Chapter 1904: Chapter 1904: Innate Spirit Root
Moreover, the cultivation environment on the fourth level of the Jewel Tower is far better than that of the third level.
Therefore, cultivating on the fourth level of the Jewel Tower is more than twice as fast as on the third level... It might even be twice, three times faster!
"It’s really a case of gains and losses."
Wyatt Barnes couldn’t help but sigh, feeling somewhat bitter inside.
The thing he most anticipated was still the stability of the Jewel Tower space because it concerned whether he could take a shortcut and rescue his wife and daughter from the Enforcement Hall of the Holy Teaching of the Fire Worship Sect.
Although this shortcut might not necessarily succeed, it still gave him considerable hope.
Now, with hope shattered, he could only rely on his own strength to save his wife ’Keer’ and his daughter.
As the sun rose from the east, the group of people around Wyatt Barnes also gradually awoke from their cultivation and began to open their eyes.
For a moment, the surroundings became lively.
"The assessment should also be about to start."
Wyatt Barnes stood up, glanced at the rising sun on the horizon, and murmured to himself.
At the same time, some whispered conversations around him timely reached his ears:
"Do you know what the assessment content is?"
"Of course! I came to the Holy Teaching to participate in the assessment three years ago, but at that time, I attended the assessment at the Azure Dragon Altar... That assessment, my talent almost qualified, my strength barely qualified, averaging out my performance was not qualified, so I failed to pass the assessment."
"You’re here again this year, do you have confidence?"
"Naturally! My current strength cannot be compared to what I was three years ago... Although my talent hasn’t changed, with my current strength, I can fully raise my average score and barely pass the assessment."
...
This was a conversation between a ’naive lad’ and a ’seasoned veteran’.
Soon, Wyatt Barnes was drawn to what was said by another three people.
"It’s said that in the Fire Worship Sect’s Four Symbols Altar assessment, those with ’Azure Spirit Root’ or higher can bypass the strength assessment and directly pass the comprehensive test to become a member of the Four Symbols Altar, becoming a disciple of the Fire Worship Sect!"
This was a middle-aged man speaking.
"Based on my current displayed talent, my talent spirit root would at most be a ’Yellow Spirit Root’... I only hope to earn more points in the strength assessment to raise the average score to a level that can pass the assessment. That way, I still have hope."
This was an old man speaking.
"Your talent is slightly lacking... With your talent, to enter the Fire Worship Sect, you would need at least a cultivation level above the Earth Saint Realm!"
The last young man shook his head and said.
"I know this. I recently broke through to the Earth Saint Realm... I only hope I can earn enough points smoothly in the strength assessment."
The old man nodded.
"Spirit Root? Talent Spirit Root?"
Listening to the conversation of the three, Wyatt Barnes frowned, looking bewildered, not knowing what they were discussing.
What is a Spirit Root? What is a Talent Spirit Root?
He was completely unaware!
"Elder Fire, do you know?"
Finally, Wyatt Barnes couldn’t help but ask Elder Fire.
"Never heard of it... It should be a thing unique to this worldly plane."
Even Elder Fire was unaware.
Immediately, Wyatt Barnes could only inquire by himself, quickly targeting a middle-aged man.
"You don’t know about the Talent Spirit Root?"
Upon hearing Wyatt Barnes’s inquiry, the middle-aged man was taken aback, looking at Wyatt Barnes as if he was a strange creature.
"Is it strange not to know?"
Wyatt Barnes questioned, his brows slightly furrowed.
Seeing Wyatt Barnes frown, seemingly displeased, the middle-aged man then recalled Wyatt Barnes’s formidable prowess in killing Warren Yorke yesterday and immediately curbed his astonishment.
"The Talent Spirit Root is something innate to a person... However, the existence of spirit roots was only discovered by our ancestors after arriving at the ’Upper Domain’."
The middle-aged man, upon saying this, asked: "You should know that the Martial Dao Sacred Land was not differentiated into ’Upper Domain’ and ’Lower Domain’ in ancient times, right?"
"I come from the Lower Domain."
Wyatt Barnes said calmly.
"You come from the Lower Domain?"
Upon hearing this, the middle-aged man was once again surprised, then nodded, "No wonder you don’t know about the existence of ’Talent Spirit Root’. The Talent Spirit Root is an innate spirit root representing a person’s talent in Martial Dao."
"Talent Spirit Roots are divided into seven levels named after the seven colors of the rainbow... They are ’Red Spirit Root’, ’Orange Spirit Root’, ’Yellow Spirit Root’, ’Green Spirit Root’, ’Azure Spirit Root’, ’Blue Spirit Root’, and ’Purple Spirit Root’!"
"Among them, ’Red Spirit Root’ signifies the weakest talent, ’Purple Spirit Root’ represents the strongest talent... In the Fire Worship Sect Four Symbols Altar assessment, those with Azure Spirit Root or higher can bypass the strength assessment and directly pass the comprehensive test to become a disciple of the Fire Worship Sect."
"Those with a green spiritual root generally need to have a cultivation level at or above the Human Saint Realm to have a chance to pass the assessment and become disciples of the Fire Worship Sect."
