Chapter 228: Fool!

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In this session of the Seven Stars Cave trial, many geniuses have indeed appeared.

There are thirteen Red Mark examinees alone, and nearly a thousand Gold-Patterned Examinees.

One must know that whether it is a Red Mark or a Golden Mark, they are all personally designated by the Red Kun Star Lord, although this cannot represent their full potential.

But being able to become a Red Mark means that the talent and potential shown, at least, are absolutely at the very top of all examinees.

And at this moment,

under the watchful eyes of Lin Yuan and the other Peak Lords,

the examinees put forth all their effort, continuously passing through layer after layer of star caves, heading towards the final Seventh Star Cave.

“That Red Mark seems to have awakened some kind of special fire-attribute Bloodline, and his potential is not low. Does anyone want him?” Senior Brother's eyes lit up as he asked.

“You can have him.”

“The path I walk is not the fire-attribute rules.”

“A special Bloodline, huh? It looks like it should be one of those high-tier fire-attribute Bloodlines.”

One Peak Lord after another spoke up.

Lin Yuan also took a careful look at that Red Mark examinee.

“Indeed, not bad.”

Lin Yuan nodded to himself.

Although Lin Yuan did not have any special Bloodline, he had to admit that a superior Bloodline Physique was indeed of no small benefit to cultivation.

Especially in the early stages, high-tier Bloodlines could even allow one to fight across Realms.

“Since Senior Brother wants him, I won't compete for him,”

Lin Yuan thought to himself. For Lin Yuan, he was merely following the Red Kun Star Lord's suggestion to take in a few examinees.

As for who exactly they would be, there was no set plan. Competing with his Senior Brothers over a mere examinee? Lin Yuan felt there was no need for that.

“I wonder if anyone will pass the Ultimate trial in the Seven Star Cave World this time?” Second Senior Brother said with a sigh, chatting casually.

The so-called Ultimate trial was to comprehend the basics of the 'Xuanhuang' evolution path. Back then, Lin Yuan had done exactly this, directly causing the Red Kun Star Lord, who was in secluded cultivation and not to be disturbed, to actively end his retreat and personally take Lin Yuan in as his thirteenth Disciple.

One must know that before this, the Red Kun Star Lord had not taken any Disciples for ten thousand years. Ordinary examinees, even if they were Red Marks, could not catch the Red Kun Star Lord's eye.

With the talent of a Red Mark examinee, they only had hope of ascending to the Sixth Order at most, whereas among the Disciples taught by the Red Kun Star Lord, every single one started at the Sixth Order.

“The Ultimate trial?”

“In our Chi Kun lineage, over the past ten thousand years, only a youngest Junior Brother has emerged.”

“And now we expect another one? How is that possible?”

“Exactly, what do these examinees have to compare with our Junior Brother?”

The twelve Peak Lords chatted casually. A Seventh-Order Evolver under a hundred years old—let alone in the Chi Kun Star Region, even in the entire Annan Star Alliance, not many had ever appeared.

How could two appear in succession in the Chi Kun Star Region?

Lin Yuan listened to his Senior Brothers' conversation from the side, chiming in from time to time.

“Eldest Senior Brother, when do you plan to head out to guard the external Star Domains?” Fourth Senior Brother Zuo Ge asked in a low voice.

Having stepped into the Eighth Order, Eldest Senior Brother needed to fulfill the obligations of Human Civilization and guard a Star Domain for five hundred years.

The Star Domain here was naturally not one within the interior of Human Civilization, but rather a newly opened Star Domain on the periphery.

The Human Civilization Alliance was expanding at all times, and as a result, the territory of Human Civilization was continuously increasing.

And the Star Domain that an Eighth-Order Evolver needed to guard was precisely the territory that Human Civilization had just occupied.

Within these territories, the main enemies had certainly been wiped out by the Experts of Human Civilization, but there would still be some remnant racial factions.

This would depend on the decision of the Star Lords guarding this Star Domain. Whether to leave these remnant forces to integrate into Human Civilization, or to continue wiping them out, was entirely up to the Star Lord.

Every Star Lord's governing philosophy was different. Some Star Lords hoped for the harmony of all races in the Universe, while others believed that those of a different race would surely have different minds.

“Once this session of the Seven Stars Cave trial is over, I will set off,” Eldest Senior Brother said.

