123: Eliminate a batch

As long as one joins the Qingtian Sect, everything is worth it.

"Alright, everyone, please quiet down and listen to this old man first."

Li Big Saber looked at the densely packed cultivators on the ground, waved his hand lightly, signaling them to quiet down.

After all the cultivators stopped talking, he raised his cultivation again and said, "Everyone, first of all, welcome to the Qingtian Sect's disciple recruitment assembly. This time, many people have come, but you don't need to worry. My Qingtian Sect will give every one of you who comes a chance to be tested."

"Next, this old man will explain in detail the test stages and the conditions for becoming a disciple of my Qingtian Sect."

Li Big Saber then proceeded to explain to the tens of billions of cultivators about the talent testing and the Illusion Demon Realm, as well as the conditions for becoming an Outer Sect Disciple, Inner Sect Disciple, and Personal Disciple of the Qingtian Sect.

After finishing, he didn't waste any more words.

He took out the talent testing ladder, threw it next to the Mountain Gate, and prepared to start the first batch of tests.

"Hiss, so this is the talent testing ladder. As long as you step onto a thousand steps, you can become the Sect Master's Direct Disciple?"

"Haha, I must become the Sect Master's Direct Disciple! Then a beautiful older sister will fall in love with me."

"Hurry up and start, I'm getting a little impatient."

Seeing Li Big Saber take out the talent testing ladder, the cultivators near the Mountain Gate looked excited.

They were very close to the Mountain Gate, and Li Big Saber had said that the talent testing ladder could test over a hundred million cultivators at once, so they would be in the first batch.

As long as they stepped onto six hundred steps or more and passed the Illusion Demon Realm, they could become true disciples of the Qingtian Sect.

"Start the test! The people closest to the front go first!"

Li Big Saber didn't make everyone wait long. Once the talent testing ladder stabilized, he immediately shouted.

"Haha, charge, charge! Climb to the top of the Heavenly Ladder and become a Personal Disciple of the Sect Master!"

With Li Big Saber's command.

Over a hundred million suitable young men and women excitedly rushed towards the talent testing ladder, beginning today's first round of tests.

"Miss, is this talent testing ladder really that powerful? Can it actually test the talents of so many people at once?"

Watching the densely packed young men and women step onto the talent testing ladder, Little Lotus, next to Huyan Xiaoyao, asked somewhat disbelievingly.

The Tianbao Chamber of Commerce was the most powerful chamber of commerce in the entire Canglan Continent.

Everything available on the continent was collected within the Tianbao Chamber of Commerce, yet she had never heard of a treasure that could test the talents of so many people simultaneously.

"It...it should be real, right?" Huyan Xiaoyao replied with some uncertainty.

She hadn't heard of such a terrifying talent testing treasure either. There was no information about the talent testing ladder in the Tianbao Chamber of Commerce's treasure records.

However, since the Qingtian Sect could produce Immortal Crystals, which even Peak Great Emperors dreamed of, then this talent testing ladder was definitely not just for show.

It just wasn't her turn to be tested yet; otherwise, as soon as she stepped on it, she would experience the ability of the talent testing ladder.

On the talent testing ladder.

As soon as everyone stepped onto the steps, their expressions became serious, losing all the excitement they had before climbing.

"Holy crap, why is the pressure on this talent test so immense? If I have to climb to six hundred steps, won't it take my life?"

"Yeah, no wonder reaching six hundred steps makes you an Outer Sect Disciple; it's so difficult."

Some young men and women stood on the first step, looking up at the steps above with fear.

The pressure on the first step was already so great; they couldn't imagine how much the pressure would increase the higher they went.

"Hmph, a bunch of trash who don't even dare to climb, all of you scram."

"Hehe, let us send you out."

The cultivators who came later saw these people standing on the first step, afraid.

They all extended a helping foot, kicking them all out, saving them from being afraid any longer.

"Damn it, who kicked me?"

"What the hell, I was just resting. Why did you kick me out?"

"You are shameless, you even kick girls."

The young men and women who were kicked off the talent testing ladder got up, their faces full of anger.

But when they tried to return to the talent testing ladder, they were blocked by an invisible force.

"We...we were eliminated just like that?"

Despair appeared on the faces of the group.

They thought that as long as they hadn't started, they could try again.

They didn't expect that once they were out, they couldn't get back in. They were eliminated as soon as they went up.

"You beasts, you beasts! I was standing there perfectly fine, what business was it of yours? Why did you kick us out?"

"Wuwu, you shameless scoundrels, you will never be real men in the future."

"You bastards, may your sons be born without butts, and your daughters too."

Upon receiving this result, the group slumped to the ground, cursing.

If they had known this, they would have climbed immediately, even if it meant breaking both their legs.

Now, being kicked out, they had wasted this precious opportunity in vain. It seemed they would never be able to enter the Qingtian Sect again.

Regarding the plight of these people.

None of the surrounding cultivators sympathized. Instead, they used them as an example to warn their juniors that when climbing the talent testing ladder, they must not stop and must climb promptly, lest they be kicked out by some black-hearted fellows and lose this precious opportunity.

Soon, a climbing competition began on the steps.

One by one, young men and women trembled, sweating, and strenuously climbed the steps.

At one hundred and two hundred steps, everyone climbed easily, but above three hundred steps, many people were eliminated with each step.

After two or three hours.

Out of these hundred million young men and women, only a little over two thousand managed to climb above six hundred steps.

And there wasn't a single one who reached eight hundred steps.

"Hiss, the Qingtian Sect's recruitment standards are really high. Out of so many people, they only selected two thousand Outer Sect Disciples?"

Watching the young faces being eliminated from the talent testing ladder.

The elders among the tens of billions of cultivators were all aghast.

According to the Qingtian Sect's elimination rate, even if they screened all the young juniors here, they wouldn't select many disciples.

Moreover, this was only the first stage; if they didn't pass the second stage, another batch would be eliminated, which was simply too strict.

"Wow, Miss, the Qingtian Sect's recruitment requirements are so high."

Seeing that only over two thousand people passed the test out of so many, Little Lotus, next to Huyan Xiaoyao, couldn't help but exclaim again.

Huyan Xiaoyao was also shocked.

Although she didn't understand how the Qingtian Sect's talent testing ladder calculated talent,

the fact that only two thousand were selected from so many cultivators meant the requirements were absolutely ridiculously high.

"Alright, those who are eliminated, leave. Those who passed, stand near the Mountain Gate. Do not affect the testing of those behind you."

After the first batch of disciples was selected.

Li Big Saber called for the eliminated young men and women, and their elders, to leave the Qingtian Sect Mountain Gate to clear the path for those behind them to test.