Chapter 347 - 165: A Youth’s Long Dormancy, Ascending the Steles, a Double Top-Grade Rating, and a Name Announced in the Prefecture

Chapter 347: Chapter 165: A Youth’s Long Dormancy, Ascending the Steles, a Double Top-Grade Rating, and a Name Announced in the Prefecture

However, just as those who believed they met the conditions tried to approach the two giant steles, they were repelled by an irresistible force!

For a moment, some looked on, stunned. Then, they all turned in unison, their gazes landing on the youth they had been gossiping about. He had been silent with his eyes closed, and now, their faces paled.

"Wait..."

"Wasn’t he just standing motionless before the two stone steles?"

He was comprehending the Martial Stele and the Divine Stele!

Seeing this, the Mansion Official Instructor—the one who had struck the Ancient Bell to select the Prefecture Students—felt his eyes narrow. He could no longer sit still.

At the same time, a certain ’rumor’ began to surface in his mind...

Legend had it that the Martial and Divine Steles, used in every Mansion to select Prefecture Students, had been infused by generations of Deans. They could do more than just measure the aptitude and Cultivation of a Martial Artist or a Qi Cultivator.

They also concealed a monumental gift!

Whenever a true young prodigy appeared within a Mansion—one whose martial and spiritual paths advanced in tandem, one who had a chance to reach the Absolute Peak and form a Treasure Body...

...the two steles would resonate, transforming the Divine Charm accumulated by generations of Deans into a gift and bestowing it upon them!

’Could it be!?’

The Instructor’s brow throbbed as he entertained the thought for a brief moment.

Immediately after, two beams of profound light shot skyward from the Martial and Divine Steles on the left and right, soaring dozens of feet into the air and holding steady!

The immense disturbance spread throughout the entire Mansion Courtyard.

It caused everyone to look up—from the Prefecture Students in their Cultivation Rooms or those in seclusion for top-tier disciplines, to the Instructors overseeing the Mansion Courtyard, and even the reclusive old masters and titans!

DONG DONG DONG DONG DONG DONG!

Then, the ancient, giant bell in the Mansion Courtyard’s clock tower—the one that had marked the morning and evening for over three hundred years—suddenly began to resonate with a deep hum...

WHOOSH!

In that instant, above the Martial and Divine Steles, aside from the maxims condensed from the Profound Monarch Secret Scripture, two new lines of shimmering, golden text floated into view.

[Martial Stele: Prefecture Student Ji Xiu, bone age seventeen. Has broken the Two Limits and possesses the Purest Gang. Clad in a Dao Grade Treasure Robe, his physical body has reached its limit and has the potential for a Peak Qi Sea. Rating: A-Plus!]

[Divine Stele: Prefecture Student Ji Xiu, bone age seventeen. His Divine Soul is as a sea and has already produced Divine Thoughts. His cultivation of a Daoist Technique is like a fledgling flame, with the chance to condense a ’Daoist Seed.’ Rating: A-Plus!]

The incredible display plunged the entire scene into silence.

’Peak Qi Sea and a Daoist Seed!?’

Anyone with the slightest bit of knowledge could not remain indifferent upon hearing those two terms.

Because together, these two things pointed to only one possibility.

And that was—

The potential to form a ’Flesh Treasure Body’!

[Tutor has received the ’Martial Stele’s’ empowerment, absorbing the Divine Thoughts of twenty-one generations of Deans, now refined into pure essence. The grade of the condensing Immortal Robe has been greatly increased. Nishang Scroll progress +277!]

[Tutor has received the ’Divine Stele’s’ empowerment, absorbing the Divine Thoughts of twenty-one generations of Deans, now refined into pure essence. ’Divine Thoughts’ have been greatly advanced. Daoist Level ’Divine Talisman Fire’ progress +311!]

[Feathered Immortal Robe—Nishang Scroll (377/1000)!]

[Divine Talisman Fire: (488/800)!]

In an instant, both surging pillars of light flowed back into Ji Xiu, and him alone.

As the pure essence of those thoughts washed over his flesh, he could feel his ’Divine Thoughts’ rapidly expanding. This, in turn, fueled the Divine Talisman Fire planted within him, causing it to surge forward as well!

In fact, the embryonic form of a ’talisman fire seed’ had already condensed within his Sea of Consciousness!

As for the Nishang Scroll...

It made Ji Xiu’s physical body shine as if robed in a rainbow, rising layer upon layer like a blazing sun!

The youth had long remained in the shadows.

Then in a single day, he ascended the steles. Both the Martial and Divine Steles rated him A-Plus, and his name was proclaimed throughout the Mansion!