After confirming that the wang clan was from the upper, the system then headed to one of the walls, attempting to escape, but just as it was about to leave, a golden barrier was erected over the ancestors hall, upon coming In contact with the barrier, the system felt a sizzling pain all over itself.
"Well well well... what do we have here, a vengeful spirit?" asked a voice as the doors to the ancestors Hall opened.
Naturally, this was the clan head, after scouring the entirety of the wang clan, he recalled that he didn't actually check the ancestors Hall, and since vengeful spirits were intangible, he knew that it was probably in there. He then spent 5 minutes preparing a line to say once he confronted the 'vengeful spirit'
" HOW DARE YOU CALL ME A VENGEFUL SPIRIT, I AM YOUR FOUNDER!" Boomed the system.
"F-Founder, you're alive?!" The clan head was experiencing a mixture of happiness and confusion, wasn't there supposed to be a vengeful spirit here.
" I have just killed the vengeful spirit myself, Now leave this instant before I kill you as well" The system told the Clan head.
" If you are really our founder, then what is our divine guardian beast?" an elder asked, he really didn't believe that the founder's will had been awakened, so he tried to test the system to see if it knew.
"AUDACIOUS, HOW DARE YOU DOUBT ME! fine, if I get this question right, I will kill you, It is the divine fire dragon, I personally captured it myself"
The elder that asked the question went pale, the answer was right, but before he could even react, *Svoom!* a golden beam of light shot from the 'founder's' forehead and completely removed the elder's head
" Elder feng, h-he's dead" exclaimed a female elder on the verge of passing out, she had just met the founder and now one of her fellow elders died.
" Now leave, I am going back to sleep" the system announced.
" okay elders, since the founders will has taken care of the spirit, we can leave" The clan head said to the other elders
They then left the hall.
One of the reasons they didn't doubt the words of the 'founder' nor his identity was because it was a crime, the founder must be respected due to all he gave the Wang clan
another reason is just because the didnt want to die, by showing his strength, the clan head didn't dare question whether the founder was real or not, it didn't matter.
" Phew, that was a close one, almost got caught, but I used up so much spirit power to do that"
" The system was a spirit, just not a vengeful one like the Wang clan assumed, spirits usually inhabit bodies through possession, and if they wanted to roam the outside world freely, they would have to expend spirit energy, thinkn of it like qi for spirits, earlier, the system used a lot of its spirit energy to not only disguise itself as the founder of the Wang clan, but also to kill an elder at the 8th realm, a realm higher than the emperor, who was at the 7th realm.
The system then relinquished its disguise before heading out of the wang clan, it had to speed up Richie's development.
***
After completing the 100th question, Richie then felt his consciousness leave the Jade before returning to his body.
Looking around him, almost all of the participants were slumped down on the floor with the elder Zhang supervising.
Richie stood up and was about to ask what to do next when elder Zhang turned his head to look at him.
"oh, done so soon?" elder Zhang asked Richie whilst floating towards him
"yep" replied Richie.
" Hmph! he probably guessed all the answers, look at how young he is" A member of the audience shouted out.
" Young people these days, always trying to get attention" another member chimed in
Soon, most of the audience were expressing their dissatisfaction towards Richie, they simply didn't believe he had actually answered so many questions, they thought that he could only answer some and skipped the rest.
"If even the young projedy of the wang clan hasn't finished yet, how could he" another person exclaimed
" well actually, the projedy finished at about the same time as him" announced elder zhang
" but of we want to see how many he got right, we will have to wait until everyone is finished before the results are out" Elder Zhang told the audience.
In the knowledge section of the mass recruitment, after the seven hours are up, the Jade talisman would turn into a tanking board displaying the amount of question each person got right. (before the test, each participant was asked their name).
This is the same for the other tests as well, it was put in place to ignite a sense of rivalry between the alchemists in the alchemy guild so that they could improve at a faster pace. once you become an official member of the alchemist guild, you would have to do a test every year to make sure your skills are improving.
" Oh, also, Richie, was it? since you finished so early, I an going to tell you about the next test whilst we wait for the other participants to wake up, then I will tell everyone." elder Zhang told Richie.
" now , this next test is extremely special as it tests you on..."