Immortal Mansion: With mediocre qualifications, I have no choice but to live forever

After Zhou Yiqiao experimented in the moonstone space, the sky turned white.

Although there were still many spiritual plants that had not been tested, time was limited after all, so he had to postpone them for a while.

He hurriedly returned to the village, and after confirming that no one had noticed him, he returned to Chen Tianyou's home.

The sun was rising, and soon it was noon.

While Zhou Yiqiao was healing his injuries at a villager's home, he suddenly heard a child shouting loudly in the village.

"The Immortal is coming! The Immortal is coming!"

Zhou Yiqiao was very surprised. He knew that the immortal in the child's mouth was most likely the Chen clan's immortal clan that governed this place.

But according to Chen Tianyou's description, there should be at least half a month before the annual spiritual root test. This Chen family monk came early, so I'm afraid things may have changed.

While thinking about it, the entrance to the village was already crowded with people.

Several men in blue robes walked at the forefront of the crowd. Next to them was the village chief of Haihe Village and Chen Tianyou, who is now highly respected by the villagers.

"Dear fellow villagers, due to some special reasons, the spiritual root test this time is slightly ahead of schedule."

Then, one of the leading men turned to look at the village chief.

"I'm going to the ancestral hall to arrange the magic weapon for detecting spiritual roots."

"I have to trouble Uncle Chen to bring all the children of the village's age there."

After saying that, the immortal cultivators of the Chen family walked past the villager's farmhouse where Zhou Yiqiao was located and walked towards the ancestral hall deep in the village.

After Zhou Yiqiao calmly healed the injuries of the villagers in front of him, he slowly followed the immortal cultivators of the Chen family to the ancestral hall in Haihe Village.

Even the leading Chen family monk was only in the middle stage of foundation building. When Zhou Yiqiao deliberately concealed his identity, these Chen family monks didn't notice at all.

Following them all the way to the ancestral hall in the center of the village, Zhou Yiqiao restrained his voice and spiritual pressure, hiding behind the window sill and eavesdropping on the conversation of the Chen family monks.

"Uncle Eleven, we have been searching this sea area for half a year, and we haven't noticed any traces of spatial turbulence at all. Did the Third Master miscalculate?"

"fart!"

The man who was called the Eleventh Uncle and was the leader in the middle stage of foundation building scolded him when he heard this.

"The art of divination is a secret that has been passed down by my Chen family for thousands of years. I don't know how many disasters it has helped us avoid since the Chen family was established. Have you ever made a miscalculation?"

The monk who proposed English was obviously dissatisfied with this explanation, and he started to speak harshly.

"But it all depends on people. Maybe the Third Master is old and made a mistake in the divination and miscalculated the result."

As soon as these words came out, the foundation-building man who originally spoke righteously suddenly let out a long sigh.

Although he didn't know what they were looking for, Zhou Yiqiao could clearly see that half a year of searching had yielded no results. This person also had doubts about the divination results of the third master of the Chen family.

"After all, the Third Master is the current leader of my Chen family. Even if we make mistakes, we can only continue to stay in this sea area until the clan calls us back."

"I know you think this task is delaying your own practice, but you can just say these things in front of the Eleventh Uncle. You have to control your mouth when you meet outsiders!"

Those young immortal cultivators seemed to be very afraid of this eleventh uncle. After hearing his lesson, they all bowed their heads and agreed.

As Zhou Yiqiao listened to their conversation, he became increasingly confused.

"For half a year, space has been turbulent, and it's in this sea area again..."

He rubbed his chin, a guess flashing through his mind.

"Could it be that when I was brought to this sea area by the space turbulence half a year ago, the third master of the Chen family mistakenly thought that a treasure was coming to the world?"

The more he thought about it, the more it made sense.

If this is the case, he will have a lot of room for maneuver.

While he was still thinking wildly, the village chief of Haihe Village had followed the order of the foundation-building man and brought the school-age children in the village to the ancestral hall.

When the monks of the Chen family saw the villagers appearing, they immediately suppressed the sadness on their faces and once again put on a condescending look.

The old village chief walked up to the foundation-building man and bowed to the latter.

"Fellow immortal masters, all the children in Haihe Village who are over eight years old are here. I would like to trouble you all to test your spiritual roots."

After saying that, the old village chief waved to the children behind him.

When the children saw the old village chief's gestures, they all followed the old village chief's movements and saluted the monks of the Chen family.

The foundation-building man stroked his beard, nodded with satisfaction, and then took out a bronze disc more than a foot high from the storage bag and threw it into the air.

I saw that the disk stopped growing when it rose to about two meters high in the storm, and then slowly started to rotate.

When the rotation speed of the disk reached its peak, the disk suddenly stopped, and a golden light burst out from above and fell into the center of the ancestral hall.

The foundation-building man pointed at the beam of light in the center of the ancestral hall and said to the children with a smile.

"Later, I will use magic to test your spiritual roots one by one. What you have to do is to enter this beam of light after I call your name."

"If you can test your spiritual roots, you can reach heaven in one step and become immortals like us!"

After hearing the words of the foundation-building man, the children in the village all looked excited, staring at the beam of light in the ancestral hall, eager to try.

The village chief was afraid that the children would be unhappy if they recognized the immortal, so he hurriedly silenced everyone.

After a period of hesitation, the test of the spiritual root finally began.

Before the spiritual root test, Zhou Yiqiao was still wondering why the Chen clan's immortal clan repeatedly tested the children's spiritual roots every year.

After the test started, he finally understood that it was because the Chen family's technique of testing spiritual roots was not perfect. If they were like normal forces and only tested children who had just reached eight years old every year, there was a high possibility of omissions.

The technique of spiritual root testing is the basis for a force to increase the number of immortal cultivators. The more remote and barren the area, the more it is regarded as a secret by major forces.

After all, if a family or sect cannot accurately test the spiritual roots of the clan members within its sphere of influence, it is very likely to miss the genius with rare but extremely obscure spiritual roots, and jeopardize its path to rise.

Zhou Yiqiao looked at the flickering light, which gradually dimmed after just examining a few children, with a dark look in his eyes.

"It seems that although the Chen clan has golden elixir monks and has become a powerful force in this sea area, it has insufficient background and foundation!"

"But this is good, so that I can bargain with the Chen family and ask for the map back to Yongzhou."

Thinking of this, Zhou Yiqiao stretched out his hand and cast an invisibility technique on himself. Then he entered the ancestral hall with great swagger, intending to inspect the spiritual root-testing instrument at close range for any defects.