In the True Spirit Hall, the atmosphere had turned somewhat heavy.
The 22 young disciples suddenly lost all excitement after hearing White Cloud Great Master.
Among these 22 people, was truly just one qualified to become White Cloud Great Master’s true disciple?
This was too shocking.
Ling Xiao was also a little surprised. Although he didn’t know the exact circumstances of Heavenly Ren Academy’s people, some people’s talents had surprised him.
How could only one person be qualified?
Nevertheless, it was very unlikely that White Cloud Great Master had made a mistake.
However, he didn’t care about it. After all the strength of his Landscape Martial Soul gave him the capital to not care too much about the existence of such a master.
From Heavenly Peak City to the present, he had cultivated by himself.
The problems he had encountered during cultivation had all been resolved with the help of the Landscape Martial Soul.
Because of this, he didn’t need to face the same problems many self-taught geniuses had to.
The martial arts he used were errorless like a textbook.
The reason he had come here today actually had more to do with White Cloud Great Master’s resources. After all, the Landscape Martial Soul couldn’t provide him with martial art manuals, cultivation resources, and other such things.
As for the others, they didn’t have the same mentality. These people had pinned practically all their hopes of advancing to Transcendent Realm on White Cloud Great Master. If they couldn’t pass this selection, they would truly fall short of success.
“Great Master, I’m just 16 years old, and my cultivation has already reached Peak Rank Seven Martial Vein! Breaking through to Rank Eight Martial Vein is only a matter of time. I’m confident in this. May I ask why I’m not qualified?”
Finally, someone couldn’t help but ask.
The one who had spoken was Fei Yu. He was the one with the highest cultivation base among these 22 people. He was closer to Rank Eight Martial Vein than even Dai Yuling who similarly had a cultivation base of Peak Rank Seven Martial Vein.”
White Cloud Great Master was not angry. He simply smiled and said: “You all should know that the final phase of Rank Nine Martial Vein is opening the ninth martial vein, but do you know what this implies? Even if your cultivation base reaches Peak Rank Nine Martial Vein, it is just laying the foundation.”
“Laying the foundation! Peak Rank Nine Martial Vein is actually just laying the foundation?”
This was truly astonishing. Among those here, other than White Cloud Great Master, no one would dare say this.
“That’s right, it’s just the Foundation Stage. Only after opening up the ninth martial vein will you have the ability to break away from the ordinary and truly enter the realm of cultivation. Therefore, when you say that you have already reached Peak Rank Seven Martial Vein, it just shows that your aptitude is not bad. It certainly has some significance when this old man chooses a disciple, but it’s not that big of a deal.”
White Cloud Great Master continued: “The reason why this old man said that there is no cultivation base requirement as long as your cultivation base is above Rank Four Martial Vein and your age is below 16 is this.”
“Then, what about those below Rank Four Martial Vein?”
Someone asked.
“Those who can’t even reach Rank Four Martial Vein by the age of 16 are useless trash!”
White Cloud Great Master said coldly.
Although his words were unpleasant, it was true.
However, what Ling Xiao cared more about was this Foundation Stage that White Cloud Great Master had talked about.
He understood the importance of a foundation very well. It was the phase to temper one’s body before practicing martial arts.
The basic martial art <Barbarian Bull Strength> he had cultivated before was like this. Only after his physical condition had reached a certain level could he practice elementary martial arts.
He guessed that the so-called Foundation Stage of the cultivation also meant this.
According to this way of thinking, even Peak Rank Nine Martial Vein martial artists had not yet stepped into the true stage of cultivation. They were just in the process of tempering their bodies and unearthing their potential.
Only the Transcendent Realm and above were the true stage of cultivation.
This was too astonishing!
He suddenly thought of what Lin Ze had said to him before. In the process of opening one’s martial veins, there were three paths that led to the Transcendent Realm.
Soul!
Internal Energy!
Body!
To put it simply, they were the three energies: jing (精), qi (气) and shen (神).
After tempering any one to the extreme, you would advance to the Transcendent Realm.
Naturally, if all three were present, the effect would be even better.
At that time, he hadn’t understood the meaning of those words.
Now, he knew that no matter if it was through soul, internal energy, or body, they were all only laying his foundation. Only after his foundation was solid, could he start true cultivation.
Some people just sought powerful fighting techniques and pursued the rapid advancement of their cultivation bases, but they forget this point.
The result was futile.
Even if you advanced to Peak Rank Nine Martial Vein, without strong enough foundations in at least one of these three energies, it was impossible to breakthrough to the Transcendent Realm.
So-called fighting techniques and one’s cultivation base were just a kind of assistance to aid one in surviving.
They were only the means of making these three energies stronger, but many martial artists put the cart before the horse.
“Great master, you have always said that strength is not important, and cultivation base is also not important. Then what exactly is important?”
Because White Cloud Great Master’s attitude had been amiable to Fei Yu ‘s question, many people now dared to ask more since they were less fearful.
“Potential!”
“Potential?”
“To be precise, the potential to enter the Transcendent Realm!”
White Cloud Great Master explained: “This potential has three directions, body potential, soul potential, and the last one is internal energy potential.”
“If you have potential, you have a future!”
White Cloud Great Master continued, “After the Transcendent Realm, martial artists are divided into special physiques. This is what many seniors have summarized. Only those who have these special physiques have a chance to advance to the Transcendent Realm.”
“Just now when this old man scanned you all, he was looking for whether any of you possessed one of these special physiques. Fortunately, one of you possesses it.”
“Naturally, outside of these special physiques, there are also some exceptions. After all, no one can completely understand these special physiques. Therefore, there is this Seven Star Flower!”
White Cloud Great Master smiled and pointed at that crystal-like translucent flower plant behind him.
“Seven Star Flower is very peculiar. It can judge whether a martial artist possesses the potential to advance to the transcendent realm It has seven flowers in total. As long as five of them light up, it shows that a martial artist can definitely advance to the Transcendent Realm provided that there is no accident during his or her cultivation.”
“My God, there is actually such a thing in this world.”
Now, Ling Xiao felt that he was rather ignorant and ill-informed. The outside world was truly brilliant. He wanted to know how great his own potential was now and whether he possessed a special physique
“Yiran, make arrangements for these children. You should know the testing method.”
White Cloud Great master said to Yinran Zhenren.
“I will obey the Teacher’s decree!”
Yinran Zhenren nodded and arranged the 22 people in a row before taking them to take the test one by one.
It was unknown whether it was intentional, but Heavenly Ren Academy’s geniuses were arranged in the front while the six geniuses from the Hidden Dragon Battalion were arranged in the back.
However, it didn’t matter. In any case, there was no benefit in being tested first since their potential wouldn’t change.
“The testing method is very simple, just drip a drop of blood.”
YInran Zhenren said to Fei Yu at the forefront.
“This junior understands!”
Although Fei Yu was very confident, he was still very nervous.
