Chaos Spirit Root

For a moment, Jiang Lu did not know what she was feeling.

She was angry and helpless, unable to decide what to do.

"What kind of Spirit Beasts are you? You took up my contract beast slots, so you should at least tell me what you are!"

Jiang Lu looked at the two of them. Since things could no longer be changed, she had to face reality.

"Since you asked, we'll tell you! I am the Divine Phoenix—Chi Li, and it is Cangchen of the Divine Dragon Clan. Since you contracted us, you'd better treat us well."

The moment it mentioned their identities, the little bird immediately puffed itself up, shook the yellow feathers on its chest, and proudly raised its head.

A Divine Phoenix?

The Divine Dragon Clan?

These were supposed to be that angry little bird and a snake with claws?

Listening to its shameless boasts, Jiang Lu's eye twitched twice.

It was good for Spirit Beasts to have dreams, but this dream was a little too divorced from reality.

Especially when she saw the yellow snake beside it nodding in all seriousness, as though saying it was absolutely right, she felt rather helpless.

What phoenix? What Divine Dragon? They were clearly a crouching dragon and a fledgling phoenix.

Still, she had already contracted them. As her Spirit Beasts—at least for now—she should not crush their spirits too much. After all, one had to have dreams; what if they came true?

As for the future, she would deal with it when it came.

Jiang Lu rubbed her arm. Just now, she had been too busy being shocked to notice, but once she came back to herself, her body was terribly sore, as if she had fought a fierce battle.

Feeling the changes in her body, she closed her eyes and examined her dantian inwardly.

At a glance, she discovered some slight differences.

After breaking through to Qi Refinement First Layer, her dantian had only been like a small lake. Now, that lake had doubled in size.

Could contracting Spirit Beasts increase her strength as well?

She immediately sat cross-legged in meditation. Multicolored spiritual energy rushed into her body, vying to be first. Looking closely, one would find that her absorption speed was much faster than before, and the points of spiritual light were far denser.

Chi Li watched the five-colored radiance swirling around Jiang Lu.

Multiple Spiritual Roots?

No!

Multiple Spiritual Roots could not possibly cultivate at such a speed. In today's Lower Realm, such cultivation speed should not exist. Spiritual energy here was sparse; to cultivate this quickly, one could only possess heaven-grade, or even Supreme-Grade Spiritual Roots.

But with so many Spiritual Roots, in this day and age, she should have had nothing more than ordinary Mixed Spiritual Roots.

Suddenly, its eyes widened. There was another kind of Spiritual Root, capable of absorbing every type of spiritual energy between heaven and earth, cultivating without bottlenecks—but that Spiritual Root had vanished ten thousand years ago. How could it possibly appear in the Lower Realm?

It took two steps back, then leaned close to Cangchen's ear.

"Stinking dragon, looking at Master's cultivation speed, do you feel anything?"

Cangchen shot it a puzzled look. It was already calling her Master? What was this stinking bird plotting?

But since the stinking bird had called her that, if he did not, what if the bird outdid him later?

"There's nothing different. Did you discover something?"

Seeing the expression on Cangchen's face that said, What are you trying to do now? Chi Li curled its claw. This fool. But now was not the time to fuss over that, so it immediately explained,

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"Look at the speed at which Master is absorbing spiritual energy."

The speed?

Cangchen followed its words and sensed carefully. Suddenly, his eyes widened. This cultivation speed! He looked anxiously at Chi Li.

"What do you suspect?"

Chi Li nodded. "Multiple Spiritual Roots—Multiple Spiritual Roots this rare, seen only once in a hundred years—how could they possibly cultivate this quickly?"

"You mean Master doesn't have Multiple Spiritual Roots!?"

Though his tone was questioning, it carried a trace of certainty.

Chi Li looked into Cangchen's eyes, wearing an expression that said, How do you still not understand? Then it surrendered. This stinking dragon's intelligence was deeply worrying; it still had to rely on itself!

"The Chaos Spirit Root of legend can absorb all things for its own use."

Chaos Spirit Root?

This was an Innate Spiritual Root. Cultivators with such Spiritual Roots were few enough to count on one's fingers, and every one of them had become a great emperor ruling a region.

Cangchen's pupils shook. His heart rose and fell wildly. If Master truly had a Chaos Spirit Root, then he would forgive the bad thing that had ambushed the two of them. Of course, forgiveness was forgiveness—if he got the chance, he still had to take revenge.

Chi Li was even more excited, pacing back and forth. Then it suddenly saw a tiny vortex form around Jiang Lu, spiritual energy gathering together and changing from specks of spiritual light into spiritual liquid before being drawn into her body.

The Chaos Spirit Root had been born from the primal chaos source at the moment heaven and earth were split apart, with no fixed attribute to fill its reservoir. Ordinary Spiritual Roots only needed spiritual energy of their corresponding single attribute to fill the dantian and spiritual abode for cultivation, but the Chaos Spirit Root needed to break down the Five-Element Spiritual Root energies, yin and yang, lightning, and all manner of spiritual energy, thereby forming its own exclusive source energy.

Chi Li's gaze shifted from the vortex to the thin mist around Jiang Lu. After spiritual energy entered her body, it circulated and broke apart within her meridians. The source energy unique to the Chaos Spirit Root flowed through her meridians, nourishing her entire body before finally entering her dantian, while the other auras left after decomposition dispersed outward through her skin.

Thus forming the thin mist around her body.

If they had still been unsure whether Jiang Lu possessed a Chaos Spirit Root before, now they could be one hundred percent certain!

No wonder she had been able to reverse-contract them!

The Chaos Spirit Root was an Innate Spiritual Root. Even with the Divine Beast bloodlines the two of them carried, there was absolutely no way they could make it bow its head—much less now, when their strength had greatly diminished.

"Chi Li, Master is so powerful. Do the two of us really have hope of returning to the Divine Realm?"

After confirming it, Cangchen's heart settled somewhat, and he asked softly.

"Of course. Have you ever seen an ordinary person with a Chaos Spirit Root? It's just that..."

Chi Li's expression suddenly turned grave as it looked at Jiang Lu with worry in its eyes.

"Master's strength is still low. If someone discovers that she has a Chaos Spirit Root, she will inevitably suffer a calamity."

Cangchen froze, then muttered as he thought of something, "Why do I remember that our Golden Dragon Clan has a talent for concealing our own gifts?"

At those words, Chi Li bared its pointed beak. "Right, how could I have forgotten? Now that we are contracted, unless someone has a bloodline stronger than yours, no one will be able to see Master's gifts. They will only think she has Mixed Spiritual Roots or Multiple Spiritual Roots."

The Chaos Spirit Root consumed massive amounts of spiritual energy and was inherently slow to cultivate. As long as she was not tested, there was no fear of anyone discovering it. She was merely a cultivator with Mixed Spiritual Roots—who would care? By the time they found out later, Master would already have grown into someone they could not afford to provoke. So what if they knew?

The spiritual energy around Jiang Lu gradually calmed, then slowly dispersed into the air. The thin mist around her body also gradually faded with her movements.

She opened her eyes and breathed out a mouthful of turbid air.

When she turned her head, she saw the two little Spirit Beasts staring with shining eyes. There was not a trace of their earlier dejection left.

Seeing the completely different looks in their eyes, her heart softened. After all, she too had once imagined having spiritual pets that were obedient and well-behaved.

If they could turn over a new leaf, it was not as though she could not forgive them.

She stroked Chi Li and Cangchen's heads and said gently, "You two are only at the first rank. When there's a chance, I'll take you out to gain some experience."

"What! First rank!"