Chapter 132

Chapter 132: Is There a Problem?

“Elder Mo, what are those cocoon-like things?”

Yao Jianyuan asked directly, not shy about his curiosity.

Elder Mo glanced at him lightly and said, “Those are a type of low-level spatial crystal. In the future, you will also be cultivating within such crystals.”

“Cultivating inside?” Yao Jianyuan couldn’t help but feel goosebumps, “Won’t that suffocate people?”

Elder Mo shot him an irritated look, “What nonsense are you spouting? Inside, it creates its own space, with everything you need. If you don’t understand, just keep your mouth shut!”

“Oh.” Yao Jianyuan sulkily closed his mouth.

The few of them followed Mo Wu, passing through various magical prohibitions, finally arriving at a massive stone chamber.

This space had already gathered quite a few people, all selected disciples from the Xuan Yang Immortal Mansion.

“Hello everyone.”

“Greetings to you all.”

The disciples welcomed their new life, all with cheerful expressions, greeting everyone they met.

“Elder Dong, everyone is here. Should we wait for Senior Brother to arrive, or start the assessment first?”

Ahead, several core disciples from the Immortal Mansion stood respectfully on either side of an old man slumped in a chair.

Chen Ansheng and the others couldn’t help but look at the old man.

They saw that his eye sockets were deep, resembling a skeleton, with only a layer of wrinkled skin clinging to his bones. He exuded no life force, as if he had been dead for a long time.

“He must be a master.”

Chen Ansheng thought to himself.

At this moment, Mo Wu quietly transmitted a message to Chen Ansheng and the others, “You two, the assessment coming up is related to your future treatment, do your best to endure!”

Chen Ansheng and his companion were delighted and replied, “Understood, thank you for the reminder, Elder Mo.”

Mo Wu continued, “Hmm, I will take my leave first. One more thing to remind you, Elder Dong detests noisy individuals the most. After the assessment, do not chatter or ask unnecessary questions, or you’ll provoke Elder Dong’s displeasure.”

Chen Ansheng then asked, “Got it. By the way, Elder Mo, who exactly is Elder Dong?”

Mo Wu replied, “He is our Immortal Mansion’s ancestor of magic cultivation and also the Grand Young Master’s mentor. Understand now?”

Chen Ansheng nodded slightly, “Uh, understood. Safe travels, Elder Mo.”

Over there, Elder Dong slowly opened his mouth, taking a long time to utter a phrase: “No need to wait for him, start the assessment.”

“Yes.”

Several disciples in white immediately stepped forward.

“Attention disciples, you are about to participate in the entry assessment. I will now announce the assessment content.”

Then, Elder Dong pointed forward with his dry finger, and a mysterious light appeared on a black stone, causing black glowing orbs to float in the square behind the crowd.

The white-clad disciple then said, “Next, you will each enter one of the black orbs, and the longer you stay inside, the better. But please be careful not to push yourselves blindly; if you can’t endure, just point your finger at the green light in front of you to exit. Is that clear to everyone?”

“Got it!”

About three hundred new disciples responded in unison.

“May I ask this Senior Brother, if we force ourselves to endure, will there be a risk to our lives?” someone asked.

“Of course, if you force yourself, not only will you die, but you’ll die a terrible death!” the white-clad disciple replied coldly, then added, “And one more thing to remind you, those black orbs isolate everything, even Elder Dong cannot perceive your condition inside, so don’t harbor any delusions that someone will come to save you. Is that clear?”

“Understood!”

The crowd replied.

“Good. Now, one by one, choose a black orb to enter.”

Hundreds of new disciples rose in turn, walking toward the black light orbs in the back.

“Junior Brother Chen, do you think those things might be some sort of evil method, extracting our immortal souls or something?” Yao Jianyuan transmitted.

“Shut up, don’t scare people with nonsense.” Chen Ansheng replied irritably.

“It’s really possible! They could extract our immortal souls and put our bodies in those cocoon crystals, doing some evil deeds out of sight…” Yao Jianyuan transmitted ominously.

Chen Ansheng rolled his eyes; even he felt a little anxious hearing that.

“Ah, help! It hurts so much!”

Suddenly, a scream came from the front.

The second disciple who entered the black orb rolled out, with decayed, bony hands clutching his head as he writhed in agony.

This scene startled everyone, and they hesitated to move forward.

“Hmm? How could this happen! It hasn’t even been ten breaths, and he’s already been eroded by the laws!”

A white-clad disciple frowned immediately.

Elder Dong, slumped in the chair, lifted his eyelids and slowly spoke, “This person does not possess a law-affiliated immortal soul; he must have come here under false pretenses.”

Several white-clad disciples heard this and immediately flew over.

One of them took out a piece of jade disc and suspended it above the fallen individual.

“Indeed! You weren’t selected by the jade disc; how dare you mix into our Immortal Mansion? Speak the truth!” the white-clad disciple shouted angrily.

“Please spare me, my lord… The one selected by the jade disc was my brother, but he’s a complete waste of space, so my family ordered me to take his place… Please have mercy, I am an extraordinary spirit body…” the person on the ground pleaded in pain.

“You bastard, how dare you impersonate someone! Die!” the white-clad disciple yelled in fury, then swiftly beheaded the man.

Afterwards, the several white-clad disciples returned to Elder Dong’s side, seemingly discussing something, looking quite anxious.

After a moment, a white-clad disciple, drenched in sweat, finally stepped forward and said, “Why are you all standing there? Hurry up and do the assessment!”

Only then did everyone quicken their pace, and shortly after, they all entered the black light orbs.

Once Chen Ansheng entered the light orb, he immediately sensed that his immortal soul felt as if it were being constricted by a giant python, nearly causing him to collapse.

“This pressure is terrifying!”

While his heart raced, Chen Ansheng hurriedly urged his soul power to resist, which eased the pressure a bit.

“Ah.”

He let out a long breath and sat down cross-legged.

Then, he activated his psychic sense to explore the space he was in.

His psychic sense spread out about ten feet, before being blocked by a mysterious law.

Yet, Chen Ansheng felt that there was something familiar about the subtle law aura emanating here.

“Eh… Could it be… an alien law?”

After a moment, Chen Ansheng’s eyes lit up as he focused further on the sensation.

“Yes, it’s very similar to the aura I sensed when I was in the realm of alien laws back then!”

Chen Ansheng confirmed that the laws within this black orb were not the normal laws of the immortal realm.

“This is strange; even in the Xuan Yang Immortal Mansion, there are those who can control alien laws?”

Chen Ansheng felt something was off, but he knew he couldn’t figure it all out by just thinking.

“I can only be cautious and take it one step at a time.” Chen Ansheng decided to not overthink it for now, “By the way, that white-clad disciple said that no one can see what’s happening inside the black orb. If I run into the lower realm to muddle about, wouldn’t I easily last seven hours longer than others? Hehe.”