Awakening, Razor-Sharp Sword Might?

[The Grand Elder looked at the plainly dressed child before him and asked, "Name?"]

[The child froze for a moment, then immediately answered, "Mu Xiaoniu!"]

[Hearing that name, you nearly burst out laughing as you watched from the side. The Grand Elder frowned at such an outrageous name, but both you and he knew that these children's parents might not have had much education, so they had simply picked an easy name.]

[But that might not necessarily have been a good thing for the children.]

[In truth, your Mu Family did have private schools in the Four Great Villages, but they had only been established within the past decade or so. As a result, this generation of children's parents had likely missed even a basic education.]

[It was understandable.]

[The Grand Elder had Mu Xiaoniu place his hand on the large stone at the center of the testing platform.]

[This stone was no ordinary stone. It was a Spirit Testing Stone specifically used to test a cultivator's Spirit Root aptitude.]

[Then, the Grand Elder extended his hand and infused spiritual power into the Spirit Testing Stone, as though charging it.]

[Not long after Mu Xiaoniu placed his hand on the Spirit Testing Stone, a faint glow began to flash across its surface.]

[You saw five colors appear: yellow, green, blue, red, and brown, corresponding to the Five Elements of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth.]

[Mu Xiaoniu had tested with five kinds of spiritual light, which meant his Spirit Root aptitude was the same as yours: the worst possible Five Spirit Root.]

[The Grand Elder was somewhat disappointed to see that Mu Xiaoniu possessed a Five Spirit Root, but he still kindly had him follow a steward to wait at the side.]

[In this world, Spirit Root aptitude was far