Not A Cultivator

"..."

Elder Zhou became speechless.

The tool only recognises one person as its master. Elder Chen, who has his Qi registered, could set how many Qi used to protect the door to the Supreme Martial Palace. Without hesitation, Elder Chen put in the strongest and most difficult setting.

The Qi it uses to protect was a special kind of Qi protector that pushes back another Qi that was not of its kind. The higher the Qi protector it uses, the more the door will reject foreign Qi. Since every single living human being has Qi, it rejected all those who even touched the door.

One of the way to open the door was with overwhelming strength that the Qi protector could not even handle. However, that strength requires at least of Jade Mortal Realm, which none of the more than 900 people attempting to open the door has.

After a long silence, Elder Zhou finally opened his mouth, "Why?"

It's only a single word, but the meaning was very clear. The one who should have his Qi registered is not Elder Chen, but one of the senior in charge of the recruitment process. In fact, all the Elder agreed not to interfere unless there's a danger like the appearance of Scholar Jin or a murder.

A senior looked really nervous as he slowly dropped to the floor, then kneeled, "The one who has his Qi registered is me, but Elder Chen forced me to hand over the ownership. He said he will make it so that Young Master Feng won't ever open the door. But... but... I didn't know he set it to the hardest one."

"Just to take care of Feng Zhi Yan?! Didn't he realise, we can take care of him in the last test?! F*ck you, Chen Jing!! Argh, What am I doing cursing to someone who's already died." Elder Zhou looked really grim, then he turned toward the senior kneeling on the floor. "You know the rules, but did not reject him?"

"Please forgive me, Elder. I really can't refuse the request of an Elder. Especially, Elder Chen said that it's for the sake of the Cloud Moon Palace to not get on Feng Ao Xiu's bad side."

"You... You..." Elder Zhou wanted to curse at the senior, but held back as there's a more important situation at hand. "We... We'll talk about this later. Now, everyone thinks of a way to solve this problem."

All the elders and the seniors quickly discussed it with each other. They finally came to a conclusion. Either make everyone pass or fails.

"There's no other choice. We have to make everyone pass. Failing them isn't an option, not only we won't get new disciples, Scholar Jin will resent the Cloud Moon Palace." said Elder Zhou, reminding everyone that it was Scholar Jin who encouraged them to resume the recruitment process.

Since the respected Elder Zhou has said so, the rest just nodded and supported his decision.

Just when they want to announce that everyone will pass the third test due to technical error, a senior barged in to the room and reported. He looked really shocked as he said, "It opened... It opened!!"

"Calm down!" said Elder Zhou. "What has opened?"

"That... That... It opened!" said the senior as he pointed to the door he just went through.

Elder Zhou saw the door the senior pointed at, but nothing seemed strange, "Of course the door opened, you just went through it."

"Not... Not that one. Not that one!"

"Then, which one? Wait..." Elder Zhou got a mixed feeling about this, "Are you perhaps talking about the main door to the Supreme Martial Palace?"

"Ehh... Supreme Martial Palace?" .

"The door that our prospective disciples tried to open in the third test." Elder Zhou said.

The senior shook his head. "Oh, I'm not talking about that one."

"Then, what the hell are you talking about?!" Elder Zhou's losing his patience.

The senior slightly bowed and said, "The Longing Precious Hall has opened. It's decided that our newest elder, Ning Ruo will teach there in our branch!"

The other elders and seniors get up from their seat and erupted in a cheer.

"This is great for our branch! Ning Ruo is most certainly guaranteed to be the future Sect Master. With her presence, our branch will certainly receive more attention!"

"Finally, heavens graced us with her presence. At last, our branch will finally have a chance to get out of the last place!"

"Elder Zhou, congratulations! As the leader of our branch, this means you will be transferred to the main branch soon! This calls for a feast!"

"Haahaa! Stop it! It has not been finalised yet!" Elder Zhou happily said, "Phew... I really thought that somebody opened the door to the Supreme Martial Palace!"

"What's wrong with the door to Supreme Martial Palace? Isn't it meant to be opened by the disciple candidates?" It was the senior who brought the happy news, who asked.

"Aiya... You must have not known!" Elder Zhou replied. "The door was set by Chen Jing to the highest and most difficult level. But with him not being alive anymore, we don't have any choice but to let everyone pass the third test."

"Ehhh!! It was set to the highest one?! But... But... That..." The senior exclaimed in surprise.

"Yes, I know it's shocking, right. I should have never allowed Chen Jing to be our elder."

"But... But... It opened!" said the senior.

"Yes... Yes... We know that Longing Precious Hall has opened." said Elder Zhou, "Now go and do your job."

"Not... Not that one. Not that one!"

"Then, which one?" asked Elder Zhou.

"The door to the Supreme Martial Palace! Someone has successfully opened that door!"

Everyone exclaimed, "What?!"

***

"Young master, you are so awesome!" Fang Ye Na said. "In my case, it won't even budge, but the door becomes as weightless as paper in front of you."

"Awesome!" Su Mei exclaimed.

The one who has successfully opened the door was none other than Feng Ao Xiu. While the door was protected by the Qi protector, it only reacts to other Qi. To Feng Ao Xiu who has no Qi at all, it has become useless.

Although he has successfully entered inside, he turned around and went back to his friends. Feng Ao Xiu had no interest in succeeding alone, his goal was to help Su Mei. If Su Mei cannot proceed, there's no reason he should proceed.

The other candidates asked Young Master Feng for help. But with the said person refused to help, they could only try their own best.

Meanwhile, Jing Wu Chu, who knew Feng Ao Xiu's real cultivation, stared hard at him. Hers and Feng Ao Xiu's conclusions were the same, someone who has no Qi were not affected.

They wanted to make sure Su Mei got accepted as disciple. But with these strong men could not even enter, what could they do to help a five years old?

Jing Wu Chu and Jing Wu Chu were especially concerned. The former has become restless, and the latter couldn't help but grasped Su Mei's little hand tightly.

"Young master, what about her?" Fang Ye Na asked as she glanced towards the little girl.

Feng Ao Xiu was in deep thought.

The senior in charge in front of the door said, that each candidate could only try and enters one at a time. That means the possibility of Feng Ao Xiu opening the door for the others will not be accepted.

[Is this a mistake? If only I can open the door, what about the doors? Should I make Su Mei stronger, but I don't have the ingredients. Even if I have the ingredients, I don't have the time and the tool.]

Moments later, Feng Ao Xiu sighed and said, "There's no other choice. Let's just destroy the door!"

Fang Ye Na and Jing Wu Chu tilted her head in confusion, "???"