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Arc 7 – Farewell to that Senior Brother
Chapter 155

Because there was no task for him to complete this time, there was also no system following Chi Zhao around or anyone sending him any information of the world, so Chi Zhao opened his eyes as soon as he entered.

Then he realised that the world was lying down. There was only the blue sky in his vision, nothing else.

It was only when a round head appeared in his field of vision, looking at him with great concern, that Chi Zhao realised that it wasn’t the world that was lying down, and instead it was he himself.

Chi Zhao: “……….”

The owner of the head looked at him with furrowed brows, “Are you okay?”

It was okay when he didn’t ask but as soon as he asked, Chi Zhao felt a sharp pain. He subconsciously closed his eyes from the pain and noticed that there was an extra page of paper in his mind. After opening it, he saw a short passage written in it.

——–Golden autumn, October. The osmanthus trees are fragrant. Along with the refreshing autumn breeze and abundant harvest, the cultivation realm will be once again holding the five yearly disciple recruitment assessment. This year, Zhao Tian sect will be the host and the six major sects will be gathered. We wish all registered disciples to uphold the principle no arrogance in victory and no despair in defeat. Please carry the spirit of becoming ‘strong, stronger and even stronger’ as well as ‘teamwork, friendship and ascendance’ to achieve outstanding results!

Chi Zhao: “……….”

What is this? Background introduction?

Also…..Cultivation…..???

Chi Zhao had never read cultivation novels before but when he was in school, there were always a few boys in class who liked to stay up late following Long Aotian’s struggles to reach the pinnacle in life, so he knew a little about the world of cultivation. He supported his head and sat up. Seeing that he wasn’t answering, the young man in front of him thought he was feeling uncomfortable, “Hey, you should say something. If you can’t do this, don’t force yourself. Seeing that you’re still young, you can train for another five years and try again next time.”

Chi Zhao raised his head to look at this cold-faced and bad-toned but unexpectedly warm-hearted young man. Before he could say anything, a few other young men wearing ancient costumes passed by. One of them even looked over with disdain. To be more precise, he was looking at the young man next to Chi Zhao.

“What a nosy garbage.”

When that man said this, he didn’t even try to hide it. He was clearly not afraid of being heard. Chi Zhao looked back at the young man and saw that the other party’s face had turned gloomy for a moment, but he very quickly recovered again and looked at Chi Zhao strangely, “Could it be that you’re a fool?”

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Chi Zhao returned to his senses and shook his head, “No. Thank you.”

Chi Zhao stood up. His head was still a little hazy, but it wasn’t a problem with his body, he was just a little sleepy. Seeing him stand up, the young man also continued moving on. Chi Zhao didn’t know what he was doing but when he combined the situation with the young man’s words earlier, he guessed that he was probably on his way to the assessment.

Everyone was going in the same direction. Chi Zhao also followed them. The young man originally didn’t want to be involved with him anymore but before he could take more than a few steps, he couldn’t help but look back, fearing that Chi Zhao would suddenly fall onto the ground like he did just now.

After a moment of silence, the young man slowed down. He didn’t have any friends here and the few people who had came with him looked down on him due to his commoner status. All day long, except for being mocked, it was being mocked. Chi Zhao seemed to be easy to talk to and he also seemed a little ignorant, not snobbish like the others.

He raised his chin, “Hey, what’s your name?”

“My name is Han Yu. The Yu for hesitating.” (KKnotes: Basically explaining which Chinese character his name is.)

Chi Zhao was really sleepy, and he was still in a drowsy state. He yawned and answered, “My name is Chi Zhao. The Zhao for photo.”

After saying this, Chi Zhao suddenly realised that he had spoken wrongly. He hurriedly looked at Han Yu. As expected, Han Yu scratched his head and looked at him questioningly, “What does photo mean?”

