Having spent seven full days in Yanhuang City, Lin Caogen had become extremely familiar with the city.
In seven days, he sampled all the delicacies in the city, learned about its history and culture, and bought dozens of history books, reference books, and even a few low-level Yellow Rank cultivation techniques and immortal arts from bookstores.
The Immortal Continent is no longer so unfamiliar.
After packing his bags and paying eighteen immortal coins, Lin Caogen entered an ancient temple in the city.
The temple contains a teleportation array that has been preserved for hundreds of thousands of years.
Today, he will travel to the Wuwei Sect via the teleportation array.
Using this teleportation array is extremely expensive. It costs eighteen Immortal Yuan Coins per use.
However, without the teleportation array, even an Immortal Emperor would need several months to travel from Yanhuang City to Wuwei Sect.
The Three Rings Continent is too vast. Although it is only a part of the Immortal Gang Continent, it is equivalent to dozens of galaxies.
Upon arriving at the ancient temple, we found that there were quite a few people wanting to use the teleportation array, with nearly a hundred people in line.
Lin Caogen waited in line for two whole hours, and when he entered the teleportation array, he found that it looked a bit like an altar.
One of the guards said, "Give me the teleportation scroll!"
Lin Caogen hurriedly handed the teleportation scroll he had bought for eighteen immortal coins to the guard.
The guard opened the scroll with both hands and read aloud, "Destination: Wuwei Town!"
The guard then placed the teleportation scroll above the altar-like teleportation array. The scroll turned into specks of light and was absorbed by the altar, revealing array patterns at the bottom.
The guard said, "Go up!"
Lin Caogen hurriedly followed the example of those who had gone before him and walked onto the altar.
Several tens of seconds later, a beam of blue light shot into the sky from the bottom of the altar!
Lin Caogen disappeared after being enveloped by the blue light. There was no difference between having his eyes open and closed.
The teleportation process took only about half a minute, and Lin Caogen felt dizzy and disoriented.
Once he could see his surroundings clearly, he heard another guard shout, "Kid! Get down here now! Stop dawdling!"
Lin Caogen looked closely and realized that he was already standing on another altar.
Staggering down from the altar, he heard the guard mutter, "Another country bumpkin using a teleportation array for the first time!"
Lin Caogen remained silent and stumbled out of the ancient temple where the teleportation array was located.
Upon arriving at the temple gate, one sees a small town with a small population, roughly estimated to be only tens of thousands.
I asked the locals, and everyone knew where the Wuwei Sect was!
Following the directions of passersby, Lin Caogen finally arrived at the foot of Wuwei Mountain! Wuwei Mountain was seven or eight thousand meters high, and the Wuwei Sect was located on a platform halfway up the mountain.
It is said that, like other sects, the Wuwei Sect only begins recruiting disciples on September 10th each year, and there are still ten days until September 10th.
After scouting the location, Lin Caogen found an inn in Wuwei Town. His goal was set: to join the Wuwei Sect and cultivate the Thunderfire Forging Meridian Heart Sutra. His immediate priority was to activate his immortal root according to the guidance in the book he had bought, and to try cultivating the Vajra Indestructible Divine Art, a top-tier Heaven-rank Body Refining Technique given to him by Yang Guo.
Sitting cross-legged on the bed, flipping through the book "How to Activate the Immortal Roots in Your Body," Lin Caogen fell into deep thought.
The so-called "immortal root" is actually an invisible and intangible immortal meridian. This immortal meridian is different from the meridians in the human body. The meridians in your body can be seen and touched, but the immortal meridian truly exists but cannot be perceived by touch.
The so-called "immortal root" allows one to draw immortal essence from the void and bring it into their body. If you don't have an immortal root, you can only cultivate through food, pills, or receiving immortal essence from others. However, those with an immortal root can automatically absorb immortal essence from the void even without eating, drinking, taking pills, or relying on others for help.
If someone doesn't have the potential to cultivate immortality, is it even possible for them to do so? The chances are extremely low!
Unless you have a powerful sect leader as your father who is willing to use massive resources to help you cultivate.
