Stone Falling From The Sky

With red tomato soup on the corner of his mouth, Shen Leyan searched for the few grains of rice left in the bowl and looked up blankly.

W-What flew over?

The noise outside was too loud, as if many people were rushing into the courtyard where he was.

A disciple vividly described the excitement to the crowd.

“Today is the day for some outer disciples who have completed the sect’s mission to have their spiritual roots tested.

Senior Brother Zheng Ziheng has been waiting in Lingxi Pavilion since early morning. There are at least a hundred disciples who went for the test, from noon to dusk, but only two people were found to have mixed spiritual roots, and the rest are just ordinary roots.”

Sometimes thousands of people come to test and can’t find a spiritual root. It’s very good to have two mixed spiritual roots today.

Someone impatient urged: “Get to the point, get to the point! What we want to know now is how the test spirit stone flew here from Lingxi Pavilion by itself!”

The so-called “test spirit stone” is actually an ancient magic weapon.

 It is said that it was broken into pieces of different sizes in ancient times, and later each major sect held a piece to test the spiritual root talent of the disciples.

Although it is a fragment, it is as big as a rockery, and it needs to be injected with spiritual power before each test.

Those with weak cultivation may foam at the mouth and faint on the spot after injecting spiritual power three or four times.

So the spiritual root test cannot be done whenever you want and you have to complete the sect’s task first.

 “I don’t know how that spiritual stone flew here by itself! But I heard from the senior brothers and sisters who were watching in Lingxi Pavilion that after the last outer disciple test today, Senior Brother Zheng was ready to leave.

The spiritual stone suddenly spoke human language and screamed in a cute loli voice, ‘I smell the scent of a top-grade single spiritual root’!

Then before everyone came to their senses, the spiritual stone floated up by itself and came over here in a flash.”

“Really? Why does it sound so unreliable to me?”

“You don’t believe it?! If you don’t believe it, go ask Senior Brother Zheng to see if this is the case!”

“Okay, okay, stop arguing – the spiritual stone has stopped!”

“In this yard! Does anyone live in this yard?”

“Bang!”

There was a sound of a huge rock falling to the ground, and a big hole was smashed into the poor green grass in the yard.

The disciples who were watching waited for a while. When they saw that the spiritual stone was no longer flying in the sky, they gradually gathered around.

 Everyone was discussing why this spiritual stone had survived from ancient times to the present day, and could still sound like a little girl instead of an old lady. Suddenly, the tightly closed door of the house in front of them opened a crack.

Shen Leyan didn’t hear clearly what was being said outside in the house. He only heard something like “spiritual stone”, “flying around”, and “loli”. After opening the door, he met everyone’s gazes with a confused look on his face.

“Senior brothers and sisters… can I ask why are you here?”

His eyes were unconsciously attracted by the big stone in the yard.

He frowned and said, “I just planted the onion a few days ago!!!”

It hasn’t grown up yet, but it was flattened by the stone!

The stone lit up and cast a shadow in the air. It was a little kid with pigtails and a childish face.

In the world of cultivating immortals, it is not uncommon for stones and wood to become spirits. Just like people, spirits are divided into good and evil. Many spirits will recognize humans as their masters and practice with them.

 Shen Leyan looked around at the senior brothers and sisters around him with righteousness: “Whose child is this? She has no civil capacity yet, but it doesn’t matter. As her parents, they should compensate me for the green onions!”

The senior brothers and sisters stared with wide eyes, and no one opened their mouths.

Shen Leyan then walked to the stone.

“What are the names of your parents, or your master?”

The little kid blinked and looked at him for a while then suddenly pointed at him and shouted in a baby voice.

“I smell the scent of a top-grade single spiritual root!”

Shen Leyan: “◝₍ᴑ̑ДO͝₎◞”

He felt that this kid was not someone he could afford to offend.

He turned around immediately and slammed the door shut.

He said generously: “You don’t have to pay for the green onions, and I don’t care about your slander of me having spiritual roots. You have recognised wrongly…”

[I’m really unlucky! How can a random stone know that I have spiritual roots? ! ]

[According to the Euclidean law of conservation, I was already very unlucky before I crossed over. Logically, I should be luckier after coming here…]

Zheng Ziheng followed the trail of the test stone and flew all the way here. When he arrived in the courtyard, he heard the sad voice of his junior brother through a door.

 [I hope senior brothers and sisters don’t believe what the stone said…]

The courtyard was already crowded with people, and disciples who heard about the abnormality of the test spirit stone kept coming to watch the excitement.

Zheng Ziheng put away his sword, looked around, and said in a gentle voice.

“I have reported the matter of the test spirit stone to the sect… The spirit stone was born in ancient times, and it is not surprising that it has developed consciousness. The sect will handle this matter properly. You can disperse first.”

A disciple shouted: “Brother Zheng, this spirit stone said that the person in the room has a top-grade single spirit root!”

[Don’t believe it, don’t believe it, don’t believe it, don’t believe it…]

Zheng Ziheng smiled: “The spirit stone has just awakened its consciousness, it may not be very bright, and its words cannot be fully believed.”

The disciples talked a lot, but since this was said by Brother Zheng, everyone looked like they believed it about 70%.

 Even if the little doll reflected in the spirit stone was furious and mad, she would retort “Wa!”

“I’m not lying! I’m sure! Certain! And definitely! I smell the scent of a top-grade single spirit root on that person!”

Zheng Ziheng formed a seal with his palm, and a silence spell swept away. The little doll reflected in the spirit stone immediately fell silent, stood with her hands on her waist and glared at them angrily.

The disciples who were watching the excitement around him pushed and shoved before dispersing.

Shen Leyan breathed a sigh of relief, reopened the door, and saluted Zheng Ziheng.

“Thank you, Senior Brother Zheng.”

“It doesn’t matter. This test spirit stone suddenly became conscious. There has been no such case in the major sects before. The disciples guarding the Lingxi Pavilion failed to stop her, so she ran to you and disturbed your rest.”

Zheng Ziheng put away the silence spell and changed it to the imprisonment spell.

 A circle of light blue ropes tied the test spirit stone loosely.

“I will take her back to Lingxi Pavilion now but…”

Shen Leyan saw a little embarrassment in Zheng Ziheng’s eyes and roughly understood.

“I know that senior brother can’t help me hide this matter. Just now in front of so many people, senior brother was able to hide the matter of my spirit root for me… I am already very grateful.”

The test spirit stone was born since ancient times and has been used by major sects to test the talents of disciples for thousands of years.

How could the spirit stone recognize the wrong level of spirit roots?

And the spirit stone flew so far and repeatedly mentioned “superb single spirit root”. The leader and elders of Yunxi Sect must know about this.