As Wang Ruoxie's words fell, everyone couldn't help but freeze there.

Even Song Qing looked at Wang Ruoxie with incomprehension.

If it were someone else, they would agree without hesitation.

After all, their purpose in coming for the assessment is to enter the Celestial Sword Sect and become its disciples.

If they could skip the assessment and directly join the Celestial Sword Sect, naturally no one would refuse.

The first and third rounds of the assessment are not difficult to talk about; even if one fails, it is at most elimination.

But the second round of assessment is very dangerous, almost every year, many people die in this round.

No one wants to die, so naturally, it would be an extremely good thing if they could pass directly.

However, such an unbelievably good thing was directly refused by Wang Ruoxie.

In fact, the reason Wang Ruoxie chose to continue participating in the assessment was to join the second-round assessment.

Previously, on the way here, Xiao Ningyue had said that the second round of assessment involved sending all those who passed the first round to a trial land, where not only must they hunt demon beasts but also fight with other examinees, even to the death.

Hunting demon beasts means there will be a lot of demon beast essence blood, the quickest way for him to elevate his cultivation, how could he miss it?

Moreover, fighting with other examinees would allow him to devour their blood souls, advancing his bloodline level.

Why did he join the Celestial Sword Sect? Was it not to quickly restore his cultivation from a past life?

Unless he was foolish, how could he possibly let go of this excellent opportunity to enhance his cultivation and power.

"If that's the case, I won't force you, but during the second-round assessment, you only need to do your best to protect yourself, and as for the assessment results, you don't need to be too concerned."

After pondering, Ouyang Ling advised Wang Ruoxie.

If a sword cultivator genius with nine-star talent died during the assessment, that would indeed be a massive loss.

Not only would he be unable to forgive himself, but the sect likely wouldn't let him off the hook easily either.

Most importantly, he had already decided that once the assessment was over, he would immediately accept him as a direct disciple, so under no circumstances could he let the future direct disciple get into trouble.

So do the assessment results matter anymore?

A peerless genius with nine-star swordsmanship talent, as long as he is given enough cultivation resources and meticulous nurturing, even breaking through to the Celestial Human Realm is not impossible, and it won't take too long.

"En, I understand."

Wang Ruoxie nodded slightly, then turned and returned to the crowd.

"Kid, what good is talent, if an unformed genius is still just a weakling, in the second-round assessment, I will definitely kill you."

At this moment, Yang Hongwu walked up to Wang Ruoxie, lowered his voice and said coldly.

If Wang Ruoxie's results were average, he might just teach him a lesson, but now, he feels a great threat from him.

With nine-star swordsmanship talent, once grown, he would have no chance to counter him.

Since they have already become enemies, he must strike first, killing him before he grows, to avoid future trouble.

"Yang Hongwu, with Brother Wang's talent, he will surely be valued by the Celestial Sword Sect, do you dare to kill him?"

Upon hearing Yang Hongwu's words, Song Qing couldn't help but coldly shout.

"Ridiculous, the second-round assessment disregards life and death, who would care about dead geniuses?"

Yang Hongwu sneered, saying.

"There are many who want to kill me, what do you count as?"

Wang Ruoxie glanced at Yang Hongwu indifferently and said dismissively.

In his past life, countless strong men from the Celestial Realm pursued him to take his life, each with a cultivation of at least the Celestial Monarch Realm, any one of them could easily destroy the entire East Victory Kingdom, or even the entire Eastern Domain.

Yet, in the end, these people all died at his hands.

A mere seventh layer of Energy-Introducing Realm dares to boast about killing him, it's utterly ridiculous.

Even if now his cultivation is only at the fourth layer of Energy-Introducing Realm, and his strength is not even a tenth of his past life, he still has countless ways to easily kill this guy.

"Very well, we'll see."

Yang Hongwu's face turned extremely gloomy, fixing his cold gaze on Wang Ruoxie, then laughed furiously.

Witnessing this scene, everyone around couldn't help but show strange looks.

Previously, they wouldn't have doubted that Yang Hongwu, with his seventh layer of Energy-Introducing Realm cultivation, could easily kill a fourth layer Energy-Introducing Realm.

But now, with Wang Ruoxie's detected nine-star swordsmanship talent, this kind of peerless genius couldn't be viewed with common sense.

Rumors say some peerless geniuses not only are invincible at the same tier, but even challenging beyond their tier is extremely easy.

Many revealed a look of interest; they too wanted to see what the outcome would be in the struggle between these two.

Not far away, Leng Ao also had a cold smile in his eyes, although he had a six-month gamble with Wang Ruoxie, if this guy died in the second-round assessment, it wouldn't be a bad thing.

He believed that in the second-round assessment, Yang Hongwu would definitely go mad chasing after Wang Ruoxie.

At that time, if he added fuel to the fire, it would surely prevent Wang Ruoxie from leaving the trial land alive.

"If that's the case, I will pre-book your blood soul."

A gleam of coldness flashed in Wang Ruoxie's eyes, as he coldly laughed to himself.

Presumably, this guy's bloodline tier is certainly no worse than that Zhou Family youth before; if he swallowed his blood soul, it should be able to advance his bloodline again.

Meanwhile, those who hadn't yet been tested were still continuously walking up to the Inquiry Sword Stone, to test their swordsmanship talent.

About two more hours passed until everyone had finally been tested.

Most lit up three stars, as for those who only lit up one or two stars, they were not directly eliminated.

However, if their bloodline remained average, naturally they wouldn't have any further opportunities.

As for those who couldn't even light up a single star, Ouyang Ling almost didn't hesitate and directly eliminated them.

Although later tests saw the emergence of some sword cultivator geniuses who lit up four or five stars, and even a top sword cultivator genius who lit up seven stars, the crowd was not particularly shocked.

With the appearance of nine-star swordsmanship talent, what is the surprise in seeing seven-star swordsmanship talent?

"Now, it's time for bloodline testing."

Ouyang Ling looked towards the crowd and said loudly.

The bloodline test is simpler; everyone just needs to release their blood soul to directly see their bloodline tier.

"Let the testing begin."

As Ouyang Ling's words fell, a roughly sixteen-year-old boy stepped forward, then directly released his blood soul.

Instantly, a brilliant orange light burst from him.

The next moment, a phantom with an orange halo appeared behind him.

It was an eagle-shaped phantom, silently standing there, yet it made everyone feel a fierce aura.

"Profound Tier First Grade bloodline, qualified, plus your three-star swordsmanship talent score, you've passed the first-round assessment."

Ouyang Ling smiled at the boy, then spoke.

"Thank you, Elder Ouyang."

The boy excitedly saluted Ouyang Ling.

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