Xiao Tian Wen's actions attracted anyone's attention with his calm strides despite his small and skinny physique.
Compared to the haughty boy and white bloused girl, he seemed simply way too ordinary plus his simple robe placed him in a country pumpkin category.
Even though Xiao Tian Wen knew that he could absorb spiritual energy he could not help but feel nervous as to whether things would turn out well or if his spiritual root will meet the qualifying criteria.
Standing still before the stone wall, he watched it keenly before placing his palm on the palm print Endless small lines seemed to converge towards it before branching off into different colors.
Swoosh!
A violent flash of light shimmered through the wall before showing five elements beaming with radiance.
Xiao Tian Wen was elated.
Five Elements, heavenly grade spiritual root!
Apart from the haughty boy and white bloused girl, everyone turned their sights to him.
Out of the 500 people, other than the two variant spiritual roots, no one had an elemental spiritual root of the heavenly grade but now someone has finally showed a five phase elemental heavenly grade spiritual root. Xiao Tian Wen naturally attracted everyone's attention.
Those who possessed the five elemental roots had the chance to become a tool refiner, an alchemist or even a inscription master.
These paths required one to have a high mastery and understanding of the five elements more especially the fire element. As such, those with a Five Elemental Spiritual Root had an innate advantage.
Waiting with an eagle eye by the side of the stone wall, the white robed Master Xi was hoping to make his acquaintance as well after Xiao Tian Wen passed through it.
"Eh?"
Master Xi was standing at the side idly as he let out a casual surprised remark. Smiling, he then nodded with a friendly voice and said, "Not bad, not bad. Come on over, boy."
After all, Master Xi had his fill of surprises after the appearance of two consecutive variant spiritual roots and hence the reason for his less than enthused response.
Right then, no one had noticed anything strange about Xiao Tian Wen just yet.
He stood before the stone wall inertly instead of going to the right side of Master Xi.
It wasn't that he did not want to – the stone wall was stopping him.
He could feel a strong pull from the inscriptions on the wall, it was like it was trying to keep his hand glued to the wall!
Xiao Tian Wen had never seen such a case since everyone clearly passed the test without having their hand glued to the wall.
"How could this happen?"
Xiao Tian Wen strategized as he tried removing his hand.
If he were to continue with this stalemate, aside the middle aged man of Heavenly Mist Sect, even everyone else would realize that something was wrong with him.
Helpless!
Xiao Wen Tian was helpless!
Why?
He had already come so far just to be stopped by a single stone wall!
With a darkened expression, he moved his other hand towards the wall and took a fierce step backwards as he freed himself!
He operated the Grand Reincarnation Incantation making endless spiritual energy converge towards him, Master Xi closest to him felt a baleful and righteous energy moving around Xiao Tian Wen.
"Mm?"
As though he had sensed something, the haughty teen opened his eyes and looked towards the stone wall.
Turning her head slightly, the white bloused girl frowned gently too.
Everyone found themselves witnessing the strangest scene ever.
Even though Xiao Tian Wen had already tested his spiritual root but the converging inscriptions seemed to wrap around his hand trying to stop him.
It stunned everyone present.
What was going on?
Fire element, heaven spirit root. That's right.
But, why would the stone wall try to prevent this man?
It was a wrestle between Xiao Tian Wen and the inscription patterns of the stone wall.
All of a sudden!
Crack! Crack! Crack!
An endless amount of light started to come out from the wall, from the five elements down to the variant ones. The endless lights seemed to converge giving birth to a new color-Grey.
Swoosh!
Xiao Tian Wen was finally able to pull his hand from the stone wall after a tug-of-war and strode to the right side of the middle-aged man.
Right as he was about to speak, he saw a weird look in the Master Xi's eye as the latter glared behind him intently.
Snap!
Suddenly, a boom sounded out from behind him.
He turned around instinctively only to witness a converging whirl forming on the of the mighty 30 foot stone wall!
Crack! Crack! Crack!
Before anyone realized what was going on, a fissure spread out swiftly and in the blink of an eye, filled the entire stone wall with dense, horrifying cracks!
Xiao Tian Wen's heart skipped a beat.
The stone wall soon turned into powder as the grey light shone brightly before losing its radiance.
What followed was a deathly silence.
Everyone's faces froze right away.
The haughty boy scowled while a look of surprise filled the white bloused girl's face as her mouth gaped slightly, losing her previous demeanor.
"E-E-Exploded?!"
Master Xi was completely lost as his mind and eyes went blank.
It was already phenomenal enough for variant spiritual roots to make their appearance in the test but, what was up with this ordinary farmer boy before him!
He had caused the entire stone wall to explode…!
Unnerved, Xiao Tian Wen coughed gently before revealing a friendly smile to the middle aged man. "Ah! Immortal master, I suppose that stone wall must be really old, right?"
"A-Ah! Yes!" Master Xi replied automatically, "It's been a couple tens of thousands of years now."
"That must be it then."
Xiao Tian Wen nodded his head and continued solemnly, "It's only natural for problems to arise since the wall has been here for such a long time enduring the chimes of passing time. How unfortunate that I had to come across its demise, I would have been hurt if I was a step late."
"Huh?" Master Xi jaw almost dropped to the ground.
Xiao Tian Wen patted the Master Xi on the shoulder with his small hands and reminded sincerely, "This may not be a bad thing though. At least, it serves as a reminder for the sect to conduct constant maintenance to some of the older structures you guys have so that today's situation does not repeat itself. These issues have to be nipped in the bud before they are allowed to manifest."
Master Xi was baffled to begin but with Xiao Tian Wen's explanation, he was even more astonished and was almost swayed.
In reality, the stone wall was a Spiritual Detection Inscription Array which his ancestors excavated on from one of a secret ancient realm before placing it here to be used to detect spiritual talent.
The spiritual testing stone was a spirit item of the ancient era and was extremely perceptive to spiritual roots – there was no way it would be destroyed through a lack of maintenance.
If no one had destroyed it, it could have lasted for even millions of years without any issues.
Qing Feng's eyes flickered, glancing at Xiao Tian Wen while raising a thumbs up.
He knew that he was not at Xiao Tian Wen's level where the latter could spout nonsense with a straight face. As such, he could not help but feel impressed.
Xiao Tian Wen felt a bit guilty as everything went beyond his expectations. Even though what he said was akin to duping kids, it was better than not coming up with a reason why this happened because it could cause nothing but carnage to himself and family.