My cultivation disguise has been exposed by Xiao Sizi.

The blinding icy blue light lasted for more than a dozen breaths before gradually subsiding.

The backyard of the Prince of Qin's mansion seemed to have jumped directly from early winter to the dead of winter in an instant.

The ground was covered with a thick layer of crystal-clear white frost. The once vibrant spring colors of the garden had all been transformed into lifelike ice sculptures.

Under the reflection of the early winter sun, it radiates a dazzling halo of seven colors.

The light dissipated.

Princess Chang Le remained standing quietly in the same spot.

Her slender, jade-like hand was still gently resting on the spirit-testing plate.

On the surface of that ancient disc, the gem representing the "water" attribute has completely turned into a deep, clear ice blue, as if a ten-thousand-year-old glacier is sealed inside.

Chang Le slowly opened her eyes.

Not only was she unharmed, but she also felt an unprecedented lightness and clarity throughout her body. The suffocating feeling that had lingered in her chest for years was swept away by a cool and pure aura.

Even her already stunning beauty, illuminated by the icy blue afterglow, gained an even more ethereal and otherworldly aura.

"Sixteenth Brother..."

Princess Chang Le withdrew her hand somewhat blankly, looking at the flowers and plants around her that had been frozen into ice sculptures, and then at her own perfectly intact palm.

A hint of unease and anxiety appeared on her stunningly beautiful face.

"Did I...did I break your magical artifact?"

Chang Le asked cautiously, her voice tinged with self-reproach.

After all, the commotion just now was so great that even the teacup in Li Chen's hand shattered on the ground. In her opinion, it must be because she lacked the affinity for immortality, and her mortal energy clashed with this treasure, causing it to undergo such a terrible change.

however.

Li Chen, sitting opposite her, did not answer her.

He remained frozen in that position, still clutching two shards of porcelain in his hand.

Those deep black eyes were staring straight at Chang Le, filled with shock, blankness, jealousy, and a deep doubt about life.

As a great cultivator who has just survived the tribulation and entered the Golden Core stage.

In Li Chen's mind, at this moment, ten thousand alpacas were stampeding wildly, roaring deafeningly!

"Broken? You call this broken?!"

Li Chen roared wildly in his heart.

He knew all too well what that towering, icy blue beam of light meant!

In the vast and boundless world of cultivation, spiritual roots are divided into five elements: metal, wood, water, fire, and earth. Most mortals, if they have spiritual roots, are basically useless spiritual roots with a mixture of four or five elements.

Three systems are called True Spiritual Roots, and two systems are called Earthly Spiritual Roots.

Only those spiritual roots with a single attribute are called Heavenly Spiritual Roots! Those are the peerless geniuses that all the top cultivation sects cherish and protect!

However, above the Heavenly Spirit Root, there is another kind of existence that is one in a million and only exists in legends.

That's a mutated spiritual root!

Water element mutates into ice, fire element mutates into lightning, and earth element mutates into darkness!

What Princess Chang Le just tested was not only a mutated ice spirit root, but also a top-grade mutated ice spirit root whose purity had reached the limit and directly caused a celestial phenomenon!

This physique is naturally drawn to the path of ice and snow, allowing for rapid progress in ice-based cultivation techniques without any apparent bottlenecks. If this were in the cultivation world, those ancient monsters who have lived for thousands of years in the Mahayana stage would even launch massive wars of annihilation to seize such a disciple!

And now, this girl with unparalleled talent is asking herself with a guilty look if she broke the spirit-testing plate.

"Splash!"

Li Chen released his grip, letting the broken porcelain shards fall onto the frost-covered stone table.

He stood up expressionlessly.

He ignored Princess Chang Le's question and didn't even look at the little ox beside him who was curiously observing him.

Li Chen turned around and, with heavy, stiff steps, slowly walked to a high wall in the corner of the courtyard.

He slowly squatted down, curling himself up into a ball.

He reached out and picked up a dry twig from the ground.

Then, this great Tang Dynasty's guardian immortal, who had torn apart heavenly lightning with his bare hands above Chang'an City and struck fear into the hearts of all the officials and powerful clans, stood with his back to everyone.

He took the twig and started drawing circles on the ground.

"Sixteenth brother?"

Princess Chang Le panicked upon seeing Li Chen's strange behavior.

She lifted her skirt to walk over, but slipped on a thin layer of ice in front of her and almost fell.

"Sixteenth brother, what's wrong with you? If you really broke the treasure, I... I'll pay you back. Don't scare me."

In the corner.

Li Chen jabbed the ground hard with a tree branch.

His eyes were vacant, and he uttered a low, muttering murmur like a wandering ghost.

"Heh... Top-grade mutated ice spirit root..."

"Heh... a peerless genius, one in a million..."

Li Chen's mentality has completely collapsed, shattered into pieces that can't be pieced back together.

He was scribbling wildly on the ground with a twig, his inner turmoil erupting like a volcano.

"Why?! Why on earth?!"

"We're all born of the same father, so why is the difference between people greater than the difference between a person and a dog?!"

Li Chen frantically questioned the heavens in his heart.

Think about the original owner of this body.

The sixteenth prince of the Tang Dynasty sounds incredibly powerful.

And the result? He had the worst mixed spiritual root of the five elements! If it weren't for the sign-in system that brought him with him, allowing him to get by with a daily allowance, even if the original owner had trained until he died in the cold palace, he would at most be a piece of trash at the third level of Qi Refining!

Let's take a look at Li Shimin's other lineages.

Crown Prince Li Chengqian, though previously lame, had his leg straightened with a little spiritual energy, and I tossed him a low-level body-forging manual from a roadside stall. In just half a month, he developed an indestructible physique, capable of tearing apart elite family assassins with his bare hands! He was absolutely a body-forging prodigy!

Little Si Zi was born with an innate astrological deficiency in his heart meridian. It sounded like he was destined to die young, but when his spiritual root was tested, it turned out to be a dual-elemental earth spiritual root of water and wood! In a small sect, this kind of talent would make him a promising candidate who would be personally accepted as a closed-door disciple by the sect leader!

Now things are getting even more outrageous.

Princess Chang Le, Li Lizhi, usually looks delicate and frail, as if she could be blown away by the wind.

One test of his spiritual root caused the Spirit Testing Plate to mutate! A top-grade mutated ice spiritual root!

With this kind of talent, even without cultivation, one could increase their cultivation level rapidly simply by eating and drinking every day in the cultivation world!

"Li Lao Er, Li Lao Er, how exactly were your genes distributed?"

Li Chen squatted in the corner, poking the soil on the ground with a twig, his eyes reddening.

"You passed on all your good genes to them, so you just gave me a perfunctory pass when it came to me, huh?"

"It's fake! It's all fake!"

Li Chen suddenly stopped what he was doing, shook his head violently, and a neurotic sneer appeared on his face.

"I must be dreaming. Yes, I just formed my Golden Core, and my cultivation level is still unstable."

"This is definitely the legendary tribulation of inner demons!"

Li Chen began frantically hypnotizing himself.

"Hmph! You audacious inner demon, how dare you conjure such an outrageous illusion to affect my Dao heart! A top-grade mutated ice spiritual root? How could something that only exists in ancient books possibly appear in a mortal princess?"

"Get out of the way! Get out of the way!"

Li Chen closed his eyes and muttered incantations, as if he were truly fighting against some invisible inner demon.