Forced to become a pure and innocent female pharmacist in order to cultivate immortality.

"How about that? Pretty impressive, huh?" Lin Aoxue said with a smug smile.

"What's so smug about? Can't you be a little more low-key? You know, the tallest tree in the forest is bound to be felled by the wind." Ye Liuyun rolled his eyes at Lin Aoxue.

But that's what Lin Aoxue said.

"What's there to be afraid of? As long as you're strong enough, that's all that matters. I'm about to enter the Spirit Sea Realm, and in a few years, entering the Dao Palace Realm won't be a problem. But you, why do I feel that the power fluctuations on your body are still at the early stage of the Spirit Stream Realm?" Lin Aoxue asked, somewhat puzzled.

She felt that Ye Liuyun's cultivation level hadn't improved at all in the past three years.

"Don't worry about me. My cultivation method is different from yours. Anyway, passing the test won't be a problem," Ye Liuyun said.

Seeing Ye Liuyun's confidence, Lin Aoxue also wanted to see what Ye Liuyun had been practicing over the past three years.

Lin Aoxue's assessment is over; next up are the other new disciples.

The deacon on the platform read out the name of another disciple.

However, this disciple seemed very uneasy. After stepping onto the stage, he looked at his opponent tremblingly, and finally delivered a full-force blow to the deacon.

However, this attack made the steward shake his head in dissatisfaction.

"Unqualified. Go back and pack your bags, leave Yunxia Sect." The sect deacon shook his head coldly.

"This? Deacon, please give me another chance. I was too nervous just now and didn't use my full strength," the disciple quickly pleaded.

However, this sect leader wasn't an idiot. That attack just now explained a lot of things. It had nothing to do with whether he used his full strength or not; it was simply that his strength was insufficient.

"Take him away." The sect leader simply ordered the enforcement disciple with a blank expression.

Upon hearing this, the enforcement disciples immediately dragged the man away.

These disciples finally joined the immortal sect, so they certainly didn't want to leave just like that, but no means no, rules are rules.

"Sigh!" Ye Liuyun looked at the disciple being dragged away, feeling a little sorry for him.

There were several hundred disciples who entered the sect, but it would be good if half of them could actually stay.

Some are eliminated, some pass the test, and some are lucky enough to be directly accepted into the inner sect. When a disciple attacks him, the steward will also take the opportunity to check the spiritual root condition of the other party.

Spiritual roots usually awaken when one reaches the Spirit Stream Realm. Once a spiritual root awakens, one has generally reached the Spirit Stream Realm. If one does not have a spiritual root, then one has definitely not reached the Spirit Stream Realm.

Chapter 30: A Shocking Surprise

You can have many spiritual roots, and your aptitude can be poor, but you can't be without them.

Time passed slowly, and soon nearly a third of the hundreds of people who underwent the entrance examination were forced to leave Yunxia Sect because they failed to reach the Lingxi Realm.

A small number of people were directly accepted into the inner sect because of their high-quality spiritual roots. For example, Xiao Hansheng, who actually has both ice and fire spiritual roots. Although it is not a single spiritual root, having two spiritual roots is already considered to be quite good.

"Are you kidding me? Why isn't it my turn yet?" Ye Liuyun was getting impatient.

Because she had been waiting for a long time and it still hadn't come.

She wondered if the sect had forgotten about her because she hadn't participated in some of their activities in recent years.

As expected, after the sect leader finished reading out the names, he announced that the preliminary assessment was over.

"Alright, the preliminary assessment is over. Next up is the practical assessment. To help the sect elders get to know you all better, the remaining two hundred people will engage in one-on-one arena battles. The winner will receive a reward of five hundred sect contribution points," the sect steward announced.

Ye Liuyun panicked and quickly shouted at the sect's steward.

"Sir, what about me? Why am I not on the list of participants for the assessment?" Ye Liuyun hurriedly called out to the sect's deacon.

Lin Aoxue, who was standing next to Ye Liuyun, was also very dissatisfied. She had waited for a long time, but she didn't expect that the sect assessment would completely forget about Ye Liuyun.

As soon as Ye Liuyun spoke, everyone present showed amused expressions.

How come there's still one person missing? The person who was missed happens to be Lin Aoxue's older sister.

Upon seeing this, Yun Yun on the high platform immediately looked at a certain outer sect elder with displeasure. There was still one person missing, and it just so happened that Ye Liuyun was the one who was missed.

She didn't want Lin Aoxue to think that the sect was deliberately bullying her sister, which would leave a bad impression.

"Elder Yunmu, what's going on? Why is there still one person missing?" Yun Yun asked with an unfriendly look.

The outer sect elder named Yun Mu immediately tensed up when Yun Yun questioned him.

"I... I don't know either. I'll check right away." Elder Yun Mu quickly took out a list and looked at it carefully.

Upon inspection, he discovered that one of his disciples had not attended a single attendance check in the past three years. The so-called attendance check was for attending classes at the Dao Discussion Pavilion.

Ye Liuyun never went, so it's normal that they ignored and forgot about him. They even thought that this disciple named Ye Liuyu had gone missing.

