Shangguan Muyu stared, tongue-tied, the shock on her face beyond words. After a long while, she finally murmured, "Yan'er, could it be that your master possesses a Spirit Root of all attributes?"
An all-attribute Spirit Root, as the name implied, was also known as a Five Elements Spirit Root. It meant containing metal, wood, water, fire, and earth—not a single one of the Five Elements attributes missing.
In that case, one could mobilize the heaven-and-earth vital energy of every attribute. But such a thing was only a legend even in the Spirit World. As for other minor planes, that was unclear, but in the East Sea Cultivation World, from the beginning of recorded history, there had definitely never been one.
"Your daughter doesn't know either. Master has never told his disciples about the attributes of his Spirit Root." The shock on Shangguan Yan's face was no less than her mother's.
How could they know that Lin Xuan, let alone possessing some precious all-attribute Spirit Root, had not even possessed the most ordinary Spirit Root when he had first stepped onto the path of cultivation? In terms of aptitude, he had been nothing more than an ordinary mortal, relying on hard work and the Blue Star Sea to move forward step by step.
Later, in the Ink Moon Tribe, he had used their Sacred Fruit to derive a wood-attribute Spirit Root, but even that had nothing especially remarkable about it, barely above average.
It was only that Lin Xuan's encounters had been so intricate and varied that ordinary cultivators could hardly hope to match them. Peacock's Life Essence Light, the Yin-Yang Art, Phoenix Dances in the Nine Heavens, and other marvelous cultivation arts, combined with all kinds of miraculous pills and medicines balancing one another out, had allowed Lin Xuan, though