This time, it only took Mo Wuji a short time to break through this near-Level 3 trapping and killing array again.

After exiting the array, what appeared before Mo Wuji's eyes was a stone arch bridge. On the edge of the arch bridge, there was a stone tablet with the inscription: "Engrave your name."

After engraving "Rogue Cultivator 2705" on the stone tablet, Mo Wuji crossed the stone arch bridge in a few steps. Just as Mo Wuji had predicted, a ridge of empty land appeared before him.

Obviously, he had easily passed the first stage and entered the second stage of planting Azure Dew Rice.

Mo Wuji now had top-grade Azure Dew Rice seeds in his possession. He was absolutely confident that he could plant top-grade Azure Dew Rice here, and the yield would be very high.

However, Mo Wuji had no intention of using the five-leaf grass grafting method to plant Azure Dew Rice. He didn't even plan to use transplanting to plant Azure Dew Rice. Even the top-grade Azure Dew Rice seeds, Mo Wuji didn't intend to take them out.

He took out some high-grade Azure Dew Rice seeds. The high-grade Azure Dew Rice he had cultivated was definitely not bad. He believed that even if he couldn't grow high-grade Azure Dew Rice, he should be able to grow medium-grade Azure Dew Rice. This was because his high-grade Azure Dew Rice was covered in golden lines, making it almost the best high-grade Azure Dew Rice.

As long as he could grow medium-grade Azure Dew Rice, it would be enough to pass this stage of the assessment.

After quickly tidying up a ridge of land, Mo Wuji planted the high-grade Azure Dew Rice seeds. Then, he took out the Myriad Year Immortal Wood Marrow and began to water them.

Mo Wuji was sure that this assessment would definitely be monitored. Instead of revealing his ability to sense the five elements attributes of Azure Dew Rice, it was better to reveal the Myriad Year Immortal Wood Marrow.

Whether it was the Myriad Year Immortal Wood Marrow or the high-grade Azure Dew Rice, they shouldn't be considered top-tier treasures to the Nirvana Learning Academy. On the contrary, if he controlled the five elements attributes of heaven and earth, he might be dissected by the Nirvana Learning Academy. As for top-grade Azure Dew Rice, Mo Wuji didn't want to reveal it even more.

Giving top-grade Azure Dew Rice to Xiling Ru at the Small Sky Soaring Sect earlier was a mistake. Fortunately, Xiling Ru was a good person and had become friends with him, so he shouldn't reveal that he had top-grade Azure Dew Rice.

After planting the Azure Dew Rice, Mo Wuji began to study the Dao of Talismans.

Compared to alchemy, crafting, and formations, Mo Wuji lacked the most was the Dao of Talismans. Until now, he could only barely refine Level 2 Divine Talismans.

Logically speaking, being able to refine Level 2 Divine Talismans should be enough for him to barely pass the elimination round. Mo Wuji was determined to go to the Land of Mortals, so he felt it was better to be safe.

...

Even though the battle for rankings among rogue cultivators had ended, the Nirvana Dao City's grand plaza was still packed with people.

In the middle of the plaza, there was a huge array display screen. Many people from various sects were crowded here to check the rankings of their sect disciples.

"It's out, the names are out!" An excited voice rang out in the crowd. Names had indeed appeared on the huge array display screen.

"Nirvana Learning Academy Assessment, First Place: Luo Xianjiao, score 96.10."

"I guessed right, the first place in the Formation Dao assessment is the true genius fairy from the True God Dao, Luo Xianjiao. How long did she take? She's already passed the Formation Dao assessment."

"Did you need to guess? Luo Xianjiao is at least a Level 4 Grand Divine Array Master. If she didn't take first place in this kind of assessment, that would be strange."

"That's right, if Luo Xianjiao focused on cultivation, she wouldn't be much weaker than her sister Luo Xianyan."

"Then who can guess who the second place is? I'm guessing it's Ji Feiyan from Star Covering Mountain. He's also a Level 4 Grand Divine Array Master, and I heard he just advanced."

"Nonsense, that's obvious too..."

The cultivator who was saying nonsense suddenly stopped, then exclaimed in surprise, "Who is Rogue Cultivator 2705? I've never heard of this person before!"

Because at that moment, another name had appeared on the grand array display screen: "Second Place: Rogue Cultivator 2705, score 95.50."

"Who is Rogue Cultivator 2705?"

At that moment, it wasn't just one person asking; almost everyone was asking who Rogue Cultivator 2705 was. The rankings of the Nirvana Learning Academy assessment were something that the entire God Continent was paying attention to. It wasn't strange for a rogue cultivator to occasionally pass the Nirvana Learning Academy's assessment. But for a rogue cultivator to suddenly appear in second place was strange.

"I know who it is," a sudden voice rang out.

Almost as soon as this person said that he knew, a circle of people surrounded him, staring intently at the person who said he knew.

"He's a rogue cultivator who won a ranking on the battle stage, and he even had a winning streak of thirty-one matches. This person is powerful, but he only has one divine ability, which is that Flame Fist. As long as you can withstand his Flame Fist, you're guaranteed to win..."

A rogue cultivator? A rogue cultivator had won second place in the Nirvana Learning Academy's Formation Dao assessment?

After hearing this news, the eyes of some sect forces lit up. Rogue cultivators were easier to control. As long as they could contact this rogue cultivator at the first opportunity after the Nirvana Learning Academy assessment ended, they could get him to join their sect.

Of course, the prerequisite was that this rogue cultivator had qualified.

