Outside the courtyard, Tao Test participants from all the heavens stood rooted to the spot, their eyes filled with disbelief.
After personally witnessing the twelve tolls of the Tao bell at the city gates, various powers had inquired about everything pertaining to the Hundred Schools scholars, knowing their status to be far beyond that of any state's king or noble, with only Emperor Zhou able to barely compare.
Although the Root of Heaven and Earth could be considered a top-tier Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasure in the Luotian Realm, precious in the extreme, when facing a Taoist of the Taoism school, one could only gamble on a chance and even then, the hope for success was very slim.
But once Ji Zhaoyang caught the eye of that Taoist, he would have the opportunity to enter under the sect of the Taoism school and attain the status of a scholar of the Hundred Schools.