Chapter 33 Clan School 2 These words, while seemingly praising him, were actually a self-praise…
Newcomers have fresher minds and haven't been exposed to much new information; their openness to new ideas is actually greater than that of others.
What's wrong with being a waiter? What's wrong with being a furnace cauldron?
Xie Jiaoyue and Chu Xingjin are the first waiter and the first furnace cauldron to be welcomed by the Jinling City Clan Academy. Just thinking about it makes me feel incredibly cool.
They were even secretly speculating which of the two with the Heavenly Spiritual Roots was more likely to be the first in the entrance examination.
Until Xie Jiaoyue said those words.
Oh no! My perfectly good spiritual root has been corrupted by love-struck brain!
Is this the curse of the furnace? Is this why the furnace has never had a high-level cultivator all these years? Is it because they've all been immersed in love and romance?
Some people even began to envy Chu Xingjin, wondering what merits this kid had to receive such an enviable love.
But Chu Xingjin clenched his fists in secret.
What does Xie Jiaoyue mean? Does she think he's too weak and needs protection?
This woman despises him from the bottom of her heart. She humiliated him with money when they first met, and now she's secretly mocking him for being weak and incompetent.
This was hardly an enviable love story; it humiliated him greatly. He vowed that he would never let Xie Jiaoyue succeed.
Chu Xingjin looked ahead and saw that the division commander had stopped and could already see the first test item in his eyes.
It turned out to be a talent stone.
The instructor pointed to the stone and began to explain: "You should all have seen this at home, but since you have entered the clan school, the clan school naturally needs to understand the talents and abilities of each disciple. Therefore, we need to retest them."
The reason given was somewhat far-fetched, but since the school wanted to retest, the freshmen had no reason to refuse.
This is much better than those thrill rides; at least there's no danger.
No one noticed that one person in the crowd had become flustered.
“This spirit stone is slightly different from the one provided by the Director of the Heaven and Earth Department. It can only test spiritual roots, but it is more sensitive to the purity of spiritual roots. It can even detect the slightest differences between heavenly spiritual roots.”
Chu Xingjin was excited; wasn't this his chance?
The difference between him and Xie Jiaoyue lies in their special physiques; he doesn't believe that he is inferior to Xie Jiaoyue in terms of the purity of his spiritual roots alone.
Perhaps fearing that the children's self-esteem would be hurt too much, the clan school clearly arranged the order, ranking everyone according to the order of three spiritual roots, two spiritual roots, one spiritual root, and heavenly spiritual root.
To avoid the situation where someone is immediately identified as having a Heavenly Spiritual Root, making the rest of the people feel that they lack talent.
First, there were three spiritual roots, calm and undisturbed. The kind-hearted freshmen racked their brains to think of ways to praise them. If they were all average, they would say they were balanced. If one of them was strong, they would praise that one. The main point was to make everyone full of confidence in the future.
This group had the largest number of people and took the longest time to complete the test. By the time they finished, only a small fraction of the people remained.
Then came the dual spiritual roots, and amidst the rising and falling praises, there was a greater sense of sincerity.
Even the usually stern teachers looked more kind and gentle, as if they were very satisfied with this year's freshmen and had even taken a liking to one or two promising students.
It wasn't until the Wang family's affiliated aristocratic families began testing Tang's disciples that the teachers' expressions turned serious again.
"No, your talent is wrong. Weren't you supposed to have dual spiritual roots? How did you become a triple spiritual root?"
The Tang disciple was extremely flustered and explained incoherently, "I... I might have made a mistake in the previous test."
The commander didn't ask any more questions, but his eyes seemed to see through everything, making everyone feel ashamed.
Now everyone else finally understood the significance of this test—sigh, they were afraid that the various powerful families would cheat just to save face.
The three major families probably knew there would be a new round of testing, so those who valued their reputation the most were honest and dutiful, while the smaller families took the risk and chose to falsify their reports.
How utterly hypocritical!
They were too lazy to even praise him anymore.
The teacher wasn't angry. In his eyes, these sixteen or seventeen-year-old boys and girls were still children. How could a child make such a decision? If anyone should be blamed, it should be the adults behind them.
The commander, who hadn't joined the boasting army, patted the Tang family member on the shoulder: "Although you have three spiritual roots, one of them is too weak to be detected. There's no need to worry about it. Moreover, one of your spiritual roots is a lightning spiritual root, which is not one of the five elements. It will be of great help to you when you undergo the lightning tribulation in the future."
The tribulation lightning is something that only occurs at the Golden Core stage. Isn't this a wish that he will be able to condense his Golden Core in the future?
In an instant, light returned to the eyes of the listless, lying-down youth.
His master said he had a chance to succeed in alchemy! He absolutely could not let his master down!
The last of Xin Xiuying's dual spiritual roots.
As the daughter of the patriarch of the Xin clan, one of the three great families, she naturally attracted much attention. Everyone was curious about the true nature of this young lady who held such a grand birthday banquet.
As expected, Xin Xiuying not only possessed the most suitable dual spiritual roots of water and wood for the Xin family's cultivation method, but her spiritual root purity was also close to 80%, which was almost the upper limit that dual spiritual roots could achieve.
