You call this the way of the sword?

No extra challenges!?

Upon hearing this news, those who were about to curse held back.

Those who couldn't bear the pain of death and had considered giving up now turned their sorrow into joy.

Only those with eight hundred cunning minds felt their scalp tingle instantly.

In a short while, the entire open-air plaza fell silent.

Everyone stopped talking and started listening intently.

The examiner's voice rang out again: "Now, let's announce the rules."

"Second round of assessment: Guardianship."

"This round of assessment adopts a point deduction system."

"Each person starts with 1000 points. Failure to protect deducts 100 points, while successful protection adds 1000 points. When the points reach zero, the person is eliminated."

"Candidates will enter in 20 seconds. If anyone wants to leave, please state your name now."

As soon as he finished speaking, the entire audience erupted in a frenzy, but unlike the first round.

This time, most of the newcomers were in a positive and optimistic mood. Even those who had been driven to neurosis by the first round of "killing" woke up at this moment, as if they had seen a brand new hope.

The reason they were so excited was simply because of one rule: if your points reach zero, you are eliminated.

"You don't have to die!"

"Thank goodness, sob sob sob, it's finally back to normal..."

"Ah...who would have thought that just hearing the rules would be so stressful."

"Phew... I miss the first round. Nobody's as miserable as me; I was bitten to death piece by piece."

Suddenly the entire square came alive.

Looking around, one sees countless smiles of relief.

The assessment hasn't even started yet, but it already feels like victory.

Judging from the reactions of those around him, Yang Qingfeng knew they had all been fooled.

If the rules are not wrong, then things are not that simple.

With a base score of 1000, failing to defend only results in a 100-point deduction, allowing for 9 failures at the start of the game.

Each subsequent successful attempt will earn you 1000 points, giving you 10 more chances.

Compared to the first round, the conditions for the second round were too lenient, as if there was no intention to eliminate anyone at all, which is obviously impossible.

The examiners won't be that kind, and there's no such thing as a free lunch.

It is easy to deduce that in addition to deducting points, there must be other consequences for failing to protect.

Moreover, the cost is enormous.

If my suspicions are correct, this major test does indeed involve some kind of trial, and the cost of failure in this round could very well be more terrifying than experiencing death.

"Time's up, candidates, please enter the examination room."

The examiner's voice rang out again, and the Great Yu Heavenly Palace shone with light.

As the light swept across, all the newcomers were once again transported into the assessment space.

Yang Qingfeng eagerly opened his eyes and was greeted by a courtyard gate that creaked in the wind.

He actually went home!

"Man follows the Earth, the Earth follows Heaven, Heaven follows the Tao, and the Tao follows Nature. The Tao should follow Nature..."

Suddenly, Grandpa's voice came from behind me.

Yang Qingfeng was struck dumb, and turned around abruptly, only to be stunned by what he saw.

In the familiar courtyard, Grandpa lay in his rocking chair as usual, his full head of silver hair disheveled in the wind, his empty eyes staring straight at the sky, muttering in a dialect that no one could understand.

It's like he's suffering from an old person's illness; no matter how you call him, he won't wake up.

"grandfather…"

Yang Qingfeng was both surprised and delighted. Just as he was about to step forward, he suddenly caught a glimpse of a figure on the roof.

He stopped abruptly, a jolt running through his heart.

A woman, dressed very fashionably, was sitting on the roof.

She wore a tight-fitting crop top that accentuated her full chest, and a mini skirt around her waist. Her two porcelain-white, straight legs basked in the sunlight, exuding endless allure.

She was extremely beautiful, and wore light makeup.

She always wears a shimmering, starry-sky lipstick and always carries a women's magazine in her hand.

Grandpa always said that she wore her undergarments on the outside, that she was shameless, and that she was no good.

Yang Qingfeng, however, remembered that when he first saw this woman's outfit, he felt that these clothes were just like that.

"So that's what they were up to, protecting... "

Looking at the woman, Yang Qingfeng gradually calmed down and remembered that he was in the midst of an assessment.

Just then, a roar came, and the first wave of attacks from the alien demons had reached their doorstep.

The second round of assessment did not present any additional challenges, and the attributes of the demons returned to normal, but their numbers increased dramatically, and they were no longer being refreshed one by one.

The first wave of attack consisted of 30 Otherworldly beings simultaneously charging in.

They roared and howled as they charged through the gate, smashed through the walls, and unleashed a barrage of arrows from a distance, forming a three-pronged attack the instant they launched their assault, creating an astonishing spectacle.

The moment Yang Qingfeng turned around, he released 10 sword spirits and simultaneously summoned the Yu Jun Sword.

Yu Jun drew his sword and immediately struck, first slashing down the crossbow bolt aimed at his grandfather, then the sword flashed.

The level 17 demon was no match for the level 27 sword spirit.

With a four-dimensional attribute score of up to 5600, the Sword Soul moves like lightning, instantly killing with every strike.

Driven by Yang Qingfeng's thoughts, they also split into three groups to meet the attack, and all of them instantly counterattacked and rushed out of the courtyard. At the same time, three of them stayed inside the courtyard, while one of them took off into the air to overlook the battlefield.

In less than two seconds, the voices of the demons disappeared completely.

Yang Qingfeng's eyes flashed with soul light as he used his soul vision to see the monster spawn point outside the courtyard.

Just like the first round, it was a vortex emanating black energy.

There are three in total.

The six sword spirits who had just fought their way out split into two groups and crouched down in front of the vortex.

Upon seeing this, the prefectural lords who had just stood up in the inner hall of the prefectural government shook their heads and sat back down.

"See? He not only has more summoned creatures, but he can also fly on a sword."

"Pshaw, what does this have to do with us? All that excitement for nothing."

Yang Qingfeng passed the assessment in the same way in the first round.

The two sword spirits combined defense and offense.

The moment the demon peeks out, it's a sword strike; whether it reaches out, it's a sword strike. Either way, it's instantaneous, offering absolutely no entertainment value.

Looking at the other candidates, each one was fighting alone, each one was frantically hunting down the alien demons. The sounds from all these scenes made the inner hall as noisy as a marketplace.

Only Yang Qingfeng's place was like stagnant water, eerily still.

At that moment, a voice a thousand times more desperate than the first round suddenly appeared on the screen.

It was a cry choked with sobs, a desperate scream, the terror of witnessing loved ones being torn apart by demons, which deeply captivated all the lords through the image.

In just the first wave of attacks, more and more candidates were defeated.

The defenses collapsed, and his family was killed, right before his eyes.

It was because he failed to stop the demons and kill them all.

Even though everyone knows it's fake, it's just a test.

Almost no test taker can resist witnessing their loved ones' blood spilled everywhere, being bitten into pieces, eaten, beheaded, and dismembered.

They began to scream and shout wildly, desperately trying to stop them and kill them until they wiped out the demons and avenged their loved ones. Then their points were deducted, a new scene appeared, and other relatives appeared.

The second wave of demons arrived in quick succession.

If a loved one is killed, it means the protection has failed. Other loved ones will appear in their place, but they will also face the same crisis of being killed, until the protection is successful or all loved ones die, and the points are reset to zero.

Before the assessment, the examiners did not explain the assessment content in detail.

Until this moment, watching the candidates gradually go crazy, the prefectural lords and officials all remained silent, unable to bear to look directly at them.

Compared to the somber atmosphere of the inner hall, the side hall was much more cheerful.

Gentlemen, you are closest to the examination hall, yet you know the least.

They saw Yang Qingfeng's name climb back to the top of the leaderboard, his points steadily increasing at an unbelievable pace...