The Legendary Master’s Wife - Chap 144

Chapter 144 : Evaluation Stone

Maybe she already heard about the matter from the small boy, so the woman with tears dancing in her eyes thanked You XiaoMo and Ling Xiao over and over again, her body swaying on the point of falling. Each sentence was followed by several coughs.

Even though she was unwilling to sell off the twelve heirloom jade carvings, it was for the sake of survival so the woman had no other option.

Although SiFang Town was small, the competition was still very intense. She could go for a few days without eating or drinking but she couldn’t let her son suffer with her. That was why she was willing to sell off the twelve jade carvings.

Who knew, because the price of the jade was too high, and because the people that usually come to SiFang Town were not especially rich, so the jade carvings since they were brought out a month ago, not even one was sold. Now, when the mother and son were on the point of dying from illness and starvation, someone finally came to buy their jade sculptures. Furthermore, it was all twelve at once. The mother and son had never seen so much money in this lifetime. It would be a lie to say they were not moved. The woman had long ago started to drop tears like rain.

After an arduous wait for the woman to finish crying, You XiaoMo was finally able to ask about the evaluation stone.

After hearing that the customers wanted to buy an evaluation stone, the woman wiped her tears with a handkerchief, raised her head, and asked in surprise, “You two want to buy an evaluation stone?”

Her gaze swept over You XiaoMo and Ling Xiao, finally falling on You XiaoMo, “You are a mage?”

You XiaoMo pouted, was it that obvious? Fine. Compared to practitioners, he was indeed more like a weak mage. But the woman’s insight was very sharp. After all, she was so sick to such an extent.

After getting an affirmative answer, the woman immediately led them into the rear courtyard.

Evaluation stones were not usually displayed inside the shop. Not because it should not be seen by others, but because each evaluation stone was as tall as one and a half meters, and weighing about two hundred pounds which were very heavy. Usually, it could only be moved by adult males.

You XiaoMo followed the women into the rear courtyard and he saw a milky white crystal in the courtyard. This was most probably the evaluation stone and there seemed to be only one such thing in the whole courtyard.

Most mages took the test on the spot unless they were from major sects. Since there were many people, major sects would buy the evaluation stone back. For a solitary mage like You XiaoMo, no one would be dumb enough to purposely buy an evaluation stone. But he was different because he already underwent the evaluation once, so he couldn’t take it again in front of everyone.

The woman also didn’t ask him why he didn’t do the evaluation right away. She wanted to give the evaluation stone to You XiaoMo but You XiaoMo insisted on buying it or he would go somewhere else to buy one. The woman couldn’t change his mind so she could only give him a rather low price, selling it to him for fifty gold coins.

The shops in Qing City were selling evaluation stones at one hundred gold coins each. Also, they were a little smaller than the one here. The woman’s selling price of fifty gold coins was indeed quite a lot cheaper.

This time, You XiaoMo didn’t refuse anymore. He gave them another fifty gold coins and then left SiFang Town with Ling Xiao.

What the two of them didn’t know was that five days later, some people came around asking in SiFang Town. Those people by chance came inside the woman’s shop to ask but the woman was also not someone who didn’t know anything. Seeing that those people appeared to have come with ill intent, she simply pretended not to know anything. After waiting for them to leave, the woman told her son not to say anything about them.

But these were all after the fact. At this time, You XiaoMo and Ling Xiao had left SiFang Town. When they reached a place with no one around, he entered his dimension with Ling Xiao. He put the evaluation stone straight into the dimension.

The evaluation stone was placed in the courtyard of the small wooden hut. You XiaoMo stood in front of it and stole a glance at Ling Xiao. After some hesitation, he asked, “So…Da Shixiong, do I really have to do the test?”

Ling Xiao gave him a sweet smile and asked him in reply, “What say you?”

I say…it’s already bought. To not do the test was equivalent to throwing away fifty gold coins for nothing. This type of wasteful behavior to You XiaoMo was definitely an incomparably shameful act. So in despair, he couldn’t help but agree with Ling Xiao.

“Then, what am I supposed to do next?” You XiaoMo swallowed a few times, suddenly feeling embarrassed.

He hadn’t seen other people do the test before so he didn’t know the specific steps. But…he regretted it right after asking because the previous ‘him’ already took the test so this careless slip exposed himself.

Ling Xiao looked at his miserable expression. His lips curved up playfully as he spoke with beaming eyes, “Put your hand on it and then transmit your soul force into the evaluation stone. That will do.”

You XiaoMo’s hand shook as he placed it on the evaluation stone. A burst of ice cold sensation was felt coming from the evaluation stone. He shivered involuntarily before doing as Ling Xiao told him to, stimulating a thread of his soul force and transmitting it into the evaluation stone.

