Gu Luosheng looked at the father of the boy beside him and asked.
"Immortal Master, my son's name is Qi Huaishan, he is six years old. Could it be that this boy is attracted by the Immortal Master?"
Qi's father had a look of surprise on his face.
"He has a second-grade earth spirit root. Although he does not meet my requirements, his talent is pretty good. I can accept him as a registered disciple. Take the money and it should be enough to make you rich and prosperous for a lifetime."
Gu Luosheng threw ten pieces of gold.
Weighing about ten kilograms, it is already a great asset in a rural county.
"Thank you, Immortal Master! Thank you, Immortal Master! Xiaoshan, if you don't kneel down to worship me, this is a great opportunity!"
Qi's father is really happy for his child.
Being so close to Wanhualing City, there are too many legends about practitioners. Even in remote places, their stories are told. Becoming a disciple of an immortal is as promising as being named on the gold list.
"Dad! I don't want to leave. Won't I not be able to see my parents in the future if I practice? Woohoo!"
But the boy couldn't help crying.
He couldn't help but feel worried and scared when he thought about leaving his parents and going to a strange environment.
"What are you talking about? You can live forever through cultivation, you can become an immortal, and you won't have to suffer from cold or hunger anymore, and you can be as majestic as an immortal master. What does it mean to cry for a boy all day long?"
When Qi's father heard this, a look of anger appeared on his face.
Being so cowardly, even if you stay, you will only die of starvation, and you will be looked down upon by the immortal master out of thin air.
"..."
Qi Huaishan's crying stopped, but his tears became even worse. He didn't want to leave, so couldn't he stay?
If he works hard when he grows up, won't he be able to support himself?
"Well, in the future, if you are successful in your cultivation, you will have enough time to come back and see your family and become my disciple. Your family will be protected from hunger. You are so skinny, don't you understand how precious this is?"
Gu Luosheng couldn't help but shake his head.
He didn't say too much, he was just a six-year-old child. Although everyone in this world is extraordinary, not everyone is extremely smart. At least this child does not seem to be naturally smart, and he cannot understand the difficulties of his own life.
Finally, Gu Luosheng left with Qi Huaishan and the other two Shuilinggen children.
He went to the next county seat and repeated the operation.
Gu Luosheng only accepted children under the age of eight. There were usually only tens of thousands of people in a county, so there were naturally fewer children of the right age. After he visited more than a dozen counties, he could only find more than 20 qualified children.
Naturally, it is impossible for him to take all these children back, and they will have to go through a screening process afterwards.
Elements such as character, physique, and understanding also need to be tested. Those who pass will be taken to Yongquan Cave, and those who fail will be sent back the same way and become a rich man.
After randomly finding a remote county town, killing a few evil local gentry, and easily taking control of the entire county town, Gu Luosheng set aside a large area and resumed his old business of farming.
It's just that unlike the past when he farmed with his own hands, this time he just used the Spiritual Rain Technique to activate his farming skills, which was directly counted as the land he planted with his own hands. The yield increased sharply, and due to the effect of the Spiritual Rain Technique, there was a trace of spiritual energy in the land.
Inside.
The greatest effect of spiritual rice is actually for mortals to eat, because mortals' bodies are too weak to withstand the effects of the elixir, and they will die suddenly if they eat the lowest level of qi-nourishing pills. Only mild elixirs like spiritual rice can be eaten, and
Speed up your practice.
Gu Luosheng didn't want the spiritual rice that was too effective. He had been improving the white jade spiritual rice when he was in Yongquan Cave.
The quality of Xinling rice is much worse, but it grows faster and requires a lower concentration of spiritual energy.
The most important thing is that this kind of spiritual rice is semi-spiritual rice and can enjoy the bonus of farming skills.
Although the yield has not increased by 100%, only about 50%, the benefits are still higher than growing Baiyuling rice.
In order to celebrate the success of the experiment, Gu Luosheng specially named it "Xiaolingdao".
After the Xiaoling rice was planted, Gu Luosheng taught these disciples the art of nourishing Qi, and then went to the mountains and forests to catch wolves.
He came back several times, but he always put the wolf down, inspected it for a few days, and then left again.
Fast forward to two months later.
Gu Luosheng put down the two wolf cubs in the fenced farm. Looking at the seven or eight wolf cubs running around, he breathed a sigh of relief and said, "That's almost enough. Let's go back."
After leaving the job of taking care of the wolf cub to the hired servant, Gu Luosheng walked lightly into the mansion not far away.
Before entering, the sound of reading could be heard faintly.
"The sky is against the earth, the rain is against the wind. The continent is against the sky. The mountain flowers are against the sea trees, and the red sun is against the sky."
"The river is against the Han Dynasty, the green is against the red. The Yu Bo is against the Thunder God. The Smoke Tower is against the Snow Cave, and the Moon Palace is against the Heavenly Palace."
Learning characters and mastering knowledge is the beginning, but practicing alone is not enough.
Gu Luosheng thought for a few seconds at the door, then used a concealment technique to disappear.
The most real thing about inspection is what you see behind your back. Even children can pretend in front of others.
Two months have passed, and the twenty-three children have taken on a completely new look and are basically in good health.
Especially those children from poor families, who are well-fed, well-kept, and well-kept. They are no longer the skinny-bones they used to be, and they no longer look like savages.
Gu Luosheng carefully looked at the children studying in the classroom, took out his notebook, and recorded their performance one by one.
It has been two months, and he has already recorded several books, and has a detailed understanding of each child.
There are about five of them, and if there is no change in the next year, he plans to persuade them to quit.
The character is too bad and has no value in cultivating.
Although these children are only about six or seven years old, the current situation may not determine the future.
But it's a pity, there are children who behave better!
Since Gu Luosheng can be chosen on the merits, there is no need to compete with someone who is obviously much worse.
It can only be said that they missed an opportunity.
When he was looking for disciples, he first needed to find disciples with water and wood spiritual roots.
Other spiritual roots will not be collected unless the talent exceeds a lot.
In more than a dozen counties, he tested thousands of children, but the only children with second-grade spiritual roots were Qi Huaishan and a girl named Le Zhi.
Lezhi has water spiritual roots. Among the twenty-three children, only Qi Huaishan does not have water or wood spiritual roots.
However, there were hundreds of children with water and wood spiritual roots, so Gu Luosheng tried his best to choose the one with better talent.
It can be said that these children are extremely lucky. Not only do they happen to have water and wood spiritual roots, but the spiritual roots are also of high quality. They were lucky enough to be selected. As long as they work hard enough, there is hope of contacting the world of immortality.
"But there are so few second-grade spiritual roots. Is it really valuable to recruit disciples in a mortal country?"
For this doubt, Gu Luosheng also specially tested the parents of these children.
As a result, he discovered that both parents of Le Zhi and Qi Huaishan had spiritual roots.
Most of the other children's parents do not, or only one of them has spiritual roots.
As with the information obtained in the past, lineage inheritance plays a large role in the quality of spiritual roots.
Both parents have spiritual roots, so they may not give birth to children with second-grade spiritual roots.
But if a child has second-grade spiritual roots, his parents must also have spiritual roots.
In this case, the cultivation family obviously has the soil for the birth of geniuses. The chance of a mortal being able to give birth to a higher spiritual root or spirit body is indeed terrifyingly small.