328 Pseudo Spiritual Root
Xuanlin Village is located in Dazhouguan Pass. Because the spiritual energy here is thin, it cannot nurture natural treasures. Even the humans living there rarely have spiritual roots.
Seeking immortality and asking for the way has always been an illusory legend for the villagers of Xuanlin Village.
But these are all old news.
Nowadays, every villager in Xuanlin Village has spiritual roots, and the lowest among them are cultivators at the second level of Qi Refining, which is one level higher than the juvenile form of Jiangxiao, the Mahayana Demon Lord.
Ning Yao and his companions followed the place with the most concentrated spiritual energy to the outside of Xuanlin Village. After hiding in the dark and observing for a while, they looked at each other in surprise.
Wen Ziqi frowned and said, "I have seen villages and towns of mortals. It is impossible that all of them are people with spiritual roots. Even those brothers and sisters in our sect who have excellent qualifications cannot guarantee that their children will definitely have spiritual roots."
"The spiritual energy here is so rich that it is possible that the mortals who have lived here for generations have spiritual roots. But..." Wu Xin looked around with a gloomy look in his eyes, "Spiritual energy can nourish the human race, and it can also nourish the demon race. But along the way, we didn't find any demon race that could draw the spiritual energy into their bodies."
There is a dense forest outside Xuanlin Village, where many wild animals live.
On the way here, Ning Yao and others were always very careful and alert to the situation along the way.
Judging from the proportion of people with spiritual roots in the village, the wild beasts living in the forest should have nurtured their spiritual roots long ago and transformed into monsters with varying levels of cultivation.
But they found none.
Wuxin's words also caused doubts among the others. They all expanded their spiritual senses and spread out to the surroundings. Not only did they not find any monsters, they didn't even see the slightest trace of monster activities. They were all ordinary wild beasts.
The monsters in the Qi Refining and Foundation Building stages have not yet practiced fasting, and there are no spiritual plants or other monsters with abundant spiritual energy in the forest for them to eat. They will definitely follow their instincts to the place with the richest spiritual energy, find Xuanlin Village, and then fight with the villagers.
Even if the villagers could win the attacks again and again, there should be protective measures set up outside the village to leave traces of the battle.
But there was nothing.
There are only the most basic protective fences outside the village, which can only stop monsters with no cultivation. Even monsters in the Qi Refining Stage can break through.
"It seems that we have come to the right place. There must be something wrong here." Chu Linfeng rubbed his hands, eager to restore the glory of Tianshui Sect's disciples in front of Zhuo Shuisheng.
Ren Yuan looked at him, then at the village not far away, and finally asked the question in his heart: "Can you really feel the extremely rich spiritual energy here?"
His question was strange, and Shen Muse asked back: “Can’t you feel it? Aren’t you Kunlun Palace disciples supposed to be more sensitive to these things?”
"I really can't sense it." Ren Yuan felt that this was not accurate enough, and added, "That's not right. It's the spiritual energy here that gives me a very empty feeling, like I'm dreaming."
Upon hearing this, Wu Xin opened his heavenly eyes, and golden light flowed in his eyes, but the village in front of him was still a village, without any abnormality: "This is not an illusion."
“Are you too nervous?” Shen Muse said to Ren Yuan casually, but saw Zhao Shi beside him turned his head and looked at him.
Zhao Shi was wearing a mask, so no one could see his expression, but the tacit understanding between the brothers made Shen Musi guess that he had something to say, “Fourth Junior Brother, what did you find out?”
"I... I also feel that the spiritual energy here is very weak, like an illusion." Zhao Shi said and glanced at Wu Xin, indicating that it was not that he did not believe him, he was just simply confused.
Having traveled together for such a long time, they had a high level of trust in each other, and the others did not quarrel among themselves because of Zhao Shi and Ren Yuan's doubts.
With no one knowing what was going on, everyone looked at Jiang Xin at the same time.
