When the two arrived at the central square of Xuanbei City, it was already packed. However, Lu Chengfeng was still at the peak of the carefree realm, so she could easily bring Gu Huaiyu to the center of the square.
The three men Gu Huaiyu had seen flying with their swords were now floating in the sky, overlooking the people in the square with arrogance.
"Quiet!"
The leading man said, his voice full of majesty and superiority. The noisy square immediately fell silent.
The man's mouth slightly raised, apparently very satisfied with his performance.
"Junior Brother Yu!" The man looked at the man to his left.
"Understood, Senior Brother Cheng!"
Junior Brother Yu nodded, took a step forward in the void, and then waved his hand. A white jade stone about three zhang high and three chi wide fell from the sky with a muffled " boom" sound, and the white jade stone stood in the center of the square.
The white jade stone was shrouded in a thin layer of divine radiance, and from it, one could feel a faint, heavy, and sharp sword intent.
After the white jade stone landed on the ground, Junior Brother Yu said loudly: "This is a whetstone, anyone between the ages of eight and twenty-five can place their hand on it to test whether they are suitable for cultivating the supreme sword technique of my Tianxuan Sword Sect."
Junior Brother Yu's tone was even more proud, daring to say even "supreme sword technique", which made Lu Chengfeng in the crowd look embarrassed. Not long ago, their Tianxuan Sword Sect was still called a small sect!
"Sister Lu, are the people of your Tianxuan Sword Sect all like this?" Gu Huaiyu frowned as she looked at the three people in the sky. She had been attracted by their sword flying before, but now their expressions, tone, and even body language revealed a sense of arrogance, which made her very uncomfortable.
Lu Chengfeng did not refute, but asked: "Then do you think I am such a person?"
Gu Huaiyu heard this and could not help but look at Lu Chengfeng, examined her, and said: "Sister Lu looks very approachable on the surface, but there is a pride in her bones. Oh right, what did Master call this... oh, proud and unyielding nature."
Lu Chengfeng looked at Gu Huaiyu in surprise. She remembered that she had not shown a trace of pride in front of Gu Huaiyu and the seniors. She did not expect to be told by Gu Huaiyu.
Just as the two were talking, the selection had already begun. The first one to go up to accept the whetstone test was a man. As soon as he put his hand on the whetstone, he was knocked away by a powerful force for more than ten zhang, and a mouthful of blood spurted out, his expression listless.
"This…"
Everyone was frightened at once, and some young boys and girls who were about to try stopped and could not help but look at the three envoys of the Tianxuan Sword Sect in the sky.
Junior Brother Yu said lightly: "I have already said that the age is limited to between eight and twenty-five years old. If you are knocked away by the power of the whetstone, it means that this person's age is not within this range."
" swoosh!"
As soon as Junior Brother Yu finished speaking, everyone looked at the man who had been knocked away by the whetstone. The man's face was pale and a little panicked. Under the attention of everyone, he fled in a hurry as if he had done something wrong, causing the people next to him to laugh. Obviously, this man wanted to sneak through, but he did not expect the whetstone's defense system to be so powerful.
"There are still people who want to slip through." Gu Huaiyu could not understand.
"Hehe, get used to it, there will be people who want to slip through every time there is a selection." Lu Chengfeng said with a chuckle.
"Is that so? So the Tianxuan Sword Sect is so popular?" Gu Huaiyu said in surprise.
Lu Chengfeng's mouth twitched when she heard this. The Tianxuan Sword Sect was a small sect in front of Gu Huaiyu and Gu Changsheng, but in front of Xuanbei City, it was their overlord, and naturally countless people would try to join.
With the previous lesson from the man, some people who wanted to slip through were backing down, and the selection ceremony went smoothly.
In just half an incense stick of time, 2,000 people had participated in the selection, but unfortunately, among these 2,000 people, only three barely passed.
In the sky, Senior Brother Cheng shook his head and said lightly: "It seems that the quality is worse than it was ten years ago."
The Junior Brother Yu on the side laughed and said: "Senior Brother Cheng, Xuanbei City is just a small city with a population of less than one million. The population base is not large, so how can there be any geniuses?"
Senior Brother Cheng nodded, looked at the crowd below, and a trace of impatience flashed across his face. In his opinion, this trip to Xuanbei City to select disciples was a waste of time, but this was the requirement of the sect, and they did not dare to disobey.
