Taming Beasts and Cultivating Immortality from Two Realms

Chapter 84: Firewood and Pillars
Seeing this scene, the six foundation-building cultivators standing on the cloud boat couldn't help but be moved, and looked at Chen Beiwu with a hint of heat in their eyes.

The casual cultivator before him was the first water-attributed cultivator with natural spiritual roots to appear in the thousand years since the establishment of Yinxiafang City.

What is the concept of Tianlinggen?
As one of the highest-level spiritual roots, the water-attributed spiritual root cultivators can cultivate much faster than earth-attributed spiritual root cultivators even without the assistance of elixirs or external forces, and their realm breakthroughs can be as easy as walking on flat ground.

It is no exaggeration to say that as long as a cultivator with water-attributed spiritual roots does not die prematurely, the probability of achieving the golden elixir is as high as 70%.

Even if a cultivator of this caliber were placed in the Jingyue Sect, which is full of powerful people, he would be regarded as the future backbone of the sect, or even the pillar for training.

"It's a pity that this guy hid too deeply." The ancestor of the Gu family glanced at Shu You beside him.

If the envoy from Jingyue Sect was not there, he would have the opportunity to recruit this cultivator with natural spiritual roots into the clan and provide support for him, and establish a good relationship with him.

Even if the other party is unwilling, he can force him to be a son-in-law and let the girls with good qualifications and good looks in the clan serve him wholeheartedly.

Even if they fail to produce a Qilin child with heavenly spiritual roots, but only produce a few offspring with earthly spiritual roots, the Gu family can still make a fortune.

"How can it be!"

“It’s actually a false spiritual root!”

"At the age of sixteen, he's already reached the eighth level of Qi training. This talent is truly..."

Without paying attention to the shock of the monks below, Shu You's figure flashed and appeared in front of Chen Beiwu.

"Greetings to the Moon Choosing Envoy."

Realizing that he had become the focus of everyone's attention, Chen Beiwu bowed slightly to Shu You.

"Junior brother, there's no need to be so polite. Senior sister is only responsible for establishing the sect and recruiting disciples. The real Moon Chooser is someone else."

Shu You slightly turned sideways, avoiding Chen Beiwu's bow, and showed a kind smile, "If you don't mind, you can just call me Senior Sister Shu."

"Senior Sister Shu." Sensing the other party's gesture of goodwill, Chen Beiwu saluted again.

This time Shu You did not dodge and asked Chen Beiwu's name.

"Chen Zi'ang." Chen Beiwu said his name from his previous life. This was the identity he carefully prepared for the sect entrance examination.

"What a nice name. Junior Brother Chen, why don't you come with me on the cloud boat to watch the Moon Selection Ceremony?" Shu You invited in a gentle voice.

"The Moon Selection Ceremony has three stages and three refinements. I have only passed the first stage. Will this be too much trouble for Senior Sister Gu?" To Chen Beiwu's surprise, Shu You did not even ask about his specific origins.

Judging from the other party's reaction, he seemed to have underestimated the importance of spiritual root qualifications.

Otherwise, Shu Yougui, a powerful foundation-building expert, would not call Chen Junior Brother all the time and behave in an extremely cordial and friendly manner.

"It's okay. The three levels and three refinements of the Moon Selection Ceremony are for ordinary cultivators. Junior Brother Chen, you have the qualifications of a top-grade Moon Gazing cultivator. According to the sect's laws, you can directly enter the inner gate." Shu You explained.

The gap between natural spiritual roots and false natural spiritual roots is not big.

The former has pure attributes and possesses a single five-element attribute, such as pure water, pure fire, etc., and can practice the top-level cultivation techniques of the Southern Wilderness without building a foundation.

Not only does the speed of cultivation increase by leaps and bounds, but it can also ignore the bottleneck of foundation building, and there is almost no obstacle to breaking through the golden elixir.

The latter has mixed attributes, possessing more than two of the five elements, but can also bring into play the advantages of the natural spiritual roots, just slightly inferior.

It is no exaggeration to say that once a cultivator with natural spiritual roots enters a sect, he will be fought over by the sect elders to be accepted as a disciple.

Otherwise, Chen Ziang would not have been rated as "Inner Disciple, Sequence Candidate" by the Spiritual Tester!

