28 My Master Could Not Possibly... (1/2)

This much focused on Immortal Gathering of the Spirit Sword Sect, to everyone’s shock and disappointment, finally came to an end.

This time’s Immortal Gathering, which lasted for more than a month, fully showed the prestige of the top five sects of the Union of The Ten Thousand Immortals. Around a thousand elite youths from the Nine Regions came to participate. At the Golden Bridge, around ninety percent of them were eliminated because of insufficient talent. Moreover, around a dozen who were sufficiently talented chose to enter the Carefree Peak as Outer Court Disciples. The rest of the elites went on to embark on the Immortal Path to overcome several hard trials. Eventually, only three people stood out and joined the Inner Court.

None of these three people had first-rank spirit root. However, surprisingly, Wen Bao actually had a second rank spirit root, while the other two only had third rank spirit roots… However, after the last Age of Chaos, natural spirit roots had become rare. Not to mention the first rank spirit root like the Heavenly Spirit Root, even these two people’s third rank spirit root could be considered quite rare now, so the sect naturally wasn’t too nitpicky in their choice.

Besides these three people, Hai Yunfan got a handwritten letter of recommendation from the Spirit Sword Sect’s second Elder and went to apply as a disciple at the Ten Thousand Arts Sect. The other ten participants who persevered until the end also had their own opportunity… On their way down the Spirit Sword Mountain, they were stopped by a group Immortal Cultivators. Most of these people were Elders or the Elites from various sects. Amongst them, many were four or fifth rate sects, but there were also two second rate sects.

The reason why they stopped these failed participants was naturally to offer them to become their sect’s disciple. Although they were sent down the mountain by the Spirit Sword Sect because they seemed to lack in something, the other sects, even the other four top sects, all viewed that they wasted many talented youths with natural spirit roots, which was truly rare in this day and age. As for these failed participants, any one of them could choose whatever sect they wished to enter.

Even though they failed to become the phoenix tail, they could still become the chicken head [1], which was not bad at all. In the Spirit Sword Sect, at most, they could only become one of the Inner Court Disciples. But in these other sects, they had a high chance of becoming a Successor Disciple.

Besides these people, there was also Wang Lu who had a rare opportunity.

After using the Firmament Cloud Ancient Coin, Wang Lu got his wish to enter the Spirit Sword Sect as a Successor Disciple, which was far above the status of a mere Inner Court Disciple.

However, the problem was, his Master seemed to be a retard!

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This was not the first time he met with this Fifth Elder of the Spirit Sword Sect.

The last time he met her was at the end of the Immortal Path. When Wang Lu’s single sword strike pierced through the Frozen Wind Valley, this Elder came all the way to him wailing and mourning, and she had even gotten entangled with him.

At that time, Wang Lu didn’t know that this woman in white was one of the Elders of the Heavenly Sword Hall. Moreover, he didn’t know that she would become his Master and, at that time, thought that she had mental disability.

However, fate sometimes messed with people. When he used the Firmament Cloud Ancient Coin to ask for the position of a Successor Disciple, he was stuck with this brain dead Master. This fully reflected the truth of the saying, the path to Immortality was uncertain.

After the end of the Immortal Gathering, Wen Bao and the other two were led away by a few disciples in black and white clothing to the living area of the disciples within the Misty Peak. As for Wang Lu, he was left outside the Mystical Cloud Hall like a lost dog for the whole afternoon. Only when the Sun was below the horizon did the woman in white finally approach him.

“Em… Hello?”

The woman in white had never thought that she would ever accept a disciple - the sect also wouldn’t let her, so she didn’t know how she should greet her disciple. She nervously looked at Wang Lu, who seemed to be indifferent to her, and awkwardly scratched her head. “According to the Sect Leader’s instruction, from now on, I am your Master. But, this is the first time for me to accept a disciple, so please be gentle… Oh, wrong. In short, let us try to make do about it.”

Wang Lu just stared at this Fifth Elder. His mind began to guess whether the Spirit Sword Sect deliberately sent a retard to mess with him.