However, if a sect recruits disciples, and you are neither a relative nor have any background, why should they give you a huge amount of resources?
Therefore, when major sects recruit disciples from the public, they are measuring the quality of your immortal roots.
As long as you have a high-quality immortal root, you can achieve twice the result with half the effort in cultivation, and save money for your sect.
In the past few days, Lin Caogen has also inquired about the criteria for Wuwei Sect to recruit disciples.
That is—there must be at least three immortal roots, and each immortal root must be of the Xuan rank.
It is said that some immortals with the best bloodlines are born with nine immortal roots. Nine is the ultimate number, and many Immortal Emperors possess nine immortal roots. If you are missing even one, it becomes extremely difficult to cultivate into an Immortal Emperor. However, this is not absolute. In the Central Continent, three Immortal Emperors achieved their imperial status by virtue of their extraordinary talent, possessing only eight immortal roots.
If you have nine immortal roots, and each one is of Earth-grade quality, then you have a high probability of becoming an Immortal Emperor!
Lin Caogen bought a small root-measuring stone. This kind of root-measuring stone is specially used to measure immortal roots. The accuracy is acceptable, but after all, it is a small root-measuring stone, so its precision is naturally not as good as the large root-measuring stones used by major sects.
The method for using the small root-testing stone is to first drink a cup of Immortal Essence Liquid, then hold the small root-testing stone tightly in your hand, and the Immortal Essence Liquid in your body will flow into the root-testing stone along the Immortal Root.
If the Root-Testing Stone emits a single ray of light, it means you possess one immortal root within you. If it emits nine rays of light, it means you possess nine immortal roots. Furthermore, the light emitted by the Root-Testing Stone also exhibits different colors.
Yellow represents the quality of immortal roots as Yellow Rank, cyan as Profound Rank, dazzling gold as Earth Rank, and fiery red as Heaven Rank.
Lin Caogen drank the Immortal Essence Liquid in one gulp, and felt the Immortal Essence Liquid rushing around and swirling in his body.
He then gripped the Root-Testing Stone tightly with his right hand. As if finding a breakthrough, the immortal essence within his body squeezed into Lin Caogen's invisible immortal root, then flowed along the immortal root into the meridians of Lin Caogen's right hand, and finally headed straight for the Root-Testing Stone.
Lin Caogen stared wide-eyed at the root-testing stone in his hand. The white jade-like stone suddenly turned red and then dimmed.
"What's going on? Red light? Could it be that my immortal root is of Heavenly Rank quality? But that red light flashed and disappeared in an instant, how accurate is it? How many immortal roots do I actually have? The root-testing stone doesn't emit any beam of light, how can it determine how many immortal roots I have?"
In fact, if Lin Caogen were to use a high-definition time-lapse camera to film the changes in the root stone at this moment, he could clearly see the entire process.
Within 0.01 seconds, the Root-Testing Stone in Lin Caogen's right hand indeed emitted nine beams of red light. This meant that he truly possessed nine Heavenly-Rank Immortal Roots. However, all nine of his Immortal Roots were blocked! The Immortal Essence Liquid simply could not pass through Lin Caogen's blocked nine Immortal Roots to enter the Root-Testing Stone.
Actually, all of this is not difficult to understand.
Lin Cao was essentially a prisoner confined in the Earth Prison. All those imprisoned in the Earth Prison had ancestors who were all exceptionally gifted. However, over millions of years, their descendants' bloodlines degenerated, their immortal roots became blocked, and they gradually became mortals.
Yang Guo risked his life to rescue Lin Caogen because he was interested in the nine Heavenly Rank Immortal Roots within him. Although they were all blocked, they could be opened up by bathing in medicinal soups every day.
It was precisely because Lin Caogen possessed the potential to activate all the immortal roots within him that Immortal Venerable Haoyue attempted to kill him with her spiritual power. However, she was blocked by Yang Guo's warship, and given Yang Guo's considerable cultivation, Immortal Venerable Haoyue was unwilling to openly engage in a major battle with him.
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