Dharma Lineage, constitutions, innate gifts, spirit roots, Dao foundations...
All these things were, in truth, much the same.
Both Fang Qianyuan and Elder Long were exceptionally knowledgeable sect elders. Naturally, they understood that the distinction lay not in what these things were called, but in their actual effects.
In the age of the ancient cultivators, spirit qi abounded between heaven and earth, rich with spiritual potency. Simply possessing a spirit root allowed one to summon wind and rain, command water and fire, and cultivate divine abilities and spells.
In later generations, however, the Age of Dharma Decline arrived, and innate spirit roots gave way to acquired ones. People even had to rely on spirit communion with a five-element spirit root, letting a spirit creature possess them to amplify their strength, before they could accomplish the same things.
In terms of how their power operated, however, Spirit Tamers who controlled five-element spirit roots could already be called the closest thing to Dharma Cultivators.
Its essence was to use a spirit creature's amplification to reach the point of mobilizing heaven and earth essence and wielding divine abilities. Yet compared with the ancient cultivators, who shifted stars and constellations or annihilated celestial bodies at will, the divine abilities and spells they wielded could not even be mentioned in the same breath.
Thus, everyone called it a decline.
In the Age of Dharma Decline, the Dharma Dao waned, and all its splendor and glory ceased to exist.
Yet the cultivators of this age were equally unwilling to accept their lot. They still sought the origins of the Dharma-Ending Age and a way to resolve it.
Wu Lianyi was among the best of them. His approach began with the essence of dharma power.
Since spirit essence was fundamentally a fusion of origin energy and spiritual