System: After the fortune telling, my cultivation level skyrocketed.

Xuan Ye stared at the Bone-Illuminating Mirror, momentarily lost in thought. After a while, he came back to his senses and began to scrutinize Chen Xuan with an extremely serious gaze.

"Could it be..." Chen Xuan asked, slightly nervously, "that I didn't pass?"

Seeing Chen Xuan's nervousness, Xuan Ye shook his head slightly, then gave a relatively kind and friendly smile and said, "Your talent is truly rare, little guy. You've passed the test. Proceed to the next stage and wait."

"Thank you, senior." Chen Xuan breathed a sigh of relief, bowed respectfully, and immediately flew away from the jade platform. Before leaving, he didn't forget to look back at the spirit beast Bai Li, who was eagerly waiting on the ground in the distance.

"Master, you are the best!" Bai Li jumped up and down excitedly when she saw her master turn around and said telepathically.

Soon, Chen Xuan arrived at the location of the second checkpoint.

This is a plaza in a valley, where a hundred or so people have gathered, all of whom are young people who barely passed the first stage.

After Chen Xuan landed, many people turned their attention to him, seemingly quite surprised that he had passed the first test.

The second checkpoint was guarded by a middle-aged woman in blue. Although her face was not exceptionally beautiful, the aura she exuded was extremely terrifying. Standing in front of her, Chen Xuan felt as if he were under the heavy pressure of a towering mountain.

"The fact that you were able to pass the first test, the bone-revealing mirror, shows that you are all people with a solid foundation."

The woman in green glanced at everyone and continued, "This second challenge is called the 'Heart Painting.' Look here."

After speaking, the woman in green lightly waved her sleeve, and a large number of bronze tripods of various sizes and three different specifications appeared instantly on the open ground in front of the square.

"The first row of bronze cauldrons weighs approximately three thousand catties; the second and third rows weigh approximately six thousand catties and nine thousand catties respectively. The greater the weight of the bronze cauldrons, the greater your potential, and the more you will be valued after becoming formal disciples of our sect. Lifting the cauldron over your shoulder and holding it for ten breaths constitutes success."

After the words were spoken, the younger generation who had arrived at this juncture all showed relaxed and carefree smiles.

"A mere nine thousand catties? I specialize in the Divine Demon Body Refining Technique and have already reached the Foundation Establishment Realm. Lifting tens of thousands of catties is no problem for me. How could this second challenge be so easy?"

"Yes, such a simple test, it's really incomprehensible why no one has been able to become a formal disciple of Xuanqing Palace in the past three thousand years?"

"It is indeed puzzling, but I have heard that the test content for each sect selection is different. Perhaps this time it is relatively simple."

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The young men chatted casually among themselves, and then rushed toward the six-thousand-jin and nine-thousand-jin bronze cauldrons. Clearly, everyone present was quite interested in the nine-thousand-jin bronze cauldron.

Upon hearing these words, the woman in green guarding the second checkpoint shook her head slightly, a hint of disappointment flashing in her eyes. However, she said nothing more, simply observing everything unfolding before her.

Chen Xuan did not join the crowd in scrambling for the bronze cauldrons weighing six thousand or even nine thousand jin. Instead, he stood still for a moment, pondered for a while, and then slowly walked towards the first row of bronze cauldrons weighing three thousand jin.

"Heart painting?"

"This is a sect that ranks among the top in the entire county. How could they have set the second challenge so easily? There must be something fishy about this."

Chen Xuan habitually reasoned based on cause and effect. If it were really that simple, then Xuanqing Palace wouldn't have failed to recruit even a single formal disciple at the disciple recruitment ceremony three years ago. There must have been some hidden secret behind it.

As doubts arose in his mind, Chen Xuan had already walked to the front of the bronze cauldrons. The cauldrons were simple and heavy in shape, and even had some patina on their surface, indicating that this type of assessment was not the first time it had appeared.