When evening almost arrived, the test has finally been completed. From the thousands of people trying, only slightly more than forty of them are left including those from under twenty five and under forty year old category. As soon as the last test is done, the examiner together with several other people quickly dismantled the item they used to test the candidate including the arena used so those watching could get clearer view.

The tests previously used seemed easy, but that is mainly because Ren Qingquan is already in the Martial Master realm. If he is like the other successful candidates which mostly have around Sixth Stage Martial Apprentice realm, then Ren Qingquan might need to take some beating from the endurance test to pass.

One might be confused as to why most of the people around his age are still at around Sixth Stage Martial Apprentice Realm if generating a strand of vital energy using 'Body Tempering Technique' which is already one of the slowest technique only require Ren Qingquan to practice for thirty day.

It is because before the Martial Apprentice stage, there is still an unofficial preparation stage and initiation stage. Preparation stages are to teach the children how to read and train their body as they wait for it to grow, otherwise if they started practicing martial arts at extremely young age, it will cause the body to deform due to lacking blood energy used to grow.

The initiation phase requires them to sense the existence of blood energy, learn how to circulate blood energies following the technique and whatnot. When they started to generate the first strand of vital energy and getting familiar with their technique. Those people might already be around fourteen to fifteen years old.

Combined with their talent and resources that is mostly lower than him, generating a strand of vital energy might require them to spend similar time as Ren Qingquan that used 'Body Tempering Technique' which caused them to stay at Middle Martial Apprentice stage.

After gathering the disciple candidate that passed the test, his third uncle showed himself again.

"Follow me"

With that, Ren Qingquan and the other disciple candidate followed his uncle into a carriage to enter Martial Spirit Sect's main city and join the competition part of the test.

'Carriage? I thought there would be some magical means of transportation.'

While thinking like that, Ren Qingquan entered one of the carriages where the candidates from below sixteen years old gather.

Before entering, Ren Qingquan could see Xiao Ling and three guards riding a horse while guarding the carriage from the Martial Spirit Sect he is going to be riding. The other three guards probably guard his carriage that is left in this town.

As Ren Qingquan sat on one of the empty chairs, Ren Qingquan could hear the guy next to him speak.

"Hello there, brother. I have been observing you throughout the whole test. Are you already at the peak of Martial Apprentice? My name is Bo Xingfei, an Eight stage Martial Apprentice. You could call me fatty Bo"

"Hello there, you could call me Ren Qingquan. As for me, I have just recently broken through into the Martial Master realm."

As Ren Qingquan greeted fatty Bo, Ren Qingquan sighed.

'Am I perhaps a fatty magnet?'

Just like that, Ren Qingquan spent two whole days sitting and hearing fatty Bo's chatter.

Finally arriving at Martial Spirit city which is located between Martial Spirit Sect and the infamous Endless Mountain, Ren Qingquan departed from the carriage with fatty Bo following him.

As they still have one hour before the competition starts, Ren Qingquan went to the shopping street to purchase things as usual this time accompanied by fatty Bo.

Upon arriving at one of the stalls opened by a martial artist, a familiar door smacking sound could be heard from the store selling noodles next to him.

*Boom*

"Fatty Zhang?"

"Brother Ren! Are you also here to join the Martial Spirit Sect?"

Ren Qingquan could see fatty Zhang pat his fat stomach and walk to his place before glancing at fatty Bo. Upon seeing fatty Zhang, fatty Bo clicked his tongue and bid farewell to Ren Qingquan

"Brother Qingquan, it seems I couldn't spend time together with you as I just remembered something I need to do here."

???

What is happening? A fatty battle? Is there some kind of rule between fatty foods that he doesn't know of? Some kind of one fatty per person rule?

"Brother Zhang, I am a bit confused here. Could you explain what is going on?"

"Is that guy the sixth young master of the Bo family? The Bo family is one of the top families from the Great Flame Empire and also our Zhang family's business rival as they also mainly dabble in medicine. It seems recently one of my siblings in the capital has been trying to invade some of their markets in the Great Flame Empire causing them to dislike everyone from the Zhang family."

Hearing Zhang's explanation makes Ren Qingquan relieved. At least it is not caused by any weird fatty rules he thinks.

"By the way, fatty Zhang, are you also joining the Martial Spirit Sect's competition here?"

"Of course not, I am just waiting for the test to be done before immediately entering the sect with this group. My Sixth aunt is an elder here and has prepared everything for me. All I need to do is wait, afterall I know my limit and joining this competition is just asking for a beating."

With the fatty accompanying him changing, Ren Qingquan proceeded to continue his shopping spree until another voice stopped him.

"Young master, there you are!"

From several stalls behind them, Xiao Ling arrived together with three other guards. Looking at fatty Zhang next to him, Xiao Ling frowned but still kept silent because she didn't want to cause ruckus outside.

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Just like that, the competition will soon start. Martial Spirit Sect's competition is mainly used to help the higher ups look for good seedlings and allowing the genius that reached top 16 to focus on practice by skipping the rank of servant disciple.

Entering the city's center where six martial arts arenas have been built, Ren Qingquan entered the waiting area for participants. As the waiting area is separated into three according to the age group, Ren Qingquan entered the one for participants less than sixteen. Inside the room there are already more than three hundred people waiting.

Soon, someone comes and makes them take a lot to determine their enemy. Looking at the number 3 written on it, Ren Qingquan is a bit nervous as the battle will start from the pair with the smallest number.

Not long later, Ren Qingquan could hear a loud voice that has been amplified by a martial skill.

