"Yes, the five elements are mutually reinforcing and restraining each other. Whichever element you major in will be restrained by the other. That was why five-attribute spirit roots were called pseudo-spirit roots. Generally, it was very difficult to cultivate such spirit roots to the late stage of Qi Refinement.”
"What if he cultivates all five elements?" Ye Changsheng asked with a wild imagination. In the novels of the Mortal Rebellion Style in his previous life, the main characters all cultivated five elements at the same time, and their True Qi density was five times that of others.
"With the foundation establishment pill, with the talent of two spiritual roots, you can cultivate to the foundation establishment realm in fifteen to twenty years. With three spiritual roots, it would take 30 to 50 to 60 years to cultivate to the foundation establishment realm. Four spiritual roots required at least 80 to 90 years to cultivate to the foundation establishment realm. Qi Cultivation Stage cultivators had a lifespan of one hundred and twenty years. Once their lifespan exceeded one hundred years, their bodies would rapidly age and they would no longer have the possibility of reaching Foundation Establishment. It would take 150 years to cultivate one's five-elemental spirit root to the Foundation Establishment realm. Unless one borrowed another 50 years of lifespan from the heavens, it was impossible for one to break through to the Foundation Establishment realm.”
"Also, don't forget that ordinary cultivators need to spend at least a few years to learn the basics of cultivation. Before officially cultivating, he still had to go through five steps: Purification, Qi Sensing, Meridian Opening, Spirit Opening, and Qi Gathering. Even in a family like ours, we need to be ten years old before we can officially step into the realm of Qi Refinement. If it were those small clans or itinerant cultivators, the time would be even longer. Do you think there's a chance for a five-element pseudo spirit root to break through to the Foundation Establishment Realm under such circumstances?”
"But I've seen an example of a fake spirit root breaking through to the Foundation Establishment realm in a book…”Ye Changsheng retorted, unwilling to admit defeat.
"The person you mentioned had a fortuitous encounter in his early years and consumed a Vermilion Fruit. A single Vermilion Fruit was worth hundreds of thousands of spirit stones. If a Foundation Establishment cultivator consumed it, they would be able to save twenty years of bitter cultivation. After that, he was lucky enough to obtain the remains of a Foundation Establishment cultivator and obtained five Foundation Establishment Pills. A total of five Foundation Establishment Pills! This was a resource worth 500,000 low-grade spirit stones. He had spent 600,000 low-grade spirit stones. If he used these spirit stones to nurture cultivators with three spiritual roots, it would be enough to nurture five Foundation Establishment cultivators. Do you think any force would be so crazy as to nurture a five-element pseudo-spirit root?”
"Moreover, when a cultivator with five elemental pseudo-spirit roots reaches the Foundation Establishment stage, it will only be even more difficult for him to advance his cultivation. If he wanted to continue improving, he would need a huge amount of resources. The further he went, the more resources he needed.”After saying that, Ye Daoyang shook his head. He was just short of saying that cultivators with five-elemental pseudo spirit roots were worthless.
Ye Changsheng was dumbfounded. Although he had never owned a low-grade spirit stone, he knew that the annual salary of the early-stage Qi Refining clansmen was only about ten spirit stones. The mid-stage Qi Refinement realm had about 20 pills, while the late-stage Qi Refinement realm had 30 to 50 pills.
In other words, a late-stage Qi Refining cultivator could only earn 5,000 low-grade spirit stones after working hard for a hundred years. The value of a Foundation Establishment Pill was usually more than 100,000 spirit stones.
From this point of view, cultivators were sometimes as miserable as the house slaves who bought houses with loans in his previous life. A Foundation Establishment Pill was equivalent to a two-story villa with a sea view!
How could an ordinary cultivator afford this? In order to exchange for a Foundation Establishment Pill, it would probably require the efforts of several generations.
Even with his father's background, he had to owe a large sum of spirit stones to his grandfather to exchange for the Foundation Establishment Pill.
After an ordinary Qi Refinement cultivator exchanged for a Foundation Establishment Pill from the clan, even if he broke through to the Foundation Establishment Realm, he would still have to work hard for the clan for decades to repay this debt.
He was a fake cultivator and a real tool.
As for the unlucky ones who failed to break through to the Foundation Establishment Realm, they were even worse off. They would probably have to work for the family for free until their death. If they could not repay the debt, the debt would be transferred to their descendants.
Therefore, there were many late-stage Qi Refinement clansmen in the clan. They clearly had the chance to break through to the Foundation Establishment realm, but they would not rashly exchange for the Foundation Establishment Pill.
Firstly, he had no money. Secondly, he was worried that if he failed to build his foundation, he would drag down his descendants because of these debts.
"Then wouldn't Foundation Establishment Cultivators with five elemental spirit roots be stronger than ordinary cultivators with spirit roots? After all, this kind of cultivator had all five spirit roots.”Ye Changsheng asked.
Ye Daoyang was instantly amused when he heard that.
