Talent

The participants entered through the left to find a room with nothing inside aside from an array, beside it stood the deacon of the true mystic sect, looking at them with a passive stare, behind him the other two deacons waiting for the results.

He sighed before introducing himself "I'm huang zihai of the true mystic sect, i will be the one to measure your talents."

"Now remember, there is no eliminations after this test, and you'll be able to choose which sect to join, but if your talent is insufficient you won't be able to get a high position or even be accepted, especially in my true mystic sec!"

Everyone was shocked, they thought as long as they had a talent to cultivate they'll be able to join any sect.

A courageous girl went forward and asked "Senior, how will the talents be graded?"

" Good question! Listen well i won't repeat myself"Everyone put their attention on the man.

"Everyone who can cultivate has their talents divided into five, from lowest to highest there is Mortal, Spiritual, Mystic, Earth then Heaven"

"Of course you can cultivate with a mortal talents, but it won't be efficient, as your intake of Qi will be small and the retention even worse!"

This shocked the people present as they couldn't but help and hope they have high enough talent.

"Also the heaven talent is so rare it only appears a few times in a thousand years, so the earth talent is what is most sought after, they can become core disciples in other sects while in my overlord rank sect they can directly enter the inner sect!"

Now everyone had ugly expressions as they thought of the rarity of talent.

Long jianyu spoke with a frown " what about other talents which positions, they get in sects?"

Huang Zihai had a grin "Well, in a normal sect a Mystic talent can join directly the inner sect, as for the spiritual talent they can join the outer one.

As for the True mystic sect we accept Mystic talent in the outer sect, of course people can still rise to enter the inner or core sect."

This seemed to show a bit of the difference between normal sect such as the Verdant sect and the Heavenly sword sect compared to the True mystic sect.

Some people couldn't help but ask" But what about the mortal talent and the spiritual talent?"

Huang Zihai had a look of disdain and said "In other sects they take mortal talents as servant disciple, in mine we don't accept mortal talents but we can take spiritual talents as servant disciples, if they prove themselves enough they can join the outer sect."

"A servant?!"

"I heard from my father most people have a mortal talent, if so that means most of us are only worth being servants and not even accepted to the true mystic sect!"

"Dammit i believe in my talent"

The participants started to chatter while Long Yong kept a cool head 'I don't mind becoming a servant disciple, but it will be better to have higher talent.'

Huang Zihai looked at the participants and couldn't help but disdain them, because most of them will only have a mortal grade talent and won't even be worthy of being a servant in his sect.

"All right, Shut up it's time to start the test" The man's words shut everyone up.

"Look at this array, this will be where you will be tested" Huang Zihai pointed at the array on the ground, there were rune inscribed on a metal plate which shone with a white light.

"As you enter the array stand in the middle and above you will appear a light.

This light will be of different colors depending on your talents, if it is red you're of the Mortal grade, if it shines green you're of the Spiritual grade, if it shines Blue you're of the Mystic grade, if it shines brown you're of the earth grade, if it shines white you're of the heaven rank."

Huang Zihai looked around before asking "Is this understood?" Everyone nodded before he chose someone to go first.

"You come up first!" He pointed towards a random girl.

The girl was very scared and anxious, she went inside the array and stood in the middle.

The shine of the array stilled for a moment before a red light appeared on top of her.

"Tch! trash of the mortal grade, NEXT!"

The participants heart sank after every mortal grade talent declared.

Until finally it was time for the shi clan young master, Shi hai, his heart was beating as he made it into the center of the array.

He stood there as the lights flickered and suddenly he heard "Hmm... Spiritual grade talent, good for you young man" Huang Zihai said dismissively

Shi hai felt such joy he almost collapsed from exhaustion, but thankfully he managed to hold himself together and leave the array.

Everyone was shocked as this was the first spiritual grade talent of their batch.

The shi clan quickly followed suit but they only had mortal talent.

People continued to enter the array as some girls and boys managed to get a spiritual talent.

Long Jianyu was quite flustered as it was almost his turn, he saw that the yu clan young master yu guang only had a mortal talent.

Long Jianyu looked at the one who got up next, it was one of his lackeys, Long Zhong.

Long Zhong stayed in the center of the array before hearing " Spiritual talent! Next!"

Long Zhong looked quite shocked and elated, he came back to see his young master looking downcast so he tried to flatter him "Don't worry young master i'm pretty sure you'll have a higher talent than mine, maybe even the highest heaven talent!"

Long Jianyu felt relieved after hearing that 'Yes! of course i'll have a higher talent, i know i'm destined for great things!'

Long Yong looked from the side with disdain 'This brother of mine, probably thinks he's some kind of chosen, HAH!'

Long Yong continued to look from the side as Long Jianyu entered the array and stood in the middle.

The lights flickered until suddenly a light shone above him.

Long Yong looked on with a bit of pity as it shone.... Red!

"Mortal grade! Next!"

Long Jianyu looked like he lost his soul, he stumbled back to his lackeys as they consoled him but just as he looked at Long Zhong he couldn't help but reel at the look of DISDAIN that his now most likely former lackey was giving him.

Long Yong watched his brother who looked like he almost lost his soul and then to the disdaining Long Zhong who started to put some distance between him and the group, while the other lackeys couldn't say much.

'THIS is the real world! Long Jianyu was too prideful and thought too much of himself.'

Long Yong shook his head as he watched the others go through and get their talents examined.

It took sometime but now only 10 remain, and one of them is Long Yong, as the other waited for the examination to end as they haven't had much luck, out of the original 662 only 20 were of the spiritual grade.

Long Yong moved in front of the array 'Please! let it be Spiritual although i don't mine a mortal grade talent, life will be harder.'

Long Yong stood in the middle of the array as he closed his eyes.

'I already have a talent for cultivation, i could at least become a servant disciple if i have a mortal talent, i will definitely leave home!"

Long Yong Suddenly heard "Mystic grade! Finally someone worthy!" Huang Zihai suddenly laughed as he thought that this test was at least not a complete waste of time.

"Congratulations boy! Among the trash and the mediocre we found a good talent!"

Long Yong looked up and saw that beautiful blue color and couldn't help but cry.

In his past and current life he never cried whatever happened, he was always steady.

For the first time he shed tears with a smile on his face.

'Even though my talent is middling, this will give me the potential to achieve my dreams of strength and immortality, i'll be able to cast off my sin of weakness!'

Everyone looked at the boy shocked at someone having such a good(comparatively) talent, Long Jianyu looked on with jealous and malicious expression.

"Hahaha, good boy you'll have a lot to choose from after we finish this test, now come out so we can sort these last nine."

The other nine shook the shock off and quickly went up one after another, but sadly all of them had a mortal talent.

Huang zihai stood in front of everyone, this time he was joined by Cheng Huian and Jin Honghui.

"Now it is time to discuss your future!" Huang Zihai said with a serious expression.