23 The Trials (2/2)

After a few more wrong instructions from the Outer Sect Elder, Bai Shui got it right and inserted his Qi into the rock. The rock started to glow a Green color before quickly switching to a constant yellow.

”Greenish-Yellow, Slightly Above Average Talent. Pretty good. NEXT!”

The cultivators woke out of their sleep and congratulated Bai Shui on his passing. All of them were thinking the same thing. If Bai Shui passed it, I definitely will.

”Nan Gongsheng!”

”Bai Chao!”

”Ye Ming!”

All of the cultivators except for Van took their first exam already. Yu Chao, surprisingly, got a Greenish-Blue Talent, which was rather rare, causing the Elder to look at the batch of cultivators again with different eyes. I guess being a muscle head wasn't too bad after all.

Ye Shui got slightly better with a Blue Talent, causing a shocked gasp to come from the Elder. He never would've imagined accepting in 2 Rare Talents at once. But he wasn't prepared for what came next.

When Fairy Cloud Feather stepped up to take the exam, the rock emitted a faint Red light. The Outer Sect Elder was about to give his condolences when the color sharply changed to a Gold color.

”Untouched By Destiny Talent! Legendary Rank!!”

The Sect Elder was awestruck. He started to cry tears of joy. He had really struck gold with this batch of youngsters. The Sect had demanded that he would be recruiting new disciples until he found at least 3 Rare Talents. With this contribution, he might even be able to choose from the Sect treasury!

The trio was immediately whisked away by another outer sect elder and was given command medallions. Fairy Cloud Feather would immediately become an Inner Sect Disciple while the other two would be given special benefits as Outer Sect Disciples.

There was still one youth left to be tested. Out of the 50 cultivators, 14 had passed, including the trio. Most of the others left to find lodging for the night for tomorrow's journey back while others decided to stay as servants, hoping to make their way through the ranks.

An inner sect elder had told him to keep an eye on a certain youth and this youth was currently in front of him. Nothing about the youth particularly stood out from the others. He looked rather average if one didn't consider his rather high cultivation base. The Elder was only at the 9th Stage of Dantian Formation, so he couldn't see Van's real cultivation base.

He was told to evaluate Van last, but to accept Van in as an Outer Sect Disciple no matter what happened. The Elder sighed but called Van to step up.

Van was rather nervous and did as everyone else had done before him. He stood before the stone and placed his hand on it. Please be above orange! Please be above orange!

Van had worked rather hard and had encountered a few hardships to get to the Middle Continent. He hoped that all of that hard work would not be in vain. He took a deep breath and inserted the Qi into the rock.

A few moments later, the rock still hadn't changed color.

”Maybe something went wrong with the rock?”

Van smiled at the Elder hopefully. The Elder sighed and was about to tell Van that there was no hope when something stopped him.

The stone started to tremble rather vigorously and the ground gently shook for a few minutes. Van was extremely surprised and turned his head around to find that the rock had disintegrated into a pile of dust! That's right. Disintegrated.

The Elder scratched his head. He thought that he had to pull some strings and use the Inner Sect Elder's authority to accept Van, but this youth had disintegrated the Talent River Stone! The Elder scratched his head and was about to go ask an Inner Sect Elder about the circumstances when he felt a strange wind flow by him. He turned around to see who it was to find an old man dressed in blue robes.

The old man had a shocked expression on his face and started studying Van. This old man was a previous patriarch of the Flowing River Sect. He had a cultivation base of ”Saint” and was on the way to the 7 Steps of Ascension. He was currently at the peak of that level and was rarely aroused.

He had felt the connection with the Talent River Stone break and cast his divine sense over to see what happened. He found a peculiar youth standing before the remains of the Talent River Stone.

What kind of latent talent did this young man have to disintegrate the Talent River Stone? This had never happened in his entire lifetime.