Chapter 1547 An Old Acquaintance
“Oh, by the way, Brother Slayer, have you ever tested your Tao Aura before?” Ah Qi suddenly asked.
Xu Que shook his head as he said, “No, I haven’t tested for this before. To be quite honest, I’ve been cultivating in other parts of the world for many years and have just recently returned here. I ca here because of its sterling reputation, and I wanted to participate in the Heaven Palace Sect’s recruitnt congregation this year.”
“Okay, I see. Then I’m relieved.” Ah Qi breathed a sigh of relief as if he’d felt a heavy burden had been lifted from his shoulders.
“Hey, what do you an by that, Brother Qi?” Xu Que raised his eyebrows with a querying look.
“Oh, ha, ha, ha, Brother Slayer, don’t get wrong,” Ah Qi said, smiling. “I’ve also never had the opportunity to test my own level of Tao Aura. I’m still rather apprehensive participating in the recruitnt congregation this ti. When I heard you say that you haven’t tested yours, I felt better. It ans that I’m not alone. I feel more at ease.”
“No harm done at all,” Xu Que replied. “Brother Qi, is it very difficult to test the Tao Aura? How...is the rating done exactly?”
“Oh, you don’t even know about this?” Ah Qi stared blankly for a mont. He was a little taken aback.
“Brother Qi, have you forgotten? I just ntioned that I’ve been cultivating in many different parts of the world for many years, and I’m kind of the bashful type. When I first ca back here, I saw a lot of things that were very hard for to understand. But I didn’t want to draw too much attention to myself, so I didn’t ask too many questions.” Xu Que gave a slightly despondent sigh and shrugged his shoulders.
Ah Qi chuckled as he said, “Brother Slayer, you’re joking. You don’t seem like a bashful person at all. It’s true you don’t talk too much, but you have an impressive presence. No worries, I will explain it to you.”
Having said that, he imdiately launched into an explanation about the Tao Aura’s test conditions and what the distinctions were between the high and low levels. Simply, the object that was used to analyze the Tao Aura was uncommon and rarely seen, so it was extrely valuable.
The object was a teorite. But because it contained a God’s Strength that couldn’t be used, it was also called a God’s Stone. It’d been discovered that the God’s Strength in the stone simply couldn’t be extracted for any use. However, by chance, it had also been discovered that it could illuminate a cultivator’s Tao Aura. So the Heaven Palace Sect and other forces divided it up to use for that purpose, and thus they had also nad it the Tao Test Stone at the sa ti.
Since the Heaven Palace Sect basically controlled the entire Heaven Continent at this ti, their portion of the Tao Test Stone was the largest and so their ranking of the Tao Aura had beco the most authoritative. The other forces’ Tao Test Stones were slightly smaller and their test for Tao Aura occasionally produced mistakes. However, there weren’t an enormous amount of mistakes.
So small leftover materials from the Tao Test Stone had been scattered throughout the World of Cultivators. So of the people who’d obtained these small bits and pieces had developed them into Tao Aura-testing businesses and charged fees to people who wanted to test their auras. Although the results couldn’t be guaranteed as 100 percent accurate, they could act as references for these people who wanted to prepare for joining the major forces.
If the ranking of one’s Tao Aura was too low, so people would choose to sell their recruitnt invitation in exchange for a large amount of Spirit Stones or so other kind of natural treasure, lest they make the trip to the Heaven Palace Sect in vain.
However, the cost of testing one’s Tao Aura was not low. A disbanded cultivator like Ah Qi, who had been lucky enough to get a chance to test his Tao Aura by receiving a recruitnt invitation, had no extra Spirit Stones to pay for a test.
Of course, there was another important factor surrounding these tests. Running a test on one’s Tao Aura would inevitably attract people’s attention. It could even lead to disaster.
As a result, many of the disbanded cultivators who had co to participate in the recruitnt congregation hadn’t tested the rankings of their Tao Auras before.
As to the high or low ranking of the Tao Aura, in fact, it was decided by how strong the light of the Tao Test Stone was illuminated by each candidate.
When a person put his hand on the Tao Test Stone and released his Tao Aura, the Tao Test Stone would focus and illuminate the force of the Tao Aura, forming rays of light. The colors could be pale or dark and of high or low intensity. The two factors would be added together to produce the ranking of the Tao Aura.
“Brother Qi, how are the intensity of the colors as well as the strength of the radiance added up? What are the particular details involved?” Xu Que asked.
“The intensity of the colors represents the rits and drawbacks of the Tao Aura. Generally, there are three kinds of colors: pale, normal, and dark. Take a look at this person.” When Ah Qi had co to this point, he pointed to a cultivator who was standing before the Tao Test Stone in the middle of the field.
Xu Que turned his head and looked over. There was was a middle-aged man, who had one hand pressed against the Tao Test Stone at this mont. A pale red flow erged from the surface of the stone, occupying half of the stone.
