The difficult path of cultivation for a grassroots female practitioner

Chapter 1094: Re-entering the Mortal World

The light from the precious mirror shone down and enveloped her.

The next moment, Xiao Han was radiated with a dazzling golden light.

Xie Yi, who had been dawdling and secretly watching Xiao Han, suddenly turned around and stared in shock.

What has Xiao Han done? How come she has so much golden light of merit?

The priest in charge smiled and said, "Fellow Daoist, come this way. Take this certificate and go to the back to register."

After saying that, he took out a jade token and handed it to Xiao Han.

Xiao Han immediately accepted the jade pendant with a smile. Oh my, she never expected that even after giving away half of her merit, it would still emit such dazzling golden light.

Seeing that Xie Yi was still looking at him, he waved to him, "Go outside and wait for me."

Xie Yi nodded and finally strode out.

Xiao Han then took the jade token and entered the main hall.

Inside, there was also a priest in charge of registration sitting behind a desk.

Upon seeing her enter, he said, "Give me the jade token of proof and the jade token of identity."

Xiao Han handed over the two items, and the priest took the jade token and registered her identity information.

He then had her leave her spiritual imprint before saying, "Come here to gather at dawn ten days from now."

After registration, the jade token and identity token were returned to her, and Xiao Han passed the first screening.

When she walked out of the main hall, she saw Xie Yi and Shui Wuhen standing by the small square, waiting for her to come out.

Upon seeing Xiao Han emerge, Xie Yi immediately teased, "Tell me honestly, what have you been doing behind my back? How come you have such a rich golden light of merit?"

The three of them signed up together. The two companions passed, but he didn't receive much merit or golden light.

Xie Yi still felt a little uncomfortable. Didn't this make it seem like his two companions were great philanthropists, while he was the only one who wasn't a good person?

Xiao Han smiled and said, "To this day, I still don't know what merits I have accumulated. If I knew, I would do more."

Shui Wuhen said, "I think it's definitely not right to do something intentionally in order to gain merit. Such things are probably done unconsciously, and that's how you get it."

Xiao Han understood this reasoning; she was just joking.

The first screening is for cultivators with a lot of merit. Does this mean that the job of managing the lower-level interface only considers character and not cultivation level?

There will be further assessments later, and I don't know which aspect they will choose.

The three chatted for a while longer before going home.

Xiao Han thought about how Huo Ling wanted to find a cultivator with high cultivation and a lot of merit to be its master. In ten days, it would meet many cultivators with merit. Would this guy take a fancy to one of them and then leave it?

For a moment, Xiao Han was a little worried.

Alas! I wonder what the weakness of this kind of artifact spirit is.

Fire Spirit was asleep, so she couldn't cultivate feelings for it and could only bury her worries in her heart.

During the ten days of waiting, Xiao Han took Ba Dou to search for delicacies in the God Realm, spending over 100,000 divine stones to thoroughly enjoy their food.

Ten days passed quickly, and Xiao Han rushed to the place where she had registered last time.

When she arrived, many cultivators were already standing in the small square, including Shui Wuhen.

Xiao Han landed next to Shui Wuhen, greeted him, and then asked, "Approximately how many people passed the preliminary selection this time?"

Shui Wuhen said, "I heard there are nearly ten thousand people."

"So many!" Xiao Han exclaimed in surprise.

Shui Wuhen laughed and said, "There are so many cultivators in the God Realm, yet only a mere ten thousand were selected. That's hardly too many. However, those who signed up for the first round of selection should only be a portion of them."

Xiao Han thought about it and realized it made sense. Those who could ascend to the God Realm were at least not the kind of villains. Among so many normal cultivators, finding about ten thousand cultivators with merits was not a lot.

After a short while, a priest came out and said, "Everyone, follow me for the second round of testing."

The crowd entered the main hall in an orderly fashion, and then, led by the priest, arrived at a special space.

All around here is a vast void, except for the central part, where there is a constantly rotating vortex of mist.

The deacon priest stood beside the vortex and began to explain some important points for the second round of assessments.

"This second round of assessment involves you going to a mortal kingdom to be an emperor for a lifetime and govern a country. You will not be reincarnated as mortals, but rather you will possess the body of the crown prince who is about to become emperor, and influence him to make him act according to your will."

Perhaps worried that people wouldn't understand, he explained in more detail some things about being possessed.

For example, after they possess someone, they have no other magical power except for controlling the mind of a mortal emperor.

They cannot leave the emperor's body, nor can they change the emperor's lifespan. The only thing they can do is to govern a country through the emperor himself.

Simply put, some of the emperor's decisions were made "by some strange twist of fate".

After explaining, the priest pointed to the vortex and said, "If you jump down from here, your physical body will be stored in this space, while your soul will be randomly placed into the body of a prince who is about to ascend the throne in a mortal kingdom in a certain time and space."

The priest in charge glanced at everyone and said, "Those who don't want to do this assessment task can skip it."

Then he let the monk closest to him jump first.

The cultivator hesitated for a moment, then, seeing so many cultivators staring intently at him, he gritted his teeth and jumped into the vortex.

The next instant, a cocoon-like light enveloped the cultivator's body, slowly rising from the vortex and then floating in the void.

The deacon priest then said, "Don't waste time, let more people jump in at once."

At his signal, the four or five cultivators beside him jumped into the vortex one after another. Then, one by one, light cocoons enveloping their physical bodies surged up and floated into the void above.

This scene reminded Xiao Han of the hibernation pods in science fiction movies on Earth.

At this moment, these soulless physical bodies are like astronauts in science fiction movies who have entered hibernation, and will wake up again after a certain period of time or under certain conditions.

Xiao Han didn't know what the criteria were for judging the governance of a country by an emperor who had possessed a mortal realm. But she had experience assisting Zhao Qinghe in becoming empress and had been with Zhao Qinghe for decades, so she figured she could be a good emperor.

It's like guessing a similar exam question. The only worry is that the emperor I'm in is living in a dynasty where imperial power is weak and one-man rule is impossible.

One group of cultivators after another jumped into the vortex, and many light curtain cocoons were already floating in the void.

Soon it was her turn and Shui Wuhen's turn.

The two exchanged a glance, gave each other an encouraging look, and then jumped into the vortex.