"Smiling Yama?" Xiao Han was stunned and repeated Chen Wenxuan's words.

"Shh..."

As soon as Xiao Han spoke, Chen Wenxuan's face suddenly changed. He quickly raised his index finger, put it close to his mouth, and said nervously: "Brother, please speak softly. That old man is beyond the general Jindan realm. It is said that he has stepped half a foot into the Yuanying old monster. So, as long as he wants, nothing in this ten-mile radius can escape his perception."

Xiao Han's already cold and stiff face suddenly became even uglier, and he apologized: "Brother Chen, I'm sorry, I was careless."

He didn't expect that Ge Qiuye's cultivation was so terrifying!

"Nothing, old man Ge usually won't pay attention to us, little people like ants. It's just that it's better to be safe than sorry. Senior Brother Xiao, you must remember that you should be extra cautious when facing Ge Qiuye."

"Yeah." Xiao Han's heart warmed up, and he said gratefully: "I will. Thank you for reminding me, Brother Chen."

A moment later...

On the main seat, Ge Qiuye turned his head left and right, and whispered with the other four old men in the front row. His deep eyes suddenly turned and fell on the middle-aged man with a long sword in front of the spirit inspection platform. He said with a pleasant face: "Little Duan, let's start!"

The middle-aged man bowed, clasped his fists, and replied respectfully: "Yes, Uncle Ge."

The middle-aged man's name is Duan Yan. He is the main person in charge of this spiritual root inspection. He is in the early stage of the Golden Core Realm and is a sword master. The fat and thin middle-aged men standing on the left and right sides of the spirit inspection platform are secondary persons in charge. Their cultivation is all in the perfect foundation building realm.

After Duan Yan saluted, his eyes slowly turned to the platform and became majestic. Then, he raised his hand and waved it in the air, and a rather illusory scroll floated in front of him.

"Xu Changge." Duan Yan glanced at the illusory scroll and called out a name.

At this time, under the platform, among the dark crowd, a man suddenly jumped into the air, jumped onto the platform, and walked quickly to the spirit inspection platform. He first bowed deeply in the east direction, then turned to Duan Yan and bowed, and finally the two fat and thin middle-aged men.

After doing all this, Xu Changge slowly approached the dark brown pillar, and looked up at the huge disc on the top of the pillar and the sphere floating above the disc, then took a deep breath, and then slowly put his palm on the dark brown pillar, using his true energy.

In a blink of an eye, with a crackling sound, the dark brown column lit up, and Xu Changge's true energy followed the shining column directly to the huge white disc. At this time, a flash of light similar to lightning suddenly appeared in the middle of the huge white disc, connecting to one of the groups of khaki spheres.

As Xu Changge continued to input his true energy, one of the originally dim khaki spheres suddenly lit up, and then the second sphere also began to emit light, but unfortunately, the second sphere did not light up completely like the first sphere, and Xu Changge's expression was a little disappointed.

"Xu Changge, spiritual root attribute, earth system. Spiritual root level: low-level yellow grade!" Duan Yan, the person in charge of the spirit inspection platform, took a look at the white disc. In the end, only one of the khaki spheres lit up, and announced it in an indifferent tone...

As soon as the result came out, Xu Changge lowered his head and jumped off the platform without saying a word. He was a little lonely, which formed a sharp contrast with when he first jumped onto the platform.

Although Xu Changge's spiritual root level was relatively low, there were few disciples present who disdained to ridicule him. After all, everyone knew that people with high-level spiritual roots were a minority. Besides, compared to some disciples who could barely light up one sphere, Xu Changge almost lit up two, which was already very good.

"Next, Cao Bai!"

Hearing the middle-aged man's shout, a dark-skinned boy jumped up with full confidence... However, the boy didn't feel happy for long, and like Xu Changge, he left the platform dejectedly.

"Next, Chen Ping!"

"Next, Gu Yixiao!"

"Next..."

More than a dozen disciples had low-level yellow spiritual roots, which made Duan Yan, who was responsible for the spiritual root testing, frown. How could the quality of this batch of disciples be so poor? There was not even a middle-level yellow spiritual root. Not only Duan Yan, but also the sword masters and great sword masters sitting in the east direction looked unhappy. After all, they had a turn once a month and were looking forward to a good seedling to be accepted as an apprentice. Unexpectedly, this batch of disciples would be so bad. However, Ge Qiuye smiled as usual, as if he was just joining in the fun.

"Next, Ye Xiaoyun!"

In the noisy crowd, the voice of the middle-aged man rang again.

As this somewhat elegant name rang, the crowd suddenly quieted down, and all eyes shifted suddenly.

At the point where all the disciples' eyes converged, a girl in a light green dress lightly tapped her toes, like a light green butterfly, flew into the air, and landed steadily on the high platform. Her calm but somewhat immature face did not change at all because of the attention of everyone.

"The ninth level of Qi training period!"

"Tsk tsk, so amazing, she is already at the ninth level at such a young age. I guess her spiritual root level must be not low. In this case, I am afraid that she may become a foundation-building strongman in at most three years..."

"Who said it wasn't! Didn't you notice that there was a green leaf embroidered on her clothes on her chest?"

"Xianyang City, Ye Family..."

As soon as the girl came on stage, the dark crowd below became noisy, and there were waves of envy. Even some of the people sitting in the east direction had some hot eyes.

The girl was only thirteen or fourteen years old. Although she was not stunningly beautiful, her childish face was very pretty. She smiled slightly, with a hint of charm. Her beautiful eyes were full of innocence. The charm and innocence were perfectly combined, making her the focus of the whole audience...

