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A large Group of caravans as far as the eye can see, all from different places, going all towards one single place…
Inside one of those wagons there was a bunch of kids, restless moving and yelling.
…Except for a black haired kid, he was sleeping like a rock even with so many movement on his side…
“*Zzzzzz*” Snoring without a care in the world.
“Hey, Yìzhì!!!” Yelled a kid of 5 years with serious face
“*Zzzzzzzz*” Not even yelling at his ear would work.
“Heeey!!! Wake up!!!!” The kid started to shake the sleeping kid like crazy.
“*grumble* Just five minutes more~” Grumped the kid.
“In five minutes will be our tests!!!!!” Seeing that the other kid haven’t wake up, he yelled with all his might!
*SA~!* “Yes sir!!!” Not even a second latter the grumbling kid, was standing with a military greeting and serious face.
“*Sigh* This will be the worst day of my life” Mumbled the kid, slightly depressed.
Meanwhile all the other kids, were excited for that same reason.
“This is awesome finally we will see our martial talent, surely I will have at least a [grate 4 talent]!” A hyperactive kid spoke.
“Keep dreaming! You should be grateful of a [grade 2 talent]!” Replied a burly kid, hitting him on the head.
“Ouch”….
“I heard that the sect head, of the great Jìnzhan sect will be coming with his son!” Say an excited kid wearing a costly robe.
“*puff* you don’t really think that will happen! Seriously! You should know that with their standing we will never see them even from afar!!” Say a kid with a mocking tone.
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Two minutes after that, the caravan arrived before a gigantic doors.
“Whoa!!!!!!” Every kid yelled at the same time.
“Those doors…..”
“What the….”
“¡¡¡¡¡Amazing!!!!!”
Those doors were imposing making everyone restless! Even the adults who came here every 6 months felt pressured!
*boom!!!!!!!!* With a humongous sound-like explosion, the doors started to open slowly!
Everyone felt frightened, new or old to this scene!
…Everyone except one kid…
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Inside was a gigantic plains with a humongous white circle! Also very far-off there were thousands of people with robes of different colors, those people were the ‘examiners’ of the martial talent of all the Childs! All of them possessed a powerful aura! Everything here gave-off an overrating presence!
One examiner for each caravan, everyone was put on their assigned places.
“Well then, let’s begin the martial talent test!!!!” A Tremendous voice was heard!
At this moment every examiner appeared in front of each caravan, and started to call one by one the child's by their name.
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The levels of talent goes like this:
They are divided by grades [Nst grade - ?]. And further divided by levels [Grade – low medium high] of course there are some without talent [N/T]
[ [N/T] [1st grade - ?] [2nd grade - ?] [3rd grade - ?] [Human|4th grade - ?] |Etc.]
To make a comparison. If we only take account for the places most of this caravans comes, it would be something like this [% - percent of people]
[50% - N/T][50% - 1st][5% - 2nd][0.5% - 3rd] and so on.
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“Xiao Mèngxiang is your turn!” the examiner in front of the childs also begins.
A blonde kid walked excitedly at the examiner!
The examiner touches the forehead of the kid and a light starts to come from all of the kid’s body!
After the kid starts to shine the examiner immediately said “[2nd grade - High]”.
“Yea!!” the kid jumped, obviously excited for his talent.
“Ku Róngren is your turn!” The kid starts to approach the examiner full of nerves, after a few steps the kid suddenly stop walking, and do a turn towards the opposite direction of the examiner, prepared to run!
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Just then, a kid by his side panted his shoulders and say with a smile “Why so down? Just go and hope for the best. If anything goes wrong… It isn’t like you will not face hardships either for not being or being a cultivator. Also it’s true that even without being a cultivator one would still be able to have a good life. But it’s always useful having something to defend yourself with…’that if you have some martial talent’” The kid only mumbled the last part…
“…Thanks, Yìshì” he started to walk again, this time towards the examiner with a face full of resolution!
The examiner was already used to this kind of emotional event, so he just waited until they finished.
The light started to come from the kid it was much brighter and with different color than the other before, it was so bright that attracted some attention of other examiners!
“… [Human|4th grade - high]” The examiner was a little speechless that such a talent appeared within such a small and rural caravan! This talent made every other person in the caravan gasp!
“…. What?” astonished the kid asked “Ho-how c-could it be? m-my pa-parents don’t even have martial talent!!”
The examiner was already waiting for his question “Well, that’s the purpose of this gathering every 6 months, sometimes things like this can happen” after a short silent the examiner spoke again “*cough* would you like to join the Tòngku sect we are a [3-class] sect…” Then the examiner started to spoke about the Tòngku sect, and the benefits of being in a sect.
It’s not like they were low on [4th grades] it’s just that… they would not leave a free candy behind!
“We-well I have to tell my parents!” spoke the kid unsure of what to say.
After a short time of discussion the examiner continued with the test.
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“[N/T]”…” *sigh* why couldn’t there be some miracle like before” some already resigned to their fate.
“[1st grade - low]”… “Well it’s something” some already expected the results.
“[2nd grade - medium]”…”pretty good” some were more than satisfied.
“[1st grade - high]”…”b-but my father is a 3rd grade…” some were depressed.
