Chapter 26 Chapter 26 What are spiritual roots?

The island in the sky quickly rose into the air after picking up all the people. Under the effect of the concealment formation, the entire island turned into clouds that could be seen everywhere in the sky, and completely disappeared from the sight of the ninja world.

Ali set his sights on the Kingdom of Rivers. There was a vein of minerals there that the previous kingdom had called the Grayer Stone. Based on the descriptions of the minerals, Ali suspected it was a top-grade spiritual vein discovered by ordinary people. However, because of this vein, the kingdom was probably destroyed by now...

An innocent man is guilty of possessing a treasure. Without sufficient strength to protect his treasure, he will only attract covetousness...

Ali felt a little emotional.

The speed was set very slowly, and she could save as much spirit stones as she could every day. The ore vein was there and would not run away. Moreover, the most important thing for her now was actually her own strength and the development of the sect's power, so she could just go slowly.

Well... she won't go in a straight line. It would be better to take a detour and go to the Grass Country's Grass Village first. She wants to see if she can intercept Karin and her daughter in advance.

At the foot of the main peak, a tall stone tablet stands in front, and in front of the tablet, hundreds of people are densely packed.

"Everyone line up, those with children should stand in front and get tested first!"

Big Bull, who has grown a lot taller and looks chubby, stands in front of the spirit-testing monument with a serious face, directing everyone present. Just by looking at the sweat dripping from his forehead, one can guess how nervous he is at the moment.

This is the first mission Sister Ali has given him! He absolutely cannot mess it up!

"Ah He, age 6, Heavenly Earth Spiritual Root, Earth 94."

"Fengshu, age 26, Xuan-grade earth, water, and wood spiritual roots: earth 69, water 41, wood 17."

"Afu, age 6, Heavenly Grade Fire Spiritual Root, Fire 97."

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"Shennong, age 51, Earth Grade Mutated Earth Yin Spiritual Root, Earth Yin 78, go to the left."

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"Yu Zeye, age 37, Earth Grade, Feng, Shui, Earth, and Fire, four spiritual roots: Wind 71, Water 50, Earth 41, Fire 19. Tentative decision: Go to the right."

The spirit testing process was very quick. Ali stood not far away and listened, listening to the spiritual roots, some common and some rare, jumping out one by one. The high ones were extremely high, while the low ones were not even considered spiritual roots. The huge difference in data made Ali sigh.

The phrase "a place of outstanding people and beautiful scenery" is absolutely correct.

Among the residents born in their mountain village, even if they are old and their spiritual roots have severely degenerated, there are always one or two spiritual roots whose level can reach Xuan level or above.

All the children were of Earth Rank, and two of them were directly at Heaven Rank. Ah Cui's younger brother Ah Fu even had a spiritual root value of 97...

Born above a top-grade spiritual vein, the natural environmental advantages, no matter how bad it is, it can't be that bad.

However, the gap between Fengshu and Ah He, as father and son, was clearly quite large. The father had mixed spiritual roots with three attributes, the highest of which was only 69, while the son had a single earth spiritual root and an affinity of 94. All this was simply because of their birthplace...

As for Shennong and his group, except for Shennong's special Earth Yin spiritual roots, the majority of their spiritual roots were of the Xuan and Huang grades. Even if some of them managed to reach the Earth grade, most of the mixed spiritual roots would reduce their advantage.

There were only a few hundred people, but the number of those with earth-grade spiritual roots was surprisingly almost the same as the number of people in their village...

Madara stood beside her, watching the test with great interest, his lips curled in a slightly mischievous manner.

"There are quite a lot of people with the wood attribute..."

Ali: ...

So many strange spiritual roots have just appeared. It seems that you, Mr. Madara, are only concerned about the issue of wood spiritual roots?

Is Hashirama's PTSD so serious?

Madara seemed to have noticed Ali's strange expression, so he paused and explained, "I'm just curious about what Hashirama's expression would be when he saw his Wood Release suddenly everywhere..."

It’s sure to be exciting…

Ali's expression became even weirder.

