I died young at the start, but I'm reincarnated with unlimited skill points!

A top-grade spiritual root.

This is a top-tier talent, one in ten thousand, found only in the cultivation world.

Moreover, it is a mutated spiritual root with both lightning and fire elements.

If this kind of talent doesn't falter along the way, he will surely become a powerful figure who commands respect in the region in the future.

On the high platform, several Golden Core stage elders from the Taixu Immortal Palace who were in charge of supervising the Immortal Seed Ceremony were also alarmed.

Three beams of light, each at the Golden Core stage, flew down from the high platform and landed directly in front of Su Yu.

The leading Golden Core elder stared intently at Su Yu.

He released his divine sense and scanned Su Yu.

Sensing the pure thunder and fire aura within Su Yu's body, the Golden Core Elder's joy deepened.

"Such pure lightning and fire essence! Such talent is truly a treasure bestowed upon my Taixu Immortal Palace by the heavens!"

The Golden Core Elder strode up to Su Yu, his tone becoming very gentle.

"Child, what's your name? Where are your parents?"

Su Yu withdrew his hand, pretending to be intimidated by the imposing aura of the Golden Core elders.

He took a step back, lowered his head, and spoke softly.

"I... my name is Su Yu. I have no parents, everyone in the village is dead, I escaped alone."

When the Golden Core Elder heard that Su Yu was an orphan, a barely perceptible hint of satisfaction flashed in his eyes.

Orphans are best, as they have no family ties and sending them to the alchemy room won't cause any trouble.

"Good child, don't be afraid. From today onwards, the Taixu Immortal Palace is your home."

The Golden Core Elder reached out his hand, wanting to touch Su Yu's head.

Su Yu tilted his head slightly, dodging the Golden Core Elder's hand.

He raised his head and looked at the Golden Core Elder with his large, uneasy eyes.

"Grandpa Immortal, once we enter the celestial palace, will we be able to get enough to eat?"

Elder Jin Dan burst into laughter.

"You will naturally be able to eat your fill. Not only will you be able to eat your fill, but there will also be countless elixirs and miraculous medicines for you to enjoy. You will become the most noble immortal seedling in the celestial palace."

Elder Jin Dan turned to look at the deacon in charge of the test.

"Immediately suspend the testing of this pillar and take this child to the rear hall under strict guard. I, the elder, will personally report this matter to the Palace Master!"

The deacon nodded repeatedly and respectfully accepted the order.

The slightly chubby boy standing in the qualified area on the right was staring at this scene in disbelief.

He had just mocked Su Yu as a beggar, but now this beggar had been found to have a mutated top-grade spiritual root, alarming the Golden Core elder.

The slightly chubby boy's face turned pale and then red, his eyes filled with jealousy.

Two Foundation Establishment stage disciples walked up to Su Yu, their attitudes very polite.

"Junior brother, come with us."

Su Yu nodded and followed the two disciples toward the magnificent hall behind the plaza.

His steps were somewhat hesitant, vividly portraying a mortal child who had just entered the immortal realm.

The surrounding rogue cultivators cast envious glances.

In their eyes, this homeless orphan had suddenly become incredibly successful.

Su Yu walked through the main hall's doors.

The light inside the door became somewhat dim.

He lowered his head, concealing the fleeting, chilling killing intent in his eyes.

He entered through the gates of the Taixu Immortal Palace.

This is just the first step.

Next, he will use this identity as a "divine seedling" to gradually approach Tai Lingzi.

Tai Lingzi wanted to use a top-grade spiritual root to prolong his life.

Su Yu would personally deliver his "elixir" coated with deadly poison into Tai Lingzi's mouth.

He wanted the entire Taixu Immortal Palace to pay the most painful price for the pursuit back then.

In the central square of Cloud City, the air was filled with an indelible stench of sweat and dust.

The sun was directly overhead, making the entire bluestone pavement scalding hot underfoot.

Several hundred deacons of the Taixu Immortal Palace stood guard beside fifty white jade testing pillars, holding rosters in their hands and calling out the next person in a row.

The test had been going on for most of the day, and the expressions on the deacons' faces had long since become wooden.

Before this, they had already seen tens of thousands of children.

Most of these children were sent from surrounding towns, and some were simply orphans picked up by wandering monks in the wild.

"Next up, Wang Xiaoer."

The deacon, sitting behind the third test pillar, called out without even looking up.

A little boy who looked only five or six years old stepped forward and placed his hand on the cold test column.

The crystal flickered a few times, emitting a faint, yellowish-brown light like a firefly.

The deacon frowned and drew a line on the roster.

"A fifth-grade earth spirit root, not enough potential. Go to the back and collect two spirit stones to take home."

