Family Cultivation: Rise of the Wilderness

Chapter 524 Different Spiritual Root

The sky was overcast, with dark clouds rolling in like ink.

Li Xiangming stood on a precipice covered in crimson blood, looking bewildered.

Suddenly, the ground trembled, and countless monsters surged from behind—there were terrifying centipedes, serpent monsters with gleaming scales, and giant apes with flames on their backs. Their eyes were all flashing with bloodthirsty red light, and their roars were deep and ferocious.

Oh, and there were also crows flying everywhere, their shrieks like the call of death.

Li Xiangming instinctively wanted to escape, but his legs felt as heavy as lead.

The giant ape pounced first, tearing open his shoulder with ease, and blood splattered everywhere.

Li Xiangming couldn't help but groan and stagger backward.

More monsters swarmed forward, tearing at his flesh and blood as if trying to kill him.

These beasts!

Enraged, Li Xiangming grabbed the giant ape in front of him and, with a sudden burst of strength, snapped the ape demon's neck.

But the next moment, a swarm of crows flew down and swooped down on his face, blinding him.
it hurts!

It's so hard to breathe!

The strange cries and gnawing sounds of the monsters were incessant.

Li Xiangming finally succumbed to despair, floundering and sinking to the bottom of the water like a drowning child.

"Li Xiangming?"

Just then, a deep shout seemed to come from beyond the heavens.

Li Xiangming sat up abruptly, his clothes soaked with cold sweat, his chest heaving violently.

He subconsciously touched his face before turning around and glancing around.

This place seems to be a cave, with rubble and dust everywhere. The entrance is firmly sealed by a stone slab, and there is no light at all. The only light comes from a few lamp talismans hanging on the wall.

"We're still alive!"

A look of joy at surviving a disaster flashed in Li Xiangming's eyes.

The moment he jumped off the cliff, Liu Xiong Yu used Wind Escape to evade the pursuit of Master Miao Yin.

However, the crisis is far from over.

Before the two even reached the ground, they were attacked by a fierce gust of wind.

The chilling wind was biting cold and came suddenly. Li Xiangming was caught off guard and was severely injured in an instant.

More importantly, his magical power seemed to be frozen, and he couldn't control it at all.

Once a cultivator loses their magical power, how are they different from a mortal?
But the fierce winds show no mercy to mortals!

Li Xiangming struggled desperately, but only managed to hold on for a moment before he became dizzy from the wind.

Before losing consciousness, he was fully aware that his escape light had dissipated.

If it were to fall to the ground like that, it would undoubtedly be smashed into a pulp.

"I am still alive, but you may not be."

Liu Xiong Yu coughed a few times, and blood trickled from the corner of his mouth again.

However, he no longer cared and continued, "Your cultivation is not high. If you were hit head-on by the Bone-Melting Yin Wind, you would only be barely clinging to life."

Upon hearing this, Li Xiangming's expression changed slightly.

Liu Xiong Yu wouldn't speak without reason; he immediately began meditating and focusing his inner energy on his dantian.

Upon seeing this, he was completely stunned. Within his dantian, a dark, malevolent wind was chasing after his magical power.

His magical power, now uncontrolled, has been almost completely devoured.

"Why was it able to enter my body?"

Li Xiangming was both shocked and furious, and a chill ran down his spine.

The evil wind is not uncommon; there are many records of it in the cultivation world. This thing is essentially spiritual energy, but it has undergone some changes in special environments and has become evil energy.

The evil wind is the flowing evil energy.

Perhaps some of the evil winds have the ability to corrode magic power, but they are ultimately just unconscious natural things, so how could they possibly know how to invade the dantian?

"That's what makes the Bone-Melting Yin Wind so special!"

Liu Xiong Yu exhaled: "Just as ordinary evil winds cannot control your magic power, the Bone-Melting Yin Wind feeds on magic power! To avoid this, you need ten times the magic power to resist them. And the bottom of the Cliff of No Return is full of Bone-Melting Yin Winds. Why do you think that woman in the golden dress chose to let us go? Not to mention her, even a Nascent Soul cultivator would have to waste decades of hard work just by taking a stroll here."

Li Xiangming turned pale upon hearing this.

