Chapter 25.
“Perverse! It’s too abnormal!”
“This data is not right!”
After looking through all the records related to the Ascension Society in Golden Bird City, Su Ping fell into deep thought.
He also did not feel that the following two days would be much better.
The number of people detected on the first day of the Immortal Ascension Society was often the largest, and the number of those who appeared qualified was normally the largest!
Utilizing the detection spell formation, a detection could be completed every five to ten seconds if one did not ink it.
It may seem like it takes a long time to detect all those people, but in reality, the function of the detection array is to detect whether or not the qualifications of all the people standing within the inner circle have a spiritual root reaction.
Therefore, there was also an agreed upon rule in detecting Spirit Roots.
Seed players cultivated by powerful families, such as the unicorn children of the City Lord’s mansion, the daughters of the Ji family, or other adopted daughters and sons who practiced qi in advance, could be placed in a group of one.
For the non-core side branch children, there was a group of ten.
Those who were qualified enough to live within Golden Bird City were mostly in groups of twenty.
Outside of the city was a group of thirty, and for those who came from farther away, it wasn’t strange to see even forty or fifty people squeezing together to make a group for testing.
That lucky farmer’s son was found in a group of thirty.
It was then regrouped for those thirty people for multiple detections, thus finding it in the final one-on-one detection.
“An evil cultivator struck early against those with spiritual roots?”
“But how did they determine that the other party had spirit roots when they didn’t have a spell formation? It’s impossible for the Immortal Sect and the City Lord’s Mansion not to have heard anything at all if they killed them indiscriminately!”
“And those Spiritual Root Seeds that were determined in advance and found outside in the townships were invariably adopted and heavily protected by the worldly families and the City Lord’s Mansion, and the City Lord’s Mansion would also have registered them.”
Su Ping frowned slightly, the more he pondered, the more he felt that there was a problem here, he asked his maid to get Ji Hu over.
Ji Hu was considered to be half of Su Ping’s close friends in Golden Bird City.
At the same time, he was also one of the higher-ups of this place, belonging to the top snakes amongst the top snakes.
Su Ping had gotten a large number of case files from Ji Hu.
“In the recent year, hasn’t the rate of young children dying young been slightly higher?”
Su Ping inquired out his doubts in a low voice after checking it out.
Ji Hu was slightly stunned and nodded:
“Compared to before it is indeed a little more, but those townships conceal a lot of reports every year, perhaps the constables sent last year were a little more diligent, so the actual reports are more?”
Su Ping sniffed without answering.
He knew that this explanation from Ji Hu was normal in a place like Golden Bird City.
Even within the city, the City Lord’s Office might not be able to find out exactly how many people had died this year and how many bits had gone missing.
Many times, the missing cases are adhering to the can’t find is can’t find, can’t help that is no way approach to management.
If you ask them to find out why the rate of premature deaths of young children outside the city is abnormal, that is really making it difficult for them.
Just, perhaps it was overly cautious?
Su Ping looked at these dossiers and always felt that there was a connection.
“Whew, a bold guess!”
“Analyzing with the virtues of that group of outside constables, if it wasn’t that the matter was too much too big to hide, they would have taken the initiative to report the premature death of these young children?”
“I’m afraid that the rate of premature deaths is a bit more than what is seen in the dossier!”
“The worst possibility is that it’s not evil cultivators but some other nasty anomaly that has arisen, causing the mortals with spirit roots to be intercepted early!”
“Looking at the number, it’s possible that there’s more than just lower-grade spirit roots, and inferior-grade spirit roots are also within the target range.”
“That’s what led to today’s situation.”
“Even the reason why the …… Immortal Sect suddenly held the Immortal Ascension Meeting early and in such a hurry can be right on!”
“And from the fact that everything is normal within the city, the good news is that these abnormalities are still only occurring in localized areas and have not extended to the city.”
“The bad news on the other hand is that …… this anomaly has made the Immortal Sect feel troubled as well, choosing to back off rather than confront!”
Clearing his thoughts, Su Ping waved off Ji Hu.
