Old Mo was very excited, stretching his hands out behind him and shouting that he wanted to give it a try.
The two fellow cultivators who were about to test saw this and kindly made way for him.
The Wudang disciple in charge of the test challenge saw this and said with a smile,
"Alright, this Daoist brother is welcome!"
After speaking, he gestured for Old Mo to step forward.
Old Mo squeezed into the crowd with a chuckle and cupped his fists towards the people around him,
"Fellow Daoists, thank you. I am just too excited."
The fellow Daoists around him smiled faintly,
"Daoist brother, please!"
"Daoist brother, go for it."
"..."
A few encouraging words from the side.
The Wudang disciple also spoke up,
"Daoist brother, have you understood the rules clearly?"
Old Mo patted his chest and said,
"I understand everything, let's start directly!"
"Fine! Come on!"
After speaking, he handed over a small booklet resembling a sign-up sheet for Old Mo to sign.
Old Mo, without any hesitation, wrote his Daoist name, "Yang Ting."
Seeing this, Qiu Xi, Chen Yao, and I also cheered Old Mo on,
"Old Mo, go for it!"
"Go, break the record."
"Senior Brother, I'm rooting for you!"
Old Mo turned to us with a smile, his expression serious and a bit theatrical as he said,
"Glory be with me."
Old Mo said it earnestly, but as we heard it, we felt a pang of awkwardness.
The dozen or so people around looked at Old Mo strangely.
Old Mo ignored their gazes and grasped the rune-inscribed iron rod, taking a deep breath.
"Come on! Let's see my spirit root talent!"
Old Mo let out a long roar, his full cultivation unleashed, and waves of Dao energy rippled outwards.
The surrounding crowd instantly felt the surging Dao energy from Old Mo's body.
Each of them revealed expressions of astonishment,
"Holy crap, such strong Dao energy!"
"This, this Dao energy strength, it's at the Soul Palace realm, isn't it?"
"Definitely Soul Palace realm, even mid-to-late stage strength."
"Holy crap, is this overly dramatic fellow's cultivation so high?"
"..."
The more than ten onlookers present looked at Old Mo with surprise.
The young Wudang Daoist in charge of the test also widened his eyes.
The next second, he saw the rune-inscribed iron rod instantly change color.
From black, it rapidly turned a brilliant gold.
This color signified a metal-element spirit root.
And its brightness far surpassed that of the pale green spirit root of the Maoshan Daoist who tested earlier.
"Wow, such a bright metal-element spirit root!"
"I've watched dozens of people test, and his spirit root talent is the brightest."
"..."
While everyone was still amazed, the runes on the iron rod began to light up one after another.
One, two, three, four, five...
The speed was fast, almost one every three seconds.
In just fifteen seconds, there were already five, and the speed did not decrease, heading straight for the sixth rune segment.
The more than ten fellow cultivators watching were once again dumbfounded and astonished.
"Six, six runes lit up, surpassing Brother Long's."
"Seven, seven, seven!"
"Heavens, eight!"
"What did I just see, the ninth rune lit up!"
"..."
Suddenly, the more than ten people present became excited.
Each of them widened their eyes, exclaiming incessantly.
Even the Wudang disciple in charge of the test could not believe it.
The current highest recorded record was set by their Wudang's third-generation eldest disciple, Senior Disciple Li Chunlong, who lit up nine rune segments.
In the current Daoist circles, he was considered an exceptionally talented individual, a top-tier existence.
As of now, no one had reached nine rune segments.
But now, it had happened.
Everyone held their breath, looking at Old Mo with astonishment.
Old Mo, however, continued to unleash his Dao energy with excitement.
As a result, the runes it permeated continued to surge upwards.
"It's going up again, it's going up again..."
"My god! Ten, ten rune segments lit up!"
"No way! Did this guy surpass Li Chunlong's record?"
"Look, it's eleven, and it's still rising."
"Could it be, could it be a super spirit root talent with a full set of runes?"
"..."
At this moment, the surrounding people exclaimed again.
The onlookers became excited.
Xia Qiu Xi and I, however, were relatively less excited.
After all, we knew his background.
Old Mo's spirit root talent was a rare, extreme metal-element spirit root, and a particularly extreme one at that.
Otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to cultivate lightning techniques.
And his cultivation speed was so fast...
It was just that we hadn't expected it to be so striking on this spiritual energy testing iron rod.
Around the fifty-second mark, the twelfth rune segment on the iron rod in Old Mo's hand lit up.
All twelve turned a brilliant gold, completely infused.
This sudden change caused the testing point to explode.
Everyone exclaimed repeatedly.
The disciple from Maoshan Long who had just finished testing was petrified on the spot.
With all twelve rune segments lit up, what kind of terrifying spirit root talent was this?
"Boundless Heavenly Venerable, what am I seeing?"
"Is this real? I heard my master say that only extreme spirit roots can possibly light up all twelve rune segments."
"He, he actually has the one-in-ten-thousand extreme metal-element spirit root!"
"..."
The scene was in an uproar.
The Wudang testing disciple was also petrified on the spot.
He looked at Old Mo, who was holding the rune-inscribed iron rod, in disbelief...