The way back was very quiet, not meeting a single six-legged thunder crocodile, which made Mo Wuji a little depressed. He still had seven bottles of Vein Opening Medicinal Liquid on him, if he could meet some thunder crocodiles, he was certain that he could open up his veins to more than thirty.
Two days later, Mo Wuji and Ding Bu Er returned to Tian Luo Restaurant. Shen Ren was still nowhere to be seen, Ding Bu Er decided to temporarily stay in the parlour after knowing that Mo Wuji could cultivate and that Shen Ren was an immortal master.
Mo Wuji didn’t make himself polite with Ding Bu Er, he had opened up twenty seven veins, it was exactly the time when he needed to cultivate.
When Mo Wuji once again absorbed the aura for his circumference, he was almost stunned. Any more spiritual qi absorbed by him would be like a drop of water falling into the ocean, and it would not bring any barrier or hindrance to his cultivation. Previously, after he had cultivated to the first level of Vein Expansion, he clearly felt a bottleneck. And at this time, after opening up twenty-seven veins, he even had a feeling that as long as he kept cultivating, absorbing even more spiritual qi, his twenty-seven veins would be able to accommodate it.
Continuously absorbing spiritual qi, his cultivation level just kept rising.
Even if Mo Wuji hadn’t seen a genius cultivate, he guessed that even if a genius cultivated, the speed of absorbing spiritual qi wouldn’t necessarily be as fast as his. His twenty seven veins were like an empty ocean, allowing him to swim at will.
Mo Wuji held back the ecstasy within him, it didn’t even matter to him if the veins were spirit veins or not. With his current cultivation speed, he believed that as long as he kept up with the opening of his veins, no heavenly being would be able to compare to him.
Two days passed by in an instant, and Mo Wuji clearly felt himself pouring the peak of the first layer of Pulse Expansion. When he was about to break through the second layer of Vein Expansion, he paused again.
It wasn’t that his veins were restricting his cultivation, but that he didn’t have the experience to break through the second layer. Shen Ren wasn’t there, so he was afraid that if he made a mistake in his cultivation, it would result in a fault that would be difficult to make up for. More importantly, the Leaping Immortal Sect Assembly was about to open, so who knew how much time it would take to break through the second layer?
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Mo Wuji walked out of the room but saw Shen Ren was staring wide-eyed at Ding Bu Er. Seeing Mo Wuji come out, Shen Ren immediately frowned and asked, “Mo Wuji, who is he?”
“His name is Ding Bu Er, he is my friend. Originally, your room was reserved for him, it’s just that you don’t have a place to stay, so you were allowed to stay first. After Bu Er came, he insisted on not touching your room, so he temporarily stayed in the living room.”
With a single sentence, Mo Wuji rendered Shen Ren, who was originally going to chastise, speechless.
Seemingly sensing that something was wrong with her, Shen Ren hurriedly said, “The Leaping Immortal Sect Assembly has already opened, I came to ask you to try your luck.”
Ding Bu Er, who was secretly praising Mo Wuji in his heart for his ability to speak, immediately dropped his gaze on Shen Ren when he heard Shen Ren say that the Leaping Immortal Gate Assembly had already opened.
Originally, he didn’t have any expectations for the Leaping Immortal Sect Assembly, but now that he had a sea-winged seal’s egg in his possession, he might be able to join an Immortal Sect if he used it well. Even if it was an odd-job disciple, being able to join an Immortal Sect was a very great thing.
Not to mention that Wuji could cultivate with almost mortal roots, he might be able to cultivate as well.
“Let’s go, we came here for the Leaping Immortal Sect Assembly.” Mo Wuji hurriedly said.
He knew about himself, he was certain that his cultivation speed wouldn’t be worse than any genius. But the truth was that he was indeed a mortal without a spiritual root, and at the Leaping Immortal Sect Assembly, it would be almost impossible for him, a mortal, to become a true disciple of the Immortal Sect.
Mo Wuji didn’t care about this, he could ironically join the Traceless Sword Sect now and become an errand boy disciple, and that would be enough for him. His main purpose of joining the Immortal Sect was to come into contact with some Immortal Masters, and if there was something he didn’t understand in his cultivation, he could at least find someone who was cultivating to ask about it.
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Mo Wuji wasn’t sure how big Chang Luo City was. He only knew that Changluo was the capital city of the Star River Empire, and also knew that Changluo was the largest city in the Star River Empire. He had been in Chang Luo City for a month, but he hadn’t even made it to a corner of Chang Luo City, and he wasn’t even clear on what direction the Imperial Palace of Chang Luo City was in.
