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Chapter 83: Gazing Moon Aptitude
Early in the morning on the ninth day, at Hidden Dawn Market.
The Moon-Picking Ceremony that countless cultivators had longed for finally began.
Chen Beiwu stood in the center of the market, looking toward the striking female cultivator in a jet-black Daoist robe aboard the cloudship, surrounded by the Gu Household's Foundation Establishment cultivators like stars clustering around the moon.
A mass of Dark Blue fortune light, tinged with scarlet, hovered above her head.
She's Shu You, an Inner Sect Disciple of the Mirror Moon Sect? Chen Beiwu froze slightly.
Had her fortune light not been darker, with a fainter scarlet tinge, he would have thought Shu You was one of the Foundation Establishment cultivators who had lain in ambush at Gray Wind Gorge.
Boom!
Boom!
Boom!
With a sweep of the black-robed cultivator's sleeve, three pitch-black streaks of light descended from the sky and landed on the market's raised platform, revealing three bronze discs.
Seven transparent crystals were set around the rim of each bronze disc, each crystal inscribed inside with the Twenty-Eight Lunar Mansions and the Five Elements trigrams.
"I am Shu You, an Inner Sect Disciple of the Mirror Moon Sect, and I am responsible for this Moon-Picking Ceremony."
Shu You swept her gaze around, her voice cold. "Root bone is the foundation of the immortal Dao. Those with insufficient aptitude will find it difficult to enter the gates of immortality, even with numerous miraculous pills and medicines to aid them."
"If you wish to gain admission to the Mirror Moon Sect, you must step onto a Seven-Wheel Spirit-Testing Mirror to test your spiritual roots. Only after passing the first stage of the Moon-Picking Ceremony may you proceed."
"To avoid wasting time, anyone below mixed spiritual roots should leave of their