So Hard to Kill

Jiang Wan smiled at her, leaned close, and forcibly took her hand as they walked forward together.

Turning her head, she whispered into her ear:

"Your mother has already been arrested. If I weren't trying to spare the Great Myriad Sect the humiliation of losing face before so many sects, I would've beaten you up directly."

Jiang Yao tried hard to pull free, but Jiang Wan tightened her grip in warning.

"Behave yourself!

You thought that if you threw me down there, I wouldn't be able to come back out. Are you disappointed?"

Jiang Yao was stunned. She really had come out of the Myriad Snake Den, and the question slipped from her mouth.

"How did you get out?"

Jiang Wan smiled.

"I used—I'm not telling you!"

How else could she have gotten up? She just shouted once and came right back up!

No matter how good her equipment had been at the time, it could only withstand damage. Without enough spiritual power, it was all useless; at most, it kept her from being seriously injured.

With the spiritual power of a Qi Refining Third Layer cultivator, she could not sustain the use of the Wind Thunder Wings to fly up. But she had her Literary Core, and her words became law!

She had merely said, "One day, the great roc rides the wind, soaring ninety thousand miles into the sky—!"

A fierce wind swept in, carrying her upward. When she reached the region of Gale Force, she took out the Wind Settling Pearl, and the raging gales were blocked by it.

Once even the wind summoned by her words becoming law was held still, the Wind Thunder Wings behind Jiang Wan's back flapped. She shot upward like a bolt of lightning.

After coming up, she had not immediately returned. Instead, she sent a transmission to her master.

Just as Venerable Yu Yi listened to Madam Li and was about to head for the demonic sect, his expression shifted. The Sound Transmission Jade Slip from his little disciple lit up inside his Storage Ring.

After finding his disciple, Venerable Yu Yi immediately arrested Madam Li.

The moment Madam Li saw that the matter had been exposed, her heart turned cold. She had personally watched Jiang Wan fall down there. Yet she had not died and had even managed to come back up.

She truly had not expected a mere three-year-old child like Jiang Wan to be so hard to kill!

It would have been one thing if Jiang Wan had remained unharmed after being thrown off the cliff last time, but this time, she had actually climbed back up alive.

Madam Li was so furious that she spat out a mouthful of blood.

Originally, she still refused to admit it, but Jiang Wan took out the Imprint Treasure Mirror and replayed what had happened that night. Madam Li had no way to deny it.

She admitted that she had done it because she did not want Jiang Wan to steal her daughter's limelight.

Venerable Yu Yi's face darkened. Since she did not want her daughter's limelight to be stolen, then he would make her watch helplessly as her daughter's limelight was stolen.

Thus, he dragged out his disciple, who had already entered secluded cultivation, and had that mischievous grand-disciple join the Apprenticeship Ceremony as well.

Little Xu Hengliang knew nothing of this. When he heard that his master wanted him to take part in the Apprenticeship Ceremony too, tears welled up in his eyes.

If he had not considered himself a real man, he would have been so moved that he hugged his master and burst into tears.

The three little ones walked to the front, where female disciples brought over trays for them to serve tea.

The three knelt and served tea to their respective masters.

The three seated above moved in unison. They each lifted their teacups, took a sip, set them aside, then took out a Storage Ring for their disciple.

The master of ceremonies spoke from the side.

"Next, the three young disciples will test their spiritual root aptitudes!"

At the mention of testing spiritual roots, Jiang Yao's eyes lit up again.

Jiang Wan was nothing more than trash with a Five Elements Mixed Spiritual Root. What could she possibly use to compare with Jiang Yao's Water-Wood Dual Spiritual Root?

Fortunately, she could still pull back a round during the spiritual root test.

A disciple brought up the Spirit Testing Pearl. Jiang Yao went first, placing her hand on it. A pillar of water-and-wood-colored light shot into the sky.

The crowd below did not cry out in surprise. After all, if a dignified Spirit Transmutation Venerable was accepting a disciple, it would make no sense for the disciple's aptitude to be too poor.

