Since the talk, Qi Ting has been ignoring Lin Zhizhi. He felt very stupid for wanting to apologize to this kind of bastard after being charmed by his words and deeds, tricking him to think that he was a respectable junior brother when he was only thinking about his precious junior sister, who’s admired by the young master of the Qi family and thousands of other junior brothers and sisters. But now, her beloved junior sister is having a major crush on this prick! They’re practically slapping him in the face!
Even if that was the truth, couldn’t he say some kind words to comfort him? He really had no idea why junior sister Xie fell in love with him. A guy who’s useless except for his face, family background, and aptitude.
Qi Ting and Lin Zhizhi were currently sitting in the same spirit boat. He was like a big grumpy rooster as he stared at the other. The hostility in his behavior was much stronger than when they first met, which surprised both Xie Lu and Xie Ling.
Xie Lu met Lin Zhizhi in private and asked him the question that had been lingering on his mind for a while now. Keeping his voice low, he asked, “Brother Lin, what’s wrong? Why does Qi Ting keep on targeting you? It’s not like you to take the initiative to provoke Qi Ting, it must’ve been his bad temper again.”
Xie Lu didn’t like this senior brother who always pestered his sister. But because of the other party’s status, and because he didn’t do anything out of line toward Xie Ling, he had to turn a blind eye to him. He didn’t expect the other to try to embarrass Lin Zhizhi.
Before Lin Zhizhi could even answer, he had already imagined countless scenarios of Qi Ting bullying Lin Zhizhi secretly. He couldn’t help but be annoyed at the other, so the gaze he used to look towards Qi Ting held a subtle flash of irritation within them.
Lin Zhizhi was his savior, and this time, he’s the one who’ll help the other. If Qi Ting really went too far, he would definitely help Lin Zhizhi get justice.
Although Xie Lu already lowered his voice, Qi Ting had already heard some movement in their direction. His ears slightly moved as he roughly made out their conversation. He was aggrieved. Who was bullying whom? Every time he made a move, he’ll be counter-attacked by the other party!
After hearing Xie Lu’s question, the black-haired boy who was closing his eyes and adjusting his breath slowly opened his eyes. Qi Ting sat in front of him and looked out from the window. At first glance, he seemed to be admiring the beautiful scenery outside. However, upon closer inspection, his eyes were not focused but were wandering around. Lin Zhizhi answered, “It’s fine, maybe he’s in a bad mood today.”
His tone was full of disapproval as he said that.
Xie Lu heard his reply and knew it’ll be hard for him to know the truth. He used an emphasizing tone as he replied, “Tell me if you need anything.” before returning to Xie Ling. The two exchanged some news related to the Xie family before they left.
Lin Zhizhi was interrupted in the middle of his meditation, but he didn’t intend to continue. He simply sat up, picked a spiritual fruit from the case, and stuffed it into his mouth, looking at Qi Ting in front of him.
To be precise, he was looking at the favorability index. Qi Ting suffered humiliation after he slapped him with the truth. As a result, his mind thought that he hated him when his heart was more honest, adding five points of favorability to the favorability index.
Right now, Qi Ting had a total of 35 favorability points, he’s stuck there for a while as he acted like a despondent teenager. His favorability didn’t seem too high, but considering how the other party’s favorability points were in the negatives when they first met, he thought that it was rising a bit too quickly.
If it wasn’t for Qi Ting’s own words, Lin Zhizhi would have no idea what he had done to increase his favorability. You know, he practically ignored the other throughout the whole journey. At that time, he was worried about his physique, so he followed his principle of only saying one sentence if there wasn’t a need for two.
“What are you doing?” Qi Ting could feel the gaze of the people behind him. He thought that Lin Zhizhi would give up after staring at him for a while. But who knew that when he peeked at the other from the corners of his eyes, this guy was still propped up on the table with one hand supporting his perfectly curved chin. He looked like he was going to continue staring at him, so he couldn’t help but angrily question the other.
Lin Zhizhi had been in a good mood after succeeding in establishing his foundation. He was in a rare mood to speak more than usual. So when Xie Lu came to ask him his question earlier, he suddenly felt that Qi Ting was quite interesting. The black-haired boy innocently blinked as he cleared the haze in his eyes. He picked up a spiritual fruit and threw it toward Qi Ting.
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“What do you mean by this?” Qi Ting was furious as he caught the spiritual fruit.
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It’s refreshingly sweet.
-Then, his favorability index increased by two points ╮(╯▽╰)╭.
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The outer gates of the Luo immortal sword sect.
Lin Zhizhi stood on top of the third peak. The robes worn by the young man made a slight rustling sound as the wind blew past him.
He had returned to the sect two hours ago and separated from Qi Ting and the Xie siblings.
While he was on the spiritual boat, he asked Xie Lu about being an inner disciple. Xie Lu was an enthusiastic person. Seeing how Lin Zhizih had taken the initiative to ask, he told everything he knew about the topic. He also informed the young master of the Lin family, who has been living in the dark in the sword sect, other numerous information related to the sect.
For example, there are actually only two ways to become an inner sect disciple. The first way is to be accepted as a disciple by an elder of the sect so that he could live in the elder’s cave. The second way is that after a disciple has built their foundation, they can measure themselves by stepping on a nine-layered ladder. As long as they could pass the first level, they’ll have the qualifications to become an inner sect disciple.
This shows the strength of the Luo Immortal sword sect.
In many small and medium-sized sects, as long as a disciple in the sect is able to build their foundation, they would immediately become an inner sect disciple. Unlike other sects, why do they need to go through the ladder?
