At the rear cliff of Qingyun Dao Sect.
Ye Ping opened his eyes.
At this moment, an unprecedented feeling surfaced.
Everything in the world seemed to have become clearer and everything seemed to be within his grasp.
More importantly, an unprecedented sense of fullness made Ye Ping feel elated.
His Dharmic power was more than a hundred times stronger than before. In the past, a single Heavenly Thunder sword momentum would consume one-third of his Dharmic power.
However, Ye Ping now felt that he would lose only 10% of his Dharmic powers even if he cast a hundred Heavenly Thunder sword momentum as its power was several times more powerful.
That was Ye Ping’s current strength.
To put it simply, his HP was maximized and so was his damage level.
“Awesome!”
In an instant, Ye Ping somehow felt a great sense of pleasure.
‘Is this the thrill of becoming stronger?’
However, he suppressed his joy and continued to comprehend.
He had to re-cultivate 36 times in the Qi Refinement realm.
He wanted to find out if the Foundation Establishment realm also required 36 re-cultivations.
After an hour, Ye Ping heaved a sigh of relief.
In the Foundation Establishment realm, one did not have to re-cultivate 36 times.
Normal cultivation was divided into four stages, early-stage, mid-stage, late-stage, and perfected.
The Qi Refinement realm was meant for refining the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.
The Foundation Establishment realm was the conversion of the quality of Dharmic powers and the higher the quality, the more powerful the Dharmic Dao.
At the early stage of Foundation Establishment, there would be the first quality conversion in order to determine the color of Dharmic powers.
However, Ye Ping did not break through his realm for the time being.
After all, a breakthrough from the Qi Cultivation realm to the Foundation Establishment realm was good enough for now. As the saying went, more haste less speed. If he tried to force his way through to the mid-stage of Foundation Establishment, then to the late-stage and lastly to the perfected stage, it would be rather meaningless.
He had to comprehend properly in each realm in order to gain enlightenment.
He had achieved a breakthrough in realm.
That was considered the fulfillment of one of his wishes.
However, Ye Ping still had other things to do next.
Less than half of the power of merit in his body was left and Ye Ping planned to use it to refine the Godfiend Body and open up the Immortal Apertures.
His first priority was to open up the Immortal Aperture. After all, he had already experienced all the benefits of the Torch Dragon Immortal Apertures.
Ye Ping withdrew a large amount of power of merit in a bid to try to see how many Immortal Apertures he could open.
At this moment, Ye Ping roughly understood that be it the Cultivation Heart technique or opening the Torch Dragon Immortal Apertures and the Ancient Godfiend Body Tempering Technique, they were all cultivation techniques that would get increasingly intense as one progressed.
Hence, he would try to advance in all of them together instead of focusing on one.
It was just like in the Qi Refinement realm where the spiritual energy needed for the 36th re-cultivation would allow him to open up at least 20 or 30 Immortal Apertures.
However, the problem was that improving all of them together was better than that. He just needed to have sufficient overall strength.
After figuring that out, Ye Ping began to open the Immortal Apertures.
That was also because Ye Ping had obtained a million merit. Otherwise, he would not be able to improve his realm even if he wanted to.
The reason why he chose the Torch Dragon Immortal Aperture was mainly because he would obtain Mystical Abilities after opening up the 36th one.
Ye Ping was curious to activate the 36th one and see which Mystical Ability he would obtain.
Just like that, three days passed in the blink of an eye.
At the same time, in Jin Nation Academy.
Many new talents of Jin Nation appeared one after another. As of now, there were more than 600 people who were selected to join Jin Nation Academy.
Two hundred more people had been added.
The entrance examination of the Jin Nation Academy lasted for a month and applications would be open for a month. However, if they missed it, they would not be able to resit for the examination no matter how outstanding they were.
There were only three people in the entire Jin Nation who were qualified to nominate disciples for a resit of the examination. One was the king of Jin Nation, one was the head of the Jin Nation Academy, and the last was the Supreme Elder of the academy.
Those three could nominate other geniuses too.
As of today, the application for the Jin Nation Academy had been terminated. In other words, no one else would have the chance to join this cohort of students unless they could get the help of those three individuals.
However, at this moment, in the Jin Nation Academy’s combat arena.
630 students were dressed in uniform robes of the academy.
The main color of the robe was white and the hems were light green in color. The words “Sixth Generation” were embroidered on the chest. The robes looked extremely refreshing, thus accentuating their auras as geniuses.
In the combat arena.
The 630 students looked a little curious. They were there since morning but no one came to them even till noon.
