The Emperor, with more men than women, made me his mistress.

Yue Li turned to look at Jin Chenyuan's unusually serious expression, lowered her eyes and thought for a while before saying, "It is possible, but the spiritual energy is currently very thin. Even if it is found that you have spiritual roots, it will be very difficult to draw energy into your body."

She used high-grade spirit stones from her spatial storage to draw qi into her body, and she also had cultivation experience. Otherwise, even with high-grade spirit stones, she probably wouldn't have been able to draw qi into her body even after a year or two.

"Ah Li, I want to try." He wanted to try anything as long as there was even a glimmer of hope.

After trying and failing, he gave up.

However, if he succeeds, then he will be able to legitimately follow Yue Li in her cultivation practice in the future.

"I want to try it too, Yue. You can't favor one over the other this time. I want to cultivate spiritual energy with you too. Once I learn it, I'll be able to fly over rooftops and walk on walls." Just thinking about that scene made Shao Qi extremely excited.

Jin Chenyuan: ...

Why is he everywhere?

Seeing the expectant look in their eyes, Yue Li nodded. "Alright then, since you want to learn, let's learn together. But it's okay if you can't learn it. I have a set of internal martial arts techniques in my collection. Practicing this set of internal martial arts techniques is much simpler than cultivating spirit, and after learning this set of internal martial arts techniques, you will be able to fly over rooftops and walk on walls, just like cultivating spirit."

However, no matter how much one practices internal martial arts, it can only strengthen the body and improve health, but it cannot prolong life.

“Okay,” Jin Chenyuan nodded.

He guessed that there must be a difference between spiritual cultivation and internal martial arts techniques, otherwise Yue Li would not have abandoned the simpler martial arts techniques to cultivate spiritual cultivation instead.

"Ah Yue, when do we start?" Shao Qi couldn't help but start imagining what it would be like to be able to fly over walls and rooftops.

Hearing Shao Qi's urging, Yue Li rolled her eyes and said, "How can it be so fast? Your spiritual roots haven't been tested yet. If you don't have spiritual roots, you definitely can't cultivate spiritual energy. Only with spiritual roots can you absorb the corresponding spiritual energy into your body for your own use."

"What is a spiritual root?" Jin Chenyuan asked curiously. He realized that there were many things he didn't know since Yue Li started talking to them about spiritual cultivation.

Looking at the two curious faces, Yue Li felt a little tired of standing. She looked around, walked to a patch of lush grass, and sat down.

"Let's talk sitting down, standing is tiring."

Seeing that Yue Li had already sat down, the two of them did not hesitate and sat directly opposite her.

"Let me explain to you that spiritual cultivation requires spiritual roots, which are mainly divided into the five elements spiritual roots and mutated spiritual roots. The five elements spiritual roots are metal, wood, water, fire, and earth."

"The mutated spiritual roots include ice, wind, thunder, darkness, yin, yang, air, and time."

"A single-attribute spiritual root is called a celestial spiritual root. It is more sensitive to the spiritual energy of the corresponding attribute and easier to absorb."

"Mutated spiritual roots are spiritual roots that have undergone mutation and sublimation due to the mixing of two or more of the five elements. For example, I have a mixed spiritual root of five elements, which is the kind that is the hardest to advance."

"Don't be sad, Yue. My spiritual root is definitely very good. I'll protect you from now on." Shao Qi listened with great interest, listening to the shameless statement.

"Heh, you should wait until you have a spiritual root before you talk about it." Yue Li chuckled. She didn't think anyone in this world with its scarce spiritual energy could have a particularly good spiritual root.

“I’ll definitely have a spiritual root, and then I’ll take you flying everywhere.” Clearly, he was thinking of the scene where Yue Li had taken him flying around earlier.

"Alright, let's wait until Ah Li finishes talking about serious matters before we talk. Why are you so talkative?" Jin Chenyuan interrupted Shao Qi, who was about to continue rambling on.

“That’s right, I haven’t finished speaking yet.” This time, Yue Li’s words clearly sided with Jin Chenyuan.

After all, having five elemental roots has always been her pain, but she never expected that this pain would extend to this world, and now someone who hasn't even had their spiritual roots tested is saying that his spiritual roots are better than hers.

Upon hearing this, Yue Li could only chuckle!

"Ah Yue, you can't be so biased. If you're siding with Prince Chen now, how am I supposed to live in the future?" Shao Qi looked at Yue Li with a wronged expression.

Yue Li: ……

She turned her head away from Shao Qi's appearance and took out an egg-sized spirit-testing stone from her pouch at her waist, saying, "This is the spirit-testing stone. When you hold this spirit-testing stone in your hands, it will naturally emit different lights according to your spiritual roots."

"Which of you comes first?"

"I'll go first, I'll go first." Shao Qi stretched out his hand, his eyes fixed on the spirit-testing stone in Yue Li's hand.

Upon seeing this, Jin Chenyuan, who had originally intended to reach out as well, withdrew his outstretched hand.

Seeing this, Yue Li placed the spirit-testing stone in Shao Qi's hand and instructed him, "Be careful with it, don't break it. There's only one spirit-testing stone. If you break it, you'll be cut off from the path of spiritual cultivation."

Seeing Shao Qi curiously examining the spirit-testing stone, Yue Li was still quite worried.

She had to sell a lot of pills to buy this small spirit-testing stone.

"Okay, don't worry, Yue, I'll be careful."

As he spoke, he held the spirit-testing stone, which was only the size of an egg, even more carefully in his hand and then held it in his palm.

"Ah Yue, why isn't it lit? Do I really not have any spiritual roots?" Seeing that the spirit testing stone didn't emit light as Yue Li had said, Shao Qi immediately frowned.

"Don't be impatient. You just held it, how could it possibly detect what kind of spiritual root you have?" This isn't like the spiritual testing tools in those major sects in the cultivation world; their reaction time is bound to be slow.

At this moment, Jin Chenyuan, who was sitting next to Shao Qi, was staring at the spirit-testing stone in Shao Qi's hand, while also glancing at the purse tied to Yue Li's waist out of the corner of his eye.

If he remembered correctly, they didn't bring such a pouch with them when they came to the village, and the pouch was so small, how could it look so light after putting in a stone the size of an egg?

"It's lit up! It's lit up! Look, Yue, it's really lit up!" Shao Qi's exclamation interrupted Jin Chenyuan's thoughts.

Jin Chenyuan looked closely and indeed saw that the stone held in Shao Qi's hand was emitting a brown light.

Seeing this, Yue Li raised an eyebrow. He hadn't expected that Shao Qi actually had a spiritual root, but judging from the dimness of the light, it should only be a low-grade spiritual root.

But this is already pretty good.

“Yes, earth-type spiritual root,” Yue Li said.

But as soon as Yue Li finished speaking, the light from the spirit-testing stone in Shao Qi's hand turned green again.

"This is a wood-type spiritual root."

Immediately afterward, the spirit-testing stone turned blue again.

"This is a water-based spiritual root."

The spirit-testing stone turned golden again.

"Metal-type spiritual root".

Just as Yue Li was about to continue reporting...

The spirit-testing stone stopped moving on the golden light.

After waiting a while longer, the spirit-testing stone still emitted a faint golden light. Yue Li pouted and said unwillingly, "A low-grade spiritual root of the fourth element."

He even deliberately bit down on the lower-grade ingredient more forcefully as he spoke.