Zhou Yan stirred his hands in the purple pool. As he moved, he felt a substance similar to static electricity in the water. It wasn't visible to the naked eye, but the static electricity felt very comfortable when massaged against his skin.
Comfortable?
He vaguely realized something and looked at Xiao Yu: "Xiao Yu, is it better to have more spiritual roots or fewer?"
Xiao Yu looked at his Mr. Zhou's youthful, childish face and said seriously, "Of course, more is better. Just like in the same level, those with multiple spiritual roots can definitely challenge those with only one spiritual root."
Zhou Yan believed it at first, but he laughed out loud after hearing the latter part. He seemed to hear Comrade Xiaoyu comforting him.
"I understand, don't worry. Shintoism doesn't care about spiritual roots."
Xiao Yu: (￣ー￣) Uh, it seems so! They don't have any corresponding spiritual root cultivation methods at the moment, so the Shinto techniques they practice mainly rely on incense and merit. It's also the most suitable for them at the moment.
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In that case—
"According to the novel's setting, the fewer spiritual roots, the better. After all, the fewer spiritual roots, the faster you absorb spiritual energy and level up!" In this world's 'memories,' the heroine, Luo Ziwei, possesses triple spiritual roots: gold, wood, and water. The hero initially possesses lightning abilities, but later tests reveal dual lightning and water abilities. The most powerful members of the hero's entourage are his five subordinates, each possessing lightning, fire, earth, wind, and gold abilities. Finally, tests reveal that lightning, fire, earth, wind, and gold are their primary spiritual roots, with one or two additional, optional, secondary spiritual roots.
"But is it a novel? The setting is all up to the author's preference; the author can do whatever they like. There are many types of single spiritual roots, such as ordinary spiritual roots, natural spiritual roots, and mutated spiritual roots. Oh, and there's also physique. If a person's physique complements their spiritual roots, then it's more powerful than any natural spiritual roots or mutated spiritual roots.
Multiple spiritual roots are available, including the five elements of gold, wood, water, fire, and earth. You can choose between waste spiritual roots, five element spiritual roots, and chaotic spiritual roots. Don't worry if you have seven, eight, nine, or even ten spiritual roots. Generally, those with these spiritual roots would be unable to cultivate otherwise. If they can cultivate, they must be blessed with special talents.
Of course, according to the laws of novels, everything depends on a person's destiny, that is, luck. If you are lucky and have eaten a treasure from heaven and earth, even if you have ten spiritual roots, you may be able to achieve the great perfection of Qi refining and build a foundation in one fell swoop.
When ten spiritual roots fight against a single spiritual root, if the difference is not big, the spiritual energy will definitely be more sufficient. In this way, it is not impossible to challenge a higher level opponent.
Generally speaking, having multiple spiritual roots requires opportunity, and cultivation progresses more slowly than others."
Zhou Yan pursed his lips, wanting to say something, but ultimately kept quiet. He thought it might be because science students and liberal arts students had different understandings.
In Xiao Yu's opinion, there are some problems with what he said, but thinking that these are just settings in the novel, he decided to just forget it.
"The environment here is nice, let's temper our bodies here. After tempering, we can take a shower." Zhou Yan reminded.
"Right, right, right." Xiao Yu didn't pay much attention to the change of topic. They had plenty of time to talk about cultivating immortal roots. He loved telling stories. Besides, they didn't necessarily follow the heroine to the world of cultivation. If they did, how long would Mr. Zhou have to overcome this tribulation?
Although he didn't want to endure the tribulation, if Mr. Zhou continued to do so, uh, it would be very troublesome, right?
Forget it, forget it. The first thing they need to do now is to temper their bodies and improve their physical fitness.
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The phrase "tempering the body with incense" may sound unfamiliar, but if you put it another way, it becomes very straightforward.
The power of incense is converted into what people often call the power of faith.
The power of faith is an invisible force. When absorbed by the divine seal, this force will automatically become a force similar to spiritual power and be used by the "God".
Using it to temper the body is actually the same as tempering the body with spiritual power.
The difference is probably that the power of incense is condensed from people's piety, while spiritual energy is generated by nature.
Thinking that tempering the body would definitely produce dirt, Xiao Yu took off his coat, wearing only a single layer of clothes, and sat cross-legged behind a large rock beside the Five Elements Spring.
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According to the tradition, he drew one hundred strands of incense power from his body, tempered it with magic, like refining an elixir, condensed it into a transparent ball, and then introduced the ball into the upper dantian.
Afterwards, with the upper Dantian as the center, use the power of this tempered transparent ball to cleanse the skin, blood vessels, bones, bone marrow, etc. little by little.
The first three times, Xiao Yu still followed the "rules" honestly. But on the fourth time, his patience made him unable to help but temper one and put it into the upper dantian, and then temper another and put it into the lower dantian.
The speed of tempering the body with both Dantians increased significantly, which made Xiao Yu unable to resist and temper the upper, middle and lower Dantians at the same time for the fifth time.
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After that, I put two balls, three balls, five balls, ten balls in each Dantian each time...
Of course, since he is a mortal, Xiao Yu will set aside six hours every day for eating, bathing and resting.
At first, he would feel sore in his back and buttocks at the end of the day, and the pain could only be relieved by soaking in the 'wood' and 'water' hot springs.
Gradually, his body seemed to adapt, and Xiao Yu began to soak in the 'gold, earth and fire' pools.
He was the last to soak in the 'Fire' pool, as the temperature of this pool was a bit high for him, but he was able to continue to remove dirt with each soak.
Tempering with millions of incense sticks is the first step and foundation for the transformation of a mortal's physique into a god in Shintoism.
It's said that not everyone needs a million. For those with less talent, a hundred thousand or even a few hundred thousand is enough. And for the first step of tempering the body, the more incense you use, the better the tempering, and the greater your potential to become a god.
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