"Those with a yellow spiritual root generally need to have a cultivation level at or above the Earth Saint Realm to have a chance."
"As for those with an orange spiritual root, theoretically, they need to have cultivation above the Heavenly Saint Realm to have a chance to become disciples of the Fire Worship Sect... But unless someone with an orange spiritual root has an extraordinary miracle encounter, they can’t possibly break through to the Heavenly Saint Realm in their lifetime!"
The middle-aged man, intimidated by Wyatt Barnes’ strength and afraid to offend him, finished saying all this in one breath.
Afterward, he couldn’t help but take a deep breath.
Instantly, Wyatt Barnes also gained some understanding of the so-called ’talent spiritual root.’
"How do you view your talent spiritual root?"
Wyatt’s eyes flashed as he asked the middle-aged man.
"Only those above the Saint Immortal Realm can use soul secret techniques to introspect their talent spiritual root, and introspect others’ talent spiritual root if there’s no resistance from them... Besides that, you can only rely on external objects."
The middle-aged man continued, "Just like today’s assessment, the Xuanwu Altar will present a few ’Spirit Pearls’ containing complex formations... All we need to do is place our hands on them, and after more than ten breaths, it will display the level of our talent spiritual root."
Wyatt Barnes nodded, then moved away from the side of the middle-aged man, returning to the place he originally was.
"The Xuanwu Altar of the Fire Worship Sect recruits outer disciples through a talent assessment, which tests ’talent spiritual roots’... The higher the spiritual root, the greater the benefits! For instance, those with talent spiritual root above the Green spiritual root can directly become disciples of the Fire Worship Sect."
"Those with talent spiritual roots weaker than the Green spiritual root still have to participate in the strength assessment... The lower the talent, the higher the strength requirement!"
Wyatt Barnes could understand this.
After all, you can’t have low talent and low strength and still become a disciple of such a top-tier power like the Fire Worship Sect, right?
If that were the case, how would the Fire Worship Sect differ from ordinary powers?
The Fire Worship Sect, no matter what, is one of the three major sects of the Martial Dao Sacred Land, among the most prestigious forces in the Upper Domain!
"I don’t know what level my talent spiritual root is... But it’s presumably not a very high-level spiritual root."
While curious about which level his talent spiritual root was at, Wyatt Barnes was also self-aware.
His talent, on the mortal continent ’Cloud Skies Continent,’ was considered top-notch.
However, since coming to the Martial Dao Sacred Land, he’s found people’s talents here to be very high.
Especially in the quasi-third-rate power ’Mysterious Void Mansion,’ where he encountered various genius disciples whose talents were intimidatingly high.
He is self-aware.
Without the assistance of the Seven Treasures Exquisite Pagoda, he could not have surpassed those people by far, nor could he have achieved his current accomplishments in such a short time!
"It’s here!"
Suddenly, someone shouted.
Instantly, everyone, including Wyatt Barnes, was drawn to the scene.
Under the watchful eyes of the crowd, Black Tortoise Altar’s Elder Silver Flame ’Charles Thorn’ and ’Maximus Lee’ appeared again.
Although the two appeared almost at the same time, they came from different directions, not together.
Behind them, each was followed by two middle-aged men.
The four middle-aged men were also wearing white robes, with the same ’Black Tortoise’ pattern embroidered on their robes as Charles Thorn and Maximus Lee’s, but theirs were copper-colored flames.
Copper Flame Elders!
Instantly, Wyatt Barnes and the thousands present guessed the identity of the four middle-aged men.
"Prepare."
Charles Thorn spoke lightly, and as soon as the words fell, he rose into the sky, overlooking the crowd from above.
When Charles Thorn rose into the sky, the two Copper Flame Elders who had stood behind him stepped forward, raising their hands, and opaque transparent pearls floated before them.
From a distance, they looked like glass balls the size of an adult’s fist.
Whoosh!
Maximus Lee said nothing, directly rising into the sky to overlook the crowd along with Charles Thorn.
The two Copper Flame Elders standing behind him also stepped forward, like the other two Copper Flame Elders, taking out two glass ball-like transparent pearls.
"Are these the Spirit Pearls that can test talent spiritual roots?"
Wyatt Barnes immediately guessed that the transparent pearls floating in front of the four Copper Flame Elders were the Spirit Pearls the middle-aged man had mentioned earlier that could test the level of talent spiritual root.
"Today’s assessment is divided into two parts... ’Talent Assessment’ and ’Strength Assessment.’ Talent Assessment tests your talent spiritual root!"
Meanwhile, Charles Thorn spoke, his voice like a resonant bell, clearly reaching the ears of everyone present.
Then, as Charles Thorn spoke, he reiterated what Wyatt Barnes had previously learned.
"Now, the talent assessment begins!"
As Charles Thorn spoke, the talent assessment officially began, with four people per group stepping forward to test their talent spiritual root level.
"I don’t know what level my talent spiritual root is... Orange? Yellow?"
Wyatt Barnes dared not hold too high expectations.