After a successful transaction, the relationship between Li Shiming and Fan Yiyang became warmer.

"Fellow Daoist, are you heading to Zhongdu to prepare to participate in next year's Ascension Conference?" Fan Yiyang asked after taking a sip of tea.

Li Shiming didn't expect that the first piece of news Fan Yiyang said was this.

He did not deny it and smiled as he refilled Fan Yiyang's tea.

"As long as your background is clean, it will not be difficult for you to pass the Ascension Conference and join the sect with your age and the second level of Qi Refining. However, you must clearly explain the origin of the skills you practice and make them able to withstand the investigation of the sect!" Fan Yiyang thought his judgment was correct, and he continued.

Li Shiming thought about it. He got his martial art 'Five Elements Qi Gathering Technique' from Weiyuan Escort Agency, and also got it from his own garden, so he didn't have to worry about this matter.

Even if the sect had any means of questioning his conscience, he could still frankly admit where he got the 'Five Elements Qi Gathering Technique' from.

"I think fellow Daoist's first choice is to join the Tianhai Sect. This is also the choice of most people with spiritual roots. Your spiritual roots still need to be tested at the Ascension Conference. However, you can cultivate to the second level of Qi Refining at such a young age, so I think your spiritual roots will not be bad!" When Fan Yiyang said this, he thought of something and couldn't help but be absent-minded.

This was the first time Li Shiming had heard of spiritual roots. All he knew before was that cultivating immortals required talent, and this talent must be spiritual roots.

"How do we judge whether a spiritual root is good or bad? In addition to testing the spiritual roots at the Ascension Conference, are there any other methods?" he asked immediately.

"Of course, the fewer spiritual roots the better. People with one or two spiritual roots are both geniuses, but the proportion of people with these spiritual roots is extremely small. The next is three spiritual roots, and these cultivators are the main force in the world of immortal cultivation. Of course, there are more people with four or five spiritual roots, and the vast majority of spiritual roots discovered are these two types.

Four spiritual roots are better, as there is still a glimmer of hope. Five spiritual roots are useless, and even if one practices for a lifetime, one will almost stop at the early stage of Qi Refining.

As for detecting spiritual roots, there is actually another method. If you can sense fire spiritual energy when practicing fire-attributed exercises, then you have fire spiritual roots.

But the skills cannot be tried casually, especially when laying the foundation, if you are not careful you may ruin your foundation." Fan Yiyang introduced in a deep voice.

Only now did Li Shiming realize how lucky he was.

He only had one skill, the 'Five Elements Qi Gathering Technique', and he also got the Spirit Gathering Plate, which enabled him to enter the door and successfully condense a spiritual energy vortex.

If he had known earlier that the martial arts couldn't be practiced casually, he probably wouldn't have had the courage to practice the 'Five Elements Qi Gathering Technique'.

In addition, he guessed that he had at least three spiritual roots, because when he was practicing the 'Five Elements Qi Gathering Technique', he sensed three kinds of spiritual energy.

"If you join the Tianhai Sect, I will have to take care of you. That will be the end of my life!" Fan Yiyang said with a sigh.

"Fellow Daoist, are you a disciple of the Tianhai Sect?" Only then did Li Shiming know Fan Yiyang's background.

"I am just a menial disciple, sent to the secular world to purchase some secular supplies!" Fan Yiyang revealed his identity.

Li Shiming did not look down on the other party. A menial disciple was also a disciple of Tianhai Sect. Besides, a menial disciple who could carry out purchasing tasks must have some kind of background.

Purchasing missions are generally lucrative jobs, and this has been the case in both lives. I imagine that there won’t be much difference in the world of immortal cultivation.

I don't know whether Fan Yiyang hadn't communicated with his fellow practitioners for a long time, or whether Li Shiming's age made him feel at ease, but except for some particularly secret matters, he told Li Shiming everything he knew about the general situation of the immortal cultivation world.

Li Shiming also knew the date of next year's Ascension Conference, which would be held in early October.

After finishing the first communication, he did not return to the cabin to activate the Soul Gathering Disk. On the one hand, the activation of the Soul Gathering Disk required more than just spirit stones, and it also required research on how to activate it.

Now that you have the spirit stone in your hand, it is just a matter of time to activate the spirit gathering disk.

On the other hand, he learned from Fan Yiyang that magical instruments that can gather spirits are extremely precious.

Of course, he did not ask Fan Yiyang directly about the Soul Gathering Plate, but asked indirectly about how to gather spiritual energy to speed up cultivation. He learned about various methods of gathering spirits, including the Soul Gathering Plate.

The Spirit Gathering Plate is very expensive, at least for cultivators in the Qi Refining Stage.

After learning about this, Li Shiming naturally would not try to activate the Soul Gathering Disk on the official ship.

They were on the same level, and the official ship was separated by wooden boards, which could not prevent the spiritual energy fluctuations caused by the Spirit Gathering Plate.

He would not use the Spirit Gathering Plate to test Fan Yiyang's humanity, because human nature could not stand the test.

In the evening, he leaned on the railing and looked into the distance. The canal through which the official ships sailed had a special name, the Xianzhan Canal.

It is said that the Immortal Canal was cut out by a powerful man with a sword. When he first heard the name, he thought it was just a legend.

After sailing for a while, he discovered the special features of the Xianzhan Canal.

The Xianzhan Canal is a straight river, unlike normal rivers which turn according to the terrain.

From where he stood, looking forward, he could see where the sky disappeared, and the canal was a completely straight line.

I smelled the aroma of magical rice. It seemed that Fan Yiyang was using the magical rice.

Li Shiming smiled. He was extremely lucky to meet a cultivator like Fan Yiyang.

Although he could not sense Fan Yiyang's strength, he could judge from Fan Yiyang's behavior that his strength was not strong.

Especially when Fan Yiyang talked about the five spiritual roots, the sadness in his eyes could not be concealed.

Li Shiming guessed that Fan Yiyang might be a person with five spiritual roots, which was why he was only a menial disciple when he looked to be in his thirties.

It is inaccurate to judge a cultivator's age based on his appearance. Even if a cultivator has not practiced any techniques to maintain eternal youth, he will still age much slower than an ordinary person.

Li Shiming wore a Confucian shirt over his low-grade robe, and the low-grade long sword at his waist was also put into the storage bag.

This is Fan Yiyang's suggestion. No one in the secular world can recognize the magic weapon, but after arriving in Zhongdu, since Zhongdu will hold an ascension conference, there will be many cultivators going there, and some cultivators may kill people to steal the treasure.

Although the low-grade robe and low-grade sword are very low-level magic weapons, they are still extremely rare for casual cultivators. It is worth killing for two low-grade magic weapons.

Li Shiming was recalling the contents of the 'Breath-Containing Technique' in his mind. Due to the lack of spiritual energy, he did not even practice the Gengjin Jue and Tuling Jue that he had obtained at the beginning.

But the Breath-Concealing Technique is different. It is a spell that can hide the fluctuations of one's own spiritual energy.

According to Fan Yiyang, the fluctuations of Li Shiming's spiritual power were like a candle flame in the dark in the eyes of the cultivators, and could be sensed from a long distance.

In the world of immortal cultivation, there are indeed many cultivators who allow the fluctuations of their spiritual power, but those cultivators have the ability to protect themselves and are not afraid of the leakage of their own spiritual power fluctuations.

Instead, he used the fluctuations of spiritual power to warn the monks with ulterior motives and reduce his own troubles.