Heavenly Dao Engine
Chapter 954 - 954 0573 Opportunity Knocks_1

Chapter 954: Chapter 0573: Opportunity Knocks_1 Chapter 954: Chapter 0573: Opportunity Knocks_1 Chapter 0573: Opportunity Comes Knocking

Gao Jinmei, with the amusement of watching a monkey show, observed these people making a commotion. She had absolutely no interest in how they tested their talents or what their talents were. Turning her head, she looked at Qi Tian, who was rather enthused, and a thought crossed her mind. She smiled and said, “Master, why not go up and take the test yourself? I believe your talent would surely stun everyone present.”

Qi Tian turned his head, giving Gao Jinmei a fierce look, and transmitted his voice, “Are you trying to kill me? If I were to go up and test, it’s very likely that I would alarm those old monsters in secluded cultivation within the Imperial Family Secret Territory and draw them out. Would you handle them, or should I?”

Gao Jinmei quickly lowered her head, knowing she had taken the joke a bit too far, and promptly admitted her mistake to Qi Tian.

Qi Tian didn’t pursue the matter further. He turned and walked to the side, found a spot where the sun shone, leaned against the wall, crossed his arms, squinted his eyes, and basked in the sunshine. Gao Jinmei hurriedly followed, standing beside Qi Tian.

The testing at the Lotus Platform was still underway. Those who had been notified by He Yingying in advance, without exception, all revealed their true colors. Their talents were on full display, mostly capable of only lighting up the fourth layer’s petals. The lesser among them could only light up a few, and the best one managed to light only the first petal of the fifth layer. Compared with Xiang Bo, the difference was incomparable, like one was in the sky and the other was underground, a contrast unbearable to witness.

Apart from these individuals, the performance of others was mixed, but none could surpass Xiang Bo in talent, which was indeed very normal. If you take all the ordinary people and cultivators together, the number who could truly cultivate might not even be one in a hundred. From this one percent, to reach the Foundation Establishment Stage, many would have to be sifted out. Even after reaching the Foundation Establishment Stage, to further cultivate to the mid or late stages, a large number would have to be eliminated at each level. Aside from their living environment and accessible cultivation resources, the main reason for their divergence was talent. With lackluster talent, it was truly very difficult to make significant progress on the path of cultivation.

In Wanjie City, cultivators in the Qi Cultivation Period and Foundation Establishment Stage made up the majority of the population, while those in the Gold Core Realm and Nascent Soul Stage were extremely rare, one in ten thousand. This situation did not fundamentally change even in the Imperial Family Secret Territory.

Of course, those who could enter the Imperial College were the descendants of princes, ministers, and various nobles from the Imperial Family Secret Territory, all possessing the physique for cultivation. It was quite normal for a few of them to have decent cultivation talents, but compared to Xiang Bo, who had taken the Natural Endowments Reversing Pill and whose talent had significantly changed, they were not worth mentioning.

No matter how bustling it was at the Lotus Platform, Qi Tian just leaned against the wall, lazily bathing in the sun, and seemed a bit out of place there. However, no one bothered him because, after all, Qi Tian was merely a servant brought in by Xiang Bo and didn’t even have the qualifications to test. Quarreling with him was beneath them.

Zhao Ninglu and Xiang Bo communicated for a long time in the VIP room, waiting until everyone’s talents were tested before they emerged. Those noble descendants, who had learned the results of the memory test, looked at the long-closed doors of the VIP room with complex expressions. Before the testing, all of them had looked down on Xiang Bo without exception. Xiang Bo’s background and his own cultivation realm were incomparable to theirs; he was basically at the bottom among them.

If it weren’t for Xiang Bo advancing to the second layer of the Foundation Establishment Stage with the help of Gao Jinmei before entering the Imperial College, he might have become the butt of their jokes afterward. Even at the second layer of the Foundation Establishment Stage, he wasn’t outstanding among them. In the Imperial College, Xiang Bo only avoided becoming an object of ridicule and didn’t make a few genuine friends.

But now, these people suddenly discovered that if they wanted to interact and befriend Xiang Bo, a chasm had appeared between them that was incredibly hard to cross. It was imaginable that Xiang Bo, having been summoned by the Prince, would surely become a key figure cultivated by the royal family. In time, Xiang Bo’s cultivation realm and strength would undergo rapid development. Then they would have even less qualification to befriend him. Before this, making friends with Xiang Bo would have been a snap, extraordinarily simple. Unfortunately, that was all in the past. Now, to truly befriend Xiang Bo, the difficulty had increased manifold.

Although everyone’s thoughts were complex, not one chose to leave at this time. The initial purpose of hosting this banquet was to curry favor with Princess Zhao Ninglu. Now an additional task had appeared, to ingratiate themselves with Xiang Bo. Even though their families’ and personal futures were probably not to be controlled by Xiang Bo in eight or nine cases out of ten, it was foreseeable that Xiang Bo would certainly be one of the formidable figures in the Imperial Family Secret Territory. Not only would he be powerful but also have high status. Building a good relationship with such a person now came at the lowest cost. Leaving at this moment would be choosing a difficult path for their own future.