Mo Wuji hurriedly stepped forward and cupped his fists, “The two of us are just curious to take a look, I heard that it takes a lot of gold coins to open up the spirit, we don’t even have enough to eat, and we don’t even have a single silver coin, so where would we get gold coins? The two of us will leave now.”
This white bearded man’s gaze was a little scary, Mo Wuji had a feeling that it was hard to tell that he shouldn’t continue to stay here.
The woman snorted coldly, her gaze swept past the cloth bag containing the gold coins in Mo Wuji’s hand as a trace of disgust flashed through her eyes. Obviously, she knew that there were always gold coins in the cloth bag in Mo Wuji’s hands, which was why she was very disdainful and disgusted with the lying Mo Wuji.
Mo Wuji was also considered to be old, so he naturally saw the disgust in this woman’s eyes, and he even doubted that the cloth bag in his hand had any holes in it. Otherwise, could this woman’s eyes not pass through his cloth bag?
“Don’t be too busy to leave, since you’re here, it’s good to go in and see if there are any spirit roots.” The white-bearded man hoarsely continued.
Mo Wuji calmed down, he clearly felt that this white-bearded man was not targeting him, but rather Smokey by his side. If it was for Smokey’s spirit root, but Smokey clearly didn’t test her spirit root, could he not tell? If it wasn’t for Smokey’s spirit root, then why? He pulled Smokey behind him and said in a cautious tone, “Two adults, my siblings don’t have any gold coins and don’t want to go to the Spirit Opening right now, so I’ll take my leave.”
The white bearded man laughed, “It is not for you to go to open the spirit, it doesn’t cost a few money to test it, go in ……”
Testing doesn’t cost a few bucks? Mo Wuji was a little confused in his heart, didn’t he say that all the tests before Spirit Opening would cost at least a few hundred gold coins?
“This dude, but I’ve heard that it costs 500 gold coins just to test. Some people test as mortal roots, and in order to take their chances to open their spirit, they all need at least ten thousand gold coins, using the worst spirit medicine.” If it wasn’t for the extraordinary aura of these two people, Mo Wuji would have even suspected that these two people were human traffickers.
The white-bearded man laughed, “Generally only after detecting that there is a spirit root, do they need to consider whether or not to open the spirit. Once it’s a mortal root, they say that the Spirit Opening Tower can’t detect some spiritual roots, so they compel others to directly carry out Spirit Opening, and they don’t lose out anyway.”
Mo Wuji completely understood, what spirit opening required tens of thousands of gold coins to millions of gold coins? This was completely the Spirit Opening Tower’s money-grabbing manoeuvre. All you have to do is come for testing, and if it’s a mortal root, they say that they don’t dare to be sure if they have a spiritual root, and that they can only be sure after opening the spirit.
Since you want to open your spirit, fine, bring the gold coins. There are even some people who think like him, thinking that the elixir used for the first Spirit Opening was not good enough and did not develop the hidden Spirit Roots, and then spend money to do a second Spirit Opening.
By this time, Mo Wuji was 100% sure that his cheap old man had been cheated the first time he brought him here to open his spirit.
It must be because he didn’t have a spirit root, and those guys from the Spirit Opening Tower wanted to earn this spirit opening fee. In addition, Mo Guangyuan urgently needed him to be able to cultivate, which is why he spent a large amount of gold coins to open the spirit. Of course, those who could be cheated were all rich masters.
“Stand still.” The guards of the Spirit Opening Tower didn’t seem to recognise this man and woman, and similarly stopped the two.
The white-bearded man snorted coldly, “Who’s in charge here, get the hell out.”
The white-bearded man’s cold snort clearly didn’t sound very loud, Mo Wuji felt a sense of panic in his heart as he felt that his eardrums were about to be ruptured.
In just a few seconds, an obese middle-aged man rushed out. He arrived at the entrance of the Spirit Opening Tower, and just as somewhat puzzled, he looked at this man and woman, who he clearly didn’t recognise either.
The man raised his hand and grabbed out a jade token and said, “Take me to the best spirit root testing room here.”
When the obese man saw this jade token, his hand shook slightly, and he hurriedly said respectfully, “Yes, yes, I am the deacon in charge here, Liu Chunshan, please follow me, two adults.”
