Chapter 52: The Higher You Go, The Harder You Fall (1/2)
Chapter 52: The Higher You Go, The Harder You Fall
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Chang Luo City had too many locations for testing spirit roots, and the cheapest only required a fee of 100 gold coins. Being wary of false test results, Mo Wuji decided on the Xing Han Spirit Opening Tower.
After some inquiries, Mo Wuji found out that the Xing Han Spirit Opening Tower was one of the top tier spirit opening towers. Its accuracy rate for testing one’s spirit roots was a perfect 100%. Originally, Mo Wuji was worried that his spiritual roots may be of poor quality, and that it would be better to take the test on the sly. However, when he reached Xing Han Spirit Opening Tower, he knew that he was overthinking.
Just by standing at outside of the Xing Han Spirit Opening Tower for a few minutes, Mo Wuji saw up to a hundred people enter and leave the premises. With such a high volume of human traffic, who would notice him?
Mo Wuji walked into the Spirit Opening Tower and was welcomed by a large signboard. The signboard had two arrows, the left one pointing to “spirit root testing”, and the right one pointing to “opening of spirit channels”.
Taking a left turn, Mo Wuji quickly arrived at a window which had a sign below it that wrote “Pay 700 gold coins for the testing of spirit roots”. He handed over the fee, and obtained a card numbered 3121.
There were many people coming to get their spiritual roots tested, and all Mo Wuji had to do was to follow behind the others. He walked up to the third floor, which had a large hall with over a hundred people seated within it. Due to the gigantic size of the hall, even with a hundred people in it, there still seemed to be much extra space left.
At the corner of the hall, there was a metal door that was closed shut. When Mo Wuji entered, one person walked out from that door, and following the reporting of a number, another went in.
Within half a minute, the previous person exited the door, and the person with the next number entered.
Mo Wuji waited for approximately an hour before his name was called; he then entered the room anxiously.
If nothing went wrong, and the test results still indicated that he did not have spiritual roots, then he probably would not have spiritual roots for the rest of his life.
After entering the room, Mo Wuji saw a crystal pillar that was much more transparent and clear than those within Cheng Yu Spirit Opening Tower. Not only was it clearer, its height was also much greater than the Cheng Yu Spirit Opening Tower. By his estimates, it was at least 4.5 to 5 metres tall.
Beside the crystal pillar sat a middle aged woman. Upon seeing Mo Wuji enter, she said emotionlessly, “Stand up there.”
Mo Wuji took the test once before, and already possessed experience about the whole process. He immediately stood on the spirit roots test platform.
The next moment, a bright blue light shot up to the sky, exceeding the top edge of the crystal pillar.
In an instant, this blue light disappeared, and the pillar reverted to its original state.
“What’s going on?” The female tester suddenly stood up, walking towards the crystal pillar with a look of suspicion. She touched the pillar all over for a good period of time.
Sometime later, she still did not know what had happened, and could only tell Mo Wuji, “You, come down. You’ll retake the test awhile later.”
Mo Wuji initially got stunned by the blue light that shot into the sky. What followed was a tingling sensation on his scalp. He had saw Yan’Er’s spirit roots test before. Hers was a streak of green light which did not even reach the top of the pillar, and she was determined to have Supreme Spirit Roots.
But Yan’Er’s green light remained at the pillar all the way until she stepped down from it.
That warm green light was something that Mo Wuji was unable to forget even up till that point in time.
What was the issue with him? After that streak of blue light shot to the sky, it disappeared completely. Moreover, this sort of brilliance was highly disruptive, totally different from the warmth from Yan’Er’s light.
“Stand up there again.” Seeing that Mo Wuji was in a daze, the tester shouted once more.
Mo Wuji hurriedly stood up onto the pillar. A moment later, he saw that the pillar had some faint specks of blue light that flashed a few times, before the pillar returned to its original state.