C24 Talent

Hong Ling was still drinking quietly, looking at the many youths who had revealed their intentions, and were willing to represent the City Lord's Mansion.

He silently counted in his heart and discovered that among these people, not a single one had reached the great circle of the Essence Refinement into Qi. There were only three in the late stages, nine in the middle stages, and the rest were all cultivators at the early stages of the Essence Refinement into Qi like him.

It was impossible for Lian Chengyu to select everyone who had reached the middle stage of the Essence Refinement into Qi as one of the participants. Moreover, even if it was those three late stage Essence Refinement into Qi cultivators, they would have to undergo a selection before considering whether to invite them or not.

For a Heaven's Pride like Lian Chengyu, rank was not what he valued the most. What he needed was powerful fighting strength, the highest level of fighting strength that could defeat the three great families in the Heavenly Desolate Martial Meet.

Sometimes, a high level did not mean that a cultivator's battle prowess was very strong. One also had to consider the talent of the cultivator, as well as the cultivation techniques and martial skills they cultivated.

Once a Qi Refining cultivator who possessed both a Heaven Ranked technique and a Heaven Ranked Martial Technique burst out, his battle prowess would definitely not be inferior to a Qi Refining Great Perfection cultivator. Of course, let alone a Heaven Ranked technique, even a peak Huang Ranked technique was rarely seen in this group.

Even if it were the three great families, they might not even be able to take out a middle stage Profound Ranked cultivation technique. After all, in the Tianhuang City, even the highest level technique in City Lord's Mansion was only at the middle stage of the Profound Ranked.

Although the three great families had a deep background, their strongest cultivation technique would definitely not exceed the middle stage of the Xuan realm.

Among the four levels of the heaven and earth profound yellow cultivation technique, the Celestial Rank was the highest and the amount of Authentic Qi that could be produced, whether it was the purity or the total number of Authentic Qi, was far above the cultivation method below it.

However, Celestial Rank Cultivation Methods, even if it was Great Chu Royal Family, they only had one. The rest of the noble families only had Earth Rank Cultivation Methods.

As for a remote power like Tianhuang City, not to mention an Earth Rank cultivation technique, even if they wanted to obtain a Black Rank cultivation technique, the price they would have to pay would be hard for the ordinary power to accept.

The cultivation technique that Lian Chengyu himself was so proud of was a high-grade Profound Rank cultivation technique — — Fire Beacon City. Adding on to that, his innate talent was not bad, and when he awakened, he broke through the fifth stage of the World Barrier in one go. Furthermore, he also had the resources to use his City Lord's Mansion, thus allowing him to quickly step into the early stages of the Qi Refinement into Spirit.

"Everyone, please listen to me!"

Seeing everyone's interest, Lian Chengyu immediately stood out and signaled everyone to be quiet with his hands. With a thought, he retrieved a crystal ball from his spatial ring and gently placed it on the silver plate.

Everyone is a heaven's pride level expert of my Tianhuang City, although everyone wants to be invited to join City Lord's Mansion, it's a pity that the Heavenly Desolate Martial Conference's reputation is limited, adding on to the fact that I already have a few candidates, I can only choose five people to join the competition, if there are any offenses, please forgive me!

He paused for a moment, then pointed at the crystal ball on the silver plate.

"This is the Inherent Skills Assessment Crystal that I bought at a high price for my City Lord's Mansion. It can test everyone's Inherent Skills, which means that my Inherent Skills is at the fifth stage. In other words, I broke through the fifth stage of the World Barrier during my awakening. As long as everyone has reached the fourth stage of talent, you can enter the elimination list. "

"This crystal will, according to your level of talent, produce red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, and purple halos." Following the order of your Awakening Talents. Purple is the seventh, blue is the sixth, cyan is the fifth, and green is the fourth, and so on. "

"As long as one of you has reached the fourth level of innate talent and is able to unleash a green light, then that's considered as having passed the initial stage."

Lian Chengyu turned around and sat on the stone chair. He picked up the ancient porcelain cup and drank a cup of strong alcohol for himself, a smile appearing on his handsome face.

"I wonder who will be the first to make a move. As long as their Awakening Talent reaches Stage Four or above, they can enter the elimination!"

Hong Ling did not move. Although he was a little envious of the Desolate Heaven Transforming Qi Pill, he did not want to risk his life fighting with a group of people for a pill.

Moreover, he himself had broken through the nine stages of World Barrier, so this crystal ball could only measure seven levels. But even so, it would be shocking to the world, and this was not the result he wanted.

"Young City Lord, since none of you are willing to be the first one to take the lead, let me go first!" A black-clothed youth walked out with large strides, and bowed towards Lian Chengyu.

Lian Chengyu nodded his head, the teenager in black casually grabbed onto the crystal ball, the Authentic Qi in his hand gurgled as it flowed into the crystal ball.

Rumble … the crystal ball instantly lit up. A layer of faint red light appeared, followed by an orange, then yellow, and finally, a layer of faint green light.

The black-robed youth put down the crystal ball in his hand in satisfaction and cupped his hands towards Lian Chengyu.

"Young City Lord, this one passed the initial stage, right?"

Lian Chengyu nodded, and indicated for him to withdraw. The young man sat back down proudly, he had the qualifications to be proud.

This was something he could not compare to. However, even though he could not compare to Lian Chengyu, he could only compare to Lian Chengyu's first level of innate talent, and with this kind of innate talent and being a member of a small clan, he could be proud of himself.

After the first round of tests, other than Hong Ling and a few others, a majority of the people had already tested themselves. Among these people, seven of them had reached the fourth stage of innate talent, but not a single person had passed.

