Chapter 44: Annual Examination (4)

Everyone got on the stage and entered their respective arrays.

20 Disciples from both sects sat cross-legged on the prepared arrays and closed their eyes. As soon as their eyes closed, they found themselves sitting in a strange empty room.

Miaomiao opened his eyes and looked around. The other 19 disciples had disappeared, leaving him alone in this familiar room. When he looked around and realized where he was, Miaomiao laughed.

"Are you kidding me? Am I supposed to take the test here? Am I supposed to face my fear or whatever illusion here? Really?"

This place was an isolation space that he always visited at night, but the size and color were a bit different.

Unlike his own space where he always entered there naked, Miaomiao arrived here with his clothes, armor, but his spatial ring and weapons didn't come with him.

[[Ding]]

[[You have entered an unknown Isolation Training Space.]]

[[Scanning the space...]]

[[Auto-resurrection function has been detected. You will be resurrected in the real world upon death.]]

[[Warning, auto self-heal function, respawn function, and debug functions are disabled.]]

[[Warning, everything you do here will be broadcasted to the real world.]]

[[Warning, all training progress here will not be carried to the real world.]]

When Miaomiao heard that he could not exploit the self-heal functions, his face turned dark. He circulated his Qi and activated his body enhancement skill right away, preparing for whatever this realm would summon to challenge him.

Demonic Body Strengthening!

Miaomiao's reflex speed and his strength increased. He reached the same state as when he fought 10 thugs in the bar.

*WHOOM*

Something was summoned into the room as Miaomiao had expected. However, as soon as the being appeared, Miaomiao almost screamed in shock.

It was the naked clone of Xu Xiuying! The heart devil that Miaomiao had was unexpectedly the clone that murdered him 100 times in a row.

"Oh, shit. Not her!"

Learning from his mistakes, Miaomiao didn't listen to his rooster. He took a fighting stance and prepared for battle

"Come here, son. Let me hug you."

The clone didn't attack him right away, but she seduced him. The jiggling and bouncing white breasts attracted Miaomiao's eyes for a moment, but he didn't fall for it this time.

'Too bad, stupid clone. I've banged over 300 women, and I have enough sex partners. I don't need you in my harem!'

Upon seeing that Miaomiao wasn't affected by her seduction, the clone's face changed. She pointed her finger at him and started using her Yin techniques.

"!!!"

Miaomiao kicked the ground and ran away from Xu Xiuying.

*BOOM*

A large boulder dropped on the place that Miaomiao had stood. Several ice spikes extended from the ground, chasing after him.

Seeing the chasing spikes, Miaomiao increased his speed.

As Miaomiao kept the distance from the clone's attacks, he circled around her, avoiding the ice spikes while trying to find an opening. At the same time, he circulated his Qi into his right palm, getting ready to counterattack.

But the clone suddenly kicked the ground and chased after him. She also pointed her right index finger at his face.

"Not again!"

Miaomiao canceled his skill and summoned an ice shield, using 1,000 strands of Yin Qi.

Ten ice bullets were fired from Xu Xiuying's finger and rained upon the ice shield. When the 11th bullet hit the shield, it broke into fragments.

As expected, the firepower of a 6th stage cultivator overwhelmed Miaomiao.

But Miaomiao's left hand had finished conjuring another technique. He waved his left arm and tossed something toward Xu Xiuying, who had already got close to Miaomiao.

It was one of the most dangerous skills that he had, the Yang Flame. Just by activating this skill, Miaomiao's left hand was scorched. No skin was left on his left hand, leaving only cooked red layers of the inner flesh.

Miaomiao's circulated Qi in his legs burst, enhancing his legs to the limit. He kicked the ground again and ran away as fast as possible.

The flame grenade flashed and detonated in front of the clone.

