After entering the real combat assessment, Ye Chen did not stand out as much as in the first two rounds.
Even many people did not notice his presence.
But now, when a disciple suddenly fell from the Sky-Scaling Vine and was at risk of losing their life, Ye Chen suddenly used a new method, a Cultivation Technique that could summon huge wings, and rushed to rescue the falling youth.
Ye Chen had actually learned such an incredible Cultivation Technique, and could fly with wings in the True Qi Realm!
With these wings, it was clear that Ye Chen could easily soar up to the Ninety-Nine Floating Peaks!
It was only at this point that everyone understood that it was not that Ye Chen's strength was insufficient in this real combat assessment; he simply had not exerted his full strength!
Watching the rapidly falling youth and Ye Chen who had deployed silver wings chasing after him, everyone's hearts tightened.
The countless people watching the True Disciple Selection Competition at the Mountain Gate Square, even the youths who stopped climbing the Sky-Scaling Vine to look down, all silently prayed in their hearts.
As the Rotating Pill Realm experts were not participants in the assessment and could not intervene, it was Ye Chen, a contestant among the youths, who could naturally rescue his fellow contenders!
Even the Rotating Pill Realm experts, seeing Ye Chen suddenly fly out to rescue the falling youth, were overcome with a surge of emotions.
For the falling youth, they could not help due to the rules, but they too felt a pang of pain in their hearts.
Ye Chen stepping forward naturally excited them all at once.
"Ye Chen really had hidden moves!"
"Haha, I knew this young fellow was formidable, a feathered Cultivation Technique—such a mighty movement technique is rare, and he has learned one at such a young age!"
Daoist Wine Sword's admiration for Ye Chen grew as he watched.
The other Rotating Pill Realm experts looked at each other and nodded in agreement.
Among the crowd standing in the void, Jiang Yao's eyes shone even brighter. She wanted to save the falling youth too, but the Rotating Pill Realm experts had stopped her. She even decided that once the youth fell below the clouds at the base of the Floating Peaks, she would intervene to save him regardless of any obstruction from the Rotating Pill Realm experts.
After all, falling below the sea of clouds would serve as a real warning for the contending disciples!
Now, Ye Chen had suddenly taken action!
Jiang Yao was thrilled by Ye Chen's decisive intervention and the unveiling of his powerful feathered Cultivation Technique.
The man she admired was so strong, so extraordinary!
While everyone watched, Ye Chen, with his silver Wind-Thunder Wings deployed, was getting closer and closer to the falling youth.
Ten zhang! Eight zhang! Five zhang!
Just as the falling youth plunged from the thirty-sixth Floating Peak to the sky beside the Fifteenth Floating Peak, Ye Chen was now only five or six meters away from him.
At this moment, Ye Chen, who was flying swiftly, reached down through the void towards the falling youth and abruptly grabbed him from five or six meters away, stopping the youth's rapid descent dead in its tracks!
The youth was suddenly suspended in mid-air!
No longer falling an inch further!
It was terrifying to consider the momentum of such a fall from the void, yet Ye Chen was able to completely halt the youth's descent from five or six meters away—his strength was simply astonishing.
Having stopped the youth's fall, Ye Chen reached out with a wide grasp and lifted the youth up, pulling him to his side.
Ye Chen, indeed, had managed, in that swift action, to save the falling youth in just a few breaths' time!
Seeing the falling youth reaching Ye Chen's side, countless disciples watching the assessment through a giant screen outside, and the anxious youths on the Sky-Scaling Vine, all burst into cheers!
They had just witnessed Ye Chen, with only True Qi Realm cultivation, display unmatched strength by flying through the void and saving a person who was plummeting to the ground!
This would probably be the most unforgettable moment of the True Disciple Selection Competition for them all!
Even the Spirit Sea Realm disciples standing behind the Rotating Pill Realm experts in the void could not help but cheer.
While the Rotating Pill Realm experts did not cheer as such, smiles spread across their faces, and their taut hearts suddenly relaxed.
Ye Chen had really done it; his lightning-fast reaction had worked, saving the life of a fellow assessment contender!
The falling youth landed beside Ye Chen, his face still pale, trembling all over.
As he fell from the Sky-Scaling Vine, he heard countless winds howling in his ears and saw peaks flashing by his face rapidly; he thought he was certainly doomed, yet unexpectedly, someone reached out to save him.
When he saw that his rescuer was Ye Chen, who had excelled in the previous two rounds, the youth burst into tears.
"Ye Chen!" the youth called out Ye Chen's name, simply calling out his name.
But this unintentional fall during the True Disciple Selection Competition, and Ye Chen's rescue, would be etched in his heart, never to be forgotten for the rest of his life.
"Be more careful, this is a real combat assessment," Ye Chen said to him with a slight smile, and then, the youth found himself landing on the Fifteenth Floating Peak alongside him.
Once again standing on a Floating Peak, the solid feeling of his feet on the ground made the youth collapse.