The little boy pouted and burst into tears, only to be quickly pulled aside by his father.

The butler dusted off the table, picked up the iced tea next to him, took a big gulp, and complained to his companion.

"Old Zhang, all we've seen this morning is this kind of stuff. It's all either fifth or sixth grade, I haven't even seen a fourth grade one, let alone a top-grade immortal seedling."

The deacon, called Old Zhang, also looked distressed, and he fanned himself with the roster in his hand.

"Who says otherwise? This time, Patriarch Tai Lingzi gave a strict order to find high-quality fire and lightning attribute children, but we haven't found a single one. If we keep testing like this, we'll probably get a scolding when it's time to hand in our report tonight."

The two deacons exchanged a glance, their eyes filled with helplessness and impatience.

They looked at the children in line as if they were looking at a pile of useless stones, and couldn't muster any enthusiasm for them.

At that moment, Su Yu was in the middle of the queue.

His current appearance is indeed very deceptive.

His tattered blue Taoist robe was covered in black mud stains, and his small face was smeared with gray and purple patches. Only his big eyes looked somewhat bright, but he was deliberately putting on a trembling look.

While waiting in line, he observed the reactions of the deacons.

These people's patience has almost run out, which is exactly what he wanted to see.

Only by appearing when the other party is most agitated can the contrast cause these high-ranking members of the Taixu Immortal Palace to instantly lose their rational judgment.

Su Yu lowered his head and deliberately hunched his shoulders, looking like a refugee who had just crawled out of a pile of corpses.

The line moved forward slowly and soon reached Su Yu.

Old Zhang, who had just been complaining, tapped on the autograph book; his voice was a little hoarse.

"Next one, you in tattered clothes, hurry up and get over here, don't waste time."

Upon hearing the call, Su Yu deliberately flinched before taking small, quick steps forward.

He stopped in front of the white jade testing pillar, rubbing his hands incessantly on his tattered clothes, his lips pressed tightly together, as if he were frightened by the tall stone pillar.

Old Zhang, the steward, glared at him and slammed the pen in his hand on the table.

"What are you dawdling for? Put your hand on it and press it down firmly."

Su Yu slowly stretched out her dirty little hand, her palm covered in black mud.

The butler's eyes twitched as he watched the expensive crystal being applied to the hand. He felt a pang of heartache but was too lazy to say anything more.

The moment Su Yu's palm touched the testing pillar, his consciousness instantly activated the Primordial Dao Fruit hidden within his body.

He didn't release any of the power of a Foundation Establishment Grand Perfection cultivator; he simply let the fabricated mutated lightning and fire aura seep into the array inside the stone pillar through the pores of his palm.

The array inside the stone pillar was originally in a semi-dormant state, but after being impacted by this aura, the internal crystal circuits suddenly started operating wildly.

"Buzz!"

A dull thud came from underground, and the floorboards several meters away trembled three times.

Just as Elder Zhang was about to pick up his teacup and take another sip, the commotion startled him so much that he spilled tea all over his crotch.

Before he could even start cursing, his eyes widened.

Two beams of light, like fire snakes, suddenly shot out from the bottom of the originally white test column.

One was purplish-gold, carrying an explosive aura of lightning.

The other one was crimson, radiating a heat that made your skin feel tight.

The two beams of light were locked in a fierce struggle, intertwining and climbing up the pillar at a speed too fast for anyone to see clearly.

In the blink of an eye, the light surpassed the mark representing the fifth rank and then directly broke through the boundary of the first rank.

Finally, the two beams of light merged into one in the spherical crystal at the very top of the pillar, transforming into a burst of intense purplish-red light.

The light grew brighter and brighter, eventually becoming like a thick pillar of light that shot directly into the clouds above Cloud City.

The noisy sounds in the square vanished instantly, becoming so quiet you could hear a pin drop.

Old Zhang, the steward in charge of the test, stared wide-eyed, unaware that the roster in his hand had fallen to the ground and gotten soaked with tea.

He looked at the intense crimson light so close to him, and everything before his eyes seemed to blur.

"Thunderfire... Thunderfire dual-grade?"

He muttered something, then lost his footing on the bench and fell flat on his back, looking utterly pathetic.

But he didn't care about his image at all. As he crawled backward, he pointed at Su Yu and shouted incoherently.

"A mutated spiritual root! A mutated top-grade spiritual root! A monster has appeared! No, a deity has appeared!"

That shout brought everyone in the square back to their senses.

The rogue cultivators who were originally queuing up had their eyes red with envy, wishing they could replace Su Yu with their own child.

