The so-called martial arts heart is not about great loyalty, great virtue, great righteousness, and great justice. Martial arts have nothing to do with right or wrong. The heart of martial arts is actually the determination of a martial artist to pursue martial arts.

  Practicing martial arts is a struggle against heaven, where there are all kinds of hardships, dangers and temptations. If ones willpower is not strong, it is easy to lose the heart of martial arts, give up practicing, and thus abandon previous efforts.

  Some people practice martial arts only for wealth and fame, sensual pleasures and material desires. This kind of mindset is not a problem in the early stages of martial arts training, but once they enter the later stages, their motivation will be lost more than half, because as long as they have reached the Condensing Pulse stage, they can enjoy wealth and luxury, possess beautiful women, and many martial artists are satisfied with just being enfeoffed by the imperial court. Although they broke through the Condensing Pulse stage after much hardship, they cannot resist the temptation of luxurious beauty and sensual pleasures, and end up stopping at this point for the rest of their lives.

  The first level of the fantasy realm doesnt look at cultivation, only looks at the heart of martial arts. Lin Ming has full confidence in this, and even if he didnt get the magic cube, he still has 12% chance to pass this level.

  At this time, about half of the warriors who passed the first round were eliminated and left the field, after which the entire square became much more spacious.

  Poor Lin Xiaodong has also lost his qualifications and can only stay on the official path.

  Lin Ming turned around and took a glance at Lin Xiaodong, although there were many people, he still caught sight of him at once.

  Lin Xiaodong also saw Lin Ming, and gave him a thumbs up. Lin Ming smiled slightly, just as he was about to turn his head back, but his gaze suddenly froze. In the crowd on the official road, he caught sight of a shy and elusive girls figure. The girl wore a light yellow long shirt, with a noble young ladys swan feather hat on her head, quietly peeking at him from an inconspicuous corner.

  Lin Ming instantly recognized the girl as Lan Yunyue.

  Lin Mings gaze only hesitated for a moment before he withdrew it, knowing that if they made eye contact, it would only add to Lan Yunyues embarrassment. He pretended not to have seen anything...

  Lin Ming didnt blame Lan Yunyue in his heart, after all, the two of them had only made an agreement and hadnt reached the point of discussing marriage, Lan Yunyue was just making a choice that any ordinary girl might make.

  At this time, Lan Yunyue, who was hiding in the crowd, did not know that Lin Ming had already discovered her. As for whether to come today or not, Lan Yunyue struggled in her heart for a long time. She really didnt want to see Lin Ming, but she also had a few hidden concerns in her heart, wanting to know if he was doing well or not.

  She recalled the scene two months ago when Lin Ming was peddling a few sheets of poor-quality paper in the store, and she felt a little heartache.

  With a not-so-affluent background to support his martial arts training, and not being a stunning genius himself, the meager savings had to be used for rent, food, and medicine. Its imaginable how strained it was; he could only afford to buy iron wire grass that pierced to the bone marrow, and even this iron wire grass might be unaffordable, leaving hidden wounds on his body.

  Thinking of this, Lan Yunyue would feel heartache. She indeed liked Lin Ming, liking his strength and persistence, liking the sense of security he brought her when as a weak child he stood in front of a group of older naughty kids to protect himself.

  But these touches cant replace some things after all.

  Shes a beautiful girl, with an outstanding temperament and good innate talent. Although her family background isnt from a wealthy or aristocratic family, its still quite well-off. A girl like this cant help but have a sense of superiority, just like a noble peacock. She couldnt convince herself to be content with a ordinary life, marrying Lin Ming and becoming the wife of a tavern owner, wasting her twenty years of youth, and then slowly growing old...

  She doesnt want to, really doesnt want to.

  So, she chose Zhu Yan because the Zhu family not only used their imperial connections to get her into the Seven Xuanwu Sect, but also promised to get Lan Yunyue enough precious elixirs to enter the Condensation Period. The temptation of the Condensation Period was something that Lan Yunyue simply could not resist.

  This morning, Lan Yun Yue was a bit absent-minded. She didnt want to come at first, but in the end, she couldnt convince herself. In the afternoon, she came and thought that Lin Ming would be eliminated. She thought that as long as he was eliminated, Lin Ming would go home and live a peaceful life, so she could breathe a sigh of relief and put her mind at ease. However, unexpectedly, she saw Lin Ming standing in the queue of qualified candidates. This made her both surprised and worried.

  Surprisingly, Lin Ming broke through to the Second Heavy Body at the age of 15 with a three-product heavenly gift and an unremarkable family background.

