Chapter 155 - Cheating I

So, as he forced himself to get back on his feet, but found it really hard to do so, a thought suddenly popped in his mind

'Should I unleash a bit of my vampiric power to give myself more strength so that I will be able to force myself back to my feet?' He asked inwardly with a contemplative expression in his face.

'Hmm. I guess that's the only thing that I can do right now, or I will fail this test and be immediately taken out of this place.' Xiao Lin said further inwardly.

Then with an odd glow flashing in his eyes which were already closed and prevented the unseen entity residing within this shrine from seeing it, currents of a well-concealed, seemingly ancient power began to surface and circulate about in his body.

Once these currents of power appeared in his body, and which was hard to notice by the powerful senses of either the shrine-inhabiting entity or the examination-conducting elders, since it didn't ripple off from his body apart from being well-hidden, Xiao Lin began to feel a rapid increase in his physical muscular strength, which then gradually allowed him to begin to withstand the slowly increasing vast pressure that pressed down heavily upon him.

Then when he felt that the amount of True Vampiric power that he caused to appear in his body was enough, since his body's strength had shot up to the point of now being able to resist the pressure that certainly felt that like some enormous, unseen mass was pressing against him, he decided to force himself to get back on his feet.

So, with long and deep growls of determination and an unbreakable resolve, producing the absolute feeling in the mind of anyone that he was really trying his best to muster a great deal of strength to be able to get back on his feet, which was only a facade, Xiao Lin began to climb back to his feet, slowly but surely.

At first, when Xiao Lin was on his chest against the ground since that immense pressure suddenly appeared and descended on him, instantly causing him to fall with his front first to the ground, and then pressed him heavily to the tiled floor of the shrine so that he wouldn't get back on his feet, the elders who were watching Xiao Lin and were utterly impressed by him after easily overpowering one of their best, lower-level elite disciples, they couldn't help but shake their heads sadly and in a frustrated manner when they felt that Xiao Lin would definitely fail in this place, since he seemed to lack the strength to be able to get back on his feet.

But to their great shocks, they were amazed to see Xiao Lin stand back to his feet slowly.

"This boy is really persistent, determined, and has a lot of tenacity. I like him. I hope he can complete the trials so that he can become a disciple of our great sect." One of the elders suddenly said with a smile in his face from where he was as he watched Xiao Lin try to get back to his feet to advance to the place where the diagrams transmission will take place.

"Same here. I hope he can really complete the trials so that he will become our disciple. It's people like him that are really befitting for our sects. The sects needs people like him who are dogged, persevering, strong, challenging and above all, try to surpass their limits in everything." One elder said with a bright smile in his face.

He then continued with his brows furrowing when something suddenly came to his mind, "And even if he does fails because he isn't taking the exact same exams that others will take, the sect must try to acquire him. We can't lose this kind of person, even though he might not be a cultivation genius, to other sects that are out there and are really trying hard to compete with us and surpass us to become the best."

"Yes, Elder Luo, I completely agree with you on what you just said. So, if that boy does fail the exams, we will make him an exception by passing him. He just have to be ordained as a disciple into our glorious sect." Another elder said, showing that he totally agreed to what the elder called Elder Luo mentioned.

While the unseen entity inhabiting the shrine and was also amazed that Xiao Lin could still stand back to his feet to further advance within the shrine, despite the heavy pressure that it put out and will certainly press a fourth-layer Mortal Spiritual stage cultivator to the ground for an indefinite period of time, chose to increase the pressure a little bit again so as to see Xiao Lin's true limit.

Immediately the pressure increased, Xiao Lin who had taken a few steps which clearly showed that he was really struggling to walk towards the place where the enigmatic cultivation diagrams would be transmitted to his mind for unraveling, all because of the intense pressure acting continuously on him, suddenly fell with one of his knees to the ground.

"Hmm. The shrine artifact spirit has increased the pressure once again. I don't think this lad will be able to make it to that place, or can he?" One of the elders watching Xiao Lin asked with a solemn expression in his face.

"Haha. I seriously doubt it" Another immediately said after he ended his chuckle.

Xiao Lin who had fallen with one of his knees to the ground, quickly caused more True Vampiric power to appear in his body. And as soon as currents of this peculiar power manifested within his body, he abruptly channeled them like streams of energy to his two legs where they rapidly imbued his legs muscles and made them much more stronger so that they would be able to resist the new level of pressure that was acting on his body.

And immediately he did this, Xiao Lin unexpectedly roared towards the high ceiling of the huge shrine, then he forced himself to get back on his feet from his one-leg kneeling position that he was forced to go into when the pressure acting on him suddenly increased by a tad.

So, now that he was on his feet, he began to head towards the place where the diagram transmission will take place.

And not long, other people that were able to conquer the highly-proficient disciples of the Celestial Dragon Emperor sect, began to arrive one after other before the shrine. Then as soon as their bodies rapidly materialized from the spatial displacement power that moved them through fabric of space to this region, the anciently voice of the unseen entity residing within the shrine, suddenly rang out in their minds at all once, telling them what to do next.

After listening to it instruction and the obstacle that awaited them within, they courageously stepped in with resolute gazes in their eyes.

However, as soon as they stepped in with the varying degrees of pressure that emanated from the shrine artifact spirit suddenly descending upon them, they immediately fell with their chests to the ground, since they weren't expecting it. While the pressure that pressed them hard to the tiled floor of the shrine, simply produced the terrifying feeling in each of their minds that it basically wanted to smash their bodies into thousands of bloody fragments. .

But when they recalled what the shrine artifact spirit told them, they braced themselves to push themselves back to their feet. And as they tried to do so, they discovered to their shock that they couldn't bring themselves to stand back to their feet. However, the only exception were a short boy and a tall, slender girl that were at different areas of the shrine's large hall. They had basically mustered strength within their arms and legs and then stood to their feet to advance to the distant place that Xiao Lin was heading to.

And not long, like a few minutes later, they arrived directly behind Xiao Lin.

Now, they could easily surpass Xiao Lin if they wanted to. And since they wanted to, as they were now even competing amongst themselves on who would first get to the place where the diagram transmission will take place, they outpaced Xiao Lin who was now a feet feet behind them and began to mysteriously pick up speed as they walked to that place, giving the shocking feeling to everyone watching them that no pressure was acting on the both of them.

'Hmm' Xiao Lin said with a smile within himself.

Anyways, he wasn't in a hurry to rush down there, since he would get there very soon. Besides, he wasn't one that would let the activities of others to influence his. Then furthermore, he wouldn't like to partake in their meaninglessness competition, since it was literally all of them that were given one month to unravel the mysteries locked up in the various mystifying diagrams that will be sent to each of their minds. And finally, he doesn't want to reveal any of his powers and attributes in any way. So, he would gradually inject his myriad strange powers into various parts of his body to grant him some level of ability to be able to finish certain tasks at this examination ground.