blueteamnovel Chapter 470 - 356: A Generation of Genius
Chapter 470 - 356: A Generation of Genius
Chapter 470: Chapter 356: A Generation of Genius
A Spirit Root is one in ten thousand.
A Heavenly Spiritual Root is one in a billion!
The Daheng dynasty is known as the first imperial dynasty of Dongsheng Divine Continent, ruling over myriads of human clans, and officially, they have only about a dozen of the Heavenly Spiritual Roots.
In the thousand-year legacy of Qingyun Temple, there has never been a disciple with a Heavenly Spiritual Root.
This isn’t because the Heavenly Court is deliberately targeting them; it’s that possessors of the Heavenly Spiritual Root qualify to enter the Daoist academies directly. The Celestial Deities teach them with great care, and upon graduation, they can be directly conferred the title of Celestial Deity.
With such treatment, who would covet the modest Qingyun Temple?
Shou Ming tested over and over again, checking the bones and the visage, and after repeatedly confirming the Heavenly Spiritual Root, he stealthily sent a message.
“Master, a Heavenly Spiritual Root has come down the mountain!”
Not long after the message was sent, two rays of light descended. Master Chang Yuan followed half a step behind, with the leader being the senior master of the true character generation, Zhen Zhi.
Zhen Zhi’s Divine Sense swept over Zhou Yi, and, finding no traces of Mana inside or out, his face brightened with joy.
“Indeed, it is a Heavenly Spiritual Root. Our lineage is going to rise!”
“Congratulations, Master.”
Chang Yuan asked, “What is the young brother’s name?”
Zhou Yi seemed somewhat frightened and took a long time to respond, “I am called Tang Xuan.”
“Good name.”
Chang Yuan clapped in admiration, “This is my master, the elder of Qingyun Temple’s Scripture Storage Hall, a celebrated True Immortal of the Cultivation World. Would you like to become his disciple?”
Zhou Yi bowed excitedly, “I pay respect to Master and to Senior Brother!”
Zhen Zhi immediately burst into delighted laughter, “Good disciple, follow me up the mountain to pay respects to the Ancestors and be entered into the Azure Cloud Registry. Once your cultivation has achieved results, I will take you to meet the Divine Ox. With it’s guidance, you’ll be able to dominate the Dongsheng Divine Continent!”
Zhou Yi nodded repeatedly, eagerly anticipating the moment of meeting the Divine Ox.
Shou Ming, on the side, listened confused as he saw the senior master and master preparing to leave and quickly raised his voice, “Master, Senior Master, there are three more disciples here.”
“Just bring them up the mountain yourself.”
Chang Yuan chimed in, “Junior Brother Tang has unparalleled talent, and being of the Wood Spirit Root, perhaps the temple master will allow him to take a cutting of the Spiritual Bamboo to refine a treasure.”
“What ‘perhaps’? It is a certainty.”
Zhen Zhi declared, “If the temple master doesn’t allow it, I, as the elder, will definitely go to the Ancestor’s tomb there and protest by burning joss paper!”
“...”
Zhou Yi’s mouth twitched, suddenly feeling that his opportunistic master might not be so reliable after all.
When the Qing Jing Spiritual Bamboo was transplanted, the oldest were but three thousand years old; another two thousand years have passed, and they have grown into unparalleled rarities.
They moved on.
Each time they passed by a strange flower or herb, Zhen Zhi would meticulously introduce it.
He insinuated that the Ancestors were on par with Celestial Immortals, and then he subtly reminded one not to change allegiance.
Zhou Yi’s Divine Sense swept over and discovered that historic flowerbeds, gardens, walls, and so on, were all sealed with layers of Formation and Prohibition, like museum antiques that were only to be admired from a distance, not to be touched.
Finally, they arrived at the Azure Cloud Hall.
Zhen Zhi straightened his clothes at the entrance and cleared his throat with two coughs before stepping in.
Six figures sat in meditation inside the hall, and there were also Shou Ming and three new disciples, standing timidly in the corner.
“Oh, all the senior brothers are here too!”
Zhen Zhi said with a smile, “This brother felt an impulse today, divined a hexagram, and it indicated the coming of an excellent disciple. So I descended the mountain for a walk, and indeed, I found a Heavenly Spiritual Root disciple!”
“Hmph!”
Several old Daoists frowned and looked straight-faced at the contemporary Heavenly Master in the center.
“Junior Brother, the way you’ve done this is somewhat against the rules!”
Zhen Gu spoke up, “Tang Xuan crossed mountains and rivers to seek discipleship here; he should be brought into our temple so that he can choose for himself. How could you go down the mountain and intercept him?”
“How is it against the rules?”
Zhen Zhi glared at Shou Ming in the corner; it must have been him who let something slip. He had originally planned to use the element of surprise to take Zhou Yi to the Azure Cloud Hall to pay homage to the Ancestor, thus confirming their master-disciple relationship.
“Ask yourselves, if you had known about him first, would you not have descended the mountain to take on a disciple?”
The elder Daoists in the hall looked uneasy, and with an excellent disciple before them, they cared little for the rules or face. It was paramount to secure the disciple first and discuss other matters later.