A few days later, the first phase was finally over. As expected, Krune's team got the most Black Tokens between all groups by far. While elder Kirian had an ugly face, Elder Loni was smiling brightly! He extended his hand and asked elder her.
"Well, where is my prize? It couldn't be that an elder of our Divine Path Sect would go back on her words, right?"
Elder Kirian heard that and replied.
"Hmph! We have fallen out hundreds of tis, have I ever gone back on my words? Here it is. There isn't a single drop less than what it should have."
Overall, Elder Kirian contestants got more tokens than Elder Loni ones, which shows that they are indeed a better-developed Planet than Makui. But it didn't make her the least bit happier since she lost her bet anyway.
Elder Loni saw her angry face and felt even better. It was true, they really bickered each other who knows how many tis. But neither side had ever gone back on their words. It was their pride and the pride of their sect on the table, after all.
In the end, Elder Kirian gathered her contestants and left as soon as possible. As for Elder Loni, he stayed behind and called Krune's group over. He then took out a bottle with the six drops of Dragon Essence Liquid.
"Here is what I promised for you. Not a single drop more, not a single drop less. It is up to you how you will share between yourselves."
Krune received the battle and thanked elder Loni. After that, they left straight away. Outside, Krune's group gathered together with the others and waited for Elder Loni to co out and talk about the next phase of the Martial Gathering.
"Alright! As you can see, the initial plan has changed. We have only 113 remaining participants after the end of the first phase, the rest had failed in gathering three tokens or more, so they are disqualified. Because of that, the second phase has no aning anymore. So we will jump directly into the third phase, which is the final one."
Everyone was paying attention, the second phase was for the sake of cutting the initially planned 400 contestants to 160. It then would follow the sa rule as the rcenary Selection, which was the brackets system. In the end, there would be precisely 10 contestants remaining. But now, the numbers don't match.
"I know that we don't have the planned 160, so I'm changing this last phase to sothing else."
Elder Loni then asked for his subordinates to bring a few testing pieces of equipnt out. After installing it in the middle of the room, they left.
"We are going to test your elental control. There is no need to think about several elents at the sa ti, go and pick the one you are most confident with. It's a straightforward and simple way of finding the 10 best candidates for the Divine Path Sect entrance."
Everyone was taken aback. To think that the final test would end this way.
"It doesn't matter how many elents you can control at the sa ti. What I want to know is how good you are with the one you like the most. The equipnt will then show your aptitude with that elent through a score."
Krune looked at those pieces of equipnt and noticed that they are quite similar to the Alchemist test. The only difference is that they were made to test a single elent instead of several of them.
Elder Loni then continued to talk.
"The higher your realm, the easier it is to control the elents and use more than one or two at the sa ti. But in the end, most of the cultivators would still focus on the elents they are best at. So our Divine Path Sect puts a lot of importance on how good its mbers are at controlling a specific elent."
Everyone was eager to try and see their scores. So of them might not be able to use three or more elents at the sa ti, but they are still confident if it only counts their best one.
"Alright, you can start now."
Suddenly, Krune noticed a figure flying to one of those pieces of equipnt. Surprisingly, it was none other than the Thunder Hawk Tasier.
"So, he also passed the first phase. Doesn't that an that all five cultivators and demon beasts from the rcenary Selection succeed in the first phase?"
Arlan heard that and nodded.
"It's not that hard to accept. The three of us already make up for three of the five slots of the rcenary Selection, which ans that as long as Tasier and Lofa passed as well, we would have all five here."
Krune and Ao agreed with what he said, it really makes sense.
Tasier then used his wings to channeling the Lightning Elent power and discharged electric currents everywhere. Soon, a score appeared for everyone to see.
-Lightning Elent, 4329 points.-
Although everyone could see that number, no one knew if it was good or not. Even Krune doesn't understand since the equipnt back in the Alchemist Guild could only show scores up to 3000 points. So it is evident that the asure used by it is different from the alchemists.
To confirm if it was good or not, the other contestants could only try it themselves and compare their own scores in the end.
One cultivator or demon beast after another went close to the equipnt and used the elents that they are most confident with. Slowly, the results started to accumulate.
-Water Elent, 3910 points.-
-Ice Elent, 2761 points.-
-Wood Elent, 4178 points.-
-Fire Elent, 3498 points.-
Elder Loni looked at that and didn't say anything. Those results were well within his expectative. What he wants to see is how well Krune and his friends will do.
Lofa finally gathered enough determination and went forward to test herself. She uses both Water and Ice, but if she were to select one, it would definitely be Ice. She took a deep breath and gave a final look at Krune's group direction.
Krune, Ao, and Arlan noticed her looking at them and waved to her while smiling. She then smiled back and turned to the equipnt in front of her. Krune had helped her a lot in the last few days they stayed outside, thanks to that, her control of the Ice Elent improved to a whole new level. Of course, compared to Shinja or Yusa, she is still leagues apart.
She concentrated her spiritual energy and used it to control the Ice Elent around her, then she placed her hand on the machine and started to revolve it. Not too long after, the result appeared.
-Ice Elent, 5628 points.-
The room went silent, around half of the contestants had gone over to test their elents control already. But the highest so far had been 4925 points from a genius of the Divine Swords Sect. That result crushed all the previous contestants to the ground.
