My path to immortality was smooth sailing.

"Haha! Junior Brother Wei, I have long admired your name. I have paid you a visit twice before. The first time you were in seclusion, and the second time you were away."

"What a terrible coincidence."

Upon hearing these two sentences, Wei Jing immediately became wary.

Offering unsolicited favors is either a sign of malice or theft.

He looked at the young cultivator walking towards him. He was wearing a moon-white robe, the kind worn by inner disciples of the Qingfu Sect, with a jade pendant tied around his waist. He walked with ease and a smile on his face.

"Senior Brother Lin, what are you saying? I don't even know you!" Wei Jing turned around and slowly sat down.

"Hehe, I don't know you, Junior Brother Wei, but I've heard so much about you before." Lin Zhaobei smiled smugly.

"Back then in the Suixu Secret Realm, you triggered the Suixu Phenomenon after only eleven days in the secret realm, and became famous overnight."

"I've long wanted to get to know a talent like my junior."

Heh, Wei Jing didn't smile, his face remaining expressionless in the face of this person's flattery.

This made Lin Zhaobei quite embarrassed, and a sinister look appeared on his face.

"Although Junior Brother Wei is exceptionally talented, he has only been a disciple for a short time and doesn't understand our inner disciple assessment very well."

He then explained it to Wei Jing again.

"In short, the bottom four will be stripped of their inner disciple status, while the top ten will each receive a spiritual artifact."

Lin Zhaobei said with a smile.

Wei Jing remained calm; he had known all this for a long time.

Ma Liu had already found out everything for him.

"I already knew all this. I wonder what Senior Brother Lin's purpose is in coming here today?" Wei Jing said with displeasure.

"Junior Brother Wei, don't be in a hurry! Let me explain in detail." After saying that, he looked at Han Yue beside him.

Wei Jing gestured for Han Yue to step down.

Then, Lin Zhaobei said mysteriously:

"Junior brother, you've only been a student for two months. The chances of you failing the assessment are very high."

"Hehe! Senior brother, I have a precious pill called the Seven Griefs Exploding Spirit Pill. Taking it will raise your cultivation level by one small realm in a short time, and the spiritual power will surge endlessly. You won't even feel any pain."

"This is absolutely the perfect elixir to deal with the Stone Spirit Golem!"

"So, Junior Brother Wei, are you interested?"

Lin Zhaobei looked at Wei Jing with a smile.

Seeing that Wei Jing remained unmoved, he immediately began to explain the implications.

"Junior Brother Wei, to be honest, three of the four new inner disciples this year have already purchased my precious pills."

"If you don't buy it? I'm afraid..." He looked at Wei Jing meaningfully.

"How many spirit stones?" Wei Jing asked.

Lin Zhaobei was overjoyed and said, "Not expensive at all, five hundred spirit stones."

"Or five hundred sect contribution points."

Upon hearing this, Wei Jing sneered, "Isn't this expensive? Isn't this a rip-off?"

"Han Yue, see the guest out."

"Hey! No, there's still room for discussion."

"Three hundred spirit stones..."

"Two hundred spirit stones."

In the end, Wei Jing remained unmoved because Ma Liu had previously told him about the consequences of cheating on the exam.

The assessment of inner disciples is extremely rigorous, and no possibility of favoritism or cheating is allowed.

The Hall of Transmission of Skills and the Hall of Enforcement will be attended by the Hall Master and Elders, and perhaps even the Sect Leader.

Anyone who dares to cheat at this point is either stupid or malicious.

"Lin Zhaobei? I don't know him. Why would he want to harm me?" Wei Jing muttered, chewing on the name Lin Zhaobei.

She had never known him before.

Wei Jing never believed in malice without a reason.

"Six characters, go and investigate this Lin Zhaobei."

"Ah! Young Master Wei, are you talking about me?"

What kind of status do I have to investigate an inner disciple? Young Master Wei, you think too highly of me.

"I'm not asking you to go to the Enforcement Hall to check his background records, but to find out some gossip about him, find out who he's close to, and what his relationships are within the sect."

"Okay, I understand, I'll go right away." Ma Liu accepted the order and ran off happily.

In the blink of an eye, three days had passed.

……

Meteorite Valley.

