Chapter 5: Must Not Build Foundation?
Luo Yu and her daughter walked towards the outer hall of the ancestral temple. The inner courtyard was where the ancestors' plaques were placed, and only direct descendants were allowed to enter.
At this time, there were already eight children around the age of five in the outer hall, all with their direct relatives holding hands and waiting quietly on the side. Luo Yu was also standing obediently beside his father. At this time, there were still two incense sticks before the test, and the clan leader and the legitimate children had not yet arrived.
Luo Yu raised her head and saw a water ink painting hanging on the high hall, a man wearing a green robe, with a long face, flying sword eyebrows, staring at the front. Dazed, Luo Yu seemed to be facing a vast ocean, surging waves rushing towards her...
"See the clan leader!"
Luo Yu was pulled by his father to bow and pay respects to the clan elder who had just arrived. Behind the clan elder were two boys, one girl, their parents, and three elderly men.
Luo Yu also woke up with a start and didn't dare look at the portrait of her great-grandfather on the wall again.
Great ancestor Huang Yin, water system Tianling root, cultivated for 500 years and ascended to divinity. For a time, the Huang family was filled with high-ranking friends and unlimited prosperity. However, after just a few years, the people of the immortal realm could no longer obtain information from the spiritual realm; the elders of the spiritual realm wanted to bestow some treasures on their descendants, but were unsuccessful. It turned out that although the people of the spiritual realm were not allowed to descend to the lower realm, they could still send things to the lower realm through special channels, as long as it did not exceed the limits of this interface. Even so, families or sects with ascended ancestors would flourish accordingly.
After receiving this message, the descendants of the Huang family couldn't help but smile bitterly. Without the protection of their ancestors, no one in the younger generation had the talent of Tianling Root again, and the Huang family didn't have time to rise from a first-class family to a super-family, and instead slid down to a second-class family over time.
Now, the highest cultivation in the family is only in the late Golden Core stage. If someone advances to the Yuan Infant stage, they will become a first-class family, and if they advance to the Nascent Soul stage, they will be a super-class family. Therefore, Luo Xue, the female lead with the same qualifications as her ancestors, brought hope to the family. Even if she can't advance to the Nascent Soul stage due to the decline in spiritual energy density, advancing to the Yuan Infant stage is still a sure thing.
"It's your turn, Jade!"
His father gave him a gentle push, and Luo Yu hastily walked forward, putting his hand on the white
On the test spirit plate. Although Luo Yu was in a bad state today, fortunately, her parents had repeatedly instructed her before coming, and she didn't make a fool of herself.
Red, green, white, black, and yellow, the five colors of light lit up one after another, shining brightly but not dazzling.
It's indeed the Five Spirits Root!
"Fire 65, Wood 60, Metal 52, Water 40, Earth 33." The three elders looked at Luo Yu, "What a pity! If it were only Fire and Wood, the Golden Elixir would have been possible. Even if you had four spiritual roots of Fire, Wood, Metal, and Water, you would still have had hope to establish your foundation. But unfortunately, all five elements are present in you, and their purity is not far apart, which means that for this lifetime, you will not be able to establish your foundation."
"Third Grandfather, Luo Yu must try anyway. Even if I really can't build a foundation, I won't be discouraged."
"Alright, alright!" The three elders stroked their gray beards and smiled at Luo Yu: "You have twelve older brothers and sisters ahead of you, so you're thirteenth in line. I'll formally add you to the family register now. Off you go! Don't forget to come back tomorrow morning for clan school."
Luoyu returned to her father's side, only to see that he was already smiling and had opened his eyes. He hugged Luoyu tightly and rubbed her temples vigorously.
Whether familiar or unfamiliar relatives all congratulated Father. Although Luo Yu's spiritual roots were not good, fortunately, he had an older brother with a medium to high talent, so everyone still gave face.
The Spiritual Root test has come to an end, and out of the 10 or so children, only 5 have spiritual roots. Apart from Luo Yu, there are two direct descendants, one collateral descendant, and one ordinary branch. "Dog Wa, come and kowtow to your great-grandfather."
With a loud "thud", the boy called Dog Wa was pulled by his father, and he heavily kowtowed to the portrait on the high wall.
Looking at the red mark on Dog Wa's head, Luo Yu couldn't help but exclaim, "How much effort did it take to get this?"
A 40-year-old man with tears streaming down his face, holding a child and expressing gratitude to the clan leader and elders, hoping that the clan leader would give his young son a name.
Every few years, this would happen again. The clan leader didn't mind. He thought for a moment and said: "This child has the four spiritual roots of gold, earth, wood, and fire. As long as he works hard, there is still hope to build his foundation. Heaven rewards diligence, so I will take the character 'diligence' and give him the name Huang Ziqin, fifteen."
The clan leader called over a 10-year-old servant girl and said to the dog wa, who was now named Huang Ziqin: "You go with her to the west side of the Mengxiang Garden to settle down, then stay there, or you can follow your father, whichever you like. Remember to start school at dawn tomorrow."
The clan leader said a few words of encouragement and let the clansmen disperse. Huang Daishou hurried home with Luo Yu in his arms, eager to tell his wife and son the good news waiting at home. So he didn't notice that Luo Yu was quieter than usual at this time.
Luo Yu thought that with more spiritual roots, he would need more spiritual energy, and naturally, it would take more time. The higher the purity, the easier it was to absorb spiritual energy. Among the many spiritual roots, all of them had a purity above 50, and most cultivators could cultivate up to the foundation building stage. If the difference in purity between the auxiliary spiritual root and the main spiritual root exceeded 40, one could abandon that spiritual root and only cultivate the remaining ones. Of course, using this method also had its drawbacks - at most, one could only reach the foundation building stage, and no matter what, they couldn't reach the golden elixir stage; otherwise, they would go crazy due to chaotic spiritual energy. After reaching the golden elixir stage, the influence of innate talent was much less than in the previous stages, and the cultivator's comprehension and temperament became especially important.
Of course, the above analysis is usually the case, and a determined cultivator can also make the impossible possible. If the opportunity is right, even a waste material can be cultivated to the Yuan Ying period, as for the Hua Shen period, it's unknown, after all, they have always been elusive. Luo Yu had no choice but to cultivate with the five spiritual roots together. How could she build her foundation? She curled up her index finger and scratched her chin, which was really puzzling!