Miaomiao shouted and activated another skill, Qi Barrier, using 2,000 strands of Yang Qi. A semi-transparent orange dome covered his body. That was not all. Miaomiao sacrificed 1,000 strands of Yin Qi to create another layer of ice shield to cover his body.

*BOOM*

The Yang Flame Explosion engulfed the entire space, including Miaomiao. The Qi barrier and his ice shield absorbed most of the impact, but he could still feel the heat.

After the detonation, everything fell silent.

Miaomiao survived, but his outer garments and clothes were burnt, leaving only his studded leather armor and white smoke. He coughed several times, exhaling hot air from his lungs.

Even though the detonation consumed Xu Xiuying, Miaomiao didn't let his guard down. He poured more Qi into his bloodstream and got ready for another bout even though his Yin Qi was almost depleted.

The smoke slowly dispersed, revealing the aftermath of the explosion.

A dark silhouette was revealed. Xu Xiuying was still there, standing uninjured. She gave Miaomiao a seductive smile as if he were her ideal man.

"Come here. Let mother hug you."

"Nope!" Miaomiao ran away again.

"Hehe, playing tag? Sure, I'll catch you."

The clone kicked the ground and chased after Miaomiao. Within two seconds, she appeared in front of him.

"Crap!"

"Hehe, I've caught you."

Instead of running away again, Miaomiao resolved himself and lowered his stance. Then, he used his running momentum to tackle her.

Miaomiao seized Xu Xiuying's thighs and pushed her on the ground, MMA double-leg takedown.

'I can win! I just need to cheat!'

Miaomiao gathered his strength in his fist, planning to punch the clone to the face and kill her.

Despite the takedown impact, the clone was unharmed. In fact, she intentionally let herself be taken down. Xu Xiuying's clone giggled and reached her soft hands to touch Miaomiao's chest.

And it wasn't a normal touch.

Supreme Stripper Swordsmanship, Ultimate Art, Sealing Touch!

*BOOM*

Miaomiao's studded leather armor and all hidden weapons were destroyed. His dantian and Qi circulation was also sealed!

Miaomiao's ground-and-pound plan failed!

"I've caught you, my boy."

"Ugh!"

The clone easily flipped Miaomiao's body over, and she rode on his stomach. She lowered her head and licked his face.

"Let mother have a taste of your body. Don't worry, I'll be gentle."

"No, please. Do you know that we're being watched?"

"Don't worry. Showing our affection to the world is something we shouldn't be ashamed of. Let us show them how dual-cultivators make love."

Miaomiao tried to circulate his Qi, but his Qi strands no longer moved. The body-strengthening technique was also canceled. His dantian was locked by a mysterious force that no Qi strand could enter his bloodstream. He tried to use his physical strength and MMA maneuver to break away from Xu Xiuying's grasp, but the clone's strength was too strong.

Xu Xiuying pinned him down with only her left hand. She moved her hips, and her right hand seized his sleeping rooster.

"Wakey, Wakey. It's time for a little fun."

The clone activated another skill, aphrodisiac gas. The stimulating touch and the gas excited Miaomiao's rooster, and it got erected.

Xu Xiuying laughed. She grabbed it and was about to insert it into her lower mouth.

But Miaomiao didn't let himself to be drugged by the gas skill again. He bit the tip of his tongue to stay sober and opened his inventory menu.

Then, he pulled out a magic dadao, which he had obtained as a reward for defeating Qing Yong's clone 100 times!

*SWUA*

While Xu Xiuying was letting her guard down, the magic saber was swung and sliced through her neck. Her head dropped on Miaomiao's chest and rolled on the floor while blood spilled out from the severed part.

The clone's naked body collapsed to the side. For the first time, Miaomiao managed to defeat his nemesis, Xu Xiuying's clone, even though the difficulty was merely only 1%.

Miaomiao sprang himself and got on his feet. He also didn't forget to return the magic weapon into his inventory as he was afraid that many people might notice its origin.

"It's finally over..."

