If Gou Cheng becomes the Dao Ancestor, the monkey will come to become his disciple.

The dantian, the sea of ​​qi, is vast and boundless, mysterious and unfathomable, like a real universe.

Its interior is permeated with a purple-gold aura, mysterious and unpredictable. Every strand of magical power is extremely condensed, and its power far surpasses that of the past.

Jiang Chuan channeled his magic power into a superior silver flying sword, which then sped away, carving a black hole more than ten meters deep into the ground. The hole was surrounded by magical energy.

"Unfortunately, although the cultivation techniques in this world are mysterious and unpredictable, it lacks modern technology, so combat power cannot be quantified."

He wasn't sure exactly how strong he was now, and could only make a simple comparison based on his past strength.

"Even if you gain 180 years of lifespan from absorbing energy each year, you can only open 1800 spiritual apertures. Even if the opening speed remains constant, it will still take at least 20 years to reach the peak of the ninth level of Qi Refining. That's too slow..."

"Although the Chaos Dao Scripture is a celestial-grade cultivation technique, surely it shouldn't be this slow to cultivate?"

Jiang Chuan felt somewhat agitated. He was a staunch believer in the importance of reaching the highest realm, and he was preparing to break through to the Foundation Establishment stage as soon as possible so that he could feel more secure.

"Perhaps it's time to try evolving and enhancing my spiritual root?"

When he first transmigrated to this world, he used his lifespan to improve his spiritual root, but the improvement was very small. After that, he did not prioritize improving his spiritual root.

"After absorbing lifespan next year, I'll prioritize improving my spiritual root. For now, I'll just cultivate using spirit stones and pills."

Jiang Chuan patted the storage bag, a high-grade storage bag that he had repurchased five years ago for more than 3000 spirit stones.

Its internal space is a full 10 cubic meters, and the storage bag's defensive and concealment properties are much better than those of ordinary inferior storage bags.

He took out a pile of spirit stones, totaling 99, and then took out array flags, arranging them into a spirit-gathering array.

As a top-tier first-order formation master, setting up a first-order spirit-gathering formation is quite simple and easy.

With the spirit-gathering array successfully set up, the wooden house was instantly filled with rich spiritual energy.

Jiang Chuan sat cross-legged, his five hearts facing the sky, and began to refine and absorb spiritual energy to open the spiritual apertures in his body.

The human body is an innate Dao body, possessing countless spiritual apertures within. The function of cultivation techniques is to open these spiritual apertures, connect them, and refine them into different kinds of magical power in a special way.

Because he created his own cultivation method, the most difficult hurdle, "finding the spiritual aperture," was a piece of cake for him.

A day later, a spiritual aperture was opened, and more than 10% of the spiritual energy in the spirit-gathering array disappeared.

A month passed in the blink of an eye. He had opened 30 spiritual apertures, cultivating at a rate of about one per day, consuming more than 300 spirit stones.

Jiang Chuan let out a long breath, his eyes bright: "With the help of the Spirit Gathering Array, my cultivation is progressing quite quickly."

He had realized that the reason why he could only open 10 spiritual apertures a year when using lifespan to evolve his cultivation was simply because he did not use any external aids, but simply converted his lifespan into energy for opening spiritual apertures.

Cultivating immortality is about defying the creation of heaven and earth. Spirit stones, pills, and spiritual energy are all essential aids that can greatly increase the speed of cultivation.

Looking at the spirit stone fragments scattered all over the ground, Jiang Chuan felt a pang of heartache.

"It's fast, but it consumes too many spirit stones."

In just one month, he used 300 spirit stones, while his annual alchemy income was only three or four thousand low-grade spirit stones, even with his exceptional diligence and 996 work schedule.

"Forget it, having more spirit stones is useless. Let's improve our cultivation as quickly as possible."

…………

In the blink of an eye, another year has passed.

That year, he spent most of his time in seclusion cultivating and a small portion of his time refining elixirs, opening up a total of 300 new spiritual apertures.

After gaining a lifespan of 180 years through devouring...

Jiang Chuan did not expend his lifespan to evolve and improve his cultivation level, but instead chose to improve his spiritual root attribute first.

