Om! 

The huge ancient stone tablet buzzed and vibrated, as through emitting low roars from ancient times.

Mighty ancestral qi gushed out endlessly in thousand-foot waves. 

The 25 lotus platforms above the stone tablet created a powerful suction force that frantically drew over the ancestral qi, vaguely forming several ancestral qi vortexes.

The 25 people sitting cross-legged on the lotus platforms couldn’t help beaming with delight. Even Zhou Yuan, who had seen a high-class ancestral qi vein, marveled at the vast ancestral qi. 

However, while they were filled with joy, they noticed the stone tablet emit a mysterious wave that eventually swept over their bodies as if scanning them.  

The sudden change surprised everyone and made them increase their vigilance.

Guyuan Heaven was mysterious and unfathomable, and one shouldn’t lower one’s guard at any time. Fortunately, no one felt anything unusual within their bodies once the wave passed.

“Huh?” someone murmured puzzledly. Rays of brilliant light were suddenly released from the lotus platform below him. The light was of five different colors and lingered on the lotus platform, looking particularly mysterious. Furthermore, as the five-colored light appeared, the ancestral qi gathering on his lotus platform clearly quickened.

“What’s that?” Everyone sounded surprised. But before they could think deeper about it, they noticed mysterious light halos blooming from all 25 lotus platforms. However, the halos were either of five or six different colors.

“I know that the light halos represent the lotus platform’s grade...I read in an ancient book that the lotus platform is ranked into nine grades, with grade nine shown by nine different colors. If my guess is correct, the waves of energy previously released from the stone tablet were to evaluate our talent and potential. Those with greater talent and potential will see a higher grade in their lotus platforms. The higher one’s lotus platform grade, the greater opportunities one will obtain,” someone explained.

Everyone looked over to see it was Ai Qing of the Spirit Phoenix Clan speaking.

“I understand…”    

Suddenly, a light dawned on everyone’s face. Then, they swept their gazes across the others’ lotus platforms. 

It was then that they discovered the lotus platforms of Ai Qing, Dong Ye, Qin Lian, Jin Ling’er were blooming with seven different colors. They had become grade-7 lotus platforms.

As the grade-7 platforms took shape, the stone tablet emitted low cries, and mighty Genesis Qi gushed towards them like torrents. Moreover, the torrent carried several mysterious objects of which the most striking were several ancestral qi treasures!

Hua!    

Many people’s eyes reddened with envy. Who would have thought there would be such gifts after forming a grade-7 lotus platform? But while everyone was sighing, even more dazzling lights came into their line of sight. The lights were of eight different colors!

“Grade-8 lotus platforms?!”    

Everyone cast astonished gazes towards the three lotus platforms blooming with eight different colors.

Unsurprisingly, Guan Qinglong and Jiang Jinlin were among the three. But they were shocked to see that the third person was Chu Qing from Cangxuan Heaven!

His talent and potential were comparable with Guan Qinglong and Jiang Jinlin?!

Even Guan Qinglong and Jiang Jinlin couldn’t help glancing at Chu Qing. Guan Qinglong looked a little better because he had already sensed that Chi Qing had remarkable talent, but Jiang Jinlin didn’t look too happy. As an arrogant person, he could accept Guan Qinglong, the strongest Heavenly Sun expert in Hunyuan Heaven, to be on the same level as him, but Chu Qing was a nobody.

But no matter how unhappy he was, he had to accept the truth.

As their grade-8 lotus platforms took shape, the ancient stone tablet vibrated even more violently, gushing out more powerful Genesis Qi and ancestral qi treasures. The gifts for grade-8 lotus platforms were naturally superior to those for grade-7 platforms.

Many people stared at the three grade-8 lotus platforms with glances of envy and awe.

“Grade-8 lotus platforms are remarkable…but if even Guan Qinglong and Jiang Jinlin, our two commanders, only reached grade 8, it seems that grade-8 lotus platforms are the limit.”

“Grade-9 lotus platforms are impossible to achieve.”    

“....”

Amid low murmurs, three lights suddenly bloomed from three different lotus platforms. They were all eight different colors, attracting stunned gazes.

Three figures sat quietly on those lotus platforms—two women and one man.

It was Wu Yao, Su Youwei and Zhao Mushen!

Everyone’s eyes widened when they learned that the three people’s lotus platforms were ranked grade 8. They repeatedly sighed, knowing that Guan Qinglong and the others were veteran Heavenly Sun experts, while Wu Yao and the others were of a younger generation. Generally speaking, their generation shouldn’t be qualified to enter Guyuan Heaven, but the three were too outstanding to not enter. 

But who would have thought that the three’s talents and potentials were not inferior to Guan Qinglong and the others?

“No! It hasn’t ended!” someone suddenly exclaimed! 

Even the pupils of Guan Qinglong and Jiang Jinlin shrank as they stared at the three grade-8 lotus platforms, which were eight different colors like theirs. They found that the eight-colored lights were surging violently as though climbing with all their strength. At that deadlocked moment when the lights appeared to have reached their limits, a faint, almost imperceptible light flashed among the eight colors.

The ninth color!    

But the ninth color was too faint. It only made a flash and then calmed down.

Jiang Jinlin couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief. If the three lotus platforms were ranked as grade 9, it would be really hard for him to accept it. Although it seemed that Wu Yao, Su Youwei, and Zhao Mushen’s lotus platforms were stronger than his, they were ultimately still only grade 8.

“The talents and potential of those three have reached such a level…Hunyuan Heaven is indeed strong.” Even Jiang Jinlin had to admit that Hunyuan Heaven was rightfully named the strongest of the five heavens.

“However, in the end, no one achieved the legendary grade-9 lotus platform.”

Jiang Jinlin was happy with the result.

No!

He suddenly remembered something and shifted his gaze.

That guy hasn’t started!  

He was looking in Zhou Yuan’s direction!    

Guan Qinglong and the others also stared intently at Zhou Yuan’s platform, which was the only one that was still calm and quiet.

However, the lotus platform soon vibrated and buzzed.

Then, mysterious light halos erupted!

One…three…six…eight…   

Eight halos appeared within seconds.  

The lotus platform stilled for a moment after the eight halos appeared, but then another halo bloomed unhesitatingly.

Wu Yao and the others were unable to summon the ninth light halo despite urging repeatedly, but there wasn’t the slightest obstruction with Zhou Yuan’s lotus platform.

Nine light halos revolved around the lotus platform; they were stunning, mysterious and radiating an ancient charm.

It was a grade-9 lotus platform!

As Guan Qinglong, Jiang Jinlin and everyone else stared at Zhou Yuan sitting quietly within the nine halos, their eyes widened in astonishment.

Rumble!  

The ancient stone tablet vibrated like never before, and the whole world seemed to be rumbling with cheers from ancient times.

Boom!  

Immediately afterward, a current of ancestral qi swept out from the stone tablet with countless ancestral qi treasures and directly drowned Zhou Yuan and his lotus platform.

The gifts of ancestral qi treasures seemed endless!   

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