Chapter 20: The Path to Immortality
In the ancient times, only the immortal world and the real immortal world could practice immortality. The creatures in the mortal world only had a short lifespan of several decades before they had to enter the cycle of reincarnation. They had no chance of enjoying the prosperity and wealth of this life. As for whether they would be reincarnated as a human or an animal in the next life, they could only leave it to fate.
But no matter which world or race, longevity and power have been the dreams of all creatures since ancient times. Therefore, since ancient times, there have been powerful humans or monsters in the various races in the mortal world, as well as strong people from other races. These strong people in this world certainly hope that they can live forever so that they can enjoy the various pleasures in the meantime for a longer time. Therefore, these strong people, generation after generation, continue to explore and seek this slim hope and pursue the immortal way.
In this way, through their own continuous efforts and exploration, they began to slowly discover some of the power of the laws of heaven and earth, and then began to try to use these laws of heaven and earth to strengthen their own abilities;
At that time, the immortal world was also difficult to reproduce, and many ancient prehistoric inheritance families, sects or other races began to decline or even disappear. Although they were extremely powerful, they were unable to change the shackles of heaven and earth, so they began to look for their own new inheritance path. They could not easily go up to the real immortal world, so they turned their attention to the lower world of mortals.
These immortal cultivators in the immortal world used the great power of the gods to break the interface channel between the two realms and came to the mortal world, but found that the spiritual energy of the mortal world was not a little bit different from that of the immortal world. For them, it was extremely thin. They really came with excitement and returned with disappointment. In addition to disappointment, they could only give it a try. They planned to simply check the specific situation of this world, then break the void and return to the immortal world to find another way to solve the inheritance.
But what they didn't expect was that they found that many powerful creatures were born in the mortal world during their exploration. Through observation, these powerful humans or monsters all have the basic physique of cultivating immortals, immortal roots or monster blood talents. They can initially use the laws of heaven and earth to enable themselves to have the ability to surpass ordinary people. In addition to humans and monsters, some other powerful creatures of other races also have corresponding immortal physiques.
As far as humans are concerned, immortal cultivation requires immortal roots, also called spiritual roots. People with this physique are quite sensitive to the laws of heaven and earth and the fluctuations of spiritual energy in heaven and earth. With spiritual roots, they can embark on the immortal path to pursue the great way of heaven and earth and immortality.
Like the realm of cultivating immortals, spiritual roots are also divided into levels, from low to high, they are miscellaneous spiritual roots, mysterious spiritual roots, earth spiritual roots, heavenly spiritual roots, and holy spirit roots. This division comes from the body's sensitivity to the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. The spiritual energy of heaven and earth is composed of the basic five elements of gold, wood, water, fire, and earth, while other wind, fog, thunder, lightning, etc. are generated by the reproduction and changes of these five elements.
If someone is particularly sensitive to only one of the five elements, they are called holy spirit roots. Since this type of person is sensitive to only one element in the world, their sensitivity is single and their physique is pure. They can make rapid progress in cultivation. It is very likely that they can cultivate to the realm of transcending tribulation, and there is also a high chance that they can cultivate to the Mahayana stage. As for whether they can ascend to the realm of true immortals, even the powerful cultivators in the immortal world dare not say who can cultivate to that level. It is just that the probability of ascending is higher than that of other physiques. However, humans with this physique
can only appear a few times in thousands of years, which is extremely rare; similarly, if someone is sensitive to only two of the five elements, they are called heavenly spirit roots. Since this type of person can sense the world, There is one more kind of spiritual energy, so the energy in the body begins to be a little mixed. When practicing, the speed is much slower than that of the Holy Spirit Root, but this is also an extremely rare physique. A sect that cultivates immortals can have one or two such people, which is also considered a great fortune for the sect. The probability of such people practicing to the fusion stage is still very high, and there is a certain probability that they can reach the tribulation and Mahayana stage; and so on. The worst is those who have a sense of the five elements of heaven and earth. The immortal world calls it a mixed spiritual root. It is very difficult for people with this physique to practice. The sense is too mixed. It is considered a blessing to be able to practice to the foundation. Basically, they will stay in the Qi Condensation stage for their whole life, not to mention the longevity.