Then he took advantage of the night to go back to Rin Moon Villa, stimulated by the sense of crisis, he configured the Thunder Fire Bead and Underworld Fire Art ingredients in the practice room for the night.
He even made a note that after the Immortal Ascension Meeting was over, he would immediately put self-destructing rats on the agenda to enhance his real-world combat abilities as much as possible!
Despite the shadow in his heart.
The Immortal Ascension Meeting continued as usual.
The following two days, the number of people testing was already getting smaller and smaller.
By lunchtime on the third day, it was already necessary to wait several minutes for a group to be tested.
Thud!
The sound of a gong resounded through Golden Bird City once again.
Accompanied by the color of the moon.
“Midday has arrived! The Immortal Ascension Meeting is over!”
The City Lord stood up and announced the end of the assembly to the crowd below, and waved his hand for the people underneath to start packing up the venue.
On the other side, the chefs began to burn the fire and cook, preparing a banquet as a reward for the people who had been busy for three days.
Su Ping also got up, but instead of going back, he looked at the two outer sect cultivators standing behind him waiting for him.
As well as the rows of qualified people behind them with different expressions.
For this Immortal Ascension Meeting, there were only a total of eight qualified people in the three days!
Of these, those from within the city accounted for half of them!
Calculating with the new detectable population, this was clearly unscientific.
The Immortal Cultivation World wasn’t like Aquamarine Planet, which also engaged in urbanization.
Most of the population was spread out amongst the large and small towns.
Even if there were times when the nobles in the city would purposely delay people with spiritual roots from participating in the Immortal Ascension Meeting, thus resulting in a slightly larger number of qualified people in the city for a particular Immortal Ascension Meeting.
However, there were not as many as this one time, taking up half of the ratio!
“You …… all stay in the City Lord’s Mansion for the time being.”
Su Ping thought about it and decided to play it safe:
“Until the immortal boat picks you up, you are not allowed to go out! Spend more time in the City Lord’s Mansion to follow Mr. Literacy and study the rules of the Immortal Sect.”
“In addition, please also ask the City Lord to strengthen the guard, beware of evil cultivators who can’t live long enough to go crazy and cause trouble.”
The city lord nodded his head repeatedly after hearing this, in fact, he also did not have the experience of taking care of these qualified people, hearing Su Ping’s reminder he hastily agreed.
When it was late at night, he even transferred a battalion of soldiers with sufficient qi and blood to be stationed in the front yard of the City Lord’s Mansion.
On the city wall, all the torches were lit, and there were even huge oil lamps lit on the upper floors.
Illuminating the entire mansion as bright as day.
It could be seen that in order to show his importance, the City Lord was also bleeding money.
The oil burning on those large oil lamps came from some kind of sea beast, but it was not cheap at all.
Su Ping also stayed on his knees in a quiet room in the City Lord’s mansion, and had the spirit mouse Little White and Little Gray alternately stay alert.
The night was uneventful.
Just as Su Ping ended his cultivation, he was ready to change into his Angler’s Suit to go to the fishing spot and wait for the refreshment.
“Uh huh?”
Su Ping suddenly discovered through Little White’s perception that a humanoid creature wrapped in black mist was approaching the backyard of the City Lord’s Mansion.
This black mist caused the spirit rat to instinctively feel aversion, and at a glance, it was clear that it was not a good thing!
And surprisingly, when this black mist crossed the backyard wall, none of the defenders or those martial artists noticed the abnormality!
It seemed that this black mist had the ability to confuse people in it!
“It’s approaching the backyard!”
“It’s trying to approach those qualified people?”
“There really are evil cultivators who are not afraid of death coming over?”
Su Ping searched, sensing the gap between the quality of this black mist and his current self.
The opponent was at most at the second level of Qi cultivation, while he himself was a physical cultivator at the fourth level of Qi cultivation as well as the third level of Body Tempering.
In this battle, the advantage is mine!
Su Ping slapped on a stealth talisman and flew away with Little White and Little Gray.