"It's just a test event, once a year. Our Zhang family will test the physical qualifications for the children of the people of Tianping County, to see if they have spiritual roots and whether they have the qualifications to cultivate immortals. Zhang Guang explained with a slight smile.

Liu Yu stayed in Zhang's house until the evening, and then returned to his residence, this Zhang's family was very hospitable to guests, fine wine, jade plate delicacies, extremely rich. He also had a good conversation with Zhang Yuanwai, and agreed that seven days later, Liu Yu would come to participate in the spirit measurement conference held by Zhang's family.

In recent days, the flow of people on the streets of Tianping County has increased significantly, and it is common to see countrymen with children rushing to the streets. These people either live in relatives' homes, in inns, and some even sleep on the streets.

For a while, the people in Tianping County were not lively, and the idlers in the teahouse were also talking about it, talking about the annual spirit measurement conference held by the Zhang family.

The Zhang family will hold such a conference every year, as long as there are children in the family who are six years old and less than twelve years old, they can go to the Zhang family to sign up, and test whether they have the qualifications to cultivate immortals for free.

If it is found that he has the qualification to cultivate immortals, the Zhang family will accept the child as a righteous son, give his biological parents a generous sum of silver, and settle down.

Now there is a steward in the Zhang family named Zhang Zhenshan, who is the righteous son who was found to have the qualification to cultivate immortals more than 20 years ago. His biological parents were originally only Zhuang family members in the countryside and were very poor. Now because the child was adopted as a righteous son by the Zhang family, he has already moved to the city to live and live a leisurely life.

Such good things have long spread across a radius of hundreds of miles, and every year as long as this day is approaching, you can see many Zhuang families from the countryside with children.

These people are looking forward to their children being able to measure the spiritual root, and for the sake of the children's future and a prosperous life, they have worked hard to try their luck, which has created the prosperity of Tianping County.

The day of the Soul Measurement Conference came in a blink of an eye, and a wide wooden platform was erected in a vacant lot not far from the Zhangjia compound.

The people who signed up for the spirit testing conference lined up in front of the stage early, and Lin Xianling was also invited to watch from the high platform, and a large number of county officials quickly maintained order in the venue. The people who came to watch around the high platform were surrounded by crowds of people, and the crowds were full of people for a while.

"Everyone be quiet, noon has arrived, and the spirit testing conference will begin now!" Zhang Zhenqi received the patriarch's prompt, and announced in a loud voice.

After Zhang Zhenqi finished announcing, he opened a huge mahogany box on the wooden table next to him. When the lid of the box was removed, I saw a transparent ball the size of a human head in the box.

The ball is crystal clear like a moon pearl, and it is a great treasure at first glance. provoked the surrounding people to have different opinions, and they all guessed what kind of treasure this was.

"Nephew Liu Xian, this is a family heirloom magic weapon spirit bead, which is used to test the spirit root. Zhang Guang introduced to Liu Yu.

Liu Yu arrived very early and came to watch the spirit measurement conference, but he couldn't see such a scene in Huangsheng Mountain, and he was a little surprised.

"Oh! How is this spirit bead tested?" Liu Yu really hadn't seen it, so he asked.

Liu Xian's nephew continued to look at it, and he would know. Zhang Guang sold a pass, turned his head and talked to Lin Xianling.

Zhang Zhenqi carefully held the spirit bead and slowly came to the center of the wooden platform, where a long wooden table was placed, and a magic circle was engraved on the wooden table. There were more than two dozen low-level spirit stones placed in the corners of the magic circle, probably to drive the spirit beads.

Zhang Zhenqi put the spirit bead on the magic circle, and said loudly: "This jewel is called the spirit bead, it is still the ancestral heirloom of my Zhang family, and later every child who signed up for the test walked to this table alone and put his hands on the spirit bead." After counting the breaths, if the spirit bead emits a bright light, it means that the child is pregnant with a spiritual root. If there is no response from the beads, it means that the child does not have a spiritual root. ”

After speaking, Zhang Zhenqi beckoned to the audience, signaling that the first child could go on stage.

At the top of the line, at first glance, it was the Zhuang family from the countryside, a swarthy man in shabby linen clothes, with a thin little boy.

Under the signal of the swarthy man, the little boy lowered his head and dragged the corner of his clothes and slowly walked up to the high platform, obviously this child who had never seen any big scenes was very nervous now.

The little boy walked to the table and pressed his hands on the spirit bead under Zhang Zhenqi's reminder. After a few breaths, the spirit bead did not respond. The swarthy man watching from the audience showed a look of loss on his face.

Under Zhang Zhenqi's signal, the swarthy man went up to the high platform and hugged the little boy with tears in his eyes, and the two did not stay, squeezed out of the crowd, and left without looking back.

After someone started, the children who lined up for the test came to the stage one by one. But an hour has passed, and no one has tested the spiritual root. Zhang Guang's face was a little ugly, seeing that he had more than half of the test, he still found nothing, and he didn't have much hope in his heart. It seems that the Zhang family held a very beautiful spirit measurement conference, but who knows the bitterness in Zhang Guang's heart.

The Zhang family, as a family of cultivating immortals, is not as good as the next generation, and there are fewer and fewer descendants with the qualifications to cultivate immortals. This is not a good sign, this is obviously the cultivation of immortal bloodlines is weakening.

The Zhang family had no choice but to come up with a solution, which is also a common method for many immortal cultivators, which is to find a child from a mortal family with a spiritual root, and adopt it as a righteous son to expand the family, increase the number of immortal cultivators in the family, and strengthen the strength of the family in disguise.

A hundred years ago, the head of the Zhang family spent thousands of low-grade spirit stones to buy this second-grade low-grade auxiliary magic weapon spirit bead.

These second-grade low-level spirit beads can only measure whether the tester is pregnant with a spiritual root, and the merits of the spiritual root cannot be measured. The magic weapon with the same effect as this one, there is also a three-grade intermediate magic weapon spirit measuring disk. Not only can you measure whether you have a spiritual root, but you can also measure what kind of spiritual root it is, but the price is too expensive.

The thousand low-grade spirit stones that purchased the spirit beads were not a small amount for the down-and-out Zhang family. But for the sake of the family's future, the head of that generation resolutely took out this spirit stone.

Since then, more than 20 spirit stones have been consumed every year to hold a spirit measurement conference. A hundred years have passed, and the Zhang family has consumed a total of more than 2,000 low-level spirit stones in order to hold the spirit measurement conference, which shows how much money the Zhang family has made.

However, those who have spiritual roots in mortals are very rare, and there is one in a thousand miles. Whether or not an immortal cultivator born with a spiritual root can be measured depends on the will of heaven.

When the Soul Detection Conference first began, a child with a spiritual root would be found every few years. In recent years, the Zhang family has been unlucky, and for more than 20 years, they have not tested the children who were born with Linggen.

The descendants of the family with the qualifications of cultivating immortals have also decreased, which makes Zhang Guang, the patriarch, anxious, and the strength of the Zhang family has also declined to an unprecedented extent. If this continues, the Zhang family may be reduced to a mortal clan in a hundred years and lose the reputation of the Xiuxian family, which is the last thing the Zhang family wants to see.