The voice echoed three times in the palace. As soon as the voice fell, the tiles in the palace emitted four soft light pillars. They were red, orange, yellow, and green. The four colors divided the entire palace into four long strips. The cultivators standing in the middle were very conspicuous.

The old voice spoke again, "Red represents Yuanying cultivators, orange represents Golden Elixir cultivators, yellow represents Foundation Establishment cultivators, and green represents Qi Condensation cultivators."

When the cultivators in the hall heard this, they didn't hesitate and chose their own areas according to their cultivation. Because they moved horizontally, it wasn't crowded.

Li Jinzhi and Ye Yu stood still in the n-colored area and looked around. At this moment, the cultivators had already split up. There was not a single person in the red area, there were dozens of people in the orange area, and there was no difference between the yellow and green areas.

"As expected, the Yuanying cultivators are either rogue cultivators or outstanding cultivators nurtured by their respective sects. Naturally, they wouldn't participate in such a large selection."

Li Jinzhi sent a voice transmission in a low voice. As he spoke, he had already imitated the cultivators around him and placed a meditation cushion on the square tiles and sat down.

Ye Cheng sat down cross-legged beside Li Jinzhi and said, "Even if rogue cultivators joined, how could the proud Yuanying cultivators be willing to participate in the selection with other cultivators?"

Although the two of them didn't know anything about the rules of how to test new disciples, since they were here, they had the opportunity to deal with whatever came their way. Therefore, they didn't panic in their hearts and didn't join the other cultivators who gathered together to form groups. They just sat there quietly and meditated to kill time.

Gradually, the chatter of the surrounding cultivators gradually died down. All of them brought out a praying mat and sat down cross-legged on the ground. For a moment, the entire hall fell silent. As the hall did not have any windows, the cultivators inside did not have much of a sense of time.

After an unknown amount of time, the black ceiling above the hall suddenly lit up with countless stars. As the stars flickered, countless snow-white jade stones shot toward the cultivators below!

Although the cultivators were meditating, none of them had entered a meditative state. When the spiritual energy in the air fluctuated, some cultivators opened their eyes and raised their heads to look up. What they saw was countless stones smashing into the ground like a torrential storm!

Many cultivators sent out protective magical artifacts or protective spiritual lights to defend against the meteor without thinking. However, there were also some cultivators with sensitive reactions who thought that this jade was not ordinary. They flew up almost without thinking, as if they wanted to resist the meteor with their bodies.

When Li Jinzhi opened his eyes and saw the jade stones flying towards him like a hot knife cutting through butter, he immediately turned into a beam of light and met them head-on. Ye Cheng was not slow either and followed closely behind.

Just as the two of them were about to face the jade stones that were as dense as hailstones, the two of them suddenly lit up. With a flick of their sleeves, they gathered the two jade stones into their palms.

What was strange was that apart from the two pieces of jade in their hands, the other pieces of jade that brushed past their protective spiritual light and smashed to the ground were like illusions. They couldn't be touched and had no form.

Many cultivators in the air seemed to have noticed this. They all stopped in the air with their own jade stones and looked at the jade stones below with a strange expression.

The cultivators below who chose to use their spiritual light to protect their bodies also reacted when they saw the scene in the air. Almost at the same time, they rushed toward the jade stones. The competition was extremely fierce.

However, although there were a lot of jade stones, there were even more cultivators. In the blink of an eye, the originally dense jade stones below had been reduced by more than half. The cultivators who got the jade stones stopped in the air with satisfaction, while the cultivators who didn't get the jade stones fought for them below.

Li Jinzhi touched the round bead in his hand and quietly looked at the scene below. After a while, he said, "The number of cultivators is about three times the number of jade stones."

When Ye Cheng heard this, he turned to look at Li Jinzhi and nodded. "Moreover, the jade stones in each color have different spiritual pressure."

Li Jinzhi nodded slightly. He saw a Foundation Establishment cultivator pinch a piece of jade in his hand. His expression suddenly changed, and dark red blood flowed out from the corner of his mouth. His fingers loosened slightly, and the piece of jade escaped from his hand.

"This must be the first step of the Ten Thousand Cloud Sect's selection."

Li Jinzhi lowered his head and looked at the jade stone in his hand. "I wonder how many years does the Ten Thousand Cloud Sect recruit disciples."

Because the two of them didn't use sound transmission, others could hear them. When Li Jinzhi said this, a female cultivator standing not far from the two of them said, "The Ten Thousand Cloud Sect selects disciples once every hundred years, and they use different methods. At other times, they select outstanding juniors from large and small sects in the Green Blaze Country."

Li Jinzhi nodded and suddenly understood. "No wonder when the jade stone appeared, it seemed that not many people knew about it."

The female cultivator chuckled. "It's not just that not many people know about it, it's that no one knows about it at all. You must know that this hall is a magic tool specially used to select outstanding disciples. Even the testing methods are in nine by nine, and it happens once every hundred years. Even if someone has seen all the testing methods, it would take them at least 8100 years."

As she spoke, the beautiful female cultivator's bright eyes moved and she looked at Ye Cheng and Li Jinzhi from head to toe. "The two of you reacted quickly. If your spiritual roots aren't weak, your cultivation isn't strong, and your bone ages aren't high, I guarantee that you'll be able to enter the inner sect."

Li Jinzhi raised his eyebrows and looked around. He understood. The cultivators who obtained the jade stones first all stood at the highest point and looked at the scene below, while those who obtained the jade stones later were below.

