With a pained expression, Richard said, "The enemy is too strong."

Yasenia's heart started to hurt terribly, and each heartbeat was more painful than the last. It was as if she was going to be devoured inside out by something. Bit by bit, her sanity was being eroded. 'How dare they? HOW DARE THEY!?

Each heartbeat killed a little more of her current personality. Just when every single normal thought was about to be devoured and an unknown beast was about to awaken, the words of the man from the inheritance flashed in her head.

"Tragedy is a big step that most cultivators can't overcome. The loss of a loved one, the loss of a teacher or a friend... Remember, even when any of this happens, having a clear mind and not rushing blindly in the cycle of revenge is what makes a cultivator's heart truly strong!"

This relaxed her heart. However, her wrath was still burning brightly!

She turned and said to Richard with a cold voice. "Prepare the troops and start training them. We will use all our resources to get stronger. Do not charge in blindly. Investigate their weaknesses, use our connections, and when we are strong enough, we will attack and destroy them in one fell swoop!"

After speaking, Yesenia's heart felt as if it was submerged in a refreshing spring, and the unknown beast hid in the depths of her heart again.

Her thought returned to normal, and *Crash! * The surrounding shattered like glass.

Then she opened her eyes and saw everyone from the examination site looking at her with open mouths.

They couldn't help but feel that there was something different about Yasenia's gaze.

It was as if her gaze was as clear as water yet, as profound as the deepest ocean.

What Yasenia didn't know was that she had a spiritual breakthrough before reaching the Unification Realm!

A few moments before Yasenia passed her test, Evelyn and Oliver had already finished and were waiting for her.

To Oliver's surprise, Evelyn barely passed with a one-minute and ten-second mark and now was gloomily looking at the floor. It was clear that she had something plaguing her thoughts.

Oliver lasted two minutes and ten seconds, being better than many people.

To cheer her up, he said. "Hey, look, Yasenia is still there!"

Others heard this voice, and they couldn't help but look.

Mason also looked over.

Suddenly, everyone felt a chill in their bodies, as if an unknown and dangerous beast was about to awaken. 

However, this only lasted for a moment before a loud crash echoed.

The formation below Yasenia had blown up into shiny bits!

Then, they saw Yasenia open her eyes slowly.

That stare as deep as the sea and as charming as the Sun at dusk mesmerized everyone.

Mason opened his eyes and laughed. "Spiritual breakthrough! She actually made a spiritual breakthrough during her test, hahaha."

Oliver woke up earliest because he has already accustomed to Yasenia's beauty. He couldn't help but ask. "What is that?"

Mason answered patiently. "From now on, thanks to this breakthrough, her will will be much stronger than her peers, and her ability to read people will skyrocket. When she reaches the Unification realm, she will advance without bottlenecks as long as her comprehension is enough."

He laughed boisterously. "Truly impressive! To do this before the Unification realm, one must confront and overcome your deepest fears. That means, right now, she doesn't have heart demons. Hahaha, what an impressive little girl!"

They couldn't help but be surprised! What a monster!

You must understand that not having heart demons was almost impossible. One out of ten million cultivators may achieve this state, but not permanently. Having a Spiritual breakthrough was even rarer below the Unification Realm.

While they were talking, Yasenia had already stood up and started walking toward Evelyn with her usual sashaying hips. Seeing the hidden distressed appearance of her little perverted new friend, she couldn't help but step forward and hug her with her arms over her shoulders.

Thanks to the more than 20cm height difference, Yasenia buried Evelyn's head right between her breast, making the little girl fall into a world of softness.

Then she spoke gently. "It is only an illusion of our deepest fears. It didn't really happen. Relax your thoughts, and clear your mind. Overcoming these things will make you a lot stronger."

Evelyn was at first surprised by the softness that wrapped around her head.

And after hearing her words, she couldn't help but hug Yasenia's waist and take a deep breath to calm her mind.

The sweet floral scent and the fresh air in her lungs did wonders.

After staying like that for a few moments, she separated her head and looked up, a blush coloring her cheeks and her violet eyes shining with a smile. "Thank you, Yasenia."

Then she asked a little shyly. "Can I be with you from now on...?"

Yasenia separated and patted her head, responding with a smile. "Sure, welcome aboard."

Evelyn nodded happily. "En!".

Oliver came over and patted her on the shoulder. "Welcome to the [Firmament team]!"

Yasenia looked with a strange face "[Firmament team] What is that?"