“Do you see that? The red color ans that this person’s Tao Aura favors the Fire System. The color is fairly pale, indicating that this person’s Tao Aura is not considered profound.” Ah Qi shook his head. “Although the radiance has occupied half of the Tao Test Stone, which is the fifth stage of the Tao Aura, his Tao Aura color is too pale, so it will need to be dropped by one stage. As a result, once it is sumd up, it will produce a result of the Tao Aura at the fourth stage, which cannot reach the Heaven Palace Sect’s recruitnt standards.”
“So that’s how it works.” Only then did Xu Que understand the testing thod. He said, nodding his head, “According to this reasoning, the strength of the radiance will be examined for its color, and another stage will automatically be added for a dark color, right?”
“That’s right, Brother Slayer is indeed a clever man!” Ah Qi looked at Xu Que in surprise.
“Brother Qi, you’re too kind.” Xu Que smiled and rolled his eyes to himself. “How is this f*cking clever? Even Buttface could have figured this out.”
But Xu Que thought that this Tao Aura test was quite interesting. He couldn’t help but feel curious about what ranking his own Tao Aura would be. And what color it would be as well...
After all, he had double-cultivated his Five Elents. But for his Tao Aura to exceed five elents, no...it was way more than five elents and had completely broken away from the traditional way of Tao.
“Next, Li Xuanqi!” At this point, a shout rang out from the testing area.
“Well, well, well?
“Li Xuanqi?”
The mont Xu Que heard that na, he couldn’t help but raise his eyebrows and look over.
He saw a handso, bright young man, full of ttle, walking out of the crowd to step toward the Tao Test Stone.
Xu Que was suddenly very happy. “I’m actually going to be able to see an acquaintance again.”
Tens of thousands of years from now, after the Heaven Palace Sect had faded away, Li Xuanqi had been the founder who had single-handedly established the Heaven Palace Academy. But this man had been a disciple who had been abandoned by the Heaven Palace Sect. He didn’t know what he’d done to have been expelled.
Of course, none of this was important. The important thing was that this guy had been killed by Xu Que’s hands tens of thousands of years from now.
When Xu Que saw this young version of Li Xuanqi, he fell deeply into thought. He completely couldn’t understand that Li Xuanqi had actually co from the sa era as Xuanyuan Wanrong.
However, in terms of strength, Xuanyuan Wanrong obviously left Li Xuanqi in the dust.
WHOOSH!
As Li Xuanqi pressed his hand on the Tao Test Stone, a brilliant burst of blue light lit up and occupied 70 percent of the Tao Test Stone.
“Wow, Tao Aura of the Water System, normal color at the seventh stage!” Ah Qi imdiately exclaid.
There was also a big commotion in the testing area. Many people were shocked.
“Tao Aura at the seventh stage is two stages higher than the Heaven Palace Sect’s admissions standard.”
“It looks like this person will most likely be nominated into the second-class compound.”
“So envious.”
Everyone was discussing this incident spiritedly.
But the old man responsible for the assessnt of the recruitnt remained leaning on the chair with a blank expression. He waved to retrieve Li Xuanqi’s tile and calmly said, “Tao Aura at the seventh stage, go report to the second-class compound.”
As soon as he’d finished speaking, the old man shot out a beam of light and a jade pendant with silver inlay, which was engraved with the word second, landed in the young version of Li Xuanqi’s arms.
“Thank you, Elder!” Li Xuanqi’s face looked triumphant, and he respectfully gave a bow before he lifted his head and puffed out his chest as he marched away.
TSK! TSK! TSK!
Xu Que’s eyes narrowed, and there was a hint of a smile at the corners of his mouth.”Was Li Xuanqi already so proud at such a young age? If I get a chance, I would like to take the ti to ss with him in this world of mory.”
“Next!” At this ti, a shout rang out from the testing field once again, “Duan Qide!”
“Whaaaat?” Xu Que almost jumped out of his skin when he heard that.
“Duan Qide? Does he f*cking have anything to do with Duan Jiude?”
He imdiately stared and swept his gaze all around, muttering to himself about whether it was possible that it could be Duan Jiude appearing under a false na.
But it was wasn’t possible. Duan Jiude was only a few thousand years old and hadn’t been born at this ti.
“Here!” Suddenly, Ah Qi raised his hand and shouted. He imdiately looked full of excitent and nervously gushed to Xu Que, “Brother Slayer, it’s my turn now. You wait for . I’ll be back soon!”
With that, he broke into a run and sprinted toward the testing area.
Xu Que was dumbfounded.
“Ah Qi? Duan Qide?
“D*mn, no wonder he always felt that this guy looked a little familiar. As it turned out, he did look like Duan Jiude.
Could he be Duan Jiude’s...grandfather?
.....
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