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However, the Five Elements Technique was not omnipotent.

For cultivators like Chen Mobai, whose Spiritual Root had roughly equal attribute points in all attributes, the Five Elements Technique was a supreme mystic technique. Not only was the spiritual power he cultivated suited for his physique, but his progress was also not slow.

However, to those cultivators with superior-grade Spiritual Roots, this technique was extremely mediocre.

For example, for cultivators with Heaven Spiritual Roots, they only needed to cultivate spiritual power of a single attribute. This way, not only would they be able to achieve twice the results with half the effort, their Dharmic power would also be pure. Furthermore, when they broke through to the next realm, there would be few bottlenecks.

Generally speaking, every cultivator was born with a total of 100 Spiritual Root attribute points.

Within the territory of the Blessed Lands of the immortal sect, every cultivator had to go to a tertiary hospital to undergo a precise spiritual test before they could step into the Qi Refinement Realm. They had to confirm the attributes of their Spiritual Root and have a Spiritual Root assessment report from the hospital.

For example, Chen Mobai’s Spiritual Root attribute values were: Metal 23, Wood 27, Water 23, Fire 17, and Earth 10.

According to the rules of the immortal sect, as long as a particular attribute of a Spiritual Root was above 20, it meant that the Spiritual Root had that attribute. Chen Mobai a triple-attribute Spiritual Root with metal, wood, and water attributes. Thus, his Spiritual Root had barely been assigned the rank of a True Spiritual Root.

This was also what made his deskmate, Lu Hongsheng, feel indignant. This was because his Spiritual Root attribute values were: Metal 8, Wood 25, Water 23, Fire 22, and Earth 22.

In reality, he was about the same as Chen Mobai. However, because the attributes of his Spiritual Root were a little more balanced, the hospital had identified him as having a pseudo Spiritual Root with four attributes.

As for the so-called Heaven Spiritual Root, it meant that it had more than 80 attribute points in one of the five attributes!

This meant that even a cultivator with a Heaven Spiritual Root had attribute points in the other four attributes. It was just that very few points were allocated to the other attributes.

As for a perfect Heaven Spiritual Root with 100 attribute points in one attribute, there had been no records of it in the immortal sect for tens of thousands of years.

The spiritual power cultivated by the Five Elements Technique would adapt to the attributes of every cultivator’s Spiritual Root. Even for a cultivator with a Heaven Spiritual Root, the spiritual power cultivated would be mixed with some of the other four attributes. It was as if there were some unnecessary impurities.

It was the same for the other cultivators with special Spiritual Roots.

However, all of this was not important to Chen Mobai.

He circulated the Five Elements Technique that he had been taught in school and poured his five elemental spiritual power into the glass beads, causing the beads to emit a colorful rainbow light. It was as if a halo was floating from his palm.

This type of glass bead was a small toy that trained one’s control over one’s spiritual power. One could control one at Qi Refinement Level-1. With Chen Mobai’s current strength at Qi Refinement Level-5, he should be able to control five of them at the same time and cause them to float as he wished.

However, he had just entered the Qi Refinement Level-5 and had not stabilized his realm, so he did not insist on doing so.

Following the information from Old Man Ding, he threw the four pieces of glass toward the side hall on the right.

There was a loud crash.

A wave of water ripples appeared and sent the first glass bead flying. Following this, a second wave appeared. Then, the third wave sent the other glass beads flying..

Chen Mobai held his cell phone and looked at the description of the three spells that Old Man Ding had given him. He frowned.

He discovered that the water wave Restriction in this side hall actually had the characteristics of Water Shield, Wave Spell and the Scale Wave Technique at the same time. Furthermore, with his realm, if he wanted to break this compound restriction, he would have to use a powerful talisman. Otherwise, he would have to wait until he broke through to the late stages of Qi Refinement Realm before he could try.

“Forget it, I’ll just cultivate for now. In any case, I’ll have plenty of time to explore this place in the future.”

Finally, Chen Mobai looked at the time and decided not to waste this middle-grade Rank-2 spiritual land. He sat in the middle of the front hall before starting to meditate and cultivate.

He had sent his parents a text message earlier today, saying that he was going into seclusion in his room and was not to be disturbed.

