135 Chapter 135 (1/2)
The Feng Clan, Zhang Clan, and Huo Clan were all in good relations. The gyaru gang saw the male members from the other two clans as potential Daoist partners. While the girls were chatting among themselves, their elders were slowly getting impatient. They didn't come here to find potential partners, but to showcase their clan's power and superiority.
The girls soon got to it, while their elder encouraged them by giving them a smack on the head. The current elder that was responsible for the Feng ladies, wasn't anyone that the Zhang Clan members knew. The Matriarch or the granny elder that everyone was familiar with wasn't here either. Soon the bells started ringing and the girls began passing with flying colors. The clan was mindful enough to not bring anyone with them that wouldn't be able to pass the first strength test.
Zhang Liu looked with interest at the girl that he had a short encounter with, moved up to the stage. He didn't think that she would be participating in the test, but there she was. She walked over slowly, making everyone take in her rather cute facial features. The bouncing of her chest only added to the neck-craning that most of the youths were doing now.
Feng Nuana arrived at the large bell, which made her look even smaller. She looked quite fierce, like an angry puppy. Her eyebrows furrowed and her palm moving closer to her own body as she took a wind up. A gust of wind was produced the moment she smacked the large bell with her small hand, producing quite the amount of dinging sounds. The added wind pressure made her skirt dance around, the boys from the side just gawking.
”Ding...ding...ding...ding...ding...ding...ding...”
The treasure stopped at seven strikes, which caught the attention of many participants as this was the highest number in their age range. This was already a power level of someone at the peak of the late stage of foundation establishment. This girl was twenty-one at most, so this was quite the feat.
”Big sister Nuana is the best!”
”She is the pride of our Feng Clan!”
”Yay sister Nuana!”
The girls cheered out loud while the other clans and sects looked at the tiny girl preforming the feat of strength. The girl in question crossed her hands over her quite voluptuous chest and stuck it out proudly. She moved her head up high and took in the praise that the other clan members were giving her, looking quite satisfied. Before coming down from the stage her eyes met with Zhang Liu's and she gave him a little wink.
'Are all those Feng women like this?'
Zhang Liu looked around the area to the other girls, but he grimaced some more due to the overuse of makeup that made the girls kind of unappealing. The short one at least looked decent enough and her skin wasn't as dark as the rest of the others.
'Master said that jade-like skin wasn't all that great... but I'm not sure about that...'
The female cultivators all made the cut, for now, all of the cultivators from the Huo clan and the Feng clan had made it through the first test. But they were in the minority as shortly after they left the stage, the other participants started failing.
”Get ready, you will be taking the test, don't embarrass the clan!”
The Zhang Clan youths stood at attention as they were the next in line. The clans that followed after the Feng Clan weren't doing all that great. Their members were mostly at the four or three bell range, some of them couldn't even get past two. This was probably due to the lower quality of their cultivation techniques.
”Show them why we from the Zhang Clan are on the rise, young warriors!”
The elder gave the youths some inspiring words. They were still getting underestimated by the other big families in the area, but this would soon change. One of the youths moved on to the stage, but no one was really paying that much attention as people were interested in the more powerful clans that took the test at the beginning. Though even from them, there wasn't a young master that broke past six chimes and Feng Nuana was still holding the top spot.
”I'll go up, first brothers and sisters.”
The youth with the sword-shaped eyebrows decided to make his move, he would show that even he a regular member of the clan was quite gifted when compared to the other families. He looked at the person that was standing next to the measuring treasure, it was a man that was wearing quite the long robe and a long hat. The man was old and had a scroll in his hand, on that scroll he had all the names of the Zhang Clan members that would be participating in the test.
”You may proceed.”
He noted the name of this clan member while yawning slightly. It was the middle of the day and these workers didn't really have any time off, and there was still a massive line of people after this still waiting. He didn't really care about this average clan, half of these people would probably not make the cut or just barely make it in at three chimes.
”Ding...ding...ding...ding...ding....”
He looked at the bell that started ringing, there were clearly five times that it rung and that would put this youth in the talented bracket. This was quite surprising for an average clan like this. The man with the scroll noted the number of bell sounds next to the youth's name, thinking that they probably had their most notable junior member start it off.
”Five, not bad... next...”
The young man with the sword eyebrows moved down the stage and another one with a similar blue robe moved up. His palm started glowing in blue color before it descended on the measuring apparatus.
”Ding...ding...ding...ding...ding....”
”Oh... five again...”
The elder official wrote down the name and test results again and watched as the blue-robed youth moved down the testing area. The youth looked dejected, making it seem like he was expecting a better score. Five was already quite high in the man's opinion, so why as this youth like that?
The man figured out why the young male looked sad, as following him his other clan members took the stage.
”Ding...ding...ding...ding...ding....”
”Ding...ding...ding...ding...”
”Ding...ding...ding...ding...ding....”
”Ding...ding...ding...ding...”
The youths continued having stellar results apparently they were all above a regular foundation establishment cultivator in the early stage.