Transmigrating Through the Heavens: Starting with the Silly Pillar of the Courtyard

Chapter 209 The Reason for the Original Owner's Sudden Death

By absorbing the original owner's memories, Wu Tao had gained a general understanding of the cultivation world. Of course, much of what the original owner knew was hearsay or information gleaned from his fellow disciples and senior masters' boasts.

The original owner was twenty-eight years old this year and was a member of a nearby cultivation family.

When the original owner was ten years old, his family discovered that he was born with a dual spiritual root constitution.

Cultivators who wish to achieve immortality must possess innate spiritual roots, the worst of which are the five spiritual roots, also known as mixed spiritual roots.

Such a spiritual root physique basically makes it impossible to break through to the high-level cultivation stage, unless the cultivator possesses a vast amount of resources. In the history of cultivation, there have been instances of cultivators with five spiritual roots becoming legendary figures, but such occurrences are rare even in a million-year history of cultivation.

Or perhaps only the direct descendants of powerful cultivators can obtain these resources.

Typically, cultivators with five spiritual roots remain at a low level of cultivation throughout their lives, with only a few able to break through to the Foundation Establishment or Golden Core stages.

Above the five spiritual roots are cultivators with four or three spiritual roots, who constitute the majority of the cultivation world.

If they are lucky and have sufficient resources, they can break through to higher levels; otherwise, they are generally the cornerstone or stepping stone of the cultivation world.

Above that are those with excellent physiques, such as those with dual spiritual roots. Such cultivators can cultivate faster, and with the help of some resources, they can often quickly break through to higher levels of cultivation.

Many sects in the cultivation world prioritize recruiting cultivators with such spiritual roots, in order to ensure that the sect can cultivate more high-level cultivators with a small amount of resources.

The most outstanding are those with a single spiritual root; such cultivators are born as the pride of heaven.

They are also highly sought-after cultivators by every sect.

Because compared to cultivators with dual spiritual roots, they don't even need to consume any world-breaking rare and precious materials when breaking through to the Foundation Establishment or Golden Core stages.

Only when one breaks through the Nascent Soul stage will they need to find rare and precious materials to aid in the breakthrough, just like other cultivators.

A cultivator's spiritual root represents their innate talent, and cultivators with excellent spiritual roots have a significant advantage in the early stages. However, once a cultivator breaks through to the Nascent Soul stage, their physical body will be reshaped.

In this way, even among cultivators with five spiritual roots, there is actually no difference in their spiritual root aptitude once they break through to the Nascent Soul stage.

Because after reaching the Nascent Soul stage, everyone's aptitude is the same, or rather, the breakthrough from the Nascent Soul stage to the Deity Transformation stage has little to do with personal physique; instead, comprehension and talent are the most important.

Even if you have only one spiritual root, if you want to break through to the Nascent Soul stage, everyone starts at the same point.

This is also a aspect of the balance of the Heavenly Dao. Those cultivators with poor spiritual root aptitude have difficulty cultivating in the early stages, but after breaking through to the Nascent Soul stage, they have more drive and potential than those with single or double spiritual roots.

Their ability to rise from the bottom already implies a greater price to pay. At this point, those with an initial advantage in spiritual roots actually fall behind ordinary cultivators in terms of cultivation.

Although the original owner wasn't as dazzling as someone with a single spiritual root, he was still one of the very few geniuses in his family. After cultivating in the family for several years, when Changchun Valley opened its gates at the age of sixteen, the original owner was sent to Changchun Valley by his family.

The original owner's family once had an ancestor who was a disciple of Changchun Valley. Later, when the ancestor was nearing the end of his lifespan in the Golden Core stage, he chose to return to the family to continue his lineage.

From that time onward, whenever the Wu family discovered outstanding talents, they would send them to Changchun Valley at the age of sixteen.

This is also the survival rule of many sects in the cultivation world.

Their disciples, when their lifespan is about to end, will choose to return to the secular world to establish their own families.

These cultivation families will continuously provide the sect with outstanding disciples, and the sect also has the obligation to protect these cultivation families.

Sects are like towering trees, and cultivation families are like the branches and leaves of those trees. They are all important to each other; without the support of a sect, a family can easily be wiped out by others.

At the same time, if a sect does not have a continuous supply of outstanding disciples from its families, it will gradually decline and eventually become easy prey for other sects in the surrounding area.

The Song Kingdom is vast, with a population of hundreds of millions. The Qitian Sect occupies the central territory of the Song Kingdom, while the Changchun Valley, the Liedao Sect, and the Beast King Valley each occupy some surrounding territories.

Aside from cultivators, the Song Kingdom was primarily composed of ordinary people. However, the Song Kingdom was still dominated by ordinary people, who were merely appendages of the cultivators. On the surface, the Song Kingdom also had a court that managed the various cities.

In reality, within the territories of the various sects, the city lords are still primarily from those sects.

The greatest wish of ordinary people is that their family will have a child with spiritual roots, so that they can achieve great success.

The original owner started cultivating techniques at the age of ten, and by the time he entered Changchun Valley at the age of sixteen, he had already reached the third level of the Qi Refining stage.

Now, twelve years after joining the sect, the original owner's cultivation has successfully broken through to the eighth level of the Qi Refining stage.

Strictly speaking, there is no division into first and second levels in the Qi Refining stage.

In the ancient cultivation world, cultivators at the Qi Refining stage, Foundation Establishment stage, and Golden Core stage were collectively referred to as lower-level Qi Refiners.

Even though the Qi Refining stage was later subdivided into various smaller levels, in reality, once you break through to the seventh level of the Qi Refining stage, which is the late stage of the Qi Refining stage, you can try to break through to the Foundation Establishment stage.

Of course, the ideal breakthrough would be to reach the ninth level of the Qi Refining stage before attempting to break through to the Foundation Establishment stage. This would reduce the difficulty of the breakthrough and make it easier.

The original owner's accident was because he was competing with a fellow disciple and chose to try to break through to the Foundation Establishment stage after just breaking through to the eighth level of the Qi Refining stage.

As a result, the original owner died from a lack of rare and precious materials for breakthrough.

Thinking of this, Wu Tao couldn't help but shake his head, feeling that the other party was still too young. However, he remembered that the original owner had started cultivating in his room every day ever since it was discovered that he had dual spiritual roots.

Even after the original owner joined Changchun Valley, his main focus was on cultivation and completing missions.

Such cultivators naturally have very simple minds, and coupled with their youthful vigor, they are prone to extreme behaviors if provoked even slightly.

Changchun Valley has tens of thousands of cultivators, among whom the most outstanding are several Nascent Soul stage elders.

However, they either hid in their secluded rooms or went out to travel every day.

The one in charge of the sect's affairs is naturally the Golden Core cultivator, who also assists some Foundation Establishment cultivators as stewards to help the Golden Core cultivator manage the vast sect.

Qi Refining stage cultivators are the sect's laborers and future; in addition to daily cultivation, they are also responsible for various tasks.

Changchun Valley is primarily known for its alchemy, with alchemy and medicinal herb cultivation being its main occupations. Qi Refining stage cultivators are definitely not qualified to refine pills; they can only serve as apprentices to alchemists or be responsible for cultivating spiritual herbs in the herb garden.

Just like the original owner, who would start tending the herb garden every morning and only return to his cave to cultivate in seclusion four hours later.

Within the sect, players earn points by completing tasks, and then use these points to exchange for resources such as spirit stones, pills, and cultivation techniques to sustain their cultivation.

The world created by Lu Ziguang can be found in "Crossing Through the Heavens: Starting from the Silly Pillar in the Courtyard".