The border territories of Human Civilization were quite dangerous, but Eighth-Order Evolvers were no pushovers.

To thoroughly kill an Eighth-Order Evolver? It was extremely difficult to do, and at the Eighth Order, they basically all had Clones.

To encourage Eighth-Order Evolvers to guard the border Star Domains, the Supreme Powerhouses of Human Civilization had long made a promise: any Eighth-Order Evolver who died at the hands of foreign races during their five-hundred-year guard duty would be 'resurrected'.

Hundreds of thousands of years ago, this Chi Kun Star Region guarded by the Red Kun Star Lord was actually also a border Star Domain of Human Civilization at the time.

However, after so many years of expansion, the Chi Kun Star Region, which was originally located in the border territory, was now situated deep within the interior of Human Civilization's territory.

Time passed.

One by one, the examinees finally entered the Seventh Star Cave and began to comprehend the over one hundred stone statues with all their might.

Through observation along the way, Lin Yuan and the various Peak Lords had roughly chosen their examinees.

For the Peak Lords, they would only notify each other when selecting Red Mark examinees. With thirteen Red Mark examinees, it just so happened that each of the thirteen Peak Lords got one.

As for the Golden Mark and Silver Mark examinees? They basically didn't consult each other much because the number of Golden Marks and Silver Marks was simply too large.

Even if a rare situation occurred where two Peak Lords selected the same Golden Mark, they would let this Golden Mark examinee make the choice themselves as to which Peak Lord's command to join.

Of course, if they encountered some special Golden Mark examinees, a Peak Lord might mention it in advance, but this situation was not common.

Normally speaking, the hope of a Gold-Patterned Examinee stepping into the Sixth Order was much smaller than that of a Red Mark examinee.

“Junior Brother, have you made your choices?”

Second Senior Brother looked at Lin Yuan curiously.

“I've more or less chosen. I selected three this time,” Lin Yuan nodded.

Not all examinees could be selected by the Peak Lords. The vast majority of them would not be chosen, but would instead join the Chi Kun lineage and then, through Acquired efforts, join under a certain Peak Lord.

Just like 'Fang Qing' back then, who didn't join any Peak Lord's command at the beginning.

Meanwhile, the three Red Marks of the same term had been selected early on by several Peak Lords.

Being selected in advance by a Peak Lord was equivalent to avoiding many detours.

“Which three?”

Several Senior Brothers suddenly became interested.

They wanted to know which three examinees their youngest Junior Brother, who possessed Heaven-Defying Aptitude and talent, had actually chosen.

“Mo Li, Feng Yu, and Wu Lan,” Lin Yuan said directly.

Mo Li was one of the thirteen Red Mark Evolvers. When choosing this person, Lin Yuan had also agreed with his Senior Brothers.

As a Red Mark Evolver, Mo Li's talent was quite good. He had condensed a 'Heart of Combat' at the Fourth Order, and his killing power far exceeded those of the same order, ranking him in the top three among the thirteen Red Marks.

The Heart of Combat was the manifestation of a certain Realm, specializing in slaughter, and naturally close to the rules of killing.

As for Feng Yu and Wu Lan, one was a Golden Mark and the other was a Silver Mark. Lin Yuan had just selected them casually, taking them along simply because they caught his eye.

Feng Yu walked the path of the wind-attribute rules and was already close to entering the threshold, making him one of the outstanding figures among the Gold-Patterned Examinees.

As for Wu Lan, she was a Silver Mark examinee. The reason Lin Yuan chose her was entirely because she walked the Martial Dao Evolution Path.

Although the Martial Dao Evolution Path was extremely famous in the Chi Kun Star Region, the time since its emergence was simply too short. Although there were some Third-Order Martial Dao Evolvers, most of them were over a hundred years old.

Even if they were under a hundred years old, they might not necessarily participate in the Chi Kun Star Region's arena tournament.

Therefore, in this Seven Stars Cave trial, being able to see a Third-Order Martial Dao Evolver was quite rare, so Lin Yuan selected her in passing.

“Our Junior Brother's choices are quite systematic.” Hearing this, the Peak Lords looked at each other, not knowing whether to laugh or cry.

One Red Mark.

One Golden Mark.

One Silver Mark.

Spreading the favor equally, aren't we?

“I just chose them randomly,” Lin Yuan laughed.

Except for the Red Mark, the other two were indeed chosen randomly.

