Li Qingshan was extremely sensitive to killing intent and hostility. How could he not notice her? If it was himself, he might not care, but An was enough reason for him to kill. [I]
Seeing that Li Qingshan was also in the sixth layer, the female instructor glared back, unwilling to be outdone. However, Li Qingshan's gaze had already landed on An.
She did not notice that Qian Rongzhi's gaze was as gentle as water. It did not contain any killing intent or hostility at all. Even if the female instructor saw it, she would only think it was very gentle.
"An, why are you here?" Li Qingshan asked. Suddenly, he was surprised. Huh? Third layer?
When An saw Li Qingshan, she immediately smiled brightly and threw herself into his arms.
"What's wrong? It's only been a morning. How did you reach the third layer?" Li Qingshan patted her head. He vaguely understood that this was probably the effect of the Path of White Bone and Great Beauty.
The plump old man did not have time to explain. Knowing that all the school heads were watching, he urged, "Hurry up and test the yin, yang, and the five elements!"
Li Qingshan smiled, "That's good too. We can cultivate together now. Go!"
Under the watchful eyes of the crowd, An walked towards the array formation. Most of the Qi Practitioners were baffled. Why did a child come out in the end, led by the professor himself? Did she have some powerful background? However, reaching the third layer at such a young age was indeed impressive.
No one would have thought that she was just an ordinary person in the morning. At least, she looked like one. Even if someone thought of it, they would immediately dispel the absurd idea.
"Isn't that the child beside Li Qingshan? Her name, her name is An. Didn't she go to the Meng Tong Test?" Han Qiongzhi asked curiously.
Hwa Seung-zan frowned. What was wrong with this child? Third layer? Was she hiding her strength? There was no better explanation. Suddenly, a thought flashed through his mind. No way?
"Brother Tian, look at that child. She's so pretty!"
"I think I've seen her somewhere."
Chu Tian, who was being surrounded by everyone, also turned his head in confusion. There were still people to be tested. What a waste of time. The Hundred Clans should raise the bar. Any Tom, Dick, or Harry could be his classmate.
Ann stood in the center of the formation and looked at the ancient formation that was deeply carved into the stone. He felt that it was extremely familiar.
This sense of familiarity was far stronger than that of Li Qingshan, but it was also so sudden, like a wave crashing down without warning. Some remnant memories. Being overturned and poured out.
She couldn't help but close her eyes. On a certain year and a certain month, she had also stood on a similar formation, and sounds of joy and surprise came from all around her. "Success!"
What success?
The formation buzzed faintly and suddenly lit up. The surroundings fell silent. Everyone was stunned for a moment before bursting into snickers.
"This talent is really rare!"
Chu Tian laughed the loudest, "Could it be that this is also a Five Elements Body?"
Around Ann, the five corners of the formation shone with a golden radiance, a tender blade of grass, and a crystal clear water droplet. A dim yellow flame. The position that belonged to the Earth Element was empty. Looking closely, one could see a floating dust particle.
And above the formation, the radiance and darkness were so weak that they could barely be seen.
"They are all under Ding?" The teacher in charge of recording frowned. No, it should be even lower than under Ding. They don't have any Yin Yang or Five Elements talent. If Chu Tian was a peerless genius. This child would be a peerless trash.
The fat old man sighed. The female teacher mocked, "This is the Heaven Meridian genius that the family heads value? I think he's just trash! "
Li Qingshan glanced at her indifferently. He no longer possessed any murderousness. To a dead person. There was no need to show such a fierce attitude. He also didn't want to understand why she was so hostile towards Ann.
His Ann was a genius that even Brother Bull would praise.
The leaders of the various families were all disappointed. Originally, they had been considering using Yin Yang and the Five Elements to decide who An belonged to. However, her talent for the five elements was so low, which meant that her connection with the spiritual qi of the world was so weak that it was almost non-existent.
Sigh, even if she had some talent in any of the five elements, it would be fine. No, it would be fine even if she was slightly lacking. However, she basically had no talent for cultivation at all. Qi Practitioner was fine, but Foundation Establishment required her to communicate with the spiritual qi of the world.
Liu Changqing shook his head and sighed gently. "Is this what they mean by fortune and misfortune coming hand in hand?"
Behind the peerless talent, there was a huge flaw. Talent for the five elements was not impossible to make up for, but the resources required were tremendous.
Probably only large sects like the Sword Collection palace, the Umbral Yin sect, or large clans like the provincial overseer's estate could afford it. However, if such resources were invested in a regular Qi Practitioner, they would be able to produce a genius. Why would they use it on her? The heavens had played a terrible joke on her!
The leaders of the various families looked at earth elder Huang again. They were rather impressed by his foresight. Geniuses could not be seen once.
The old man continued to smoke leisurely. He did not show any disappointment or surprise.