Good job!

This is definitely gloating, right?!

Do you still remember your old character? Madara-sama, aren't you a Pillar Buki?!

A few complaints flashed through Ali's mind, but he felt from the bottom of his heart that the person in front of him seemed to have come alive a little more...

She thought for a moment, then continued with certainty, "If he finds out his cells have been stolen after he gets out, he might think they're being used to create androids. Suddenly, everything's gone horribly wrong! The Senju bloodline has spread directly throughout the ninja world!"

The corners of Madara's mouth twitched uncontrollably. Things didn't have to be so outrageous.

Although the possibility of this was almost zero, the image of Hashirama squatting in the corner with black air emitting from his body and mushrooms growing all over his body still appeared uncontrollably in Madara's mind...

No, it's even more eye-catching...

He abruptly changed the subject: "Are those Earth Yin, Ice, and Thunder attributes similar to the blood attributes of a ninja?"

Ali stroked his chin and pondered, "Hmm... a bit similar. They are all variations of the five attributes under various conditions. Variations of the three attributes of ice, thunder, and wind are relatively common, but I didn't expect Shennong's earth and yin..."

Ah Li felt like she had been struck by a windfall. She explained to Madara, "Di Yin is a very rare and powerful attribute. When Shennong was a ninja, he could directly activate his body. He could sense and utilize negative chakra from humans. Even if he was dismembered, he wouldn't necessarily die. This must be the effect of the Di Yin spiritual root."

But this extremely rare mutated spiritual root should not be only at the earth level. Thinking of the ninjas' spiritual roots that were obviously too low, Ali suddenly had an idea.

Thinking about it this way, it makes sense: "Although he is only at Earth Grade, I feel that it may be due to the large loss of physical and mental energy caused by their previous chakra extraction. After he starts practicing and recovers for a period of time, it shouldn't be difficult for him to reach Heaven Grade."

Uchiha Madara also thought of the so-called grades of the Mysterious Heaven and Earth.

The Soul Source Sutra he practiced only talked about some methods of soul cultivation, and did not contain any content about grades. So even though he had the soul shell of a Nascent Soul and his actual cultivation had entered the Foundation Establishment stage, the common sense of cultivating immortals was still what he had heard from Ali before.

"Can the strength of this kind of talent be directly tested through data?"

Ali nodded: "This is quite easy to test. After the disciple candidates are confirmed, I will take advantage of today to give everyone a general knowledge class."

Ban became interested and then looked at the stone tablet in front of him again. There were not many people queuing at the moment.

The original standing positions have changed a lot, and the field has been divided into two parts: the confirmed area and the pending area.

As for the ninjas who had not been selected before, they had gone to the southeast near the front desk of the island long before the test began. There was a wide arched platform at the intersection of two small peaks. That was the living area for Ali's disciples.

The distance between the two places is not far, and you can see it by looking up and down with good eyesight.

Since they didn't need to test it for the time being, Ali sent them to build the house.

They will try to get a room with a separate courtyard for each of them tonight, otherwise they will have no place to stay on this bare sky island.

The test ended quickly. Looking at the obvious gap between the two teams on the field, the number of people on the left had only increased from a dozen to twenty or thirty...

This was far from the number of people she expected...

Ali could only hold his nose and take in those miscellaneous spiritual roots that were tentatively estimated to have one or two high-grade attributes from the system's automatic records.

Finally, the gap between the two teams was no longer so huge.

The system prompt sounded, which made Ali feel a little more alert.

[Inheritance II Completed, 117/100, Reward: Sect Hall Blueprint*1, 10,000 Points]

[Inheritance 3 has been opened, recruiting 1,000 disciples, rewards, 100,000 points, and 1 martial arts arena blueprint]

Ali did not let the ninjas who were temporarily on hold leave. These people would probably be the candidates for the next batch of disciples.

Although his spiritual roots were relatively low, his development did not rely solely on cultivation. As long as he could absorb spiritual energy, he could completely overtake others by relying on his spiritual weapons and physical body as a sword cultivator, knife cultivator, or body cultivator.