“Junior Brother, the Gold-Patterned Examinee you selected seems to overlap with Eldest Senior Brother's choice?” Second Senior Brother said quickly, as if remembering something.

“An overlap?”

Eldest Senior Brother was startled momentarily. “Is his name Feng Yu?”

“Then I will let Junior Brother have him,” Eldest Senior Brother said directly.

A mere Golden Mark. Even if it were a Red Mark, if his Junior Brother wanted him, Eldest Senior Brother would yield him directly.

“Eldest Senior Brother, there's no need for that,” Lin Yuan said immediately.

“Just let him choose for himself.” Lin Yuan thought about it; making Eldest Senior Brother yield directly made him feel a bit embarrassed.

“That works too.”

“Let this Feng Yu choose for himself.” Hearing this, Eldest Senior Brother had no objections.

It was just a Gold-Patterned Examinee, after all. How could that compare to the brotherhood between them?

Seeing this, the other Peak Lords on the field did not find it strange. It was just a Gold-Patterned Examinee. A batch of such examinees appeared every fifteen years, so it was truly nothing.

All the Evolvers who passed the Seventh Star Cave trial were transported to a plaza.

Time passed.

In the blink of an eye, the Seven Stars Cave trial came to an end.

At this moment, there were only a few thousand examinees standing on this plaza.

From the initial 1.5 million-plus to the current few thousand, the pass rate was only about one in a thousand.

And now, these thousands of examinees stood there with nervous expressions.

Because next would be the moment that decided their fates.

The scene of everyone passing through the seven star caves was currently fully within the sight of the thirteen Peak Lords.

Based on their performances, the thirteen Peak Lords would select a group of people from among them to join their commands.

For everyone, this was nothing short of an Opportunity for a carp to leap over the dragon gate.

Being able to directly join under a Peak Lord saved them from who knows how many detours, allowing them to directly obtain a decent status within the Chi Kun lineage.

Fang Qing's figure appeared on this plaza.

“The three examinees the Peak Lord wants to take in.” As the current 'steward' of the Thirteen Mountain Peaks, Fang Qing was specifically in charge of many matters on the Thirteen Mountain Peaks.

Now, after Lin Yuan provided the names of the selected Evolvers who had passed the Seven Stars Cave trial, it was up to him to notify them.

“First, the Silver Mark examinee, Wu Lan.”

Fang Qing walked up to a nervous-looking young girl and said gently, “The Thirteenth Peak Lord invites you to join the Thirteen Mountain Peaks. If you are willing, walk into the thirteenth gate in a moment.”

After saying this, Fang Qing pointed to the thirteen gates in the distance, among which the thirteenth gate belonged to the Thirteenth Peak Lord.

“I… I am willing.”

Wu Lan's mind went blank. Once she came to her senses, she hurriedly said with excitement.

Heavens.

She was actually selected by the Thirteenth Peak Lord.

As a Silver Mark examinee, the probability of being selected by a Peak Lord was very low, let alone by the Thirteenth Peak Lord, whose name shook the Chi Kun Star Region and even the Annan Star Alliance.

Before participating in this session's arena tournament, Wu Lan was already a fan of the Thirteenth Peak Lord. She never expected that she would actually be able to join the Thirteen Mountain Peaks at this moment.

Wu Lan felt a bit dizzy from being struck by such a stroke of good fortune falling from the sky.

The other examinees around looked at Wu Lan with eyes full of envy.

But they could only be envious; whom the Peak Lords wanted to select was entirely up to the Peak Lords themselves.

After notifying Wu Lan, Fang Qing walked towards the next examinee, Feng Yu.

“The Thirteenth Peak Lord also wants me to join?”

Feng Yu was a handsome-looking man. Hearing Fang Qing's words at this moment, his expression was somewhat hesitant.

“Yes.”

“If you agree, just walk into the thirteenth gate in a moment.”

After saying this, Fang Qing turned and left, walking towards the final examinee.

“The Thirteenth Peak Lord.” Feng Yu had naturally heard of the Thirteenth Peak Lord. He was an extraordinarily brilliant, top-tier Genius and Prodigy of the Chi Kun Star Region, having stepped into the Seventh Order under a hundred years old—he was simply a monster.

At the same time, the Thirteenth Peak Lord was also the only Disciple the Red Kun Star Lord had taken in over the past ten thousand years.