But the Fifth Elder, of course, didn’t deliberately try to mess with him. On the contrary, she wanted to be the legendary teacher, vowing to send Wang Lu to the western paradise [2]... Oh, no, to ascend to the Immortal World!

If one wished to summarize the shortcomings of the Fifth Elder, it would be too numerous to mention, but she had made a very serious commitment. She had promised her Senior Martial Brother, the Sect Leader, to personally train this Chosen One and stop her bad habit of drinking. She also wanted to teach Wang Lu to be a person who was worthy of respect, even if Wang Lu was someone who didn’t have the aptitude to become an Immortal Cultivator.

With such a determination, Fifth Elder met with Wang Lu. Furthermore, she even adopted a gentle and soft countenance which would creep the hell out of her Martial Brothers and Sister. If Wang Lu, at this time, could cast the Water Curtain Shadow Record Magical Art, he could sell the record of their exchange at more than ten thousand spirit stones within the sect.

Unfortunately, Wang Lu didn’t know how precious this moment was and just silently looked at his Master, letting the silent atmosphere to continue indefinitely.

While Fifth Elder was actually laughing in her heart, on the surface, she was still cordial.

“Well, don’t just stand here…”

With that, she loosened the bamboo sword from her waist. The emerald green sword suddenly turned into a flat piece of light.

“Let’s talk on our way to my Non-Phase Peak. I have arranged accommodation for you there. Henceforth… you will cultivate together with me.”

The woman then extended out her hand.

But Wang Lu sighed and put forward his own question.

“Cultivate? What cultivate? Can I really cultivate with my spirit root property?”

Although he was now officially a Successor Disciple, but it couldn’t change his spirit root property. His Void Spirit Root, in the current Immortal Cultivation World, was almost equal to a trash spirit root… A professional adventurer like him couldn’t possibly ignore this reality and just choose to live in a dream world.

Therefore, even though Wang Lu had used the Firmament Cloud Ancient Coin in exchange for a spot as a Successor Disciple, which was a miracle, but the way in front of him was still a bottomless abyss of a dead end. When the crowd of participants dispersed, Wang Lu’s heart gradually cooled down because he realized he still had to face this unsolvable problem.

To say that he was a bit disheartened was not entirely wrong… He still remembered when he was three years old; it was the first time he ever found a record about the Immortal Cultivation from an old book. In that book, it was written that in this world, there were people that could naturally sense the surrounding spiritual energy, which was a profound mystery to anyone else. These people, although they couldn’t polish this spiritual energy, but the spiritual energy could clearly reflect in their line of sight. To them, practicing cultivation naturally came like breathing.

Those were the people who had the Heavenly Spirit Root; the almost extinct Immortal Cultivation Geniuses since the end of the last Age of Chaos.

And, as it turned out, Wang Lu, even at that time, had been able to detect the so-called spiritual energy. Moreover, he could sense it even clearer than what the book described… He had thought that it was the blessing that came from the comet, but now it appeared that a dark existence had deliberately done it with a malicious intention.

It gave him an unprecedented spirit root, but it let himself born in this era, when his spirit root was useless.

The world’s tragedy could not surpass this. Even with his best effort, all he could do was to use that Firmament Cloud Ancient Coin. Immortal Cultivation? How could he possibly train any kind of Immortal Cultivation with his type of spirit root? Being an expert as the sect’s mascot?

“Oh? It is rare to see an arrogant peerless youth like you to show an impotent look like that.”

Wang Lu immediately retorted, “The hell! What did a-hundred-years-old-crazy-woman just say to a-twelve-years-old-young-boy?”

“Humph, I was trying to cheer you up.” The woman in white smiled as if she didn’t hear about the one hundred years old woman comment.

“You don’t need to worry about the matters regarding the Immortal Cultivation. Since that retarded Sect Leader had entrusted you to me… No matter what, I will definitely help you embark on the path of Immortal Cultivation. A mere Void Spirit Root is not going to stop me.”

Although Wang Lu once had an impression that this woman in white had a mental disability, at this time, upon listening to her comforting words, Wang Lu had indeed felt a bit better.

“Okay then, I hope you’re right. Henceforth, I, Wang Lu, will train Immortal Cultivation with you.”