In just an instant, the milky white evaluation stone suddenly emitted an intense burst of bright light…

You XiaoMo’s eyes were blinded so he immediately closed his eyes, only opening them again when the rays started to weaken. When he looked at the twinkling lights on top of the evaluation stone, his eyes couldn’t help opening wider. What was the meaning of this?

An ethereal glow was shining on top of the evaluation stone that he had never seen that particular color before. It was not pink or yellow, neither was it green and it was definitely not blue. It could only be described as a very ethereal color.

You XiaoMo didn’t know how to define the caliber of his own soul. The soul of the original You XiaoMo was green, below average innate talent. So what was his?

“Ling-shixiong, what color should this be?” You XiaoMo couldn’t figure it out so he could only look questioningly at Ling Xiao. But when he looked at Ling Xiao, the latter’s usual smiling expression had disappeared leaving him looking completely expressionless. He couldn’t help getting a prickling sensation in his heart. It couldn’t be that there was something wrong, right?

Seeing that he didn’t answer, You XiaoMo called out to him gingerly. He then waved his hand in front of his face, “Ling-shixiong, what’s the matter?”

Ling Xiao recovered extremely naturally, folding his hands across his chest. He glanced at him with an unreadable expression, “Do you know that other than low, medium, and high, there is still another level of mages?”

You XiaoMo silently stuck up his middle finger in his heart. At any rate, he was a level three mage. If he didn’t even know this, he would have lived this half a year in vain.

“Other than low, medium and high, there is one more class of super high level mages, the transcendent level mage. But this type of mage seems to have not appeared before. I hear that the very awesome mage called QiuRan also cannot be considered a transcendent level mage.”

As for this QiuRan, You XiaoMo had only heard of how totally awesome he was. But he completely didn’t know that the Heavenly Soul Scripture that he was currently practicing actually belonged to him. But, no matter how totally awesome he was, he still couldn’t touch the threshold of a transcendent level mage.

“Then which level do you think you belong to?” Ling Xiao asked in high spirits.

You XiaoMo’s mouth twitched furiously. If I knew, why would I need to ask you? But he still answered, “If I were to guess then the color on top of the evaluation stone does not match low, medium or high level.”

He was not so narcissistic that he would think that he was a transcendent level mage.

Ling Xiao’s eyes flashed as he spoke in a rather agitated voice, “If I were to tell you that you have the innate talent to become a transcendent level mage, would you believe it?”

You XiaoMo didn’t even have to think before shaking his head, “I don’t believe it!”

He then gave him a scornful glance but after pondering for a bit, he started to be unable to hide his excitement, saying eagerly, “If you say I have the innate talent to become a high level mage, then I can barely believe you…ah, it hurts!”

The answer Ling Xiao gave him was rapping him once on the forehead. Then, as if feeling that it wasn’t hard enough, he rapped him once again before he was able to cover his forehead. After rapping him, he asked cheerfully, “Now is it still barely?”

You XiaoMo held his forehead, shaking his head as tears danced in his eyes, sobbing pitifully, “Not barely, no longer the least bit forced.”

This fellow’s actions were getting more and more ruthless. He felt that his low IQ must be Ling Xiao’s fault.

Ling Xiao snorted lightly twice before pulling him up to himself. He took his hand and gently rubbed his forehead while saying, “The evaluation stones here are rather low grade. It is unable to accurately determine the level of your soul. But I can solemnly tell you that your soul is multicolored.”

The person in front suddenly turned completely silent.

Ling Xiao waited and still didn’t get any reaction so he looked down to see our friend You XiaoMo with his mouth hanging open, looking stunned and silly. He couldn’t help but stretch out his hand and pinch his cheeks a few times.

You XiaoMo suddenly cried out and regained his senses with some difficulty. He discovered that half his face was being pinched in someone’s hands, yet he already didn’t have the power to bother about these things. He quickly grabbed Ling Xiao’s hand and with sparkling eyes spoke excitedly while stuttering, “Ling-shixiong, is what you said true? My soul is…multicolored?”

Ling Xiao laughed in amusement while answering, “You think that I always have to lie to you?”

You XiaoMo immediately nodded, “Yes!”

A thud rang out as Ling Xiao’s hand rapped on his melon seed head again. With a threatening look and narrowed eyes, he said, “Say it again!”

You XiaoMo grinned foolishly without saying anything. This Shishu was at the height of happiness so he wouldn’t argue with him!

After a while, he suddenly came back to his senses, “Ling-shixiong, what did you just say? What do you mean ‘the evaluation stones here are rather low grade. It is unable to accurately determine the level of your soul.’ Didn’t we already determine it?”