Reasonably speaking, faced with the Thirteenth Peak Lord's invitation, Feng Yu should have agreed with ecstatic joy.

It was just that before this, the Great Peak Lord had also sent someone to invite him.

This made Feng Yu somewhat hesitant.

Although the Great Peak Lord's Aptitude and talent were inferior to those of the Thirteenth Peak Lord,

he had recently stepped into the Eighth Order. No matter how strong the Thirteenth Peak Lord's Aptitude was, who knew how long it would take to go from the Seventh Order to the Eighth Order?

“The Thirteenth Peak Lord is indeed a top-tier Genius, but he is too young. How could he possibly know how to guide Disciples?”

Feng Yu thought to himself:

“Furthermore, the Thirteenth Peak Lord only invited me to become an outer member of the Thirteen Mountain Peaks, whereas with the Great Peak Lord, as long as I join the First Mountain Peak, I will directly be an inner member, and becoming a core member is only a matter of time.”

After weighing his options over and over, Feng Yu ultimately decided to choose the Great Peak Lord.

After all, one was Eighth Order, and the other was Seventh Order.

One was an inner core member, while the other was an outer member.

Most importantly, the Great Peak Lord had lived through so many years and had received the true teachings of the Red Kun Star Lord. In terms of guiding Disciples, he would surely far surpass the Thirteenth Peak Lord.

Among the Red Mark examinees,

Mo Li sat cross-legged. As one of the thirteen Red Marks, Mo Li was practically guaranteed to be highly regarded by a Peak Lord.

At this moment, Mo Li was pondering which Peak Lord would actually invite him.

Compared to Feng Yu, Mo Li's background was much greater, and he had a precise analysis of the various Peak Lords.

“The Thirteenth Peak Lord wants you.” Fang Qing walked up to Mo Li.

“The Thirteenth Peak Lord invited me?” Mo Li's eyes lit up, and a wave of wild joy instantly surged in his heart.

He came from a Seventh-Order power in the Annan Star Alliance. Coming to the Chi Kun Star Region specifically to participate in the arena tournament this time was precisely because he wanted to join the Chi Kun lineage.

And according to the analysis of Mo Li and the elders in his faction, within the Chi Kun lineage, it would be best to become a Disciple of the Red Kun Star Lord, but that was unrealistic.

Aside from the Red Kun Star Lord, the Seventh-Order Evolver in Mo Li's faction had pondered over and over, concluding that joining under the Thirteenth Peak Lord, who had the shallowest seniority, was the best choice.

Although the Great Peak Lord had stepped into the Eighth Order first, with the Thirteenth Peak Lord's Aptitude and talent, stepping into the Eighth Order was also only a matter of time.

Additionally, the Thirteenth Peak Lord was the youngest Disciple of the Red Kun Star Lord and was naturally favored. In the future, he might even become the second Red Kun Star Lord, an existence of the Eighth Order Invincibles.

Therefore,

the earlier one joined under the Thirteenth Peak Lord's command, the more benefits they would obtain. This was a great Opportunity.

As the invitations from each Peak Lord's 'steward' were completed,

one by one, the Evolvers began to walk towards those thirteen gates in the distance.

The thirteen gates, from the first to the thirteenth, respectively represented the first Peak Lord to the Thirteenth Peak Lord of the Chi Kun lineage.

Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh.

After entering the gates, all the examinees were transported into a pavilion.

“You didn't choose the Thirteenth Peak Lord?” Mo Li's mind was filled with joy. Having joined under the Thirteenth Peak Lord's command, he felt that his future was incredibly bright.

However, when he saw the number 'One' inscribed on Feng Yu's sleeve, he was immediately somewhat surprised.

The number on the sleeve represented the examinee's choice. On Mo Li's sleeve, the number 'Thirteen' was inscribed.

However, Mo Li remembered that Fang Qing, the steward of the Thirteen Mountain Peaks, had invited Feng Yu. Why hadn't he joined the Thirteen Mountain Peaks?

“Lord Mo Li,” Feng Yu said with a respectful posture upon seeing the Red Mark examinee questioning him, “I chose the Great Peak Lord…”

“Giving up the Thirteenth Peak Lord to choose the Great Peak Lord.” Mo Li looked at Feng Yu with some astonishment, then turned and walked away.

In his heart, he did not forget to leave an evaluation:

“Foolish!”

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