Phoenix Cry Firmament - Chapter 12

Chapter 12: Peerless Genius

Translator: Henyee Translations

Editor: Henyee Translations

Colorless.

A talent that only existed in legends.

How many years had it been? How many years had passed without a Colorless talent existing? It’d been thousands of years at least. But now, here he had unearthed a Colorless genius.

The old man took labored breaths, his eyes turning bloodshot. His eyes glued on Mu Ruyue were akin to a starved wolf seeing a long-awaited meal, and he wanted to pounce on it.

It was exactly this picture that greeted Mu Ruyue when she withdrew her hand and was instantly caught off guard.

“I’m done with the test, so I’ll be going.”

In accordance with the former host’s memories, purple talent was top-notch. Since Mu Ruyue had acquired her desired result, there was no need to linger here.

“Wait!”

The old man cried out promptly. What a joke. How could he just let this peerless genius go?

“Haha,” the old man rubbed his palms and burbled, “Young girl, I’m an elder of Qingyun School. You can call me Elder Zhao. I wonder if you know what your test result is?”

Mu Ruyue raised an eyebrow and said, “Isn’t it purple?”

“Purple?” A hint of bitterness filled the corners of Elder Zhao’s mouth, “If only it were purple, that would’ve been fine.”

Mu Ruyue’s heart thumped and her face sank a bit. Could it be that her test result was sub-par?

Suddenly, her heart grew colder and colder as she thought of the purple glow that had gradually disappeared.

“Colorless. Do you know what colorless means?” Unaware of the thoughts running in the young girl’s mind, Elder Zhao glared at her coldly. “That one word is precisely the pinnacle of martial arts. Colorless talent is more than twice as strong as purple—a level that nobody has been able to reach for thousands of years. Yet, which one of the powerful, colorless talents who lived thousands of years ago didn’t reach the pinnacle? Can purple be compared to colorless?”

It was indeed the first time Mu Ruyue had heard of this so-called colorless talent, and she couldn’t help frowning.

“Oh, right, girl. Why don’t you test your mental strength as well? We generally don’t test mental strength, but you’re an exception today.”

While speaking, Elder Zhao hurriedly took out the stone that tested mental strength and placed it next to the martial arts testing stone.

“Testing your mental strength is also very simple. You just need to release as much mental power as you can and direct it towards the stone. This stone is capable of devouring mental power. The more it expands, the stronger your mental strength is.”

Elder Zhao was giddy with excitement. He was looking forward to the shock this young girl would bring him.

“BAM!”

A powerful mental force roamed through the room, and Elder Zhao himself could feel the might of it. His expression stalled indiscernibly as he stared intently at the stone in front of Mu Ruyue.

The mental force smashed the stone hard, and in that instant, the stone absorbed the force and began to swell rapidly without any slack—as if it hadn’t collected enough.

Elder Zhao’s expression froze as if he had seen a ghost. Just how much mental power did it take to achieve such a state?

Of course, Elder Zhao didn’t know that Mu Ruyue’s possession of this devastating mental strength was tied to the contracted Alchemical Book.

He would never find out either.

As the light shone brightly, Elder Zhao gaped. But before he could recover from his shock, he heard a thud and the stone exploded into powder.

The entire test hall returned to its former calm.

The hearts of the people present weren’t at all calm…

Others might not know how hard the test stone was, but Elder Zhao wouldn’t be unaware that even an all-out strike from a Connate powerhouse could only dent a corner.

Yet, it was blown up right before his eyes.

In other words, her infinite mental strength was no longer within the limits of the test stone.

What a genius this girl was.

Elder Zhao’s face remained rigid, obviously still immersed in his shock.

Based on her test results today, aside from the ability to become a peerless genius in martial arts cultivation, there was similarly no one better suited to becoming an alchemist than her!

Heaven-grade Alchemist—the rank in which one could stand at the top of the continent and look down on all beings—might not be impossible for her, either…