Chapter 149: Chapter 128: Activation 4

He headed toward the dining hall.

After breakfast.

Liu Wan’s voice reached the crowd.

“Today, you will undergo the first round of assessments. Those who have not successfully activated their Breathing Technique will be permanently relegated to the Outer Courtyard to cultivate on their own.

Those who have successfully activated it will be brought to the Central Courtyard, where academy teachers will help you achieve a breakthrough.

Those who have already achieved a breakthrough will, for the next twenty days, receive personal guidance from the academy’s Mr. Da and train one-on-one with the black-robed senior brothers here.

For the next twenty days, if you want to acquire more cultivation resources, you can only do so by fighting for them yourselves and surpassing every established limit.”

“Huh?”

Everyone was stunned.

The expressions of those who had yet to activate the Day and Night Breathing Technique changed drastically.

Those who had activated it but not yet achieved a breakthrough looked anxious. However, they also learned from Liu Wan that as long as they met the requirements within the remaining time, they could still obtain the corresponding cultivation resources.

For example, someone who hadn’t activated the Breathing Technique could still enter the Central Courtyard to have a teacher help them with their breakthrough, as long as they activated it before the training period ended.

By the same token, those who hadn’t yet achieved a breakthrough could also enter the Inner Courtyard for guidance from Li Dayao and one-on-one training with a senior brother in black once they succeeded.

The academy’s system was harsh.

The competition was fierce.

They had all come out on top in their respective regions and had gone through great trouble just to get here to cultivate. They never expected that after being thrown together, they would have to face one assessment after another.

Chu Lingguang secretly sighed in relief. ’Thank goodness I activated the Day and Night Breathing Technique at the critical moment. I should be able to successfully enter the Inner Courtyard later and receive personal guidance from Li Dayao.’

He had been living in the Inner Courtyard these past few days and had already learned from Lin Longde and Yan Chengdu that the Outer Courtyard had only a single, drafty, tile-roofed house. Everyone was crammed together like sardines, with nowhere to even sleep properly.

The Central Courtyard had only one room with no large bed-planks, so everyone usually slept on the floor.

The Inner Courtyard offered the best accommodations: a large room with large bed-planks. Although not everyone could sleep on them, there was freedom of movement, and it was clearly much more comfortable.

“Everyone, begin circulating the Day and Night Breathing Technique. Push yourselves to your absolute limit.”

Liu Wan commanded.

No one dared to slack off.

One after another, they began to circulate it.

RUMBLE!

A moment later, the sound of rushing air currents erupted from Emperor Yue Xuan’s body. As the one publicly known to be the first to have activated this Breathing Technique and found the skill to achieve a breakthrough, he was the center of attention, and the commotion he created was particularly intense.

Chen Jin, Qi Shiwei, Gao Yimu, and the others were not to be outdone.

Everyone realized that in this academy’s training, you had to rely on your own ability to get more cultivation resources. Holding back would only let others take advantage, leaving you at a disadvantage later on.

So, one by one, they wished they could make the air they inhaled produce an earth-shattering sound.

The louder the sound, the thicker and longer the stream of qi, and the longer and wider the Circulation.

「In an instant.」

Chen Jin and the others forced their circulation, and each of their chests boomed like a bellows.

Chu Lingguang glanced around, not remaining idle either. He naturally understood a simple truth: in a place like this, only by being exceptional could one be truly valued.

So he opened his mouth, opened the apertures of his body, let all his pores open wide, and with a WHOOSH, he took a long, deep breath.

Lin Longde, sitting to the side, felt a slight breeze brush past his cheek. Then, a low roar sounded from beside him. As time passed, the roar grew more and more intense.

It eventually began to affect even his own Breathing and Exhaling.

He turned his head to look and saw that a Qi Vortex seemed to have formed inside Chu Lingguang’s body, looking as if it wanted to suck up every last trace of energy in the study hall.

Both Liu Wan and Li Dayao looked overjoyed, quickly scanning the crowd for the source of the sound. When they saw who it was, they were both stunned.

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