Chapter 403: Survival Test
Sam and the other four entered the cave and when they looked at the familiar place they are standing, they felt a faint nostalgia.
Of course, not all of them. The three other Nascent stage cultivators are all entering the Palace for the first time an they are in extreme awe of the place.
They didn't see anything like this.
Sam looked at the old man standing in the same familiar platform.
It is the same person he met a few years before. Avatar Sanchez. The old man scanned all of them and frowned when he came to Sam, and the frown relaxed when a small spark was shone in the Old man's eye.
At that moment, Sam was completely stunned and turned still as if the whole cover was completely in vain. But he recovered fast enough, because Sanchez is not the person he wants to hide from.
At this moment, the old man spoke.
"Welcome to Palace of Inheritances, this is a place where all of you can inherit the techniques, weapons, skills and other kinds of treasures of extremely superior beings.
Some of you came here previously and some of you are here for the first time. The rules will be different from the previous time, so the new comers need not be flustered.
This time, you don't have to climb floors and do anything of sorts.
All you have to do is enter the room and then you will be informed on how to proceed.
With that he pointed towards the only door in the hall. The five of them slowly walked over and entered the room.
At this instance they saw quite a dazzling site. They didn't expect that something like this would exist behind a door.
After all of them entered, the door behind them disappeared. They are left like that in the middle of some woods. That's right, they are in middle of woods and it didn't seem fake at all.
They could feel the breeze on their faces and the soil and the trees all of them felt real. In fact, too real. Even the spiritual energy is far richer than outside.
They tried to absorb all the energy around them hungrily. But only at this moment, they realized that they are unable to accumulate any more energy than they already have and they even felt like their strengths are shackled. There is look of shock when they realized that all of them are in Nascent stage Level-1.
This is not something they expected or experienced before, so the three new comers are particularly panicky.
At this moment, a voice came and made them come back to their senses.
"Hello, young ones. Welcome to my palace.
You might be feeling surprised with a forest in a palace, but that is my style, I will store any place in my palace if I want. Anyway, today you are all here for inheritances, while the junior of Great realm participates in the boring tests and obtain whatever they want, you guys can play in competition of adults.
Before we go into details, let me make this clear first, you are stuck at the same level for the rest of your stay inside the Palace. No matter the circumstances, you will not be allowed to use more power than a Nascent stage Level-1.
As for the tests, why go through so much trouble to make everything complicated. Let us be clear here and simple.
All the nascent stage cultivators who are in the Palace total up to thirty people. So, all of you will have to survive in this forest until only five of you remains.
There will be opponents in the forests, who up on being destroyed, will give you something in return.
This time, the test is not limited to a month, if you can finish it in a week, then it is done in a week and if takes more than a year, you will stay here for a year. Now, good luck. And by the way, as long as they are of same grade, you can use your weapons as you like.
This is not something hard to understand right. The only thing I can guarantee you is that you don't get killed in this place.
If you understand what I said, what are you waiting for? The Competition already began."
The tone of voice is extremely majestic and there is a hint of mischief laced through it. The man seemed to be unrestrained and undeterred by anything and everything in the world.
As soon as the voice faded away, Sam noticed that he was being locked by the rest of the candidates.
The four of them are looking at Sam with an extremely cold expressions, since they only five slots, then it is extremely competitive thing and naturally, they wanted to eliminate the outsider first and they will think on how to preserve.
From what they heard from the elders; Sam is naturally a stray cultivator who doesn't have any background. In their opinion that guy only got the token by luck.
The token and right to entry only belong to people of the six major powers, there is no way they would let a stray cultivator take part in this.
They simply surrounded him and are ready to make a move.
One of them even took a staff and that is the chosen one. Sam already had the burning sensation on his body and he knew what that is without even knowing and his spiritual sense now went towards this guy and he noticed that there is indeed the tattoo.
The tattoo is of a monkey sitting in the clouds.
He didn't know what the tattoo is, but he can soon find out. He also took out a staff so that he could play with this guy for a moment.
As the three of them are ganging up, Sam made his first move. He landed the hit on the one on his back without targeting the two of them in front, the person was surprised and took the hit directly.
There is a sound of bones cracking. The hit was filled with wind elemental energy and the wind cannon pierced through the chest and rocked the heart of that person.
A green light appeared from the trees and wrapped around that person just stopping the injury from killing him.
This is another form of healing, the wood elemental healing. This is not at all popular in the whole planet, in fact no one knows about this.
Sam is actually quite surprised. Because, from what he knew the wood elemental healing was completely lost with time in the current planet they are staying in, there is nothing left. Even the pharmaceutical tower isn't able to find anything regarding that.
But he didn't let his thoughts stray, the defeated cultivator disappeared from the place.
He focused on the two of his opponents, he observed their posture, eyes and body language, he can tell that the chosen one is more of a threat to him than the senior cultivator.
There are two reasons for that, one is the confidence and the aura of the spiritual energy raging inside him at the same time, the posture itself. He noticed that he has seen that battle posture before.
The staff technique is familiar to him and he practiced, it is the same Monkey's staff skills he practiced at the start of his journey.
At that time, he practiced Staff techniques on a whim, since then every time he trained, he practiced those techniques. But from the looks of it this person seems to be more well versed that Sam.
Sam swung his staff and this time he went for the remaining senior cultivator, the but the chosen one didn't stand there.
He blocked the attack, the spiritual energy in his body is extremely turbulent and tyrannical. Sam felt extreme force on his hands and felt numb.
The chose one is not unscathed. His hands are also numb and his staff vibrated continuously.
Both of them glared at each other and the chose one asked.
"Where did you get these techniques?" His voice was cold. Sam knew that he would notice. These techniques actually doesn't have specific forms and styles, only one thing is there and that is the initial battle posture, apart from that everything is according to cultivator's free will.
But precisely because of that it is easily recognizable. Every form of fighting and battling techniques will be created by certain constraints and rules that they follow, except for these techniques which are extremely free and unhindered.
While the two of them are in a dead lock, he noticed the senior cultivator didn't interfere, something is telling him that he is not qualified to do so.
As they are about to make a move, suddenly both of them looked towards nearby trees, they sensed something and soon, they realized what it is.
It is a monkey type beast. In fact, there four of them.
The beast is of mostly humanoid silhouette but the hands are extremely long reaching just the point right above their knees.
They even wore robes, some of them have bare upper body and some of them are completely covered, they are holding various weapons.
One of them held a saber. One of them held a spear and another one wore fighting gloves and the last one is wearing some metallic gloves.
They all are releasing the Level-1 Nascent stage auras, they immediately understood what these are the creatures mentioned by the voice, they are here to eliminate them.