"Participant with numbers one to six, please enter your corresponding arena!"

Ren Qingquan and eleven other people entered the arena. As Ren Qingquan and his enemy entered arena number three, a huge crowd consisting both participant and nonparticipant slowly gathered around them.

Looking at his enemy, she is a pretty girl with a cold face and pale blue hair on her body. She wore a white full body armor and sword scabbard on her waist.

"Third princess! Wooh!"

A loud cheering voice came from the people surrounding this arena. Hearing their scream, Ren Qingquan is disappointed.

'I thought they were here to cheer for me.'

"Third Princess! Third Princess!"

"Third Princess, show that brat the might of a genius Martial Master!"

"Go third princess! Beat that pretty boy until his parents couldn't recognize him!"

'Hey, you! I have remembered your face. Don't let me see you outside.'

As the examiner entered the arena, he talked some nonsense about the spirit of martial arts and not going too far during battle before starting the battle.

Activating his [Scan] Ren Qingquan looked at Third Princess's data.

[Human: ???, unable to devour

Age: 15

Realm: Second Stage Martial Master

Technique: ??? (ice attribute)

Please study more about martial arts,anatomy, and other arts related to humans for further details.]

Before Ren Qingquan could understand what it meant by ice attribute, the Third Princess pulled her sword. And prepared to dash toward him.

As soon as she pulled her sword, Ren Qingquan returned to his senses and screamed at the top of his lungs.

"WAIT! WAIT! I thought weapons were forbidden here?"

The third princess and examiner looked at him as if he was a moron.

"Of course not, otherwise how would a swordsman fight? They already spent time to increase their familiarity with their personal sword. Don't you think asking them to not use it and decrease their combat power to more than half unfair?"

Seeing as he was actually seriously asking about it, the examiner explained it to him.

'Then don't you guys ever think it is unfair for those using palm and fist technique?'

"Then, may I go and take my weapon?"

"Enough. Stop dillydallying and just fight!"

With that, the third princess immediately dashed toward Ren Qingquan while circulating her blood energy.

"Frozen Petal Blade!"

accompanied by her scream, the sword in the third princess's hand started to generate mist caused by low temperature.

Activating his Iron Cloth skill and focusing all of its defense on his right palm, Ren Qingquan parried the third princess's sword using the back of his palm. As he slapped his hand on the flat side of the third princess's sword, Ren Qingquan could feel the temperature on his hand quickly decrease and his blood energy circulation slowing down.

Quickly retreating while activating Feather Step, Ren Qingquan evaded another attack from the third princess's sword. He started circulating blood energy following his Tiger Subduing Palm and used a palm strike targeting the third princess's abdomen right after she slashed at him using her full strength.

*Dong*

Accompanied by a low colliding sound, Ren Qingquan could feel his hand hurting as it hit a hard metallic surface.

Ren Qingquan: ๏︿๏

As Ren Qingquan waved his hand that had been hurt from the collision, the third princess got the chance to take her breath, and waved the sword toward him.

"I surrender."

With a word from Ren Qingquan, the examiner quickly stopped the third princess's sword. Soon, Ren Qingquan could feel third princess's gaze.

"Hmph. Weakling."

As the third princess said that, Ren Qingquan could feel the nerve on his head going to explode.

'Little shit, if not to keep my trump card i would smash the ten tons of metal in system storage on your head! Also, you are wearing freaking full body armor! How do you expect me to win without any weapons?!'

That is right, the reason Ren Qingquan purchased metals previously is to be used as a means to smash others.

'Calm down, Ren Qingquan. You are a mature adult, don't let a little girl's words anger you.'

Soon, the spectators started to comment on the fight.

"Not only is the third princess beautiful, she is also extremely talented and has high combat ability."

"As expected from the royal family of the Eternal Snow Empire. Her vital energy actually contained a freezing attribute!"

"What a pity she didn't beat that pretty boy too hard."

Before leaving the arena, Ren Qingquan kicked a stone using all his strength 'accidentally' toward the guys screaming for the third princess to beat his face.

With that, Ren Qingquan lost the mood to enter the next competition for the loser's bracket and just watched the competition near his third uncle together with Xiaoling, fatty Zhang, and the guard. As he sat, Ren Qingquan vowed to learn many skills and create many equipment so he could smack others with differences in equipment.

***

During this time Ren Qingquan started to enter the arena.

Ren Qingchen quickly ran to the competition site while cursing those greedy people. When he arrived in Martial Spirit City, Ren Qingchen went to the shopping street to try his luck and try to get a bargain. Who knows, after he found and purchased a metal that is suitable to be used to forge a sword, a random young master actually tried to forcefully buy it from him for a dirt cheap price.

Unwilling to agree, Ren Qingchen chose to fight it out with that young master and give him a beating. But, one of his guards is an old guy at peak grandmaster realm causing Ren Qingchen to waste a lot of time trying to escape.

As he found the person in charge of handing the lot, Ren Qingchen immediately pulled one of the papers inside, luckily the number he pulled was not the one that had already started fighting. Otherwise he will be determined to give up the competition.

Entering the top sixteen is of incredibly high importance for him. Not only does it save his time from doing useless work as a servant disciple, starting as an outer disciple will make him rise in rank faster. Which increased his safety against Ren Shiluo's targeting.

Sitting in the waiting room, Ren Qingchen ate a blood energy pill which could recover his blood energy and waited for his turn.

That is right, Ren Qingchen still thought Ren Qingquan died from crying after losing the battle against him just like in his previous life. Which is indeed true if not for transmigrator Ren Qingquang taking his place.