Chapter 4.
Gradually calming down Chen Rong asked me with an expectation in his voice.
" You have a very good spirit and a genius-level spirit power. Do you know there has not been a person in the last 50 years to awaken 10th level spirit power from the start. Or at least what I have heard of. In that case, children of spirit power with 8 and 9 are called geniuses who will be trained exclusively by any sect. And you're one such genius. So I want to ask will you join our Spirit Pagoda. If you join I can guarantee you that there will be many resources given to you as well as when you reach 20 according to your level at the time you will be given a title and fief from the empire."
As I listened to their offer. I felt it was a good offer for my future development and plans. I fell silent as I tried to figure out the best ways for my future development and whether the pagoda is really a good organization to join. At the side, Chen Rong and the Village chief looked my thinking posture with expectation and nervousness.
After a dozen seconds, I looked up at Chen Rong and asked a question with a puzzled look on my face.
"Why did you say I will get a title and fief. Isn't Spirit Pagoda an independent organization, shouldn't I belong to them in the future. what's up with all these empire things?"
Hearing my question both of them were first surprised and then Chen Rong laughingly replied.
"Little guy who said that Spirit pagoda is an independent organization. It was formed by the founder emperor Rising Sun Douluo. It's an organization with direct links to the empire. when the empire is in dire it will ask people from pagoda to come and fight. They are responsible for cultivating geniuses for the future of the empire."
"At the same time, they control the pagoda tightly and don't allow a supreme to take over the academy. As soon as a supreme comes out to take over the academy he will be driven out. The Supreme level spirit warriors in the empire can be counted on our hands. So who would want to take over an academy and interfere with politics at the same get on the bad side of the royal family."
" Because of this once your age is 20 you will pass out and work for the empire gain merit to gain more resources. As someone from the spirit pagoda, you only have the responsibility to fight whenever there is an important fight like the war between the Rising Sun Empire and Dark moon empire or the battle against the beast tide. Otherwise, you're free to do whatever you want no one will restrict. This is also the reason why every genius wants to join the pagoda. At the same time when you roam outside, you can use the name of the pagoda as a backer and use its influence to get information from all over the place." By the end, his face was filled with pride.
Hearing this I understood that the emperors in this world are not as idiotic as the ones in Douluo Dalu where they give the rights to awaken children to spirit hall which is tantamount to sending batches of geniuses to the enemy. Here they control the pagoda while the pagoda controls and cultivates genius for the empire. While empire helps with being the other party's backer as well as giving lots of resources. Although they refuse to give them freedom. Well anyway looks like joining Spirit pagoda will only benefit me I agreed.
Hearing me agree both men nearly fell into tears since it meant that in the future there will be someone at the top that will look after their village in times of crisis. At the same time, Chen Rong will definitely get some benefits for introducing the genius to the Pagoda. Although 8 level is rare, you can still find them every 3-4 years while 9th level can be found in every 8-9 years, so there will be benefits but not so much for him to have a substantial increase in strength. Just some money or so I think.
After a period of calming down, Chen Rong came beside me with a serious he dropped his face beside my ear, although I felt weird I still stood there waiting to see what the other party wants to do. Beside my ear, he slowly whispered.
" Now that you have decided to join the Spirit Pagoda I will tell you a secret. Although most people know this secret a secret is still a secret so listen. Since you joined the pagoda you don't have to kill the beast to get the spirit star. You can directly obtain the star from the Spirit Ruins which ancient cultivators used to get their spirit rings. They are very magical since they can give you the star that reaches your body limit. But for this, you have to give up some benefits or use merits. So I recommend you to try and obtain merits for the second star. For the first one, your village chief will help you obtain it."
Knowing that I can get the star according to my body limit. I grew excited since this means I have a possibility to absorb a 1000-year-old star as my second spirit star. Bowing gratefully and saying thanks to Chen Rong I returned to Village chief as he strongly patted my back hurting me while he smiled and occasionally laughed making him seem weird.
" Ok let's go back. Chen Rong, it's been a long time since you met your Aunt. Let's go home and have some wine." Chen Rong nodded and picked up the stones in the formation, as he followed us outside.
Outside everyone gathered together chatting in a low voice while waiting for the Village chief to come and announce the results.
Seeing the children's coming out everyone quickly focused their attention, as parents came forward to collect their child while others waited for Village chief announcement.
Seeing everyone has focused their attention on him. village smiled and happily announced.
" This year we have awakened 3 children with spirit among which there are, rare food type spirit and a genius with 8th level spirit power." Listening to this everyone couldn't help themselves and cheer.
Seeing this he asked for the parents of the 2 children with spirit power to wait and let others disperse. He said to them.
" Your children are good. If you want to, I can ask Pagoda to take them in, or you can go to town to find a school. Until they mature. You can tell me about your choice tomorrow." He waved his hands to let them go without even letting them reply. Cause he knew they will irrationally force their children to join Pagoda basically cutting of their freedom. For me, since I have a high enough level of spirit power the other side won't ask me to come until something is really urgent since they that cultivating and gaining strength is a top priority for geniuses. If someone can reach Supreme won't the security of the empire improve better than gaining a few low-level spirit warriors.
Heading back to the orphanage he announced the results and asked me to rest today don't run around I will be back in a few hours and talk with you. Let you know more about outside knowledge.
Since he said this I just sat on my bedding and summoned my spirit trying to find if there is anything unique about my Spirit. Looking at it other than the fiery temperature it radiated which looks like will grow with my strength I could only feel that the stick is nearly as tough as titanium. Which will be helpful for my cross ranking challenge. How can a genius like can't fight across the ranks. It will be a waste of talent.
Seeing that there is nothing more to my spirit I took it back and entered the cultivation since I have to raise my spirit power quickly so that I can get the spirit star and start my journey. Beauties and opportunities are waiting for me to collect, I can't let them wait so long. Thinking about this I quickly entered the cultivation and started to gather the Qi using my Qi gathering technique.
Time passed by and it was evening when I opened my eyes. I looked inside to see the benefits of today's cultivation which was only a slight increase in my spirit power. According to how fast I am cultivating it will take 3-4 days to get to level 9 and a week or more to reach level 10 which is slightly acceptable.