Following this, Mo Wuji felt a powerful force carry him, making him follow the man and woman into the Spirit Opening Tower without any choice.
Mo Wuji’s face was a little ugly, he did want to come back to test whether he had a spirit root or not. However, this kind of being defenceless and being coerced into it made him feel very unhappy in his heart.
The inside of the Spirit Opening Tower was also considered spacious, Mo Wuji saw several people paying their gold coins, it looked like these were also people who came to test their spirit or open their spirit.
Liu Chunshan quickly brought several people to the second level of the Spirit Opening Tower, once he entered the second level, the first thing Mo Wuji saw was a crystal column that was about one zhang or so.
“You go ahead and test it, just stand behind that.” The white-bearded man spoke in a perfunctory tone, pointing to the place where he stood behind the crystal column and said to Mo Wuji.
Mo Wuji knew exactly what he meant, letting him go and test, this was for Smokey’s sake. By this point Mo Wuji had already guessed that this white-bearded man was just very optimistic about Smokey’s spiritual roots, and he didn’t know how he knew by casually looking at it.
Even if he had tested once before, knowing that he had no spirit root, Mo Wuji was still a little apprehensive. He longed for the last test to be wrong and that he actually had a spirit root. At this moment, he even somewhat longed for the person who said that he didn’t have a spiritual root before to be trying to scam more gold coins out of his cheap old man, so that he could come and test a second time.
Mo Wuji was equally clear that this possibility was very small.
“Young master, go ahead and test.” Mo Wuji’s words yesterday made Smokey understand in her heart that her young master was very eager to have a spiritual root.
Mo Wuji nodded and took a deep breath as he walked over to the place where the spiritual root test was conducted and stood up.
A grey light flashed on the crystal cylinder for a moment, and then it did not move.
Mo Wuji didn’t know how one could have a spiritual root, but as this crystal column didn’t react half-heartedly, he also knew that this was definitely not a sign of having a spiritual root.
Sure enough, the white-bearded man said with some impatience, “The most ordinary mortal root, destined to be a mortal in this life, come down.”
Mo Wuji’s entire body went cold, his head was slightly dizzy, his strong restraint allowed him to walk down the testing platform as if nothing had happened. His slightly trembling hands showed how disappointed he was at this moment. Even if it was the worst of the worst spirit root, why was it just a mortal root?
“Young master, it doesn’t matter if you don’t have a spirit root, the old master doesn’t have a spirit root either.” Smokey hurriedly came up to protect Mo Wuji.
Mo Wuji pretended to smile calmly, “It’s fine, I still have hands without a spiritual root. In the future, we’ll eat and drink as usual.”
He sighed in his heart, there was one thing he didn’t say. The old master was because he didn’t have a spirit root, and as a result, he was eaten to the bone crumbs in Raozhou.
The beautiful woman didn’t even bother to despise Mo Wuji anymore, eating fragrant food and drinking spicy food, only a mole-like mortal would have such lofty ideals.
The white-bearded man didn’t care about Mo Wuji at all, instead, he looked at Smokey with a smile and said, “Little girl, you test.”
Smokey hurriedly shook her head, “I don’t need to test, I don’t want to cultivate either, I’m going to leave with the young master.”
“Since you’re here, test it.” With the white-bearded man’s words, Smokey couldn’t help but land on the location where the spiritual root was being tested.
Mo Wuji secretly clenched his fists, he did want Smokey to test it, and now this forcing of Smokey to test it made him more and more uncomfortable. Mo Wuji slowly sucked in his breath, even if he was no longer comfortable, in front of this man and woman, he was as small as a mole cricket.
As soon as Smokey landed on the testing platform, in just a few seconds, that crystal pillar suddenly erupted with a burst of cyan light. Soon, this green-coloured light rushed to the very top of the crystal pillar, only a foot or so away from reaching the top. The cyan-coloured light was soft and shining, like a rainbow of cyan-coloured light.
“Extreme Spiritual Root!” The white-bearded man and the beautiful woman almost shouted out at the same time, and Mo Wuji saw a fervour in their eyes.
Sure enough, they had come for Smokey, a feeling of powerlessness flooded Mo Wuji’s heart.