Chi Zhao stammered out an explanation, “Ah…..th-that is, ‘The frosty sky sheds light on ones heart’, abbreviated as photo.” (KKnotes: Basically, Chi Zhao here is saying ‘霜天流照一片心’, which is a rather poetic line that people in the cultivation world should understand. The characters for photo is 照片, hence why he said that it is abbreviated as photo. Hopefully that makes sense!)

In a state of anxiousness, Chi Zhao recalled a poem he had memorised when he was the young Emperor. This poem wasn’t difficult to understand so Han Yu naturally understood, but his expression was still a bit complicated, “It’s my first time hearing it abbreviated like that……….”

All the nouns and adjectives are gone, leaving only a verb and a quantifier. How could it be an abbreviation if no one can tell what the original line is?!

Chi Zhao was now almost completely awake. He looked around. Except for knowing that he was on his way to participate in an assessment in hopes to join a sect, he didn’t know about anything else, including where he should go to find that person. Luckily, he had ran into Han Yu. Han Yu looked a little foolish, so it shouldn’t be too hard getting some information out of him.

Chi Zhao asked Han Yu, “Are you also here alone?”

The system had told him before that Chi Zhao’s character this time has little connection with this world and is equivalent to a blank sheet of paper so he could decide on his past however he liked without needing to act like someone else. That was also why Chi Zhao reported his real name. Since he was a blank slate, there wouldn’t be any companions in the first place and it also helped lower the other party’s wariness.

Han Yu didn’t come alone but it was no different to that anyway, so he promptly nodded. Seeing Chi Zhao’s eyes light up, Han Yu could guess his thoughts, “What? Want to partner up?”

Chi Zhao nodded. Han Yu was a silly, but an honest and good-natured person. He was practically an NPC guide sent over by the system so he shouldn’t throw away this opportunity.

After a second of silence, Han Yu also nodded. This person was foolish, but an honest and good-natured person. Although he may not be of much help, he at least wouldn’t hurt him. Since the journey would still go on for a while, it wouldn’t be a bad idea to partner up with him.

The two reached a consensus and hit it off. For the remainder of the journey, the two walked together.

Chi Zhao took the opportunity to inquire about the situation of the world and found that this was an ordinary cultivation world.

This place was divided into three realms, humans, ghosts and immortals. The human realm was also called the cultivation realm. The cultivation realm was originally very prosperous, but because of a major incident 600 years ago where a super villain had defected from his own sect and was involved with some antipathies, together destroying many spiritual mountains, the originally scarce spiritual energy became even more scarce and, since then, the cultivation realm was severely damaged. It may have been at its peak back then but 600 years later, it is now nowhere close.

That super villain had already been killed with the collective efforts from all the sects and the current era was a bit like it was in a post-disaster recovery state. After the initial period of despair, humanity had rekindled their hope of ascension. Although it is now even more difficult to ascend, it at least is still possible. Moreover, after the original incident 600 years ago, the cultivation realm had become more united and whole. In the past, everyone would fight both in open and in secret; if you weren’t killed today, you may be killed tomorrow. Although they would still fight for resources now, they no longer killed others without reason as they did 600 years ago.

There were countless sects in this world but among them, only six were the largest and most influential. Those six sects would jointly accept disciples while the other small sects would accept disciples on their own. When Chi Zhao just woke up, this body had just passed the first round of assessments and they were now moving to the location of the second round.

Chi Zhao felt that his lover should be in one of these six sects and he was likely waiting for him at the end of the assessment, so he must pass this assessment.

Chi Zhao’s heart was filled with ambition, but this ambition only lasted for one second and the next second he was sleepy again. If Han Yu wasn’t dragging him along, he would’ve just fallen asleep on the side of the road.

This repeated seven or eight times. After coming out of the second round of assessments, Chi Zhao was still like this. Han Yu’s expression turned cloudy, “I understand now. At that time, you didn’t faint and had instead fallen asleep! And I even thought you were going to die!”

Chi Zhao: “……….”

