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Biodata
| Feature | Value |
|---|---|
| Name | Root Bone (根骨) |
| Alias(es) | Innate Bone; Bone Structure |
| Affiliation | None; listed as an individual attribute |
| Status | Innate aptitude attribute; initially recorded as 1 |
| First Appearance | Chapter 2, in Lu Qingfeng’s initial Attribute Panel 2 |
Power Progression
| Stage / Realm / Level | Chapter | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Root Bone: 1 | 2 | Lu Qingfeng begins with extremely poor aptitude. His initial panel lists Root Bone as 1 2. |
| Root Bone: 1 | 3 | The value remains unchanged. He cannot reliably sense qi through meditation and must rely on pills to begin cultivating 3. |
| Root Bone: 1 | 61 | His fourth life also begins with Bone Structure 1, preventing him from realistically joining an immortal sect 61. |
| Root Bone: 1 | 69 | After reaching Foundation Establishment in an earlier life, his panel still lists Innate Bone as 1 69. |
| Root Bone remains unchanged by cultivation | 88 | Even perfected Foundation Establishment would not increase his innate bone. Its restriction begins to decline after entering the Spirit Void Realm 88. |
| No confirmed increase | 95 | Lu Qingfeng concludes that Root Bone is determined by Heaven and extremely difficult to alter. He finds no reliable cultivation method for improving it 95. |
| Possible value: 4 | 224 | Lu Qingfeng reasons that changing his fate in reality could cause future game reincarnations to regenerate with Bone Structure 4. This is presented as a conditional consequence, not a confirmed current value 224. |
| Root Bone: 1 | 250 | After reincarnation, his new character again possesses Root Bone 1. He accepts the loss because the greater gains from the previous life remain worthwhile 250. |
| Root Bone: 1 | 252 | In the Black Star Realm, he confirms that the Golden Silkworm Fate-Reversal Method is unavailable and his reincarnated Root Bone remains 1 252. |
| Attribute removed | 658 | After proving the Earth Immortal Dao Fruit, Root Bone disappears from the Attribute Panel. As a Pure Yang Immortal Body, Lu Qingfeng is no longer limited by it 658. |
Background and Function
Root Bone is an innate aptitude attribute recorded on Lu Qingfeng’s status panel. A value of 1 places him at the lowest end of cultivation aptitude and explains why he failed to qualify even as a menial disciple of the Return to Truth Sect 3.
Its effects are most severe during the early stages of cultivation:
- Meditation alone cannot reliably produce qi sensation.
- Pills are required to overcome his initial cultivation barrier 3.
- Advancing to Foundation Establishment without a Foundation Establishment Pill is considered nearly impossible for him 103.
- His poor aptitude also slows the cultivation of his siblings, Lu Qingshan and Lu Qingyu, who possess similarly poor Spiritual Roots 114.
Root Bone does not determine Lu Qingfeng’s ultimate cultivation limit. After the Spirit Void Realm, comprehension and state of mind become increasingly important, while the restriction imposed by Root Bone weakens 88 95. After he becomes an Earth Immortal, the attribute no longer limits him and disappears from the panel entirely 658.
Limitations and Alteration
Cultivation itself cannot raise Root Bone. Lu Qingfeng states that even reaching perfected Foundation Establishment would leave the value unchanged 88. Ordinary medicines, stones, and common cultivation methods are likewise insufficient to improve it 114.
The context identifies only exceptional possibilities:
- Rare spiritual objects may improve innate aptitude, but they are extremely difficult to obtain 95.
- A fate-changing method used in reality could affect the Root Bone of later game reincarnations, whereas changing fate only inside the game would not alter reality 224.
- The unavailable Golden Silkworm Fate-Reversal Method is mentioned as a lost means of improving Root Bone 252.
Distinction from Spiritual Root
Root Bone and Spiritual Root are both treated as innate cultivation limitations, but the provided records use them as separate status terms. Lu Qingfeng’s Root Bone remains documented as 1 throughout his early lives, while later records separately discuss changes to Spiritual Root aptitude 114 347. The available context does not establish that the two attributes are identical.
Trivia
- Root Bone is one of the earliest values shown on Lu Qingfeng’s Attribute Panel 2.
- Its poor value does not prevent Lu Qingfeng from eventually mastering high-grade cultivation methods, alchemy, artifact refinement, and multiple cultivation paths.
- By the time he reaches Earth Immortality, Root Bone has ceased to matter altogether 658.