Five Dragon Physique cultivators found comprehending the Heaven and Earth Great Dao far more sensitive and effortless than other cultivators. This was not difficult to understand.
Cultivating immortality was cultivating the Heavenly Dao—in other words, comprehending the Heavenly Dao.
The Heavenly Dao was an ethereal, shapeless, colorless, untouchable existence. It was something that could not be conveyed in words, could not be explained, and had no concrete example.
When a mortal attained enlightenment, successfully established their Foundation, and entered the Cultivation World, it marked their first comprehension of cultivating immortality.
This comprehension naturally meant sensing the power of the Heaven and Earth Five Elements, understanding the principle that all things in Heaven and Earth generated and overcame one another, and grasping a few tiny tendrils of the unseen Heavenly Dao.
All subsequent realms involved relying on the Heaven and Earth Five Elements energy one had mastered to continuously deepen one's understanding of the indescribable Heavenly Dao existing in the world, gradually tracing out its threads, in hopes of touching upon and deepening one's understanding of one of the myriad laws governing the Heavenly Dao's transformations.
To cultivators themselves, the Heaven and Earth Great Dao was contained within the transformations of the Heaven and Earth Five Elements. The more complete the Heaven and Earth Five Elements energy a cultivator mastered, the more easily they could touch the tendrils of the Heaven and Earth Great Dao.
Yet this point ran counter to cultivating immortality.
The more mixed a cultivator's Spiritual Root attributes were, the more sluggish their sensitivity to the Heaven and Earth Five Elements energy became. Conversely, the fewer Spiritual Roots they had, the more keenly they sensed the Heaven and Earth energy.
According to the rules of the Heaven and Earth Great Dao, however, the fewer Spiritual Roots a cultivator