Compound Restriction

Compound Restriction. However, the Five Elements Technique was not all-powerful.

For cultivators like Chen Mobai, whose Spirit Root Attributes did not differ much from one another, the Five Elements Technique was a Supreme Mystic Art. The spiritual power cultivated through it not only suited his own constitution, but its progress was not slow either.

But for cultivators with high-grade Spirit Root Attributes, it was extremely mediocre.

For example, Heaven Spirit Root cultivators only needed to cultivate spiritual power of a single attribute. Not only did this let them achieve twice the result with half the effort and refine purer magic power, but when it came time to break through realms, they also had fewer bottlenecks.

Generally speaking, every cultivator was born with 100 points of Spirit Root Attributes.

Within the territory of the Immortal Sect's Cave Heaven Blessed Lands, before every cultivator stepped into Qi Cultivation, they had to go to a top-tier hospital for a precise spirit-root test to determine their Spirit Root Attributes, and only after the testing hospital issued a spirit-root evaluation report could they enroll in school.

For example, Chen Mobai: metal 23, wood 27, water 23, fire 17, earth 10.

The Immortal Sect stipulated that as long as one Spirit Root Attribute exceeded 20, it meant one possessed a spirit root of that attribute. Chen Mobai had metal, wood, and water Triple Spirit Roots, and had barely been placed into the True Spirit Root category.

This was also what made his deskmate Lu Hongsheng indignant, because his spirit roots were: metal 8, wood 25, water 23, fire 22, earth 22.

In reality, he was not much different from Chen Mobai, but simply because his Spirit Root Attributes were a little too evenly spread, the hospital identified him as a four-attribute False Spirit Root.

As for the so-called Heaven Spirit Root, it meant that among the five elements, the spirit-root points of a single attribute exceeded 80!

In other words, even a Heaven Spirit Root cultivator still had spirit roots of the other four attributes in their body, only they were extremely scarce.

As for a perfect Heaven Spirit Root with the theoretical value of 100 attribute points, in the Immortal Sect's several thousand years, there had never been a record of one.

The spiritual power cultivated by the Five Elements Technique would adaptively match every cultivator's Spirit Root Attributes. Even for a Heaven Spirit Root cultivator, the spiritual power cultivated would still be mixed with a little of the other four elemental attributes, as if it had some unnecessary impurities added in.

The same principle applied to cultivators with Mutated Spiritual Roots.

However, none of this mattered at all to Chen Mobai.

He circulated the Five Elements Technique taught by the school and poured his Five Elements Spiritual Power into the Glass Beads, causing five-colored rainbow light to emerge on the bead's body, like a halo of the sun floating up from his palm.

This kind of Glass Bead was a little toy for training control over spiritual power. At the first layer of Qi Cultivation, one could control one bead. With Chen Mobai's current strength at the Qi Cultivation Fifth Layer, he should have been able to control five beads floating up at the same time, moving as he wished.

However, he had only just entered the Qi Cultivation Fifth Layer, and his realm had not yet stabilized, so he did not try to show off.

Following the information Old Man Ding had given him, he controlled four glass beads and sent them flying toward the Side Hall on the right.

With a splash.

A ripple of water appeared, knocking away the first Glass Bead that arrived. Then it split off a second ripple, and a third, knocking away the Glass Beads flying in afterward one by one...

Chen Mobai held his phone, looking at the descriptions of the three spells Old Man Ding had given him, his brow furrowed and his face bitter.

He discovered that the water-ripple restriction of this Side Hall actually possessed the characteristics of the Flowing Water Shield, the Surging Wave Curse, and the Scale Ripple Art all at once. With his realm, if he wanted to crack this kind of Compound Restriction, unless he used a powerful Talisman, he could only wait until he broke through to Late Qi Cultivation before trying again.

"Forget it. I should cultivate first. In any case, I'll have plenty of time to explore this Water Mansion in the future."

In the end, Chen Mobai checked the time and decided not to waste this Second Grade mid-grade Spirit Land. He sat cross-legged in the center of the front hall and began to enter meditation and cultivate in stillness.

Today, he had sent his parents a text in advance, saying that he was going into seclusion inside his room and that they should not disturb him.

