Clan Cultivation: Starting from Foundation Establishment on Mount Luoxia

Chapter 106 The Uses of Spiritual Roots

"The newly formed miniature worlds, with their laws initially established and their origins active, will naturally give rise to or give rise to many small secret realms of varying sizes throughout the world in the next six months to a year."

"These secret realms vary in nature. Some may be fragments of ancient ruins activated by new laws, some are formed by the convergence of ley lines, and some are strange spatial folds..."

"It often contains the first batch of naturally formed, relatively precious spiritual herbs, minerals, and even possibly low-level rare treasures and special spiritual environments in this world."

"This is a 'gift' from the world to the native creatures, and it is a resource that your Li family, as the guardians, needs to explore, control, and make reasonable use of as soon as possible."

"The third category is the connection between different dimensions and grotto-heavens."

Xiao Xiting's expression became more serious. "When you broke through to the Purple Mansion realm, your grotto-heaven was born, and it was deeply connected to the origin of this world."

"This means that within this Sunset Realm, when you utilize the power of the grotto-heaven and unleash your supernatural abilities, you will receive the subtle blessing of the world's origin."

"The combat power is 10-20% stronger than in other worlds of similar strength. Conversely, this advantage will disappear if you leave the Sunset Realm."

"At the same time, this is also a double-edged sword."

His tone turned serious, "If the origin of the minor world grows and prospers, your grotto-heaven will also receive a slight feedback and nourishment, which will benefit your cultivation."

"But if the Sunset Realm suffers severe damage and its origin is damaged, your cave heaven will also be affected. At best, it will be unstable and turbulent; at worst, it may even affect your Dao foundation."

"You and this world are now truly intertwined."

Li Xiaoyao's expression was solemn. He had a premonition about this, and now that it had been pointed out, he felt an even greater sense of responsibility.

"The fourth category, which is also the one most closely related to your own cultivation, is the cultivation of the Purple Mansion Divine Power."

Xiao Xiting looked at Li Xiaoyao and slowly said:

"Newly promoted Purple Mansion cultivators, regardless of whether they previously possessed pseudo-spiritual roots, true spiritual roots, or multiple spiritual roots, once they forge their first innate divine ability with a certain attribute's immortal foundation as its core, then, in principle, any future cultivation of their second, third, fourth, or even fifth innate divine abilities must belong to the same Great Dao lineage as their first divine ability!"

"For example, you, [Yuxia Heaven], belong to the Rainbow Clouds Path, and are a witness to the extraordinary changes."

"Then your subsequent supernatural abilities, in theory, must also be an evolution of the Rainbow Cloud Dao, or a variant of the supernatural ability that is highly compatible with it and can be integrated into your Rainbow Cloud Dao foundation."

"You must not cultivate completely independent Gengjin sword techniques or Lihuo spells, otherwise your foundation will be conflicted. At best, you will not be able to achieve supernatural powers; at worst, your path to cultivation will be completely destroyed."

Li Xiaoyao felt a chill run down his spine; the restrictions were greater than he had imagined.

"And this demonstrates the advantage of cultivators with multiple spiritual roots at the Purple Mansion stage."

Xiao Xiting changed the subject, her gaze towards Li Xiaoyao carrying a hint of "You're lucky."

"If a pseudo-spiritual root cultivator breaks through to the Purple Mansion realm," he explained, "the subsequent cultivation of supernatural abilities will be extremely complicated and difficult."

"One must complete the cultivation of the first supernatural power before one can begin to prepare for the second supernatural power."

"Moreover, we need to start from scratch—first, using a large amount of resources to rapidly advance the cultivation level of the spiritual root corresponding to the second supernatural power attribute from nothing to the fourth level of Qi Refining."

"Then, consume the exclusive spiritual energy of heaven and earth specific to this divine power system to initially establish the divine power perception."

"Next, continue to expend resources to improve the cultivation level of this attribute until it reaches the edge of Foundation Establishment."

