Transmigrated into a Grandpa, Embracing the Laid-Back Life

Chapter 213: Information on the Outer Disciple Assessment

The night wind rushed in, dispersing the stuffiness in the room.

Su Ming toyed with the pitch-black jade slip in his hand, yet his heart was roiling with turbulent waves.

"Master?" he called out in his mind.

However, Lin Yu, who was usually as talkative as a chatterbox, was now eerily quiet.

A full three breaths passed before Lin Yu's somewhat ethereal voice finally came from the ring.

"Beyond the Heavens... a fragmentary scroll..."

"Disciple, when your master probed this jade slip with divine sense just now, aside from the recorded formation, I also sensed a trace of... an extremely ancient, nearly 'law'-level lingering resonance."

"What kind of resonance?" Su Ming pressed.

"It's different from any known formation school in this world."

Lin Yu's voice carried a trace of barely suppressed excitement, "If what Li Kai said is true, then that Cloud Hidden Sect's mountain-protecting grand formation might very well be a 'base shield' that's been demonically modified."Just as Su Ming was about to inquire further, a series of urgent, drumbeat-like knocks suddenly sounded from outside the courtyard gate.

"Brother Su! Brother Su! Open the door quickly! Something major has happened!"

It was Wang Defa.

Su Ming frowned slightly, stowed the jade slip and materials into his storage pouch with a backhand motion, straightened his robes, and waved his hand to deactivate the door restriction.

man rolled in like a meatball, waving a pale golden proclamation in his hand. The fat on his face trembled violently from excitement, sweat dripping

set! It's

water, plopping down on a stone stool and slapping the proclamation onto the table with a *smack*. "The sect just released the official announcement! The outer sect assessment will be

gaze swept over the

characters shimmered brilliantly in the night, exuding an air

the Cloud Hidden Sect's outer sect

have been in the sect for five full years, or those holding

assessment is divided into three stages. Only those who pass

stages?" Su Ming's eyes

it. It tests spiritual energy purity, divine sense strength, and the stability of one's Dao heart. Before, you could pass as long as your cultivation reached the third-stage Qi Refining. This time, I heard the standard has been raised. Those with flimsy spiritual energy, those who relied on elixirs to boost their cultivation—they'll all

Water Art* was of extremely

second stage, 'The Hundred Arts Path to

can choose one or multiple items from fields like alchemy, artifact forging, formations, beast taming,

you know the one. He'll definitely give you a hard problem, like

and took a sip. "Repairing a formation plate with scrap? Isn't that my

not the same!" Wang Defa slapped his thigh anxiously. "This is an exam! There are time limits, material restrictions, and people watching your every move, looking for faults! The slightest mistake, and it's 'lack of skill,' immediate

set down his teacup, his gaze calm. "What about the third

third stage is

heavily this time, activating a large-scale illusion formation that's been sealed away for a long time. All examinees who

simulates 'actual combat.' There will be bleeding,

rubbed the rim of his

Actual combat simulation?

For him, who had always adhered to the *Way of Survival* and lacked life-and-death combat experience, it was both a

too prominent these past six months. Some want to see you ascend to the heavens, but more want to see you fall into the mud. Especially that Elder Luo's faction. I heard they've contacted several ruthless characters in the inner sect