Chapter 17: The father and son are both incredibly talented.

Among Yu Shan and his group, Xiao Bai was the first to use the Spirit Tempering Liquid.

His original superpower was ice-based, plus a teleportation ability.

Yu Shan only knew that there might be some connection between the two cultivation systems, but she was not sure whether supernatural abilities were directly related to spiritual roots.

As a result, after Xiaobai used the Spirit Tempering Liquid to soak his body, Yu Shan used her divine sense to examine his dantian and found two thriving little seedlings inside.

One of them was an ice spirit root covered with frost flowers, and the other was a transparent light spirit root that was faintly visible.

The dantian is the lifeblood of a cultivator, so it is absolutely forbidden for outsiders to explore it at will, except for their closest relatives.

Normally, a spirit testing ball is used to find out the attribute of a spiritual root.

After examining it, Feather Fan almost doubted that it was her own hallucination. To be on the safe side, she used the Spirit Testing Orb.

The results did indeed reveal two attributes—ice and light.

The Light Spirit Root is formed by the fusion and mutation of the Fire Spirit Root and the Earth Spirit Root, while the Ice Spirit Root is formed by the fusion and mutation of the Water Spirit Root and the Wood Spirit Root.

Mutant spiritual roots are relatively rare, and it is even rarer for a person to have two types of mutated spiritual roots.

If someone has two ordinary spiritual roots, their aptitude isn't particularly good, but having two mutated spiritual roots is truly amazing.

"Little Bai, Little Bai, you are a cultivation genius, do you know that? Mutant spiritual roots have almost no bottlenecks in cultivation, and their affinity for spiritual energy is far greater than that of ordinary spiritual roots."

"Given time, you will surely become one of the pinnacles of this world!" Yu Shan exclaimed excitedly.

"As expected of the Master, he is the most outstanding, no matter where he is," Mina exclaimed excitedly.

"Mom, I want to use the Spirit Tempering Liquid too! I'm sure I'll be the best, and I'll definitely be no worse than Dad!" Achen said, shaking his little fist.

“Yes, our Chen has always been the best among his peers! But are you sure you can endure the pain of the Spirit Tempering Liquid?” Yu Shan stroked her son’s head, looking at him with concern.

Ah Chen is still young. Even without using the Spirit Tempering Liquid, his hidden spiritual root will gradually emerge in two years. He just needs to wait a while.

"I can! I'm a man, I want to protect my mom and sister!" Achen said firmly.

Previously, when Xiaobai was soaking in the Spirit Tempering Liquid, he used a barrier to isolate everyone's view, not wanting Yu Shan and A Chen to see his disheveled appearance.

This time, Achen jumped directly into the large wooden tub filled with spirit-quenching liquid. As soon as the dark brown liquid submerged his body, he couldn't help but grimace.

Ouch! It hurts! It really hurts!

But why didn't Dad say a word before? Was he too proud to admit it, so he gritted his teeth and endured it?

Ah Chen felt as if his whole body was being torn apart, and he was in so much pain that he wanted to cry.

He grinned, about to cry, but gritted his teeth and held back. Even his father wasn't crying; if he cried, his father would laugh at him later.

When the pain reached its peak, his little brain started working exceptionally fast.

Then he remembered that when he was learning the acupuncture technique "Ling Shu" from the ancient planet Blue Star from Uncle Bo, he had used his spiritual power to open up a small Purple Mansion.

He tried to release the spiritual power stored in his Purple Mansion along the meridian lines indicated by the meridian diagram.

Then he discovered that wherever the spiritual energy flowing through his meridians passed, the bones, flesh, and meridians corroded by the medicinal liquid were quickly repaired, and the pain naturally disappeared.

He desperately mobilized all his mental energy to resist the pain caused by the corrosive medicinal liquid, and the two gradually reached a certain balance.

The medicine was no longer a source of pain for him, but rather a source of enjoyment akin to a hot spring.

Gradually, he felt the spiritual energy flowing through his body, flowing along the meridians to his dantian, nourishing the two little seedlings within.

One of them was a deep blue, and the other was pure black.

The color was a bit strange, and the pure black seedling was sometimes visible and sometimes hidden.

As the two saplings grew, they attracted more and more spiritual energy, which continuously impacted the layers of barriers surrounding the dantian.

With each level I broke through, I felt as if my body had become a little lighter.

Is this what they call feeling like you're floating on air?

As Ah Chen thought this, he felt a little dizzy and sleepy. His little head kept nodding, and he finally fell asleep against the wooden tub.

The onlookers: What's going on?

Little White, suffering from the torment of the Spirit Refining Liquid: Why is God so biased towards this brat? His father is being tortured to the point of ecstasy, while he can comfortably doze off here!

Feather Fan scanned his son's dantian with his divine sense and found that the two small seedlings in the dantian had grown quite large, especially the pure black spiritual root, which disappeared immediately upon sensing any external aura.

Feather Fan had never understood why her son had learned to conceal his presence while still in the womb, but now he finally understood.

It turns out that he possesses two mutated spiritual roots: the Nether Spiritual Root and the Dark Spiritual Root.

The pure black one is the Dark Spiritual Root.

Dark spiritual roots can perfectly conceal their aura, especially in the dark, allowing them to follow like a shadow and deliver a fatal blow to the enemy.

Moreover, he also possesses the Netherworld Spirit Root.

The Netherworld Spirit Root is the most mysterious, magical, and powerful of all mutated spirit roots.

Cultivators with Netherworld Spiritual Roots can not only tame spirit beasts and demonic beasts, but also control unseen and bizarre creatures such as souls and demonic beings.

No wonder the bighead carp was attracted by the scent of the still-infant Achen shortly after hatching and walked right into his trap.

With the blessing of the Dark Spirit Root, the Dark Spirit Root can perform exceptionally well. In the future, when encountering powerful enemies, as long as A-Chen wants to hide, he can be 100% guaranteed not to be discovered by the enemy.

With the blessing of the Dark Spirit Root, he was able to easily search for the souls and demons hidden in the shadows.

These two spiritual roots complement each other, and once they mature, they become virtually invincible.

Yu Shan couldn't help but feel gratified; this child was truly blessed by nature.

She also discovered that Ah Chen had unexpectedly opened up his Purple Mansion at some point, and could directly absorb spiritual energy without needing to temper his body with Spirit Refining Liquid.

This spirit-tempering liquid became a highly nourishing elixir for him.

Originally, with his superpower level, he could only reach the eighth level of the first realm, the Spirit Gathering Realm, at most. But now, with the help of this powerful tonic, he has directly broken through to the third level of the Spirit Fusion Realm.

Her son's aura had also become much stronger, and it seemed that he was almost catching up with his father. Yu Shan was once again proud of her son.

She couldn't help but start to suspect that the partner she had casually married in that spiritually sparse outer realm might have some extraordinary bloodline hidden within him.

Otherwise, how could she have given birth to such a gifted son as Achen?