Chapter 2: Spiritual Beasts and Spiritual Roots
The lake water in the center of Cormorant Lake is hundreds of feet deep, and every dive consumes a lot of physical strength. Even after being nourished by the Spirit Beast Pill, his cormorant can only ensure success in one dive every day. On the premise of ensuring the safety of a pair of cormorants, he can only choose to return.
Perhaps only when his carefully cultivated baby cormorant is promoted to the legendary first-class low-grade spirit beast can he persist at the bottom of the lake for a longer time and gain more. However, this is an extremely long process. Having a pair of spirit beasts is still a dream that is difficult for him to realize.
According to the distinction between the cultivation world, beasts can be divided into three categories. The first is the wild beasts that are well-known, with the widest range of life and almost ubiquitous, and are also the main source of meat for mortals in this world. The second is the monsters evolved from wild beasts. They can absorb the essence of heaven and earth like practitioners to improve their cultivation. The only difference is that except for a few special monsters, most monsters have not improved significantly and still rely on instinct to act; the third is the spirit beasts. In fact, there is no difference between spirit beasts and monster beasts, but they are tamed by practitioners, and their personalities appear to be more docile.
The sources of spirit beasts can also be divided into three types: one is through the egg shells that have not yet hatched or the cubs that have not yet opened their eyes; the other is to select some wild beasts with good qualifications, break the shackles of blood through long-term careful cultivation and promote the monsters; the last is the descendants of spirit beasts cultivated in some major sects or families for generations, which are naturally more in line with human practitioners.
There are countless benefits of spiritual beasts. Once you recognize the master, you are loyal and fearless of danger. Because the spirit beast has a long life, it can be passed on to descendants when the master is transformed. This is how the mountain-protecting spirit beasts come from among many major sects. Of course, this is a beautiful but difficult dream for Zhao Shoushou. Now he is the most correct choice to drive a fishing boat every day to salvage more fog stones.
"Hey, hey, our fishing expert is back. How about the harvest today? How about the old rules of trading?" A rough voice was heard on the shore. It was the boss of Guiyun Pavilion, the most famous restaurant in Heron County. He came here every day to buy him and catch fresh fish at a high price.
Guiyun Pavilion is a place for some high-ranking officials and landlords to eat outside. Therefore, there are strict requirements on the length, weight and body shape of fresh fish, and each fish must be intact and lively. Although Cormorant Island is rich in various fish, most of them are in the mouth of Cormorant. This is also one of the main reasons why they are willing to come and buy it at a high price.
"Nine carp with more than three pounds, eleven grass carp with more than five pounds, and three silver carp with more than seven pounds, and take all the best silver with 31 taels of silver." The transactions between the two are very skillful. The best silver with better silver is silver with more than 90% silver. Every 300 taels of silver can be exchanged for a low-grade spirit stone in the hands of some casual cultivators in need.
It is said that silver contains a first-level low-grade spiritual material called silver spirit. As long as it has a stable source of earth fire to condense, it can be regarded as a business that only makes money but not loses. Unfortunately, there are not many casual cultivators who specialize in this kind of business. Of course, he will definitely seize any opportunity to earn spirit stones, so he will accumulate the silver he has traded on weekdays and wait for the opportunity to come.
Unfortunately, he was born into the lowest level of free cultivator in the world of cultivation. Not to mention the source of earth fire established by the earth veins by the great masters forcibly communicating with the earth veins, he only heard its name but did not see its shape. Even if he was a first-level low-grade spiritual material and silver essence refined from silver, he had never seen it. All the resources needed for practice came from the Cormorant Lake meeting organized by some traveling and foot cultivators every three months.
This so-called Limordrome Lake Meeting is not a formal trade fair at all, let alone compared to the legendary market that has all kinds of treasures specially built for practitioners, with good quality and low price. In the eyes of more practitioners, the Limordrome Lake Meeting is more suitable for calling it a beggar trade fair.
Spiritual stones without spiritual power, spiritual elixirs containing elixirs, talismans that only remain in shape after release, gold, silver and treasures among the ordinary people, some unknown spiritual herbs, fragments of magic weapons that have lost all their power, etc. These low-level cultivators have dig out almost all the value of each spiritual object without leaving them.
The elixirs that failed to be refined in the world of cultivation cannot be taken because they contain too many elixirs and impurities. However, at the Limordrome Lake meeting, a practitioner specially employed various abandoned elixirs that failed to be refined, and worked tirelessly to divide them into different levels according to the content of elixirs. They sold them at an extremely low price and earned at least more than ten low-grade spirit stones each time, and became the object of envy of many cash-strapped cultivators.
As for the practitioners who take these toxin-containing pills, almost all of them are the cultivators with the lowest qualifications and luckily embarking on the path of cultivation. After taking them, they can only drive the elixir out of their bodies through a large amount of time, so that they can be at a barely balanced and uneroded level. They are just to save some spirit stones to purchase more cultivation resources, hoping to supplement some meager spiritual power to prevent their cultivation from falling.
Spiritual roots are a necessary condition for entering the path of cultivation. No one among mortals has spiritual roots, and ninety percent of them are mixed spiritual roots with complete five elements. If you don’t have enough opportunities, you can only wander in the early and middle stages of Qi training for your whole life, because at least ten low-grade spiritual stones are required to detect spiritual roots. Zhao Shoushou still doesn’t know what kind of spiritual roots he is. What is his qualification for cultivation? However, in terms of his difficult practice, qualifications should not be very good.
The classification of qualifications in the cultivation world is as follows: Those with a single attribute spiritual root are called Tian Ling Root, which is the target of the major sects of Tianzhijiaoer who are competing for each other. They can break through to the Golden Elixir stage without any bottlenecks all the way. Unfortunately, the number is too rare and it is difficult to produce one person in a hundred years. With two attribute spiritual roots, they can be called double spiritual roots. Cultivation qualifications are also rare, and can successfully build foundations and become the backbone of the cultivation world; spiritual roots with three attributes are the most common three spiritual roots. If the attributes of spiritual roots complement each other and build foundations, they may be more than 60%, which is also the qualification of major members of the major sects and families. With four types of spiritual roots, they are called miscellaneous spiritual roots, because the cultivation of spiritual roots is extremely difficult, and if there is no adventure, it is difficult to break the bottleneck in a lifetime to advance to the foundation building stage; with five spiritual roots, they are called false spiritual roots. From its name, it can be judged that they can only wander in the early and middle stages of Qi training.
In addition, there are also some special mutated spiritual roots, such as the ice spiritual roots formed by the mutated wind spirit roots and water spirit roots, the thunder spirit roots formed by the mutated metallic nature and earth attributes, etc., and some more rare yin and yang spiritual roots, space spiritual roots, and time spiritual roots will not be described one by one, but each kind of spiritual root has endless magical uses, and once it appears, it is also an object of competition among many immortal sects.
Chapter completed!