Of course, this teaching and imparting knowledge doesn't necessarily mean you have to go there.

"This? Sect Master, there is a disciple named Ye Liuyu who has not participated in any activities for new disciples in the past three years. Perhaps they forgot about her during the registration and assessment," Elder Yun Mu explained.

Yun Yun was taken aback again, so she casually said something.

"Never mind, go down and tell her to conduct the assessment." Yun Yun didn't want to get upset over such a small matter.

Elder Yunmu nodded, then flew down from the high platform and landed in front of the sect steward who was still in a state of confusion, because he had been looking at the list for a long time but had not seen any omissions.

However, judging from the other party's appearance, she was indeed an entry-level disciple of the sect. The fact that her name wasn't on the list meant that she had been forgotten.

Just then, Elder Yun Mu landed beside him. He first glanced at Ye Liuyun, then said a few words to the sect steward.

After hearing this, the other person was stunned. He didn't expect that this little girl had really been forgotten.

After Yun Mu finished speaking, he returned to the high platform.

The sect leader couldn't resist teaching Ye Liuyun a lesson.

"Ye Liuyu, right? Where have you been these past three years? You haven't participated in a single activity for new disciples, so it's no wonder we've forgotten about you," the sect steward complained.

As soon as he said this, the disciples around him couldn't help but laugh.

It's bizarre that a novice disciple wouldn't participate in any training for three years.

"This junior sister is interesting. As an entry-level disciple, she doesn't participate in the entry-level disciple training. I'm very curious, where does she get the confidence to not participate?"

"You know what, this junior sister really does have the strength of the Spirit Stream Realm. It seems that she must have already reached the Spirit Stream Realm in the mortal world, so after entering the sect, she felt that there was no need for her to participate in the training."

The crowd began to whisper among themselves.

Ye Liuyun smiled awkwardly, but didn't explain anything. Only Nalan Yan knew that Ye Liuyun had basically been in the Alchemy Pavilion for the past few years.

"Alright, alright, quiet down. Little girl, come up here. I also want to see how much your strength has improved since you didn't participate in the sect's training," the sect deacon gestured.

Upon hearing this, Ye Liuyun breathed a sigh of relief, then grinned at Lin Aoxue before stepping onto the assessment platform.

"Come on, go all out. You only have one chance, don't take it lightly," the sect steward said.

Ye Liuyun nodded, then retreated a distance to the edge of the arena. Her spiritual power was too weak, just at the early stage of the Spirit Stream Realm, which was just right. However, in the past three years, her physical strength had surpassed her spiritual power.

Ye Liuyun's attacks require speed, so taking a running start can make his attacks stronger.

"Sir, I shall begin," Ye Liuyun reminded him.

The sect leader nodded.

The moment Ye Liuyun nodded, his body shot out like an arrow, covering a distance of tens of meters in the blink of an eye. This speed made everyone's eyes light up.

"Wow, that's fast!" Yun Yun and the others exclaimed in surprise.

Ye Liuyun increased his speed to the maximum, then appeared in front of the sect deacon and struck him with a palm.

The sect leader was puzzled because he discovered that although Ye Liuyun was very fast, his palm strike did not contain much spiritual power.

Since there was no spiritual power involved, relying solely on his physical strength, he didn't need to deliberately defend himself. So he simply used his physical strength to withstand Ye Liuyun's attack.

However, this sect leader seemed to have underestimated Ye Liuyun's attack. After Ye Liuyun's attack landed on his abdomen, it directly dented his abdomen.

The sect leader's eyes bulged, his mouth gaped open, and his body instinctively bent over, clutching his stomach, and he lay on the ground, vomiting bitterly.

The training ground fell silent...

This scene was even more unbelievable than Lin Aoxue's previous attack.

Lin Aoxue was utterly astonished by what she saw.

"What?! He knocked down a Dao Palace level deacon with a single palm strike? No way? Is this for real?" Lin Aoxue was dumbfounded.

To be precise, everyone was dumbfounded; they didn't know how Ye Liuyun had done it.

The sect leader kept vomiting and didn't recover for a long time.

"How is this possible? That palm strike just now clearly didn't contain a trace of spiritual power, so why, why did it generate such great power after landing on me?" The sect deacon looked up at Ye Liuyun, completely bewildered.

Ye Liuyun hadn't expected this outcome either; judging from her expression, she was equally startled.

"This is troublesome. Hey, hey, hey, my good master, what's going on? Isn't this guy a Dao Palace cultivator? How come he can't even withstand one of my palms?" Ye Liuyun asked in surprise.

Lin Qingyou was also somewhat confused at this moment, but she roughly figured out what the problem was.

"Because your palm strike was not driven by the spiritual power of your sea of ​​energy, but by the power of your physical body and bones, this old guy, because he did not sense your power fluctuations, confidently used his physical strength to withstand it."

"The Falling Leaves and Flying Flowers Palm technique that I taught you is a palm technique that can penetrate the defenses of objects. It contains hidden force, ignoring his physical defenses and directly causing penetrating damage to his body," Lin Qingyou explained.

