Martial Arts and Longevity: Starting from the Spiritual Beast Picture

Chapter 258 Testing Spiritual Roots
Huang Zhuosong and Lu Qing both showed smiles when they heard the words. When every cultivator heard about the spiritual root, he wanted to know how many spiritual roots he had.

Huang Zhuosong coughed lightly, and said, "We are garrison monks, so we are naturally proficient in the magic of checking spiritual roots."

"However, the Duke is a martial artist, and his body is full of vitality, so the inspection is a little different from ordinary people. In order to avoid mistakes, it is more appropriate to use magic tools."

As he spoke, he took out a jade box from his bosom and placed it flat on the tea table.

The jade box is white and flawless, as smooth as sheep fat, and it is very valuable at first glance, but it is only a container for holding things. Zhao Lin couldn't help but become curious about the magical artifacts inside.

Huang Zhuosong opened the lid of the box, and a flash of light revealed a crystal staff inside.

The crystal staff was about half a foot long, crystal clear, engraved with many obscure runes, and there were six raised horizontal lines in the middle, dividing the entire crystal staff into seven sections.

Next to it lay a gray bead the size of a pigeon egg.

Zhao Lin stared at the crystal wand, feeling a little familiar. After looking at it a few more times, he suddenly found that the shape and texture of the crystal wand were exactly the same as the bamboo joints in the spine when practicing inner vision!
"Spiritual roots are stored in the spine, like bamboo joints. The monks call them spiritual joints. The more spiritual joints, the easier it is to perceive spiritual energy, and the faster it absorbs spiritual energy."

"Spiritual roots of the heavenly rank have the most joints, seven in total, and six of the earth rank... By analogy, the lower rank has three joints, and one and two are all ordinary spiritual roots."

While explaining, Huang Zhuosong pushed the jade box in front of Zhao Lin.

"This thing is called the Spiritual Bamboo Staff. It can reflect the spiritual knots in the monk's body, and the grade of the spiritual root can be seen at a glance."

Zhao Lin suddenly realized that there were four spirit joints in his spine, which should belong to middle-grade spirit roots.

However, there is no basis for the words, and the cutscene still has to go through, so he asked: "How to test?"

Huang Zhuosong smiled and said: "Just press your finger on the Lingzhu stick."

Zhao Lin hesitated for a moment, stretched out his fingers according to the words, and pressed the bottom of the spirit bamboo stick.

Although he was still on guard against the two of them, if the other party could restrain him with only a small rock, it meant that the strength of the two parties was not at the same level at all, and it would be meaningless to be on guard.

Zheng!
As soon as Zhao Lin's finger touched it, a halo of light rose from the spirit bamboo staff, rippling like water waves, covering the first horizontal stripe.

Then it went over the second horizontal stripe, then the third... and finally stopped at the fourth horizontal stripe.

Zhao Lin's eyelids twitched twice, this thing was really miraculous, and he believed in the identities of the two of them again.

"Congratulations, duke, you are a middle-grade spiritual root!"

Huang Zhuosong and Lu Qing stood up at the same time to congratulate.

Zhao Lin had expected the result earlier, so he was not surprised, but he was a little puzzled, "The spirit root is divided into six grades, and the middle grade is only ranked fourth. Where does the joy come from?"

Huang Zhuosong chuckled, and explained: "The spiritual roots of heaven and earth are extremely scarce, so they can't be counted."

"The spiritual roots of most monks actually fall into the upper, middle and lower ranks."

"Furthermore, the spiritual root condensed from martial arts can only reach the middle grade at the highest level, so the result is not satisfactory!"

Zhao Lin understood that his spiritual roots belonged to man-made spiritual roots, and he had already reached the peak of middle grade, so he comforted himself in his heart: "That's good, at least it's not a useless start..."

What's more, I still have a spirit beast map, although I can't take advantage of it like when I was practicing martial arts, but it can also provide a lot of help.

The Xuanyuan Continent is full of aura, presumably there must be a lot of tyrannical beasts, so we can make a good plan at that time.

