Cultivating Immortality: I Have a High-Martial World

Chapter 99 Devouring Spiritual Roots, Advancement!

Lin Chen sat cross-legged, sensing the surroundings carefully.

"After absorbing this pure energy, my Devouring Spirit Root has indeed improved..."

"However, the effect is too low! It seems we really need to use up 100,000 spirit stones..."

With this in mind, Lin Chen no longer hesitated.

Hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands...

After the energy of tens of thousands of spirit stones was absorbed, a thick layer of grayish-white powder covered the room.

At the same time, Lin Chen felt that his spiritual root was also undergoing some kind of mysterious change.

The spirit stone devouring continues—

Fifty thousand, eighty thousand, one hundred thousand...

In a daze, Lin Chen felt as if a vortex had been born with himself at its center.

This vortex, like a black hole, frantically devoured the energy within the spirit stone.

Extremely hungry and thirsty, seemingly never to be satisfied.

Finally, after consuming 100,000 spirit stones, the Devouring Spirit Root underwent a qualitative change!

Until one moment, the black hole was finally filled.

The turbulent spiritual energy around him and the abnormal changes in his spiritual root within his body also completely stabilized.

Lin Chen's eyes trembled slightly as he carefully sensed the changes in his spiritual root.

With the spiritual root in operation, the spiritual energy generated by the spirit gathering array becomes much more sensitive...

"Earth, Wood, Fire, Metal, Water..."

Originally, Lin Chen could only keenly perceive the earth and wood spiritual energy in the air.

But now, even the three spiritual energies of fire, metal, and water have become clearer in his perception...

"A spirit root that absorbs all five elements..."

Lin Chen opened his eyes, his expression somewhat complicated.

Generally speaking, the more singular and pure a cultivator's spiritual root is, the higher their sensitivity to spiritual energy.

For example, suppose a person has a wood-type true spiritual root.

His sensitivity to wood elemental energy was close to 100%, while his sensitivity to the other four types of elemental energy was almost zero.

However, if the other person has mixed spiritual roots of the five elements.

Although all five elements are present, the one hundred spiritual energy perceptions are divided into five parts, with only twenty perceptions of each element...

As a result, regardless of which cultivation method one practices or how one enhances spiritual energy, the speed of cultivation is greatly slowed down.

The above describes the typical situation in the cultivation world.

This is why, in any faction, a single spiritual root is valued more than multiple spiritual roots.

However, it is clear that Lin Chen's Devouring Spirit Root does not fall into this category.

He is like someone who, when all five elements are present, has a sensitivity of 100 to each type of spiritual energy.

In this way, one can use any type of technique or supernatural power.

"This is only the first stage of absorbing spiritual roots..."

"In the second stage, the sensitivity of all five spiritual roots will reach the level of earth-level spiritual roots, and the sensitivity to spiritual energy will only increase further!"

Lin Chen's heart stirred slightly, and he took out the giant spirit-testing stone that he had prepared in advance.

He placed his palm on the spirit-testing stone.

boom!

as predicted--

Yellow, green, blue, red, and brown symbolize the burst of light from the five elemental roots of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth.

Each spiritual root radiance was a full ten feet high!

Recalling the scene of testing his spiritual roots at Changchun Sect, Lin Chen sighed:

"As expected, unusual spiritual roots cannot be viewed through the lens of common sense..."

However, having all five elements can be both good and bad.

The advantage, of course, is that it is more widely applicable.

Although Lin Chen could use earth fire and beast fire to refine pills after learning the Five Elements Divine Powers, it was obviously more convenient to rely on fire-based techniques.

Or it could be the arrangement of formations; many formations correspond to the five elements...

It has benefits in weapon crafting, cultivation techniques, and supernatural abilities.

As for the drawbacks—

According to the jade slip, the Devouring Spirit Root has 20-30% more true essence than other cultivators of the same realm, but the difficulty of cultivation is almost twice as high.

"However, all things considered... my current cultivation speed is still equivalent to that of a top-grade true spiritual root."

Lin Chen pondered for a moment.

In any case, the advancement of the Devouring Spirit Root would be of great benefit to Lin Chen.

"However, the million spirit stones required for the next stage... is still too large an amount."

Lin Chen temporarily gave up on advancing his Devouring Spirit Root to the second stage.

Looking at the room full of spirit stone dust, he twitched his fingertips and used a dust-cleaning spell to sweep it clean.

After cleaning up, Lin Chen felt much better and began to think about his next plan in the cultivation world.

Lin Chen has two stable sources of income in the cultivation world.

The business of Lin's Xiaoxuan's elixirs, plus the business of the Guangyuan Auction.

The two items together bring Lin Chen an income of over ten thousand spirit stones per month.

The revenue is indeed astonishing, but the auction business is estimated to be only good for the first few months.

Once high-quality magical artifacts become abundant, their prices will surely drop significantly.

"Moreover, I not only have to support my own cultivation... which cultivator on Earth, or researcher of the various arts of immortal cultivation, doesn't spend spirit stones?"

"To ensure the steady implementation of the country's various plans, at least several thousand spirit stones are needed every month."

Lin Chen sighed, feeling immense pressure.

Fortunately, he had enough spirit stones on hand for the time being.

"However, once I make another breakthrough in my martial arts, I should go and take a look at Yanlai City."

"My next priority is to break through to the Advanced Grand Martial Master level as soon as possible..."

……

One month later, at the Martial Arts Palace.

Lin Chen consumed a small amount of demonic beast flesh and blood and began practicing his breathing technique.