According to his sources, among the three great clans, the participants of the Heavenly Desolate Martial Meet had each produced a Heaven's Pride with a fifth-level Awakening Talent. Among them, one of the Zhou family members had even reached the astonishing sixth level of Awakening Talent.

This made him really upset. Although his City Lord's Mansion had a Heaven's Pride character who had reached the fifth stage, it would still be extremely difficult for him to find a sixth stage practitioner.

These were people that only first-rate powers would have. To these people, Tianhuang City was simply too small of a structure.

"Brother Hong Ling, why don't you try?" Lian Chengyu saw that Hong Ling was still drinking and immediately asked.

He knew about Hong Ling's cultivation. He was only at the early stage of the Essence Refinement into Qi, but to be able to make an expert like Canfeng follow him, this person's talent should be pretty good. He should have at least reached the fifth stage.

"Young City Lord, don't you think that my cultivation is too low?" Hong Ling said with a smile.

Lian Chengyu looked at the smiling Hong Ling, and his eyes immediately narrowed. When Hong Ling talked to him, he basically did not carry any respectful tone, but viewed him as someone of the same kind.

One had to know that with his current cultivation and identity, no matter what, Hong Ling should have carried a trace of reverence, but he did not. Even until now, Lian Chengyu had not seen the slightest hint of reverence on his face.

This caused Lian Chengyu to be vigilant. Someone who was not afraid of his own strength, was either stronger than him or had a background that surpassed the City Lord's Mansion.

Brother Hong Ling, you can go and take the test, I believe that your strength is not as simple as it seems on the surface. Moreover, I heard that you have a powerful Imperial Sword Technique, so I believe that you will not disappoint me!

Hong Ling put down his cup, and laughed bitterly in his heart as he looked at Lian Chengyu, who was staring at him with shining eyes.

This Lian Chengyu, as expected of the young city lord of the Tianhuang City, her mind was extremely sharp. Just based on some information that had been leaked recently, she was able to make such a bold yet precise deduction.

When he was in the forest, he had seen Lian Chengyu use his sword intent to kill the Ironback Bear in the middle stage of Qi Refinement into Spirit. Under this influence, he had borrowed Lian Chengyu's extremely strong talent in soul power and his Primordial Spirit Clone to comprehend his own sword intent.

Now, since Lian Chengyu had met with some trouble, he naturally would not stand by and do nothing.

The youth's eyes narrowed as a vast amount of soul power surged out and caught the crystal ball. With a wave of his hand, the crystal ball floated into the air and landed in his hand.

"This is … a method to retrieve items through the air!"

Lian Chengyu was greatly shocked. As the Young City Lord of the Tianhuang City, with his vast knowledge and experience, he was naturally able to recognize Hong Ling's methods. But recognizing one thing, wanting to do another was another.

Hong Ling did not care about their gazes, he looked at Lian Chengyu, and a look of doubt flashed past his eyes.

"Young City Lord, please forgive me for my presumptuousness. According to your knowledge, among the three great clans, what is the level of talent that the person with the highest talent has?"

"Hmm?" Lian Chengyu was startled, he never thought that Hong Ling would actually ask this question. However, when he thought about the competition,'s talent would naturally be promoted by the three great families, and they would no longer try to hide it from him.

"Brother Hong Ling, to be honest, the Zhou Family of the three great families has produced an incredible Heaven's Pride character this year. They are the young master of the Zhou Family, Zhou Kuang.

Lian Chengyu laughed bitterly, his own talent was only at the fifth stage. Even though he had already surpassed most people, in front of the sixth stage of talent, Zhou Kuang, he was still not enough.

Even though Zhou Kuang's cultivation was currently weaker than his, this person was even younger than Lian Chengyu. Once he matures, his future accomplishments would be far beyond what he could compare to.

"Sixth stage?" Hong Ling nodded, "I understand!"

"What does he know?" The crowd present whispered, "Looking at his appearance, does he think he can compare to that Zhou Kuang's talent!?"

"Humph, a sixth stage talent means that he is a true heaven's pride expert. Adding on his cultivation technique, < Iron Horse Ice River >, that Zhou Kuang will probably become the overlord of this year's Heavenly Desolate Martial Conference!"

"This brat, he even had a face of calm and disdain. I really don't know where he got his confidence from. Could it be that he was scared silly by Zhou Kuang's talent?"

"That's true, Zhou Kuang is truly talented, once he grows up, the control of the Tianhuang City will be on the line. If I help Lian Chengyu to fight him now, I'm afraid that when the time comes, he will not let us go!"

"What you said is extremely true. Although the Heaven Desolating Qi Pill of City Lord's Mansion is good, it is not that easy to obtain. If we offend Zhou Kuang, then I'm afraid that we will really die without a body to lose!"

Everyone whispered amongst themselves, their eyes filled with fear, causing Lian Chengyu's expression to instantly darken. Although he had also thought of this kind of situation, he never thought that these people would actually be so daring, to even dare to say such words in front of him, without caring about his identity as the Young Master of the Tianhuang City, he immediately snorted.

Although he was just curious, he did not expect it to bring Lian Chengyu this much trouble. He immediately closed his eyes and injected the Authentic Qi in his hands into the crystal.

He himself was a monster that had broken through the nine stages of World Barrier, so he didn't dare to act too excessively right now. Soul power slowly surged out from the Divine Hall, limiting Crystal's test of talent.

Weng, a blinding light appeared on the crystal ball. Lian Chengyu squinted his eyes and stared at the crystal ball, and the wine cup in his hand fell to the ground with a 'pa' sound.

"Purple, purple halo!"

The Young City Lord suddenly stood up, his face was filled with shock as he looked at the smiling face of Hong Ling, his eyes filled with ecstasy.