From Miaomiao's perspective, nothing was scarier than dueling a 6th stage master who could kill him in an instant. He kept reminding himself that the clone didn't even use 1% of her true potential, so the real thing should be able to kill him within one breath.

*WHOOM*

Unfortunately, the trial wasn't over yet. Something else was summoned into the room.

It was a 6-wheeled white truck with a barbed bumper. On its windshield, someone had painted a few terrifying words.

Truck-Kun Isekai Service.

"You gotta be kidding me!"

Miaomiao used to have trauma. When he was still in the modern world, he hated trucks.

After Miaomiao had retired from his MMA career, he suffered from an accident when he crossed the road one day.

The truck's driver was a family of a victim, whom Miaomiao had killed in an octagon ring. Trying to avenge for the victim, the speeding truck almost ISEKAIed Miaomiao into a fantasy world, but the latter managed to avoid the fatal injury. However, impact crushed one of his legs, and the doctors had to cut it to save his life.

Miaomiao's secret semiochophobia was kept hidden, but this space suddenly reminded him of his fear.

*HONK*

The truck's front light flashed as if they were its eyes, staring at its prey. The six black tires rotated, generating rubbing noise and driving the truck forward. It only took less than 3 seconds to accelerate from 0 to 200 MPH.

"NOPE! NOPE! NOPE!"

Miaomiao leaped away from the truck's path. Because his Qi was sealed, he couldn't run as fast as before.

*SCREECH*

The truck drifted and turned 180 degrees, facing Miaomiao again.

"Oh, come on! Where is the law of physics!?"

*SCREECH*

Miaomiao kept jumping and leaping away from the truck. However, the truck kept coming back for him.

After a couple of minutes, Miaomiao ran out of breath. He had to do something, or he would be run over soon.

As the truck was running toward Miaomiao, the latter pulled out the magic dadao from his inventory again. He jumped up high so that he could reach the windshield of the truck.

As soon as the truck's windshield almost reached him, Miaomiao mustered his strength and slashed horizontally.

The dadao activated the embedded magic, Wind Slash.

An arc of wind severed the truck horizontally, and it even cut the silhouette of a mysterious driver.

Still, Miaomiao was smashed by the truck's broken windshield. His body entered the truck and landed on the driver's seat. Several bones were broken from the impact.

The truck's driver was dead, but Truck-kun kept racing forward. Soon, it would hit the wall and crush everything inside the truck.

Miaomiao was still inside the truck. Because of the injuries and several cuts from the broken glasses, he couldn't react in time.

Miaomiao closed his eyes, accepting his fate.

Then, the truck slammed onto the space wall, crushing everything inside the front console.

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Miaomiao's eyes snapped open. His breathing was ragged while his clothes and armor were drenched in sweat. He was sure that he was crushed to death, but he was still alive, sitting cross-legged on the array platform.

Miaomiao looked around in confusion and shocked. When he turned behind him, he saw Xu Xiuying, standing and looking at his face.

"Ah, err, hi, mom."

"So, I'm your heart devil? You little shit, why was I naked? Why did my illusion try to fuck you?"

Even if Miaomiao knew the answer, he couldn't say it. He could only smile at his foster mother and dodged the question, "I used to have a nightmare that you were one of my wives and you killed me. I never thought that I had to face your illusion there."

Their conversation could be heard to everyone who was observing the examination. Miaomiao hadn't realized it yet that he was the last disciple that broke out from the space.

The only condition to return was simple. One had to be defeated by their fear and died.

Fortunately, the arrays protected every disciple from dying for real. Even if their bodies were chopped into pieces in the space, they would return unharmed.

But this test didn't evaluate examinees by death. The score of the second exam depended on a few factors.

And above Miaomiao's head, his score was shining brightly in the dark sky.

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[Evaluation - Xu Miao]

Surviving Time: 3.41 Minutes

Heart Devil(s) Conquered: 2

Total Score: 442

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