Furthermore...

Firstly, it is hard to say whether their spiritual roots are affected by the chakra extraction. Secondly, there are mental methods within the sect to improve their qualifications, so there is not completely no hope.

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"The world is made up of the five elements, and humans are no exception. The five internal organs in our body correspond to the five elements respectively." Ali stood in front of the spirit-testing monument and explained the difference between spiritual roots and chakra to the two groups of people below.

"The lungs belong to metal, the liver to wood, the kidneys to water, the heart to fire, and earth to the spleen. Metal, wood, water, fire, and earth, these five attributes are the attributes of ourselves and the heaven and earth."

The civilians had never been exposed to the so-called attributes of the ninjas, so they didn't have any ideas, but some ninjas showed a look of understanding.

Just now, many ninjas were ecstatic when they learned that they actually had the same wood attribute as the God of Ninja World, but as time passed, more and more people had wood attributes, and everyone became numb. Now, when they heard that wood attribute was actually the basic element of the five elements, they felt extremely complicated.

They perked up and listened attentively to the girl above them, who was several generations younger than them, explaining the knowledge of the new cultivation system.

"Chakra is actually the five elements of energy that the human body possesses, combined with the yin and yang energy of the spirit, to produce five fixed attributes, namely: wind, fire, thunder, water, and earth." Ali paused when he said this, and looked at Shennong and the group of ninjas surrounding him.

"I don't know if you have this feeling, but a ninja's talent, aside from physical skills, is actually largely determined when they are born."

Ali briefly explained the origins of the talents of the ninja world's geniuses: "Those with exceptionally strong physical and mental energy are far more likely to reach the pinnacle than ordinary people. Besides being influenced by the developmental environment at birth, physical and mental energy are largely determined by the ninja's parents. This is the innate condition that determines their talent."

"Spiritual energy can be restored through rest, while physical energy relies on various foods and medicines to replenish the energy of the five internal organs. Therefore, the acquired conditions of talent are resources!"

"Good innate conditions and acquired talents have resources to supply them. This is why the talents of those family ninjas are generally higher than ordinary people, and they are more likely to become strong."

The ninjas were not too surprised. Apart from the initial surprise at the idea that the human body was composed of the five elements, they had actually felt the rest of the information a long time ago.

The children listened in confusion. In the ninja world, which is generally precocious, children as young as six or seven already have their own thoughts. They tried hard to remember everything the elder sister said, while the adults seemed to slowly understand the essence of the ninja's training under Ali's explanation.

Da Niu silently turned on the screen recording function of the intermediate system. His brain was not as smart as Shui Cang. If Sister Ali talked about something profound later, even if he didn't understand, he could go back and listen to it a few more times.

Ali ignored the changes below, but continued to take advantage of this rare opportunity to educate them.

"But no matter how high the peak reaches, it is still limited by the human body. Their own physical and mental energy has largely determined their specific future position. Breaking through is extremely difficult. When they reach a certain age, their physical energy begins to weaken, and ninjas will begin to decline from their peak. Unless they use external means, it is difficult to avoid this decline, such as the tailed beasts."

Madara was sitting not far away, listening with his eyes slightly lowered.

This statement is not bad...

Ali paused, then began to formally talk about spiritual roots.

"Our cultivation has never been about squeezing the energy within the body to improve. Instead, from the very beginning, we absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, which is what you call natural energy, to improve our physical essence."

"As the body's spirit and limbs are continuously nourished and strengthened, the various organs and spirits of the body will be greatly strengthened. To use the simplest example, a wooden stick, if used daily, no matter how durable it is, will only last a month or two at most. But if I strengthen the material of this stick from ordinary wood to stone, iron, or even something harder, will its lifespan still only be a month or two?"

"I think the iron rod can be used for several years, right?" Da Niu replied after thinking seriously.

He actually thought about the actual usage time of a stick...

Ali was stuck for a moment, glanced helplessly at the expert who seemed a little off the mark, and then continued his popular science lecture.

