"It's just a test event, held once a year. Our Zhang family will test the physical qualifications of the children of the people from all over Tianping County to see if they have spiritual roots and whether they have the qualifications to cultivate immortality. When the time comes, nephew Liu Xian will come and watch.
." Zhang Guang explained with a slight smile.
Liu Yu stayed at Zhang's house until evening before returning to his residence. Zhang's house treated guests very warmly, with fine wines and delicacies on jade plates. They had a very pleasant conversation with Zhang Yuanwai and agreed to visit Liu Yu in seven days.
Come and participate in the spirit testing conference held by the Zhang family.
In recent days, the flow of people on the streets of Tianping County has increased significantly, and we often see country people with children arriving after a long journey. These people may stay with relatives or in inns, and some even sleep on the streets.
At that time, Tianping County was bustling with people coming and going, and the idlers in the teahouse were also talking about the annual spirit testing conference held by the Zhang family.
The Zhang family holds such a conference every year. As long as there are children in the family who are over six years old and under twelve years old, they can go to the Zhang family to register and test whether they have the qualifications to cultivate immortality for free.
If it is found that he has the aptitude to cultivate immortality, the Zhang family will adopt the child as an adopted son, give his biological parents a generous sum of money, and settle him properly.
Now there is a steward in the Zhang family named Zhang Zhenshan, who was the adopted son who was found to have the aptitude to cultivate immortality more than 20 years ago.
His biological parents were originally farmers from the countryside and were very poor. Now because their child was adopted by the Zhang family, they moved to the city and lived a leisurely life.
This kind of good news has spread throughout hundreds of miles. Whenever this day comes, you can see many farmers coming from the countryside with their children.
These people all hope that their children can detect spiritual roots. For the sake of their children's future and for a prosperous life, they go all the way to try their luck, which creates the temporary prosperity of Tianping County.
The day of the Spirit Testing Conference arrived in an instant, and a wide wooden platform was erected in an open space not far from the Zhang family compound.
People who signed up to participate in the spirit testing conference lined up in front of the stage early. County Magistrate Lin was also invited to watch on the high platform. A large number of county police officers maintained order in the venue. The people who came to watch around the high platform were surrounded by a sea of people.
There was a lot of water, and it was very lively for a while.
"Everyone, please be quiet. Noon has arrived and the spirit testing conference will begin now!" Zhang Zhenqi received the clan leader's prompt and announced loudly.
After Zhang Zhenqi finished his announcement, he opened a huge mahogany box on the wooden table next to him. After taking off the lid of the box, he saw a transparent ball the size of a human head placed in the box.
The round ball was crystal clear like a moon pearl, and it looked like a great treasure at first glance. It caused people around to have different opinions and guess what kind of treasure it was.
"Nephew Liu Xian, this is a spiritual instrument passed down from the family, used to test spiritual roots." Zhang Guang introduced to Liu Yu.
Liu Yu arrived very early to watch the spirit testing conference. You can't see such a scene in Huangsheng Mountain, which is a bit strange.
"Oh! How to test this spirit test bead?" Liu Yu asked since she had never seen it before.
"Nephew Liu Xian, keep reading and you will know." Zhang Guang gave up and turned around to talk to County Magistrate Lin.
Zhang Zhenqi carefully held the spirit-testing bead and slowly came to the center of the wooden platform. There was a long wooden table in the middle of the platform. There was a magic circle carved on the wooden table. Hundreds of low-level spiritual stones were placed on the corners of the magic circle. It might be
Used to drive spirit-testing beads.
Zhang Zhenqi placed the spirit-testing bead on the magic circle and said loudly: "This orb is called the spirit-testing bead. It is an ancestral inheritance of my Zhang family. Later, every child who signed up for the test walked to this table alone.
, put both hands on the spirit-measuring beads. If the spirit-measuring beads shine brightly after counting the breaths, it means that the child has spiritual roots. If the spirit-measuring beads show no response, it means that the child does not have spiritual roots."
After speaking, Zhang Zhenqi waved to the audience, indicating that the first child could come on stage.
The family at the front of the line was a banker who came from the countryside, a dark man in shabby linen clothes, and a skinny little boy.
At the signal of the dark man, the little boy lowered his head and pulled the hem of his clothes and slowly walked onto the high platform. It was obvious that this child, who had never seen any big scenes, was very nervous now.
The little boy walked to the table, and at Zhang Zhenqi's reminder, he put his hands on the spirit-measuring beads. After counting his breaths, the spirit-measuring beads showed no response. The dark-skinned man watching in the audience had a look of loss on his face.
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At Zhang Zhenqi's signal, the swarthy man went up to the high platform and hugged the little boy with tears in his eyes. The two of them did not stop, squeezed out of the crowd, and left without looking back.
After someone started, the children who lined up for the test came on stage one by one. However, an hour passed, and still no one tested the spiritual root.
Zhang Guang's face looked a bit ugly. After half the test, he still found nothing, and he no longer had much hope. It seemed that the Zhang family's spirit testing conference was very grand, but who knew the bitterness in Zhang Guang's heart.
As a family that cultivates immortality, the Zhang family is getting worse with each generation, and its descendants with the qualifications to cultivate immortality are getting fewer and fewer. This is not a good sign. It is obviously that the bloodline of cultivating immortals is getting weaker again.
The Zhang family had no choice but to come up with a way, which is also a common method for many immortal cultivating families, which is to find children with spiritual roots from mortal families and adopt them as adopted sons to expand the family, increase the number of immortal cultivators in the family, and change their appearance to strengthen the family's strength. A hundred years ago, the head of the Zhang family spent a thousand low-level spiritual stones to buy this second-grade primary auxiliary magic weapon, the spiritual bead.
This second-grade primary spirit-measuring bead can only test whether the tester has spiritual roots. As for the quality of the spiritual roots, it cannot be tested. There are also third-grade advanced magical instruments with the same effect as this spiritual instrument.
It can not only detect whether one has spiritual roots, but also determine the specific attributes of the spiritual roots. However, the price is too expensive.
The thousand pieces of low-level spiritual stones used to purchase spirit-testing beads was not a small sum for the down-and-out Zhang family. But for the future of the family, the head of that generation resolutely took out this amount of spiritual stones.
Since then, nearly a hundred spiritual stones have been consumed every year to hold the Spiritual Testing Conference. A hundred years have passed, and the Zhang family has consumed a total of nearly 10,000 low-level spiritual stones to hold the Spiritual Testing Conference. This shows how much the Zhang family has spent.
Blood capital.
However, mortals with spiritual roots are very rare, and there is only one in a thousand. Whether a cultivator with spiritual roots can be detected depends entirely on God's will.
When spirit testing conferences were first held, children with spiritual roots could be found many times. However, in recent years, the Zhang family has been plagued by bad luck. It has been twenty years since a child with spiritual roots was found.
There are also fewer descendants of the family who are qualified to cultivate immortals. This makes Zhang Guang, the patriarch, very anxious. The strength of the Zhang family has also declined to an unprecedented level. If this continues, the Zhang family may become a mortal clan in a hundred years.
Losing the reputation of the Immortal Cultivation Family is the last thing the Zhang family wants to see.