  Worried that Lin Mings achievements must have come at the cost of unimaginable effort, how many hidden wounds had he accumulated on his body, and would he be crippled by the time he was thirty...

  ……

  The beautiful woman who presided over the first trial in the morning reappeared, took a rough look at the number of people, and it wasnt too bad. It was still okay in Li Qius trial. "Everyone please follow me to Bi Yu Tai."

  About a hundred young men and women followed the beautiful woman into the gate of the Seventh Xuanwu Mansion.

  The Seventh Imperial Palace was built on the mountain, with no tall buildings inside, but a continuous and exquisite building complex. These buildings were carefully designed with smooth lines, perfectly blending with the surrounding mountains and rivers, making people admire.

  A group of people walked for about the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, and in front of them appeared a patch of emerald green lake. The lake was as green as jade, with not a ripple on its surface, so still it was strange. The surrounding area was planted with weeping willows, and at this time just entering autumn, many leaves had fallen from the trees, but what was strange was that none of these leaves floated into the lake.

  In the center of this emerald lake, there is a jade platform made of Han white jade, which is connected to the shore by a nine-bend stone bridge, forming a fairyland on earth.

  Lin Ming found that tens of meters away from the Jade Stage, there was a pavilion in the middle of the lake. In the pavilion, a stone table was set up with tea and dry fruit on it. At this time, several middle-aged men, elderly people, and a young girl were sitting around the stone table, looking over here with great interest.

  There were actually Qin Xuan and Mu Yi in there.

  Lin Ming was taken aback, how did they end up here?

  Muyi found Lin Ming looking over here and smiled slightly, while Qin Xuan also revealed a friendly smile.

  Lin Ming smiled back, and he faintly felt that the others accompanying Mu Yi were not simple either, with several of them having auras that werent necessarily weaker than Mu Yis.

  These people are all masters!

  Lin Ming was right, some of these people were friends of Mu Yi, the imperial courts guest minister of Tianyun Country. Apart from that, there were also elders from the Seventh Imperial Sword Pavilion. Every year, during the two new student examinations, they would come to observe and see if there were any good seedlings.

  They mainly look at talent and the heart of martial arts. The talents of the examinees who sign up for the exam every year are already attached to their materials, so there is no need to test them, they have already seen them.

  This time the examinees talent is considered satisfactory, with the strongest being upper fourth grade.

  The five-product heavenly gift in the Heavenly Dynasty can be said to be a once-in-a-decade encounter, and its normal if you dont have one. Having a high-quality four-product is already very good, other four-products are also acceptable, while three-products are slightly inferior.

  The first test of strength was nothing special, so the elders of these martial arts schools didnt attend. They had already seen the innate talents, and this time they came to see if there were any particularly outstanding individuals with a strong will for martial arts among the examinees.

  "Everyone go up, keep your mind steady, maintain stillness, persist in the five watches, and you can pass through." The beautiful woman spoke again.

  The candidates walked up to the Jiǔ Qū Shí Bridge one after another, and at this moment, they all had some apprehension in their hearts. The first test of strength was actually something they were mentally prepared for, as most candidates knew what their maximum strength was, except for those who barely made it past the line and were worried about not being able to perform at their best. Others already had a good idea of whether they would pass or not, so there wasnt too much tension. But this time, with the illusion test, they were nervous.

  Many of them have never tried this illusion before, and they dont know what the situation is like inside. Its said that the elimination rate of this level is the highest among the three levels, reaching 90%.

  One in ten survives!

  They were all top-notch among their peers, and if they came from small towns or villages, they might have been the best martial artist of their age group in the entire town. From a young age, they had heard the reputation of being child prodigies and geniuses, but now, such a group of people had come to this Illusory Realm assessment, yet so many were going to be eliminated!

  This level is terrifying!

  "She sat down on the jade platform, and after a brief moment of ten breaths, the assessment began!" The beautiful woman said, although she was far away, her voice clearly reached every students ear. This true yuan transmission sound technique was much more profound than Zhu Yans.

  Lin Ming suspected that this beautiful woman was a cultivator in the Congeal Pulse stage.

  Walking onto the jade stage, Lin Ming casually glanced over at the crowd of onlookers in the distance and indeed spotted Lan Yunyues figure among them. She was leaning against a willow tree, still gazing in Lin Mings direction, not feeling that she would be discovered at all.

  Lin Ming let out a sigh and stopped looking, sitting cross-legged on the jade platform.

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