Only the One Thought master brought his palms together and lowered his head, pretending to feel pity. His lips curled into an unfathomable smile. This was all the buddha's arrangements!
"That shouldn't be the case!" The man in coarse clothes frowned. As the leader of the school of Yin-yang, Ma Buyi's understanding of yin, yang, and the five elements was incomparable to other school leaders. The world had always been created by the five elements. Even regular people should not have such weak talent.
"Child, you can come down now," the plump old man said gently.
An's eyes remained firmly shut. She did not budge.
A woman's cold voice rang out from the bottom of her heart. "Do you understand how to use this formation? Let me see! "
She murmured with an almost undetectable voice, "Yes, mother!"
"What are you?" The plump old man asked.
However, Li Qingshan sensed that there was something off about An. He took a few steps forward, wanting to stop her.
The formation suddenly began to operate, radiating with light.
The crystalline droplet of water flew towards the tender grass, and the grass began to grow. In the blink of an eye, it had grown into a tree. As the tree sprouted and flourished, the spark landed on it and set it ablaze.
The tree was reduced to ashes, scattering into thousands of specks of dust. The speck of dust absorbed it, turning it into a piece of black soil. Specks of golden light appeared in the black soil, merging with the golden light.
Afterwards, the droplet of water appeared once more, turning into a gurgling stream that circled around the dead tree. The grass began to grow once more.
The wildfire could not burn away the grass, and it grew again with the spring breeze.
At the same time, the two specks of light and darkness merged together in the sky above the formation, constantly revolving. With each revolution, they would grow slightly larger, reaching the size of a fist in the blink of an eye. The light and darkness were clearly separated, yet they merged together inseparably. No matter which angle one looked at it from, it seemed like a diagram of yin and yang.
The instructor responsible for recording said in surprise, "All of the attributes have become higher than D. No, they're C."
The Qi Practitioners in the surroundings were all stunned. Wasn't this a testing formation? It could be used like this?
"The five elements engender each other, and yin and yang complement each other. How is this possible?" Ma Buyi's eyes widened, and he abruptly stood up.
Liu Changqing frowned, and asked, "Fellow Ma, what's going on?"
"Do you know what the full name of this formation is?" Ma Buyi's breathing had quickened.
All the Clan Heads were stumped. With their knowledge and experience, if they were asked about some strange formation, they would definitely have some understanding. However, when they saw the name of the formation in front of them, they all felt a little lost. Wasn't this a formation for testing one's attributes?
The slovenly Daoist asked, "Is it the Yin Yang Five Elements Engendering and Subduing Formation?"
Ma Buyi replied, "That's right. Fellow Daoist is indeed knowledgeable. Then, do you know what the true function of this formation is?"
Even the slovenly Daoist was feeling a little helpless. Apart from testing one's attributes, what else could it do?
Ma Buyi said, "The cultivation techniques of ancient cultivators are all about cultivating yin and yang and the five elements. You should know this, right?"
What was known as transcendence energy in ancient times was a type of power that combined yin and yang and the five elements. It allowed one to freely use any technique, and its power was extraordinarily great, and it had endless variations. However, the difficulty of cultivation was high, and the requirement for the cultivator's innate talent was so high that it was unimaginable to the people of today. Only an extremely small number of people could master it. If the standards of ancient times were to be used to measure the current cultivators, it would be rare for there to be a hundred or ten out of the Hundred Schools of Thought left.
In order to fight against their enemies, ancient cultivators obtained inspiration from their enemies, mutants, and demons, and continuously improved their path of cultivation. Only then did they come to this cultivation method that focused on cultivating one type of True Qi. Although it lowered the quality of the cultivators, it increased the number of cultivators by a hundred or even a thousand times, and established the rule of humans.
All the Clan Heads nodded. This could be considered the basic history of the cultivation path. Suddenly, they seemed to have understood something, and looked towards the Watermirror Disc.
Within the formation, a shocking change was happening.
The trees had already been destroyed by the blazing fire more than ten times, but under the nourishment of water and soil, they had turned into a lush forest. A river parted the thick soil, and passed through the forest. Specks of golden sand shone brightly in the river water.
Within it, An's existence could no longer be seen. Only when the blazing fire burned him again would he be able to catch a glimpse of him. As for the two colors of yin and yang, they had also disappeared. They had fused into every firelight, and every shade of the trees. One waxed, the other waxed, and the yin and yang changed.
The five elements were no longer individually, but as a whole, as if it was a living world. It was as if the world had just been created, and the primordial creation.
"They're all B grade," the instructor in charge of recording murmured. He did not know what else to say. Although it was still B grade, anyone could see that it was even rarer than Chu Tian's A grade. Moreover, the yin and yang and the five elements were still growing, and it was only a matter of time before they became A grade.
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