Protect Our Clan Leader - Chapter 184
Chapter 184: Chapter 3: My Daughter Has the Demeanor of a Great Emperor (Seeking Recommendations)_2
There are five pillars, each erected in one of the cardinal directions, all decorated with various runes of formation masters. In the middle of the array platform, a crystal ball is placed.
This spirit testing platform was uniformly manufactured and sold by the Celestial Academy, and the formation masters merely installed it after purchasing it.
The main driving force of it is the spirit stone, which needs to be installed on each of the five pillars.
Each time it is activated and deactivated, it consumes quite a few additional energy.
Therefore, once the official spirit testing platform is activated, it will not be deactivated and will continue to consume the energy of the spirit stone. Hence, each clan is encouraged to approximate the numbers who need testing and apply en masse.
Even so, the consumption of energy from the spirit stone is quite severe. Five spirit stones probably only provide energy for about a hundred tests. When averaged per person, the pure cost of each test is five pieces of Qian Gold.
However, the official price is ten pieces of Qian Gold per person. After deducting the long-term maintenance costs of the Spirit Testing Platform and other fees, the authorities barely make a small profit.
Today.
Some of the younger brothers and sisters of the Wang family are gathered in front of the Spirit Testing Platform.
At the same time, in the empty rooms in the rear courtyard, a group of little boys and girls are concentrated.
They are all age-appropriate children that the Wang family has collected recently through various channels such as lateral branches, house servants, tenant farmers, etc. Moreover, they are the children who seem to be endowed with spiritual energy, carefully selected.
The primary reason for doing this is to not waste spirit stones and to see if they could get lucky and find one or two children with a Profound Martial talent.
Statistically speaking, the side branches tend to have the highest instance of this, as the blood of the branch families is closest to that of a Profound Martial practitioner.
As for the ordinary families, it purely depends on luck.
Who can say how many generations in their family have lived without ever producing a Profound Martial practitioner? Or, even if they have had a member with Profound Martial bloodline, perhaps they missed the chance to identify it due to lacking a means of testing?
As far as Wang Shouzhe knows, the Celestial academy has conducted similar tests.
Among the children of ordinary families, if the child is not pre-selected based on various indicators such as intelligence, then on average, one out of three hundred children might have the Profound Martial bloodline.
These are staggering costs indeed.
If they undergo strict selection, first eliminating eighty percent who seem less bright, are physically inferior, lack intelligence and other factors, the chances can be significantly increased to one in a hundred or two hundred children.
Of course, such a selection process could inadvertently eliminate those children who do have talent, but it is the optimal strategy for cost control.
As a result, the majority of prominent families are unlikely to devote money and resources to this.
Most family clans have a hard enough time supporting their own bloodline members, who could afford to search for bloodline pearls in the civilian populace?
But Wang Shouzhe is different.
Perhaps it is his lingering prejudice towards undisciplined cultivators, having once been bitten by them.
If he wishes to strengthen the family clan, other than expanding the scale of his bloodline family members, he must also consider the issue from the perspective of enhancing the strength of the head of the household.
If you can find children with bloodline talent from the civilian population, they would be even more highly malleable and would have stronger identification and dependence on the Wang family.
Though it may seem like a loss-making transaction in the short term.
This sort of thinking involves planning for a hundred, or even more far-reaching and higher levels, which has enormous strategic significance. Even if only one is discovered every year, year after year, the Wang family will continue to grow stronger as a result, and the children born to those bloodline household heads will typically have decent talent.
However, only a tycoon like Wang Shouzhe with a highly profitable revenue stream could pull this off.
The small savings of an ordinary Profound Martial family wouldn’t be enough to cultivate their own bloodline members, let alone pull something like this off.
This time, only eighty or ninety children were collected, mainly to test the Spirit Testing Platform, and Wang Shouzhe was prepared to gamble on not finding even one person with Profound Martial bloodline.
Under the guidance of the formation master.
The Wang family members activated the Spirit Testing Platform, and the transparent crystal ball in the middle slowly floated up.
A child from an ordinary family was first arranged to test. The child placed his hand on the crystal ball, and a shining light enveloped the child. Then, the crystal ball emitted a faint red glow.
Those with testing experience would know that it means failure. The bloodline concentration is extremely low, far from reaching the standard of a low-ranking talent level, and it is difficult to cultivate mysterious energy.
Next was the second child, who performed slightly better, but was still far from approaching a lower-grade talent.
Damn it, that’s ten Qian Gold down the drain in no time.
