Chapter 29: Wild Grass

Lost in thought, Li Zhirui was pulled back to reality by a chorus of astonished shouts. His gaze fixed, he saw three children standing within the Spirit Testing Array, each with a pillar of light above their heads.

"This is only the second activation of the array, right?" Li Zhirui, like everyone else, had not expected that among two hundred people, there would actually be four children with Spiritual Roots!

Although they all had either Three Spiritual Roots or Four Spiritual Roots, the addition of four clan members at once would still be a considerable enhancement to the family's overall strength in a decade or so.

Li Zhirui and the others watched the next group of children being tested with great anticipation, only to be disappointed that none of them produced a light pillar, and neither did the groups that followed.

Possibly because the earlier results had raised everyone's expectations too high, even fairly good outcomes felt disappointing.