Those immortal beings, if their cultivation level were higher, could even trace back to their origin, refining spiritual energy into primordial energy or some other kind of energy and absorbing it... However, their cultivation level is not high enough to even begin.
Even in an environment brimming with spiritual energy, they couldn't even reach the first realm! Their transcendent level was sealed!
Yun Shou: "What was that saying again...?"
Why can't we take down the enemy?
"Report! The soldiers haven't eaten breakfast!"
Why not let them have breakfast?
"Report: We'll have breakfast after we take the enemy's position!"
"Then why can't we take it..."
It's a vicious cycle.
They are born with lifespans ten times longer than mortals, and physical attributes and strength several times greater. Even without ever cultivating, they are comparable to cultivators at the second or third level of Qi Refining.
These immortal beings originally resided in a lower realm, which was captured and merged with a mid-level plane. Although they were superior to ordinary mortals who had never cultivated, they were merely playthings in the eyes of true cultivators—playthings with an extremely long shelf life.
Ordinary people age in their thirties or forties unless they are fed elixirs that are extremely precious even to cultivators, but these immortal beings have lifespans comparable to those of the Nascent Soul stage.
For these immortal humans to change their fate, either a supreme sage must emerge and develop a spiritual energy system tailored to their constitution.
[Or...we'll have to wait hundreds of thousands, millions of years, through generations of species optimization and selection, until individuals mutate and can absorb spiritual energy.]
But that was before you arrived.
When you arrived on that land, so out of place with the overall environment of the Great Immortal Realm of Returning to Emptiness, you were treated with great courtesy by the immortal race.
[Clap clap clap clap (applause)!]
After the welcome, someone whispers to you, "Immortal Master, is it truly impossible to cultivate immortality without spiritual roots?"
In their original environment, they belonged to a superior race, far more noble than ordinary humans, and treated ordinary people with pity or arrogance. But here, they have fallen to the bottom.
[There was once a long-lived human and a human cultivator who fell in love. They thought their love would last forever, but the cultivator broke through to the Nascent Soul stage, then the Deity Transformation stage, the Void Return stage... all the way to the Mahayana stage.]
Ultimately, the two were separated by death.
[The Mahayana cultivator exhausted all means but could not find a way to save the other. He stagnated for nine thousand years, refusing to ascend, all to find a cultivation method for the immortal race. He only left when the environment could no longer support his perfect state and his lifespan was nearing its limit.]
You: "...To be honest, that Mahayana practitioner is a bit weak."
[Okay, we can't say they're bad, after all, they're only at the Mahayana stage, which is only the fifth realm according to the classification of realms, and they're still in the stage of comprehending their own system.]
Since the other party has not broken through to the sixth realm and condensed the corresponding Dao seal, it means that he is still in the stage of knowing what it is but not why it is, and is exploring the reason why.
Without achieving immortality, one's comprehension and wisdom cannot undergo a qualitative change; the only improvement is in computing power, which is insufficient to solve some problems.
However, you are a wise person.
[In half a minute, they devised a spiritual cultivation system for these immortal beings, enabling them to cultivate a "pseudo-spiritual root" in their dantian through a special method.]
[The proportions of ingredients can be adjusted according to personal preference, resulting in a wide variety of functionalities for spiritual roots.]
The attributes of these pseudo-spiritual roots are no longer limited to the Five Elements, Wind, Thunder, Yin and Yang; many more bizarre variations have emerged.
For example, the "Food Spirit Root," which enhances cooking skills, allows one to infuse special spiritual energy into food, enabling the free adjustment of different flavor attributes. In later stages, it can even modify and refine the appearance of the food.
[You speculate that once your Food Spirit Root reaches the Nascent Soul stage, you might even be able to cook a lump of Oolong (a type of fried dough) into a Manchu Han Imperial Feast.]
[In addition, there are Dream Spiritual Roots, which allow cultivation in dreams and the application of hypnosis to targets; Wrath Spiritual Roots, which grow stronger the angrier one is and can also interfere with the emotions of others; and Ox and Horse Spiritual Roots, which become more adaptable to the environment and have a stronger ability to absorb certain special-attribute spiritual herbs the more one torments and labors oneself.]
[And so on.]
After the method for refining mixed spiritual roots spread, you watched as the girl who had clapped so enthusiastically yesterday excitedly hugged you, jumping and shouting. All the other immortal beings around rushed over to lift you up high, and you felt a surge of pride.
"By the way, this pseudo-spiritual root technique of mine can not only be used on them, but also on those 'useless mortals' with multiple spiritual roots, right?"
Many native mortals in this world possess spiritual roots, but these roots branch out too much. Cultivating them is equivalent to cultivating multiple systems, exponentially increasing the already high difficulty of the spiritual root system and preventing them from embarking on the path of cultivation.
Once the technique of "pseudo-spiritual roots" is revealed, they can completely ignore those numerous and miscellaneous spiritual roots and cultivate only this artificial pseudo-spiritual root, thus embarking on the path to immortality.
Everyone possesses spiritual roots; everyone has the potential for immortal cultivation!
[However... you hesitated for a moment, unsure whether you should pass on this "pseudo-spiritual root" technique.]
[Because the rate at which spiritual energy is generated between heaven and earth is limited, this realm can currently only sustain a single-digit number of Mahayana stage cultivators at most. If everyone were to cultivate immortality together, the heavens and earth would likely be drained dry, making even the formation of a Golden Core extremely difficult.]
[This might even trigger major sects to issue extermination orders for mortals or kill those with pseudo-spiritual roots, thus covering up the old truth that mortals can also cultivate immortality.]
[You can now throw massive amounts of life essence into this realm, but you cannot fill the entire Great Immortal Realm of Returning to Emptiness; this is merely a temporary solution.]
Even if those True Immortals were to continuously create environments capable of spontaneously generating spiritual energy, aside from the fact that very few True Immortals possess the relevant Dao principles, and that their production speed is also limited, it would normally take a True Immortal with 50 Dao principles decades to create an environment with a spiritual energy production rate equivalent to that of the Cloud Yang Realm.
[When you become an immortal in the future, your essential abilities will undergo a qualitative change, reducing the resources required for cultivation by all living beings to one trillionth. You can inhale a portion of spiritual energy and exhale the equivalent of tens of billions of portions of impurities... That will be the true cure!]
In 3921, while traveling in the "Southern Star Region," you heard a notification from the Supreme Celestial Court.
[Immortal Lords with Dao principles exceeding 400 points traversed the starry skies of the Great Immortal Realm of Returning to Emptiness, their voices amplified by their immortal power (Dao power), spreading across thousands and even tens of thousands of light-years.]
"The Primordial Desolate Heaven will emerge in 120 years. This is the supreme path to immortality. All mortal prodigies in the Southern Heaven Star Region can register for the competition at the current Immortal Palace Affairs Office."
[You've only been in this star field for a little over a decade, dominated by Mahayana and Loose Immortal cultivators, and you don't yet understand what the Primordial Desolate Heaven is until you heard the broadcast and went to inquire about it.]
[This is a place to accelerate breakthroughs and upgrades!]
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