SFS Chapter 11: The Deduction of Mengde's Spiritual Roots!
Chapter 11: The Deduction of Mengde's Spiritual Roots!
Just as Mengde was re-planning the evolution system of the Source Blood Mosquito and using spirit stones to assist in cultivation, three days later, on a rainy day, Yunxi arrived in a flying boat to visit.
"Senior Sister Qingli said the quality of the blood mosquitoes you raise is decent. For the same amount of insect food, Senior Sister Qingli said she could give you half a spirit stone. But if you can supply them stably for at least three years, then Senior Sister Qingli said she could give you a spirit stone." Yunxi, dressed in a light blue cloud-patterned dress, stood under the eaves of Blackwater Manor, holding a floral paper umbrella, looking at the blood mosquitoes flying in the drizzle outside, and said in a light and melodious voice.
"Senior sister, what situation is considered a stable supply?" Meng De, dressed in a gray robe, stood behind Yun Xi. His deep eyes glanced silently at the beautiful woman's graceful figure before looking at the Blood Mosquitoes outside, which seemed to have adapted to the rainy weather.
"The same scale as before, once every three days," Yunxi said leisurely, then turned to look at Mengde, a complex emotion flashing deep in her pale blue eyes: "Can you supply it?"
Yunxi didn't have much hope, because she roughly knew that the "one serving of insect food" that Senior Sister Qingli needed was almost half of the Source Blood Flying Mosquitoes from Blackwater Manor.
"..." Upon hearing this, Meng De pondered for a moment, considering the current generation speed of ordinary source blood mosquitoes. Finally, under Yun Xi's somewhat surprised gaze, he nodded slightly: "Originally, we might have been a little nervous, but the rainy season has arrived, and the increase in water area will just allow the production of mosquitoes to increase."
"However, if Senior Sister needs the next batch of insect food, it may take three days. The recent torrential rains caused significant losses to the mosquito swarm, and it will take more time for the population to recover." Meng De wasn't deliberately teasing Yun Xi; he genuinely needed more time to accumulate the basic number of Source Blood Mosquitoes. Otherwise, directly selling this batch of Source Blood Mosquitoes born from the torrential rains as insect food would affect Meng De's Source Blood Mosquito evolution progress.
"I understand, I can explain it to her, and I believe Senior Sister will be understanding." Yunxi nodded gently. "Senior Sister said that if we continue to provide insect food for three months, she will reward us with a spirit insect egg."
At this point, Yunxi paused for a moment, her beautiful blue eyes silently glancing at the handsome young man in front of her, who was looking up at the drizzle outside. His demeanor was calm and composed, and her gaze flickered slightly.
"The path to immortality is fraught with difficulties, so having a skill... isn't necessarily a bad thing." Yunxi had investigated the people raising insects on Qingling Peak and found that within the Qi Refining realm, there was practically no one who could raise them better than Mengde, this 'rising star.' Furthermore, Foundation Establishment disciples would generally not trade with Yunxi, who only had Qi Refining cultivation. Even if Yunxi was supposedly... at the peak of the Qi Refining realm.
Within Qingling Peak, raising insects and feeding them is the job of the miscellaneous servants, no different from managing the medicinal gardens in other Beast Taming Peaks.
Normal Qingling Peak disciples would at most raise some insects for their own consumption, but would not spend more effort and resources to waste their cultivation and combat power on unimportant things.
When Mengde first started raising flying mosquitoes, Yunxi originally intended to advise him against it. However, she eventually discovered that Mengde seemed to have a talent for raising flying mosquitoes, as he raised them very well. As a result, Yunxi couldn't help but have other ideas...
As for why Mengde was able to raise mosquitoes so well, Yunxi wasn't curious, or rather, she wasn't particularly interested, because everyone has a certain talent for certain things. Besides, as the "King of Miscellaneous Duties" in Spirit Beast Mountain, even though Yunxi was no more than twenty years old, she had heard of Mengde's outstanding contributions to "postpartum care of spirit beasts."
"...Thank you for your guidance, Senior Sister." Meng De and Yun Xi exchanged a glance. When he saw the serious look in Yun Xi's blue eyes, he was slightly taken aback, and then nodded earnestly.
"Mengde understands and will do what he can to help."
"It's good that you understand." Yunxi nodded, then looked at the sky and said, "Are there any parts of the Spirit Rain Sword Technique and Fireball Technique that you don't understand? It's still early, I can take a look for you..."
"...? Thank you, Senior Sister!" Meng De was overjoyed upon hearing this and quickly shared his confusion about the Fireball Technique with Yun Xi.
Finally, Yunxi, as a senior at the peak of the Qi Refining Realm, gave Mengde some guidance on spiritual energy cultivation and spell cultivation before leaving.
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"I never expected... Senior Sister Yunxi would be a genius with both water and wood spiritual roots..." After Yunxi left, Mengde looked at Yunxi's flying boat in the distance and couldn't help but sigh in his heart.
In this world of cultivation, five spiritual roots are considered useless, four spiritual roots are low-level or pseudo-spiritual roots, three spiritual roots are mid-level, two spiritual roots are high-level, and a single spiritual root is a rare heavenly spiritual root. In addition, there are some rare mutated spiritual roots, such as ice spiritual roots, lightning spiritual roots, and wind spiritual roots.
Although Mengde's intuition told him that the classification of spiritual roots in this cultivation world seemed somewhat counterintuitive, he understood this understanding of spiritual roots from an evolutionary perspective.
Most ordinary people have a misconception about "evolution," which is that "evolution" must always be forward.
Most of the time, biological 'evolution' is indeed generally forward, but sometimes, the adaptive evolution that organisms make to adapt to mutating environments may also be a kind of backward... 'degeneration'.
The Five Elemental Roots, in theory, allow one to cultivate techniques and spells of all attributes, including mutated attributes such as Thunder Elemental Root and Wind Elemental Root! In other words, the Five Elemental Roots represent the highest theoretical limit in the cultivation world.
However, theory is theory, and reality is reality. The true situation of those with five spiritual roots is that it is difficult to draw in Qi, and it is extremely difficult to enter the Qi Refining Realm. Even if they are lucky enough to enter the Qi Refining Realm and a sect is willing to spend a lot of resources, they will still find it difficult to break through to the Qi Refining Realm in their entire lives.
Meng De had the good fortune to read some basic cultivation manuals distributed by Spirit Beast Mountain, and he came across a story in one of them:
Once, a Core Formation cultivator from Spirit Beast Mountain was curious about the differences between various spiritual roots and talents. So he used his powerful divine sense to examine the cultivation of children with five spiritual roots. He eventually concluded that children with five spiritual roots could absorb almost the same amount of spiritual energy as children with other spiritual roots, but the quality of the spiritual energy was very uneven.
Others might simply find the Core Formation cultivator interesting, but Mengde saw something different in this story.
Because in Mengde's cognitive system, there is an additional concept that is different from that of people in other cultivation worlds, namely... the conservation of energy.
If spiritual roots are innate... then they must be linked to heredity.
Speaking of heredity... Mengde himself was an expert in heredity.