Jiang Xin had consumed a lot of energy at the junction of the two worlds and was in urgent need of replenishing a large amount of spiritual power. At this moment, he was holding a thousand-year-old snowwort and chewing it.
Noticing everyone's gazes, the little guy looked confused: "Isn't this edible?"
[I'm so hungry. I feel like all the energy in my body has been drained away. I need to replenish myself. 】
The thousand-year-old Edelweiss contains rich spiritual power and medicinal effects. Even cultivators in the fusion stage dare not take it directly, for fear of poor absorption and explosion and death.
But Jiang Xin ate the Qiongqi clone in the fusion stage without blinking an eye. To her, this thing was just a snack.
"You can eat if you are not feeling unwell." Lin Yan consoled her and pointed to the village ahead. "Junior Sister, can you see anything strange about this village? Fourth Junior Brother and Fellow Daoist Ren both feel that the spiritual energy here is very weak, like an illusion."
Jiang Xin pushed the fragment of Edelweiss at the corner of her lips into her mouth. While chewing the petals, she stood on tiptoe to look at the situation ahead and said without thinking, "Their spiritual roots are all fake."
Everyone was surprised: "Fake spiritual roots?"
Jiang Xin nodded: "They are not born with spiritual roots, but someone helped them implant them into their bodies and then let them practice."
Nowadays, when the theory and practice of cultivation are fully developed, the issue of how to create pseudo-spiritual roots has long been solved by cultivators, and many major forces can do it.
After a mortal or monster without spiritual roots is implanted with pseudo spiritual roots, as long as there is no major rejection reaction, they can use the pseudo spiritual roots to practice and become a cultivator.
At first glance, such monks are no different from monks who are born with spiritual roots, but in fact there is a huge difference.
The highest realm that a cultivator who uses pseudo-spiritual roots to cultivate can reach will be limited by the pseudo-spiritual roots, and he cannot exceed the realm of the materials used to make the pseudo-spiritual roots.
The pseudo spiritual roots made with Jindan stage materials have a corresponding pseudo spiritual root cultivator whose highest realm is only Jindan stage and cannot break through to Yuanying stage.
Otherwise, the pseudo spiritual roots in the body will turn into powder because they cannot withstand the impact of the spiritual power at the Nascent Soul stage.
And so on.
Of course, the realm limited by the materials used to make pseudo-spiritual roots is only the upper limit, not the bottom line.
If the aptitude of the cultivator implanted with a pseudo-spiritual root is too poor, he may not be able to merge with the pseudo-spiritual root and may not even be able to draw Qi into the body.
But even so, the chance to be a cultivator for a day attracted many mortals who were unable to practice.
The Great Zhou Dynasty did not prohibit the production and sale of fake spiritual roots. It was just because the production of fake spiritual roots required a large amount of spiritual bones. Such transactions would be strictly controlled by the Great Zhou Dynasty court to prevent the occurrence of blood sacrifices by evil cultivators.
If the offspring of many high-ranking members of sects or elders of aristocratic families are born without spiritual roots, their parents will implant a fake spiritual root in them.
The higher the grade of the materials used to make the fake spiritual roots and the purer the spiritual roots contained in them, the higher the price.
The highest grade pseudo spiritual root produced in current records is the Nascent Soul stage, but their number is rare and it is extremely difficult to integrate them.
All major forces are currently working on how to create pseudo spiritual roots at the God Transformation level, but the transition from the Nascent Soul stage to the God Transformation stage is a qualitative breakthrough, and there has been no progress so far.
It is not surprising that there are cultivators with fake spiritual roots. What is strange is that even fake spiritual roots at the Qi Refining stage level are a considerable expense. How can the entire village afford them?
Moreover, pseudo spiritual roots are rare items. Even in a town where cultivators gather, they cannot be purchased if the scale is smaller.
How did these mortals obtain their fake spiritual roots?
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