Yunmeng Immortal Clan

"Song Linyu, no cultivation, possesses earth-spirit root aptitude, thirteen years old..."

Just as the elder of the Bamboo Creek Sect cast a beam of spiritual light upon the crown of a young man of the Lin generation from the Song clan, his expression suddenly changed to one of surprise. He had never expected that the Song clan of Qinglian Island would have such a stroke of luck, producing a genius with an earth spirit root.

This so-called Earth Spiritual Root allows for extremely fast cultivation speed during the Qi Refining stage, with virtually no bottlenecks. Even without the aid of Foundation Establishment Pills or Foundation Establishment Spiritual Objects, one has a high degree of confidence in breaking through the tenth level of Qi Refining to become a Foundation Establishment cultivator.

However, for those with earth-elemental talent, breaking through to the Great Perfection of Foundation Establishment and forming the Core Formation still requires a series of fortuitous events. After all, in the cultivation world, there are still quite a few people with earth-elemental talent who die at the last step of forming the Core Formation.

Those with Heavenly Spiritual Roots, whose aptitude is even better than Earthly Spiritual Roots, can easily form their Core as long as they don't perish.

"Lin Yu, get out of here! Didn't I tell you to stay at home and not come to this hall?" A shout came from behind.

As soon as he finished speaking, a middle-aged man in a white robe rushed over.

This person was none other than Song Hongdong, Song Daoxuan's second uncle.

Song Linyu is Song Hongdong's grandson. It was quite a coincidence that although Song Hongdong was a cultivator in the early stage of Foundation Establishment, none of his sons had any spiritual roots or aptitude.

Just when Song Hongdong was feeling extremely grief-stricken, his eldest son gave birth to a son, who became his eldest grandson, Song Linyu.

As a Foundation Establishment cultivator within the family, the second uncle had already examined Song Linyu's spiritual root aptitude beforehand. His expression changed drastically upon discovering that Song Linyu actually possessed the legendary Earth Spiritual Root aptitude.

Song Hongdong immediately concluded that his ancestral tomb was emitting auspicious smoke. You should know that the last time the Song family of Qinglian Island produced a talent with earth-root spiritual energy was two hundred years ago.

The previous cultivator with the Earth Spiritual Root made rapid progress in his cultivation path and eventually became the renowned and ruthless patriarch of the Song family. He eventually reached the Great Perfection of Foundation Establishment, but when he reached the Core Formation stage, he was besieged by forces from all sides. Although he ultimately perished, he also fought to the death against the Foundation Establishment cultivators of those forces that were besieging him.

As for the family, the grandson's spiritual root aptitude was also concealed through certain means.

Song Linyu was extremely arrogant from a young age, with a fierce glint in his eyes. He would pick fights with other children of the same age, and in the end, he would bully them severely, leaving himself covered in bruises without uttering a sound of pain. He was like a born beast, unlike any human.

Whenever Song Hongdong talked about this matter with outsiders, he was always half worried and half happy.

I don't know which clansman this kid heard from, but he heard that an elder of the Bamboo Creek Sect wanted to recruit some talented disciples to cultivate in the Bamboo Creek Sect. This kid is desperately shouting that he wants to go inside the clan hall to take a look.

Song Hongdong refused and imprisoned him in a stone cave.

But he didn't expect that this kid would actually break through the door of the stone cave and reach the place where Elder Du Ruisong of the Bamboo Creek Sect was selecting spiritual root practitioners.

"Nonsense! With such a promising talent, how can we not bless him? If he were to cultivate in my Bamboo Creek Sect, it goes without saying that he would reach Foundation Establishment, and even Core Formation would not be impossible!" Du Ruisong immediately appeared in front of Song Linyu and protected him behind him.

Seeing that Du Ruisong's intention to take on a disciple was extremely sincere, Song Hongdong didn't say much.

He simply sighed softly, "So be it. Does Lord Ruisong intend to personally take this boy as his disciple?"

Du Ruisong shook his head and sighed, "Although I have cultivated to the mid-Foundation Establishment stage, I believe that breaking through to the late-Foundation Establishment stage in this lifetime will be extremely difficult. I am utterly mediocre. As for this child, his talent is extraordinary. I intend to let the clan's patriarch take a look at him..."

Hearing Du Ruisong's words, it seemed that he wanted the old ancestor Du, who had cultivated to the Core Formation stage within the Bamboo Creek Sect, to take this boy as his disciple. If that were the case, then this boy's future would surely be limitless!

"If that's the case, then Lord Ruisong is a great benefactor to me, Song Hongdong, and also a blessing to this boy. However, this boy is wild and unruly, and arrogant by nature. When he arrives at the sect, I will have to trouble Lord Ruisong to take good care of him!" As soon as he finished speaking, Song Hongdong went up to Du Ruisong and secretly stuffed a bag of spirit stones into Du Ruisong's sleeve.

Du Ruisong understood immediately and, without any hesitation, skillfully used a spell to put the bag of spirit stones into his storage bag.

None of the family cultivators present noticed the two's actions, and neither did Song Daoxuan.

"Uncle Daoxuan, did you see that? I'm going to join the Bamboo Creek Sect to cultivate immortality! Uncle Daoxuan, let's go together!" Song Linyu was obviously extremely excited to hear that he had been chosen by Du Ruisong and wanted to show off in front of Song Daoxuan.

"You... your luck is truly remarkable!" Song Daoxuan was somewhat devastated. It wasn't that he didn't want to go to the Zhuxi Sect to cultivate immortality; it was that the Zhuxi Sect would never even look at him. He was a person with five spiritual roots. Although the Taiyin Dew had cleansed his roots and bones, it only changed the appearance of his spiritual roots, not their true form.

He never expected that the relative who had called him uncle since childhood would have such a rare earth spirit root aptitude. He immediately felt a sense of shame and inferiority.

"Without the Qi Gathering Gourd, compared to this nephew, I'm truly a piece of trash. But now it seems that even with the help of the Qi Gourd, given my nephew's earth-root aptitude, he'll likely surpass me in cultivation level within his lifetime. After all, once I reached the ninth level of Qi Refining, breaking through to the tenth level of Great Perfection was impossible without consuming any pills, and foundation building was also a major problem for me. But this nephew with the earth-root aptitude only needs to bury himself in diligent cultivation to break through!"

"Song Daoxuan! Come here and let me see your cultivation aptitude!" After being introduced by the clan cultivators, Du Ruisong recognized all the members of the Song clan on Qinglian Island and then called out Song Daoxuan's name.

"Me? I don't need to. Everyone in the Song family of Qinglian Island knows what kind of spiritual root I, Song Daoxuan, am. My mere five spiritual roots are really nothing to brag about!" Song Daoxuan pointed to himself and shook his head.

But then, Song Daoxuan saw his second uncle whisper a few words in Du Ruisong's ear. Du Ruisong thought to himself, "I never expected that this boy, with his five spiritual roots, would have reached the eighth level of Qi Refining before the age of thirty. This is already unbelievable, yet he still received that person's alchemy inheritance and became a first-level alchemist..."