This nine-layered heavenly appraising ladder is known as a spiritual tool able to measure the potential of a cultivator.
According to legends, in the chaotic era, the largest sect in the immortal realm, the hall of the immortal kings, once recruited extremely talented disciples from the human realm. The immortals combined their forces to cast a spell, used numerous rare treasures in the palace of the immortal kings, and their wealth to build the ladder.
The ladder is divided into nine steps, which corresponded to the nine layers f the immortal realm, and could only be climbed once a cultivator built its foundation or has entered the core formation phase.
Anyone who successfully climbed to the first level has a 50% hope of forming a core. If you climbed the third step, you could look forward to becoming a nascent soul cultivator. For the fourth and fifth levels, there’s hope to become a middle to late nascent cultivator, hence further strengthening their spirit. If you reached the sixth step, you have the potential to become an immortal.
As for the seventh step and above, the great master of the immortal realm shook his head silently. He only said that in the immortal realm, there were very few people who were able to reach the seventh step.
After the catastrophe, and the fall of the immortal realm, they’ve lost contact with the human realm. Hence, the heavenly appraising ladder remained in the central continent of Xiuxian forever. Although it has lost the possibility of entering the immortal king hall, it still became a sacred object for the major sects to test their disciple’s potential.
Zeng Yun, the supreme elder of the Tianyin faction, had declared that the ladder is no longer just an artifact as it had touched the origins of the laws of heaven and earth itself. It’s more like it’s predicting the future than testing the aptitudes of the disciples, from which one could see the strength of the people in the immortal realm.
All disciples who have passed the nine-layered ladder will be ranked on the ancient stone tablet. The stone tablet is located on Xianwang island, which was an island where the envoys of the Xianwang temple once settled, located in the center of the central continent.
Until now, the number one on the ancient stone tablet is still Cang Lun.
When he was still on the right track, after he built his foundation, he came to the ladder to test his talent. After that, he became famous in one fell swoop, and many sects invited him to join, but he rejected them all.
When Cang Lun had revealed himself to be a demonic cultivator, Zheng Shan was still brooding about the ranking of the stone.
The person above everyone on the ranking was actually a cultivator cultivating the demonic path! How could people watch this happen? They kept testing disciples after disciples but still couldn’t find anyone who could surpass Cang Lun.
It’s not that no one in this world can defeat Cang Lun. Dao Zun, Bing Ling, and the Yan Lu ancestors are all considered to be able to face the demon lord. Unfortunately, some of these people were big figures in the chaotic era.
Cang Lun is the reincarnation of the demon god from the upper realms, and he has all the opportunities he needs to get stronger. It is very difficult for humans to compete with the devil in terms of talent. Once, there was even a great master who wanted to use a spell to cover up Cang lun’s name, but he found that the stone tablet was very strange, so he couldn’t change it. The Supreme Elder of the Haoran Sect sighed and said that he could keep it, it’ll also be good to motivate their future generations.
Time passed like water flowing out of their fingers, leaving the weary marks of the years that have gone by on the tablet.
The names on top of the tablet rose and fell, but Cang Lun had remained untouchable, leaving endless resentment to boil inside the disciples of the righteous path.
At this moment, there is a round spiritual spell in front of Lin Zhizhi. As long as he walks over, enters the ring, and proves that he had reached the foundation building stage, he will be teleported in front of the ladder.
The black-haired boy’s eyes were full of brilliance, and his beautiful lips were slightly curved, like the first melting of spring snow, causing the disciples who were guarding the teleportation array to enter a dazed state because of his beauty. He walked into the teleportation formation and let the spiritual energy from the formation brush over his body. After confirming it was correct, the disciple in charge put in the spirit stone in a panic.
The milky white light flashed, as the boy disappeared from the place.
As his figure disappeared, the massive copper bell on the third peak slowly rang three times.
The dull sound spread in circles and echoed in the sect, indicating that a new disciple entered the foundation and went to the heavenly appraising ladder.
In the inner sect of the Luo Immortal sword sect, the elder in charge of the outer sect affairs placed down the file he was looking through and looked out the window. A look of surprise was on his face as he gazed outside.
Have this batch of outer sect disciples broken through the foundation building?
The outer gates of the Qi refinement lecture hall.
The elder on the stage was shaking his head before explaining how to control their breath during meditation, only to hear the long sound of the bell, interrupting him in the middle of his lecture.
“Elder, did someone build the foundation?”
“Impossible! Tian Jue has just been on the 12th floor of the Qi refining period. How can the disciples from the outer sect surpass Tian Jue?”
The disciples knew the meaning of the bells. It’s as if a cup of hot oil had been poured into cold water, splashing all over the place as the disciples argued among each other.
“Quiet!” The elder was so annoyed that he had used his spiritual energy to louden his voice, drowning out the disciple’s arguments. “It seems that the first person to build a foundation in this generation has already appeared. I will know when he had already finished testing himself on the ladder. I will go there to see for myself, it won’t take long.”
The outer sect disciples looked at each other, full of curiosity about the person who had succeeded in building their foundation. There are only so many qi-refining disciples in the sect, and they know each other well. They really don’t know anyone who might have secretly reached the foundation establishment stage.
Only a few people, such as Lan Tian, had paid attention to Lin Zhizhi after being beaten. He had noticed that Lin Zhizhi hadn’t come to the lecture hall for several days by now.
Could it be…?
It couldn’t be!
Lan Tian’s resentment had set a huge flag for him.
On the other side, the young man walked out of the teleportation formation, looked up at the towering ladder, and stepped onto the first stage.
I wonder how many steps he’ll take 
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