It made them very puzzled.
However, at this moment, several figures suddenly walked in from the four entrances of the North, South, East, and West.
They were all around twenty-seven or twenty-eight years old, each with a determined gaze and full of vigor.
The words “Fifth Generation” were embroidered on their clothes.
They were the fifth generation of students of Jin Nation. The Jin Nation Academy would have a change of head once every 60 years. Hence, there would be one new batch every 60 generations. The first batch of disciples was called the first generation, while the second batch was called the second generation, and the third batch was called the third generation.
The Jin Nation Academy would be opened once every ten years and it happened to be time for a change of head now.
These fifth generation disciples were the Senior Brothers of the batch of freshmen.
Looking at the sudden arrival of the Senior Brothers of the fifth generation, someone in the crowd seemed to have guessed something and his face turned sullen.
In the combat arena, the group of fifth generation disciples all had a hostile smile on each of their faces, which sent chills down their spines.
At this moment, someone suddenly spoke up.
“Junior Brothers, I’m Li Yan, one of the top ten talents of the fifth generation.”
“Today, I have gathered you here to carry out the customary practice for freshmen.”
“I believe that some of you must know what it is, but I’d better explain it to all of you Junior Brothers and Junior Sisters in the spirit of passing on the teachings.”
Li Yan had a warm and tender smile on his face.
However, his smile seemed terrifying to some people.
“Next, we will hold a friendly match between existing and new students.”
“The rules are simple. Firstly, no lives shall be killed. Secondly, no magic weapon is to be used. Thirdly, use of Dharmic Dao is not permitted.”
“In other words, it is a round of pure physical combat. Apart from that, there are no other rules. Of course, you’re not allowed to tear each other’s clothes too.”
“Understood?”
Although Li Yan’s voice was calm, everyone was dumbfounded.
‘What does this mean?’
‘Does he want us to fight?’
“Senior Brother Li, does it mean we’re going to fight against you?”
Someone asked.
“You are smart, that’s right.”
Li Yan nodded while stretching his muscles, and the rest of the disciples also started to stretch like devoted disciples getting ready to fight.
“Senior Brother Li, this doesn’t make sense. We have just entered the Jin Nation Academy and haven’t learned anything yet. You guys have been in the Jin Nation Academy for ten years. Besides, we haven’t refined our bodies either.”
“Yes. Senior Brother Li, isn’t this just blatant bullying?”
“Can I sit this one out?”
“Can we just surrender?”
The 600-something newly matriculated scholars panicked.
‘Who can take this?’
Those fifth generation disciples all looked strong and powerful and had clearly refined their bodies. Without using Dharmic Dao and Dharma artifacts, how could they fight?
“Firstly, you are not allowed to sit out!”
“Secondly, you’re right. This is just blatant bullying.”
“Thirdly, you cannot surrender. Regardless of gender, you have to fight to the very last breath.”
“Fourthly, begin!”
Li Yan exclaimed.
Hundreds of fifth generation disciples descended like ferocious tigers, hitting everyone in sight.
They were all like brutal beasts as their bodies were extremely strong. They could blast several people away with a single punch.
That batch of newly matriculated disciples had never seen such a scene before.
They began to panic but some of the newly promoted students, who are also in fort battles, immediately realized something and fought with the fifth generation disciples.
Some were extremely intelligent and racked their brains to do everything possible to get hurt as little as possible.
This battle was simply oppressive and they couldn’t beat their Senior Brothers at all.
One or two would be fine, but there was no chance to fight with hundreds of them who used to be talents of Qingzhou.
“My leg is broken! Ahh!”
“My ribs are broken, it hurts.”
“I surrender, I surrender.”
“Senior Brothers, you guys don’t even spare women, how cruel.”
“Stop hitting me, stop hitting me. Please, I beg you, stop.”
“I’ll go all out and fight with you guys. Oh, I was wrong, please don’t hit me anymore.”
“What’s the big deal about beating someone who is outnumbered? Come fight me one-on-one if you can!”
“Sure, ten of us will fight you alone then.”
The entire combat arena was in chaos and many Senior Brothers of the older generation outside were watching.
That was the characteristic of each major academy. Whenever there was a new batch of students, there would definitely be some arrogant ones who tried to bully and suppress them with their menacing aura.
That was an unwritten rule that the senior members of the Jin Nation Academy were aware of too.
They had a simple opinion of that matter and wanted to make sure everyone was still alive. They would avoid inflicting serious injuries too.
Just like that, two hours passed.
