Spiritual root

Little info dump.

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The next day hot sunlight rays shined on my naked face, bringing me back from my deep slumber.

I woke up with tremendous backache; even though I activated my technique and did do some precautions, the wild's life still took its punishmenton on me, and affected my muscles and body; after all, I'm not used to this kind of lifestyle,

Only training for a short amount of time.

Looking around, the girl was still asleep; however, the bright Chun woke up a long time ago.

Jin heard flashy fist swings resounding on what it sounded to be wood; he got up, moving in the direction of the noise, but what he found shocked him extensively; gazing down, he found the little villain viciously hitting a large tree trunk, with his bare knuckles, making the tree shake from the impact, jin spotted the place where the collision was taking place and found a wide hole situated at the tree heart.

'Hmm, it looks like he's been training like this for a long time ago.'

One the count of this, Aside from cultivating the qi and elements, there's also body cultivation, which is considered weaker than qi cultivation and sought by the cultivators with no spiritual roots, there's also soul cultivation, where the cultivator strides to grow their heart and sea of consciousness, mainly used for alchemy. Array drawing, and beast taming cultivation, as the name suggests, the tamer cultivates how to tame wild animals through totems. And Of course, there's also the unorthodox cultivation routes, like poison, necromancy, and last but not least, the dark arts.

What Chun was doing is just like jin body training; he's only using his mortal body's strength to condition the joints and muscles in his body. Nevertheless, the audacious movement and vicious blows pealed the skin in his fists, but still, he didn't show any signs of stopping, continuously shaking the massive tree.

'As expected from the villain, his desire to become stronger is also backed by an even brutal conviction.'

Jin clenched his fists till his nails dug deep into his palms that almost blood leaked out from his palm, eyes glimmering, abruptly turning the atmosphere frigid around him;

Even the system was surprised by Jun's abnormal development.

'Even the heavenly talented villain is training painstakingly, I can't let myself fall at the mercy of someone else' he immediately turned around, searching for a secret spot to cultivate his newly obtained art, "the Yan family sword arts,"

Although he liked to do things the easy, lenient way, he knew that he couldn't be ignorant and forget that his talents are lower than trash; up until now, he only managed to improve his looks.

Therefore, practice is the only real aid to save his self from the nightmarish fate, both in this world and in the other world.

"System, where is the rank one body tampering pill? I obtained completing my second mission."

The system understood that he's attending to use it now, and with the time enough for an incense stick to burn, A pill magically appeared on Jin's hand.

He grabbed it and walked down the forest, searching for a well-hidden place to cultivate.

There's an unnoticed flat surface suitable for cultivation; he quickly reaches it and sits down with crossed legs before devouring the pill.

After taking the pill, Heat rushed from his stomach; it wasn't exactly the best feeling. However, At least he didn't feel hurt at the process, displaying a faint, unmistakable aura of deep routed nourishment; in an instant, jin felt his body filled with a powerful flux of energy, making his cells dance from excitement and joy at the weird unusual power.

For instance, the energy traveled through his meridians and stored itself in his twelve voids, ready to be used.

He sat down, cultivating, for three hours, before sighting in lethargy, 'Ugh! How the hell those cultivation monsters keep cultivating for years in one go! I just started, and my back is killing me!' He endured the urge to stretch his back, cultivating for an extra hour till he felt like the excess energy stored in his body is thoughtfully used up.

However, he didn't feel any apparent change regarding his cultivation base;

It's a known fact for all cultivators that the spiritual root level is by far the most important aspect of how fast a cultivator can reach the next level; the high spiritual root possessors will attain layers more quickly and treated as geniuses; contrary, the weaker spiritual root individuals might never even achieve the next layer in their lifetime, while treated like trash.

<Don't get discouraged host, the talent this body possesses is very limited. Nevertheless, you are eligible now to use the upgrade shop function>

"Wasn't it a hundred points? I didn't reach that number yet," jun confusedly replied.

<Ping>

"Oh!" regardless of Jin's earlier bewilderment, the system notifications made him delighted, hoisting anticipation and impatience broke the earlier concentrated state. He stood up, not minding his tight muscles, and said, "Quickly show me what I can get with my points!."

