The vast plaza was packed with children, despite the countless cultivators present.
Still, the children could not help whispering among themselves, making the entire plaza rather noisy.
Around the children, the mortal town heads kept trying to communicate with them by mouthing words. That way, they could help their towns' cultivation seedlings perform a little better without angering the immortal masters.
Most of them knew nothing about the quality of spirit roots or the cruelty of the Cultivation World, but they knew that making a better impression could hardly be a bad thing.
Before the raised platform, Ye Xingxiao saw that the time was about right and exchanged a glance with Ye Qingnian, then announced the start of the Immortal Ascension Assembly.
They had not imposed harsh demands on these children.
Seeing the assembly begin straightaway, the town heads also relaxed.
"Three spirit roots!"
"Four spirit roots. Decent spirit root affinity..."
"Five spirit roots. Hmm..."
Spirit roots were tested one after another. Just as in previous assemblies, most children had five or four spirit roots.
No one was surprised. These cultivation seedlings had already been tested once. Bringing them together for another test was merely a way to show them the gulf between immortals and mortals.
It also let the talented seedlings understand that, amid a sea of people, they were not actually so outstanding.
This time, the Lineage had arranged fifty spirit-testing platforms, and within four hours, seventy-five hundred people had already been tested.
Only four hundred had three spirit roots, while a full three thousand had five.
"The Lineage's reward policies really do need changing." Ye Jingcheng had now joined the clan elders in the viewing stands. This distribution of spirit roots was hardly good.
Although the Ye Family possessed the Beast-Link Mark and could give people