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Chapter 84: Firewood and Pillars
At the sight, even the six Foundation Establishment cultivators standing on the cloud boat could not help being moved, a trace of fervor entering their gazes as they looked at Chen Beiwu.
This rogue cultivator before them was the first cultivator with a water-attributed heavenly spiritual root to appear in the thousand years since Hidden Dawn Market's founding.
What did a heavenly spiritual root mean?
As one of the highest-grade spiritual roots, a water-attributed heavenly spiritual root allowed a cultivator to cultivate far faster than those with earth spiritual roots, even without pills or other external assistance. Breaking through realms was like walking on level ground.
It was no exaggeration to say that, provided they did not die along the way, a cultivator with a water-attributed heavenly spiritual root had as much as a seventy percent chance of forming a golden core.
Even in the Mirror Moon Sect, where powerful cultivators abounded, someone with such aptitude would be nurtured as a future mainstay of the sect, or even one of its pillars.
"What a pity this fellow kept himself so well hidden." The Gu Household's ancestor glanced at Shu You beside him.
Had the Mirror Moon Sect's envoy not been present, he would have had a chance to recruit this heavenly spiritual root cultivator into his clan, providing for him and building a good relationship.
Even if the man refused, he could forcibly take him as a son-in-law, having the clan's pretty, talented girls devote themselves to serving him.
Even if they failed to produce a heavenly spiritual root prodigy in the end, just a few descendants with earth spiritual roots would give the Gu Household a windfall.
"Impossible!"
"A heavenly false spiritual root!"
"The eighth layer of Qi Refining at only sixteen. This