Chapter 108
Chapter 108
Innate Dao Core (2)
The little cultivator who was still cultivating with her eyes closed on the narrow windy path just a moment ago suddenly appeared in the main hall accompanied by twelve long chimes; she opened her eyes.
There seemed to be a glimmering light within her eyes, which flickered away in a flash.
“This——”
Tian He Daojun lost his composure and stood up, “That’s an innate Dao core?”
“When my disciple, Fu Sheng, emerged from the “Rugged” doorway, there were only ten long chimes, and was assessed to possess ‘Heart’s Accord’ Dao core.” A bald monk carrying an alms bowl walked into the room. “Tian He, your little disciple——”
“Twelve long chimes, assessed to possess ‘Impassiveness’ Dao core.”
Tian He Daojun recovered from his momentary loss of composure. “But I don’t understand what kind of Dao core this little cultivator possesses.”
“Twelve chimes——”
Jing Su Daojun pinched his fingers together and calculated. Before going through even half of the ancient prophetic script, he suddenly spurted out a mouthful of blood. With a deathly pale face, he waved his hand and said, “Unseeable, unseeable.”
Dao cores were also classified by how good they were. When cultivators first begin their journey, a Dao core will be formed in the beginning based on which Way their nature was more compatible with. However, not all cultivators could cause the bell to chime.
Cui Wang practiced the Way of Impassiveness, which was classified as an innate Dao, and invokes twelve chimes of the bell; the Way of Heart’s Accord was classified as an acquired Dao, and invokes ten chimes. While Zheng Wan’s Dao core, which had recently awakened, also invoked twelve long chimes, no one knew exactly which Way it was.
——Of course, after the Dao cores were planted, whether or not one could bear the fruit of one’s Way was fraught with thousands of difficulties.
“There are thousands upon thousands of cultivators, and an infinite number of paths; the immortal seas are boundless…”
Someone sighed, “This goes to show that there is no definite law on how one should cultivate.”
In the hall where the trial was held, the disciples of the various sects were also shocked by the sound of the long chimes. They could still remember that when Li Wei Zhenjun exited from the “Danger” doorway, there were twelve long chimes; Fu Sheng Zhenjun invoked ten chimes, and Ming Yu Zhenjun invoked eight…
Yet, this one they regarded as a pity earlier actually invoked——twelve chimes!
Under the searching gaze of countless people, Zheng Wan stood up. She was still confused; she had clearly just been about to be squeezed flat just now. She had sat down to stabilise herself, so as not to fall and cause a stampede, but didn’t expect that before even practising much of the Returning to the Origin scripture, she was out.
Looking around the hall again, quite a number of young cultivators had already come out, and they were currently all looking at her.
When Zheng Wan came back to her senses, she was startled by Fu Sheng Zhenjun’s large face.
“Zhenjun?”
“Strange, how strange……” Fu Sheng Zhenjun circled around her, “Could it be that this bell is broken?
“Did you feel anything out of the ordinary just now?”
Zheng Wan shook her head dazedly. “No. Just… a bit cold. It was too dark.”
“……Could it be because the trial hall found her unprecedented behaviour novel and so gave her some encouragement?”
This trial hall has been in existence since the appearance of the Heavenly Realms. Every major city had one such hall, and it was said that these halls were controlled by an artefact spirit.
“I guess so?”
Ming Yu Zhenjun nodded, “Such a dominant mortal nature, she really…”
Everyone understood her unfinished words; she really didn’t seem like a cultivator.
Zheng Wan didn’t understand what they meant, but she knew that she had passed, and was immediately happy. She called out to Granny Jin inwardly. Granny Jin only came out after a long time, and spoke in a strange tone, “……You’re a little special, girlie.”
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As for how she was special, Granny Jin could not say.
It’s just that there was a divine air about her, which made her not quite the same as other cultivators.
Cui Wang looked at her silently. Suddenly, he lifted his head and looked up, and saw that twelve figures had appeared out of thin air in the middle of the hall; the elders of the seven sects, three schools, and two academies had all come.
Taoist robes, Buddhist kasayas and scholarly robes were all mingled together, it was truly…
Extremely lively.
“Where is the wee one who invoked twelve long chimes?”
Zheng Wan was pushed forward, and she pointed to herself.
“Me?”
“Yes, you.”
“Oh.” She nodded and accepted the fact very quickly, “Me.”
“Choose one then. Even though it’s an unknown innate Dao core, you still have the right to choose a sect.”
There was an uproar in the hall, and a young cultivator objected, “That’s not fair!”
“Not fair?” A white-bearded elder sect glared at him and said, “If you can invoke twelve long chimes and possess an innate Dao core, I can also let you pick whatever you want!”
“Can I be an inner disciple?”
Zheng Wan only remembered that sects would help make living arrangements for the relatives of inner disciples.
“Naturally. All the sects, schools, and academies are at your disposal.”
Jing Su Daojun landed on top of the hall, bent slightly, and said amiably, “However, the young cultivator is an enlightened person. Although you have an innate Dao core, it’s a Dao core with no precedent. Joining my Beimian School to learn deduction arts is the most suitable, you can explore paths that no predecessor has ever explored.”
“Bah!”
Danxin Sect’s elder pooh-poohed him, “Come to my Danxin Sect. No matter which cultivation stage you’re in, you can eat magical pills as if they’re mere beans.”
“Don’t listen to him, you have to refine pills in Danxin Sect, and slave away like a fire-tending maid every day. You might as well come to my Tianzun!”
“A pretty little girl like you is naturally most suitable for my Yuqing Sect.” The goose-yellow shirted male cultivator who had already taken a liking to her just now lowered himself down, “I am Yuqing Sect’s Zi Xiu Daojun. Would you like to join my sect?”
With the exception of Guixu Sect, even the Buddhist schools have begun to try recruiting her. After all, she possessed an innate Dao core. Although it was hard to find even one in ten thousand who was able to bear the ultimate fruit of one’s Way in the end, that was still an innate Dao core.
“I’ll enter Yuqing Sect.”
Zheng Wan’s eyes shone brightly as she looked at the Zi Xiu Daojun, “I would like to enter this Daojun’s sect.”
She felt that after coming to the Heavenly Realms, her luck had changed for the better.
When Liu Yi stepped out through the “Frankness” doorway and entered the hall, she just happened to witness this scene and was stunned for a long time. She was suddenly reminded of the first time she saw Zheng Wan—she was riding in a carriage, high up above everyone else. Liu Yi’s mother was standing with her by the roadside, and said with envy, “The young lady of the Senior Chief Secretary’s family is grand indeed.”
That was why, when Liu Yi saw the young boy who was beaten black and blue, she went to the rescue without hesitation——she was probably thinking that at least, there was one aspect in which she would be better than Zheng Wan.
But she couldn’t rid her mind from the words on the wheel no matter what: “Water vital roots, medium grade, recommended to enter Tianzun, Yuqing and Danxin.”
She walked into the crowd silently. Not a single person standing above the hall looked at her; after all, people with qualifications such as hers could be found everywhere in the Heavenly Realms.