise yourself as a loose cultivator to attend the tournament. Of course, the condition is not to use the Five-thunder Righteous Method, as it is too well-known. Once you use it, others will immediately know you are from the Hundred Peaks Sect."

This time, the goal is to select the most outstanding 128 Golden Core Stage cultivators.

This process takes considerable time.

First, to ensure fairness, each of the Four Continents of the Human Clan selects 100 people, then from these hundred Golden Core Stage disciples, 128 of the strongest are chosen.

Each continent must conduct a selection, and similarly, each of the thirty-two paths in the Eastern Province must also conduct a selection.

Moreover, before each path’s selection, every great teaching and every sect must also conduct a selection.

Besides, many loose cultivators wishing to participate in the selection must go to the nearest great teaching to participate in their selection.

Sects also follow this rule because their numbers are too small, so they directly join a great teaching and undergo selection alongside their disciples.

Ultimately, Xingchen Zi followed his master’s advice. After his master altered his appearance, Xingchen Zi did not participate in the Hundred Peaks Sect’s selection but instead went directly to the nearest great teaching, the Eastern Wilderness Sect.

Currently, the Eastern Wilderness Sect has two True Immortal Realm experts; both are reincarnated Great Abilities, Star Lord Hao Yue and Axe Maniac. Now, Star Lord Hao Yue can finally openly claim to be a Star Monarch.

However, one is in closed-door cultivation, while the other went to the re-opened Outer Heaven Battlefield as soon as it reopened.

With neither present, there is no one in the Eastern Wilderness Sect who could see through the disguise that Cao Zhen arranged.

In the past, to enter the Eastern Wilderness Sect, one would have to declare themselves a disciple of the Hundred Peaks Sect. But now, since loose cultivators also want to partake in the Human Clan’s internal selection, they too go to the nearest great teaching or sect. So now, entering the Eastern Wilderness Sect has become much easier.

One only needs to prove they are a Golden Core Stage cultivator to enter the Eastern Wilderness Sect and participate in the selection.

Each great teaching’s selection process varies.

Some great teachings let all Golden Core Stage cultivators enter a prepared Cultivation Mysterious Thousand Worlds and pass a test to proceed to the next round, saving time. After all, with so many Golden Core Stage participants, staging one-on-one battles could drag on indefinitely.

Other great teachings allow groups to ascend a ring and battle, with the victors moving on to the next round.

The Eastern Wilderness Sect opts for ten contestants in the ring, with the victor advancing to the next stage. This approach eliminates ninety percent of participants through debates, greatly accelerating the process.

At this moment, the Eastern Wilderness Sect has fully opened its mountain gate. It’s visible even to those at the Core Formation Stage, not to mention the Golden Core Stage.

Inside the mountain gate of the Eastern Wilderness Sect are many of its disciples, standing guard.

In the surrounding area, disciples from various sects queue up to move forward, each sect accompanied by one to a dozen elders.

Xingchen Zi followed behind a sect’s group.

This sect only had five members, one of whom was noticeably older and exuded a much stronger aura, clearly the elder responsible for leading the sect.

As for the sect’s attire, he did not recognize it. He hadn’t been cultivating for very long, and besides teaching him cultivation, his senior brothers and sisters mainly trained him in battle techniques and cautioned him about dangers during expeditions, rarely discussing the various great teachings and sects with him.

Moreover, the sect in front of him was evidently not a powerful one, which explained why he did not recognize it.

Most of those attending the selection here are sect disciples, with few being the disciples of loose cultivators. Even then, those disciples are usually accompanied by their masters.

Very few, like him, came to the selection alone.

However, beside him, there happened to be a pretty female cultivator, also proceeding alone.

The four sect disciples ahead only walked along, largely ignoring the two trailing them. One of them, dressed in an elegant white robe, tall and graceful, with fair skin and a delicate face, glanced back while walking forward with the group and asked, "Did you two come here on your own?"

Xingchen Zi nodded lightly. He was once more lively, but after learning of Elder Copper Plate and his fellow senior brothers in the Ministry of Works Immortal Palace’s deaths, he had become more reserved and reticent.

Beside him, the other female cultivator appeared even more aloof and didn’t even acknowledge the young cultivator in front of them.

The young cultivator’s gaze lingered on the pretty female cultivator next to them. It was apparent he had struck up the conversation to attract her attention, but her indifference led him to continue speaking with Xingchen Zi, who at least responded with a nod.

He asked curiously, "Are you two loose cultivators? I’m curious about your usual cultivation locations."

After all, loose cultivators are rare in the Eastern Province.