After the three steward elders had reached an agreement, they took out the Spirit Testing Stone and placed it in the square.
"Qingwu, you're meticulous in your work. Go oversee this spirit root test."
One of the steward elders instructed Liu Qingwu.
"Yes."
Liu Qingwu nodded in acknowledgment and strode swiftly to the Spirit Testing Stone. Then, expressionless, she looked over the crowd in the square and said calmly, "The spirit root testing begins now. Those at the Nascent Soul Realm will test first."
"I'll go."
A Nascent Soul Realm youth stepped out from the crowd and arrived before the Spirit Testing Stone.
He placed one hand on the Spirit Testing Stone.
Buzz! Buzz!
The Spirit Testing Stone shook violently, and a dazzling azure beam suddenly shot into the sky.
The beam rose a full thirty meters high. Within it, winding green vines and phantoms of ancient trees appeared in turn.
A line of tiny characters emerged on the Spirit Testing Stone.
"Heaven-grade mid-tier wood spirit root."
Many people in the square saw the small words on the Spirit Testing Stone, their faces showing disdain.
The only one stirred by it was Chen Changming.
It was his first time witnessing the phenomenon caused when the Spirit Testing Stone detected a Heavenly Spirit Root.
The phenomenon was astonishing, truly opening his eyes.
Thinking back to the first time he had tested his spirit root as a child, when the Spirit Testing Stone had merely emitted a faint five-colored glow, Chen Changming felt a bitter pang in his heart.
A Heavenly Spirit Root and a Five Elements Mixed Spirit Root—one was in the heavens, the other in the earth. The gap between them was simply too vast.
Just as Chen Changming was lost in memories of the past, another Nascent Soul Realm