No wonder Mrs. Xin has been so smug lately, she's overjoyed.
Amidst the praise of the crowd, Xin Xiuying walked back to the group with her head held high, and even gave Xie Jiaoyue a smug look.
It was as if she was saying that she was not much worse than Xie Jiaoyue.
Xie Jiaoyue gave a thumbs up. He's really competitive. No wonder he's someone she's been competing with since childhood.
Next, only four people remained.
One was a member of the Wang family, another was a member of the Tuoba family, an affiliated clan of the Xin family, and there were also Xie Jiaoyue and Chu Xingjin.
Both the Wang and Tuoba clans only possessed single spiritual roots, until Chu Xingjin stepped forward.
On the dark stone, the golden halo increases in thickness from the outside in, depending on the purity of the spiritual root; the higher the purity, the closer it is to the center.
As soon as Chu Xingjin made his move, the halo almost filled the entire stone, and the onlookers couldn't even see the gap in the center.
Chu Xingjin was extremely proud; this time, first place was definitely his!
However, when it came to Xie Jiaoyue, the reaction of the talent spirit stone was just as good as that of Chu Xingjin.
Chu Xingjin quickly comforted himself, saying that the difference between Heavenly Spiritual Roots was extremely small, but he believed that his teachers would definitely be able to see that he was definitely stronger than Xie Jiaoyue.
The commander was indeed stumped. He studied the talent stones for a long time, even gesturing with his hands to compare them, and then called Chu Xingjin up to compare them carefully.
The conclusion was: "The purity of your spiritual roots is truly remarkable. Among all the generations of disciples I have taught, you are among the best. However, Xie Jiaoyue is still superior."
In his opinion, both of them were good.
Xie Jiaoyue seemed genuinely happy for Chu Xingjin: "Brother Chu, I knew it! You have amazing talent!"
Xin Xiuying, who was watching, thought that Xie Jiaoyue was not happy for winning first place at all. Instead, she immediately ran over to praise her fiancé.
This is the most beautiful love story.
Pshaw, that's just being a silly, love-struck fool.
Chu Xingjin stared into Xie Jiaoyue's eyes. She usually had an innocent look, but now she seemed very scheming to him.
These words seem to praise him, but they are actually praising himself.
What exactly does Xie Jiaoyue mean?
Never mind, this is just a test of the purity of his spiritual root. He'll definitely be able to turn the tide in the next test.
Sure enough, in the following physical tests and endurance tests, Chu Xingjin, who gave it his all, lived up to expectations and surpassed Xie Jiaoyue, winning first place in all of them.
Xie Jiaoyue was not annoyed at all and did not care about her lagging behind. She just surrounded Chu Xingjin and praised him.
"Brother Chu has such good stamina, he was able to run for so long, unlike me, I was so tired that I couldn't speak before the finish line."
"Brother Chu's eyes during the test were like stars that never fall in the night sky; I want to drown in your gaze."
She spewed out beautiful words as if they were free, and not only that, but she didn't repeat herself. Chu Xingjin almost dismissed his suspicions, thinking that Xie Jiaoyue was probably not scheming, but simply spoke without thinking.
As for the others, they looked at each other and couldn't help but sigh.
Not only them, but also the senior brothers and sisters sitting in front of the water mirror sighed.
This beautiful furnace is great in every way, except for its brain. With such a big brain, it doesn't hold anything but Chu Xingjin.
Especially those who bet on Xie Jiaoyue after seeing the first project, are now kicking themselves.
Can you do it? Try your best! Fight hard! If a cultivator doesn't want to strive for first place, what kind of cultivator are they?
Their lives matter, and the money they bet is money too. Even if it's not for them, we still have to try our best for the qualification to enter the secret realm.
Sigh, it's true that you can't be tainted by love-struck thinking. Once you are, even the best talent becomes worthless.
It seems that Chu Xingjin is the only genius in this year's class.
Soon, we arrived at the last project.
An area was enclosed in the forest, and in the very center of the area were several magical beasts.
"Although the number of times magical beasts have appeared has decreased in the past two years and they are no longer very common, cultivators must take it as their duty to protect the cultivation world and the safety of all mortals living in the cultivation world. Therefore, when magical beasts appear, they must not be afraid of death and must rush to the front."
"Because the safety of the entire cultivation world rests on your shoulders."
"Don't worry, the clan knows that you haven't officially started practicing your cultivation techniques yet, so the demonic energy on these beasts has been removed, and their cultivation level is only at the Qi Refining stage."
"Children, use your courage and wisdom to defeat them!"
His words stirred the freshmen's passion.
This was just a test; no one wanted the new students to die. After distributing small SOS items to each student, the instructor said, "You have fifteen minutes to figure out the methods. After fifteen minutes, I will randomly place the monsters in the dense forest."
The division commander lit an incense stick, and when it burned out completely, he counted down three, two, one, then with a wave of his long sleeves, he and the monsters disappeared together.
The freshmen, hidden throughout the dense forest, immediately became alert, knowing that the most difficult test was about to begin.
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