When the second test of spiritual roots took place, there were about 80-90% fewer people than at the foot of the mountain.
There are fewer than a hundred people in total.
Scattered across the empty plaza were the cultivators who had come to attend the meeting.
In the center of the square stands a huge array of spirit-testing stones.
The runes of the formation were drawn with cinnabar and imprinted in the grooves of the bluestone slab.
Around the array, various spirit-testing stones were placed in a staggered manner.
Once the subject enters the center of the formation, disciples with five different spiritual powers stand at the five corners and inject spiritual power into the formation. The formation will then cause the elements to resonate with the subject's spiritual roots, causing the corresponding spiritual stones to tremble.
Normally, most people have mixed spiritual roots, and only those with three spiritual roots can be considered cultivators with extremely low talent.
Single-spiritual-root cultivators are one in a hundred, and there have been many times when the recruitment conference couldn't even recruit a single single-spiritual-root newcomer.
A person with a mutated single spiritual root like Ji Mofan is extremely rare, and almost every one of them becomes a great figure who leaves a great name in the cultivation world.
In the short time that Ji Mofan was distracted, several test subjects had already entered the Spirit Testing Stone Array, and walked out dejectedly amidst the bad news that all the Spirit Testing Stones were trembling.
Next up was the young boy from Chaogui Village.
Unlike the others who looked nervous and expectant, the child seemed very relaxed as he walked in.
But as he stood in the center of the formation, he suddenly caught sight of Ji Mofan, who was standing behind the crowd with his hands tucked in his pockets, looking over indifferently.
The child's face flushed with excitement, and he seemed to be desperately trying to suppress the urge to jump up.
Ji Mo Fan couldn't help but laugh.
Do you care about him that much?
He didn't do anything particularly special back in Chaogui Village, did he?
To his shame, he still doesn't even know the child's full name.
Most of the villagers in Chaogui Village are surnamed Ge. This child lives in the family on the very edge of the village. There are no adult men in the family, only a lame old woman, a woman who is raising two children alone, and this child whose nickname is Xiao Erzi.
It is said that he originally had an older brother, but one day when his brother and father went out to sea to fish, the two of them disappeared into the sea.
It means to disappear.
Even without a storm, those two excellent swimmers would never have lost to ordinary fish, shrimp, and crabs in the water.
They simply vanished into the calm sea. Several days later, a few pieces of ship plank floated back to shore, still stained with bloodstains that were almost indistinguishable in color.
Jimo Fan went there specifically for this purpose.
The boy standing in the center of the Spirit Testing Stone Array pursed his lips slightly, and memories in his mind began to flow unconsciously when he saw Ji Mo Fan.
The great demon hiding in the sea not only devoured Xiao Erzi's father and brothers, but also caused more than ten people from Chaogui Village to disappear in the sea within just half a year.
The villagers, in their ignorance, believed this was a sign from the sea god, a signal that they needed to offer food.
They decided to select offerings and hold a worship ceremony on the night of the full moon.
With no male heir in the family, Xiao Erzi's family was naturally bullied by the villagers. The usually kind uncles and elders now had ferocious expressions. Ignoring the woman's cries as she banged her forehead until it bled, and ignoring the paralyzed old woman who crawled to the crowd with her entire weight on her arms to beg, the villagers tied Xiao Erzi and another little girl together to the mast of a small bamboo raft.
The hemp rope was so rough that even though he had been exposed to the damp, salty sea breeze since childhood, it still caused him to shed physiological tears.
His vision was blurred into a hazy blur, but his hands were tied so he couldn't wipe his face, and therefore he couldn't see his mother's and mother-in-law's last expressions.
The small fishing village where I had lived for nearly ten years gradually shrank in my field of vision, and even the light from the torches in the villagers' hands gradually disappeared.
All that could be heard were the sounds of the waves and the wind, and the low sobs of the little girl beside me, who was also bound.
He was a few months older than the little girl, and since they were about the same age, they were naturally playmates.
But the little girl rarely went out to play with them. At such a young age, she had to hold her younger brother, who was even younger than her, and take care of him.
The little girl didn't even have a name. When her parents were happy, they called her "Big Girl," but when they were unhappy, they would just say "I'm losing money."
The younger brother felt that as the older brother, he should bear some responsibility.
But when he opened his mouth, his throat felt as if it had been violently washed by seawater, so dry that he couldn't even utter a soft hum.
He could only move slightly, trying to loosen the rope a little, and reached out to pat the little girl beside him.
At this very moment, a sudden change occurred.
Under the calm night sky, the sea suddenly erupted into a raging torrent.
A huge fish, as big as a humpback whale, suddenly leaped out of the water. The crudely made bamboo raft was hit by the wave and almost fell apart in an instant.
Xiao Erzi was soaked to the bone by the seawater and couldn't do anything for a moment.
The little girl was so frightened that she forgot to cry.
A figure suddenly appeared under the night sky.
A cold light pierced the desolate night, and the white blade cut through the air, as if slicing the moon to pieces.
The bright light mingled with the misty air and slowly fell, clinging to the figure hovering in mid-air.
The immortal figure lightly touched the water with his toes, traversing the waves and battling the huge black fish shadow.
"It's just a small fish, yet it dares to be so arrogant."
Amidst the overwhelming sound of water, Xiao Erzi vaguely heard voices drifting from the figure that resembled moonlight.
"What the villagers said was really true," Xiao Erzi thought at the time.
He really saw the gods.
"Dual spiritual roots of metal and water!"
"No...it's a mutated lightning spirit root!"
The sudden, undulating sounds around them pulled the two people back from the same memory.
Ji Mofan looked closely and saw that within the spirit-testing stone array, the spirit-testing stones representing the metal and water attributes were simultaneously emitting a slight tremor.
But it doesn't seem like a reaction from someone with dual spiritual roots, otherwise the light should be even brighter.
Upon closer inspection, one can notice that light blue arcs of electricity are dancing between those shimmering spirit-testing stones.
Ji Mofan's eyes lit up.
How come he had never heard of this child's extraordinary talent in his previous life?
Abnormal spiritual roots usually exist in a single spiritual root state. Although they are separated from the five elements of metal, wood, water, fire and earth that are the origin of heaven and earth, it is also more difficult for others to come up with a way to counter them.
After all, no one would bother to deliberately cause trouble for a cultivator with a unique spiritual root that is one in a million.
If you really run into them, just run away if you can't beat them.
Their cultivation speed will be slightly slower than that of ordinary single-spiritual-root individuals, but diligence can make up for it. At least this slowness has no impact on Ji Mofan.
He saw the child's joyful gaze as soon as he learned that he had passed the second test.
"Immortal Master Jimo!" He was so happy that he hopped around in circles like a little rabbit.
Ji Mo Fan was happy for him, but this also raised an even stranger question—
Why was no one willing to take him as a disciple in his previous life?
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