This discovery left Xu Changqing sitting blankly on the stone bed for quite a while.
He had cultivated for thousands of years, making his way from the Qi Refining Realm to the Body Integration Realm. His understanding of Spiritual Roots had long been etched into his bones.
Possessing all Five-Element Spiritual Roots had even been his greatest advantage.
It was also the foundation that had allowed him to fuse the Creation Heavenly Scripture, the Evernight Scripture, and the Withering-Flourishing Longevity Scripture, ultimately creating the Origin Dao Heavenly Scripture.
Yet in this era, Spiritual Roots did not exist.
Mortals could sense spiritual qi without Spiritual Roots, guide spiritual power without Spiritual Roots, and cultivate immortality without Spiritual Roots.
What did that mean?
It meant there must have been a reason for the emergence of Spiritual Roots in later generations!
In the blink of an eye, ten years passed.
Little by little, Xu Changqing accepted reality and completely became Jiang Yuan.
He had grown accustomed to being awakened by Zhang Daoxuan before dawn every day.
He had grown accustomed to listening to the Dao Ancestor expound the Dao beneath the Myriad Dao Tree.
He had grown accustomed to carrying a bamboo basket into the wilderness every few days to gather unfamiliar spiritual plants, then returning to add new records to the Records of a Hundred Herbs.
His cultivation had also risen from the Qi Refining Realm all the way to Foundation Establishment Perfection, just one step away from the Golden Core Realm.
Yet the more he cultivated, the more something felt wrong.
The spiritual power of this era was indeed formidable.
The intensity of Qi Refining Realm spiritual power rivaled that of the Foundation Establishment Realm in later generations.
The intensity of Foundation Establishment Realm spiritual power even approached that