Chapter 4303 — The Selection Rules
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Ling Yuanqing paused deliberately for a while, letting the crowd slowly digest the shock in their hearts, and only when everyone's breathing had steadied did he continue.
"Very well. Now let us invite Vice Academy Head Wei Hebei of our academy to explain the selection rules to everyone." With that, Ling Yuanqing nodded toward the fierce-looking man seated to his right—this, presumably, was the Wei Hebei he had spoken of.
"Fellow cultivators, when the Eastern Continent Morning Star Yellow-Rank Academy selects disciples, we have always looked only at aptitude and nothing else. Those with good aptitude may enter; those without, no matter how deep your background or how far your connections reach, it is useless. Those who take crooked paths will never achieve greatness. You may all keep watch over one another—if anyone harbors a lucky thought and secretly plays tricks, I, Wei, will be the first to kill him!" Wei Hebei rose and addressed the crowd.
He too needed no amplification artifact to speak. Ling Yuanqing's voice could stir the mind and spirit, while Wei Hebei's voice was cut from the same cloth as his appearance—at first listen, it stood out as utterly savage, as though he truly would kill a man at the slightest disagreement; coupled with the terrifying power of his Initiator Stage cultivation, it left everyone in the hall trembling with fear.
Not a single person dared breathe too loudly, or even tilt their head the slightest bit, lest they be mistaken by the man on the platform for one scheming to take a crooked path. So they sat bolt upright and listened as Wei Hebei continued.
"As for the selection rules, they are not as complicated as you imagine—just three simple conditions." Wei Hebei looked down over the crowd and said, "First, your cultivation must be at the Golden Core Stage or above. This is the most basic threshold, and I trust you all already know it well. Second, those with a single-element spiritual root attribute are eliminated outright; you must possess at least two elemental root attributes, because this point directly determines the ceiling of your power. As for exactly why—those who understand, understand; those who do not, I will not explain to you. Go ask someone yourselves. I have no time to explain so much to you."
At these words, the crowd below exchanged glances. A small number showed looks of understanding, but far more wore expressions of blank confusion. Wei Zhao and Huang Xiaotao were the same—regarding this second point Wei Hebei had raised, why spiritual root attributes directly determined the ceiling of one's power, they were completely at a loss.
By Wei Zhao's long-standing understanding, spiritual root attributes did indeed determine one's cultivation talent—especially as they bore directly on which heart methods and martial techniques one could cultivate. A person with fire attribute, for instance, could only cultivate fire-element heart methods and martial techniques. But he had never heard that this somehow directly determined the ceiling of the power one could attain.
Cultivators with multi-element spiritual root attributes did indeed enjoy no small advantage in the choice of heart methods and martial techniques—one could say it influenced the strength of one's power to a considerable degree. But Wei Zhao had never believed that this directly determined the ceiling of one's power.
One still needed sufficient fortuitous opportunity. If a cultivator with multi-element spiritual root attributes could one day become an Initiator Stage expert, did that mean a cultivator with single-element spiritual root attributes could not?