Even a Nascent Soul cultivator would be troubled by the Bone-Melting Yin Wind, so it's not so hard to understand why a mere Foundation Establishment cultivator with depleted mana would have his dantian invaded by the Bone-Melting Yin Wind.

No wonder Su Qing and Master Miaoyin both said that No Return Cliff was a dead end.
Li Xiangming stared at the bone-melting yin wind emanating from his body and clenched his fists.

He glanced again at the large stone slab not far away.

Clearly, Liu Xiong Yu was worried about being attacked by the Yin Wind of Bone Dissolving, so he temporarily dug this cave and blocked the entrance.

But this is only a temporary solution; how many days can the two of them last in the cave?
In an instant, Li Xiangming looked dejected and slumped to the ground.

"You don't need to despair too much."

Liu Xiong Yu said in a deep voice, "Since I dared to let you jump down, I must have some confidence. The Su family's Wind Escape is derived from the Bone-Melting Yin Wind. Although its power is far inferior, it is still adaptable to it. Therefore, my situation is much better than yours. If you can master Wind Escape like me, then you can survive on the Cliff of No Return."

"Mastering Wind Release?"

Li Xiangming was stunned, then subconsciously asked, "But isn't that an ability only cultivators with the Different Wind Spirit Root possess?"

Liu Xiong Yu frowned slightly: "It seems you don't know the difference between innate spiritual roots and acquired spiritual roots. This is a secret of the cultivation world! Your Li family is known as a Golden Core family. I thought you would know something about it."

Li Xiangming shook his head: "I know that the wind spirit root is an acquired spirit root, that's all."

In the cultivation world, spiritual roots with the five elements of wood, fire, earth, metal, and water are called innate spiritual roots, while spiritual roots with other attributes are called heterogeneous spiritual roots or acquired spiritual roots.

This was something he had heard since he was a child in Green Cloud Cave.

However, neither the Green Cloud Cave nor the Li family's Scripture Pavilion has any relevant records regarding why they are divided in this way, nor have the Green Cloud Fairy, Li Chengkang, Li Qianxiong, and other Foundation Establishment cultivators explained it.

Liu Xiongyu paused for a moment, seemingly organizing his thoughts.

After a long pause, he said, "The classification of spiritual roots dates back to ancient times! In his theory of spiritual roots, Ancestor Chen divided the spiritual energy of heaven and earth into five attributes, which are what we commonly call the five elements of spiritual energy. Our human race is immersed in spiritual energy from birth, even when we are still in the embryonic stage, and is therefore a spiritual being. A few people can clearly perceive the location of spiritual energy, and the spiritual energy is willing to be close to them. This special ability is called 'spiritual root'."

Spiritual roots are born from spiritual energy. Since spiritual energy varies, spiritual roots are also divided into five categories, namely the five elements of spiritual roots.

This theory continued into the medieval period until the rise of Qi Ren Tian Zun. His magic was completely derived from the traditional Five Elements magic, and it was as powerful as thunder shaking the universe, with divine might descending from the heavens, which no one could resist.

This naturally caused a stir in the cultivation world, with countless cultivators yearning for the power of heavenly lightning and eagerly studying Qi Ren Tianzun's spells. However, no matter how they tried, it was all in vain. Ultimately, the cultivation world reached a consensus: Qi Ren Tianzun was an exception; the reason he was able to control lightning was that his spiritual root was not within the Five Elements.

Following this, wind spirit roots and ice spirit roots appeared one after another. The concept of unusual spirit roots then spread widely in the cultivation world.

But no one knows exactly how the alien spiritual root is born.

Because cultivators with different spiritual roots are so rare, far fewer than those with heavenly spiritual roots, people may never see one in their entire lives, so how can they possibly uncover their secrets?

It wasn't until Qi Ren Tianzun ascended to immortality and left behind the legacy of thunder magic in Taoism that the cultivation world realized that "unique spiritual roots" weren't actually spiritual roots, but rather a special way of utilizing magical power. Theoretically speaking, any cultivator, regardless of their spiritual root aptitude, has a chance to learn thunder magic!

Can anyone learn thunder magic?
Li Xiangming's pupils shrank to pinpoints, his heart filled with turmoil.

(End of this chapter)