Chapter 4323 — Let's Talk It Over
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The others could not yet see the formidable promise in it, but how could Ling Yuanqing and Wei Hebei, titans of the Opening Mountain stage, fail to recognize it?
And more critically, during Huang Xiaotao's earlier test, that faint ripple of true qi could not possibly have escaped the perception of these Opening Mountain titans. Unlike Wei Zhao, she had no cheat to conceal her strength, and both Ling Yuanqing and Wei Hebei had clearly sensed it: this girl was a peerless expert of the Golden Core stage who had achieved a perfect breakthrough!
The fire-and-wind dual-attribute spiritual root was already a rare and mighty talent, and Huang Xiaotao was, on top of that, a perfect Golden Core expert—one in ten thousand. Such heaven-defying potential would leave anyone gaping in astonishment, and even Opening Mountain titans like Ling Yuanqing were no exception.
Once Huang Xiaotao was taken under their wing, with their insight and resources, given time they could forge a top-tier expert fit to be a pillar of the academy—and one day, perhaps even an equal to themselves. That was no impossibility!
With temptation so immense, it was no wonder Ling Yuanqing and Wei Hebei lost their composure. In fact, at this very moment the other Opening Mountain titan, the East Sea Divine Nun, had not risen to her feet as the two men had, but the look in her eyes as she regarded Huang Xiaotao was likewise full of marvel.
"Huh? I... I've been chosen?" Huang Xiaotao was not as delighted as everyone had imagined. Faced with the olive branches extended by two Opening Mountain titans, she seemed rather at a loss, and could only turn to look at Wei Zhao, who still stood at the edge of the field and had not yet left.
The crowd was speechless at the sight. That hedgehog-head a moment ago had been made nothing more than an insignificant nominal disciple by Wei Hebei, and already he had been fit to burst with pride. And now this girl? Two Opening Mountain titans had simultaneously promised her the position of personal disciple, and she still would not hurry to accept? Truly, one hardly knew what to say!
And at this moment, it was not only the crowd that was stunned. Faced with Huang Xiaotao's pleading gaze, even Wei Zhao failed to react for a moment. He truly had not expected that Huang Xiaotao possessed a wind-attribute spiritual root as well.
No wonder Huang Xiaotao was so skilled at speed, no wonder her archery could be so formidable. At its truly lofty and profound heights, archery was in fact a contest of mastery over the wind, and with such a gift, Huang Xiaotao's control was naturally as effortless as moving her own arm.
All along, especially after she came to know Wei Zhao, Huang Xiaotao had never displayed any particularly remarkable ability. Part of it was that she was overshadowed by the many halos around Wei Zhao, but more than that, even Huang Xiaotao herself had never known that she possessed such a powerful gift!
She had not even the most basic awareness of it, let alone any development. Huang Xiaotao had come step by step from a cultivator tribe to the Threefold Pavilion of the North Island purely on instinct. Even her archery, at which she excelled, came merely from often moving through dense forests—pure coincidence, not because she knew she had a wind-attribute spiritual root and had deliberately trained for it.
If Huang Xiaotao's gift were reckoned at a hundred, then to this day she had developed at most thirty—perhaps not even thirty. One day, when she had drawn out her gift to the full hundred, what a sight would that be?
At this thought, even Wei Zhao could not help but feel a stir of excitement. By talent alone, Huang Xiaotao still fell short of himself with his five-element, seven-attribute constitution, but if she were properly cultivated, she might well be no worse than Wang Xinyan of the sponge constitution—and Wang Xinyan was now treasured by the entire Morning Star Academy as a priceless gem!