"Sister Lu, I want to go up and try too."
As soon as she finished speaking, before Lu Chengfeng could react, Gu Huaiyu had already arrived in front of the whetstone.
Gu Huaiyu was wearing a purple dress, but she was carrying an ordinary-looking long knife on her back. This huge contrast attracted a lot of attention, but when they found that Gu Huaiyu was just a small Spirit Condensation Realm cultivator, they lost interest. Among the people in front, there were many young geniuses in the Soul Severing Realm, but they still did not pass the whetstone test.
Some people may ask, since some people have cultivated to the Soul Severing Realm at such a young age, why doesn't the Tianxuan Sword Sect accept them as disciples?
In fact, it is very simple. The Tianxuan Sword Sect pays the most attention to way of the sword talent. The path they take is very single, but because it is single, it is focused.
The Tianxuan Sword Sect focuses on the study of way of the sword. Although their strength is not the most top-notch, in the foundation of sword techniques, it is among the best in the entire Ziyang Great World. Of course, this is only known to Gu Changsheng. Others do not know. This is also why Gu Changsheng chose the Tianxuan Sword Sect as Gu Huaiyu's beginner village.
If the Tianxuan Sword Sect had no special features, how could Gu Changsheng have taken a fancy to it?
However, people who are not outstanding in cultivation talent are also difficult to achieve in other aspects. They naturally do not believe that a little girl in the Spirit Condensation Realm has strong way of the sword talent.
"Little girl, hurry up, there are people behind!"
A man a few years older than Gu Huaiyu urged from behind.
Gu Huaiyu ignored him, but felt a little uneasy in her heart. She didn't know if she had way of the sword talent. The reason she wanted to practice the sword was because she was influenced by the fact that she found the knife was the most convenient and easiest to use when she went up the mountain to cut firewood when she was a child. But cutting firewood is something that ordinary mortals can do well, and it is not really way of the sword talent.
So Gu Huaiyu was afraid, worried, afraid that she did not have the talent to practice the sword, and worried that she would embarrass her master if she made a fool of herself. So she was still hesitating whether to reach out and touch the whetstone.
"Hey, can you guys behind not squeeze, ouch…"
The man behind Gu Huaiyu exclaimed, his body leaning forward. He shouted flusteredly: "Little girl, lend me some strength."
After the man finished speaking, he did not touch Gu Huaiyu with his hand, but pushed forward gently with one hand, releasing a gentle energy, using the reaction force of the energy to stabilize his body, but the gentle energy gently pounced towards Gu Huaiyu's back. Gu Huaiyu was already hesitant to reach out and touch the whetstone, but now she was gently pushed by the gentle energy, her body shocked, and her hand touched the whetstone.
Just as Gu Huaiyu was about to withdraw her hand, the white whetstone suddenly burst into purple light, shining in the sky, dyeing the entire sky purple.
"How is this possible?"
When the three people in the sky saw the purple light, their faces suddenly showed an unbelievable expression.
Lu Chengfeng in the crowd was also stunned.
When a person is placed on the whetstone, the whetstone will detect the person's way of the sword talent and divide the different talent levels into eight levels, corresponding to eight colors.
The first one is white. This kind of person will be judged as having no way of the sword talent at all. The vast majority of people are this color.
Then comes red. People who stimulate red color indicate that they have a certain way of the sword talent and barely pass.
Then, the levels gradually increase to orange, yellow, green, blue, cyan, and purple, the same color as the purple sun in the world.
Lu Chengfeng was only green talent back then, but she was also a way of the sword genius that was rare to see in ten thousand years. It is said that the blue above is only possessed by the various sword masters of the sect, and the cyan is only possessed by the Tianxuan Supreme, as for purple, the Tianxuan Sword Sect has never appeared in nearly a million years since its establishment.
"Did I pick up a treasure?"
After the shock, Lu Chengfeng was excited. Although Gu Huaiyu did not become a disciple, she agreed to practice sword techniques with her, which is equivalent to being affiliated under Lihun Peak. No matter how high Gu Huaiyu's achievements are in the future, Lihun Peak will always be her way of the sword enlightenment place.
Lu Chengfeng has already seen the scene of the rise of their Lihun Peak lineage.
(I'm late, there will be more later)
