"What was this?"
Chen Luo stared at the character in True Person Evergreen's hand, but no matter how long he looked, he could not commit its shape to memory.
Every time he looked at it, the character's form was different. It felt as though the character were alive, impossible to record through rote memorization.
"The mark of a failure."
True Person Evergreen took a white jade stone slab from his robes, pressed all five fingers against it, and imprinted the character onto it.
Once the imprinting was complete, the golden light on the character vanished as well. When Chen Luo looked again, he found that he could now see clearly what the character looked like.
It was the character for "ultimate."
"White Immortal Cave was extremely strict in choosing disciples. On the surface, everyone had three chances, but in truth, there was only one."
As though recalling something, True Person Evergreen spoke with a trace of emotion.
"Wasn't Teacher an immortal from White Immortal Cave?"
Chen Luo asked curiously.
From the moment they had met, True Person Evergreen had given him an unfathomable feeling. The methods of immortals were something martial artists did not possess. The precise difference could not be observed with the naked eye. Unlike a martial artist's straightforward, visible strength, it was more like a divine mystery hidden deep in the mountains. It could be seen, yet its depths could not be fathomed.
"I don't know whether I count as one."
True Person Evergreen set down the white jade stone slab and picked up another Jade Slip. Following the same method, he extracted the characters within. Unlike the characters in Nineteen Young Master's Jade Pendant, the Immortal Script within the Jade Slip was even more brilliant. Aside from its golden radiance, it actually contained a faint, pure