The scene shifted once again.
Just as Bai Yi stepped onto the second level, the prodigies of the Six Provinces, who had already completed their Spiritual Root tests, all turned their eyes toward the name ranked last on the list.
At the sight of Bai Yi's rating of merely lower-low grade, their faces showed varying degrees of astonishment.
Who could have imagined that Bai Yi, who had only just overpowered Tong Tian and the other contender to take first place on the Six Continents Dao Ranking,
would receive only a lower-low rating in the simplest first round of testing? Truth be told, in their eyes, Spiritual Root aptitude like that was practically no different from a mortal's.
After all, in the million-plus years that the Sea Tide Grotto-Heaven had existed, even the worst result had been lower-high grade.
The vast majority of the Six Provinces' prodigies occupied the middle-low tier, but advancing even one step beyond that was fraught with countless difficulties.
"Lower-low grade..."
"With Spiritual Root aptitude like that, how did he cultivate to Nascent Soul Perfection before the age of two hundred?"
Tong Tian looked up at his own name, which held first place with a middle-high rating thanks to his heavenly gang treasure body of the long-armed ape, then glanced at Bai Yi in last place with interest.
The entrance assessment for this branch of the Nine Seas Manifest Dao Palace was exceptionally strict, with an immense gap between each grade.
But that also made falling to the very lowest grade exceptionally difficult.
For Bai Yi to be rated lower-low, his aptitude must have been mediocre to the extreme. Instead, this made Tong Tian even more curious about how Bai Yi had taken first place on the Dao Ranking.
Elsewhere.
The pale surroundings around Bai Yi