"The essence of spiritual practice is the same. I've told Shennong before that cultivating natural energy will allow him to regain his youth. But the actual meaning isn't returning to one's previous age. Rather, after practicing, our bodies are strengthened, and the lifespan of our organs is increased. Originally, they could last 100 years, but now they can last 200 years, or even more. The body will also regain stronger functions, and naturally, we'll look younger."

Ali called Shennong over and stretched out his arm, saying, "Use your scalpel to cut it."

Shennong looked at Ali's serious eyes and it seemed that she was not joking.

Shennong took out the scalpel from his backpack and tentatively slashed it down. After one cut, not even a scratch on Ali's skin...

Shennong was stunned for a moment. Even if his strength was light, the sharpness of the scalpel was incomparable to ordinary pain.

A Li looked at the cautious Shennong and was a little speechless: "Use a little more force, what can people see if you do this?"

Shennong said sternly: "I'm sorry, Master Li."

As soon as he finished speaking, he slashed his hand downwards with great force.

Everyone around held their breath.

Shennong felt strange when he started. It seemed that he had not cut into human skin, but some kind of obstructed yet flexible tendon that was difficult to cut. It even had a little bit of force that bounced back. Looking up, there was not even a trace of blood...

No, there was actually still a little red mark, but in the few seconds that Ali showed it to everyone, the red mark quickly disappeared, as if it had never existed.

Even the group of ninjas who already had extraordinary abilities rubbed their eyes in disbelief.

"Is this true?"

"Is this something the human body can do?"

“Amazing…”

“Can we do this in the future?”

Everyone's eyes seemed to be shining, and even Shennong's breathing became rapid.

After Ali signaled Shennong to go down, he shouted "Quiet!"

"We've discussed the principles that allow us to cultivate and become powerful. The next step is how we can absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth into our bodies. This involves the spiritual roots that each of us possesses, which is what we just tested on you."

Everyone looked at the girl in front of the stone tablet more intently. This was a new cultivation system that concerned their future abilities!

"Spiritual roots help the five elements in our body communicate with the five elements in nature, attracting the spiritual energy of nature to strengthen our body."

"It's not some real organ that exists inside our body."

"The profound affinity between us and the universe is what I call the spiritual root that everyone possesses."

"To go deeper, under the same circumstances, the human body's sensitivity to spiritual energy, absorption speed, maximum storage capacity, and the degree to which the same amount of spiritual energy can transform the human body are what we call spiritual roots."

"Take the perfect divine product as an example."

"As soon as you begin practicing the technique, starting with perception, all 100 parts of spiritual energy will respond to the practitioner's call and be drawn into the body. The absorption speed is extremely fast. This completely compatible spiritual energy attribute is highly receptive to the body. 100 parts of spiritual energy can also transform the human body to the same degree. After transforming the upper limit of the body's ability to withstand that day, the final amount that can be stored is also 100."

"But starting from the Heavenly Grade, the gap widens. When sensing, only 90 out of 100 spiritual energies will respond. The absorption rate is 90% of that of the Divine Grade. Losses will occur during operation. Only 90% of the spiritual energy is actually used in a cycle of the mental method. At this time, the remaining 81 strands of spiritual energy have an actual transformation effect of only 73%..."

"Just a ten-point difference in affinity will cause a huge gap in daily progress. It will take even more time, and the further you go, the bigger this gap will become..."

"For the lowest-level people, only 10 out of 100 responses are received. Of those 10, only 1 actually gets used. Of that 10, the effect on their body transformation is less than one-tenth. If they continue for a whole day, they might not even reach the highest level of their transformation, and growth is even harder than reaching the sky."

Obviously, everyone in the field began to get nervous. They didn't feel anything when they tested this kind of thing. It sounded like 70 and 90 didn't seem to be much different.

But after hearing what Ali said, they carefully calculated it themselves, and if the daily practice results varied so much, then the final gap would only get bigger and bigger, and eventually it would be like an insurmountable chasm...