The Infinite Mystery

There was a Transfer Array at this place and one must walk inside it to go to the Heavenly Star Sect. This was because the Heavenly Star Sect was still more than five thousand kilometers away from the Tianwu City, and it was surrounded by countless many mountains where countless fierce beasts lurk.

Among those fierce beasts, there were many Fifth and Sixth Level Fierce Beasts. It was the exclusion zone for people. This place was something that could not be passed directly by any people with even the cultivation base at the Golden Core Realm.

If one wants to go to the Heavenly Star Sect, they have to use the Transfer Array. By using the Transfer Array, people would directly arrive at the Heavenly Star Academy without any need to pass the exclusion zone.

When Qin Feng first come to know about all of these things, he was shocked beyond the limit. He never thought that there were so many dangers in the Cultivation World. And this world seems to be many times bigger than Earth.

Seeing that the people in front of him were all lining up to be transferred, Qin Feng looked forwards and saw that there was a round stage in front of the plaza. Around it stood ten meters long round pillars. There were eight of them. There were many gigantic lines carved on every pillar.

At this moment, the platform was filled with people. An old man was holding a jade plate that was as big as a washbasin. He pressed his hand on the jade plate and the lines on the eight pillars glittered. The space fluctuated and the people on the platform disappeared immediately.

It turns out that the Transfer Array was laid down on top of the platform and the eight pillars were also a part of the Transfer Array.

After the group of people disappeared, the next group of people walked up. This process kept repeating until it was finally Qin Feng, Mao Tingxia, and Ding Jia Le time to go up to the platform and use the Transfer Array to go to the Heavenly Star Academy.

They walked up to the platform and it was at this moment when the old man pressed his hand on the Jade Plate before taking ten Low Grade Spirit Stones as fees from Qin Feng and others.

The space once again fluctuated and a shining light enveloped all the people on the platform before making them disappear.

When Qin Feng and the rest of the group walked out of the Transfer Array, they found that they were halfway up a mountain. There was a gigantic gate in front of them, blocking their sight.

The field in front of the gate was packed with people, but they were clearly divided into many groups. It was obvious that they had come from different cities.

Qin Feng counted and there were eleven teams in total. Furthermore, the number of people from each city was different and varied from dozens to more than one hundred. Qin Feng could not help, feeling shocked.

Compare to the Heavenly Star Academy, the Profound Sky Academy on earth was much weaker and shabby. He sighed in his heart.

When Qin Feng's group walked out of the Transfer Array, they immediately attracted the gazes of all the people in other groups. Most of them looked at them with contempt and scorn. Many of these people were at the Innate Realm.

After Qin Feng's group, another four groups arrived at that place. The smallest group had more than thirty people and the biggest group had around eighty people.

After two hours of waiting, an old man in a white robe who was sitting in meditation in front of them opened his eyes and his gaze swept across everyone sharply. The young disciples felt that a boulder was pressed on their hearts immediately. Some disciples with the cultivation at lower levels almost fell down.

"An expert at the Batt... Golden Core Realm!" Qin Feng was shocked. No wonder there were so many experts at the Innate Realm here but none of them dared to make any trouble.

The elder in white robe swept his eyes across the youths and slowly said, "First of all, I welcome everyone. As long as you join the Heavenly Star Academy, you will receive unimaginable benefits. The rapid advancement of your cultivation will not be a dream anymore."

The words of the old man in a white robe made the blood of all the youths boil as if they had seen countless pills and numerous cultivation techniques rolling towards them. And they nearly saw the scene where they returned their hometowns gloriously with high spirits.

However, the words that came out of the old man's mouth afterward woke them up like a bucket of cold water. The old man said, "However, being able to come to this place does not mean that you can join the Heavenly Star Sect. It requires you to go through two rounds of examination to become qualified to join our sect."

"The first one is hunting. From now on, you will undergo a training of life and death. You will be transferred into the depth of the forest. Each team will consist of at least three people. You have to survive there for seven days."

"Within the span of seven days, everyone must collect three or more monster cores of the Fierce Beasts, otherwise you will be eliminated."

The next step was the distribution of identity tokens. Each team would receive an identity token. The main examiner informed that after seven days, special-assigned people would come and pick them up once the rune on the identity token was triggered.

The next thing to do was splitting the team up which was not difficult for Qin Feng as his group already has three people: he, Mao Tingxia, and Ding Jia Le.

Not long after, seeing that everyone had already been divided into teams, the main examiner ordered everyone to enter the Transfer Array in batches. Following the activation of the Transfer Array, teams were transferred out one by one. Soon, it was Qin Feng's team's turn. Suddenly, they felt dazzled and disappeared.

Qin Feng, Mao Tingxia, and Ding Jia Le were transferred to a certain part of the forest. Before the three could familiarize themselves with the scene in front of them, a gust of wind blew towards them and headed straight for Mao Tingxia, who was still in a daze.

When Mao Tingxia realized it, a bloody and big mouth was right in front of him, and it was too late for her to hide.

Pu!

A coppery smell assailed the nostrils and blood spurted all over Mao Tingxia.

The pungent smell made everyone nauseous, but luckily Mao Tingxia was calm enough and did not throw up on the spot.

Only then did everyone have the chance to clearly see what had attacked Mao Tingxia. It was a huge snake about twenty meters long. Its head had fallen to the ground as its body had been split into two, and the latter part was still rolling around non-stop.

Mao Tingxia and Ding Jia Le moved their head and saw a bloody sword in Qin Feng's hand. When Mao Tingxia was still unaware of the coming danger, it was Qin Feng who saved her by killing the snake.

Seeing Qin Feng's sword which was now covered with the blood of the snake, Mao Tingxia finally regained her senses and said gratefully, "Thank you, Brother Qin. If not for you, I would have already been dead body by now."

"It's alright. Stay alert when you are in the forest. Let's see if there is any monster core in this beast's body or not." Qin Feng pointed at the snake's head on the ground and said.

Ding Jia Le immediately pulled out his blade and cut open the snake's head. Holding a diamond shaped object, Ding Jia Le said excitedly, "There really is a monster core here."

"Alright, keep it. Let's continue moving forward and we also have to be very careful." Qin Feng nodded his head and said.

Although no one has decided but in Qin Feng's group of three, Mao Tingxia who was at the Middle Stage of the Foundation Establishment Realm, and Ding Jia Le who was at the Late Stage of the Foundation Establishment Realm, both of them took Qin Feng as their team leader.

Maybe it was because they still remember the strength shown by Qin Feng when he was fighting the Three-eyed Tiger Elephant in the Cloud Forest.

They continue to move forward and very soon, they found a pond. There were traces of the snake's blood on Mao Tingxia's body so she decided to take a bath in the pond and change her clothes.

On the other hand, Qin Feng and Ding Jia Le took out a simple map of the forest that had been distributed previously by the Heavenly Star Academy and realized that they were teleported to the border of the Outer Layer and Inner Layer of the forest.