Three Spiritual Roots

Three Spiritual Roots

Three thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven children from ages nine to eleven.

Only Li Xingtian tested as having spiritual roots, and he was only a Five Spiritual Roots cultivator.

At the east gate of Liyang City, Li Xingtian's parents had already brought him here to wait for the Li Clan Cultivator's arrival.

"Seventh Sister, you're responsible for bringing Xingtian back to Changqing Mountain. Eleventh Aunt, Fifth Brother, and I will go to Puya County first."

"All right." Li Qianjing nodded, then took Li Xingtian and rushed back to Changqing Mountain.

After they reached Changqing Mountain, Li Xingtian would first be handed over to Fourth Uncle, Li Lilong, so he could arrange their lodging.

Li Qianqing watched Li Qianjing leave with Li Xingtian, thinking that if there was a chance, the clan definitely had to train a Beast Tamer. That would make traveling much more convenient.

The Zhao Kingdom's territory did not border the Ten Thousand Mountain Marshlands and lacked the environment to cultivate Beast Tamers, so Beast Tamers in the Zhao Kingdom were pitifully few.

In Xiangshui Prefecture, there was not a single one.

A clan that possessed a Beast Tamer could raise demonic beasts specifically used for traveling.

For cultivators, among mortal beasts, the horses best suited for travel were very ordinary. Moreover, the commotion they made while traveling was especially loud, and they could only run fast on flat roads. As long as a cultivator knew the Light Body Art, they would not ride ordinary horses for travel.

"Let's go too," Li Qianqing said.

The three headed to the next region.

The pattern for testing spiritual roots was not first one city, then three counties, and finally seven towns.

The closest place to Liyang City was Puya County. Once the testing in Puya County was finished, they would go to the nearest town and continue the spiritual root testing.

Under normal circumstances, all the clan children's spiritual root testing would be completed within four days.

Three days later.

At present, the spiritual root testing for one city, two counties, and five towns had already been completed.

Aside from Li Xingtian, there were still no other clan members with spiritual roots.

Now, Li Qianqing's group of four had already arrived at the sixth town, Yanxin Town.

This was where Li Qianqing had been born.

Li Qianqing's parents did not know that Li Qianqing was already part of the Li Clan cultivators' core upper echelon. The affairs of cultivators were rarely something mortals went to understand, unless Li Qianqing brought them up on his own.

Although his parents did not know Li Qianqing's specific circumstances, after learning that Li Qianqing had brought other Li Clan cultivators here for the task of testing spiritual roots, they understood that their son was doing very well among cultivators.

Ever since Li Qianqing had been tested as having spiritual roots, their lives in Yanxin Town had grown better by the day.

With a cultivator son, no mortal would dare take the initiative to offend them. Some Li Clan mortal clan members who had conflicts with them now took the initiative to show goodwill. Of course, there were also some who did not take the initiative to show goodwill, but they kept far away from them.

Li Qianqing had never worried about his parents' lives. As long as he was a Li Clan Cultivator for a single day, his parents would live very well.

In his previous life, when the Li Clan was destroyed, among the mortals, those affected were some respected and virtuous clan members, as well as direct relatives connected to cultivators. In any case, the closer one's relationship with the Li Clan cultivators, especially those who had dealings with them, the more directly one was swept up and destroyed.

The vast majority of the Li Clan's mortal clan members had survived. When the waves above rippled downward, the remaining Li Clan members would, as time passed, feel less and less belonging to the Li Clan. Some would also be assimilated by other clans. Their descendants afterward would also belong to other clans. In the end, this once Foundation Establishment immortal cultivation clan slowly faded away, leaving nothing behind.

A sense of belonging was something that always existed when there was protection. They took pride in being Li Clan people. With the cultivators above destroyed and their protection lost, the title of Li Clan person not only became useless, it also brought ostracism.

While the clan still existed, deliberately strengthening the ordinary mortal clan members' sense of belonging was useless.

First, this was something that consumed time and energy, and there were truly too many mortal clan members.

Second, if their sense of belonging was too strong, after the cultivators were destroyed, they might make some small moves. At that time, it would not be as simple as only a small portion of the mortal clan members dying.

Not deliberately strengthening the mortal clan members' sense of belonging was, in reality, also a kind of disguised protection.

Of course, this was the situation when a normal clan was destroyed. If the clan was destroyed by Demonic Cultivators, then it would not matter whether you were a Li Clan mortal or not. As long as you were alive, you would all be slaughtered in a blood sacrifice to cultivate their methods.

Li Qianqing would not let the situation from his previous life happen again.

In this life, his parents would definitely enjoy their later years in peace.

Free of illness and disaster, they would happily spend the second half of their lives.

After Yanxin Town finished testing the children's spiritual roots, still no child with spiritual root talent appeared.

Li Qianqing spent a little less than Half an Hour reuniting with his parents, then left.

"There's only the final county and town left. I hope we can test another child with spiritual root talent."

Li Qianqing glanced at Li Qianjing, who had spoken, and nodded in agreement. "I hope so."

The next stop was Xiongying County.

In Xiongying County, the Li Clan members numbered just over fifteen thousand, the most among all the counties.

There were a total of seven hundred and sixty-five children aged nine to eleven.

When testing spiritual roots, the fifth child Li Qianqing tested was a simply dressed, thin and small boy.

Li Qiantong, like Li Qianqing, was also of the Li Clan's Qian Generation.

"Stretch out your hand."

Wood, water, earth—three elemental spiritual roots.

When Li Qianqing heard the three words "Li Qiantong," he had a slight impression.

In his previous life, the Li Clan seemed to have had such a Three Spiritual Roots cultivator.

Although he had not deliberately gone to understand the clan members, he still knew a little about most Three Spiritual Roots cultivators. It seemed he was a younger clan brother who had later been assigned to Changle Mountain.

After the test, Li Qianqing could be certain.

Different from Li Qiantong's situation, he did not have even the slightest impression of Li Xingtian. If in his previous life he had also been able to manage the Li Clan, then he would have known all the cultivators born in the Li Clan over the following eleven years. And the third month of the year 5033 of the Zhao Calendar was the day the Li Clan had been destroyed in his previous life.

"You have spiritual roots, and they're Three Spiritual Roots." Li Qianqing nodded, very satisfied.

When Li Qiantong heard this, his eyes lit up. Although he still did not know what Three Spiritual Roots meant, this meant he had spiritual roots.

As long as he possessed spiritual roots, it meant an earth-shaking, sky-overturning change for his family.

"Three Spiritual Roots! Wonderful!" Li Qianjing cried out in surprise when she heard this.

The other two also put down the spiritual root testing work in their hands and looked over Li Qiantong, this Li Clan child with Three Spiritual Roots.

"Qianqing, what are his spiritual root attributes?"

"Wood, water, earth," Li Qianqing answered.

"From now on, I'm your Thirteenth Brother. Go back and properly bid farewell to your parents."

If Li Qianqing remembered correctly, Li Qiantong was the twenty-first cultivator tested as having spiritual roots in the Qian Generation.

"Thir... Thirteenth Brother." Li Qiantong was so excited he stammered a little. He wanted to immediately tell his parents this good news.

"Take him down."

"Yes."

After the Li Clan martial artist left with Li Qiantong, Li Qianjing and the other three Li Clan cultivators once again began testing spiritual roots.

Because they had tested a Three Spiritual Roots cultivator, everyone was very happy.

Barring any accidents, a Three Spiritual Roots cultivator would definitely become part of the Li Clan's upper echelon in the future. As for whether he could become part of the core upper echelon, that would depend on his own performance from here on.