At the beginning, I cleaned the Sutra Library and completed the incomplete skills.

Listening to their unreservedly sarcastic words, Li Lan didn't care, or rather, didn't take them to heart at all.

In this past year.

He had heard far more vicious ridicule from those outer disciples.

Now that Li Lan faced it again, he could already remain calm and composed.

As usual, he made a Daoist salute towards Tie Niu.

After greeting him, Li Lan walked straight behind him.

Under the antique small pavilion, several outer disciples were registering the identity information of those participating in the Grand Ceremony.

Unexpectedly for Li Lan.

When he passed by Tie Niu, the other party slightly turned and actually blocked his path.

Li Lan felt a slight doubt in his heart, but his face remained calm.

He stopped and looked at the other party, saying faintly:

"I wonder what Fellow Daoist Wang wants to advise?"

Wang Tie Niu said coldly:

"Four spiritual roots destined you to not be suitable for cultivating immortality, why be so stubbornly persistent?"

"Go back, leave yourself some final dignity, and proactively return to be a carefree mortal."

When Li Lan heard this, he realized that the other party was actually lecturing him.

He found it very amusing in his heart.

He cupped his hands, maintaining courtesy, and said:

"Does Fellow Daoist Wang have anything else?"

"If not, please step aside, I need to register my identity information."

Seeing that he was treating his words as wind passing his ears, an unnamed fire rose in Tie Niu's heart.

"Truly foolish! I have already asked my master, it is absolutely impossible for four spiritual roots to step into the first level of Qi Refining in a year, you have no hope this year!"

"I kindly advised you, but you didn't listen, and you insist on participating in this Grand Ceremony, making a fool of yourself in public and losing all the face of Qinglan Village?"

Li Lan then understood that the reason the other party said so much, seemingly for his sake.

In reality, what he truly cared about was his own face.

"How would you know it's impossible if you haven't tried?"

"Fellow Daoist Wang should know the principle of not being afraid of losing if you want to win, right?"

"I still have some matters to attend to, excuse me."

Li Lan didn't stop and walked around the other party, heading straight for the pavilion.

Hearing these words, Tie Niu was stunned in place.

Don't be afraid of losing if you want to win, he was no stranger to this sentence.

Before joining the Guangji Temple.

He and Li Lan climbed all the mountains in search of the immortal path, and whenever he wanted to give up, the other party would always encourage him with this sentence.

The young man said that there were many reasonable things to say, but only this sentence was most vividly remembered by Tie Niu.

It was under the encouragement of this sentence that he gritted his teeth and persevered, finally reaching this point today.

Tie Niu believed that this sentence was right, but it also depended on the situation.

Now is different from when he was climbing mountains in search of the Dao.

Now that he already knew the tragic ending that could not be changed, why was the other party still so optimistic and confident?

Putting himself in his shoes, if it were him.

Knowing that he had four spiritual roots and that his cultivation base had a gap with others that was no less than a chasm.

Tie Niu was afraid that he would have given up early and gone down the mountain in disgrace as soon as he had tested his spiritual roots.

"Li Lan from Qinglan Village, with four spiritual root qualifications of metal, wood, fire, and earth, applies to participate in the Guangji Temple Dust Washing and Entering Dao Grand Ceremony."

No longer paying attention to the stunned Tie Niu, Li Lan stepped straight into the pavilion and said neither humble nor arrogant.

Li Lan clearly saw the undisguised look of contempt in the eyes of the disciple in charge of registration.

But he didn't care.

He was just here to register information and participate in the Dust Washing and Entering Dao Grand Ceremony.

What others thought or how they looked at him was not important to Li Lan.

He had already tested his spiritual roots last year, so there was naturally no need to repeat it this time.

After registering the information as quickly as possible, Li Lan prepared to leave.

Unexpectedly, at this moment, a cry of surprise suddenly came from not far away.

"Heavenly Spiritual Root?!"

The voice was full of shock and disbelief.

As soon as these words came out.

Everyone present, whether it was the outer disciples responsible for maintaining order or those responsible for registering information, all looked in the direction of the sound at the same time.

Their eyes were full of surprise.

It's no wonder they were so out of control.

Two attributes of the True Spiritual Root are already extremely rare existences in the Guangji Temple, like phoenix feathers and unicorn horns.

Not to mention the Heavenly Spiritual Root, which has a faster cultivation speed than them and basically only exists in legends.

All the outer disciples were looking forward to it.

They couldn't help but want to see with their own eyes what the legendary Heavenly Spiritual Root looked like.

Li Lan was no exception either.

His location was extremely close to the place where the spiritual roots were being tested.

With a turn of his head, he could see the situation there clearly.

In another carved and painted pavilion.

A child wearing simple clothes with patches all over them was standing there, his skinny little hand resting on the spiritual root testing stone.

At this moment, the stone, which was originally transparent, was emitting a dazzling emerald green light.

It was indeed a wood attribute Heavenly Spiritual Root.

The child was a little dull, and his eyes were full of confusion.

He didn't seem to understand what it meant to test such a spiritual root.

But the others present, especially those outer disciples, were all in an uproar at this time.

Tie Niu only stayed stunned for less than a moment before reacting instantly.

He didn't bother to think about why Li Lan was so confident, and his tense body shot out like an arrow leaving the string.

The target was the Heavenly Spiritual Root child.

The reason why Tie Niu came here was to explore in advance for his master to see if there were any suitable good seedlings.

Now that he had encountered the legendary Heavenly Spiritual Root qualification, how could he easily let it go?

But he was fast, and the speed of the others was no slower.

In an instant.

The Heavenly Spiritual Root child was already surrounded by outer disciples.

They all put one hand on the child's body, staring fiercely at the surrounding competitors with burning eyes, not giving an inch.

"Fellow brothers, this child's spiritual roots were tested by me personally, so naturally he should belong to Elder Jianchen's sect."

"Please let go, don't scare the child."

The thick-browed disciple holding the spiritual root testing stone then realized that he had made a slip of the tongue and caused a disaster, and quickly declared his sovereignty.

Unexpectedly, the disciples present didn't give him any face at all.

One of the older outer disciples immediately said with a smile:

"Hehe, junior brother, you are wrong."

"Elder Jianchen is only at the early stage of Foundation Establishment, how can he give this child the best guidance?"

"It's not easy for Guangji Temple to produce a genius, we must not bury him."

"In my opinion, this child should still be managed by my master, so that his potential can be maximized."

The thick-browed disciple's face immediately sank when he heard this.

He shouted sternly:

"Bastard! How dare you insult my master?!"

The slightly older disciple didn't give in at all and sneered:

"How dare I insult Martial Uncle Jianchen? I'm just stating the facts."

Seeing this situation, the disciples of the other outer elders couldn't sit still either and joined in the verbal dispute one after another.

"If you want to compare realms, which martial uncle or senior uncle can beat my master? This child should naturally be taken into my master's sect!"

"What's the use of having a high realm? Which time has your master won in the fighting and sparring? It's still most stable to decide the ownership of this child based on strength."

"Having a hard fist doesn't mean you can definitely teach disciples well, the key is to be willing to invest cultivation resources. My master has been drawing talismans all year round and is quite wealthy, which happens to be able to take on this important task, this child can only be taught by my master!"

......

Seeing these outer disciples, who were usually very amiable, were all now like fighting roosters, not giving an inch.

The thick-browed disciple's heart had sunk to the bottom.

His face was gloomy for a long time, and then he turned his head and instructed Tie Niu:

"This matter is of great importance and cannot be decided by us, quickly report this matter to Master Jianchen!"