Chapter 154: Chapter 154 Top Talent_l
Translator: 549690339
Chen Mobai looked around and found that everyone was hesitant.
He found it rather strange, but after putting himself in the shoes of these Loose Cultivators, an understanding dawned upon him, and he realized their feelings.
From the moment these people embarked on the Path of Immortality Cultivation, they understood the importance of the spiritual root.
Being able to become a cultivator meant that they all possessed a spiritual root. However, this spiritual root could either lead them to ascend to immortality or plunge into hell.
They wanted to know their spiritual roots through the Spirit Root Testing Platform but also harbored a fear of discovering they had False Spiritual Roots of four or five attributes, which could dim their prospects in the Path of Immortality Cultivation.
In such a dilemma, a lull fell upon them for a while.
However, Chen Mobai knew his own spiritual root talent. If he were in Xian Men, he would have been the first to finish the test and go up the stage straight away.
But this was the Tianhe Realm, where drawing attention was the last thing he wanted.
He held back, waiting for the first Loose Cultivator to come forward, one eager to attract the attention of the two True Disciples of the Divine Wood Sect.
As expected, after about a stick of incense’s worth of time passed, Yuan Chiye noticed that no one had yet stepped onto the stage, which made him furrow his brow.
“If there’s no one willing, then this Spirit Root Testing will come to an end. Those who don’t test their spiritual roots cannot participate in the next round of talisman evaluations.”
As soon as he said this, someone finally couldn’t help but step forward.
A robust, bald, and eyebrow-less man came forward. After paying respects to Yuan Chiye, he carefully stepped onto the Spirit Root Testing Platform.
Following the example of the people before him, he sat cross-legged and breathed in and absorbed the spiritual energy.
Then, a five-color light shone brightly.
“False Five Elements Spiritual Root, disqualified.”
“Senior Yuan, I’m at the eighth level of Qi Cultivation. M-my spiritual root couldn’t be this poor. Could you perhaps try to read my bones again?”
This bald man’s face turned pale when he saw the light of his spiritual root, but he ran in front of Yuan Chiye without giving up, extending his right hand.
“The eighth level of Qi Cultivation, huh? Alright then, you may participate in the next round of talisman evaluations.”
Yuan Chiye did not read his bones again. He nodded, signaled the bald man to step down, and gestured for the next person to come up.
Seeing this, many of the Loose Cultivators present believed the rumors that had been circulating in the market recently.
The Divine Wood Sect lost quite a number of disciples in Yun Meng Ze, and it really seemed like they were planning to recruit more people this time.
Normally, those with False Five Elements Spiritual Roots would definitely be eliminated. But someone at the eighth level of Qi Cultivation could finish quite a few sect tasks, and they were being given a second chance.
As such, the remaining Loose Cultivators at the later stages of Qi Cultivation all enthusiastically took to the Spirit Root Testing Platform.
But the results surprised Chen Mobai greatly; they all had False Spiritual Roots of four or five attributes.
“This is strange, how can this be?”
“Senior, these people who can advance to the later stages of Qi Cultivation have experienced multiple recruitments by the Five Elements Sect and the Divine Wood Sect. They have tested their spiritual root talents long ago. And the talents with True Spiritual Roots have been picked off in the previous recruitments.”
Qi Er’s words enlightened Chen Mobai.
All his previous thoughts were mistaken. It wasn’t that these people didn’t dare to take the stage due to the fear of discovering their poor spiritual root talents.
They already knew that they had False Spiritual Roots of four or five attributes. And most of them were overage and did not meet the recruitment requirements of the Five Elements Sect and the Divine Wood Sect, knowing they will get eliminated, thus they did not step forward.
However, thanks to the recent rampage of the demonic beasts in Yun Meng Ze, the Divine Wood Sect seemed to have suffered considerable losses and were loosening their requirements towards these Loose Cultivators in the later stages of Qi Cultivation this time.
But there was no certainty as to how the talisman evaluations that were coming up would be.
While Chen Mobai was pondering this, the Loose Cultivators at the later stages of Qi Cultivation were nearly finished with their tests. They were indeed all possessing False Spiritual Roots, which made Yuan Chiye shake his head repeatedly.