Upon hearing this, Chen Beiwu did not refuse. Under the envious gazes of many wandering cultivators, he boarded the cloud boat with Shu You. He sat in a row with the foundation-building masters of the five families of Gu, Chi, Yu, Yuan and Shui, chatting and laughing.

"Damn, comparing yourself to others is really frustrating!" Seeing Chen Zi'ang suddenly become a distinguished guest of the Foundation Establishment experts, some casual cultivators were so jealous that their eyes turned red.

God is unfair!

Why are they both casual cultivators, but they are ordinary spiritual roots that are hated by everyone, while Chen Zi'ang is a heavenly spiritual root that is so high in the sky?

"Alas, decades of hard training are not as good as a child's spiritual roots. Perhaps this is fate!"

Some casual cultivators sighed and walked out of the market numbly, obviously having lost their spirit.

On the cloud boat, Shu You gently introduced the general situation of Jingyue Sect to Chen Beiwu.

Soon, after a stick of incense had passed, the cultivator completed the spirit test.

"With my junior brother here, there are quite a few promising young people among the independent cultivators this time." Shu You said in a relaxed tone.

Chen Beiwu smiled slightly and looked at two familiar faces among the wandering cultivators.

One was Shi Botao, whom he met on his way to Yinxia Market. He described him as: "He has wood-type earth spirit roots, is thirty years old, has reached the ninth level of Qi training, and has a mid-grade Wanyue aptitude. Acceptable."

The other was Wei Xuesong, whose luck was dark blue with orange. His evaluation was: "Fire elemental spirit root, age 31, ninth level of Qi training, aptitude is lower grade of Crescent Moon, acceptable."

"Senior Sister Shu, does the sect also accept Qigong practitioners over the age of 30?" Chen Beiwu asked curiously.

"Of course, our sect is a renowned alchemy sect in the Southern Wasteland. The foundation-building pills circulating within the Shanyan Realm basically all come from the Jingyue Sect."

Shu You smiled, not surprised. "Every year, there are always some independent cultivators at the peak of Qi training who join the sect in order to obtain the Foundation Establishment Pill, but there are inevitably some ungrateful ones who are hard to tame."

Upon hearing this, the expressions of the surrounding foundation-building cultivators remained unchanged, and the smiles on their faces remained.

Unlike those traitors who have turned against the Party, they are loyal and have only the Jingyue Sect in their hearts, so they naturally would not find these words presumptuous.

Upon hearing this, Chen Beiwu's heart skipped a beat, but he remained expressionless.

The reason why he chose to join the Jingyue Sect, in addition to the compatibility of spiritual roots and the pursuit of resources for cultivating immortals, the most important reason was that the Jingyue Sect accepted disciples without asking about their background or origins.

But according to Shu You, there is actually a chain of contempt within the Jingyue Sect!

Chen Beiwu then widened his eyes slightly, revealing a puzzled expression: "Ignorant wolf?"

"Yes." Shu You looked at Chen Beiwu, whose sword-like eyebrows and starry eyes, and said bluntly, "The independent cultivators who can cultivate to the ninth level of Qi training are mostly those who are willing to risk their lives on the edge of a knife. These independent cultivators are lawless and will sacrifice their integrity for petty gains. Junior brother can use them in the future, but they cannot be trusted."

"Senior Sister Shu, I am also a casual cultivator." Chen Beiwu paused.

"Junior brother, you misunderstood." Shu You blinked his heroic eyes slightly, without any of the airs of a foundation-building cultivator.

"Senior Sister, I am actually also a casual cultivator."

At this point, Shu You smiled and said, "But there are also differences between independent cultivators. Junior brother, you are different from these independent cultivators. They are the firewood and branches of the sect, while you are the future pillar of the sect."

Even though she is now a Foundation Establishment expert, her status and position are higher than Chen Zi'ang's.

However, with Chen Zi'ang's qualifications, once he entered the main line of the sect, he could become a serial disciple after decades of dedicated practice, competing with many geniuses in the sect for the position of true disciple, and even successfully form a golden elixir after a hundred years, becoming a powerful golden elixir elder in the sect.

That's why she said those snobbish and flattering words just now.

There is no way. In Jingyue Sect, talent represents the future. This is the cruel reality.

(End of this chapter)