As his physical strength increased, the pain from consuming the flesh and blood of third-tier demonic beasts also decreased.

Fortunately, the effects of the monster's flesh and blood have not yet diminished, and each consumption can still increase health by 30 points.

Several hours later...

Lin Chen felt a lightness in his body, and his aura returned to calm.

He opened his eyes and glanced at the health and mana value on his wristwatch—528 points.

"Finally, I've successfully broken through to the Advanced Grand Martial Master level!"

Lin Chen breathed a sigh of relief and got up to go to the training room.

In front of the testing equipment, Lin Chen began to test his current physical fitness.

A moment later, he obtained a set of data.

"Strength 22000 kg, peak running speed 133 meters per second..."

Lin Chen's eyes showed a hint of joy; he was very satisfied with his own improvement in strength.

"Not bad... a piece of demonic beast flesh and blood increased my base strength by almost 2100kg!"

"A punching power of 22000 kg is just the base; if you use the slashing blade technique, it will quadruple, reaching nearly 90,000 kg!"

Lin Chen estimated that his physical body was now close to that of a late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator.

If Lin Chen were to use the Xuanmo Armor, he would be virtually invincible below the Core Formation stage.

"With this level of strength, they are more than capable of protecting themselves within the territory of Yanlai Kingdom..."

Lin Chen glanced at the countdown on his arm.

There are less than three hours left before we are transported to the world of cultivation.

Lin Chen began preparing for a new round of time travel.

Various weapons, elixirs, and two hundred new high-grade magic artifacts forged this week.

Once everything was ready, the countdown on my arm was completely reset.

"Three, two, one..."

……

Changchun Market, Lin Family Pavilion.

After transmigrating, Lin Chen packed all the supplies he had brought into his storage bag.

I looked up at the sky; it was just beginning to get light.

"Judging by the dates, today is the Guangyuan Chamber of Commerce's auction for this month..."

"We're heading to Guangyuan Town now, and we should be back by this afternoon."

With this in mind, Lin Chen tidied himself up and then flew northwest on the purple jade gourd.

After traveling six hundred miles, Lin Chen transformed back into the disguise of Master Wu Leizi.

We arrived in Guangyuan Town around noon.

The auction was in progress, but Lin Chen didn't go in. Instead, he sold several high-grade magic artifacts at a magic item shop in town.

The auction ended around noon.

Lin Chen strolled leisurely towards the back of the auction hall.

"Master Wu Leizi!"

After seeing Lin Chen, Chairman Zheng greeted him politely and then took out the proceeds from the auction.

"Master, as agreed beforehand... here are your spirit stones, a total of 16,000."

Lin Chen took the spirit stone bag, counted the stones, and then asked with a puzzled look:

"Why is it so much more than originally planned?"

According to what Chairman Zheng said before, Lin Chen should be able to earn about 12,000 spirit stones at this auction.

But now, there are actually several thousand more spirit stones.

After hearing Lin Chen's words, Chairman Zheng leaned closer and whispered:

"Master, things haven't been peaceful in Yanlai Kingdom lately!"

"It seems that there are quite a few cultivators who have undergone tribulation. The immortal cultivation families in Yanlai City... as well as those cultivators who have reached the Qi Refining Perfection stage and the Foundation Establishment stage, are all in a hurry to buy protective magic treasures, so the prices have increased considerably."

Lin Chen frowned slightly after hearing this, and then thought of the tribulation cultivator at Yanbo Pool before.

Based on his experience, those who had undergone tribulation were all a rabble, how could they possibly threaten those families of immortal cultivators?

Seeing Lin Chen's confusion, Chairman Zheng whispered:

"Master, this time is different from before. I heard that many rogue cultivators and sect disciples have died, and even a Foundation Establishment cultivator has died..."

"I've heard that various bandit groups within the Yanlai Kingdom have united. It seems there's some interference from an external force..."

Lin Chen frowned even more after hearing this and asked:

"A Foundation Establishment cultivator died? When did that happen?"

"This happened in the last two days, and I heard it was someone from the Changchun Sect..."

Chairman Zheng recalled for a moment, then smiled and said:

"However, the chaos caused by these cultivators has led to a significant increase in the prices of various magical treasures and elixirs recently..."

Lin Chen nodded slightly after hearing this.

Indeed, war profits are the easiest to make.

If this cultivator is not wiped out anytime soon, his magical artifacts will sell very well.

"Well, when we return to Blue Star next time, we'll have the weapon-forging department hurry up and forge another batch of high-grade magic weapons."

Lin Chen thought to himself, and after delivering the magical artifacts needed for next month's auction ahead of schedule, he prepared to take his leave.

Before leaving, Chairman Zheng reminded him:

"Although the master's cultivation is profound, he should still be cautious. Try not to go north these days."

"Yes, thank you for reminding me, Chairman Zheng."

Lin Chen cupped his hands in greeting.

To the north of Guangyuan Town lies the mortal realm of Yanlai Kingdom.

After leaving Guangyuan Town, Lin Chen flew back to Changchun Mountain Market on his sword.

After returning to Lin's Xiaoxuan, he had a bad feeling.

"Then Chairman Zheng said that the deceased Foundation Establishment cultivator was from the Changchun Sect."

"Let's go inquire within the sect first..."

Before it got dark, Lin Chen climbed the mountain on the purple jade gourd.

Along the way, the disciples inside the mountain gate seemed very relaxed, as if they knew nothing about the tribulation cultivators.

So he went directly to Danfeng to ask his master.