There was a total of five rounds to this assessment. After passing the third round, you can join the six major sects and, according to age and talent, you are assigned to be an outside disciple or an inner disciple of an affiliated sect elder. After passing the fourth round, you can become an inner disciple of a sect and if you pass the fifth round, that’s great. Congratulations, you can choose your own master or become a disciple of a cultivator who has reached a semi-immortal state.

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Nowadays, with the number of ascendents being very scarce, there are very few cultivators above the semi-immortal state. To be that level, they would basically either be a sect master or a legendary figure. Chi Zhao didn’t know what his body’s level was and could only hope that he won’t fail the third round.

Unexpectedly, not only did he not fail the third round, but he had also easily reached the fifth round. When they both came out of the fifth round, Chi Zhao and Han Yu looked at each other.

They both thought the same things inside.

—- Didn’t they say that the fifth round is particularly difficult? How did this person pass? Was the Zhao Tian sect going easy on them this year?

……..

In any case, it was good enough that they passed. This was also a collective recruitment so more than 100,000 people had signed up this year. All the people who had passed the fifth round stood gathered in Zhao Tian sect’s main hall. The main hall could accommodate five thousand people and when the assessment was over, excluding the elders who were originally sitting there, hundreds of people stood scattered around the hall.

Seeing how many people there were, the two of them passing the fifth round didn’t seem to be much of a big deal.

Being able to stand there meant that they were all gifted talents. Everyone was ambitious and hoped that they could enter a sect and become a disciple of a semi-immortal cultivator. Unfortunately, these cultivators didn’t easily accept disciples. The last time one did was thirty years ago and only one was accepted.

Everyone was nervous and expectant. Everyone except for Chi Zhao.

Chi Zhao was secretly scanning through the elders in the main hall. After looking around, he couldn’t find the person he was looking for.

He didn’t remember him, and he also didn’t have any plot information. How would he be able to identify his target?

Chi Zhao frowned. At this moment, a disciple in white appeared above, his voice reaching everyone’s ears. “Everyone, please don’t be hasty. All the sect leaders will soon arrive to host the inner disciple acceptance ceremony. Please stand in order and refrain from talking.”

Upon hearing this, Han Yu silently closed his open mouth and obediently returned to his place.

Not long afterwards, all the leaders appeared.

Six sect leaders, four men and two women. One was also a monk. The six of them sat in the seats prepared in advance for them, looking at the people below with different expressions. The abbot of Ling Shan School looked at everyone with a kind smile while twisting the beads in his hand. The sect leader of the He Huan sect was extremely gorgeous, making even Chi Zhao, a gay guy, blush. The sect leader of the Ning Xin sect appeared calm. He didn’t seem to see this hall, nor the people standing in the hall and looked more like a monk than the abbot. The sect leader of the Li Yang Palace had a silver veil over her face. She only glanced at the people below before soon looking away. The sect master of the Di Chuan sect was a sword cultivator. His gaze remained on his sword and he never looked at anyone else. Chi Zhao even suspected that the sword was in fact his wife.

Chi Zhao’s eyes drifted across these sect leaders one by one. He didn’t know why but he had a feeling that his lover should be one of the most powerful people in this world and since he is powerful, he would probably be a sect leader.

The former five weren’t him. Chi Zhao focused on the last one.

At this moment, the sect master of the Zhao Tian sect raised his head. Facing that pair of cold eyes, Chi Zhao’s eyes widened slightly. That temperament, that appearance, that gaze……

Really alike!!

As soon as he shouted out this line inside, one, two, three, Chi Zhao saw another three people appear behind the sect leader with that similar temperament, appearance and gaze. Lastly, a girl who looked like a celestial fairy also walked out. The four of them stood in pairs beside the sect leader, looking coldly and indifferently at the people in the hall.

Chi Zhao: “……..”

How was he supposed to find him like this?!

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Last arc! ….And it’s also a cultivation arc which I’m not very familiar with >< Apologies in advance guys , I’m really not good with ancient settings 😅