Does anyone actually Believes That My Master Is A Mortal?

Tianjian Continent, ancestral land of the Golden-winged Peng Clan.

Within a cave dwelling.

[Time until Sect's assessment: Three minutes and three seconds]

Chu Yuan stared at the screen before him, his breaths growing unintentionally heavier.

Three minutes.

In three more minutes, the moment of assessment would arrive.

Success or failure hinged on this.

Time trickled away.

Soon, the three minutes had passed.

Chu Yuan focused completely.

Within his field of vision.

The deep blue screen before him shifted abruptly.

Text floated up before his eyes.

[Sect assessment in progress, please wait, Host]

Here it comes, it's coming! The Sect assessment is here!

Chu Yuan suddenly stood up.

He felt standing would help him to better consolidate his physical form later.

Moreover, standing to consolidate his form simply seemed more impressive.

He was finally going to end these days of feeling weightless as he walked.

[Current official disciples of the Sect: 3]

[Disciples: Zisu, Ai Qing, Chi Jia]

[Assessment beginning]

[Assessment complete, below are Disciple 'Zisu's' assessment details]

[Assessed Disciple: Zisu]

[Cultivation Levels: Mortal/???]

[Combat Power Rating: ???]

[Overall Evaluation: ???]

[According to System assessment, this disciple still exhibits factors beyond control, with unknown origins; however, the System maintains its previous statement, there's a certain chance it originates from the Host's sins, hence the Host is the prime suspect and should]

[Be adjudged, this disciple has succeeded, deduct one minor realm from the Host]

...

[Assessed Disciple: Ai Qing]

[Cultivation Levels: Mortal/???]

[Combat Power Rating: Cataclysmic Level (Should this disciple harbor evil intentions, it would be a massive disaster)]

[Overall Evaluation: ???]

[According to System assessment, this disciple still exhibits factors beyond control, with unknown origins; however, the System maintains its previous statement, there's a certain chance it originates from the Host's sins, hence the Host is the prime suspect and should]

[Be adjudged, this disciple has succeeded, deduct one minor realm from the Host]

...

[Assessed Disciple: Chi Jia]

[Cultivation Levels: Mortal/???]

[Combat Power Rating: ???]

[Overall Evaluation: ???]

[According to System assessment, this disciple still exhibits factors beyond control, with unknown origins; however, the System maintains its previous statement, there's a certain chance it originates from the Host's sins, hence the Host is the prime suspect and should]

[Be adjudged, this disciple has succeeded, deduct one minor realm from the Host]

...

"System, stop dawdling, quickly help me condense my fl... flesh..."

Chu Yuan didn't even finish reading the data the System provided before he began to speak about consolidating his physical form.

But before he could finish his sentence, he froze, his eyes fixed on the deep blue screen before him.

He didn't see it wrong?

Or did his cave dwelling have some kind of hallucinatory effect?

Impossible.

How could these three disciples possibly succeed?

It was utterly improbable.

Chu Yuan looked carefully.

He saw that the words on the screen remained unchanged.

Did these three disciples truly succeed?

Chu Yuan was completely baffled.

How should he teach his disciples to fail them?

He had hardly taught his disciples anything this time.

Zisu was just a transformed vegetable.

Ai Qing was hatched from an insect egg.

Chi Jia was a mass of Demonic Qi from Buddhist cultivation.

And they still succeeded?

Were the divination tube and the System's probes all lies?

Chu Yuan felt dizzy.

He felt as if the entire world were performing his own existence.

Chu Yuan found it impossible to believe the facts before him.

The azure screen in front of him kept changing.

[Comprehensive test completed, should deduct one major realm level from the host.]

[Detecting host's current realm as the Late Phase of Earthly Realm.]

[One major realm level deducted, the host's current realm is the Late Phase of Heaven Realm (Humans are nurtured by heaven and earth; the Earthly Realm is for the physical body to return to the earth, leaving only the soul; the Heaven Realm is for the soul to return to the Heavenly Dao, leaving only the will.)]

What the hell?

Existence as only will?

Chu Yuan's eyes widened.

He hadn't yet had time to think further.

Suddenly, his body felt cold.

Looking down,

his body began to flicker with specks of light.

The lights were crystal clear, as if shining with their last brilliance.

Under Chu Yuan's astonished gaze,

his body suddenly disintegrated, turning into small points of light like stars and flew toward the firmament above.

Chu Yuan was shocked.

Without his soul, what else did he have left?

Chu Yuan didn't know what was left of him after his soul had dissipated.

According to the system, just a will? What use was a mere will? Wasn't that as good as being non-existent?

Chu Yuan tried hard to grasp the light points fleeing from his body back into his grasp.

But as he stretched out his hand, he couldn't catch anything.

He grasped at thin air.

On the contrary, his hand also began to dissipate.

In just a moment,

Chu Yuan's figure vanished between heaven and earth, his physical body had already returned to the earth, and now his soul had returned to the firmament.

Just as Chu Yuan felt himself about to dissipate,

he discovered that he could still think.

Only his body seemed to have disappeared.

Chu Yuan tried to open his eyes, but found that he couldn't do it at all.

Yet he could see everything around him.

This wasn't what the eyes could see.

It was more like the images being directly reflected into his mind.

Chu Yuan tried looking at himself.

His absence was also reflected back.

He no longer had a body.

At the original spot, there was only a mass of gas enveloped in golden light.

This mass of gas was him.

This was the will?

Chu Yuan felt his own state.

His state was very strange…

It felt both present and absent.

He felt like he could merge himself into everything, and yet change at will.

But he felt that without the protective Invincible State, this will of his might just dissipate outright.

Chu Yuan cautiously attempted to shape this mass of gas into a human form.

As his thoughts arose,

the mass of gas actually took on a human form.

Chu Yuan, in his human form, cast his gaze around.

The images reflected directly into his mind were also something he could accept.

It was just the feeling of being light and airy, that too was gone.

All that was left was a sensation of being on the verge of completely dissipating into the world at any moment.

This made Chu Yuan panic.

At the same time, he felt a disheartening chill.

No matter how he taught, his disciples would grow competent.

How was he supposed to play this game?

[Detecting the host's insistence on defying the system rules, AI Mode is activated to probe the host's psyche.]

[AI Mode activated.]

The familiar intelligence avatar, Xiao Zhi, came online once more.

Xiao Zhi's expression was lifeless, about to say something.

As its mouth had just opened,

before it could speak, Chu Yuan cut in first.

"System, it's pointless. Let's call it quits."

"I might dissipate without the Invincible State, but I think that's fine. The mortal world isn't worth it. To be born human, I am sorry."

Chu Yuan sighed wearily, looking at the AI Xiao Zhi in front of him as he said this.

Xiao Zhi: "???"