"Possessed a Wood Spirit Root? Really?"
Upon hearing the words of the Mountain Guardian Elder, Lin Feng was immediately shocked and then looked at Mu Jinyu with fervent eyes, urgently saying, "Young man, quick, quick, quick, release the protection on your Dantian, let me see if it's true..."
"Oh," Mu Jinyu responded, knowing they couldn't cause him any harm, so he heedlessly released the Spiritual Thought protecting his Dantian.
Lin Feng's Divine Sense entered Mu Jinyu's Dantian, and after a brief observation, feeling the surging Life Essence Qi, he became excited, saying, "This must be the True Plant Essence only present in someone with a Wood Spirit Root..."
Of course, since the Heavenly Sword Faction wasn't considered a major sect, he had never seen talents who possessed a Five Elements Spirit Root or an Exotic Spirit Root, so he wasn't completely certain and said, "I will go and ask the Sect Leader to come and take a look..."
After speaking, he didn't bother to say anything to the Mountain Guardian Elder but rushed out of the Outer Sect Elder's Hall and flew towards the Main Peak Sect Leader's Hall of Heavenly Sword Mountain to fetch the Sect Leader.
Having a talent with a Five Elements Spirit Root wanting to join the Heavenly Sword Faction was a big deal; he had to report it to the Sect Leader.
Perhaps even the Sect Leader himself would be alerted and want to take Mu Jinyu as a disciple!
"Damn, he's running so fast!"
The Mountain Guardian Elder saw Lin Feng disappear in a flash and couldn't help but curse with a laugh, resigned to continue staying in the hall.
He had initially planned to bring Mu Jinyu and the other two over, let Lin Feng introduce them, and then he would return to continue guarding the mountain.
However, due to curiosity, after bringing Mu Jinyu and the others to the Elders' Hall, he didn't leave immediately but wanted to see if Mu Jinyu was indeed a Wood Spirit Root.
As a result, Lin Feng left without fully explaining, leaving him unsure whether to continue staying in the Elders' Hall or to go back and guard the mountain gate.
However, if Mu Jinyu truly possessed a Wood Spirit Root, then his absence from his post for so long would likely not be severely reprimanded by the Sect Leader, who might even reward him.
Soon, amidst the Mountain Guardian Elder's speculations, a surge of Spiritual Energy suddenly appeared outside the Elders' Hall, followed by several flashes of light, revealing several middle-aged men appearing outside the hall.
"Greetings to the Sect Leader."
Seeing that the Sect Leader indeed came out, the Mountain Guardian Elder was also surprised and hurriedly bowed to him.
The Sect Leader, too preoccupied to talk to him, gestured with his hand not to bother with formalities as he entered, then looked excitedly and eagerly at Mu Jinyu.
Mu Jinyu felt extremely awkward under the gaze of the Sect Leader of Heavenly Sword Faction, thinking, must it really be like this?
If the Sect Leader was looking at Wen Rou and Jian Ruyan with that kind of look, he might understand it, as both ladies were quite pretty after all. But the Sect Leader completely ignored the two women as if they were mere objects, focusing solely on him, which felt a bit strange...
"Come, come, come, young man, let me take a look," the Sect Leader stared at Mu Jinyu, his tone carrying a hint of a loafer's eagerness toward a virtuous woman.
Mu Jinyu sighed softly, once again released the protection on his Dantian, and simultaneously exerted a Secret Technique to suppress his Cultivation, making the Sect Leader believe his strength was only at the Fourth Layer of the Divine Transformation Realm.
This Secret Technique was also from his master Mu Shao'ai, but usually, he had no need to hide his strength. It was only after coming to the Kunlun Ruins that he remembered this technique and started using it.
In front of the Heavenly Sword Faction's Mountain Guardian Elder and Administrative Elder, it was effective; they hadn't realized that Mu Jinyu's actual strength was at the Sixth Layer of the Divine Transformation Realm.
But the strength of this Sect Leader, Mu Jinyu couldn't gauge its depth, but it was definitely around the Ninth Layer of the Divine Transformation Realm, or even the higher "Fanxu Realm"!
