He confessed his love for his master in his later years, and his cheat ability finally arrived.

Metal! Wood! Water! Fire! Earth!

Wind! Thunder! Light! Darkness!

The nine most common types of spiritual energy pillars were lit up one by one.

The main hall was completely silent.

Not only Princess Taiping and the Prince of Zhenbei, but also other trial participants were stunned.

Even Luo Peng, along with the dozen or so immortal disciples behind him, were so shocked by this scene that their mouths were agape, utterly speechless!

how many years?

How many years!

How many years has it been since a cultivator with so many spiritual roots appeared?

several years?

Decades?

Hundreds of years? Thousands of years?

Do not!

It hasn't been seen in at least tens of thousands of years!

"Tch~"

Seeing everyone staring at Lu Changsheng in astonishment, especially the goddess Princess Taiping beside him, who lightly covered her mouth with admiration in her eyes, the Prince of Zhenbei's jealousy was completely aroused. He immediately crossed his arms and said disdainfully:

"As everyone knows, the spiritual energy circulating between heaven and earth is extremely mixed; the more spiritual roots one possesses, the more difficult cultivation becomes!"

"Possessing nine spiritual roots simultaneously... such a person will never be able to establish their foundation in their entire life; they will explode and die as soon as they begin to cultivate!"

"He's utterly useless! Senior Brother Luo, what are you waiting for? Quickly declare this old guy unqualified and kick him out..."

Snapped! !

Before Prince Zhao Ke of Zhenbei could finish speaking, Luo Peng slapped him to the ground, and when he looked up, blood was streaming from his nose.

"Shut up! Do I, Luo Peng, need you to tell me what to do?"

Luo Peng snorted coldly, his murderous gaze sweeping over Zhao Ke, the Prince of Zhenbei, causing him to break out in a cold sweat and tremble uncontrollably.

"Let me give you some advice, senior brother: This is the Upper Cloud Heavenly Palace! It's the Northern Palace! It's a sacred place of the immortal sects!"

"Forget your worldly identities. Here, you are merely the most ordinary and humble outer disciples!"

"Anyone who dares to disrespect an inner disciple or commit insubordination will be executed without mercy, according to the rules and regulations of my Shangyuntian Palace!"

Upon hearing this, the noble children who had passed the trials all lowered their heads and dared not utter a sound.

After reprimanding Zhao Ke, Luo Peng's expression instantly changed. A smile forced onto his red and swollen face as he jogged over to Lu Changsheng, his face full of difficulty as he spoke:

"Senior... I've already taught that blind brat a lesson for you."

"However, possessing nine spiritual roots is indeed..."

Luo Peng looked troubled, but he was secretly overjoyed. Even with Senior Brother Xuan Yue's recommendation letter, Lu Changsheng couldn't pass the outer disciple trial, so it was no wonder he couldn't be blamed.

A letter of recommendation is just a stepping stone; once you knock on the door, whether you can actually get in depends on your own abilities.

Of course, it's not impossible for Lu Changsheng to insist on entering the Northern Palace and disregard the rules and regulations.

A letter of recommendation alone won't suffice; at the very least, Senior Brother Xuan Yue needs to personally intervene!

No wonder this old guy, at the age of seventy or eighty, has not yet succeeded in establishing his foundation; it turns out he has a useless spiritual root, one in ten thousand!

Thinking about it this way, Luo Peng suddenly felt that his face didn't hurt so much anymore.

"Senior, I regret to inform you that you have not passed..."

boom!

boom!

Boom!

Before Luo Peng could finish speaking, several figures flew down from the sky on swords at high speed, smashing several large craters into the ground.

"Who?"

"Who exactly possesses nine spiritual roots?"

"How many years! How many years!"

......

As the smoke and dust cleared, several aged figures appeared in the wind.

Whether from the cold or from excitement, these elderly figures were shivering.

"Reporting to the First Elder, Second Elder, Third Elder, Fourth Elder, Fifth Elder..."

Luo Peng frowned. He didn't understand why the elders of the Elders' Council would all come out at this moment, and why they were so eager and excited.

Could it be...

Possessing nine spiritual roots doesn't make someone a waste?