At this time, Huang Zhuosong said again: "Actually, when the sect evaluates the spiritual root of Wuxiu, it usually raises it by half a level."

"Half a step up?"

Zhao Lin couldn't help asking curiously: "How to say?"

Huang Zhuosong said: "There are two reasons. First, it is lucky to be gifted with spiritual roots, but talent is only a stepping stone to the road of cultivation. Those who can really achieve the Tao are those with perseverance and hard work."

"Entering the Dao with martial arts and cultivating to the innate realm, all of them are dragons and phoenixes among men, with great perseverance and great wisdom!"

"In the long run, with the same level of spiritual roots, the achievement of martial arts is much better than that of talents with spiritual roots."

"Secondly, Wuxiu's combat power is outstanding. Whether it's fighting between monks or hunting monsters, Wuxiu is extremely dominant. The reason why I don't need to talk about it too much?"

Speaking of this, he paused for a moment, and continued: "Of course, martial arts are not without shortcomings. The biggest problem is that they are usually too old. Fortunately, the Duke has just passed his thirties, and it is not too late to practice Taoism."

Zhao Lin remained calm and secretly relieved.

It seems that more than ten years of experience in martial arts can still come in handy when cultivating the Tao, instead of starting from scratch.

After Huang Zhuosong finished speaking, he picked up the teacup and took a sip, then pointed to the gray beads in the jade box and said, "Please ask the Duke to test the spiritual root attributes again."

Zhao Lin was slightly taken aback, "Didn't you test the spirit root just now?"

Huang Zhuosong shook his head and said with a smile: "The test just now was for the rank of the spiritual root, but this spirit-testing bead is used to test the attributes of the spiritual root. The two are not the same."

"The rank of the spiritual root determines the qualifications of cultivation, and the attribute of the spiritual root is related to which type of spell is suitable for the monk to practice."

"For example, although a monk with metal spiritual roots can practice earth-type spells, he can only reach the level of elementary success at most. No matter how hard he tries, it is impossible to achieve the attainments of a monk with earth-type spiritual roots. This is The effect of the spiritual root attribute."

Lu Qing also added: "The spirit measuring beads can transform into different colors according to the monk's spiritual root attributes. The blue color represents the wind attribute, the silver represents the ice attribute, and the gold represents the thunder attribute."

"White, blue, green, red, and yellow correspond to gold, wood, water, fire, and earth in the five elements."

"I see!"

Zhao Lin thought that he would practice Gui Hai Jue by himself, and at the same time absorbed the spirits of five different beasts: Frost Silkworm, Thunder Catfish, Wind Raccoon, Golden Rat, Thunder Catfish, and Fire Cloud Silkworm.

Now that there are six kinds of true qi in the body, does it mean that my spiritual root has six attributes?
Zhao Lin wanted to know if his guess was accurate, so he stretched out his palm and asked, "Is it also putting your hand on it?"

Huang Zhuosong said: "It's best to hold it in the palm."

Zhao Lin nodded, and carefully picked up the testing spirit bead.

Although he didn't try to make money deliberately, but he won four consecutive martial arts competitions, and with his status as the Duke of Zhen, the wealth in the mansion can be described as a lot of wealth, but there is no treasure that can compare to these two things in front of him.

When the Spiritual Testing Orb arrived in his hand, the time suddenly flowed, and a thick emerald green mist rose from it, like a morning glow and an evening cloud.

"Water Spiritual Root!"

Huang Zhuosong and Lu Qing blurted out at the same time.

As soon as the two finished speaking, the color of the mist in the measuring spirit bead suddenly changed to blue.

Huang Zhuosong and Lu Qing looked at each other, and said in surprise: "There is also the wind attribute!"

After a few breaths, the color of the measuring lingzhu changed again, producing mist of gold, silver, red, yellow...colors.

Now the two of them were not calm anymore, and their eyes were fixed on the Lingzhu.

"Water, fire, earth, wind, ice, thunder, six attributes!"

"It's actually the six spiritual roots!"

(End of this chapter)