The pure water-element spiritual power turned into blue light particles and were refined by the Five Elements Technique. After the five elements circulated, they turned into a wave of spiritual power that was most suitable for Chen Mobai’s Spiritual Root and physique. It slowly circulated throughout his body, nourishing the meridians and acupoints that had been forcefully broken open by the pills.

Although there was a lack of resources in the immortal sect, due to their operations that spanned over 10,000 years and the resources they had plundered during the war, they basically had all sorts of spiritual herbs. Furthermore, based on the leylines and the meteorology of the Blessed Land, the spiritual herbs were grown to suit local conditions and were well-cultivated.

Alchemy was one of the four major subjects in the immortal sect. It was combined with medicine, allowing for the perfect use of medicinal herbs. It was also the foundation of the immortal sect’s ability to support 300 million cultivators on Planet Earth alone.

There were basically all sorts of pills from the immortal sect.

However, there was one type of pill that was rarely refined, and that was the Foundation Establishment Pill.

Although there was a collection of such ancient pill recipes in the immortal sect, they had been banned by the immortal sect 5,000 years ago. It wasn’t that there was a problem with the pills, it was just that they were too wasteful.

The Foundation Establishment Pill was an inferior-grade Rank-3 spiritual medicine, while the main ingredient for the Foundation Establishment Pill, the Jade Marrow Golden Ganoderma, was a superior-grade Rank-3 spiritual medicine. Using it to refine the Foundation Establishment Pill was simply a waste of natural resources.

Furthermore, the Jade Marrow Golden Ganoderma could be used to refine a type of elixir called the “Golden Liquid Jade Elixir”. This type of elixir could be used to assist a Foundation Establishment cultivator in achieving the Golden Core Realm.

If the immortal sect was rich in resources and the Jade Marrow Golden Ganoderma was planted in the herb garden one batch after another to be harvested, then it wasn’t impossible to use a small amount to refine the Foundation Establishment Pill while refining the “Golden Liquid Jade Elixir”.

However, the problem was that the immortal sect didn’t have many resources. Although they had all the types of spiritual herbs, the Jade Marrow Golden Ganoderma could only be grown in two caves. It wasn’t even enough to refine the “Golden Liquid Jade Elixir”, so why would they waste it to refine the Foundation Establishment Pill?

Although the lower-class cultivators did not agree to the rules of the immortal sect, the biggest difference between the cultivation civilization and the mechanical civilization was that the upper class determined everything.

The value of a Golden Core Perfected One was more than ten Foundation Establishment cultivators. In that case, would the Jade Marrow Golden Ganoderma be used to refine the “Golden Liquid Jade Elixir” or the “Foundation Establishment Pill”?

The answer was obvious.

It was also because of this that to cultivators in the immortal sect, achieving the Foundation Establishment Realm was extremely difficult.

In the past, at least there had been Foundation Establishment Pills to look forward to. But now, 99 percent of cultivators could only rely on themselves to break through.

This was the reason why all the cultivators from the immortal sect wanted to enter the top Dao Colleges.

Although they would not learn how to refine Foundation Establishment Pills in the top Dao Colleges, they would be able to refine low-grade spiritual herbs that could assist them in reaching the Foundation Establishment Realm. Furthermore, there were many secret techniques that could increase the success rate of achieving the Foundation Establishment Realm. As for the experience they needed to reach the Foundation Establishment Realm, there was no need to mention it. There were tens of thousands of such experiences, and they would be able to find a match.

The Purple Fire Pill that Chen Mobai used to break through to Qi Refinement Level-5 was a pill refined by the local Crimson Afterglow College in Danxia City. They only produced 100 pills a month.

The reason why Chen Mobai had been able to secure the right to purchase the pill was because he had once connected with a senior from the Crimson Afterglow College from selling talismans. The senior happened to be working part-time as a customer service staff in the Crimson Afterglow College’s online flagship store, so he had done some internal maneuvering.

For every type of pill, there had to be a corresponding prescription and a letter of credit.

In the pre-ancient times of the immortal sect, there had been many cultivators who had taken pills indiscriminately, making their lives worse than death.

In the present day, if it weren’t for the fact that it was a product of a reputable pharmacy, no cultivator would dare to take a pill without an alchemist’s signature and without a certificate.