The immortals of the two worlds started from farming and refining pills.

Chapter 21: Spiritual Root Vision, Shadow of the Big Tree

After testing all the spiritual plant master apprentices, Li Qing asked everyone to disperse. He went to the family storehouse first, ready to borrow the family's precious spiritual testing platform.

Spiritual root aptitude is related to cultivation. Ordinary spirit stones or simple spirit testing methods can only roughly test the spiritual roots of medium-grade and above.

Therefore, some powerful cultivation forces would spend a large sum of money to purchase a spirit testing platform from the Great Zhou court, so that they can be more targeted when cultivating fresh blood.

Li Qing re-tested his own water spiritual roots and also used the spirit testing platform.

The second elder Li Fang, who is in charge of the warehouse, is not here.

The person on duty here is a clan member named Li Yu, who is over a hundred years old. He lost his foundation in a battle with the Zhang family in his early years, and now he is living here in retirement.

When he saw Li Qing, he bowed and greeted him: "Fourth Elder!"

"Excuse me, elder." Li Qing helped him up and got straight to the point, "I want to borrow the spirit platform for a while."

Li Yu took out the jade slip of the merit test book in a serious manner and said: "According to the family rules, except for the spirit-testing ritual that takes place once every three years, those who use the spirit-testing platform privately will have 20 minor merits deducted each time. Is the Fourth Elder clear about this?"

Li Qing nodded and said, "I understand. Just make a note of it in the performance book."

Li Yu made a record and verified Li Qing's token before opening the warehouse door and leading him to the deepest warehouse No. 9.

Li Qing looked around and found that the restrictions in several warehouses were broken and empty. There was not a single spiritual resource on the shelves. He couldn't help but sigh.

"Because of renting that hilltop, life has been hard for our tribesmen lately, right?" he asked casually.

Li Yu looked gloomy, but still said firmly: "For the long term, we will get through this if we just hold on."

Li Qing nodded, looked at the spiritual plant storehouse which still had some surplus, and took the initiative to say: "I will start refining pills in a few days. You can send this batch of spiritual plants over and I will refine them together, so as to enrich the medicine storehouse."

Li Yu was delighted when he heard this: "That's great. I will report to the Second Elder later and ask him to go to Qinghe Market and bring back another batch of spiritual plants."

Li Qing laughed in silence: "There's no need to rush this time."

The two of them talked as they walked, and soon, Warehouse No. 9 was in sight.

Li Yu took out a jade talisman and opened the many restrictions on the storeroom: "Please come in, the spirit testing platform is inside."

Li Qing pushed open the door and saw a solid stone platform placed in the middle of the warehouse. It was covered with intricate symbols, which was breathtaking.

This is the Spirit Testing Platform, an important strategic material of the family. It is mainly used to test the qualifications of spiritual roots, but it can also identify some rare spiritual essences of heaven and earth.

Li Qing scanned with his spiritual sense and confirmed that everything was correct: "Wait for me outside, just a quarter of an hour."

Li Yu thought he was going to identify some secret treasure, so he said without question: "Yes, sir."

Li Qing walked into the warehouse, sealed the stone door with his magic power, and activated the hidden restriction. Then he quickly came to the spirit testing platform and chanted the spell.

"Swish, swish, swish--" The complicated symbols on the spirit-testing platform lit up one by one, and the hazy five-colored light illuminated the dim warehouse.

Li Qing did not hesitate. He placed his hand on the spirit-testing platform and activated the seal used to detect spiritual roots.

A halo suddenly enveloped him, and there was a mysterious power in the dark that manifested his aptitude for cultivation on the spirit testing platform.

First, a green light rose up and transformed into leaf marks on the spirit-testing platform. When counted carefully, there were about forty-eight of them.

The spirit-testing platform can quantify one’s spiritual root qualifications using different marks.

Less than thirty are low-grade spiritual roots; thirty to sixty are medium-grade spiritual roots; sixty to ninety are high-grade spiritual roots. More than ninety are earthly spiritual roots; and if one can reach one hundred, then it is the legendary heavenly spiritual root.

Li Qing manifested forty-eight leaf marks, which was considered average among the mid-grade spiritual roots, slightly above average.

Afterwards, another red light rose up and turned into twenty flame marks. This was Li Qing's fire spiritual root qualification.

After that, according to Li Qing's previous measurements, there should be dim yellow, black, and white spots of light, representing Li Qing's almost nonexistent earth, water, and gold spiritual roots.

However, this time, a black water drop mark was slowly but firmly reflected - judging from the spirit testing platform, Li Qing had indeed sublimated a low-grade water spirit root!

His guess was confirmed, and Li Qing clenched his other fist: "If we can make the date palm snail pass on in an orderly manner, this is a great opportunity..."

After a while, dim yellow and white spots of light floated out, indicating that his earth and gold spiritual roots did not benefit much.

The image of five-colored light symbolizes the five elements of spiritual roots that the human race in the world of cultivation is born with.

Li Qing waited for a while, but did not see any signs of mutated spiritual roots such as ice crystals, lightning, and whirlwinds, so he prepared to end the spiritual test.

Suddenly, a vague shadow of a large tree was seen projected from itself onto the spirit-testing platform. It flickered twice, then collapsed and disappeared without a trace.

This is an unprecedented vision.

"What is this?" Li Qing hurriedly measured it again, but found nothing. The light and shadow of the big tree just now seemed to be just an illusion.

"Forget it. Things will work out when the time comes." He shook his head, closed the spirit-testing platform, and turned to walk out.

Li Qing was in high spirits after his conjecture was verified. When he passed by the warehouse where the precious materials for refining were stored, he remembered the food he brought back from the other world, so he asked Li Yu to release the restriction.

"I have been traveling abroad before and have obtained a lot of refining materials, but the highest is only the first-grade middle grade, so I will just put it here."

He took out a storage bag and placed some spiritual materials he had found in the sea on the museum shelf according to categories.

Li Yu quickly took out the jade slip and recorded Li Qing's achievements one by one.

"First-class low-grade, five water-attributed spirit crystals; first-class low-grade, twelve earth-attributed precious crystal ores; first-class medium-grade, seven Yan crystal stones..."

After finishing the statistics, Li Yu showed the jade slip to Li Qing: "Fourth Elder, the treasures you put into the warehouse this time total twenty-three minor merits."

Li Qing scanned the area with his spiritual sense and nodded slightly: "Yes, there is nothing missing from the record."

He didn't care about the records of his family's achievements. After all, at his level, as long as he no longer aspired to build a foundation, he was basically giving back to the family.

"But I still feel unwilling and unhappy..." Li Qing's eyes were clear as he looked at this clan member who had been hiding in the warehouse and had stopped at the sixth level of Qi training for thirty years.

“Above the foundation building stage, there is the elixir formation stage, and above that, there is the Nascent Soul stage, the Spiritual Transformation stage, and the Return to Void stage. The sky is high, the earth is vast, and the great way is endless. We must always give it another try…”

Li Yu was completely unaware that the elder in front of him was taking him as an example and became more determined to make another attempt to establish his foundation.

He happily marked out three small merits and exchanged all the Yan crystal stones he had just entered: "My dear grandson has just been tested to have a medium-grade fire spirit root. It's just right to use this. I'll ask someone to help me refine a protective magic weapon."

Li Qing smiled and said, "If I had known you needed it, I would have given it to you directly."

Li Yu said solemnly: "Without rules, there will be no order. I have accumulated a lot of merit in my early years, and I have to spend it."

Li Qing smiled heartily: "That makes sense!"

(End of this chapter)