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"Let's begin!" Li Zhizhun announced, struggling to contain his excitement.
The first to be tested were the children of cultivators, the smallest group, numbering just over a thousand. However, they had the highest chance of being born with spiritual roots and attracted the attention of everyone.
The first batch of three hundred children entered the formation. Moments later, the formation activated, and various spirit lights danced around, searching for children with spiritual roots.
"One, two... twelve!" an elder quietly counted the children with spiritual roots.
The parents of these twelve children were ecstatic, in stark contrast to the dejection of the other parents.
The children's reaction was even stronger; having grown up in clan territory, they had been exposed to cultivators from a young age, understood them better, and aspired to be like them even more fervently.
