I long to return home!

The scene fell silent for a moment. Logically, the water should have shown some unusual signs with Xue Wu's entry, but it remained completely still, without a single ripple.

At this moment, Xue Wu was also extremely flustered. He stood there awkwardly, surrounded by countless eyes staring at him. He cursed inwardly, "What kind of lousy pool is this? Why hasn't anything appeared yet? I'm going to die of embarrassment..."

Yang Fan frowned, looking at the person in the pool. This shouldn't be happening. Logically, a person's spiritual root attribute should manifest within a few breaths of entering the Spirit Testing Pool, but they've been standing there for quite some time now. It's impossible that it hasn't manifested. This is really strange...

Xu Tao looked at Xue Wu with surprise and doubt, "Let me see what kind of talent you have."

......

"No, why is there still no movement?" Xue Wu asked anxiously in a low voice. This was completely different from what he had expected. According to the fantasy novels he had read in his previous life, as a transmigrator, one should usually be a powerful and impressive figure who would shock the entire audience when the sect tested their spiritual roots. Why was there no movement at all for him?

"Is he any good? Why haven't we seen any results yet?"

"I don't know, could it be that it doesn't have spiritual roots?"

"..."

The surrounding jeers and jeers sent a shiver down Xue Wu's spine, and cold sweat poured down his back. What to do? What to do? Why haven't they appeared yet? Why? He gasped for breath, his eyes unfocused.

Suddenly, Xue Wu's heart pounded violently. He could clearly hear his heart pounding rapidly. Suddenly, he felt a lump in his throat. His face contorted in pain as he clutched his chest tightly, and his legs involuntarily buckled to his knees.

Xu Tao was taken aback and was about to step forward to check when Yang Fan stopped him.

"Don't worry, the water is starting to boil."

Xu Tao looked at the Spirit Testing Pool and saw that ripples were indeed beginning to appear, and these ripples were getting stronger with each one. Although he was nervous, he retreated and stopped moving forward.

Xue Wu felt something pressing down on his chest, making it hard to breathe. His hands were too weak to support him on the water's surface. He felt he might faint at any moment. His vision began to blur, but he could still clearly see the black and white lines that had appeared in his dream before. As they spread to his palms, they expanded on the clear water's surface at a visible speed, slowly forming a tai chi symbol. Finally, his hands gave way, and he collapsed into the water.

"This is bad!" Yang Fan exclaimed in horror. He had never seen anything like this in his two hundred years of cultivation.

Upon hearing this, Xu Tao was the first to rush out. Just as he was about to touch the water, a bolt of lightning struck down, sending him flying several meters. Fortunately, Yang Fan caught Xu Tao with quick reflexes. Xu Tao clutched his chest, a trickle of bright red blood flowing from the corner of his mouth. He knew that if the lightning had struck him, he would have been more than just injured; he could have died on the spot. He couldn't help but feel a little scared.

After the thunderclap, the clear, cloudless sky was gradually shrouded in dark clouds, covering the entire Luoyun Sect. The whole sky was lifeless and extremely gloomy.

Black and white energy surged rapidly from the Spirit Testing Pool and scattered in all directions. Yang Fan immediately formed hand seals, and mid-stage Golden Core spiritual power emerged to form a protective shield that enveloped everyone.

Yang Fan stared in horror at the dispersing black and white energies. Wherever the black energy passed, flowers, trees, and all living things lost their life in an instant; wherever the white energy passed, everything revived and flourished. Finally, to his astonishment, the black and white energies merged and surged into Xue Wu's body.

Boom! Boom!

In response, countless bolts of lightning, capable of destroying everything in the world, followed by thunder that resounded throughout the sky, its immense power spreading for miles around...

At this moment, the crowd on the main street of Shuiyue City gathered together, watching the lightning flashing above Luoyun Sect.

What happened?

"It must be a celestial being casting a spell."

"That's incredible! The lightning and thunder were terrifying."

"..."

Accompanied by raging thunder, the water in the Spirit Testing Pool began to boil, and then towering flames ignited all around, burning everything in their path. The thunder and fire clashed, a sight to behold.

Rumble!

A bolt of lightning, even more powerful than before, struck, and a torrential rain began to fall from the dark, overcast sky. The rain swirled and changed shape in the air, nourishing the earth. Thick, long vines rose from the ground, encircling the spirit-testing pool...

"Elder Yang, what's going on?" the older cultivator asked in a panic, his hands forming hand seals to reinforce the protective barrier that was protecting everyone in front of him.

"This phenomenon...I've never heard of it before," Yang Fan sighed softly, shook his head, and said indifferently.

Shortly after the words were spoken, the ground shook violently, and everyone except Yang Fan, who possessed profound cultivation, lost their footing and fell to the ground. Slowly, sharp rocks emerged from the smooth ground, enveloping the Spirit Testing Pool.

Thunder that shatters all things, fire that burns everything, water that transforms in countless ways, wood that thrives with life, and earth that is indestructible—these five attributes combined are like the end of the world.

Just as Yang Fan and the others were helpless and at a loss, the surrounding temperature suddenly dropped, and wisps of cold air appeared in the air. The people inside the protective shield couldn't help but shiver and exhale cold breaths. Xu Tao was stunned, and his expression gradually changed from fear to surprise. He knew that person had arrived.

The torrential rain in the sky slowly slowed down, gradually freezing and extinguishing the raging fire with hail. A ray of light gradually appeared in the dark, overcast sky, illuminating the earth and warming everyone. The previous coldness vanished. A cry came from the sky, and a golden phoenix flew out and landed on Xu Tao's shoulder, using its rich spiritual power to heal him.

As the golden-feathered phoenix appeared, snowflakes slowly began to fall from the sky. A tall, handsome man, dressed in a white robe, with long, neatly styled white hair that looked like frost, walked on the snowflakes. With each step he took, a vortex of air dispersed where he stepped, exuding a cool and dignified aura.

He is Elder Yunfeng, Xu Tao's master, Lin Mubai.

"Stop." Lin Mubai spoke calmly, a majestic and cold aura emanating from him, freezing the thick, long vines at their roots, causing them to burst open. He flicked his white robe, and a chilling, deadly wind swept through, flattening the hard rocks.

Boom!

The destructive lightning seemed unwilling to surrender. A bolt of lightning struck Lin Mubai at a speed imperceptible to the naked eye. He ignored it, his face expressionless, his eyes cold as he looked at Xue Wu in the Spirit Testing Pool.

The lightning bolt was frozen solid by the bone-chilling cold emanating from Lin Mubai when it came within three feet of him, until the entire dark cloud was frozen into a huge block of ice.

boom!

The dark clouds burst apart, and the sky returned to its usual clear state. Lin Mubai swayed and arrived beside Xue Wu. He scanned Xue Wu with his divine sense, trying to see the attributes of Xue Wu's spiritual root, but his whole body was covered by the black and white energy.

He frowned, a hint of surprise flashing in his eyes. After a moment of contemplation, a subtle, enigmatic smile appeared on his lips:

"interesting..."

Even with the strength of a mid-Nascent Soul cultivator, Lin Mubai couldn't see through its spiritual root. He felt there was no need to investigate further, lest he invite trouble. Just now, when he scanned it with his divine sense, he was not only shrouded in black and white energy, but there also seemed to be a warning within it. If he forcibly investigated, he might suffer a backlash, and who knows what might happen.