In the crowd, a tall, slender-eyed man's eyes revealed a hint of coldness when he saw Rogue Cultivator 2705 appear in second place.

He was the Divine King Luo Yu of the Rogue Cultivator Alliance. The Rogue Cultivator Alliance had indeed assigned him to another place. This didn't prevent him from staying in Nirvana Dao City; it was an unspoken understanding. He was staying here for only one thing, which was to kill Mo Wuji.

Originally, with his accumulated resources, plus the profits from hosting the selection of rogue cultivators for the assessment slots, he was certain that he could advance to the fourth layer of the Divine King Realm and become a mid-stage Divine King expert. All of this was destroyed by a small ant. Not only did he lose this lucrative position, but he was also ridiculed and mocked.

For him, the worse Mo Wuji's results were, the better. He was waiting for Mo Wuji to fail the assessment and be teleported out, so he could slowly torture Mo Wuji. He didn't expect that in the first round of the assessment, this ant-like rogue cultivator would achieve the good result of second place, and his score was only 0.6 points less than the first place.

He didn't know that if Mo Wuji hadn't been deducing and comprehending the Level 3 Illusion Array, he would have gotten a perfect score.

...

Mo Wuji repeatedly refined various talismans beside the field, occasionally checking on his Azure Dew Rice.

The Azure Dew Rice was growing very well. Even though Mo Wuji didn't use a five elements array to help, because his seeds were top-grade high-grade Azure Dew Rice, plus he used Myriad Year Immortal Wood Marrow to water them, every stalk of his Azure Dew Rice was extremely verdant and lush.

Three months later, Mo Wuji refined a Level 3 Divine Talisman for the first time. Even though it was an ordinary Level 3 Divine Talisman, it still meant that he had become a Level 3 Divine Talisman Master.

In the following months, Mo Wuji repeatedly refined Level 3 Divine Talismans. Six months passed, and the quality of the Level 3 Divine Talismans that Mo Wuji refined was getting higher and higher, but he was still a long way from becoming a Level 4 Grand Divine Talisman Master. This wasn't just because he didn't have that many materials.

Up until now, the reason why he could become a Level 3 Divine Talisman Master was mainly because of the Saint Dao Talisman. His talisman refining techniques and inheritance basically came from the deduction of the Saint Dao Talisman.

And he cultivated the Immortal Mortal Technique. If he wanted to advance to a Level 4 Grand Divine Talisman Master, he had to break away from the Saint Dao Talisman and refine something that belonged to him.

If he continued to refine talismans according to the inheritance method of the Saint Dao Talisman, he was afraid that it would be difficult for him to advance to a Level 4 Grand Divine Talisman Master. Even if he spent more time, it wouldn't work, just because he cultivated the Immortal Mortal Technique.

Whether it was cultivation techniques or various Daos, he had to eventually break out of the original framework and find his own Dao concept. This was a long process.

Six months had passed, and his Azure Dew Rice had also ripened.

Putting away the refined talismans, Mo Wuji walked into the field. What he saw was a field of blue-silver color, with large patches of silver Azure Dew Rice grains in the blue rice stalks.

This was within Mo Wuji's expectations. He had only intended to grow medium-grade Azure Dew Rice. He had now completely achieved his goal, and in this silver Azure Dew Rice, there were also some faint gold colors. Those were a very small number of high-grade Azure Dew Rice grains, but there were only one or two lines of faint gold color on these high-grade Azure Dew Rice grains.

Mo Wuji quickly harvested all the Azure Dew Rice from this field and removed the husks.

This was an assessment of Azure Dew Rice. He didn't want to be deducted points because there were husks in what he handed in.

In the end, Mo Wuji estimated that he had harvested about thirty-seven or thirty-eight catties of medium-grade Azure Dew Rice, and two or three catties of high-grade Azure Dew Rice.

After Mo Wuji harvested the Azure Dew Rice, a teleportation vortex appeared in the middle of this field. Mo Wuji put the forty catties of Azure Dew Rice into a bag and sent it into the teleportation vortex.

After the teleportation vortex took away Mo Wuji's Azure Dew Rice, Mo Wuji sat quietly for less than a minute. At the end of the field where he planted Azure Dew Rice, a vortex array gate appeared again. On the edge of the vortex array gate, there was also a white jade stone tablet.

Mo Wuji breathed a sigh of relief, got up, engraved "Rogue Cultivator 2705" on the white jade stone tablet, and then stepped into the vortex array gate. He wasn't teleported out, which meant that he had passed the assessment.

This time, what appeared before Mo Wuji was a small stone house. In the stone house, there was only a piece of black ore and a low-grade Flame Stone, which was a common Level 2 divine material, Black Meteorite Iron.

A low-grade divine artifact refined from Level 2 divine material was not bad. Although Mo Wuji couldn't refine mid-grade divine artifacts yet, Mo Wuji didn't know how many times he had refined this kind of Black Meteorite Iron.

He skillfully activated the Flame Stone and threw the Black Meteorite Iron into the flames. This Flame Stone was only a low-grade divine fire, but it was enough to refine Black Meteorite Iron.

Mo Wuji planned to refine a long halberd. He was the best at refining long halberds.

...

While Mo Wuji was refining weapons, on the Nirvana Dao City plaza, his name once again became a hot topic of discussion.

Even though he only grew medium-grade Azure Dew Rice in the second round, with two or three catties of not-so-high-grade high-grade Azure Dew Rice mixed in, his name still appeared in first place in the Nirvana Learning Academy assessment rankings, with a total score of 167.5, surpassing the original first place, Luo Xianjiao.

(That's all for today's update, good night friends!)