Chapter 3: Looks Like an Honest Person

"... Why does the common name sound more like an academic name than the academic name?" Lu Yang whispered in the back.

"Because the first Pure Yang Spiritual Root senior called his own spiritual root a single-status spiritual root." Miss Yun Zhi's cultivation was unfathomable, and Lu Yang's whisper was no different from speaking in her ear, so she heard it clearly.

Miss Yun Zhi paused and added: "The cultivation world has a habit of respecting single-status old seniors."

It seemed that saying this extra sentence could enhance persuasiveness.

Meng Jingzhou passed the first stage as a matter of course. After Meng Jingzhou was Lu Yang.

"Hmm?! Another single spiritual root?!" Dai Bufan's pupils shrank. He had just complained about being busy for half a day without encountering a single spiritual root, and now there were two in a row.

"Me, single spiritual root?" Lu Yang pointed at himself, his heart pounding. He felt like he had auditory hallucinations, and the corners of his mouth lifted involuntarily.

"Not bad, you are a variant single spiritual root, Sword Spiritual Root." Dai Bufan nodded affirmatively. He hadn't made a mistake in feeling bone structure yet.

Sword Spiritual Root, a natural sword seed, sharp and unstoppable, the most powerful in attack!

Senior Sister Miss Yun Zhi looked at Lu Yang with slight surprise. She had agreed to take the carriage just on a whim, not expecting both people in the carriage to be top-tier cultivation geniuses.

The crowd's eyes became more and more eager, and they began to calculate the young girls of appropriate age for Lu Yang, wishing they could snatch Lu Yang away to marry into their forces.

Unlike Meng Jingzhou, who had the Meng family behind him, Lu Yang was clearly from a mortal background with no one to support him.

Excellent talent and no power—he was simply the best candidate for marriage.

The most important thing was that he could marry and have children!

Lu Yang felt that everyone's eyes on him were strange, so he hurriedly entered the second stage.

Behind Dai Bufan was a bamboo forest, and the second stage was conducted in this bamboo forest.

"How is it? What is your spiritual root?" Meng Jingzhou quickly walked out of the shadow of the single-status spiritual root and asked Lu Yang excitedly.

What if it's a single-status spiritual root? There are many withered bones on the path to becoming an immortal. Beauty is just pink skulls. He doesn't need beautiful fairies by his side!

On the contrary, Lu Yang, although he could pass the first stage, thought that there was only one person in a generation with his transcendent talent, and Lu Yang was only at the dual spiritual root level.

As a single spiritual root genius, he should care about mediocre geniuses.

"Sword Spiritual Root."

"Your grandmother's."

"Hmm?" Lu Yang was confused.

Another half a day passed, and the people behind entered the second stage one after another. Dai Bufan eliminated those whose bone structure didn't meet the standard.

Listening to the discussion of the people behind, it seemed that several people with special constitutions appeared again. Before he could inquire about the specific situation, Senior Sister Miss Yun Zhi appeared in front of everyone, lightly dropped a sentence "The second stage begins below," and then disappeared directly, leaving everyone confused.

Thick fog rose, like smoke and waves, vast like water, as if a huge gauze net covered everything in the bamboo forest.

Everyone subconsciously wanted to struggle, but it didn't have much effect. Their whole bodies were weak, and their consciousness gradually sank.

This was the illusion bamboo forest, part of the sect-protecting array. How could people like them resist it?

Miss Yun Zhi drew a circle casually, dispelling the fog and clearing a space. The Profound Heaven Sect disciples stood behind her.

Dai Bufan laughed: "Falling into the illusion bamboo forest will make them forget their identities, forget the test, forget everything, and make the most real reactions. I just don't know how many people can pass the second stage this time."

"I hope more can pass. This batch has several good seedlings. It's a pity to fold in the second stage."

Miss Yun Zhi hadn't kicked Meng Jingzhou and Lu Yang out of the test because the test Meng Jingzhou got wasn't for this year, but for twenty years ago.

"I don't know which elder sold it."

"Junior Brother Dai, who do you think can pass the second stage?"

"Naturally, that Ancient Barbarian. The Ancient Barbarians are famous for their simple hearts, and their character is unquestionable."

"I think that single-status spiritual root and Sword Spiritual Root are also good. They look like honest people."

Miss Yun Zhi thought of the scene where Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou discussed how to cheat in the carriage, and felt that neither of them had anything to do with honest people.

"Where am I?" The Ancient Barbarian brawny man was named Seeing Man Gu. He looked at his surroundings suspiciously, forgetting what had just happened.

He held a worn-out axe and stood by the river. The small river was sparkling and very beautiful.

Seeing Man Gu's hand slipped, and the worn-out axe fell into the small river. Seeing Man Gu just wanted to go and fish it out when he saw the small river bubbling. The bubbles grew more and larger, and a fountain surged up. A god-like figure appeared, with three axes of different styles floating in front of him.

"Young man, I am the River Spirit. Did you drop this worn-out axe, this spirit-tool Mountain-Opening Axe, or this immortal-tool Heaven-Opening Axe?"

The spirit-tool Mountain-Opening Axe and the immortal-tool Heaven-Opening Axe were two axes famous in the Central Continent. Even a mortal without talent, once obtaining these two axes, could fly into the sky and become a giant-like figure.

Seeing Man Gu blurted out: "It's the worn-out axe."

The River Spirit revealed a smile: "What an honest young man. Then all three axes are yours."

Seeing Man Gu passed the second stage.

"Look, I said Seeing Man Gu would definitely pass the second stage. Let me see how the single-status spiritual root and Sword Spiritual Root choose." Dai Bufan watched excitedly.

The second stage tests honesty, and the passing standard is to obtain three axes.

The River Spirit is not an illusion. He was born in the small river surrounding the bamboo forest and is a creature born of heaven and earth.

He transformed into countless incarnations, entered the illusion, and tested everyone.

The River Spirit likes honest people. There is only one way to pass the second stage, which is to answer the River Spirit's questions honestly and let the River Spirit give three axes.

"Hmm? How did the axe fall into the river?" Lu Yang was a bit strange. He felt as if some inexplicable force forced him to drop the axe.

The River Spirit appeared again and asked Lu Yang gently: "Young man, I am the River Spirit. Did you drop this worn-out axe, this spirit-tool Mountain-Opening Axe, or this immortal-tool Heaven-Opening Axe?"

Lu Yang squatted down, swept his gaze across the three different axes, looked up at the River Spirit as if looking at a mentally disabled person, and had pity in his eyes: "Two of these axes are yours. Don't you know which two axes are yours, and you ask me instead?"

The River Spirit's smile stiffened. For a moment, he didn't know what to say, so he had to follow Lu Yang's words: "I really don't know which two axes are mine."

Lu Yang looked at the River Spirit vigilantly: "Then if I choose an axe, don't suddenly recover your memory and say you remembered which two axes are yours."

"Absolutely not," the River Spirit said firmly.

"Let me see all three axes."

The River Spirit handed all three axes to Lu Yang.

Lu Yang turned around and threw all the axes into the river: "Can you ask the question again?"

The River Spirit asked reflexively: "Did you drop the worn-out axe, the spirit-tool Mountain-Opening Axe, or the immortal-tool Heaven-Opening Axe?"

A smile piled up on Lu Yang's face: "I dropped them all."

The River Spirit: "..."

The River Spirit gritted his teeth: "What an honest young man. Then all three axes are yours." ===== CHAPTER 4 =====