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He wasn't clear about the adventures Chen Qiu had experienced before, but that did not prevent him from observing how Chen Qiu was redoing everything from the beginning in his dream trial.

...

"Hmm."

The elder nodded in appreciation as he looked at Chen Qiu, who was covered in sweat from his strenuous effort chopping wood. Chen Qiu had been working diligently for 29 days in the dream, saving up for his first potion.

This kid really was quite down-to-earth.

Unlike the previous challenger, who went straight to begging on the streets after awakening an unremarkable entry at the government office upon losing all memory in the dream. It was a mystery what the last challenger had been through to think of begging as the first thing to do after losing his memory.

However, at that moment—

The Chen Qiu in the image, who had been chopping wood for 29 days, suddenly threw down his axe, his face contorted in rage as he bellowed.

"To stand out among people, chopping wood will never be the play!"

"If you want to get rich, first chop people!"

Then he picked up his axe and headed towards the local bullies not far away.

"..."

On the 30th day in the dream, Chen Qiu successfully entered the first level of Qi Refinement and awakened the White entry "Man of Destiny". Explore more stories with empire

He then gathered all the orphans in town to form a roaming gang. Whenever they came upon an isolated local bully, they swarmed him. And so, he killed for half a year.

Chen Qiu had reached the fifth level of Cultivation.

Then he ventured into a Secret Realm alone, learned new Cultivation Techniques, and greatly increased his strength. When he emerged, he went after the bullies he couldn't beat before. Day after day, if he could beat them, he'd finish them today; if not, he'd flee and come back to finish them when he could.

His combat experience soared rapidly.

By the sixth month, Chen Qiu was trapped and surrounded. In desperation, he blinded himself to increase his other senses fivefold, which hugely boosted his combat power, allowing him to break out of the encirclement.

It was only with the Healing Pills begged for by his gang that he barely pulled through. After his injuries recovered over several days, he dove straight into the newly opened Heavenly Dao Secret Realm.

When he came out, he was at the eighth level of Qi Refinement.

Wielding a Spiritual Treasure.

His strength had significantly increased again, allowing him to smirk as he eliminated all the local bullies, then he took his gang to a larger city nearby and continued the process.

He killed the bullies he could defeat on the spot.

For those he couldn't beat, he took notes in a little book to come back for them later.

And so—

Every day was spent either fighting or on the way to fight. At the end of the twelfth month in the dream, Chen Qiu finally succeeded in Foundation Establishment. He grabbed a great sword and made a beeline for those bullies he couldn't defeat before.

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"Did I pass the trial?"

Lying on the sea surface, Chen Qiu slowly awoke and scanned the surroundings, remembering where he was and all that he had experienced, as if it all played vividly in his mind.

After reviewing everything again, Chen Qiu smiled, stood up, looked up at the elder in the sky and said, "Senior, I should have passed this level, right?"

"Hmm."

The elder, with a complicated expression, looked at Chen Qiu and asked softly, "In the dream, why did you not awaken an entry at the government office? Awakening an entry at the government office is free. Why bother to chop wood?"

"Uh..."

Scratching the back of his head, Chen Qiu replied quietly, "What if I awakened an Evil Cultivation or Demon Cultivation entry and got executed on the spot?"

"If you could discipline yourself to chop wood for 29 days, you're clearly not someone who lacks patience. So why did you give up chopping wood on the thirtieth day and decisively turn to chopping people?"

"That, I wanted to chop people on the second day already. But I felt like I couldn't beat others, so I used chopping wood as a month of practice to ensure my accuracy when it came to chop people later on."

The elder remained silent for a while before speaking no further, only waving his hand.

He always felt that his emotional fluctuations today were greater than the emotional fluctuations of the previous decades combined. Was this because he was getting old, that his heart seemed so easily stirred?

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"You have successfully passed the fourth round."

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After confirming that he had successfully passed the fourth round, Chen Qiu breathed a sigh of relief, then without any hesitation, he sat down cross-legged on the spot, pulled out a handful of Qi Replenishing Pills from his bosom, and began to chew them voraciously.

At the same time, he rapidly absorbed the Spiritual Energy from the Spirit Stones scattered around him.

The Spiritual Energy within his Tao Foundation had been utterly depleted since the third round.

This place did not allow one to absorb nature's spiritual energy.

One could only recover quickly through Spirit Stones and Qi Replenishing Pills. Although he did not know what the fifth level involved, it was always right to quickly restore Spiritual Energy.

Perhaps the elder also noticed that he had no Spiritual Energy inside him, for he did not immediately announce the contents of the fifth level but waited until he had replenished his Spiritual Energy. Then, with trembling lips, a familiar voice emerged in his mind.

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"The fifth level, challenge the prohibition."

"To acquire the Magic Practitioner inheritance, one must pass five trials. This is the final trial."

"Once you pass this trial, you will receive the Magic Practitioner inheritance."

"In the time it takes for a cup of tea to brew, ten thousand puppets will attack you simultaneously. These puppets include Array Repairers, Magic Practitioners, and Body Cultivators, among others. You need to survive half an hour under the onslaught of ten thousand puppets with the same level of Cultivation as you."

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"Huff..."

After receiving the contents of the fifth level trial, Chen Qiu felt somewhat relieved, as it seemed similar to the third round. His Spiritual Energy had fully recovered, and he felt ready to face the same type of challenge again!

Moreover, this fifth level.

It did not restrict his "Space Shrinking" and "Slippery" entries, meaning he had even more room to maneuver.