Could it be that the selection of the inner and outer sect disciples was related to the timing of obtaining the jade stones?

Ye Cheng stood beside Li Jinzhi without saying a word. His expression was cold and his eyes were vigilant. He leaned to one side as if he was going to block Li Jinzhi behind him at any time. Especially when the female cultivator's eyes wandered around Li Jinzhi's face three or four times, the gloominess in his eyebrows was the strongest.

When the female cultivator saw Ye Cheng's expression, she raised her eyebrows and understood. Her gaze deliberately stopped and wandered around Li Jinzhi's face a few times. Sure enough, she saw that the other party's red eyes were even more irritable and even revealed a bit of killing intent.

The female cultivator pursed her lips and looked away. She muttered softly, "Pfft, you really can't take a joke. It's as if everyone will come and snatch the bento you like."

Although her voice was very soft, a cultivator's hearing had always been very strong. Li Jinzhi heard her soft words. He tilted his head slightly and saw that the other party's face was full of protectiveness. The slight confusion in his heart disappeared. He chuckled softly and smoothed the other party's slightly furrowed brows. He said telepathically, "You have to learn to restrain your thoughts and not show all your emotions."

When Ye Cheng heard this, he looked back at him with a straight face and retorted, "I don't." As if to prove the reliability of his words, Ye Cheng pressed down the corners of his mouth with force.

Li Jinzhi raised his eyebrows and said calmly, "You can't show it in your eyes either."

The corners of Ye Cheng's mouth curled down slightly. It happened so quickly that only Li Jinzhi noticed it. "Yes, I only show my true emotions in front of you." His face was full of sincerity.

When Li Jinzhi heard this, he lowered his eyes and pondered for a while. When he thought of the other party's behavior in private, he also felt that this was the most reassuring. He nodded and said, "Yes, you just have to show your true nature in front of me."

A dark light flashed in Ye Cheng's eyes and he nodded calmly.

Although the female cultivator beside him didn't look at the two people, she saw them nodding and muttering from the corner of her eye. They seemed to be discussing something through telepathic communication. In the end, they seemed to have reached a consensus and both of them looked satisfied.

Hmph, so what if you have a partner!

As she thought about it, the female cultivator rolled her eyes in her heart and secretly coughed up blood.

Li Jinzhi was satisfied and lowered his head to look at the situation below. He saw that the falling jade stones had long disappeared and some cultivators were fighting over a piece of jade below.

There were also a few cultivators who wanted to use the flying light to snatch the jade stones of the cultivators above, but they seemed to be blocked by an invisible barrier and couldn't go up.

Seeing this scene, Li Jinzhi was slightly stunned. He released his spiritual sense and carefully observed the void below. He found that there was a layer of space restriction placed in the middle, dividing the cultivators above and below into three groups.

Since no one was fighting over the jade stones, they were happy to be free. The two of them simply circulated their cultivation techniques in midair and recovered some spiritual Qi.

This method of suppressing one's cultivation in order to deceive the spirit testing tool was different from the method of suppressing one's cultivation to deceive cultivators.

To deceive cultivators, one only needed to conceal one's spiritual Qi and give the illusion that one's cultivation wasn't profound when their spiritual sense swept past.

However, this method couldn't be used on the spirit testing tool.

The spirit testing tool was based on the form of spiritual Qi in the dantian. In order to deceive the spirit testing tool, Li Jinzhi and Ye Cheng covered their dantian with a layer of pseudo spirit tools, concealing the Ice Phoenix's spiritual body. Ye Cheng also did the same.

However, the drawbacks of this method were quite large. Before the spirit testing tool, they had to constantly use magic power to maintain the layer of pseudo spirit tools. The consumption was quite large, so every bit of spiritual Qi they could recover was a bit. Who knew what they would have to go through later?

If a Yuanying Stage demon cultivator couldn't defeat a Foundation Establishment cultivator, then they would be too ashamed to stay.

At that moment, the sounds of fighting below stopped and the old voice sounded again, "Cultivators who have obtained the Purple Bamboo Jade can stay. Cultivators who haven't obtained the Purple Bamboo Jade may leave."

As soon as the voice fell, the tightly shut palace door slowly opened.

Even though some of the cultivators were unwilling to accept this, they could only sigh and walk away.

After everyone left, the palace door closed again and the person said, "Next, I'll invite the cultivators of the lowest level to flick spiritual Qi into the Purple Bamboo Jade to test the spiritual root aptitude."

When the cultivators below heard this, they all did as they were told. The ice-white jade emitted a variety of colors. Some of the stones emitted different colors, while some of the colors were extremely balanced.

However, Li Jinzhi looked around and didn't find any single-colored jade stones.

"Eh?

Are heavenly spiritual roots so rare in Green Flame Country? "He frowned and muttered to himself.

"Heavenly spiritual roots are rare in the lower realm. According to rough statistics, only one out of ten thousand cultivators may have heavenly spiritual roots. A thousand have dual spiritual roots, while the rest have three or four mixed spiritual roots. This data is only found in Green Flame Country because of its vast territory and abundant resources. In those remote places like Beihan and Guangyuan, they may not even see a single heavenly spiritual root in their entire lives." The female cultivator beside him sighed and said, "I only have fire and wood dual spiritual roots."

Li Jinzhi was indifferent. He turned to look at Ye Cheng and sighed inwardly. As expected, the author had a golden finger in Beihan. What was the probability of him encountering three heavenly spiritual roots in that short period of time?