I long to return home!

"Taozi, are you alright?" Lin Mubai turned around and walked slowly towards Xu Tao. His face was no longer cold but instead showed a kind of affection, which made people's hearts soften involuntarily.

"Disciple is alright, but... I humbly request Master to check if the person in the pool is in any danger." Xu Tao bowed deeply to Lin Mubai, his tone somewhat urgent.

"Oh?! It seems this person is the reason for your lax cultivation over the past year."

"I am quite interested in this young man. Testing his spiritual root caused the world to change and all five elements to appear. Could he be a person with innate five spiritual roots?" Lin Mubai said softly, a slight smile appearing on his lips.

He did not reveal the black and white energies he had seen with his divine sense, as it would have been of no use even if he had. However, seeing his disciple interacting closely with someone for the first time in a long time, he felt a strange, indescribable feeling.

"Master, it was this kid who tried to eat the brat during the trial."

"He called me a pheasant, Master, please teach him a lesson!" Jin Yu Luan Feng immediately spotted Xue Wu lying in the Spirit Testing Pool. She couldn't forget his smug figure. Her voice was loud and excited.

Yang Fan, Xu Tao, and the older cultivator were all shocked. They hadn't expected anyone to dare eat Elder Lin's high-grade spirit beast. After a moment of silence, Xu Tao was the first to recover and was about to plead for mercy when Lin Mubai waved his hand to stop him.

Lin Mubai was becoming increasingly interested in Xue Wu. With a flick of his sleeve, he lifted Xue Wu, who was unconscious in the pool, up. Then, with another flick of his sleeve, all the spring water in the Spirit Testing Pool surrounded Xue Wu's body. After a few breaths, the spring water, crackling with lightning, plunged back down.

"Such a big commotion, and he's only a lightning spirit root?" Yang Fan's eyes showed a hint of disappointment. He had thought that Xue Wu would at least be a dual spirit root like Shangguan Tou, the sect's prodigy, but in fact, he was a single spirit root, and a lightning spirit root at that.

Although the lightning spirit root is the spirit root with the strongest penetration and the strongest attack, it has the fewest lightning attribute cultivation techniques among all the sects in the entire Wuji Empire. Most of the time, one can only rely on self-comprehension.

However, they are the strongest in the Wuji Empire's royal family. Every member of the Wuji Empire's royal bloodline must have a lightning spiritual root, and there are quite a few with multiple spiritual roots. They mainly cultivate lightning-based techniques and are unparalleled in the world.

Hearing Yang Fan's sigh, Lin Mubai revealed a different expression. He knew clearly that this boy could not possibly be as simple as having only a single spiritual root, even if what was presented to him now was just a single lightning spiritual root. If he hadn't investigated when Xue Wu's spiritual root appeared, he might have been quite certain of this result. But now he had a guess in his mind: dual spiritual roots, triple spiritual roots, or even boldly, five innate spiritual roots.

If he truly possesses the five innate spiritual roots, this child will undoubtedly crush all cultivators of the same level in the future, breaking through the limitations of the physical body to reach the Divine Transformation realm and enter the God Realm.

"Yang Fan, you handle the new disciples' initiation." Lin Mubai pondered for a moment, then his expression returned to its familiar cold indifference as he spoke.

"Yes," Yang Fan replied with a slight nod.

"Taozi, why don't you move to Yunfeng with your new junior brother?" Lin Mubai smiled gently at Xu Tao, tossed him a personal storage bag, and then left with the Golden Feather Phoenix.

A new junior brother? Moving to Yunfeng?

Everyone was taken aback. Hearing Lin Mubai's words, they clearly knew that Xue Wu had been chosen by Lin Mubai and was about to be accepted as his second closed-door disciple, whose future status would be unshakeable.

With a joyful expression, Xu Tao quickly left the scene with the unconscious Xue Wu.

"Senior brother, senior brother, who was that white-haired senior brother just now?" A pretty female disciple among the new disciples tugged at the sleeve of the older cultivator and asked shyly.

The older cultivator shook his head, sighed, and said, "That's not my senior brother, that's Elder Yunfeng."

"A new disciple like you shouldn't even think about it. Elder Lin's suitors can stretch all the way down the mountain. You have no chance. Besides, Elder Lin is already over five hundred years old." The older cultivator sighed again. He knew very well that Lin Mubai was handsome and highly skilled, and had always been the face of the Luoyun Sect. He had no trouble finding a partner.

"Why don't you pursue me, your senior brother? I guarantee I'll grant your every wish. My name is Zhao Ping." Zhao Ping's tone gradually became perverted, and his face turned lewd.

"Zhao Ping! What are you doing? Hurry up and lead the new disciples to their rooms!" Yang Fan shouted angrily, then disappeared from the spot in a flash.

Zhao Ping lowered his head helplessly and said in a low voice, "From now on, you are the outer disciples of my Luoyun Sect. You need to cultivate diligently and not slack off. Once your cultivation reaches a certain level, you can participate in the sect competition and enter the inner sect."

"Once you enter the inner sect, you can choose one of the five peaks of my Falling Cloud Sect to become a disciple of that peak, learn more advanced spells, and even have your own private cave dwelling..."

"Now, your senior brother will take you to get the new disciples' entry-level resources, and then take you to the outer disciples' residences."

......

"That's how it is. In an instant, the world changed color, the earth shook, but it was a lightning spirit root." Yang Fan stood in a grand hall, his face grave as he spoke to the shadows ahead.

"So where is he now?"

A solemn voice rang out, and then an old man with noble clothes, a burly figure, a hooked nose, and blood-red pupils walked out. He was Huang Jun, the current sect leader of Luoyun Sect.

"Elder Lin has arranged for him to stay at Yunfeng. It seems he intends to take him on as a disciple of Yunfeng."

"Alright, I understand. You may leave now," Huang Jun said calmly. Yang Fan immediately disappeared without daring to linger for even a moment.

"You're not simple, Lin Mubai. How could you so easily take an ordinary disciple under your wing? I'm finding it harder and harder to understand you." Huang Jun stroked his mustache, his eyes gradually turning cold, his blood-red pupils giving off a chilling and intimidating aura.

At this moment, Xue Wu gradually regained consciousness, opened his eyes groggily, and looked at the simple house in front of him, weakly saying, "Damn it, where did I end up here again? Is this still that Spirit Testing Pool?"

"Junior brother, you're awake." Xu Tao excitedly leaned closer, feeling an indescribable excitement in his heart.

Xu Tao himself didn't know why he was so excited. In the past, he only cared about cultivation. Although he made rapid progress and could be considered a prodigy at a young age, he never had a friend to talk to during his cultivation journey. This made him aloof and other disciples dared not approach him. It wasn't until that sect mission that he met Xue Wu. Perhaps it was Xue Wu's humorous and shameless personality and his tragic background that made Xu Tao feel sorry for him. Also, the word "big brother" made him regard Xue Wu as his first friend besides his master Lin Mubai.

"Brother Xu, where is this? Wasn't I testing my spiritual root?" Xue Wu asked, looking around in confusion.

"This is Yunfeng, and you have the Thunder Spirit Root."

"Oh, and one more thing, you're now Master's second disciple, which means you're my own junior brother."

"And another thing, I haven't asked you your name yet." Xu Tao said excitedly, not only because Xue Wu called him "Big Brother" again, but also because he and Xue Wu were fellow disciples and junior brothers.