They had thought it would be a Single Spiritual Root or a Mutated Spiritual Root, but it turned out to be a Dual Spiritual Root.

"A Water-Wood Dual Spiritual Root is quite good for a girl."

"Yes, a Water-Wood Dual Spiritual Root is pretty good too!"

Listening to the discussions below, Venerable Wanhe's expression remained calm. What he cared about was the little girl's fortune. Spiritual roots were merely the foundation for walking the Great Dao; fortune was the key.

When it was Jiang Wan's turn, she placed her little hand on the Spirit Testing Pearl. Five-colored spiritual light transformed into pillars of varying lengths and shot into the sky.

Someone gasped. "A Mixed Spiritual Root?!"

"What's going on? How could it be a Mixed Spiritual Root?"

"Yeah, isn't a Mixed Spiritual Root the worst spiritual root for cultivators?"

"Venerable Yu Yi is a dignified Late Soul Transformation cultivator. Why would he accept a little girl with a Mixed Spiritual Root as his disciple?"

The smile at the corners of Jiang Yao's lips could not be suppressed.

Jiang Wan, so what if you took part in the Apprenticeship Ceremony? With that trash aptitude of yours, aren't you still making a fool of yourself?!

Even Venerable Wanhe, who did not place much importance on spiritual root aptitude, rarely showed a look of surprise. With a strange expression, he glanced at Venerable Yu Yi beside him.

Could it be that he's gone senile?

At that moment, from among the five uneven pillars of five-colored light, a purple pillar surged skyward with the might of ten thousand bolts of lightning, piercing straight into the heavens.

In an instant, the wind and clouds changed color. Thunderclouds blanketed the sky, lightning flashing from time to time, as though a massive lightning tribulation would descend at any moment.

"Hiss!"

The cultivators present abruptly rose from their seats, staring in shock at the purple pillar of light and the strange changes in the sky.

"A Mutated Lightning Spiritual Root?"

"No! This isn't a Mutated Lightning Spiritual Root. It's an Innate Lightning Spiritual Root!"

"Innate Qi can communicate with the primordial Great Dao. An Innate Lightning Spiritual Root—no wonder it carries such imposing might!"

"That's right. This spiritual root's phenomenon contains vast Innate Qi, which is why it can stir the winds and clouds like this."

"We were blind before. Who would have thought this little girl had an Innate Lightning Spiritual Root? No wonder she caught Venerable Yu Yi's eye."

Venerable Yu Yi was equally shocked. When he had accepted Jiang Wan as his disciple, he had never expected her to possess a Lightning Spiritual Root, much less an Innate Lightning Spiritual Root!

No one was more shocked than Jiang Yao.

In her previous life, she had lived for five hundred years and never known that Jiang Wan had a Lightning Spiritual Root. This was impossible—absolutely impossible. Jiang Wan must have cheated!

Jiang Wan withdrew her hand, and the phenomenon in the sky disappeared. The wind, clouds, and thunder from moments ago seemed never to have existed, and the sky returned to clear brightness.

Jiang Yao stared fixedly at Jiang Wan.

"Junior Sister, you tested your spiritual roots only a little over two months ago. You didn't have a Lightning Spiritual Root then, so how do you have one now?"

Jiang Wan suddenly smiled until her eyes curved into crescents.

"I don't know either. Last night, when your mother threw me beneath that cliff, I was so hungry that I ate a purple fruit down there. Then I suddenly had this Lightning Spiritual Root!

Oh my, then I should thank you!"

If Jiang Yao had truly been a three-year-old child, those words would have surely angered her to tears.

Even though Jiang Yao was not really three years old, Jiang Wan still nearly made her lose her composure.

If she had known there was a Lightning Spirit Fruit in the Myriad Snake Den, she never would have let Jiang Wan benefit from it.

But even after eating a Lightning Spirit Fruit, it should have been impossible to grow a Lightning Spiritual Root. What exactly had happened?

The Spirit Testing Pearl was passed to little Xu Hengliang. Xu Hengliang gave Jiang Wan a complicated look, then reached out and placed his hand on the Spirit Testing Pearl.