Heavenly Spirit Root

Before the Spirit-Testing Stone, Liu Lingming and Su Qingnuan, dispatched by Lingxu Sacred Land to Bai Xuan City to test aptitudes and accept disciples, watched Li Tianwei. They had encountered countless people like him.

Spirit roots were not something one could possess merely by being clever or handsome.

They had seen plenty of young masters like Li Tianwei. In the end, once they were tested and found to have no spirit roots, they would inevitably cast aside their arrogance, fall to their knees, and weep in despair.

Yet beneath the wooden platform, one person was looking at Li Tianwei with mocking eyes.

Had Li Tianwei noticed him, he would have recalled that this fellow was Li Tianchen, the younger half-brother of this body after his transmigration.

However, due to the difference in their aptitudes, the treatment the two received in the Li Household was as far apart as heaven and earth.

"Master, are you sure he has a Pseudo-Spirit Root?"

At that moment, Li Tianchen stroked the ring on his hand, communicating with the soul within.

"How could I be wrong? Even if I only possess one ten-thousandth of my former strength, could I fail to see through a person's aptitude?"

"Otherwise, why would I have chosen you alone in the Li Household?"

Hearing the response from within the ring, Li Tianchen finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Thinking of all the differences between himself and Li Tianwei in the Li Household, Li Tianchen could not help feeling a little delighted by another's misfortune. He wanted to see what a sight it would be when Li Tianwei, once burdened with his family's high hopes, was knocked down into the dust.

On the platform, Li Tianwei sensed the many different gazes below—expectation, jealousy... His understanding of himself grew ever clearer.

Looking at the Spirit-Testing Stone before him, Li Tianwei felt not the slightest ripple in his heart. He already knew the result, so what was there to stir him?

Li Tianwei believed that he was special, different from the masses. Having transmigrated, he was bound to possess a Heavenly Spirit Root, the highest and strongest aptitude. Everyone else was merely mortal.

Thus, beneath everyone's varied gazes, Li Tianwei reached out and placed his hand on the Spirit-Testing Stone.

The moment his hand touched it, Li Tianwei did as the people from Lingxu Sacred Land had instructed earlier. He closed his eyes and carefully sensed everything.

"Spiritual energy, Spirit Source..."

Li Tianwei muttered inwardly, his heart utterly calm.

In his perception, five-colored specks floated through the air, mixed with a few tiny, strange-colored dots.

Naturally, the system within Li Tianwei's body sensed his condition.

"I told you! A Pseudo-Spirit Root. Even spiritual energy doesn't want to get close to you."

As for Li Tianwei, he naturally ignored it and silently chanted in his heart.

I have a Heavenly Spirit Root, I have a Heavenly Spirit Root...

As Li Tianwei continued muttering under his breath,

the little specks still showed no reaction whatsoever, yet the Spirit-Testing Stone beneath his hand had already given its response.

Whoosh...

A cold wind swept past. Feeling the radiance emanating beneath his hand, Li Tianwei knew the result was out.

He slowly opened his eyes and, without the slightest surprise, clasped his hands behind his back.

Li Tianwei wore a confident, arrogant expression. He did not even spare the Spirit-Testing Stone a glance.

Such bearing left everyone amazed, and they gained a rough understanding of Li Tianwei's temperament.

Arrogant to the extreme. Wildly overbearing.

At that moment, the Spirit-Testing Stone was giving off an elegant five-colored glow, entirely unremarkable.

Seeing the colors and radiance appearing on the Spirit-Testing Stone, Liu Lingming already had the result. Perhaps influenced by Li Tianwei's confidence, regret appeared on his face. Then he raised his hand, preparing to announce what the stone had shown.

"Pseudo—"

Suddenly, the five-colored radiance within the Spirit-Testing Stone gathered together and fused, shooting out a dazzling, pure white brilliance.

In an instant, the sky above all of Bai Xuan City was illuminated, sweeping the heavens and earth clean and vast.

Everyone in the square held their breath and raised their heads to look at the figure atop the platform.

Clad in a white robe threaded with gold, Li Tianwei appeared supremely sacred beneath the radiance.

The word "Pseudo-Spirit Root," which Liu Lingming had nearly blurted out, stopped short. He stared at the reaction inside the Spirit-Testing Stone in utter disbelief.

"Hea... Heavenly... Spirit Root."

Liu Lingming was not the only one shocked by such a scene. Among them, the system inside Li Tianwei's body was the most dumbfounded.

After all, Li Tianwei's system had tested his aptitude countless times and had long reached its conclusion.

Li Tianwei was undoubtedly a Pseudo-Spirit Root, yet the Spirit-Testing Stone had now tested him as having a Heavenly Spirit Root. How could it not be shocked?

Without hesitation, Li Tianwei's system scanned him several more times.

"How is that possible? How is that possible? He's clearly a Pseudo-Spirit Root, there's no mistake! How did the Spirit-Testing Stone detect a Heavenly Spirit Root? This Spirit-Testing Stone must be broken."

After scanning Li Tianwei several times, his system finally reached that conclusion.

The Remnant Soul within Li Tianchen's ring thought the same.

At first, the Heavenly Spirit Root result gave him a fright, but he immediately recovered and swept Li Tianwei with soul power once more, becoming utterly certain that Li Tianwei was a Pseudo-Spirit Root.

"The Spirit-Testing Stone is broken."

Seeing Li Tianchen about to question it, the Remnant Soul immediately answered.

"Li Tianwei, Heavenly Spirit Root."

As the reaction within the Spirit-Testing Stone gradually faded, Liu Lingming could not help swallowing before calling out the result.

Liu Lingming had never expected that Bai Xuan City, which Lingxu Sacred Land had nearly abandoned, would be harboring such a hidden azure dragon.

Li Tianwei, standing with his hands behind his back and facing the square, was not surprised in the slightest.

"I told you I have a Heavenly Spirit Root. A Heavenly Spirit Root it is."

He felt the shocked, disbelieving, envious, and all manner of other gazes from below the platform.

In his previous world, he had been the child from everyone else's family. He was long accustomed to such gazes. As for how he felt about them—

Li Tianwei had only one answer.

"This is only natural. When I, Li Tianwei, open my eyes, dawn breaks; when I close them, night falls. I can even transmigrate, and I come with a trash system. If I'm not the protagonist, then who is?"

Li Tianwei lightly waved his hand.

"Next."

That single sentence showed just how arrogant Li Tianwei was, yet even so, no one dared utter a word of objection.

Though few people in Bai Xuan City understood cultivators, they could still tell from the Spirit-Testing Stone's reaction that Li Tianwei's aptitude was extraordinary.

The two disciples of Lingxu Sacred Land had even less objection to Li Tianwei's behavior.

This was a Heavenly Spirit Root! He possessed the potential to become immortal. Even within Lingxu Sacred Land, there were only a handful of Heavenly Spirit Roots, and every one of them was either a Personal Disciple or a Supreme Elder.

If nothing went wrong, the moment Li Tianwei entered the sect, he could become a Personal Disciple of Lingxu Sacred Land.

If they could cling to this thigh, they would never have to worry about resources again.

So what if Li Tianwei was a little arrogant? Perfectly normal! Which Personal Disciple of Lingxu Sacred Land was not wildly arrogant?

"Senior Brother Li, over here, over here..."

Liu Lingming had already shamelessly begun calling Li Tianwei Senior Brother.

Relying on her identity as a female cultivator, Su Qingnuan went straight up to him.

"Senior Brother Li."

At the same time, both of them cursed the other inwardly.

Shameless.