“[3rd grade - medium]”…”yea!!!” some were excited.
“[N/T]”…”N-n-no n-no that c-can’t be” some become hysterical upon hearing the results.
After some others kids with different talents even a [4th grade - low] had passed, only one kid was left…
“Yìzhì Xiaolóng is your turn”
Finally after all the wait Yìzhì didn´t show any impatience, only a serious face that transmitted his determination!
The examiner discover that Yìzhì hadn’t changed his expression all the while, the only exception would be the smile of before, he felt that Yìzhì would be an excellent cultivator ‘if he have talent that is’.
Yìzhì started to walk towards the examiner, when the examiner touched his forehead, a light although less bright than the [4th – grade] was much brighter than the others before! Everyone in the carriage were looking amassed!
“[3rd grade – high]” The examiner said. After thinking for a moment he asked “would you like to join…” but… before he even finished talking, Yìzhì already have given his answer!
“Sorry, I want to Cultivate by myself” Yìzhì said like a matter-of-factly!
The examiner stands in shock he never expected those words. One should know that [medium-high] sects almost never take initiative with [3rd grade - talents].
“Have you think carefully, being in a sect can provide you some benefits, even though with your talent you will only be an outer sect disciple…” He didn’t try much to convince Yìzhì, after all, with his talent he would live a good life in a [medium] sect, and he wasn’t exactly to his sect’s standards, if he wanted to join later he could just go to one of their sects and take another test.
Even if he just lived as a louse cultivator or even a normal human, he would not have big problems.
He was just a kid of 5 years that was a lot more mature than other kids but still a kid.
“Are you sure Yìzhì?” asked Ku looking weirdly at Yìzhì.
“I know what I’m doing” he said with all his determination!
“Okay! Kid that’s your choice, just think of it” even though he was thinking it was interesting he decided not to meddle with someone else affair.
After finishing the tests he left to the entrance of the door, with all the other examiners that have already finished.
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After some time all the examiners finished their tests, some of those waiting at the entrance moved towards the humongous circle and started to pour some kind of energy at it.
Yìshì was curious about what were they doing.
Soon a barrier with a bubble-like form surround the circle, all the people were caught off guard! And before they could say anything, in the middle of the circle a bright light appeared and slashed through the air! ripping the space itself leaving a giant crack just sucking everything inside the barrier!
The examiners were sweeting! Obviously they were doing a great effort to maintain the barrier!
The people just stopped moving, breathing and even thinking! Except for Yìshì…
‘What is this, it’s like my very existence is bowing itself towards something inside the crack!!’ he was shaking and thinking how it was possible!
He was amazed, never something have shocked him like this!
He didn’t felt surprised even with the door or the sudden actions of the examiners, but this was on a different level!
The crack finally closed reveling only a kid of five years old like all the other taking tests, or at least for the normal people here.
In the eyes of the cultivators and slightly for Yìshì, they could also see a blurry image of a muscular young man with a gaze that seemed like he could see everything in this world!
He looked like he was restraining himself, just to not harm the normal people…
“H-he… is a god!?” He dubbed his eyes first, but then he come into a logical explanation.
“...No, he’s a cultivator!!!” Seeing this kind of pinnacle figure, his eyes brightened like stars!
For the first time in his life he found a goal! A desire! Something that would test his being at its limits!
“I’m stupid! Why didn’t I think of it before?!” Yìshì suddenly shouted but nobody pay attention as they were too shocked by the scene.
‘Cultivating can give me everything I want! And I even have some talent for it!!…’
Even in front of a god-like being he didn’t care! After knowing what it was, he relaxed and become absorbed in his own thoughts…
Suddenly the blurry image took a glance at his place! Yìshì was slightly nervous knowing that he just shout something strange and he was moving while everyone else was just frozen in shock!
But even then, he just keep staring somewhat calmly at its eyes! ‘The heck…’
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“Dad where are you looking?” The kid on the platform started to speak.
“Noting… just something interesting” A burly man at his side answered.
“Dad, why did we need to come to this low-end World? You can’t even show yourself like a normal person, you said that in this kind of world you even have to block your presence almost completely to the world so the planet won’t explode!”
“Hey, have respect, your ancestors came from a world like this!”
“Sorry~… but seriously what are we doing?”
“This is a tradition! my father and my grandfather, all have do this with with their sons and daughters, we go to lower worlds and test the talent of our sons and daughters like this! So this way some talented and persistent kids gets inspired and soar out of this world more easily!”
“Why would you do this?”
“Didn’t I tell you? It’s because talent is useless! In higher worlds is more likely that a god come from persistence and resources than talent!!”
“So~ in the end… is more like… the richer the better?”
“Yea… if one is intelligent enough to make enormous amounts of money and have persistence one can become a powerhouse!... even though persistence is an underestimation… also the amount of money though…”
“What do you mean?”
“Don’t worry, just let’s get started!”
The kid nodded his head and stopped asking.
The man touched the head of the kid.
Then almost everything went white with light!!
“This is…. !!!!!!!WTF! What talent is this!!!!!!!” The man was astonished!
*!!!!!!!BROOM!!!!!!*
His shout make the world tremble!
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