"Impossible. He actually leaped five times." Just as everyone was speaking at once and paying little attention to Qin Fengming's brief ascent onto the Heart-Questioning Platform, a sudden cry of surprise rang out through the hall.
The cry was filled with disbelief, as though she had witnessed something utterly shocking.
Qin Fengming recognized the female cultivator who had spoken. She was the early Spirit Severing stage cultivator among the two female cultivators who had been accompanying Middle-aged Jin.
This female cultivator had a sharp tongue. When she had first seen Qin Fengming and the two others, she had also spoken to them with cutting remarks.
"What? Are you saying that Fellow Daoist Qin leaped five times before ascending the Heart-Questioning Platform? You didn't see wrong, did you?" Following the female cultivator's words, the uproar in the hall abruptly fell silent. Only after a moment did the middle-aged cultivator's astonished voice ring out in a low tone.
Everyone present knew very clearly what it meant for a cultivator to leap five times while ascending that mountain peak.
It meant that person could sense all five types of spiritual energy with extraordinary ease, and was even more sensitive to the Heaven and Earth spiritual energy than someone with a Heavenly Spiritual Root. It could be said that there was not a single type of Spiritual Root in his body.
The so-called absence of a Spiritual Root meant being a mortal. And mortals could also be regarded as possessing all five Spiritual Roots.
The theory of cultivators' Spiritual Roots was actually a circle. In terms of cultivation aptitude, someone with five Spiritual Roots was inferior to someone with four, someone with four was inferior to someone with three, someone with three was inferior to someone with two, and someone with two was inferior