When his vision became clear again, Lin Shen found himself in a strange place.
Looking around, he found that the place he was in was very spacious, with an area of tens of thousands of square meters, larger than a football field, and looked like a hall.
Underfoot is a ground paved with bluestone slabs, surrounded by high walls, with a huge portal embedded in each wall.
There was mist behind the door, and you couldn't see the slightest bit of the scene inside.
However, what is more eye-catching is the lingering clouds and mist above the head, as if covered with a layer of pure white gauze.
"Is this the fog formation?"
Lin Shen murmured to himself, and suddenly felt something hard in his palm. When he looked down, he realized that there was a jade talisman in his hand.
There is a number 0 displayed in the middle above.
Lin Shen instantly understood that this should be the jade talisman mentioned in the rules that could record scores and protect at the same time.
After carefully putting the jade talisman away, Lin Shen walked in a random direction.
The format of this exam is to survive the formation, not to break through the formation. In other words, it is the same no matter which portal you choose.
The only difference is that if you are lucky, you may encounter the one with an altar.
But before Lin Shen had walked a few steps, he suddenly heard roars coming from above.
Looking up, the clouds and mist in the sky surged violently and condensed at an alarming speed, forming a ferocious beast with horns on its forehead, resembling a tiger or a leopard, with wings on its back.
In the blink of an eye, there were more than a dozen ferocious beasts in the sky, each roaring like thunder and swooping towards Lin Shen with murderous intent.
"Mist beast!"
Lin Shen's eyes narrowed, and he shot out lightning with his palm, hitting the head of the charging fog beast. The latter didn't even hum, and instantly exploded into mist that filled the sky.
This attack was somewhat unexpected by Lin Shen. After killing a few more fog beasts, he suddenly realized what he was doing.
These mist beasts look ferocious, but in fact they only have the first level of pneumatic cultivation.
Lin Shen didn't even need to use martial arts, he could kill him with just one blow.
As for the candidates who are qualified to take the exam, the weakest ones have the fifth level of pneumatic cultivation. It is not easy to deal with this kind of fog beast.
But soon, Lin Shen realized something was wrong.
Every time he kills a fog beast, the scattered fog will return to the sky, condense into new fog beasts, and kill them again without interruption.
Every second, he was surrounded by no less than ten fog beasts.
After walking less than a hundred meters, Lin Shen had already killed more than twenty fog beasts, and gained more than twenty points on the jade talisman.
"This is a rhythm that forcefully exhausts the candidates' energy!"
Lin Shen clicked his tongue.
Generally speaking, a practitioner with the fifth level of pneumatic movement can deal with seven or eight opponents with the first level of pneumatic movement at the same time.
A few outstanding players can even beat ten.
But in this way, even if the winner wins in the end, the winner will inevitably be defeated.
What's more, we have to face more than a dozen opponents who can be quickly resurrected after death. Ordinary fifth-level practitioners of Qi are afraid that they will be exhausted in a short time.
Sure enough, when Lin Shen broke through the siege and arrived at the portal at the left end of the hall, he suddenly felt that the strength of the fog beasts around him had become significantly stronger, almost reaching the second level of aerodynamics.
At this time, less than five minutes had passed since entering the fog formation.
"Isn't this likely to eliminate dozens of people at once?"
Lin Shen sighed with emotion, swung his palm to kill the fog beast in front of him, and stepped into the door.
His eyes flashed, and when he came back to his senses, Lin Shen found that he was in a large hall again.
Surrounded by the same high walls and paved with bluestone.
The same four portals are filled with clouds and mist.
Roar!
With a thunderous roar, more than a dozen fog beasts quickly formed and swooped down towards Lin Shen.
Lin Shen's expression remained unchanged and he calmly greeted him.
In a place where others cannot see, he has switched the talent column to Perseverance.
This big test is not just about who can kill the most fog beasts, but also about who can last longer in the fog formation.
The longer you persist, not only will you get more points, but you will also have a greater chance of finding the altar.
And once you consume too much energy in order to kill more fog beasts in the early stage, when the fog beasts become stronger later, they are likely to be quickly eliminated.
Therefore, Lin Shen did not go all out to kill the fog beast, but tried his best to maintain a balanced state of physical consumption and recovery.
With his talent for perseverance, he is confident that he has a huge advantage over other candidates in terms of physical strength.
Three minutes have passed since the big exam started.
Lights and shadows flashed one after another on the square, and oval-shaped shields appeared out of thin air.
The protective shield dissipated, revealing candidates who were all downcast and gloomy.
These are all people who lost the battle with the fog beasts and were eliminated and sent out of the fog formation.
The one with the highest score among them only scored 20 or 30 points, so he can be sure that he has been excluded from the Taoist Academy's admissions process.
"This exam is too difficult!"
"That's right, those mist beasts will come back to life after being killed. How can we fight against them?"
"I only got more than 20 points. Now let alone the top two hundred, I won't even be in the top four hundred. I will definitely be ranked at the bottom!"
"It's completely hopeless now"
Lamentations came and went, and many candidates fell to the ground slumped, looking pale.
Ke Ya and Cai Zhonggu seemed to have not seen each other, their expressions were indifferent.
They had seen similar scenes countless times, and their hearts were already as solid as stone.
The road is vast and the journey is difficult and dangerous.
The path of spiritual practice is already full of thorns, and those who do not have sufficient qualifications would be better off giving up early. This would actually be a good thing for them.
On the water curtain, light and shadow surged, and candidates were fighting hard against the fog beasts.
Some were trapped in place by fog beasts, unable to break out and could only struggle to hold on.
Some were so powerful that they broke through the siege of the fog beasts and entered each portal to search for the existence of the altar.
at the same time.
A ranking list also appeared in the corner of the water curtain, listing the names and scores of each candidate.
First place, Zhao Xueying, 128 points
Second place, Yan Xing, 126 points
Third place, Chong Yanhe, 125 points
Fourth place, Xue Feng, 123 points
Fifth place, Wei Cheng, 95 points
As time goes by, the names and scores on the ranking list continue to change dramatically.
Especially the closer to the bottom of the list, the more frequent the changes.
Although the rankings of Zhao Xueying are also constantly changing, they have always been firmly in the top four of the list, and have a clear distance from the candidates behind them.
At this moment, Cai Zhonggu suddenly let out a low groan, pointed at a name on the list and said:
"Who is this person?"
Ke Ya followed the position he pointed to and saw a candidate named Lin Shen, with a score of 85, ranking 23rd.
"Lin Shen? It's a very unfamiliar name." Ke Ya frowned in confusion.
He had more or less impressions of the children of aristocratic families who took part in this year's exam, but this candidate named Lin Shen was very unfamiliar.
Ke Ya immediately called the disciple next to him and asked him to take out the list and check it.
Soon, the disciple replied:
"Two directors, this candidate named Lin Shen is not a child of aristocratic family."
Cai Zhonggu and Ke Ya were startled when they heard this.
The two of them looked at each other and could see the surprise in each other's eyes.
Ordinary students can actually squeeze into the top thirty?