A terrible thought arose in the mind of the new Chinese style, but it was ruthlessly extinguished by Luo Peng in the next instant.

This is because it involves areas where his knowledge is lacking and contradicts common sense.

"This...this senior is..."

Luo Peng pointed to Lu Changsheng, who was still stroking the Qi Ling Pearl and remained silent with his eyes closed, and replied with a cupped hand:

"He is someone who possesses nine spiritual roots! And he was also recommended by Senior Brother Xuan Yue!"

After saying that, Luo Peng frowned, his eyes filled with disgust and dislike as he looked at Lu Changsheng.

Even after all the tests were over, he was still holding onto the Spirit Awakening Pearl. When he saw the elders, he didn't even bow; he just closed his eyes and struck a pose.

Taking advantage of their age and seniority, they don't understand the rules!

The elders were not angry, but instead, led by the first elder, they surrounded Lu Changsheng.

He watched with a furrowed brow and shook his head repeatedly.

What no one knew was that Lu Changsheng wasn't posing. The reason his hand was still caressing the Spirit Awakening Pearl was for only one reason...

That means the test isn't over yet!

Lu Changsheng's entire consciousness was immersed in a void space. This space-time was pitch black, with countless points of light floating in the sky.

These spots of light are red, blue, yellow, green, and so on.

Various colored light spots gathered together, forming a sea of ​​light that completely enveloped Lu Changsheng's body.

Lu Changsheng closed his eyes and spread his arms, feeling as if he were in warm lake water, which was incredibly comfortable.

These specks of light are the spiritual energy that floats between heaven and earth; crimson represents fire-attribute spiritual energy, dark gold represents metal-attribute spiritual energy, and pale blue represents water-attribute spiritual energy...

After Lu Changsheng successfully activated the five elements of spiritual power, as well as the nine types of spiritual power including thunder, wind, light, and darkness, even more scarce spiritual power continued to converge on Lu Changsheng's body.

Poison-type spiritual power, blood-type spiritual power, ice-type spiritual power, mental-type spiritual power, etc.

There are even those who need to comprehend the Great Dao and the Laws in order to absorb and comprehend spatial spiritual power, temporal spiritual power, causal spiritual power, destiny spiritual power, and so on.

But at this moment, all spiritual power, no matter how rare or scarce, surrounded Lu Changsheng, as if he were seeing a legendary monarch, respectfully obeying his commands.

However, because this spiritual energy is so scarce, and one even needs to comprehend the laws of heaven and earth and the Great Dao to absorb and understand it, it will take more time to light up the tenth mixed-attribute spiritual energy jade pillar.

"What a pity! What a real pity!"

"Possessing nine spiritual roots, how could he be an old man like us?"

"What good are nine spiritual roots if half your body is buried in the ground?"

"Alas, Heaven has taken pity on my Heavenly Palace, bestowing upon me such a prodigy! It's just a pity this genius arrived too late; he's about to die of old age!"

......

Amidst the sighs of the elders, the atmosphere in the trial grounds became extremely eerie.

"Gentlemen...elders, isn't it true that the more numerous and varied one's spiritual roots, the harder it is to cultivate?"

Luo Peng was stunned. He mustered his courage, stepped forward, and bowed to the assembled elders, asking:

"This old man... this old man possesses nine spiritual roots, which means he'll never be able to break through to the Foundation Establishment stage. They're utterly useless... useless spiritual roots!"

"Luo Peng, you don't understand!"

The Grand Elder looked up at Luo Peng and sighed deeply:

"Generally speaking, the more spiritual roots one has, the more difficult it is to cultivate. However, there is one exception!"

"Those are cultivators who possess the nine spiritual powers of metal, wood, water, fire, earth, wind, thunder, light, and darkness. Their talent is in no way inferior to those with a single-attribute spiritual root, and may even far surpass it!"

"Because these nine attributes of spiritual power are the most common and fundamental spiritual powers that make up this world."

"However, cultivators who possess nine kinds of spiritual power need extremely powerful and high-level cultivation techniques to regulate their cultivation, and the resources required for cultivation are in the hundreds of thousands."

"If this person is under twenty years old, simply report this matter to the Heavenly Palace, and we will spare no effort to cultivate him!"

"pity......"

