12 It Turns Out I’m Not sCompletely” Broken! (1/2)
The elder who teleported Jam to the Sect Head's office, teleported with him again. Now, Jam was in another room, after looking at the instructions on the wall Jam learned that this was the room for testing Inscription Talent.
The teleporting elder gave Jam his Stellar Bow back and told him that once he finished this test another elder would teleport him to the next test. After the elder finished conversing with Jam he teleported back to continue doing whatever he was doing before he was tasked with escorting Jam.
And just like that, Jam began a marathon of tests. He tested for Inscriptions, Formation Arrays, Beast Taming, Illusions, even Cooking. Every single test for secondary occupations was met with resounding success for Jam. Apparently, the same level of talent Jam displayed on his Alchemy and Refining tests, carried over to the rest of the secondary occupations.
Then Jam was moved to the attribute tests, the ones which were like the test for affinity. There, Jam tested his willpower, soul strength, and body potential. The willpower test subjected Jam to several illusions, given the fact that Jam had recently advanced to being a Tier 1 Illusionist, he managed to get better result than he would have, prior to taking the Illusionist test.
Jam's body registered as being perfectly suitable for Body Refinement; which was to be expected. How else would Jam have been able to complete the Body Tempering Stage in a mere five years, without resources or a Body Refining technique? His body had to be suitable for body refinement, otherwise, he would have killed himself advancing at such a fast pace without the resources to treat himself.
The result of these tests effects on the Sect Head were predictable; Jam kept shattering the Sect Head's mind with each completed test. With godlike talent for ALL secondary occupations, willpower at the level of those in the Spirit Realm, and a physique perfect for Body Refining, Jam seemed like a reincarnated immortal. It was his soul strength, which registered at ”normal” levels, that gave the Sect Head some solace.
Jam's soul strength was at the same level as those at the Palace Creation Stage. By no means was this soul strength weak, when considering that Jam was at the Qi Collecting Stage, two stage below the Palace Creation Stage. But, when compared to his Physique and Willpower, it was clearly lacking. There were plenty of people that surpassed Jam in this aspect; However, all of them heavily specialized in soul strength.
Who knows how crushed the Sect Head would feel if she knew that the reason why Jam's Soul Strength was so low was because he didn't want to cheat by using Divinity to replicate an soul-type superpower like True Soul. If Jam chose to use Divinity to replicate a superpower like True Soul, which would amplify soul strength by dozens of times, he would without a doubt shatter the previous record for Soul Strength as well.
However, doing so would cause the Sect Head to wonder how Jam managed to do so without a soul-type superpower. This could lead to her discovering Jam's true superpower, and that was something that Jam wanted to avoid at all costs.
Willpower and Body Refining compatibility could not be enhanced by any known superpowers, only soul strength. So, Jam's results in the other tests could not be attributed to him using a superpower; that was not the case for soul strength, and Jam didn't want to be investigated. So he just put up with appearing to not be completely broken.
Once Jam finished the last test, he was teleported back to the Sect Head once again. This time, in the Sect Head's Office, Jam was surrounded by elders. The tense atmosphere, coupled by the fact that Jam was under the pressure subconsciously emitted by all these elders, made Jam unable to speak. He had to slowly get used to this intense environment.
”Alright, now that everyone is here, we can start the meeting. As all of you know our academy recently received a new disciple the other day through the principle teleportation array. We have already discussed his recent achievements in cultivation and Alchemy, but as he kept challenging more tests he showed… ”gifted” results.” The Sect head the waved her hand a screen detailing Jam's test results was laid bare for all to see.
Jam thought it was fortunate that the test for affinity could not be shown to others. However, the truth was that the creator of the Affinity test, made it this way to allow all the cultivator in the academy a fair shot in their path of cultivation. If the higher ranking members knew of every disciple's affinity, they would neglect some of the more hardworking disciples that had less talent, in favor of those with more talent.