The Dungeon Conquerors: Journey to the Peak

After clearing the final stage of this selection trial, Rein thought back to all the stages that he had crossed. After the first stage of comprehension trial, in the next stage the patient and endurance of a cultivator was judged. Rein was sure that all his lovers would probably be able to clear this stage but Colinde and Himiko would not be getting many points from this round.

Then the third trial was purely about combat prowess. A group of demons attacked Rein in this round and he needed to defeat all of them. These demons were quite powerful for most of the disciples so it would have been very dangerous if not for a formation used in the secret realm that would teleport all the people out who were just about to die.

This stage was definitely for Colinde to shine. Rein was not sure if even he could defeat all the demons before her without using a rain stone. Lan might have some problems with it but the clearance condition was to defeat at least two waves of enemies so she should be able to manage.

As for the fourth stage, it was again a stage where Lan was going to shine. In this stage, the adaptability of a person would be judged by putting them through various troublesome situations and my seeing how that person would get out of those situations.

Everyone of Rein's lovers would be able to get good scores in this round including Colinde as even with all her muscle headed tendencies, her instinct was very sharp and her ability to adapt to situations was very high. Alongside Lan, Mei should also do exceptionally in this round as inside her cold and expressionless exterior, Mei was a very methodical and thorough person.

So instead of adapting to the situation, she could make the situation to adapt to her comfort.

Then the fifth stage again was a trial related to fighting but this time instead of demons, great beasts and some especially made puppets attacked the participants. These were tough opponents and their numbers were also higher than the number of demons that attacked them on the third trial.

All his lovers should again be able to pass the stage but it would be close for Lan. She was not really a fighter so these kinds of rounds were out of her comfort zone. Rein had not even tried to teach her how to properly fight. He had just made her good enough to defend herself and that was all.

The reason for that was, Lan was not really made to be a fighter. Her talent in this department was non existent and her personality also did not match fighting. Yes, she could fight ruthlessly if there was a need. But for most of the time she would very much prefer to just laze around in the house or to hatch some plans for her business' profit.

Fortunately the fifth stage was the last stage where the participants needed to seriously fight. There were only two more stages left and both of these stages were very complex and needed knowledge from all kinds of fields.

In the sixth round, all the participants found themselves on a remote island and they needed to search for various precious materials here. After collecting a certain amount of material they would be able to clear this stage and everything that person collected after that would be bonus points. This stage needed adaptability, a little bit of fighting prowess, a high comprehension and luck.

If what Rein had felt was correct, then in this round Lan would be able to do exceptionally well again.

Then finally in the last stage, they needed to go through a maze-like structure. And the cultivators had to cross it without getting help from their cultivation levels at all. There was a special formation that sealed everyone's cultivation.

That was the reason why this maze might be a challenge for most. There were no terribly strong beasts or demons here but there were some areas where you would need good physical fitness to cross that. But most cultivators only practiced cultivation and nothing else. So even though their spiritual powers grew, their physical body did not become much stronger.

All the superhuman things that a cultivator was able to do physically was because they were boosting their physic with spiritual energy. But without spiritual energy like in this case, they all would become powerless. Rein did make everyone to regularly train their bodies, Lan and Himiko would be in trouble. They mostly depended on spiritual powers and their physical body was quite weak.

Rein had not talked much about Lu Shi because she would be able to clear most of the rounds with an above average result but her performance would not be exceptional in any of these stages. So there was nothing much to talk about.

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After clearing all the rounds, Rein found himself inside a large room and there were more people beside him. This was most probably the place where the cultivators who had managed to clear this selection trial came. Rein was actually very surprised that the difficulty of this trial was lower than he had expected.

So, many people had managed to cross this selection trial. Rein had thought that from this trial Dimensional God temple was planning to recruit at most 10 or so disciples but the real number was four times that amount. So he was thinking that this might not be the only test that they needed to clear.

As Rein was thinking about these things while reuniting with his lovers, an old man and a young man suddenly appeared in the middle of this room. The old man was giving off a frightening aura and was quite powerful. Rein judged that this old man's strength was closer to the sect master of the Divine Scale Pavillion. So he was definitely quite powerful.

Seeing all the participants who had managed to pass the selection trial, he smiled in a very amicable way. Then he started to give an introduction to himself and his sect. He mentioned that their sect was a hidden superpower that had been maintaining the world for a long, long time.

They conducted this selection trial because by the whim of fate, someone had managed to find the abandoned selection realm. So fate might be hinting that their sect also needed to take in new disciples again.

He mentioned a little bit about the system of the sect and how they had stopped taking in disciples from the outside world for many centuries. So the people standing here would be the first batch of disciples in a very long time.

Then he asked if everyone present here was ready to start their new life in a hidden location and only after everyone nodded their heads, he initiated a group teleportation that took all 41 people present here to the secret place where the Dimensional God temple was located.