Knowing that Yan Dapang indeed possessed true skills, Duan Gujin finally breathed a sigh of relief.
He had been worried that Yan Dapang might not pass the Heaven Seizing Exam, but now he realized he had been overly concerned.
"Let's keep pushing forward!"
Duan Gujin guessed that their team was the first to break through the challenges.
After running wildly for a while, they finally saw the finish line.
To prevent the disciples of the Heaven Stealing Immortal Sect from noticing his covert assistance to Yan Dapang, he sprinted ahead as they neared the finish line.
A bit later, Yan Dapang arrived at the finish line, panting heavily.
At the finish line, several disciples from the Heaven Stealing Immortal Sect were waiting for them.
These disciples hurriedly administered an Elixir Pill to each person to help them recover their Primordial Power.
Duan Gujin and Yan Dapang reached the side of the finish line, took the Elixir Pills, and then rested on the side to recover their Primordial Power.
After a while, more Martial Artists rushed out from the cave.
The disciples of the Heaven Stealing Immortal Sect that had been waiting there provided Elixir Pills to the Martial Artists who emerged, helping them quickly recover their Primordial Power at the finish line.
Time passed little by little, and an hour later, Duan Gujin and the others had completely recovered their Primordial Power.
Duan Gujin's Divine Sense extended outward, detecting approximately fifty people nearby.
That meant that only half of the group, which initially had over a hundred people, had passed this stage.
Duan Gujin speculated that this time the Jiuzhou Continent had over a hundred thousand contestants, but only a thousand would eventually enter the Heaven Stealing Immortal Sect, indicating an extremely terrifying elimination rate.
To recruit real talent, the Heaven Stealing Immortal Sect would undoubtedly use various methods to select individuals with strong capabilities.
"Everyone, follow me, we're going on to the second stage of the test!"
An Immortal Sect Elder came in with a group of contestants from outside, and then instructed two teams to merge together to form a squad of about a hundred people.
Duan Gujin and Yan Dapang mingled with this hundred-person team, listening intently to the Elder's words.
The Elder loudly announced to the hundred-person squad, "The next challenge is simple; it's to test your movement technique. The cave you'll enter is called the Wind Cave, where the stone walls emit strong gusts of wind. Be extremely cautious of the blasts from the stone walls as you make your way through! The requirement to pass is simple; traverse the Wind Cave within 15 minutes!"
Then, the Elder instructed Duan Gujin and Yan Dapang's hundred-person squad to enter a cave in front.
Inside, the cave was pitch-black, but fortunately, the Martial Artists, such as Duan Gujin, could use Divine Sense Inspection to clearly scout the terrain in the dark.
Otherwise, they would have been blind in the cave.
"Just charge ahead, this cave has only one path, why are you all standing still?"
The Elder roared.
Initially, the people inside the cave were just listening for further instructions from the Elder, but when he told them to charge, they rapidly dashed deeper into the path.
"Fortunately, there's no gravity pressure here!"
After running about ten meters, Yan Dapang secretly communicated to Duan Gujin.
"Anyway, we need to be very cautious!"
Duan Gujin frowned slightly, remembering this stage was called the Wind Cave, so fierce winds would definitely surge out within the path.
Yet, he hadn't seen any strong winds so far.
"Where is the wind? Where?"
As he pondered, suddenly, he heard a series of crisp clinking sounds of chains being pulled from the walls ahead.
After a moment, he saw multiple dark square holes appearing in the stone wall ahead, and the path facing those holes was paved entirely with blue bricks.
Seeing this, Duan Gujin and the nearby Martial Artists' expressions changed dramatically, realizing that the so-called fierce winds were about to blow out from those dark square holes.
"Charge!"
Those Martial Artists only hesitated for a moment, then they exhibited Extreme Speed and surged forward.
They unleashed their fastest speed, intending to pass through the so-called Wind Cave before the square openings expelled the strongest winds.
Duan Gujin took a deep breath, his body flashed, and like the other Martial Artists, he transformed into a streak of light and charged forward.
"Oh, I'm dizzy! Had I known, I should have kept more fat on me! This obstacle might prove too difficult for me!"
In the team, Yan Dapang suddenly thought that if he still had his old fat body, he would definitely pass this obstacle with ease.
"It seems I shouldn't be too thin after all!"
He thought to himself.
He knew this obstacle was something he had to rely solely on himself, and he guessed there wouldn't be any Gravity pressure involved.
Whooosh!
Moments later, fast-moving winds blew out from those square openings, creating a whooshing sound on the mountain path that nearly burst everyone's eardrums.
Ah!
A Martial Artist, caught off guard by a fierce tornado, was completely enveloped by the tornado and thrown against the stone wall on the other side.
The Martial Artist was unable to stabilize himself and slammed into the opposite stone wall.
The Martial Artist who hit the stone wall didn't produce a loud collision sound but disappeared into the stone wall in an instant.
Seeing the Martial Artist disappear, everyone knew he must have been teleported out.
Although this method wouldn't allow the fierce winds to blow away the Martial Artists' bodies and injure them, once a Martial Artist was teleported out, it meant they lost their qualification to compete.
This obstacle wasn't too difficult for Duan Gujin and Yan Dapang.
Then, they successfully passed the second obstacle.
This time, out of a hundred people in the team, more than seventy successfully passed.
"Didn't expect the exam content of Heaven Stealing Immortal Sect to be so detailed!"
Then, an elder led them to the entrance of the third obstacle.
"This time, Heaven Stealing Immortal Sect will test your physical strength! Do you see those iron barrels in front? You'll grab the iron handles on top of those barrels and then carry the barrels as you rush forward!"
Duan Gujin and others gasped upon seeing those barrels.
Those iron barrels were at least half a person tall, genuinely made entirely of iron.
Duan Gujin went forward and lifted one, discovering that the iron barrel weighed at least a thousand catties.
"Oh my god! How can this barrel be so heavy? How can I lift it?"
Many young girls exclaimed in shock.
"Mr. Duan, these two barrels of mine are too heavy, I guess each weighs a thousand catties! Together, that's two thousand catties!"
Yan Dapang weighed the two barrels and found them to be very heavy.
Thinking that he had to carry these two barrels through the cave in front, his face paled instantly.
"Mine are heavy too; there's nothing we can do, we really can only follow the elder's instructions!"
Duan Gujin's eyes flickered, his mind rapidly turning as he pondered how to lift those two-thousand-catty iron barrels.
But after thinking for a long time, he couldn't come up with any method.
"Everyone get ready! One, Two, Three, Go!"
The elder responsible for this obstacle immediately had the hundred Martial Artists carrying the iron barrels charge in.
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