Chapter 349: Song Yuanli

Seeing these two rays of spiritual light of different colors shine from the spirit-testing disk, the crowd watching from the side gasped in surprise, one after another casting envious gazes toward the young boy.

The Song family's spirit-testing ceremony is held once every year. The mortals in Mujiao Town are already very familiar with these things, knowing that whoever can make the disk in the Immortal Master's hand emit light means that person is a cultivator with innate talent.

However, compared to the mortals present, the two Immortal Masters who came here to be responsible for testing spiritual roots showed a trace of doubt on their faces when they saw these two different colors of red and green spiritual light.

"Fourth Uncle, could this child be a dual spiritual root?" Song Xingui, holding the spirit-testing disk, asked Song Qingrui, who was to the side, with a look of surprise on his face.

Song Qingrui, who had been sitting upright, had already stood up at this moment and walked quickly toward them.

Song Qingrui has governed Mujiao Town for many years and is a very approachable elder. He basically knows a little about all the children participating in the spirit-testing ceremony. The ancestor of the child before him once produced a senior cultivator who was glorious for a time, but many generations have passed, and the shade of the ancestors has been exhausted. Now, their family has also fallen quite a bit. Unexpectedly, after a hundred years, their family has actually welcomed another cultivator.

"Not bad, it indeed shows fire and wood dual spiritual roots. Since the spirit-testing disk has reacted, he definitely has spiritual roots. However, whether it is a dual spiritual root is hard to say. The family's spirit-testing disk occasionally has misreadings in the past. It is better to take this child to the mountain and use another spirit-testing disk to test him again to be sure."

"Xingui, you stay behind to continue testing the others. Xintong, come with me now to take him to the mountain and ask a few elders to test his spiritual roots again." After Song Qingrui approached and looked carefully, he said to the two people beside him with a happy face.

Hearing Song Qingrui say this, Song Xintong immediately nodded, took the somewhat shy young boy, and returned to Mount Funiu with him.

Although the two did not speak along the way, their faces were filled with very excited expressions. The Song family has been established for more than two hundred years, and the cultivator with the best spiritual root talent in the clan was only a triple spiritual root; there has never been a dual spiritual root cultivator.

If the young boy discovered today truly has dual-attribute spiritual roots, the Song family is equivalent to having an extra good seedling capable of Foundation Establishment. As long as he can be cultivated properly in the future, it is very possible to add another Foundation Establishment cultivator.

In the council hall of Mount Funiu, Song Qingshi cautiously led Song Qingrui and the others into a hidden room.

Song Xintong took the new spirit-testing disk that Song Qingshi had specially fetched from the family's Treasure Vault, placed a spirit stone on it, and beckoned to the young boy behind him: "Don't be afraid, just put your hands on it like before."

After changing the spirit-testing disk, as the young boy placed his hands on it, the room once again lit up with the same two rays of spiritual light as before in Mujiao Town.

"Haha! Big Brother, it seems it's correct; this child really is a Earth Spiritual Root. I haven't made any contributions on the mountain in my life. I didn't expect that at this age, I could still help the family discover a genius with Earth Spiritual Roots. This time, I can finally be worthy of the ancestors of the Song family."

Seeing Song Qingrui's happy appearance, Song Qingshi, whose hair tips were also slightly white, smiled and said slowly: "Old Four, don't be in a hurry to go back yet. Come with me to see Qingming!"

After Song Qingrui nodded, the few of them left the council hall together and walked slowly toward the top of the mountain, soon arriving at Song Qingming's cave dwelling.

Ever since breaking through to the seventh level of Foundation Establishment, Song Qingming had not left Mount Funiu. Most of his time every day was spent cultivating in his own cave dwelling, stabilizing the cultivation base he had just broken through to not long ago. Only occasionally in his spare time would he walk out of the cave dwelling gate to see the place where Song Qingyu was in seclusion.

Seeing Song Qingshi and the others bring the young boy, Song Qingming placed his hand on the top of his head, letting his spiritual sense slowly enter his body, and only slowly lowered his hand after a long time.

"Fire and wood spiritual roots, capable of practicing the family's Red Fire Art, is indeed a good seedling. Has this child been given a name yet?"

Song Qingshi replied: "It hasn't been decided yet. He is considered the eighteenth cultivator of the Yuan generation. Since he has already reached you, Qingming, then you should help him decide on a character."

"Looking at his gentle appearance and polite manner, I think we should just take the character 'Li' (propriety). What do you think!" Song Qingming asked the young boy, who was still a bit uneasy, with a smile.

"That's good, from now on you will be called Song Yuanli. Why don't you hurry up and thank the Patriarch for bestowing the name." Seeing that the young boy didn't dare to answer, Song Qingrui behind him hurriedly stepped forward and made him kneel and bow to Song Qingming.

After Song Qingming waved his hand, he turned around and said seriously to the few people standing in his cave dwelling: "Yuanli's spiritual roots must be kept secret within the clan from now on. Whether it is a cultivator or a mortal who knows about this, if anyone dares to discuss it again, Big Brother, you will deal with it according to the clan rules. From now on, just tell the outside world that he has triple spiritual roots."

"Fourth Brother, since this child was discovered by you and you are more familiar with his situation, why don't you stay on the mountain for this period of time and be responsible for teaching him. Big Brother, you arrange someone to go and replace Fourth Brother in Mujiao Town first. Also, the few people who went to Mujiao Town to be responsible for testing spirits this time should also be rewarded accordingly, but don't make this matter too obvious; just give them some benefits in secret to avoid others seeing the clues."

"Hmm! Before I came, I had already greeted Xintong and let her return to Mujiao Town first to keep an eye on those who know about it. I will go to Mujiao Town to handle this matter now. Old Four, this child is left to you." After Song Qingshi nodded, he left here a step ahead.

The family had finally obtained a genius cultivator, and Song Qingshi also knew the stakes of this matter. The top priority was to go to Mujiao Town to appease those mortals first, so as to avoid anyone publicizing this matter, which would make it very difficult to keep the secret at that time.

"I still need to protect Qingyu during this period of time and will not be in seclusion. If Fourth Brother encounters any problems that are difficult to solve in the future, you can also come directly to me."

After Song Qingrui nodded and agreed, he smiled happily and replied: "Qingming, you can rest assured and leave this child to me. I will definitely teach him well. After so many years, my old bones can still worry about some things for you, which can be considered still having some use. However, you also know that my cultivation base is not high. In a few years, you will still have to help him find another master to avoid delaying his cultivation."

Ever since Song Qingrui went down the mountain to start a family, he had given birth to eight children in a row, and there were more than a dozen grandchildren. Among these descendants of his, only one child had spiritual roots, and it was a five-spiritual-root aptitude that was not as good as his own. Today, having the opportunity to personally teach the family's future genius can be considered as allowing him to have another successor to inherit his legacy.

(End of this chapter)