I courted death and then tried to escape, so the whole sect wants to get rid of me.

Previously, the elders would only watch from afar in the Yunshan Hall, and would only give a jade token to a disciple who met their approval to take them under their wing.

Now, for Jiang Jin's sake, everyone is sitting solemnly on the platform, making the atmosphere quite heavy.

"Ning Zhou, is it? Bone age sixteen, Xuan-level second-tier dual spiritual roots of water and earth, not bad."

The cultivator in this line who was having his spiritual root tested was Yu Jing.

He looked up and had just uttered a word of praise when the Fifth Elder tossed him a jade token: "I want this child."

Ning Zhou caught the jade token, unable to suppress his laughter, and pulled Song Yao, who was hiding behind him, to the front: "Wow, I'm in the inner courtyard! Lin Mu, it's your turn! Hurry! Didn't you say you wanted to be a genius? You can definitely do it too!!"

His voice was so loud that dozens of eyes turned to him at once.

Song Yao felt like killing him.

She was surrounded by elders, all of whom wanted to tear her to pieces. She had intended to keep a low profile, but she was suddenly dragged to the forefront, burying her head like an ostrich.

Everyone wanted to see what the genius looked like. At first glance, they saw a slender little girl with reddened ears.

He was wrapped in an oversized, plain-colored Taoist robe, with sleeves that were too long and the hem of the robe dragging on his ankles, making him appear thin and frail.

Perhaps because she was shy, her head was hanging down, and her messy hair covered half of her face.

The remaining half of her face was exposed, her skin was excessively white, as if she hadn't seen the sun in a long time.

Her eyebrows and eyes were exceptionally beautiful, not in a flamboyant way, but rather cool and serene, like the first melting snow in the mountains, carrying a natural sense of aloofness.

He was quiet and reserved.

When Yu Jing first saw her, she was covered in dirt and looked like she had just been dug out of the ground. Now that she had washed her face, she was such a handsome young man. He couldn't help but smile and say, "Come on, put your hands on the spirit-testing platform."

His boastful claim of wanting to be a genius drew a hint of mockery from the crowd.

But the young girl hesitated for a long time before finally speaking coyly: "Um, I want to leave the sect."

Yu Jing: "...What?"

The surrounding crowd erupted in commotion once again. Many elders on the platform looked in that direction upon hearing this, their brows furrowing slightly.

Having joined the sect, yet having not even had one's spiritual roots tested and become a disciple, one is already expected to leave?

What's the logic behind this?

Everyone else was afraid they wouldn't be able to stay.

Under scrutinizing gazes, Song Yao steeled herself and repeated, "I want to leave the sect."

If we don't say anything now, it will be even more troublesome once we get the jade pendant.

A figure gracefully arrived, leaning against the table, and with slender fingers lifted her chin, forcing her to look up: "And the reason?"

The person who came was the Twelfth Elder.

Song Yao's relationship with her was relatively normal; apart from putting toads in her bathtub, he hadn't done anything else bad.

After a moment's consideration, Song Yao said sincerely, "I don't want to cultivate immortality; I just want to be an ordinary person."

The reason is very simple and straightforward.

Those around looked puzzled.

Don't want to cultivate immortality?

How could anyone not want to cultivate immortality?

A flicker of interest crossed the twelfth elder's narrow eyes. He lightly touched Song Yao's face with his fingertip and then withdrew it: "If you don't want to cultivate immortality, our Nine Saints Hall won't force you. Let's go."

Song Yao was overjoyed: "Thank you..."

Before he could finish speaking, a ray of light flashed by, and someone landed on the stage: "No."

Song Yao's vision went black again.

No.

Why is Fourth Junior Brother here again?

Surely he didn't recognize her?

Out of the corner of their eye, they saw the pale figure slowly approaching. The surrounding disciples instinctively made way for him, their eyes following with undisguised curiosity and awe.

The twelfth elder's slender eyes curved into a smile: "What's wrong? Does A-Zhou recognize this little girl?"

Xie Zhou walked up and bowed to the elders. Then he straightened up and said, "Last night, when we were besieging the evil cultivators, I was responsible for counting the rescued civilians. This girl was unconscious and had a weak breath, so Yu Jing gave her a calming pill and a qi-boosting pill."

The twelfth elder raised an eyebrow.

Yu Jing slapped his forehead, suddenly realizing, "Oh right, I almost forgot about that!"

He smiled at Song Yao: "Your complexion is indeed much better, but these pills are only for disciples of the Nine Saints Hall. If Junior Sister wants to leave the sect, she must repay these two pills first."

The twelfth elder listened with great interest, his eyes curving into two crescent moons and his smile deepening: "That's right, that's right. Our Nine Saints Hall's Pill Pavilion was bombed a year ago. Now pills are scarce and the supply is limited, so we can't renege on our debt."

She reached out and patted Song Yao's shoulder, her tone as gentle as if she were coaxing a child: "Little girl, will you take out two Qingxin Pills and two Qi-replenishing Pills now, or will you stay and continue being a disciple?"

Song Yao: "..."

To make matters worse, the person who blew up the Pill Pavilion back then...

It seems like it was her?

At that time, he angered his second senior sister and fought her fiercely. Inadvertently, he broke into the Pill Pavilion and razed half of it to the ground.

What a case of lifting a rock only to drop it on one's own foot!

She pouted, looking like she was about to cry.

Yu Jing enthusiastically added, "Actually, it's not expensive. A low-grade Xuan-level Qingxin Pill costs 5,000 spirit stones, and a high-grade Di-level Buqi Pill costs 600 spirit stones. The two together cost 5,600 spirit stones—by the way, do you have any spirit stones on you?"

Song Yao remained silent.

Yu Jing glanced at her face, then at her Taoist robe, and nodded in sudden realization: "You don't."

Song Yao: "..."

Suddenly I really want to go back to the days when I tormented the whole world.

How come now it's the whole world tormenting her?

She didn't actually come back to life; she just went to hell, right?

The twelfth elder laughed heartily, reaching out to ruffle Song Yao's hair: "Come on, let's test your spiritual roots."

With this performance, almost everyone present focused their attention on Song Yao.

Song Yao struggled, then resigned herself to her fate, and reluctantly pressed her palm against the spirit-testing platform.

The cool stone surface pressed against my skin, remaining completely still.

Take a breath.

Two breaths.

Three breaths.

The spirit-testing platform showed no reaction.

Yu Jing leaned closer and exclaimed in surprise, "Huh?" "What's going on?"

Before he could finish speaking—

"Buzz—!"

The spirit-testing platform suddenly trembled.

A surge of white light erupted, instantly engulfing the entire platform of light.

The plain-colored Taoist robes around them were almost transparent in the light, and the boys subconsciously raised their hands to shield their eyes, exclamations rising and falling.

"What's going on?!"

"My eyes! My eyes are going blind!"

The light lasted for three breaths before gradually fading away.

Everyone rubbed their sore eyes and eagerly looked towards the spirit-testing platform—

On the spirit testing platform, the light had not completely dissipated, and the greenish radiance continued to flow, several times more dazzling than when Jiang Jin had tested out the Heavenly-level full-grade Golden Spirit Root.

Yu Jing stared wide-eyed, his jaw nearly dropping to the ground.

The elders who were sitting behind them also stood up and quickly surrounded him.

"God-level... God-level max-grade wood spirit root!?"

The entire platform was silent for a moment, then erupted in chaos.

I thought that having Jiang Jin, who was at the Heavenly level, was already incredibly powerful, but then a God-level one popped up!

Are you crazy?