Auspicious Clouds Seemed to Hover Above This Boy's Head

"Xiaoyao, follow Daoist Lu and cultivate diligently from now on. Daoist Lu is our benefactor, so you mustn't miss this chance to pursue immortality."

"I understand. Once I've made something of my cultivation, I'll come down the mountain to visit you and Mother."

"Sorry for troubling you to look after our good-for-nothing child, Daoist."

The merchant couple from Heyang City repeatedly bowed with cupped fists to Lu Changsheng before reluctantly leaving Mount Shu. Shen Xiaoyao waved hard to bid them farewell.

The other Mount Shu Elders were all astonished and looked at one another in dismay.

Lu Changsheng had rejected the talented candidates at the Apprentice-Selection Ceremony, only to take a mortal boy as his disciple?

"Junior Brother Lu never does things the usual way when he takes a disciple."

"Could Junior Brother Lu really have such a discerning eye?"

The Mount Shu Elders were filled with doubt and surprise.

Lu Changsheng's choice was truly too strange.

He had passed over several prospective disciples with special physiques and picked a boy who couldn't have been more ordinary.

It wasn't just the Mount Shu Elders. The other candidates who had failed to be selected and the onlooking townsfolk all gazed at Shen Xiaoyao with envy. None of them had expected that even someone like him could become a Mount Shu Disciple.

"Auspicious clouds seem to hover above this boy's head."

Taiyuan True Person sensed Shen Xiaoyao's potential and activated the Heart-Revealing Mirror to examine his aptitude.

The Immortal Artifact, the Heart-Revealing Mirror, revealed his aptitude: Shen Xiaoyao, middling root bone, middling comprehension, highest of the highest fortune, no special physique.

"Highest of the highest fortune?!"

The Mount Shu Elders were stunned.

Was that the kind of fortune a normal person should have?

Generally speaking, someone with high-grade fortune was already considered