In the tent of the second prince of the Lingyun kingdom - Prince Yun Huang
" Father, why do you to favor this small place so much? I don't think they will have even a single person with spritual root."
A small boy, around the age of 14 to 15 spoke as he ate the delicious chicken. There was also a girl sitting near the boy, eating elegantly.
The prince looked at the boy as he smiled " You little brat, watch your tongue. we have to get their help in order to be at good terms with Nirvana temple. Although they are of second rate and are nothing compared to us, we need their help if we want to eradicate the plgue. "
The girl who was around the same age as Tian slowly took a sip of the soup as she looked at her father " Father, i can understand that you asked them for help to get close with the second rate power, but why did you promise to give them the cultivation technique as a reward? Our cultivation techniques are such a tightly guarded secret and to think the great Yang empire would spread such a valuable technique in the world "
The second prince who was eating smiled as he looked at girl. " Yue'er is right but the purification sutra is somewhat special. The sutra is result of the hard work of a couple of masters in the great Yang empire. I heard that the leader of the group was someone in the Qi furnace stage. I don't know where this senior is from but the technique is purely a healing skill.
This cultivation technique has no fighting power and doesn't progress after Qi gathring stage. It's a great idea to gather cannon fodder against this plague catastrophe. "
Yun ziyue nodded as the boy asked the second prince " The monks would be in our debts and with increasing attacks of the demonic beasts, we would require more man power to support the defending troops. Monks are perfect for this kind of things "
Yun huang nodded as he continue eating " By the way Yue'er did you notice anyone noteworthy this time around? " He asked as both the boy and prince looked at the girl.
" Yes father, there were quite a few monks with high attainment in physical cultivation. There was one young monk who is in his 20s but has cultivated to a high degree of the body strengthening. There was also a 10 year old boy who has completed the early stage of the body strengthening.
I think that boy is the most talented genius in body strengthening in this temple. "
Yun huang nodded as he smiled " Not bad, two promising youngsters but as expected, no one with obvious spritual roots "
The princess who had cultivated special cultivation technique that enhanced the eyes during early stages was proficient at observing people.
They finished eating and walked out of the tent together to meet the general.
The general was standing near a table out in the open. The tent was set up besides the temple on somewhat of a flat ground and there were various smaller tents in the distance for soldiers. The general bowed to the second prince and said " Your highness, we are ready for the spiritual root test. "
The second prince nodded as the monks advanced towards the general in a single raw one by one.
There were about 40 to 50 monks of different age as one by one they advanced.
The leading one was a young monk who stopped in front of the table. The soldier standing behind the table handed the monk a paper talisman.
" This is a spiritual roots testing talisman! It's costly but this time, linguun kingdom has decided to bear the cost as to help the people of the world! Please take one talistman each and test your spritual roots."
AsAthe soldier finished giving instructions, the monk took the paper and put it against his abdomen. The paper showed no change for a few minutes.
" You do not have spritual roots, next! "
The monk although disappointed, left with a calm face. They were trained to be calm no matter what and this was just one such setback in their pursuit of the enlightenment.
Tian who was standing just behind chen was also waiting for his turn. As he was reincarnated here, he at least expected some kind of spritual root to exist in him but he wasn't sure. This made him excited for the test where he imagined that his overly rare spritual root would shock everyone.
Behind him wang bao was standing as he whispered in Tian's ears " brother, what's a spritual root? Are they looking for someone that stole the root? Can we eat it? "
Tian smiled at the kid as he replied " It is said that although everyone can cultivate, to progress far in the realms of cultivation, you need spritual roots. If you don't have any, the most you can do is reach peak of body refining. "
Wang bao excitedly replied " I know, Muscle refining, bone refining and organ refining. then comes the Qi cultivation which also has three levels, Qi gathering, formation building and then comes the supreme level of Qi furnace stage! "
Tian nodded as he said " Yes, among those levels, mortals without spritual roots can only cultivate up to body refining realms, you need a spritual root to gather the spiritual force present all around us and transform it into internal Qi that cultivator use to perform various mystical arts and conjure various magics. "
As they were talking, it was finally turn of brother chen. The young monk went forward as he put the spritual talisman against his abdomen. For a long time there was no reaction but after a while, the paper change colour to five different colours.
The head monk who was overseeing this smiled as the general cupped his fist " Congratulations Head monk, although the weakest spritual root, your temple would receive the purification monta cultivation technique for free since you have a cultivator among you. Soon your temple might become a third rate power in next 20 to 30 years "
The prince nodded as chen walked out of the line and stood near the monks who had been selected to go to the kingdom this time.
Finally it Tian's turn as he stood in front of the table. The soldiers instructed Tian on how to use the talisman.
As Tian pressed the talisman against his abdomen, he noticed that that small girl whispred something in the ears of the second prince.
Tian didn't think much of it as he waited for the results to show it self.
Soon a golden screen floated in front of him.
[Detected use of a spritual root detecting talisman]
[No spritual root detected]
[Can be bought from the shop]
Tian didn't let a surprised expression appear on his face as he looked at the golden screen. As he thought in his head, the interface for the shop lit up as he looked at all the different spritual roots available.
The cheapest was five elemental spritual root which cost him three upgrade points and the most costly one was Dual elemental spiritual root at 50 upgrade points. Further icons were grayed out but he imagined that the options would be something like pure fire elemental root or pure yin or yang spritual root.
Right now he had four upgrade points so he decided to spend three and procure the cultivation technique fist.
Soon he felt some subtle change in his body as he felt as if he had received a minor upgrade. This wasn't a major change, but he felt that the surrounding had became a little bit brighter.
The talisman soon changed to five different colors as the people around him became more happy.
Tian wasn't worried about choosing the lowest spritual root as he could always buy a higher level one in the future.
" Congratulations Kid, go and stand with your senior brother, you are coming with us to the kingdom " The soldier smiled as he took back the talisman as Tian went ahead and stood besides his senior brother chen.
Chen also congretulated him and the test continued. There was no one apart from the two who possessed spritual root and by the time everyone's test was finished, it was already noon.
Tian and chen, along with other monks departed with the soldiers after saying goodbye to the fellow elderly monks and seniors. The Abbott gave each of them some bodhisatva bead bracelets for good luck and sent them off.