Chapter 95

The middle-aged man said nothing, took the Huaxia Nine identity token, and swiped a thousand contribution points on a white jade square stone the size of a table on one side of the hall, then threw the identity token back to Huaxia Nine.

At this moment, dozens of disciples from the Inner Gate of the Five Elements Hall, who had heard the news, had also come to the Five Elements Hall one after another, looking at Huaxia Nine curiously and whispering to each other.

"He is Huaxia Nine, indeed with an extraordinary aura and excellent talent!" a self-important man said solemnly.

"His aura is indeed extraordinary, but how do you see his excellent talent?" a person beside him asked curiously.

"This is a secret technique passed down in my family, which can determine a person's talent through their aura," the self-important man said with a serious face.

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"Wow! He is so handsome, no wonder he is the only disciple the Netherworld lineage has taken in a hundred years," a fangirl said, her eyes full of stars, looking at Huaxia Nine.

"Cough! Junior Sister! He is indeed handsome, but this seems unrelated to what you said afterward!" a young man beside her said with a hint of jealousy.

"Hmph! It's none of your business. Anyway, he is very handsome and has extraordinary talent," the fangirl kicked the young man, staring at Huaxia Nine with a flushed face, and spat lightly.

The middle-aged man glanced at the crowd at the hall entrance, looked at Huaxia Nine with interest, and said, "There are five array gates: Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth. Which one do you choose?"

Before Huaxia Nine could say anything, someone at the hall entrance shouted, "Huaxia Nine! Besides the Metal Gate, do you dare choose any other array gate?"

Huaxia Nine turned his head at the sound and saw He Shengliang, who had lost to him an hour ago, looking at him with an indescribable expression.

Huaxia Nine looked at He Shengliang as if he were a fool, ignored him, and turned to the middle-aged man, saying, "Metal Gate!"

Because Huaxia Nine had a blank expression, this action seemed extremely cold, causing several fangirls at the entrance to scream. Dozens of male disciples from the Five Elements Hall, seeing this, all coldly snorted, harboring great hostility towards Huaxia Nine.

Seeing that Huaxia Nine ignored him and chose the Metal Gate without hesitation, He Shengliang was secretly relieved and delighted.

He Shengliang, who had lost to Huaxia Nine at the mid-Dan Formation stage, had been ridiculed and mocked since returning to the sect after revealing that Huaxia Nine could use Metal spells without hand seals. He wanted Huaxia Nine to choose the Metal Gate more than anyone else. His earlier question was just to draw the attention of his fellow disciples, hoping to clear his name to a greater extent.

The middle-aged man said nothing, took out a staff with a five-colored jade stone embedded at the top, and cast a hand seal, sending a beam of golden light into the void inside the Five Elements Hall.

Buzz——

A ripple of spatial fluctuations appeared, and Huaxia Nine felt a dense surge of Metal Qi converging at a point in an instant.

In the next moment, a Metal Gate formed by condensed Metal Qi appeared in the void inside the Five Elements Hall.

Above the Metal Gate, a stone tablet appeared. Huaxia Nine looked closely and saw the words "Five Elements List" written at the top center of the stone tablet. Below the three large characters were densely packed texts. Huaxia Nine quickly scanned the text and found it divided into three columns: the left column was numbers, the middle column was names, and the right column was annotations.

Huaxia Nine quickly scanned the top hundred names and recognized two of them.

Zhang Zixuan, 10th place, entered the Water Gate 62 days and 3 hours ago.

Ren Tianya, 37th place, entered the Wood Gate 43 days and 1 hour ago.

The former was the current head of the Five Elements lineage, the Five Elements True Man. The latter was the youngest Great Cultivator in the current Five Elements lineage.

From the information provided by Wu Jiu, Huaxia Nine learned that those who entered the Five Elements Array must be below the Soul Out stage, and there was no limit to the number of attempts.

Clearly, whether it was Zhang Zixuan or Ren Tianya, their rankings were from when they were at the Dan Formation stage many years ago. As for which attempt they achieved these rankings, Huaxia Nine did not know.

Thinking of this, Huaxia Nine felt a strong urge to try, wondering how many days he could last and whether he could enter the top hundred, or even the top ten.

Soon, Huaxia Nine's gaze shifted from the stone tablet to the Metal Gate.

Since learning the Metal Technique, Huaxia Nine had become extremely sensitive to Metal Qi. The amount and density of Metal Qi contained in the Metal Gate astonished him, far exceeding what he could generate with his Metal Technique.

Moreover, he clearly felt that the Metal Gate was not condensed by the middle-aged man but had existed long before, and the middle-aged man had merely activated it with the help of the staff in his hand.

Huaxia Nine's curiosity was very strong, so he asked the middle-aged man like a curious child, "Senior Brother! Who condensed this Metal Gate?"

The middle-aged man was somewhat surprised. He had been in charge of the Five Elements Array for over a hundred years, and Huaxia Nine was the first to ask this question.

As long as one had a certain level of achievement in Metal spells, they could see that the gate had existed for a long time. However, to still want to know who condensed the Metal Gate before entering the array showed that this young man had a heart for the Dao. Previously, he seemed eager to earn contribution points, but now his actions were purely for the sake of knowledge.

The middle-aged man looked at Huaxia Nine with appreciation and said, "The five array gates and the entire Five Elements Array are one entity, personally arranged by the first head of our Five Elements lineage ten thousand years ago."

Huaxia Nine bowed to the middle-aged man and said, "Thank you, Senior Brother, for your explanation."

Then he turned to Wu Jiu, who was standing in a corner, somewhat timidly, and said very seriously, "Junior Brother Wu! Keep an eye on the time I spend in the array, don't get it wrong."

After saying this, Huaxia Nine ignored the various strange, disdainful, jealous, and passionate gazes of the crowd, leaped into the air, and entered the Metal Gate.

Huaxia Nine felt the scene before his eyes change, entering a golden world.

A golden sky, golden earth, golden clouds——

Everything was golden, with dense Metal Qi floating throughout the space.

Before he could carefully examine this world, the Metal Qi in front of him began to fluctuate sharply, forming a specific yet mysterious combination, and a golden arrow appeared out of nowhere, shooting towards Huaxia Nine.

Huaxia Nine was greatly surprised. The speed at which the golden arrow condensed was clearly visible to the naked eye, seemingly intentionally allowing him to see and study it.

He originally wanted to use a Metal Shield to easily block the golden arrow, but suddenly, a flash of inspiration came to him. He extended his soul consciousness, controlled the Metal Qi in front of him, and condensed it into the same specific combination he had just seen.

Huaxia Nine had an extremely abnormal ability to remember things at a glance. Although he had only seen it once, he had already memorized the specific combination firmly in his mind.

Therefore, when the golden arrow was still several meters away from Huaxia Nine, an identical golden arrow condensed in front of Huaxia Nine and moved forward to meet it.

Clang——

The two golden arrows simultaneously dissipated, returning to Metal Qi and merging back into the space.

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