Ti seems to stretch abnormally as the old cultivator womans and my eyes lock onto each other.
I quickly rember in this culture, staring so intently at your elders and not moving your eyes away is exceptionally rude.
By this ti, shes already moved her eyes away, and the damage is done. I can see the slight shaking of her head before she does so. She seems to be quite magnanimous for the standard of cultivators in this world.
That would make sense, as sothing horrible would have already happened to when I first ca here, if she hadnt had that type of personality. I really was placed in a good position when I got here.
If I rember correctly, her na should be Senior Song.
Without skipping a beat, she looks out towards the crowd of people here and everyone falls silent as a subtle pressure lies on them. It wasnt spiritual pressure, but just the one that cos up with people when they know soone important is about to speak.
The cultivator near her steps forward.
Hello everyone, and congratulations on making it to this point of the testing. By making it this far, youve shown you have either the physical ability or resourcefulness to make it this far. The Elder who will oversee this will be Senior Song, beside .
He quickly steps aside to allow Senior song to step forward. A raspy, but strong, voice sounds out over the area.
As youve all likely already been told, we will test your spirit root. Get into a line, so we can proceed.
Contrary to the cultivator before, her word to curt and simple. She appears to want to move through this quickly.
Thats probably not going to happen. Not if I have anything to say about it.
She takes out a mirror. My scan imdiately shows that its made of so type of tal that is like bronze.
One side of its just like a normal mirror, while the other has a picture of a sun in motion. The patterns subtly move across its surface, while the entire object seems to shimr with a strange glow.
Senior song heads to the middle of the courtyard, and orients the mirror towards the sun so it reflects on the ground in front of her.
Strangely, the pattern on the back reflects on the ground before us.
It looks to be similar to the Chinese magic mirrors from my world. The sa thing can actually happen there, except the patterns moving on the back, of course.
Honestly, I was expecting an orb of so kind. Though, I should probably keep reminding myself not to rely on stereotypes from another world
My scan informs that the thod that this sect uses differs from ones that others use. With everything prepared, everyone forms into a very long line that stretches around the courtyard.
Negotiations between different people begin in setting up where they will go in the line. There are political advantages and disadvantages to going before or after soone.
Quite a few people are watching to see where Ill place in in the line. I wait outside the line until mostly everyone goes in. This takes quite a while, as quite a few people really wanted to go behind .
Once the line is set and everyones inside it, I step out of it and head to the back of the line. Imdiately, looks of dissatisfaction fill everyone's faces, especially the person who is already in the last place.
He quickly masks this and falls silent.
The first person walks up to Senior Song, and she directs him to step into the reflected light from the mirror. It appears to be a young master of so sort, who I havent seen. He took the carriage on the way up.
I can hear soone whisper regarding his identity.
Thats Xhao Tang. His family is one of the major clans in this country (The Chiu Continuum). He may not have much power and is low in his family, but his backing is so large. I might need to introduce myself later, regardless of the result.
The noises around dim down as he moves into the area.
As he does so, the light around him shimrs and moves.
The pattern of the sun that was first on the back of the mirror, and then on the reflected ground around him, rises and begins turning into an illusory sun that shines with its own soft heat and light.
It erges while revolving around him three tis, before stopping in front of his face. A deep, but ambiguous voice cos out of it.
7 Peony Earth.
It falls silent. And holds still.
Excited muttering co out. This is an exceptionally good spiritual root, especially with his backing.
In terms of the rankings, this automatically puts him at a rare genius status, able to cultivate 750x faster than an ordinary cultivator. Pairing this with his background, he will probably grow even faster than that.
The people who gave him face to go first are pleased with their decision as it let them get even slightly closer to him.
After that, though, things move quickly. People just step into the reflected light circle; the sun revolves a few tis before stopping and stating an answer.
While this happens, I desperately am using my scan to determine the best way to not get killed with my plan to get into the inner court.
The reason Im so anxious about it is because Im dealing with an extrely strong cultivator and an elder of my sect at that.
Back when I first started in this world, the old man who had helped had noticed that I had was considering using my scan on him. Its very likely he didnt have mind reading capabilities, but once you get to a certain level as a cultivator, your mind works differently than normal people. You sense connections and things that just arent right. Like the fact soone may know a tiny bit too much about you.
This alone automatically increases the difficulty of manipulating a person like that, with the scan at least.
That doesnt even consider if they do have so type of emotion or mind reading abilities. While Im completely sure that true mind reading isnt possible until extrely high levels, that doesnt an that weaker variants of it dont exist. When I beco a cultivator, there are simple ways to defend against these, but Im currently not a cultivator. I need to be careful.
Im currently using my scan to fill in the gaps to make a pre-planned approach rather than using much of any knowledge at the mont. The reason I rarely do this is that it takes a long ti, and still holds a risk of the situation changing negatively, without being able to adjust.
In this case, I will need to risk that. Especially with all these cultivators having a low spiritual sense on us.
Because of this, Im not fully listening to each persons spirit root reveal. I just have a background awareness running to make sure that each of the people I know are still within the range of my estimates.
Just as I had determined earlier through the scan that observed it, each ranking is exactly right.
The mirror seems to be above the average for most spirit root sensing qi treasures. It is accurately stating the exact ranking for each person. While it is to be expected for a sect of this size, it shouldnt be understated how powerful and rare such an item is. Most qi treasures that perform a similar function are correct, but this one actually easily hones in on the true level of a person.
As it goes through all my people, all I need to do is ntally check off on where they are. I make a personal note to chat with them about it later and make a list of where they stand.
I just dont have the spare capacity to focus on it right now.
Of course, when you desperately are hoping for more ti, ti seems to fly by even quicker.
It is not until I am up and I push the slightest bit more into my scan that it finally completes.
It gives an idea of what I need to say.
Being the last person, she seems relieved to finally have this group over with. Her eyes are clear as she looks into mine uncaringly. She doesnt seem to have held onto my words and looks earlier, but I make sure to look away properly this ti. I can sense a nod from her.
No need to antagonize her more than necessary.
I say nothing, but just step into the circle of reflected light, with the sun now spinning around .
It revolves once.
Twice.
Three tis.
And continues on and on. With no apparent stop.
This is strange, as every previous person got between 1-4 revolves around them, before an answer.
It reminds of the circles you would see on the computer as its trying to figure sothing out. We stand there for 30 seconds before I feel her laying a low scan on to determine the issue. She doesnt go far with it, just enough to see if there is an issue. She removes it just as quickly.
After two minutes pass, its clear she is about to say sothing when it stops suddenly before my face. Like it did for the others, but much more suddenly.
Temporary. Peony Earth 4. Actual above three ranks worth. Unable to determine.
Theres just silence before her eyes reveal pleasant surprise.
Her mouth opens to say sothing.
Is there a chance for her to push into the inner court without making the requirent?!
It looks like I might be able to make it without
However, another cultivator is moving at high speed, his arms moving in straight lines, with his eyes locked on Senior Song.
Clearly about to tell her sothing in relation to .
Sigh.
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