Chapter 4314 — The Three Fairies
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Looked at this way, Wang Xinyan really did seem to be the one among all the worldly beauties he had encountered who lived the best life—and the luckiest, too. Of course, all of it came down to her unique innate gift; had her gift been ordinary, she would never have caught the eye of the Divine Nun of the East Sea, and naturally would never have enjoyed the protection of so many great figures.
"What a pity, though..." Ge Wei suddenly shook his head with a look of regret.
"A pity about what?" Wei Zhao asked, puzzled.
"Everyone knows that Wang Xinyan, one of the Three Fairies, is extraordinarily gifted, but as for just what her gift is, Morning Star Academy guards it like a sealed jar. Apart from the few deans and vice-deans, even the other higher-ups of the academy do not know. It has become one of the great unsolved mysteries of the Gaolin Sea Region in the Eastern Continent. If anyone could pry out the truth, that single piece of news alone would fetch no small sum in spirit jade—tsk, tsk!" Ge Wei shook his head and sighed again and again.
Prying out information was his old trade. To know for certain that a secret existed and yet be unable to dig it out—that feeling was like a hundred claws scratching at his heart, an itch he could not scratch.
With all the information-gathering methods of Ge the Inquirer of the Southern Continent, if he were in the Gaolin Sea Region of the Eastern Continent, no matter how well hidden the intelligence, he would eventually find a way to dig it out. But alas, he was in the Southern Continent now, and could not easily go to the Eastern Continent at all; the two were a thousand miles and ten thousand miles apart. What was a man to do?
At these words Wei Zhao smiled to himself. How exactly Wang Xinyan was so extraordinarily gifted—that was something outsiders like Ge Wei did not know, but he knew it like the back of his hand. Wang Xinyan's spiritual-root attribute was extremely special; it was not any of the traditional five elements, but what the secular world called a special constitution—a sponge constitution!
Strictly speaking, the sponge constitution was itself a kind of spiritual-root attribute, and an exceedingly rare variant spiritual-root attribute at that. Ge Wei's secret guide to passing the assessment had mentioned that anyone with a variant spiritual-root attribute was a genius rarely seen in the world; those who possessed one could enter the academy without undergoing selection and enjoy the treatment of a true genius disciple.
And the sponge constitution, even among all variant spiritual-root attributes, was a rarity of rarities—it would not be at all an exaggeration to call it the variant of variants. That Wang Xinyan could be so highly regarded, and even attain such a transcendent status at Morning Star Academy—surprising as it was, was in fact entirely reasonable.
Wei Zhao nodded to himself. Seen this way, as long as one's gift was powerful enough, even the ironclad rules of Morning Star Academy could be ignored. A person of Wang Xinyan's extraordinary gift, he believed, would be treasured as a precious jewel at any other academy in the Eastern Continent.
As Wei Zhao and Ge Wei were talking, over at the stone tablet that tested spiritual-root attributes, another remarkable presence had appeared after Chu Muqing's three-root attribute.
"Metal, fire, and earth true spiritual roots, plus a wood false spiritual root—four spiritual-root attributes in total!" This time even the academy staff could not keep a note of unmistakable shock out of their voices. Even if the wood one was a false spiritual root, this was still a genuine four-attribute spiritual root!
Such a gift had utterly overshadowed even Chu Muqing from a moment ago. Even at Morning Star Academy, where geniuses came forth in generation after generation, this counted as first-rate—impressive enough to show off.