Chapter 15 (1/2)

Eternal Life (永生) Ch. 15

Entrance Test

A crane soared amid the many peaks of Yu’hua Immortal Mountain. Currently, Fang Han was laying on Crane Fairy’s back, and looking out over the distance, before finally setting his eyes on a huge plain.

Atop this plain, was a magnificent city.

In this city was one school yard after another, and many Taoist temples.

This was the plain amid the mountains.

It wasn’t natural, but man-made. An immortal had come a long time ago to this area in the middle of the mountains, and had cut down many peaks, creating this plain for his residence.

This showing of power to move mountains, oceans, and skies was simply too astonis.h.i.+ng.

This was the training grounds and living s.p.a.ces of the Yu’hua School disciples. The population of the Yu’hua School was astonis.h.i.+ngly huge, that was what Fang Han had learned from Fang Qiang.

The outer court alone contained 100,000 disciples.

Those prominent inner court disciples numbered about five thousand.

However, these numbers didn’t include the various people doing various jobs, such as the servants taming spirit beasts and growing medicines. If you added them in, it would become even harder to figure out the school’s population.

These disciples spent their entire days practicing and training in the school, except for when they went out in groups to gain experience, harden their will, and increase their physicality. In order to enter the Divine Realm, one must reach for the sky.

These disciples all had very prominent statuses, and even if they didn’t manage to train to the Divine Realm, they would be able to train their flesh to the peak. Then, after gaining credit through their accomplishments, the Yu’hua School would give them one to two fa’qi or ling’qi. Then, they would return to their families bringing endless wealth and status.

“Aiyah! Fang Han, upon arriving at this plain, I no longer dare to fly, in case some disciples want to face me. Also, the skies above this plain are restricted under the rules. I will let you down here, and return to Purple Lightning Peak. If you need me, just call me using the ‘Spirit Tamer Tablet’.”

Seeing that they were about to reach the plain, Crane Fairy hurriedly reduced her speed, and slowly landed on a wide, open road.

“Okay.”

Fang Han nodded, his feet landing on the ground. Watching Crane Fairy fly away, he began walking along the road, getting ever closer to the magnificent city on the plain.

This city had been constructed using only pure white stones, and was very clean and beautiful. Fang Han couldn’t believe how much more beautiful, clean, and wide the city was compared to those of Long’yuan Province.

Comparing the city with the current capital of Long’yuan Province, the capital was naught but a small nook.

However, Fang Han didn’t waste time looking at the view, but instead, clutching Fang Qing Xue’s signature, immediately walked to a house in the eastern part of the city.

Atop this house was a sign with the characters “Ta Xian Yuan.”

The meaning of these characters was: “By entering this house, you have entered the Immortal Path!” These words were conveyed with great feeling, creating an intimidating atmosphere.

Truthfully, this “Ta Xian Yuan” was one of the Yu’hua School’s courtyards, the one where new disciples were tested.

Indeed, in the square in front of this “Ta Xian Yuan” stood quite a lot of young, richly dressed people of varying gender, all of them looking quite fit. Clearly, they had all been recommended to enter the school.

The Yu’hua School was the top of the Ten Immortal Schools. It controlled multiple large empires, and was far ahead of the next. Just the Da’li Empire’s population was a couple billion. No one knew how many commoners, n.o.bles, and members of the royal family there were, but they all wanted to become people with power. Thus, when entering the Yu’hua School, they were all afraid of becoming outer court disciples, and hoped for immediate promotion, making it easier for them to learn Immortal Techniques.

Thus, every month of every year, people with recommendations would come here, and take the test.

However, the recruiters of the Yu’hua School only recruited young people. This was because the blood and qi of young people were still vigorous and flouris.h.i.+ng, giving them more potential to enter the Divine Realm. As for middle aged people, their blood and qi were generally exhausted of the necessary elements for them to be able to train to the Divine Realm.

Because it was like this, although Fang Qing Xue’s father, governor of Long’yuan Province Fang Ze Tao, was at the tenth level of the Mortal Realm, he couldn’t enter the Yu’hua School because he no longer had the potential to advance.

These people are all prominent figures, but I can’t discern the governor’s son from the royal prince, nor differentiate the princesses. However, if they can come to the ‘Ta Xian Yuan,” their status is vastly different from mine, people who I would never have been able to come close to. Yet right now, I am about to become equal to them as an outer court disciple.

Currently, Fang Han was wearing brocaded clothes, and appeared to be dignified, especially since he had broken through to the sixth level and had expelled the impurities from his body. He let off an imposing aura, one that caused people to never guess that he was but a horse breeding servant.

“We can’t even bring servants into the Yu’hua School. Once we’ve entered the school, who will wait on us? Could it be that daily necessities such as cooking and was.h.i.+ng will have to be done by ourselves on top of our training?” asked a prince holding a purple fan.

“Upon entering these walls as a disciple of the Yu’hua School, your daily meals will be arranged by the school board. The school board will give out fa’qi level ‘Clean Clothes Seals,’ ‘Dust Avoidance Seals,’ and ‘Spirit Fire Seals.’ Will you still have to wash clothes? Just by applying the seal to your body, your body will immediately become clean, even cleaner than after taking ten baths. The food provided are all high cla.s.s meals including spiritual medicines, and are even better than royal banquets. This is only for the outer court disciples. Upon entering the inner court, living conditions become even better. Liu Kang, if you cannot live without servants, you can give your place to me. I currently have a younger brother who doesn’t have a place,” coldly replied another rich looking youth wearing sulfurous colored clothing.

“Heng, wait until you have truly pa.s.sed the test and entered the outer court before talking. The Yu’hua School entrance test is no easy thing to pa.s.s. Do you believe in your ability to defeat a G.o.dly Strength level puppet?” asked a fifteen/sixteen year old girl with sharp eyes wearing a sword and boots.

The clothes this girl wore represented her high status, especially the fire-red jade hairpin on her head which was inlaid with a glowing pearl about the size of a thumb. Sparkling so much in the light, and glowing so much in the dark, Fang Han had never seen such a high quality pearl in the Fang Clan.

“Hong Yi princess, it seems as if you are confident in your ability to beat the fifth level puppet and pa.s.s the outer court entrance test?”