Chapter 455: Testing Hall

"You dare!"

The Fat cultivator instantly lost his cool and stood up, intending to grab Yi Chen by the collar.

Yi Chen snorted, seeing those actions and wanting to settle things as quickly as possible, and sent a small burst of spiritual energy in their direction.

"Piss off."

He declared, releasing a wave of spiritual energy far less intense than the one he had previously used against Huo Xun and his gang.

Woooosh!

The small burst of spiritual energy, taking a physical form, forcefully swept everyone’s hair, causing them to simultaneously squint their eyes against the incoming force.

At the same time, several books that had been piled on the table toppled down the very next moment as the sound of pages being continuously flipped over kept ringing in their ears.

"This..."

The Fat cultivator’s hand stopped just short of Yi Chen’s collar. Seeing that Yi Chen had used a martial technique, he was about to do the same.

However, just then the woman shouted at the top of her lungs.

"Wait! Don’t!"

Hearing those words, the Fat cultivator’s hand instantly came to a stop as he turned to look at the woman questioningly.

However, the woman didn’t even spare him a glance and instead looked at Yi Chen with eyes that carried nothing but fear in them.

"Y-You...you’re a Qi Absorption Stage cultivator!" she exclaimed the very next moment, causing fear and uncertainty to be evident on her face.

"He is what?!" A pale expression instantly appeared on the Fat man’s face the moment he heard those words as he instantly retreated a few steps back.

’But he...he’s so young!’ The thin man thought, confusion evident on his face, but just like the others, his expression had also turned pale by now.

"Took you long enough to figure it out." Yi Chen rolled his eyes in an arrogant manner as he said those words.

Since ordinary disciples at the Ninth Meridian Refinement Stage wouldn’t have enough spiritual energy to release it in a small burst like Yi Chen had just done, it was only natural for them to assume that he was a Qi Absorption Stage cultivator.

And clearly, knowing about this possibility, he had decided to exploit it at this very moment.

"I-I was shortsighted! Please forgive my actions, Senior!" The Fat man instantly went on his knees and started grovelling the very next moment.

Following his example, both the thin man and the woman did the same.

"Please accept our apology, Senior!"

"Yes, please forgive us! We were too stressed about the test and ended up doing something we shouldn’t have done..."

Hearing their words, Yi Chen just let out a snort, impatience evident on his face, as he said, gesturing at the surrounding books that had fallen down, "Clean up the mess and scram!"

"Y-Yes!"

The three exclaimed with relief evident on their faces. Exchanging glances with each other, they soon nodded at one another and, after instantly cleaning up the mess, left Yi Chen alone.

"There should still be twenty more minutes until the time," Yi Chen muttered to himself the next moment as he went back to leisurely reading the book on refining a high-grade unranked pill.

When only seven minutes were left, he calmly closed the book and stood up the next moment.

"Let’s go then," He muttered while pushing the chair back in, walking back towards the reception counter.

As he walked out of the maze of shelves, he saw a lot of disciples dressed in various colored robes making their way towards a particular direction.

"Yes, please keep walking towards the Testing Hall."

"Yes, the test will be starting in five minutes."

Ren Xiolan, the receptionist, kept directing the huge flow of disciples coming to take the test at the last moment towards the Testing Hall.

"Greetings, Disciple Chen," she said with a smile when their eyes met, gesturing towards the large door on Yi Chen’s left

"You should go and take a seat immediately as the Supervising Elder would soon be arriving along with the testing invigilators, all the best." She said the very next moment.

Hearing this, Yi Chen nodded with a smile, "Thank you."

Turning to glance at the large double doors almost four meters in height, Yi Chen soon made his way towards them while walking alongside the other disciples who were also here to give the Pill Apprentice Test today.

The moment he passed through the doorway, a large hall filled with rows of seats on both his sides came into view.

There were two columns of seats on both his sides that seemed to be stretching almost all the way to the end of the hall, with each column having fifty seats.

’Shit... I should have arrived earlier,’ Yi Chen thought the moment he saw that all the rows of seats at the back had already been filled.

"If only I wasn’t late..."

"Won’t we be forced to sit right under the periphery of the supervising elder?"

"God, why the hell is my luck so shit?!"

Hearing the complaints of the disciples walking alongside him, Yi Chen felt a sense of relief, thinking that he wasn’t the only one cursing his fate.

’Well, at least I’m not the only one who’s forced to sit ahead...’ he thought as a subtle smirk formed on his face as he continued to make his way almost to the end of the aisle.

"So, it’s fourth row, huh...?" Yi Chen muttered under his breath as he soon took the third seat in the fourth row and waited for the other seats to be filled.

He didn’t need to wait for long, as in less than two minutes all the seats in the hall were completely filled, and the sound of various discussions going on amongst the testing candidates echoed in the hall.

"Silence!"

A sharp, authoritative voice immediately turned the entire hall quiet as the sound of footsteps started echoing in the hall.

Hearing the voice, Yi Chen, like the other candidates, turned his head around as a figure of a middle-aged man with white hair reaching all the way to his waist came into his view.

He was wearing dark greyish robes and had a constant frown on his face, making him seem unapproachable and stern at first glance.

He wasn’t alone. Following closely behind him were four Pill Apprentices who were wearing the same dark grey robes as the middle-aged man and were deliberately keeping a respectful distance from him while following.

Making his way to the front, the middle-aged man stepped onto the slightly raised teaching platform and turned around to address the entire crowd of 200 candidates the very next moment.

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