This made Mu Jinyu somewhat worried if the secret technique for hiding cultivation could work on the Sect Leader of the Heavenly Sword Faction.
While Mu Jinyu was speculatively worried, the Sect Leader of the Heavenly Sword Faction had already used his Divine Sense to probe Mu Jinyu's Dantian and the nature of his True Essence, and couldn't help but repeatedly admire:
"Excellent, excellent, indeed it is Wood Attributed True Essence, this is the True Essence that can only be cultivated by a genius with a Wood Spirit Root!"
The Mountain Guardian Elder and Administrative Elder recognized that Mu Jinyu's True Essence contained the essence of life, but due to their limited vision, they weren't too sure if Mu Jinyu's True Essence was truly Wood Attributed True Essence, so they asked the Sect Leader to make the judgment.
And the Sect Leader, holding a high position and great power, having seen many geniuses, naturally recognized at first glance that Mu Jinyu's True Essence was indeed Wood Attributed True Essence, and it was very pure, not that pseudo attributed True Essence which one could acquire by consuming certain Spiritual Medicines, which temporarily transforms someone's True Essence's attribute for deceptive purposes.
Normally, the True Essence cultivated by ordinary people after reaching the Divine Transformation Realm is attribute-less True Essence.
But a few geniuses are born with a specific Element Spirit Root, naturally extremely sensitive to elements like metal, wood, water, fire, earth, wind, and thunder. If they practice any Cultivation Techniques or Spells related to these elements, they find it particularly intuitive and exceedingly effective!
Such people naturally belong to the genius category, like those with a Fire-system spirit root, who, when casting Fire-system Techniques, can unleash flames with far greater power than an opponent of the same cultivation, but with attribute-less True Essence!
Moreover, setting up Formations, refining Elixirs, crafting weapons and armor, and making Talismans often require attributed True Essence; attribute-less is not suitable.
Just like Alchemists, in the beginning, attribute-less True Essence cultivators can use the earth vein fire to refine pills, but in the later stages, they inherently need to have both fire and wood element spirit roots to refine top-grade elixirs.
For someone like Mu Jinyu, if he can't awaken a Fire Element Spirit Root in the later stages, his potential in alchemy is limited.
But in terms of cultivating Spiritual Medicines and leveraging geomancy, he has immense talent and an unlimited future.
Such a genius, as long as there's no issue in their background check, is extremely popular in whatever Sect they go to.
After praising, the Sect Leader of Heavenly Sword Faction turned back to the Mountain Guardian Elder and Lin Feng, saying, "You two have contributed well, bringing this talented disciple here. I will add one thousand Contribution Points to each of you as an encouragement!"
Upon hearing the Sect Leader's words, both were overjoyed, thanking him repeatedly, "Thank you, Sect Leader, thank you, Sect Leader…"
After awarding them, the Sect Leader turned his gaze ardently towards Mu Jinyu, asking, "What is your name?"
Internally relieved that his hidden cultivation seemed to have not been noticed by the other party, Mu Jinyu felt slightly uneasy under the Sect Leader's gaze, coughed lightly, and said, "My name is Mu Jinyu, Mu as in 'admire', and Jinyu as in 'Jinyu Mantang'..."
"Good name," the Sect Leader praised, then coughed lightly a few times before asking, "Hmm? Would you like to become my disciple? I will use the top resources of the Heavenly Sword Faction to nurture you."
"Become your disciple?" Mu Jinyu, upon hearing this, was stunned.
And the excited and overjoyed Lin Feng and the Mountain Guardian Elder, upon hearing the Sect Leader's words, were also taken aback.
Although they had speculated that the Sect Leader might want to take Mu Jinyu as a disciple after learning about his Wood Element Spirit Root, the actual event unfolding before them still seemed somewhat inconceivable.
After all these years, even the grandsons of several Supreme Elders had pleaded for the Sect Leader to take them as disciples and the Sect Leader refused. They had not expected that a young man from Huaxia, not only had alarmed the Sect Leader to come and check himself but also that the Sect Leader would proactively offer to take him as a disciple!
Were those people to find out, wouldn't they go mad?