The biggest difference between the above-mentioned physiques is the speed of cultivation, which is the biggest difference between immortal cultivators. Although the life span will increase with each realm, the final results of different physique attributes are very different. For example, for mixed spiritual roots and holy spirit roots, the holy spirit roots may only take four or five years from the Qi Condensation Stage to the Foundation Establishment Stage, while mixed spiritual roots may take decades. Before the life span increases, the mixed spiritual root person has already become a pile of dry bones, while the holy spirit root uses the extra time to advance all the way. Naturally, the chance of ascending to immortality is much greater.
As for those with wind, fog, thunder, and lightning physiques, they do not belong to these categories. They are called different spiritual roots, which are derived from the mutation of the five elements. People with this kind of physical attributes are also quite rare. The cultivation speed is almost the same as that of the holy spirit root, but they are often much stronger in fighting than the five elements spiritual root cultivators of the same level.
Except for the Holy Spirit Root and the alien spiritual root that senses a single element, other physiques sense multiple attributes. There must be a difference in strength between the two or more attributes in the body. As for which attribute is strong and which is weak, it is innate. However, generally, practitioners with heavenly spiritual roots or below will choose to practice the strongest attribute in their body. In this way, on the one hand, the speed of practice will be greatly enhanced, and on the other hand, the power of the immortal law will maintain its maximum power. If you do not practice the strongest attribute in your body, then the speed of practice will be greatly delayed, and the power of attack will be greatly discounted.
The world of immortal cultivation is bloody and the law of the jungle is unimaginable to mortals. Although the main pursuit of immortal cultivators is immortality, if there is no strong ability to protect themselves, the road to immortality will only be a short trip, so immortal cultivators often work hard to improve their cultivation realm on the one hand, and on the other hand, they also strive to have powerful magical powers.
In the mortal world, the number of people with spiritual roots is far less than that in the immortal world. In the immortal world, one out of ten people may have spiritual roots, but in the mortal world, basically one out of ten thousand people can find a person with spiritual roots, which is extremely rare. However, the number of various races in the mortal world is huge, often in the hundreds of millions, and the geographical area is also too large to be calculated, so in general, the number of races with immortal physiques is far greater than that in the immortal world.
These immortals
The immortal cultivators in the spiritual world also found that although the spiritual energy of the mortal world is a little thin, it is not always the case. In many places, there are actually good spiritual veins. The spiritual energy here is relatively sufficient, which can basically support a sect or family to practice to the Nascent Soul stage. If someone can practice to this level, they can also have the ability to move mountains, make rain, fly in the sky and follow the ground, and they are already half immortals. If the cultivation is further advanced to the late stage of Yuanying, this person will have the interface space magic power that crosses the two realms. His magic power can resist the turbulent storm in the space, and then he will ascend to the fairy world to find his family or sect to practice higher-level fairy methods. In this way, the inheritance of the fairy world can be continued from generation to generation.
So in this way, the inheritance problem of these immortal cultivators in the fairy world was solved. They began to look for places with dense spiritual energy in various places in the mortal world, and gradually established their own inheritance sects, and then found people with spiritual roots as disciples to teach fairy methods; then they used great magic power and great supernatural powers to open up several interface channels connected to the fairy world in the mortal world. When these disciples in the mortal world cultivate to the late stage of Yuanying, they can pass through these cross-border channels, break the void, and ascend to the fairy world.
Just like that, from that time on, the mortal world began to establish many immortal cultivation families and sects one after another, and even other races and creatures in the immortal world also came to the mortal world one after another, and began to establish their own heritage in the same way; it has been hundreds of millions of years of inheritance and reproduction, and these families, sects, and populations are spread all over the mortal world, but these families, sects, and populations are not visible to ordinary mortals. The places they usually choose to establish their sects are mostly spiritual veins, where there is sufficient spiritual energy. In places with sufficient spiritual energy, monsters will roam everywhere and ghosts will wreak havoc. Ordinary humans or other races of creatures will... It is difficult to survive here. If ordinary creatures occasionally appear there, they will basically be killed directly by the powerful monsters and ghosts here. Even if they survive by chance, it is still difficult for them to find the immortal gates and sects. Usually, there are illusion arrays outside the immortal gates and sects that mortals cannot see through. Ordinary humans or other races will lose their way if they enter them, and they will not be able to get out for their whole lives. The result will be starvation. If you are lucky, if you meet a decent cultivator, he will cast a spell to let you go out. If you meet some evil cultivators, the consequence will be a tragic death on the spot, or even a fate worse than death.