On the high platform at the very front of the square, the inner elders of the Taixu Immortal Palace were resting with their eyes closed.

At this level of testing, they usually just sit in the room and don't actually do anything themselves.

But the moment that crimson beam of light pierced the sky, the chairs on the platform simultaneously exploded.

A figure dressed in a long robe with gold trim moved faster than lightning.

This elder is named Lu Desheng. He is one of the powerful elders of the inner sect of Taixu Immortal Palace and has a cultivation level of mid-Nascent Soul stage.

He was originally worried about how to gather the necessary ingredients for refining pills for the Grandmaster Tai Lingzi, and this beam of light simply saved his life.

The next moment, Lu Desheng was already standing in front of Su Yu.

Because of his high speed, the force of his landing kicked up a cloud of dust.

Su Yu sneered inwardly, but on his face he pretended to be terrified and frozen, his hand still pressed firmly against the stone pillar, too afraid to move.

Without wasting any words, Lu Desheng stretched out his withered but powerful hand and grabbed Su Yu's slender wrist.

Su Yu felt an extremely powerful divine sense enter his body through his wrist, scanning his meridians and dantian like a radar.

Because the disguise of the Primordial Dao Fruit was so sophisticated, what Lu Desheng saw was just a child who had not yet begun cultivation, whose body contained a thunder and fire source that was about to overflow.

As Lu Desheng felt the purity of that primordial energy, the muscles on his face twitched incessantly.

He had lived for over four hundred years and had never seen such a clean and domineering primordial spiritual root.

This is no mere seedling of immortality; it's practically a millennia-old elixir born within a human body.

As long as this child is given to Ancestor Tai Lingzi, not only will he be able to keep his position as an elder, but he might even receive a slight promotion from the ancestor, and there is hope that he can break through to the late stage of the Nascent Soul realm.

The murderous aura and imposing presence on Lu Desheng's face vanished instantly, replaced by a kind smile like that of a wolf in sheep's clothing.

He loosened his grip on Su Yu's hand slightly, his tone becoming unusually gentle.

"Good child, don't be afraid, Grandpa is not a bad person."

Su Yu lowered her head, her body trembling slightly, and two tears welled up in her eyes at just the right moment.

Tears streamed down his muddy face, leaving two white streaks.

Lu Desheng squatted down, trying to make himself and Su Yu look at each other at eye level.

"Tell Grandpa, what's your name? Who else lives in your family? Why are you here all alone?"

Su Yu sobbed a few times, her voice barely audible, like a mosquito's buzz.

"I...I'm Su Yu. I have no home, and I have no parents."

At this point, Su Yu burst into tears, rubbing her eyes vigorously with her little hands to spread the mud evenly across her face.

"A few nights ago, many large tigers with wings rushed into the village, trampling everywhere, and the houses collapsed. My parents stuffed me into the cellar and told me not to come out. When I crawled out, the village was covered in blood, and there wasn't a single living person left."

Su Yu cried his heart out. He was so immersed in the role that his body even began to twitch slightly due to lack of oxygen.

The deacons standing nearby felt a pang of sadness, thinking how unfortunate the child's life was.

When Lu Desheng heard the words "his parents are all dead" and "the village was trampled to the ground," his smile grew even wider.

Having spent so many years in the cultivation world, he has long since lost all humanity.

In his eyes, since Su Yu was an orphan, it meant that he had no background and no ties.

These seedlings, as clean as white paper, are perfect for refining medicine.

The most hated thing about the patriarch Tai Lingzi was those scions of aristocratic families. He would have to consider the consequences and retaliation behind killing one of them.

Someone like Su Yu, whose family line has ended, wouldn't even be bothered if he were burned to ashes in an alchemy furnace.

Lu Desheng suddenly burst into laughter, the sound so loud it made the surrounding air buzz.

He stood up and cupped his hands in a gesture of respect towards the sky.

"It's fate! It really is fate!"

He lowered his head, touched Su Yu's messy hair, and even handed Su Yu a talisman with a calming effect.

"Good child, don't cry. Those demonic beasts will be dealt with in time. From today onwards, the Taixu Immortal Palace is your home."

"You will no longer have to wander or fear hunger. I will take you to see the greatest ancestor in the Celestial Palace. He will accept you as his successor and bestow upon you the blessing of immortality."

As Lu Desheng spoke, he gave a wink to the steward beside him.

Deacon Zhang quickly scrambled to his feet and chased away the surrounding rogue cultivators who were still in a daze.

"What are you looking at! The Immortal Seed Ceremony is suspended! Seal this pillar!"

Lu Desheng scooped up Su Yu in his arms, as if he were carrying a mountain of top-grade spirit stones.