The First Elder stroked his sparse beard, looked at Lu Changsheng, who was just as old and frail as himself, and shook his head:

"In the past thousand years, only the Taixu Dao Sect, the foremost of the immortal holy lands, has produced a person possessing all nine spiritual roots, and that person was not even twenty years old!"

"I also possess great fortune in the Heavenly Palace, but..."

"This surprise...it's come way too late!"

No one would gamble on using the resources accumulated over hundreds of thousands of years to nurture a dying person! No one would dare to gamble on it!

a long time.

The Second Elder, with his hands behind his back, looked at the only unlit jade pillar in the arena and breathed a sigh of relief:

"Fortunately, this person possesses nine major spiritual roots and has not awakened any mixed spiritual roots!"

"As long as the sect is willing, and spends less resources to cultivate, there is still hope of obtaining a Spirit King or even a Spirit Emperor level expert."

A cultivator possessing nine spiritual roots, once fully grown, would at least be a Great Saint or even a Quasi-Emperor level powerhouse.

Lu Changsheng is old and his blood and qi are almost depleted. With less resources, there is a certain probability that he can be cultivated into a spirit king or spirit emperor.

However, sects may not be willing to take the risks involved.

"Then... what if this senior possesses a mixed spiritual root..."

Luo Peng's worldview was turned upside down, so he mustered up his courage and asked a question that everyone present was curious about:

"What should we do?"

Unexpectedly, Luo Peng's words were immediately met with a furious rebuke from the Second Elder:

"Shut your mouth!"

Luo Peng shrank back, breaking out in a cold sweat.

Although he was a Foundation Establishment cultivator, even an elder of the Outer Immortal Academy possessed at least the Golden Core stage cultivation.

Crushing him would be easier than crushing an ant.

"If someone possesses mixed spiritual roots and lights up all ten spiritual energy jade pillars, then that person becomes the legendary person with all spiritual roots! They will then be completely ruined!"

"Even if the sect leader were willing, even if all the resources of the entire Shangyun Heavenly Palace were exhausted, it still wouldn't satisfy his appetite!"

"Looking across the entire immortal realm, only the number one ranked sect, the [Tai Xu Dao Sect], possesses such resources to support a cultivator with all spiritual roots in their cultivation and breakthrough!"

The Third Elder, Fourth Elder, and Fifth Elder exchanged glances and nodded, all echoing the sentiment:

"Fortunately, this old fellow isn't quite that monstrous. Although he's advanced in years, as long as the sect is willing and spends fewer resources, breaking through to the Nascent Soul stage in the future shouldn't be difficult. This is truly a great fortune for my Shangyun Heavenly Palace..."

Before the elders could even breathe a sigh of relief, Lu Changsheng, who had been keeping his eyes closed, suddenly opened them.

Swish!

The next instant, an incredibly hot and dazzling beam of light rose from the tenth spiritual energy jade pillar, shooting straight into the sky.

Boom!

Before anyone could react, the time and space of the trial grounds, along with the entire Outer Immortal Academy, were completely frozen.

Along with Lu Changsheng and the elders, everyone was like puppets, their bodies stiff, their expressions frozen, and they remained motionless.

The whole world seemed to have been put on pause, freezing everything.

In the deepest part of the Heavenly Palace, in the Sky City hidden in the endless void, a handsome young man in brocade robes opened his eyes.

This person is Yun Quezi, the supreme leader of Shangyun Tian Palace!

Ji Jiufeng reappeared after entering the Lesser Immortal Realm.

Yun Quezi's pupil power instantly pierced through endless space and time, finally focusing on Lu Changsheng in the outer immortal academy's trial grounds.

Shock!

Confuse!

Pity!

puzzled!

Unbelievable!

.......

At the same time, as the surrounding space distorted, a burly, muscular middle-aged man appeared beside Yun Quezi.

wow——

Upon the appearance of the middle-aged man, Yun Quezi's expression changed drastically. She immediately stood up to greet him, bowing respectfully.

"Greetings, Your Excellency!"

The middle-aged man had thick eyebrows and large eyes, but his face was expressionless.

He ignored Yun Quezi, stared at Lu Changsheng for a long time, and finally uttered:

"It really is..."

"Fate is cruel!"