Lu Heng scooped up Lu Da Niu and walked towards the table where the crystals were placed.
He set Lu Da Niu down after the boy’s headache seemed to have subsided.
“Try placing your hands on that crystal again.”
“Mr. Lu, just now…”
“Let him try,” said Wu Chenzi, who had emerged from the restaurant and now stood by the table.
Lu Da Niu walked to the table, took a deep breath, and placed his hands on the spirit stone for testing once more.
“Gold Spirit Root!”
“It’s really a Gold Spirit Root!”
“Damn it, pinch me! Didn’t it fail the test twice just now? Ow, it hurts, it’s real…”
Wu Chenzi was also astonished. He lifted the boy’s hands off the spirit stone, and the stone returned to its original color.
Then, he pressed the boy’s hands back onto it.
“I am truly fortunate, young friend Lu, you…”
Wu Chenzi released the boy’s hands and then turned to Lu Heng, speaking incoherently.
“Damn, that kid ate something from that cultivator earlier, and then… what was that thing?” someone suddenly shouted from the crowd.
Everyone looked at Lu Heng as if he were a monster, but their expressions were not of fear, but of excitement.
Lu Da Niu, who had been in a daze, now turned ecstatic. He turned again and knelt before Lu Heng, “My lord, for your life-saving grace, I, Lu Da Niu, can never repay you in this life. This life, Da Niu wishes to follow you, and forever be a disciple of the Dan Yang Sect…”
Wu Chenzi, “Hahaha, excellent! My Dan Yang Sect has gained another Gold Spirit Root disciple… Wait? No.”
Wu Chenzi seemed to have just remembered something. He turned to look at Lu Heng, “Why don’t you join us as well…”
“Uh…”
It wasn’t that Lu Heng didn’t want to join. He had to travel back and forth between two worlds. If he were tied down to the Dan Yang Sect, with people constantly looking for him, how could he escape?
After all, he understood this continent. Even if the other world was full of zombies, he still preferred to return to a familiar environment.
It was just killing zombies. He could lead everyone to level up, and eliminating zombies would be just around the corner, especially since the other world was more technologically advanced.
“I think there’s something I need to tell you. I am not from the Dan Yang Sect. I’m just here to join in the fun this time,” Lu Heng explained to Lu Da Niu.
“I am willing to follow you my entire life and not join the Dan Yang Sect.”
This… why did that sound so awkward?
“I mean, I don’t have a sect.”
“I was born into poverty, even if I had to endure hardships…”
“Stop.”
“You don’t wish to take me in, Mr.? Is it because my aptitude is poor?”
“Wow… if this Gold Spirit Root is considered poor aptitude, then what are those with Green Spirit Roots? And what are we who cannot cultivate?”
“That’s right.”
Wu Chenzi was beginning to understand. The boy had consumed the item that looked like a magic crystal, given by Lu Heng, and then he had the qualifications to cultivate after re-testing.
He then took out a level one magic crystal from his person and handed it to Lu Da Niu, “Take this again, and let me see which attribute your Gold Spirit Root is.”
Lu Da Niu glanced at Lu Heng. After Lu Heng nodded, he took the magic crystal from Wu Chenzi and consumed it.
Soon, a piece of information appeared in his mind: Enlightenment in Fire and Lightning elements.
He looked up at Lu Heng blankly, waiting for an explanation.
“Try to mobilize the energy within your body and gather it in your hands,” Wu Chenzi patted Lu Da Niu’s head. This little fellow now had to consult Lu Heng for everything?
Lu Heng nodded at Lu Da Niu again. It was better to ask Wu Chenzi and the others about cultivation techniques, as they were more mature in this regard and had developed many cultivation methods.
Lu Da Niu followed Wu Chenzi’s instructions, concentrated, and mobilized the energy he felt within his body. Immediately, a ball of red flame and purple lightning appeared on each of his hands.
“He even has Lightning element, no wonder,” Wu Chenzi stroked his beard, looking thoughtful.
“Right,” Wu Chenzi also took out a handful of level four crystals. These were given to him by Lu Heng not long ago. He had studied them for a long time after returning but couldn’t figure out their special properties.
Seeing Lu Heng constantly consuming them, he had also curiously taken one, but felt that the energy within was not as abundant as that in the magic crystals. He hadn’t expected this thing to have such an unexpected use.
He looked at Lu Heng again and asked, “Do you have many of these, young friend?”
Lu Heng raised an eyebrow. What was he planning?
He remained impassive, showing no reaction.
Wu Chenzi was annoyed, his beard bristling.
“So stingy. Hmph!”
“Which other children tested earlier and had no aptitude?” Wu Chenzi ignored Lu Heng. Since an exception had been made, he might as well test a few more children.
Soon, a few children who had not passed the test and had not left came over.
“Do you few wish to try?” Wu Chenzi asked the children.
It was best to get these people’s consent before testing, as this was also a test, and he wasn’t entirely confident.
“Let me remind you, this is just a test, and there’s no absolute guarantee that this thing can truly change your inability to cultivate,” Lu Heng reminded them promptly.
It was after seeing that child that he thought of Lin Yu, which prompted him to try.
“Sir, I am willing to try.”
“Sir, I am willing to try too.”
“Sir, I am willing too.”
“…”
The few children who had not passed the test looked at the item in Wu Chenzi’s hand, all with eager expressions.
No one didn’t want to become a cultivator. Once they could cultivate and become cultivators, they would possess the ability to kill demonic beasts.
This would not only allow them and their families to escape the lives of ordinary people, but also give them the ability to protect their families when demonic beasts attacked their villages and towns once every few years, and to resist the demonic beasts.
“Then each of you take one and try it, but I don’t have many either.”
“Young friend, bring three more. Each of these children gets one,” Wu Chenzi said with a smile, extending his hand towards Lu Heng.
“Heh heh.” Lu Heng took out three level four crystals from his embrace.
If these people knew that these things were dug out from the brains of disgusting monsters like zombies, they probably wouldn’t want to swallow them.
“Sit on the ground first. You might experience a brief headache later, just endure it. If there’s no headache, it probably didn’t work,” Lu Heng patiently explained to everyone again.