Oliver proudly said, "The name I just came up with! With little sis at the helm, we shall conquer the firmament!"

Yasenia rolled her eyes and answered. "You are so original, huh? By the way, how much time did I last?"

Instead of Oliver, Mason, that was nearby, answered. "Unless another person can break the formation faster than you, the first rank will be yours. And you broke the formation in 3 minutes and 41 seconds."

Yasenia nodded and left for the next area with Oliver and Evelyn.

Two hours later, all the people had finished the second test. The people left were incomparable to the initial amount.

Only one out of seventy-five reached here. Not to mention there were still two more rounds.

This time there was a tall and muscular elderly man waiting for them.

They knew that four elders were just below the Academy Headmaster, and some guessed that this elder was one of them. His following words confirmed their thoughts.

"Well, brats! Welcome to the third test of the academy!"

Then with a smile, he continued. "I'm Ron. You brats, however, will call me Elder Ron from now on. Until now, we have proved your agility, strength, creativity, and heart. In this test, we will check your endurance! There are five Killing-formations behind me."

Elder Ron crossed his arms and said. "This formation will summon phantom beasts. Your objective is to endure and kill the highest number of beasts. You will take a jade before entering. If you think you can't continue, you just need to send energy to it, which will transport you back here. You can die there, so… Be careful!"

Then he caressed his white beard and said playfully. "If you kill the same amount, the one with the fastest speed to do so will be placed first. There will be a ranking, and the higher, the better! I don't know if those two brats have told you about the rewards for finishing higher than others in the final evaluation…."

Seeing the eager faces, Elder Ron laughed. "Bahahaha seeing your surprised faces is obvious that they haven't! Then… I won't tell you either! Bahahaha! Begin the test!"

All of the people present choked. 'Say, old man, can you not put a sweet under our nose and then take it away!?'

This time Yasenia didn't wait and went first.

She walked towards the formation, her hips moving mesmerizingly and her lips raised in a naturally seductive and confident smile.

When she reached the formation, she took the jade and then disappeared from the spot. She didn't know that a big screen would appear to showcase their performance to evaluate the disciples better.

When Yasenia reappeared, she was in a forest with tall trees. However, some branches were actually relatively low, and the tree crowns were so lush that they almost didn't let the Sun pass.

The Sun was high in the sky, and the air was a little humid.

The roars of countless beasts sounded accompanied by a tremor created by the movement of all the beasts.

The dragoness didn't wait for them to come and advanced towards a place with more trees. She wanted to use them to avoid being surrounded.

When she found a good place, she retrieved her giant sword from her ring and changed her tail tip to the sword form.

She looked towards the beasts and saw that they were rank-one fire wolves, and the leader was a young rank-two wolf. The beasts were ranked like human cultivators. Rank 0 beast, were, for example, a house cat, they can injure mortals, but they are weak otherwise.

Rank one beast and above have an initial, middle, and advanced sublevel. They were equivalent to Opening Realm cultivators.

The Komodo dragon she fought the other day and the gorilla were rank-two middle-level beasts, equivalent to a mid-level Body Modification Realm Cultivator.

This alpha wolf was weaker at the rank-two initial level.

Yasenia prepared and then sprinted towards the rank-two wolf. 'If I kill the alpha fast, the rest will be easily cleaned.'

Yasenia put strength in her legs and shot like a released arrow toward the alpha leaving behind deep footprints!

Five wolves tried to put themselves in the way.

One attacked her leg, another her tail, two assaulted from the front, and another one was clawing at her waist.

Yasenia wasn't nervous.

With her monstrous strength and her recent Spiritual Breakthrough, her head was planning the attack path quickly and efficiently.

The wolf that jumped towards her leg had its head sliced by her tail.

At the same time, her arms were carrying her sword in a horizontal strike against the wolf that tried to attack her waist. The blade sliced through quickly without resistance and killed it on the spot.

Using the weight and momentum of the blade, she let herself spin, kicking the one that was aiming towards her tail with a back kick, smashing its skull and sending the corpse flying.

Subsequently, with the help of the remaining leg, she completed the spin and propelled herself toward the two wolves at the front!

One of the wolves was pierced in the forehead by her spear tail before it could even react, and the other was sliced diagonally by her giant sword.

Yasenia changed her tail to the barbed tip shape and used it to maintain her grip on the pierced and dead wolf. She threw it toward the alpha with a flick of her long, strong tail.