In the end, he didn’t even bother to watch. He began to chat with the disciple who was looking after the Divine Wood Sect Shop.
“If the Sect Leader hadn’t demanded that we recruit more people this time, basically none of these people would have been able to enter our sect.”
“Well, it’s not entirely a bad thing. After all, these Loose Cultivators have cultivated to the later stages of Qi Cultivation, each with some useful skills. They can never hope to reach the Foundation Establishment, but they would be perfect to replenish our team in Yun Meng Ze.”
One of the shopkeepers from the Magic Instrument Shop said laughingly.
“Well, would you look at that. There’s a hidden gem.”
Suddenly, the young-looking female True Disciple of the Divine Wood Sect spoke up in surprise.
Yuan Chiye, who was chatting leisurely, immediately turned to look and saw a handsome young man sitting on the Spirit Root Testing Platform, practicing Qi cultivation.
White light, green light, and black light shone!
It’s actually a True Spiritual Root of three attributes!
Yuan Chiye’s eyes brightened, and he stood up.
“What’s the background of this Loose Cultivator?”
The shopkeeper of Divine Wood Sect’s Dan Medicine Shop promptly got up and reported to Yuan Chiye.
“He’s a Loose Cultivator who appeared in Yun Country just last year. Some time ago, he also went to our Sect’s Green Light Island Market in Yun Meng Ze and was very lucky. He managed to escape after the island was destroyed by demonic beasts.”
“Ah, so he escaped from the ruins of Green Light Island.”
Upon hearing this, Yuan Chiye couldn’t help but marvel.
As a true disciple, he certainly knew about the brutal conditions at the Green Light Island battlefield. The Divine Wood Sect and Golden Cliff sacrificed two Foundation Establishment elders to buy time for most of their disciples to retreat via the Teleportation Array.
The fact that this person managed to survive in such a battlefield without a doubt demonstrated his exceptional abilities.
“Can we investigate this person’s initial experiences in cultivating immortality clearly?”
Although the Divine Wood Sect was not as strict as the Five Elements Sect in recruiting Loose Cultivators, they would still conduct a basic background investigation. Doing so was to prevent someone sent by another Sect from stealing their cultivation technique.
“He did mention that when he was a child, he fell into a great lake while fishing, accidentally entered a Water Mansion, and thus obtained the method of immortal cultivation.”
The foreshadowing in Chen Mobai’s previous conversation with the shopkeeper of Divine Wood Sect’s Spiritual Medicine Shop was revealed. Chen was thinking of confessing the Water Mansion as his own after joining the Divine Wood Sect.
After all, the Water Mansion used to belong to the Five Elements Sect and no one had come to retrieve it at this point. Therefore, as a sect derived from the Five Elements Sect, the Divine Wood Sect is also entitled to claim ownership of this Water Mansion.
Once he joined the Divine Wood Sect, wouldn’t this Water Mansion become rightfully his?
Considering that the Divine Wood Sect had so much unused spiritual land in Giant Tree Ridge, they would certainly not care about this small Water Mansion.
“Understood.”
At this moment, Chen Mobai stepped off the Spirit Root Testing Platform and walked toward Yuan Chiye.
After the spiritual root testing, there was still the bone reading and cultivation level check.
“Very good. You’re only nineteen and are already at the seventh level of Qi Cultivation, and you possess a True Spiritual Root.”
After the bone reading, Yuan Chiye seemed even more pleased.
“With your cultivation speed, this True Spiritual Root is definitely of high quality. It might even be close to a top-tier Dual Elemental Spiritual Root. You don’t need to participate in the talisman evaluation.”
Yuan Chiye directly confirmed the qualifications for Chen Mobai’s admission.
“Huh?”
Chen Mobai was shocked by this. He knew he only possessed a most ordinary trinity spiritual root, which lacked a few points from being considered a Four Element Spiritual Root.
Why did Yuan Chiye’s words start to disagree with the Spiritual Root Certificate given by Xian Men’s large medical institute?