Today, when he followed Shen Ren to the Star River Imperial Plaza in Chang Luo City, he realised that there was such a wide place in Chang Luo City. The square was swarming with people everywhere inside and outside, Mo Wuji and Shen Ren came late and could only stay at the periphery to watch.
Raised in the middle of the square was an equally wide marble platform. Right in the middle of this platform stood a crystal column that was two feet tall, Mo Wuji knew that this was something to test the spiritual roots.
Other than this crystal column, there were dozens of round altars built by Immortal Sects in the surroundings, with the name of the Immortal Sect labelled above each of them. Moreover, the round altars of the big sects obviously covered a larger area and were built a little more grandiose. For example, the Heavenly Extreme Hall at the very front was not only built to be eye-catching, it was also several times the size of the round altars of the rest of the sects.
In Mo Wuji’s opinion, this was a job fair, where big companies and small companies could be seen at a glance.
On the periphery of the round altar where dozens of Immortal Sects were located there were still numerous Immortal Sect signs, however, all of these signs stated that they were recruiting miscellaneous disciples. Mo Wuji could easily see where the Traceless Sword Sect was recruiting for odd-job disciples, according to the scale of the Traceless Sword Sect, it could only be considered to be medium to low amongst the dozens of Immortal Sects.
Shen Ren said to Mo Wuji, “Did you see, this Leaping Immortal Sect Assembly is a little different from the past. In the past, it was the designated geniuses who could take the test and then participate in the Immortal Sect Selection. This time, apart from the designated geniuses from all over the world, as long as you feel that you have good spiritual roots, you can go and participate in the Immortal Sect Selection. Just like you, for example, although you came as a house servant. If you feel that your spiritual root potential is good, you can participate in the Immortal Sect Selection all the same.”
Mo Wuji subconsciously looked at the dark crowd and asked with some astonishment, “If all these people are participating in the selection, when will the selection take place?”
Shen Ren laughed, “Do you think anyone can go up to the high platform of the trail to test? Only designated geniuses can go to the high platform test first. Geniuses who aren’t designated and want to go to the high platform test must first pass the peripheral test.”
Said Shen Ren pointing to a tall building at the edge of the square, “There is the place for peripheral test, the peripheral test here also has benefits, one is the low fee, second if your qualification test out is not enough to become an Immortal Sect Outer Disciple, you can also go to apply for miscellaneous disciple, just like those miscellaneous disciple recruiting office.”
“Wuji, I’ll go over there to test my spiritual roots.” Seeing that many people were flocking to that outer testing hall, Ding Bu Er was also a bit anxious.
Mo Wuji didn’t intend to continue going to test the spiritual roots and nodded to Ding Bu Er, “You go, good luck.”
“Which Immortal Sect are you from?” Mo Wuji suddenly thought of Shen Ren, Shen Ren knew a lot of things, she wasn’t very old and was already at the fourth level of Pulse Expansion, she definitely wasn’t from a small place.
“You wouldn’t know even if I told you.” Shen Ren replied casually, looking like she didn’t want to delve deeper into this issue.
Mo Wuji didn’t ask any more questions as he saw a tall man fly and land in the middle of the marble round platform in the middle of the plaza, standing right next to the crystal pillar of the Spiritual Root Test.
The crowd of people also quietened down, all gazing at this tall man.
“On behalf of the Star River Empire, I would like to welcome all the great Immortal Sects to come to Chang Luo to select disciples. I also welcome the geniuses of my Star River Empire to come to Chang Luo to choose an Immortal Sect. The auspicious time has arrived, light the ceremonial cannon ……”
The tall man said this, followed by nine salutes ringing out at the edge of the marble platform.
“Who is this man, could it be the Emperor of the Star River Empire?” Mo Wuji asked Shen Ren who was beside him in a low voice.
“Naturally, it’s the Star River Empire’s emperor, or else who do you think it is?” Shen Ren blankly glanced at Mo Wuji.
Mo Wuji asked with some confusion, “It’s reasonable to say that although the emperor is honourable, this is the Immortal Sect Selection Conference, he doesn’t count for much, right?”
Shen Ren looked at Mo Wuji speechlessly, “You think an emperor of an empire would be that simple? It’s true that emperors cannot override some Immortal Sects. But do you think that for this kind of Leaping Immortal Sect Selection Conference, there would be top powerhouses from Immortal Sects coming over? The ones who came were just some minions, and even if there were big names, it would only be one or two. Their purpose is to find disciples for the mantle, and they won’t come out at all.”