The morning sun still shines.

All sixty-one inner disciples were present, with none absent.

Wei Jing's gaze fell on the female sword cultivator, just as Lu Xueqi turned her head, and their eyes briefly met in the air.

Then they all tacitly shifted their focus.

Yang Qingxuan went on stage and explained the content and precautions of the assessment.

Those who fail the first three rounds will be eliminated.

Those who engage in fraud or cheating will be eliminated.

Yang Qingxuan spoke sternly, his gaze sweeping over the dozens of inner disciples below.

These people are the backbone of the sect, and at least a quarter of them will reach the Foundation Establishment stage in the future.

"Palace Master Yang, I have a question. Does cultivating the Spirit Burning Secret Technique count as cheating?"

Yang Qingxuan glared helplessly at Jia Shangjin and said with a pout, "That doesn't count."

"What about using a second-tier magical artifact?"

"Not really."

"Then I'm fine." Jia Shangjin retreated back into the crowd.

Wei Jing thought to himself: If this doesn't count as cheating, then taking the Treasure Pill won't count either, right?

Could it be that I misunderstood Lin Zhaobei? Is he actually a good person?

Just as Wei Jing was pondering, several boulders in Meteorite Valley shifted.

Revealing a series of dark, empty passageways.

"Each person enters a passage to begin the assessment," a middle-aged woman said in a cool voice.

Upon hearing this, the inner disciples rushed towards those black hole passages.

"Senior brother, I'm a newcomer to the inner sect. May I ask you something?"

"No, I'm a newbie too." Wei Jing shook his head, then fell into a black hole without looking back.

Upon entering, it wasn't as dark and gloomy as Wei Jing had imagined; instead, it was surprisingly bright and spacious.

Before him was a circular stone wall, which was not smooth but rough and uneven.

As Wei Jing was looking around, the ground suddenly trembled, and stones fell from the stone wall, accumulating on the ground.

In the blink of an eye, a stone spirit giant, over ten feet tall, appeared completely in front of him.

Wei Jing's eyes showed surprise and doubt.

"So this is the Stone Spirit Golem?"

Before Wei Jing could prepare, the stone spirit puppet attacked him at lightning speed.

Its speed was comparable to when he used the Gentle Breeze Technique.

But Wei Jing remained calm.

"Well done."

Wei Jing clenched his fist, and a layer of water covered his fist.

"boom!"

A man and a puppet exchanged a punch, but Wei Jing remained completely unmoved.

Instead, the stone spirit puppet's arm shattered and collapsed, resulting in the loss of one arm.

"Sixth level of Qi Refining?"

"That's too weak," Wei Jing shook his head.

Then he flicked his finger, and a ball of scorching fire flew at lightning speed, striking the tall body of the stone spirit puppet.

As expected, the puppet shattered into countless fragments.

First hurdle, easily overcome.

The stone wall crumbled, revealing a path ahead, but it was still pitch black, making it impossible to see what was inside.

Without saying a word, Wei Jing stepped directly into the darkness.

The second level has the exact same scene as the first level.

However, the stone wall twisted and trembled, and the two stone spirits actually jumped out of the stone wall and landed suddenly.

"Two puppets at the sixth level of Qi Refining."

Wei Jing shook his head, finding it truly boring. He flicked two fireballs with his fingers.

In the third level, three fireballs will appear.

Wei Jing walked lightly and confidently to the fourth level.

Fireballs appeared in his hands, and when counted, not one was missing and not one was extra.

Exactly four fireballs.

But the next moment, the earth trembled, cracks opened up all around, and a pale blue, three-zhang-tall giant stone golem emerged from the ground.

The pale blue color on the puppet was actually moss growing on it.

"Interesting, the spiritual energy fluctuations of a seventh-level Qi Refining cultivator." Wei Jing's expression was indifferent.

As soon as he finished speaking, a sudden tremor ran behind him, and another three-zhang-tall stone spirit puppet emerged from the ground.

"Ahem!" Wei Jing coughed twice, but his expression remained calm.

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

Two loud bangs rang out, and two more puppets emerged.

"What, what kind of joke is this?" Wei Jing's expression changed drastically.

Four stone spirit puppets at the seventh level of Qi Refining.