1 Battle-seasoned soldier

But Zhao Yu who was exceedingly furious and wanted to do something, was immediately stopped by Xiao Lin who then said with a smile in his face, "Zhao Yu, let her go. She's not worth our time.".

"Hmm. Alright" Zhao Yu said with a nod of her head.

Then they continued to walk to their room to go relax.

When they arrived in their room, they each laid on their beds to relax, while Xiao Lin who had also laid on his bed, began to think of all sorts of things again. He had been quite thoughtful lately concerning a lot of things that centered around him.

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A few days later, all the hundred examinees that successfully passed the discipleship test, were asked to come to the discipleship ceremony ground where they will swear an oath that they wouldn't do anything or be involved in actions that will bring about the ruination or devastation of the sect, and that they will stand and uphold it honor and glory if the time for them to do so arrives.

At the moment, they had been given uniforms and hats that fitted them, seeming as if a tailor had come to measure them to be able to determine their actual body sizes.

Then with smiles in their faces as they headed to the ceremony ground which was like a stadium, since it was a really massive circular building that possessed seemingly countless rows of seat and circled round an enormous piece of barren land that the ceremony was going to take place, Zhao Yu said to both Xiao Lin and Tian Xi, "Our dreams of reaching the peak of unmatchable divinely power are already becoming a reality. This is surely our first step to enter that exceedingly distant realm."

"Yea!" Xiao Lin said with a smile in his face immediately after Zhao Yu mentioned that, while Tian Xi only nodded his head and looked around him observantly.

Not long, after having walked for more than twenty minutes on a particular path that was shown to them by one of the ceremony-coordinating elders, they finally reached the place where the discipleship ceremony, which was only oath-swearing will take place.

As soon as they arrived at the ceremony ground that had tens of thousands of people already seated on those rows of wooden seats permanently fixed to the ground of the massive, round-shaped building which circled round the large ceremony ground, an elder suddenly shot into the air from where he seated with other elders and began to speak with a powerful booming voice so that all could clearly hear.

"Welcome, lads. Now, as conveyed to you before by an elder immediately after the illusion test came to an end that you all will participate in a particular ceremony before you can become true disciples of the sect and be fully authorized to visit places in the sect that you couldn't as non-disciples, this is the ceremony, which however is only oath swearing. So, only until you lads have sworn the oath can you become actual disciples of our famous and illustrious sect and be allowed to know our secrets, keys to some mysteries, special techniques, and absolutely mystifying, primitive age-cultivation methods for certain Spiritual Energies that are tremendously rare and nigh-impossible to cultivate" An elder said with a smile in his face and looked at the examinees below to see their expressions.

And he wasn't disappointed, as their faces began to beam with great joy and unfathomable delight. Even Xiao Lin who had so many powerful techniques with him and hadn't really cultivate any of them to a particularly high stage, couldn't help but produce a bright smile in his face. Furthermore, as someone that possesses a special dantian due to the sealing method used on it when it was irreversibly damaged and wanted to cultivate more energies to increase the devastating power of his monstrous, paw-shaped composite energy attack which was at the 'seed' level in his dantian to a peerless level, couldn't help but have his mind be shook by the last statement of the elder, which was; '...and absolutely mystifying, primitive age-cultivation methods for certain Spiritual Energies that are tremendously rare and nigh-impossible to cultivate'.

The elder who was still pleasurably looking at the faces of the examinees, softly chuckled and said further, "Yes, those are just one of the benefits that you lads will get by becoming disciples our sect!"

He then paused and continued his speech a few seconds later with a stern expression appearing in his face, "However, they won't be given to you just because you are now our disciples. Therefore, only by being hardworking in your cultivations and comprehension and displaying peerless brilliancy in all kinds of competitive battles that will come up for certain consummate cultivation materials and artifacts, could your names be written in a particular list that will be sent along with many visual records of your individual battle prowess to the Founder or the overseeing Great Elder of the sect for approval and what he thinks should be given to you to help you with your cultivations and increase your battle prowess further."

"Well understood, elder. So, we all promise to do our very best to have our names written in the list that will be sent to the founder or the overseeing Great Elder of this great and eminent sect" An examinee suddenly said out loud from where he was, speaking for both himself and everyone else.

"Good!" The elder said with a slight nod of his head.

He then suddenly flicked his fingers at them and caused hundred rays of light to suddenly appear in the air and shoot towards them at great speeds.

Once the rays of light arrived before them in the air in far less than a second, they abruptly turned into stony tabs that had glowing inscriptions of ancient words on their surfaces.

Then immediately after the tabs appeared before the disciples and remained afloat in the air, the elder spoke again, "Now, those are what we are going to use to swear an oath."

He then continued, "So lads, I want you to grab the stony tabs floating in the air before you and say after me."

As soon as he said so, the examinees quickly grabbed the tabs suspended in the air before them by an unseen force and then prepared themselves to say after the elder who will mention the oath to them soon.

However, once they grasped the tabs, a particular power that was totally imperceptible, suddenly flowed into their bodies and actually formed a connection with the tabs, seeming as if they had become binded by blood to the tabs. Then if one could see the Spiritual Power used to create the nigh-indestructible bonds between them and the tabs, one would be able to notice innumerable, glowing, thread-thin lines of power that actually ran throughout their entire bodies and attached to the radiant inscriptions of anciently words on the surfaces of the tabs.

But when the power flowed into Xiao Lin's body and circulated about within it for a few seconds and couldn't find any vital organ to attach itself to, then found his special Spiritual Arteries and specially-sealed dantian basically unresponsive and seemingly inanimate, since they didn't pulse with any type of energy, therefore made the penetrative power from the tab unable to detect even the slightest evidence of life in them. So, the power from the stony tab, eventually, sentiently likened him for a truly dead person and then swiftly returned back into the tab that Xiao Lin tightly held. Therefore, no type of connection was formed between Xiao Lin and the tab.

Xiao Lin who didn't know what was going on within his body and the stony tab that he clutched with his powerful fingers, prepared to say the oath after the ceremony-conducting elder floating in the air before them.

"I swear this day that I will never do anything that will bring about the ruination of the sect. I also swear to never participate or involve myself in things that could possibly bring down any degree of calamity upon the sect. But anytime that I go against the oath that I have sworn today, let my Spiritual Arteries be ruined, my dantian be shattered, and myself, turned into an empty shell" The elder said.

Once the elder mentioned that, the examinees, including Xiao Lin, immediately said after the elder.

The instant that they swore the oath with the elder and other elders watching them, he said, 'Good! Now, you guys have become true disciples of the sect. So, you have all been given the authorization to go into any place within the sect. Congratulations!"

"Thank you, elder" All the examinees said and then bowed in veneration to the elder floating high in the air before them.

Then once they straightened themselves back, the elder made a simple, wave-like gesture with one of his hands and instantly withdrew all the stony tabs that the new, true disciples clutched in their hands back at him. And once he did that, he said with a calm and affable expression appearing in his face, "You all can return to your rooms now. By tomorrow, you will be given rooms that you will stay, with materials that will mention to you when certain cultivation, battle and movement classes will take place."