As the spell unfolded, Li Chen performed a dazzling series of operations, and Old Xu's limbs and organs continued to change.
His five viscera were being remodeled with spirit materials filled with seeds of spiritual essence.
These were composed of the five elements and possessed the same cyclical principles of generation and restraint found among the five elements in nature. Through Li Chen's deft techniques, they began circulating continuously within Old Xu's body, naturally mobilizing primordial energy inside and out and granting him faint five elements spiritual roots.
Although this spiritual root aptitude still fell short of the conditions needed to spontaneously develop divine abilities and spells, prolonged refinement and conversion could allow it to assist in learning and casting them, making it considerably useful nonetheless.
Even those without five elements aptitude could use magic power to cast the corresponding divine abilities and spells. These spiritual roots merely provided assistance.
Besides, no one in this world could truly be found who was entirely cut off from the five elements, whose combined five elements attributes totaled zero.
Those who appeared to lack spiritual root aptitude merely had latent affinities that had yet to reach the critical threshold for condensing into form on their own. It was not that they truly had none.
The innate divine abilities of certain demons and demon beasts arose because a particular spiritual root aptitude was naturally above that critical threshold, displaying manifest traits.
Although humans were somewhat inferior in this regard, they instead possessed a more complete and balanced set of special aptitudes.
As for those who possessed all five elements, each displaying manifest traits, they were as rare as phoenix feathers and qilin horns among the myriad living beings. They were generally treated as exceptional cases and said to possess an innate Dao body.
Thus,