In other words, this guy would be fine if he just set up his defenses; he's just too confident.

Chapter 31 Arena Sparring

The scene was awkward. The sect steward, named Yun Cheng, took a moment to adjust his breathing and then stood up again, instinctively glancing around out of the corner of his eye.

When he saw the disciples around him and the sect leader and elders on the high platform looking at him with bewildered eyes, he knew he had made a huge fool of himself.

"You little girl, you're quite strong. With just your physical strength, you've almost reached the peak of the Spirit Stream Realm. You've passed. I miscalculated; I didn't take the initiative to defend." Although Yun Cheng was somewhat embarrassed, he still judged Ye Liuyun to have passed.

Upon hearing Yun Cheng's words, Ye Liuyun immediately bowed deeply to Yun Cheng, feeling extremely embarrassed, to express his apology.

"I'm sorry, Steward, I didn't expect you to not use your internal energy to defend yourself," Ye Liuyun said, his face covered in cold sweat.

"Sigh! It's my own fault. You've taught me a lesson. I can't underestimate anyone in the future. Go down now, you've passed." Yun Cheng sighed, then added Ye Liuyun's name to the list of those who passed the test.

Upon hearing Yun Cheng's voice, everyone realized that Yun Cheng had not used his internal energy for defense, and Ye Liuyun's attack was mainly based on physical strength, and the power of this physical attack had reached the peak of the Spirit Stream Realm.

However, even so, could a physical attack from a peak Spirit Stream Realm cultivator really injure a Dao Palace cultivator? They still found it somewhat strange.

However, Yunyun and the others did notice some problems.

"This little girl's palm strike seems to contain a hidden force. This hidden force penetrated Yun Cheng's body and injured him. Interesting. It seems that this Ye Liuyu has been cultivating her physical strength for the past three years." Yun Yun basically understood.

"Physical strength? Sect Master, are you saying that this little girl didn't cultivate spiritual power?" Yun Ling asked curiously.

Yun Yun scanned Ye Liuyun with her divine sense. In her eyes, the spiritual energy fluctuations emanating from Ye Liuyun's body were very weak, at most only the power fluctuations of the early stage of the Spirit Stream Realm.

“This little girl’s spiritual root aptitude is not good, in fact, it’s quite poor. If she focuses on cultivating spiritual power, she won’t achieve much. Perhaps she would have a better chance if she pursues the path of body refinement,” Yun Yun replied, withdrawing her divine sense.

However, upon hearing Yun Yun's words, Yun Ling and the others immediately lost interest in Ye Liuyun, because in the understanding of normal cultivators, the improvement of spiritual power is the orthodox method of cultivation.

The improvement of physical strength is limited. It's not that no one in the cultivation world has focused on physical strength, but unfortunately, they all fail to go far. As the body ages, physical strength gradually weakens.

Then look at Ye Liuyun, she returned to Lin Aoxue's side with a smile.

"See? I told you, I'm sure I'll pass." Ye Liuyun said confidently with a smile.

"How did you do that? You knocked down a first-level Dao Palace steward with one slap! You're more famous than me now. Look at all those senior disciples, they're all watching you." Lin Aoxue gestured to the surroundings towards Ye Liuyun.

Ye Liuyun knew perfectly well that everyone around her was watching her. She felt like she was sitting on pins and needles, but she could only pretend that she didn't feel anything and pretend that she didn't see anything.

"It's a secret, but the main reason is that this steward didn't set up a defense. If he had taken the initiative to defend, the result would not have been like this. It's just that he was careless. In the past few years, I have been focusing on cultivating physical strength. My physical body is stronger than my spiritual power." Ye Liuyun smiled mysteriously.

Lin Aoxue didn't ask any further questions, and the two began to talk about the upcoming arena sparring. However, Ye Liuyun secretly stuffed a lot of things into Lin Aoxue's arms.

"Aoxue, here are some good things for you. These are all pills I refined. I've written down the effects and uses of each one. Take them back and use them, but don't tell anyone that I gave them to you." Ye Liuyun secretly slipped a storage bag into Lin Aoxue's hand.

Lin Aoxue was taken aback, then asked curiously.

"You really became an alchemist? Or were you just playing around at the alchemy pavilion?"

"Nonsense, do I look like that kind of boring person? Anyway, I definitely won't harm you. When the time is right, I'll tell you everything you want to know," Ye Liuyun said.

Hearing this, Lin Aoxue happily packed up her things and waited for the second round of the arena competition to begin.

The pain in Yun Cheng's abdomen had disappeared. After all, it was only a physical attack from someone at the Spirit Stream Realm. It hurt him for a moment, but that was about it. It was impossible for it to leave a scar.

Yuncheng flew to Yunyun's side on the high platform with the list, and then asked Yunyun and the elders to draft the duel list.

"Sect Master, this is the list of disciples who passed the assessment. You shall decide how to arrange the next duels," Yun Cheng said respectfully.

Yun Yun nodded, then casually asked a question.

"Yuncheng, are you alright? That little girl's palm strike just now seemed to have hidden force."