"Then find and refine the rare treasures of heaven and earth with the corresponding attributes to forge the second immortal foundation of that attribute."

"Only after perfecting this second immortal foundation can one attempt to 'push into the rising sun,' undergo tribulations and transformations, and condense it into the second innate divine power."

Xiao Xiting shook his head: "The whole process takes a very long time, consumes a huge amount of resources, and the risk of failure at each step is not small."

"Furthermore, the more supernatural abilities one cultivates, the difficulty, failure rate, and time required to cultivate subsequent supernatural abilities will increase exponentially."

"Many pseudo-spiritual root purple mansions can only manage to cultivate two or three supernatural powers in their entire lives, which is already quite difficult."

Li Xiaoyao was secretly astonished; the path of the pseudo-spiritual root purple mansion was just too difficult!

"And that is the advantage of having multiple spiritual roots."

Xiao Xiting finally pointed out, "For example, Fellow Daoist Shangyuan, you possess the four spiritual roots of metal, wood, water, and fire."

"While you are cultivating [Royal Cloud Heaven], you don't need to wait until the first supernatural power is perfected. You can use your other spiritual roots to start preparing for the second or even the third supernatural power."

"You can start refining the spiritual energy of heaven and earth of the corresponding attribute directly. Of course, it must be a variant that is compatible with your Rainbow Cloud Dao lineage."

"Then, seek out suitable rare and precious objects from heaven and earth, and attempt to forge a second attribute as the foundation for immortality."

"This directly eliminates the long process of cultivating from scratch to the fourth level of Qi Refining and establishing a preliminary understanding of supernatural abilities."

"However," Xiao Xiting emphasized, "the step of condensing divine power can only be carried out after the first divine power, [Royal Cloud Heaven], is perfected."

"You can forge other attribute immortal foundations before [Royal Heaven] is perfected, and nurture and enhance them."

"Once the first divine power is perfected, one can relatively quickly attempt to 'push into the rising sun' these prepared immortal foundations and condense them into new innate divine powers."

"This undoubtedly greatly shortens the total cycle of cultivating multiple supernatural abilities, reduces the waste of time and resources in the early stages, and the cost of failure in the later stages."

Li Xiaoyao suddenly realized what was happening and felt a surge of relief.

With his four spiritual roots at the Earth-level aptitude, he might appear mixed and impure during the Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment stage, resulting in slow progress.

However, upon reaching the Purple Mansion stage, it unexpectedly became a huge advantage in cultivating multiple supernatural powers!

This is probably what they mean by "misfortune may be a blessing in disguise, and blessing may be a misfortune in disguise."

"The manual provides a more detailed explanation and some points to note; you can learn more by reading it carefully."

After Xiao Xiting finished speaking, feeling that he had explained everything, he cupped his hands in greeting once more.

"Alright, that's all I have to say. Fellow Daoist Shangyuan, take care! I look forward to hearing news of your Rainbow Path resounding throughout the heavens in the future!"

"Take care, senior! If fate allows, I will definitely visit you to express my gratitude!"

Li Xiaoyao bowed deeply.

Xiao Xiting laughed heartily, said no more, and his figure transformed into a blue streak of light, soaring into the sky!

It instantly pierced through the barrier of the new world, disappeared into the endless void, and vanished.

Only Li Xiaoyao remained, standing alone above the clouds, holding the warm jade slip titled "Beginner's Guide to Exploring Dimensions: Purple Mansion Immortal Clan".

He looked down at the newly born Luoxia Realm, at the dilapidated yet hopeful Luoxia Market, his heart filled with a mixture of pride and responsibility.

The road ahead is long and arduous.

But where there is a will, there is a way; though difficulties may lie ahead, we will persevere!

This path of rainbows, this realm of sunset, this future of the Li family, I, Li Xiaoyao (Shangyuan), will shoulder it all!

He immersed his consciousness into the jade slip and began to carefully read the beginner's guide that concerned the future of his family and his path in the Dao.