Chapter 56

"Who is this cultivator? To arrive only now is clearly an attempt to let others snatch the token! He’s obviously a novice. We arrived here last night, what a wise move it was." A young man with a handsome face and a dignified demeanor, dressed in purple, said seemingly offhandedly, but his eyes secretly glanced at a girl around eighteen years old, with delicate eyebrows, a delicate nose, tender skin, and a graceful figure, dressed in a pink dress.

"That Wang Chao! Even if this person is extremely foolish, you came here last night, hahaha—what a coward." On the other side of the girl in the pink dress, a young man in a white shirt cast a mocking glance at the young man who had just spoken, and said with extreme arrogance.

"You two idiots, this person has no attendants or elders to protect him, he’s clearly an independent cultivator. But his strength is quite good!" The girl in the pink dress glared at the two and said.

The young man in the white shirt looked at the girl in the pink dress and found that she was staring at the foolish young man who had just entered the square with shining eyes. He was taken aback and looked at Hua Xiajiu again.

On the other side, Wang Chao was about to say something to the young man in the white shirt, but upon seeing the change in the girl’s expression, he also looked at Hua Xiajiu. The other three or four people nearby did the same, all looking at Hua Xiajiu with keen eyes.

As they looked closely, they realized that the foolish young man who had just entered the square was extremely handsome, with broad shoulders and a straight figure. His clear, black-and-white eyes were as pure as a spring, and he had a special aura that drew attention.

Seeing this, how could they not know that the girl in the pink dress was attracted to the young man’s appearance and aura? Jealousy flared in their hearts, and their gazes towards Hua Xiajiu became filled with hostility.

Hua Xiajiu entered the square, found a place with fewer people, and was about to sit down to rest and recover his true essence and soul energy when he suddenly felt a stirring in his heart and looked to the right.

There, the skinny dog who had been thrown into the square by the fat pig before his death was sitting cross-legged about a hundred meters to Hua Xiajiu’s right, his eyes red with unhidden killing intent, staring fiercely at him.

The two looked at each other, and the skinny dog withdrew his gaze and closed his eyes to meditate.

"If this person wants to kill me, I must find a way to kill him quickly to avoid being harmed." Hua Xiajiu made a very rational and decisive decision in his mind.

Hua Xiajiu gave the skinny dog a deep look and was about to close his eyes to meditate when he felt another stirring in his heart and turned to look to the left.

He saw that about a hundred meters away, seven or eight young men were looking at him with hostile expressions, causing him to frown.

"I’ve never met these people before, why are they hostile towards me? I really don’t understand! And why does that pretty girl look at me so strangely? I really don’t get it." Hua Xiajiu muttered to himself, puzzled. With his innocent heart, he couldn’t understand the reasons.

Unable to figure it out, Hua Xiajiu ignored it and closed his eyes to meditate.

Not long after, a buzzing sound suddenly came from the direction of the city lord’s residence. It started faintly but quickly became deafening.

The nearly a hundred people in the central square immediately stood up in shock and looked up at the source of the sound.

In the distant sky, a purple glow had appeared and was slowly flying towards them, making a startling noise.

"It’s the Purple Mist Sect’s welcoming envoy." Someone whispered.

Among the nearly a hundred people, many showed signs of uncontainable tension as they saw the envoy arrive. Even the girl in the pink dress and Wang Chao, who seemed to have extraordinary backgrounds, looked at the approaching purple light with flickering eyes. Although Hua Xiajiu appeared calm, he couldn’t help but feel a bit nervous inside.

Knowing that a Purple Mist Sect entry token had been auctioned for seventy thousand spirit stones, and having personally experienced the life-and-death struggle among cultivators, Hua Xiajiu deeply understood how important it was for independent cultivators and disciples of second-rate or lower sects to join the Purple Mist Sect. It wasn’t just a great opportunity but a chance to leap from a fish to a dragon, changing their fate. With this understanding, Hua Xiajiu felt even more grateful to Liu Zhongyuan, who had given him the entry token.

The purple light, though slow, reached the center of the square in a few breaths.

The purple light slowly dissipated, and everyone’s spirits lifted as they looked up without blinking.

A purple, spindle-shaped spacecraft about thirty meters in diameter was hovering about thirty meters above the crowd. On the spacecraft, three figures could be seen standing at the bow, two men and one woman.

As the purple light dissipated, the buzzing sound suddenly stopped, and a cold male voice came from the sky: "Those who wish to participate in the sect’s entry selection ceremony, bring the sect’s entry token and come up. If you don’t make it within the time of a joss stick burning, you will be disqualified, and the entry token will be void. Note! No one is allowed to help, but all other means are permitted."

As soon as the words were spoken, a ripple appeared in the air around the purple spacecraft, and it remained still.

"How is this possible! At this height, we don’t know how to fly, how can we get up there?" A young man’s face turned ashen, and he couldn’t help but scream.

"Exactly! Senior, can you lower the spacecraft a bit?" Someone bowed to the spacecraft in the sky with a pleading look.

For a moment, nearly twenty people, their faces filled with despair, bowed respectfully to the sky, and as one person knelt down, the twenty people all knelt and continuously pleaded with the spacecraft.

But the people on the spacecraft seemed to hear nothing and gave no response.

Apart from these twenty people, the remaining eighty or so people remained still, most with serious expressions. However, a dozen or so people, including the girl in the pink dress and Wang Chao, looked as if they had expected this and were eager to try.

"Hmph! Independent cultivators actually want to join the Purple Mist Sect, what a delusion. Miss Mu! I’ll go first." Wang Chao glanced at the twenty people kneeling on the ground, then kicked off the ground and soared into the sky. When he reached about twenty meters, he was about to run out of strength, but suddenly a talisman appeared in his hand, which he quickly attached to his leg. A green light flashed over Wang Chao’s legs, and his body not only stopped descending but rose even faster, twice as fast as before, and in a blink, he was two meters from the spacecraft.

"Flight talisman! I recognize this person, he is the third son of the Wang family, one of the three major families of the Great Wu Empire. The Wang family has always been involved in commerce in the cultivation world, far richer than ordinary second-rate sects. No wonder he can use a flight talisman. I heard that a flight talisman can only be used once and is sold in the Heavenly Profound Tower for two hundred thousand spirit stones." The twenty or so independent cultivators, seeing that their pleas were in vain, stood up one by one and watched with cold eyes, all filled with envy and resentment.

At the same time, Wang Chao was about to enter the spacecraft but suddenly stopped, his body trembling as he hovered beside the spacecraft, closing his eyes and remaining still.

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