Elder Loni finally showed so reaction as well.
"Not too bad, little girl."
Lofa got a little embarrassed with the Divine Path Sect elder complint and imdiately went back to her group. Jena looked at her, amazed.
"Lofa, since when you got so good at ice Elent control? Even that guy from the Divine Swords Sect was crushed by you."
Luin was just as impressed.
"Right, right! As far as we know, you always had a control pretty similar to ours. How co it's so high now?"
Lofa was lost at words, she can't say that she got that better after just a few days of training, right? First of all, they would definitely not believe her to start with.
"I had a breakthrough during that ti with the Fire Eagles attack, after I survived, I felt that everything I know was different. So I started to change my way of controlling the Ice elent. But I didn't expect that it would change this much either!"
While saying that, she gave a furtive glance at Krune's direction. The reason was none other than that ordinary-looking guy with a rainbow-like hair.
Arlan decided to give a try as well, as soon as he got close to the equipnt, the room turned silent again. They all know that Arlan has a Pure Yang body, which gives him a fantastic control over the Yang Elents, especially fire.
Arlan is different from Lofa, Yusa, or Ao. He already had a very high precision over the control of the Fire Elent before eting Krune. Even if they had never t, his score was bound to crush almost everyone. But he was curious now. That's because Krune still helped him to refine his control even further.
He channeled his fire elental energy and used it on the equipnt in front of him. A mont later, the results were out.
-Fire Elent, 8973 points.-
Elder Loni finally looked impressed! He then opened his communicator to check Arlan's information, and soon found out that Arlan has a Pure Yang Body constitution. But even with that, Elder Loni was expecting sothing around 7000 points. That result is way higher than he thought.
"Boy, you are quite impressive. Haha!"
Arlan smiled back to the elder and returned to Krune and Ao's side.
Ao's competitive spirit was activated, and he imdiately went further to take the test as well. Arlan looked at that and laughed.
"Hey, don't take it too seriously! This grandfather here has always been amazing to start with."
"Hmph!"
Ao ignored him and arrived beside the test machine. By now, the majority of the competitors had already finished their tests. As expected, no one got even close to Arlan's result. Ao started to use his Wind Elent and let the machine asure it.
-Wind Elent, 8453 points.-
Another wave of gasps appeared in the room. Elder Loni was already feeling like he found a treasure trove. Not in a million years would he expect to see so many talents at once in a plant like Makui. Everyone looked enviously to Ao. But he, on the other hand, had a disappointed look on his face. He ca back to Krune and Arlan's side and didn't say anything else. Arlan didn't let it go, though.
"Haha! I told you that this grandfather here is amazing. But you weren't too bad either, rember that I have a Pure Yang Body, it does give a significant advantage at controlling the Fire Elent. Otherwise, I believe that our scores would be pretty much the sa. I might have even lost."
Krune looked at that and sighed. He already gave up trying to stop them from competing for everything. There were only another five contestants to test their elents control, so Krune decided to give it a try too.
Arlan, Ao, and Lofa noticed that he made his move and stopped talking. Krune arrived beside the testing equipnt and pondered a bit. He doesn't really have a preference for elents, he never had. Krune then looked at elder Loni and asked him.
"What elent you think I should use?"
Elder Loni and everyone else was taken aback.
"Didn't I say to choose the elent you are most confident with?"
Krune innocently nodded.
"I know, but I really don't have anything I specialize at. So I can only ask which one should be better for to try it."
So people felt that Krune was being too arrogant. Who would believe him to be able to use any elent at the sa level?
"Well, it doesn't really matter, just go for earth then. There weren't many people using it so far."
Krune nodded and proceeded with the test, he channeled his spiritual energy to control the earth elent and let the machine asure it.
-Earth Elent, XXXX points.-
Krune and Everyone else was puzzled, what does XXXX an? Elder Loni, on the other hand, looked at Krune as if he was a monster. But he soon regained his composure.
"Forget earth elent, just try fire elent for now."
Krune nodded and did the sa thing again.
-Fire Elent, XXXX points.-
Krune started to feel annoyed and just tried to use other elents to get over with it, but...
-Water Elent, XXXX points.-
-Lightning Elent, XXXX points.-
-Wood Elent, XXXX points.-
-Wind Elent, XXXX points.-
-Ice Elent, XXXX points.-
-tal Elen...
Krune's face was already ugly by this point.
"Co on, you piece of sh*t! Show sothing, I can't believe I will fail here just because you can't show so numbers.
Elder Loni heard that and almost fainted.
'Fail your head! The equipnt can only give a score of at most 9999 points, but your results are fuc*ing too high! It can't asure you correctly at all.'
That's what he wanted to say, but he couldn't lose his composure in front of a bunch of Juniors.
"Cough, cough. Let it be for now. I will arrange another testing machine for you."
He then opened his communicator and asked his subordinates to bring over a piece of more precise equipnt. The reason they didn't bring it at first was that it was a lot bigger than the normal ones, so it takes longer to install. Not to ntion that they didn't expect that the Makui Planet would have soone who would need it in the first place.
Everyone waited for it to be installed, two hours later, the equipnt was finally ready. Elder Loni then turned to Krune and said.
"Alright. You can test it now."
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