Wang Shouzhe was beginning to doubt whether the Spirit Testing Platform was faulty and decided to have Wang Shou Yong, who had a low-grade Class C talent, to give it a try. Wang Shou Yong had consumed some Dan medicine over the past two years that slightly improved his talent.
When he performed the test, the crystal ball lit up brightly, with abundant red light. According to the scale, his talent remained at the low-grade Class C level, but he was almost touching Grade B.
It seemed that there was nothing wrong with the Spirit Testing Platform.
He had members of his family accompany the Array Master for a glass of Spiritual Tea and a rest, then began to test his own family members.
Wang Luotong was the first to go up. Mmhmm~, her talent was at low-grade Grade B, slightly outstanding. After consuming some Stone Marrow, she might reach Grade A.
The rest of the family members tested one by one; it was quite lively. However, besides Wang Luomiao, who scored a lower-grade Grade A, the rest at most only reached Grade B.
Finally, it was Wang Luojing’s turn. When she performed her test, the crystal ball burst into a beautiful red light. At the same time, mysterious twinkling spots hovered in the red light, as if indicating a special bloodline talent.
Medium-grade Grade A!
Wang Shouzhe gasped in surprise. Even though he was aware of the result, he was still astounded. He wondered how many Stone Marrows she must have consumed in the past.
Next came Wang Luoqiu, who also scored a medium-grade Grade A. However, there were golden specks swirling within her red light, which obviously represented her War Body Bloodline.
Usually, once an individual reaches the mid-grade level, unique bloodline phenomena start to appear.
Then Wang Shouzhe himself went to join the excitement, and the result was a medium-grade Class C, a bit outstanding! There were also cyan spots swirling within his light. Achieving a Class C wasn’t solely due to the Stone Marrow drop he had consumed back then.
Over the years, Wang Shouzhe had used plenty of resources to make an attempt at the Double Bloodline Awakening. The outcome was probably that he only managed to barely squeeze into a medium-grade, Fourth Rank, gaining a small rank, and the Double Bloodline Awakening was still far away.
However, compared to the old ancestor Longyan, he had made minor progress. The Double Bloodline probably only awakens for those with top-grade talent. This level of talent, even in all of Longzuo County, is a rare genius.
Wang Shouzhe’s knowledge had broadened by now, and he could roughly understand the situation. Generally, if you can reach medium grade at the Qi Refinement stage, it’s almost certain that you will reach the Spirit Platform Realm.
With the advancement to the Spirit Platform Realm and the awakening of another bloodline, someone would then be eligible to challenge the Heavenly Human Realm, although it’s just a matter of probability.
If someone has two awakenings during the Qi Refinement stage, and awakens the third fold with the Spirit Platform Realm, if they don’t lack resources, then reaching the Heavenly Human Realm is a certainty. In the future, they may have a chance to challenge the Purple Abode Realm, where it’s possible to nurture a mini person within the Purple Abode. (This can be roughly understood as forming a Yuan Infant).
Such talented people are specifically cultivated by the Academic Palace, and are usually trained as Purple Abode Seeds, as the direct disciples.
As expected, when Wang Licui went up for the test… Top Grade Class D!
Apparently, she had probably consumed more than Luoqiu and Luo Jing when they shared the Jade Marrow.
Otherwise, it would’ve been extremely difficult for her to struggle into the Double Awakening with just one Vermilion Fruit!
Wang Licui immediately began to swagger about, behaving as though she was the boss, which made Wang Shouzhe want to punch her.
Unfortunately, this girl has extraordinary talents, but is incredibly lazy when it comes to cultivation. She is barely at the peak of the Qi Refining stage.
“Let Li Yao give it a try.” Liu Ruolan suggested with a twinkle in her eyes, “According to what I’ve heard, the Innate Dao Fetus Spirit Seed should have a significant influence on the first child. You can tell by comparing how much less talented Yuanrui and Ruolei are than me.”
Unfortunately, her brother Liu Yuanhui didn’t have the benefit of the Innate Dao Fetus Spirit Seed… But this was also fortunate for Wang Shouzhe!
Wang Shouzhe immediately perked up, he lifted his precious daughter onto the stage and taught her how to test.
Then, a dazzling red light blinded Wang Shouzhe. Within the brilliantly shining red light, there was an extremely strong blue water elemental force. Clearly, she had a Water Element Bloodline Physique.
Wang Shouzhe was stunned!
After what seemed like ages, he suddenly burst into a joyful and hearty laughter.
“Daddy, why are you laughing?” His precious daughter, Wang Liyao, asked innocently. She was too young to understand what it meant.
“I’m laughing, of course, because…”
My daughter has the potential to become a Great Emperor!
