<h4>Chapter 110: The Second Test</h4>


    After leaving the building where the physical examination was performed, Minos and his group headed towards the Cultivation Tower, in the central region of the capital of the Cromwell Kingdom.


    They had no reason to stay in that spiritual academy since their tests had already been carried out, and it was really not interesting to watch other people''s physical exams.


    Nobody in the Minos group was interested in knowing these details from otherpetitors. After all, it wouldn''t make any difference to them!


    For this first test of the Spiritual Tournament, thepetition organization assumed it wouldst for two days. Therefore, the second test was scheduled to happen on the third day, counting from today.


    That way, both Minos and the sibling couple wanted to spend theirst few hours training before finally starting thepetition for real!


    ...


    As Minos'' group leaves the building, suddenly the young Kara, who has been staring at him since his physical exam result was shown, said. "Minos, are you using any artifacts to prevent your talent from being seen by others?"


    There were items in the Spiritual World that could protect this type of information from cultivators. After all, when someone very talented was born, protecting that information was crucial to their families or powers behind that individual.


    So, Kara had this theory that Minos was hiding his true talent.


    Perhaps even the result of his Physique rating was false! She thought about it while trying to discover the mysteries behind it.


    And since Minos was being apanied by someone from one of the ming Empire sects, this hypothesis made more and more sense in Kara''s mind.


    Upon hearing this, both Ford and Ruth also began to pay attention. The two also had their doubts, but the older brother did not dare to ask, while the beautiful young woman with ck hair had left to ask about itter.


    Minos then looked at the three people, who seemed interested in this matter andughed. There was no artifact with him that he was using.


    The spiritual array just failed to ascertain Minos'' talent since he had been mutated through the inheritance of the God Henricus Longus.


    Minos then said vaguely. "Well, not exactly. But seeing it that way is notpletely wrong."


    Upon hearing this, the two youths sighed when they understood that Minos was not going to go into details. But this was not strange. This information was usually only given on two types of asions.


    One was at the time of a spiritual academy, just before the youth turned 10. And the other was at events like this, which demanded this type of information.


    After that, the group continued talking about minor things until they finally arrived in front of the Cultivation Tower. And as usual, there was a lot of movement in this ce, since it was the best point to practice within that city.


    After reaching the 11th floor of therge building, Kara suddenly said. "Well, it was nice to talk to you two, Minos and Ruth. My brother and I will train behind closed doors until thepetition starts, so until then!"


    "Hmm, until then. We may not meet before the second test, so I wish you luck in advance. But you have to be careful. Some participants may try to unite against people like you..."


    In saying this, Minos was alerted both to the presence of scum as the young Leroy and as to those profiteers, who would hide, while waiting for otherpetitors to fight and be exhausted. Then they would steal the items of those peopleter...


    "Hmm, for you too." Ford said before finally heading towards the training room that he and his sister were going to use.


    At the same time, Ruth and Minos did the same, entering one of the rooms, exactly the same as the one they had stayed in thest time.


    And when they were finally alone, Ruth asked Minos with a curious twinkle in her eyes. "Are you going to tell me what your talent and physique rank is? I do not believe that your ability can be as incredible as you im to be if you have just a Warrior-grade Physique."


    Upon hearing this, Minos smiled and said. "Hehe, who knows... Does it make a difference to you?"


    "Hmph, acting mysterious. Forget it. Sooner orter, I''ll find out." Ruth murmured to herself in a low voice. She then said. "It does not matter. Okay, let''s change clothes and start our fight."


    "Hmm."


    After that, the two quickly repeated the same deeds as theirst time here. They started fighting and then trained their fighting techniques, left to cultivatest.


    Minos and Ruth followed this routine for the two days that they had and then left the training tower to go to the hotel and sort out their ''matters'' before the second test of the Spiritual Tournament started.


    After all, this test wouldst a week, so the two would be without having fun with each other for this entire period...


    Anyway, at this moment, Minos was almost reaching level 39, and that should happen during this second test. Thesest few weeks of hard training at the Cultivation Tower had brought him close to this level, with just a little more to do.


    ...


    It didn''t take long, and Minos and Ruth were already walking through the streets of Capital City, heading towards the city''s north side.


    In that ce, the organization of the Spiritual Tournament had set up a teleportation array, which took thepetitors into a forest under the control of the ming Empire sects.


    This was a grade-3, low-level array that could disce even 30,000 people at once, taking them over distances in the tens of thousands of kilometers!


    It was really something of a high standard, but that was not the only form of travel in the Spiritual World. There were also ways to travel through wormholes, which allowed for trips much longer than those of teleportation arrays.


    After all, the Spiritual World was incredibly vast, so these arrays could not be used over very long distances!


    As for wormholes, these were space tunnels, where people could travel, ''shortening'' the travel distance from one region to another.


    Upon reaching level 80, cultivators could travel through space. If several cultivators at this level worked together, then they could build a spatial tunnel between two regions!


    But wormholes were very rare, and even the ming Empire did not have one!


    It also needed constant maintenance from people in the 9th stage of cultivation so that there were no problems with travel.


    Because of this, empires and kingdoms that had no people at this stage of cultivation certainly would not have a way of traveling like this since they could not constantly pay for people of that level to maintain their wormholes.


    Finally, Minos and Ruth arrived at arge square after touring the capital of the Cromwell Kingdom for some time.


    In this ce, thousands of people were scattered while waiting for the guidance of the evaluators of this test.


    Minos didn''t see any of the people he had met in the past few days, so he stood there, next to Ruth, while waiting for the test to start.


    Finally, when the sun was up, a young woman, wearing a red dress, stood on a tform and then started talking about what would happen next.


    "Ehh, wee to all participants in this edition of the Spiritual Tournament. Well, for those of you who don''t know about the exam details, I''m going to exin how this test will work."


    "Those who want to participate in the test must stay in these areas marked in red." She said as she pointed torge circles drawn on the square''s floor.


    "After that, when we activate the teleportation array, everyone within those spaces will be teleported to the exam site."


    She then stopped for a moment and then continued. "This ce is one of the wild regions, which the organization of the event manages. Your mission will be to survive for seven days in this ''habitat'' and to be able to bring at least three 4th stage spiritual beasts as proof that you managed to kill its."


    "These are the only two requirements for this event. As for the rules, there is none in this test. This is a survival test, so if you are unable to survive or reach the minimum requirement, it means that you are not worth the investment of the tournament organization! " She said coldly.


    This was not a kind world. And as much as the organization of the Spiritual Tournament did not want these young people to die so soon, in a survival test, there could be no help or rules that would limit events.


    Since this was a simtion of what could happen in these cultivators'' real lives, this exam simted thew of the jungle, kill or die, just like what these people could find during their journeys!


    After finishing speaking, the examiner waited for a while, while she saw the crowd start moving.


    Minos then said goodbye to Ruth and asked. "Is that part of thepetition broadcast?"


    "Hmm, but not everything. There are some surveince arrays in the chosen location, which send the images here."


    "OK. Well, see you in a week then." He said before kissing Ruth''s cherry lips.


    After that, the examiner finally saw that there was no more movement in the square when she finally started the second test.


    "The second test is officially initiated!"