[You invest your lifespan to evolve the Wood Spirit Root]

[You have spent twenty years in seclusion, focusing on cultivating your own spiritual root, which has increased your affinity for the wood-attribute spiritual energy in the world.]

[You have been in seclusion for a hundred years, focusing on cultivating your own wood spirit root. As a result, your wood spirit root has grown significantly, and the speed at which you refine wood-attribute spiritual energy has increased.]

After sacrificing a hundred years of lifespan to enhance the wood elemental root attribute

Jiang Chuan stopped immediately and looked at the system panel.

Name: Jiang Chuan (34 years old)

[Remaining lifespan: 110 years]

【灵根：金3、木15、水2、火5、土2、风1、雷1、光1、时1、空1（可投入寿命进行演化）】

[Cultivation Level (Chaos Dao Scripture): Qi Refining Level 1 (Can be evolved by investing lifespan)]

[Taoist Methods: Chaos Tao Scripture: Perfected; Vajra Body: Perfected... Illusion Character Secret Basic Version 1.0: Perfected; Action Character Secret Basic Version 1.0: Perfected; The Person Character Secret Basic Version 1.0: Perfected; Fighting Character Secret Basic Version 1.0: Perfected....]

Talisman Dao: First-tier superior grade; Alchemy: First-tier supreme grade; Weapon Forging: First-tier superior grade; Array Formation: First-tier superior grade... (Can be evolved by investing lifespan)

Lifespan Function:

Lifespan Barrier: 1 acre (Tier 1, low-grade, can be evolved by investing lifespan).

Lifespan Dojo: Within the Lifespan Dojo, one can absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, conceal one's own heavenly secrets. The range and duration of its activation require different amounts of lifespan.

"...Huh, after consuming a hundred years of lifespan, my wood spirit root has increased by five points?"

Jiang Chuan understood. This was about the same speed as he had guessed. When he first transmigrated, he had consumed about 20 years of his lifespan to improve his wood elemental root attribute.

"Let's test whether improving the wood spirit root will increase cultivation speed."

[You have invested your lifespan evolution cultivation]

[You went into seclusion to cultivate the Chaos Dao Scripture, practicing breathing exercises and feeling your cultivation speed increase. One year later, you opened 15 new spiritual apertures.]

[You have practiced breathing exercises for 100 years, opening 1500 new spiritual apertures, bringing your total to 3600. You have completed the first level of cultivation and are now attempting to break through to the second level of Qi Refining. You have succeeded, and the quality and quantity of your magical power have increased several times over.]

Feeling the even more powerful and vast magical energy within his body,

Jiang Chuan nodded in satisfaction.

At this moment, although he had just entered the second level of Qi Refining, he had already opened 3600 spiritual apertures in his body, forming a perfect cycle of Qi. His magical power had been tempered and was far stronger than that of an ordinary ninth level Qi Refining cultivator.

It should be noted that even with the cultivation of top-grade techniques, one can only open 144 spiritual apertures at each level. Upon reaching the peak of Qi Refining, one can only open 1296 spiritual apertures, far less than he is now.

Of course, the strength between cultivators is not simply a matter of comparing the number of spiritual apertures they have opened. This is the core foundation, but not the decisive factor.

"After my wood spirit root was raised to 15 points, my cultivation speed increased by 50%. Sure enough, as I thought, prioritizing the improvement of the spirit root was the most worthwhile."

Jiang Chuan then tried cultivating with spirit stones. After his wood spirit root improved, his efficiency in refining spiritual energy also steadily increased, and he was able to open 45 spiritual apertures every month.

"Next, let's prioritize improving our spiritual root attributes."

After finalizing the plan, Jiang Chuan went into seclusion again.

In the blink of an eye, another five years passed. After consuming a full 800 years of his lifespan,

His Wood Spirit Root was successfully raised to 55 points.

According to his speculation,

下品灵根数值约在0～20，中品灵根为21～40，上品灵根为41～60，极品灵根为61～80，天灵根为81～100，

He is now considered a young genius with a superior wood spirit root.