Total points: 130 XP

Spiritual roots:

Mortal spritual root:

Grade 1: 30XP

Grade 2: 120XP

Grade 3: 200XP

Grade 4: 350XP

Grade 5: 500XP

Grade 6: 750XP

Grade 7: 1200XP

Grade 8: 1500XP

Grade 9: 2500XP

Grade 10: 5000XP

Further data will be unlocked after reaching grade 10.

"Ohh! So this is the levels of the spiritual grades at this stop, but wait, what's the minimum spiritual grade required for the sect the canon supposed to start in?»

"Ah! I need to reach that in a year! What about bloodline, physiques, and techniques? There's no option to buy them from the shop.»

<Host, only unlocked small fraction of the shop>

"Hm, I see! Well, let's purchase grade 2 spiritual root for now and worry about the future later."

<Yes, host!>

A short time passed before Jin felt anything shift, his core along with the whole body started to shake, unbearable discomfort hit his pain receivers, making him paralyzed at the spot, his first modification session went terrible, saliva drooled from his mouth, while his head felt awfully heavy.

Consequently, almost making him blacked out, but he knew he couldn't let himself lose consciously, or he would pay a severe price if discovered by Chun.

«That bastard won't hesitate to kill me» was the only sentence that occupied his mind in that horrendous state; Jin tolerated the pain for a long time before finally overcoming it.

The root modification operation took four hours to finish, «Ugh! This pain is otherworldly terrible! The simple lines of the mc suffering I quickly brushed through while reading xianxia books, ultimately paying no heed to them, are actually the real deal!"

Jin got up, complaining to the system for not warning him of the upcoming pain;

Afterward, he headed to the camp, grabbing his stomach along the way, 'Shit! I didn't have breakfast or even lunch, and it's already nearing downtime.'

Scouting the area, he found Chun sitting at his favorite spot while Xia laid down on the burned bed; sensing jin arrival, the little villain sulked and harshly said, "I thought you died; why didn't you leave already?"

I was getting very familiar with his hateful manner of speech, so I decided to tease him a little bit, "How could I leave and let my cute brother Chun suffering here?"

His pupils moved to my direction, wrathfully staring at me, "Brother? Don't dare to call me brother ever again!"

"Ok, brother," I added.

His brain nerves started to pump from the anger; the mighty villain couldn't withstand my light teasing and almost attack me, if not for his smart reasoning.

Da Chun is very difficult; if he had easily accepted a stranger as his brother, he wouldn't've been named the villain.

However, I didn't want to make fun of the edgy kid too much and just asked him a blank question, "Did you manage to hunt something today? I was busy doing some stuff and couldn't join,"

The cunning villain, of course, instantly caught what I really wanted to say.

It entered his ears like a totally different phrase, "Is there any food left for me?"

He smirked and answered, "No, I didn't" he smiled even more and got up to have some sleep.

I contemplated at my misfortune, leaning on one of the borders surrounding the diminutive camp.

My stomach made loud noises, crumping and curling, making it harder to sleep; I switched positions and made up stories to distract me from the hurling hunger; nevertheless, an angel from above blessed me at my most desperate moments,

however, in my case, it was a devil instead.

A finger tapped my shoulder, bringing my worn out attention to it; I looked to the side and found Xia crawled on her legs, making an "Shh" sign with her finger. She brought a cooked rabbit leg, and in a very low tone, said, "I left this one for you, in case you didn't eat,"

My pupils widened at the heavenly looking food, and I lightly snatched it from her hand; she smiled, feeling amused by my rushed actions.

I was about to eat it, but the rabbit leg was almost like a rock; from the cold weather, I activated my technique, heating up the rabbit in my hands, under the little girl's lovely stare.

After savagely finishing the rabbit meat, I finally had some room to think, Uttering a "Thank you" toward my Saviour.

Her sinister look no longer bothered me, even though it's only been a very short time since we met; the girl didn't seem like anything the system said yet.

"Hehe! Don't worry about it," she said while sitting beside me, leaning at the rock just like I did earlier.

Baffled, I asked, "Don't you want to sleep?"

She shook her head in denial, "Can you tell me more about cultivation?"

"Sure," I added, the little girl widely showed interest in the cultivation World; likewise, I liked chatting about cultivation too, and besides, It can be considered as a payment to her prior gesture.

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