The girl walked forward quickly, bowed to the east, saluted respectfully, then walked to the middle-aged man, smiled, and saluted respectfully: "Xiaoyun meets Uncle Duan!"

"Well, go!" Duan Yan nodded symbolically. Obviously, he knew the girl.

The girl moved slightly and walked lightly to the dark brown pillar. Like everyone else, she looked up at the white disk and the group of spheres above the disk, and then stretched out her delicate hand and gently touched the dark brown pillar.

Suddenly, a more powerful true energy suddenly jumped into the dark brown column, accompanied by a sharp "sizzling" sound, and the white disc instantly emitted a lightning-like light, connecting to a group of dark green spheres. In a blink of an eye, three of the originally dim dark green spheres suddenly lit up, and then the fourth sphere also lit up, followed by the fifth, the sixth...

However, in the end, the sixth sphere only lit up less than half, and then turned dim again.

"Ye Xiaoyun, spiritual root attribute, wood. Spiritual root level: Xuanpin intermediate!"

"Yeah!" Hearing the final result shouted by the middle-aged man, the girl's tender cheeks flushed, and she suddenly raised a smug smile.

"Hiss!" Before the middle-aged man's voice fell, there was a sound of gasps from the audience, and then, envious eyes gathered on the girl at the same time.

At this time, in the east direction, the dozen people present suddenly became agitated, looking around and whispering to each other. However, after a brief conversation, everyone's eyes fell on Ge Qiuye, as if they were waiting for something.

Ge Qiuye looked at the expectant eyes and said with a smile: "You don't need to look at me. I came here today mainly to watch the fun. If you want to accept disciples, you can do whatever you want."

"But..."

Ge Qiuye glanced at the four old men who looked much older than him, and added: "I still think privately that although the girl's qualifications are not bad, she is not yet at the advanced level of Xuanpin. Several junior brothers are elders who are close to great powers. Over the years, they have accepted a lot of good seedlings. This newcomer who is neither good nor bad, you should not compete with the younger generation behind you this time."

"Hehe!"

After that, Ge Qiuye laughed again, and said: "But this is just my personal opinion, you can do whatever you want, whatever you want! Haha..."

The faces of the old men froze, but they forced a smile and said in unison: "Brother Ge is right!"

In fact, although the old men said so, they had already cursed Ge Qiuye thousands of times in their hearts: "Damn old Ge, a villain with a knife in his smile, he doesn't accept disciples himself, and doesn't let us accept disciples, it's so hateful..."

However, they didn't dare to offend Ge Qiuye, so they could only compromise, because their strength was not as good as that of the surname Ge.

The middle-aged men behind Ge Qiuye were very excited when they heard Ge Qiuye say so. After all, the spiritual root level of the disciples accepted by sword masters of their level was mostly low-level Xuanpin, and even high-level Huangpin. Disciples like this who were above the middle-level Xuanpin or high-level Xuanpin were basically snatched away by great sword masters with higher status, and they had few opportunities.

Therefore, the elders in front were silent, but the ones behind were arguing with each other, and no one was willing to give in. In the end, they could only decide to let the girl on the stage choose for herself.

Not long after, Ye Xiaoyun walked quickly to the elders after a round of greetings. Originally, she naturally thought that one of the elders wanted to accept her as a direct disciple, and she was particularly excited, especially when she looked at Ge Qiuye on the main seat, her eyes were even more blazing.

The reason why Ye Xiaoyun had such an idea was not because she was too confident in herself, but because the sect had always had a basis to rely on. On the spirit test platform, the disciples whose spiritual roots were found to reach the intermediate level of Xuanpin would generally be directly accepted as direct disciples by the great swordsman level.

As a member of the Ye family in Xianyang City, Ye Xiaoyun knew this very well.

Moreover, Ye Xiaoyun knew much more than that. For example, she had heard of Ge Qiuye, who was called "Smiling Yama" in front of her. As far as she knew, although the reputation of this "Smiling Yama" in front of her was not very good in the sect, almost all the disciples avoided him. However, Ge Qiuye was very good to his own disciples.

In addition, Ye Xiaoyun knew that although Ge Qiuye was also a great swordsman, he had already stepped into the Nascent Soul realm. He was one of the few among the nearly 100 great swordsmen in the Sanqing Sect. As for Ge Qiuye's realm, some people once called it a half-step Nascent Soul, because in this realm, as long as the time is right, it is possible to step into the Nascent Soul realm at any time and become a powerful practitioner who knows everything.

Therefore, Ye Xiaoyun naturally wanted to worship a strong man like Ge Qiuye.

However, Ye Xiaoyun never dreamed that it was the old man in front of her that she had been looking forward to the most that had caused her to lose the opportunity to become a great swordsman.

In the end, Ye Xiaoyun had no choice but to become a disciple of one of the swordsmen in the back row. After all, no matter what, becoming a disciple of a swordsman and becoming a yellow disciple was a hundred or a thousand times better than becoming an entry-level disciple.

Ye Xiaoyun knew that in the path of cultivation, it was completely different to have a good teacher to guide her and to explore on her own. She was now at the ninth level of the Qi training stage. If someone guided her, maybe in about three years, she could rely on the help of the foundation-building pill to enter the foundation-building realm. If she became an entry-level disciple, with almost no one to guide her, she might not be able to build a foundation even after five or ten years. If that happened, her cultivation would basically be ruined.