Pure water-type spiritual qi transformed into blue particles of light and was refined by the Five Elements Technique. After the five elements cycled and generated one another, it turned into the spiritual power most suited to Chen Mobai's spirit roots and constitution, slowly flowing through his entire body, warming and nourishing the meridians and acupoints that had been forcibly opened because he had taken a pill.

Within the Immortal Sect, although resources were scarce, thanks to several thousand years of management, plus the resources plundered during the World Opening War, the varieties of spirit medicines were basically still complete. Moreover, according to the earth-vein climates of the Cave Heaven Blessed Lands, they had been cultivated according to local conditions, and had turned out quite well.

Alchemy, as one of the Immortal Sect's four major disciplines, had combined with medicine, allowing the properties of Medicinal Ingredients to be used perfectly. This was also the foundation that allowed the Immortal Sect to support Three Hundred Million Cultivators with Earth Origin Yixing.

The Immortal Sect basically had pills of every type of attribute.

But there was one kind of pill that was rarely refined, and that was the Foundation Establishment Pill.

Although the Immortal Sect also had this Ancient Pill Formula in its collection, the Immortal Sect had forbidden its refinement five thousand years ago. It was not that there was a problem with the pill, but that it was far too wasteful.

The Foundation Establishment Pill was a Third Tier Low-grade spirit medicine, while the main medicine used to refine it, the Jade Marrow Golden Ganoderma, was Third Tier High-grade. Using it to refine Foundation Establishment Pills was truly like trampling heavenly treasures underfoot.

Moreover, Jade Marrow Golden Ganoderma could be used to refine a pill called the "Golden Liquid Jade Return Pill," which could be used to assist Foundation Establishment Cultivators in Core Formation.

If the Immortal Sect were rich in resources, with Jade Marrow Golden Ganoderma planted in wave after wave in medicinal gardens, waiting to be harvested, then while refining the "Golden Liquid Jade Return Pill," using a small amount to refine Foundation Establishment Pills would not be impossible.

But the problem was that the Immortal Sect did not have many resources. Although the types of spirit medicines were complete, Jade Marrow Golden Ganoderma could only be cultivated and planted in two cave heavens. There was not even enough to refine the "Golden Liquid Jade Return Pill," so how could they waste it on refining Foundation Establishment Pills? Although the bottom-level cultivators all disagreed with this regulation of the Immortal Sect, the greatest difference between cultivation civilization and mechanical civilization was that the upper levels decided everything.

The value of one Golden Core True Person exceeded ten Foundation Establishment Cultivators. With the same Jade Marrow Golden Ganoderma, should it be refined into a "Golden Liquid Jade Return Pill" or a "Foundation Establishment Pill"? The answer was obvious at a glance.

It was precisely because of this that for Immortal Sect cultivators, the hurdle of Foundation Establishment was even harder than ascending to the heavens.

In the Ancient Era, at least there had still been Foundation Establishment Pills to hope for. But now, ninety-nine percent of cultivators could only rely on themselves to break through.

It was precisely because of this that the Immortal Sect's cultivators all wanted to enter the Great Dao Academy.

Because within the Great Dao Academy, although Foundation Establishment Pills still would not be refined, they could refine spirit medicines one level lower that assisted with Foundation Establishment. There were also many Secret Methods that increased the success rate of Foundation Establishment, and needless to say, Foundation Establishment experience numbered in the tens of thousands. One could always find something that matched oneself.

The Purple Fire Pill Chen Mobai had used to break through to the Qi Cultivation Fifth Layer was a pill refined by Vermilion Cloud City's local Crimson Cloud Academy, with only one hundred released every month.

That Chen Mobai had managed to grab the right to purchase one was because on one occasion, while selling Talisman Paper, he had struck up a connection with a senior from Crimson Cloud Academy. The latter just so happened to be doing work-study as customer service at Crimson Cloud Academy's official online flagship store, and had made an internal arrangement.

Every kind of pill needed corresponding medication instructions, as well as a credit endorsement.

In the Immortal Sect's Ancient Era, there had been many cultivators who ate pills recklessly and ended up living worse than dead.

Now, if it was not produced by a reputable pharmacy, there was simply no cultivator who dared to eat a pill with no instructions, no alchemist's signature, and no certificate of quality.