Chapter 24: The Innate Qi (Part 1)

  "Over a decade ago, when your father met me, I was alone by myself, so he always thought I was a loose cultivator." Lin Mo said with a smile.

  Her mother's voice was sweet, it seemed that she remembered the things when they first met, and her father must have made a lot of jokes.

  Luoyu sat upright with a serious expression, not daring to reveal her thoughts about the Eight Trigrams. Her mother was too intimidating today; if she made even the slightest mistake, she would definitely be scolded again.

  "My family's ancestors can be traced back to the great Da Neng of the near ancient times. After his ascension, our family prospered for a while but eventually declined slowly. Until one day, our ancestor who had not been seen for a long time suddenly passed down an object through the ancestral rites." Lin Mo took off a jade pendant from around her neck and handed it to Luo Yu.

  Luo Yu took it from his hand, it was a small and delicate peace knot, made with Lingcan silk as the strap, but she found that this object was just an ordinary thing, and didn't feel any spiritual energy from it. Was the treasure hiding itself? She studied it back and forth.

  "Yu'er, don't be in a hurry, it can't be seen like this, otherwise it would have been snatched away long ago. Our ancestors only passed down one sentence, that is to pass it on to the direct descendants of the Five Spirits Root, if there is fate, you can recognize the master by dripping blood, if not, then it's just an ordinary jade. At this time, our family has fallen to a small family, if we didn't hold onto hope, how could we wait for the blessings of our ancestors? Regardless of whether they are Five Spirits Root or not, everyone tried to recognize the master by dripping blood, but unexpectedly there was no reaction at all, and it's been like this for generations. Most people in the clan suspected that it was just an ordinary jade, until only I was left, and naturally this jade fell into my hands."

  The rise and fall of a family can't be summed up in just a few words. The former glory must have attracted the attention of many wolves, and how to survive in the cracks is something that our ancestors must have deeply experienced. Luo Yu could imagine how thrilled his ancestors were when they received this object back then, and how desperate they became afterwards.

  "When I was young, I also tried it, but there was no reaction. In the end, I just treated it as a keepsake from my grandfather, so I've been wearing it to remember him." Lin Mo's face is full of nostalgic expression.

  "If it weren't for Zi Ye's letter, I wouldn't have remembered that this object was a legacy of our ancestors. Afterwards, I kept thinking, what counts as having fate? The Lin family bloodline is necessary, the Five Spirits Root is also necessary, but this is still not enough, maybe it also requires being a Mixed Yuan Spirit Root, or even a Mixed Yuan Heavenly Body!" Lin Mo's voice was trembling slightly, she looked at Luo Yu with hope-filled eyes.

  Luo Yu was also excited, she felt that her fate was tied to this ordinary jade, and her life would undergo a tremendous change because of it.

  She took out a small dagger for self-defense, and without hesitation, Luoyu cut her left middle finger, blood gushing out. She pressed the jade pendant onto the wound.

  Suddenly she felt a suction force coming from the jade pendant, fresh blood gushing out and then being absorbed by the jade pendant.

  The more blood that flowed, the more Luoyu felt her body being drained of a third of its blood. If she weren't a cultivator, she would have collapsed by now.

  Seeing this situation, Lin Mo was both excited and worried, but for Yu'er's future and the ancestors' wishes, she still gritted her teeth and said: "Yu'er, hold on!"

  Luoyu nodded, she couldn't say anything else, but even if she fainted, she wouldn't let go!

  Suddenly, a white light flashed and Luo Yu disappeared.

  Luo Yu fell onto a desolate land with a rickety wooden hut in the center. The entire space was only about 100 square meters, with a low and gloomy sky and thin spiritual energy.

  Luoyu felt unwell, and took out a piece of spiritual stone from her storage bag, only to find that the spiritual stone immediately dimmed and lost all its spiritual energy. Luoyu was shocked, and quickly took out another piece of spiritual stone, but even after using up all the low-grade stones and switching to mid-grade ones, until she used up the last piece of mid-grade spiritual stone, the density of the spiritual energy in the space didn't seem to increase at all.

  Luoyu felt a sense of urgency in her heart, and she hastily pushed open the door to enter the wooden hut. But what she saw was that there were no decorations at all in the 10-square-meter wooden hut, only a few items placed on the clean floor: a jade box, two jade slips, and three jade bottles.

  She took a jade slip, stuck it to her brow and examined it. After a moment, a message flashed into her mind. The jade slip said that in the era when their ancestor Lin Yu was born, spiritual energy was still quite dense. At that time, ordinary five-element cultivators advanced more slowly, but they could still ascend to the spiritual realm. Once there, their potential for growth was greater than that of other lesser-spirited cultivators, so five-element cultivators were highly respected. What's more, their ancestor had a rare mixed-element spirit root, with a purity of 95%, almost becoming a mixed-element heavenly body. He cultivated the primordial decision and ascended to the spiritual realm in just two hundred years.

  After seeing much and knowing widely in the spiritual realm, he came to a conclusion: if one who has mixed yuan spiritual roots introduces a seed into their body, allowing the spiritual energy and heavenly treasures of the earth to cultivate it as it grows, it will gradually grow into space and interfaces. Legend has it that eventually it will even evolve into a universe, at which time this person will be the master of the entire universe.

  Of course, the actual implementation is almost non-existent, because people with mixed yuan ling gen are rare to begin with. The time it takes for the universe to nurture these seeds into maturity is unknown, and the resources required in the process are unimaginable, making it feel like a waste of effort. Among them, the most important seed is the pre-heavenly energy (xian tian zhi qi), which has been scattered since the beginning of heaven and earth, leaving only a few pre-heavenly treasures in existence. Even after these treasures mature, it's still difficult to obtain the pre-heavenly energy. There is another place where pre-heavenly energy exists - the mother's body. However, if you dissect the mother's body, the pre-heavenly energy will immediately disperse without a trace, which may be the heavenly way of protecting the mother's body. But it's impossible to expect an ignorant and unconscious fetus to absorb the pre-heavenly energy. Even if the fetus is lucky enough to absorb it, it won't be able to utilize the pre-heavenly energy, which will quickly disperse, only serving to enhance the child's innate qualities.

  Ancestor Lin Yu was a highly ambitious cultivator, he inquired extensively and finally understood various key information, including how to obtain a strand of Innate Qi from the Innate Treasure.

  At this time, the spiritual realm spread out that a new secret realm had appeared with an unowned congenital treasure. Cultivators swarmed in, and Lin Yu was overjoyed. At that time, his cultivation was only refining the void, and among many powerful cultivators, he snatched a wisp of congenital energy from the tiger's mouth, then instantly escaped. This congenital energy still had some wonderful uses in alchemy, let alone being stolen by a small mouse from under their eyelids. How could those powerful people tolerate it? They issued a kill order.