"Child, I understand what you mean. The five-elemental spirit root cultivator you mentioned does indeed have a combat strength that far surpasses ordinary spirit root cultivators. However, there was a fatal prerequisite, and that was that the attributes of each spirit root had to be completely equal. Even if there was a slight increase in the attributes of any of the spirit roots, it would cause it to become a mixed spirit root. In theory, the combat strength of such cultivators was superior to that of ordinary cultivators. However, the difficulty of their cultivation was only a little faster than that of those with mixed spirit roots.”
"And the probability of having all five Spirit Roots of equal attributes is even rarer than having a Heaven Spirit Root. Unfortunately, even so, their combat strength was still not as good as a heavenly spirit root. At most, they were on par with a mutant spirit root. However, the cultivation resources they needed were several times more than those of the mutant spiritual roots and dozens of times more than those of the heavenly spiritual roots.”
"Changsheng, you must know that the only path for cultivators is to fight for their lives with the heavens! Only by breaking through the current realm before the lifespan of each realm was exhausted could one pursue a longer Dao path. The level of combat strength of the same level was important but not absolute. Only the level of cultivation was the eternal pursuit of cultivators.”
"No wonder the penta spirit root is called the pseudo spirit root…”Ye Changsheng nodded thoughtfully and looked at one of the penta spirit root clansmen with pity.
A cultivator with awakened penta spiritual roots would only live a few decades longer than an ordinary person. But what was the point of cultivating so hard?
No wonder some of the clansmen would be sent to the secular world to take care of the common things after they reached the middle stage of Qi Refinement.
Although he could no longer improve his cultivation in the mortal world, he could at least enjoy the pleasure of being above others. If they were lucky, they could have more than ten wives and concubines. Perhaps they could give birth to one or two children with good spiritual roots.
"You don't have to worry too much. I've asked the third elder just now. The Third Elder said that your spiritual roots are definitely not bad, at least three elements.”Father Ye saw that his son was unhappy and quickly comforted him.
"Next!"
"Uncle Changsheng, it's my turn." Ye Shengyun tugged at Ye Changsheng's sleeve.
Ye Changsheng retracted his gaze and signaled Ye Shengyun to go up to the Spirit Test.
Ye Shengyun stepped forward and placed her hand on the Spirit Testing Formation.
In the next second, two rays of light flashed on the Spirit Testing Array. One of them was red and the other was green.
Immediately after, the First Elder's gaze focused and he stood up excitedly.
"70% for a Fire Spiritual Root and 30% for a Wood Spiritual Root! Good! Very good! God bless our Ye family. I didn't expect that after our ancestor, our Ye family would actually give birth to another high-grade spirit root of the fire and wood elements.”
"Sheng Yun's spiritual roots are exactly the same as Ancestor Xuan Qing's. This was…Am I seeing things?" Ye Daoyang said in astonishment. He never thought that he would be able to witness such a scene with his own eyes.
"Patriarch's dual spiritual roots are also 70% fire and 30% wood?”Ye Changsheng was speechless.
"Not bad! Wood and fire were two types of spiritual roots. It was an excellent talent for high-grade spiritual roots. Those with this aptitude could perfectly inherit the Blazing Azure Yang Art that the Ancestor had cultivated back then. Back then, the Ancestor had relied on this cultivation technique to break through to the Purple Prefecture Realm. Moreover, the fire and wood dual spiritual roots were excellent seedlings for alchemy. "It seems that our Yates family is about to truly rise.”Ye Daoyang clenched his fists excitedly.
Ye Changsheng looked at his father in surprise. He could understand why his father was so excited. It was because his father was also a Level Two Alchemist.
The most suitable aptitude for alchemists was the fire and wood spirit roots. Compared to Ye Shengyun, his father's three-element spiritual roots were much weaker. Because his father's three spiritual roots were five fire, four wood, and one earth.
Generally speaking, as long as the two spiritual roots did not happen to counter each other, then whether it was 55, 64, 73, 82, or 91, they were all considered upper-middle-grade spiritual roots. Amongst them, the best ones were 50 - 50 and 90 - 10. The former could cultivate two elements at the same time, while the latter could cultivate one element at the same time. Their cultivation speed far exceeded that of their peers.
Of course, if the two attributes just happened to counter each other, that would be another story.
Overall, Ye Shengyun's Seven Flames and Three Wood were also very good. Perhaps, her cultivation speed would be a little slower compared to the average person with two spiritual roots. However, walking the path of an alchemist was undoubtedly more suitable.
After all, one's talent in alchemy was primarily based on one's affinity with the Fire Spiritual Root, followed by one's affinity with the Wood Spiritual Root.
Wood-elemental spirit roots were more suitable for cultivating spirit plants and spirit herbs. Spirit herbs could be bought with spirit stones. However, refining pills required the cultivator to control the flames.
With Ye Shengyun, a high-grade two-spiritual root talent, the clansmen in the meeting hall naturally smiled.
Even if there were no other children with outstanding aptitudes, this year's Spirit Testing Conference was still full of gains.
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