There is another situation, that is, the place where mortals live happens to be the place where the spiritual veins are located. This depends on the nature of the cultivators in this place. Some cultivators just cast spells to make these people who live here feel that this place is weird and strange, making them feel scared and unable to live normally. Finally, they move away on their own, and then the cultivators will establish their own sects or families; some cultivators directly kill all the creatures in this area and take them for themselves.
After telling these, the gray-shirted old man looked even more depressed, and his body strangely began to become a little blurry. Li Yan also found something wrong with the old man, but he was so shocked by what the old man had just said that he had no time to think about it. He just kept saying to himself in his heart, "Fake, fake, all fake." Don't say that these things sounded extremely fantastic to him. Even if an old man with rich experience stood here and heard these words, he would only think that it was just a big dream. Li Yan had read some of these things in a few bizarre unofficial histories, so he could only dream about them occasionally in his dreams, not to mention the interface, the void, the spiritual roots and the like. What happened today really made him feel dazed, but he felt it so truly at this moment, and it was so real.
The gray-shirted old man was not surprised to see Li Yan's expression. He smiled and said to him, "I know you can't believe it, but it's true. When your consciousness leaves here and you feel your physical condition, you will know that it's not just a lie. Well, I can only briefly say what I said above, so that you should be able to understand what I say next. Otherwise, there's no need to talk so much."
After hearing this, Li Yan was half-believing and half-doubting, but he thought that what the old man was going to say next was the real thing. In this case, he didn't ask any more questions. He just floated in the air, watching the old man and listening to what he said next.
The gray-shirted old man saw his expression and knew that Li Yan had begun to believe this strange thing, and that he didn't have much time, so he nodded to him and continued to talk.
"I come from an ancient sect in the Immortal Spirit World, the Guishui Immortal Sect, but unlike other sects, among the oldest sects in the Immortal Spirit World, there are five most mysterious sects, namely the Guishui Immortal Sect, the Yimu Immortal Sect, the Dinghuo Immortal Sect, the Jitu Immortal Sect, and the Xinjin Immortal Sect," the old man began to tell the young man.
In the fairy world, since ancient times, there have been countless sects of immortal cultivation, all of which were established by powerful creatures such as humans, monsters, beasts, ghosts, and immortal plants. There are countless sects of all sizes, but among them, there are five extremely powerful and mysterious sects. There are very few people from these five sects walking in front of the world. Only occasionally someone will appear in the eyes of the world every few hundred years or even thousands of years. But every time someone appears, it will stir up the world of immortal cultivation at that time, and people will be panicked, afraid of accidentally provoking this person. If you really provoke them by accident, they can often kill all the immortals of the sect that provoked them by themselves, even if there are terrifying and powerful immortal cultivators who have crossed the tribulation or the Mahayana in the sect, they are rarely lucky enough to survive. But fortunately, they rarely appear in front of the world, and as long as you don't deliberately provoke them, they will not make enemies with any sect at all, but if they do, they will be extremely cruel.
It is also because of this that many sects respect and fear them. The magic they use is extremely terrifying. Why is there such a powerful magic in the world? People who possess such powerful magic are often likely to appear in a vast area of the continent once in tens of thousands of years. However, the people who appear in these five mysterious ancient sects have incredible magical powers. This kind of magic that can make the people of a sect so powerful is rare even in the fairy world. Therefore, many people try every means to join these five ancient and mysterious immortal sects, but they can't even find the location of these five ancient sects, let alone join the immortal sect. In this way, as time changes, there are still many people looking for them. They are struggling to find that possibility that makes them powerful.