The two meters tall alpha slapped the wolf thrown at him with one claw, but what waited for him was Yasenia, who was clad in her energy coat. The wolf reacted and tried to dodge, but the dragoness's giant sword fell vertically with the energies of the Sun, Moon, and Stars around it, slicing his head right by the middle.

Yasenia had used the wolf she threw as a cover, and with her abrupt acceleration, she could put herself in the perfect position to kill the alpha. Her skill, [Presence of the Celestial Bodies], coated her sword, increasing its strength, speed, and sharpness to extreme levels, allowing her to cut right through the skull like wet clay. 

Afterward, it was a one-sided massacre of the thirty remaining wolves that lost their most powerful combatant in the first seconds of the battle.

Although it took a long time to explain, the alpha was killed in four seconds, and everything ended forty seconds after the first kill happened.

'Not bad. I could deal with it rather easily and quickly. I have not lost too much energy, and I'm feeling good. I can do this!' Yasenia motivated herself and looked forward to fighting the second wave.

The second wave of enemies arrived shortly after.

It contained ten first-rank lightning cats that looked like one-meter-tall lynxes and a rank-two initial-level thunder cat resembling a golden two-meter-tall panther.

The lynxes were a speed type, and the panther was a strength type.

Yasneia's thoughts churned rapidly.'This group lets the speed types weaken the prey, and when they are distracted, the panther strikes, killing it in one hit. The panther is clumsier than it looks, so staying away from it while killing the rest is ideal. Afterward, I can finish the big guy using my speed advantage.'

With a plan in mind, she charged towards the lynx furthest away from the panther.

'My heavy sword is a little slow to attack this speed type, but it is big enough and sturdy enough to use as a shield. Then, my main attacking method will be using the spear-shaped tip because its stabs are the fastest.'

With that in mind, when she was approaching, she used the sword as a faint and managed to pierce the lynx when it dodged under the horizontal strike of the sword.

Following the horizontal motion of the sword, she placed it behind her, covering her back.

*Clang!*

The speedy lynx trying to attack her back was blocked. Her tail lashed another lynx and impacted on the side, sending it flying with broken bones, but she could not kill it.

Sensing the panther approaching, the dragoness ran towards the next most isolated lynx.

She used her swordtail to attack its legs twice, slashing one of them off and finishing it off with her sword when it lost balance.

 

Following that, she dodged another lynx and used the blow the panther delivered to propel herself backward and create distance between them.

*Clang!*

The sound was loud, and Yasneia could feel the weight in the attack.

Since she was flung in the direction of another lynx, she used her blunt tail with a whip motion and smashed its head. The tail's momentum impacted the lynx's head, and the head exploded like a watermelon.

Then she defended against four lynxes by dodging two, blocking one with the sword, and piercing the last one with her tail.

She threw the recently pierced lynx's corpse towards the panther using the same trick she did with the wolf. Then, instead of following, she charged toward the previously hurt lynx and finished it off quickly with her sword.

The two sides stopped and looked at each other. Five lynxes were killed in these 15 seconds.

Yasenia saw that only the panther was attacking this time while the five lynxes supported it.

Yasenia made a wild smile. "Because I'm always running away from you doesn't mean I fear you. Bring it on!"

Then she charged forwards and shouted to motivate herself. "[PRESENCE OF THE CELESTIAL BODIES: CELESTIAL COAT]!"

Yasenia wrapped her sword with her celestial energy, then made a horizontal swing with her whole body behind it.

The panther couldn't dodge and blocked it with her claws.

"BANG!"

The dragoness's monstrous strength and attack sent the creature flying!

The lynxes tried to attack at that moment, but they didn't expect that the blade's momentum didn't weaken at all.

Using her right foot as a pivotal point, she continued the horizontal strike and slashed two of the five lynx while blasting the other three away with the air pressure generated by her slash.

Without stopping, she placed her left foot on the ground and lunged toward the giant cat she previously blew away.

She didn't charge straightforwardly but spun like a danced and accumulating momentum.

When they were about to meet, Yasenia changed her tail to the blunt form and smashed against the panther's head with all her strength. 

*BANG!* 

The tail lash landed on the forehead with a loud, explosive, crunchy sound, sinking the skull and smashing the brain into a pulp.

Then she turned towards the remaining three lynxes and charged without pause.

Another ten seconds passed, and the three lynxes died under her relentless attacks, completing the fight in one minute and ten seconds!