Chapter 7: Composite Prohibitions

However, the Five Elements Technique is not omnipotent.

For cultivators like Chen Mobai, whose spiritual root attributes are not significantly different, the Five Elements Technique is an unparalleled mystical technique. The spiritual energy cultivated not only matches their physical constitution but also progresses at a steady pace.

But for cultivators with superior spiritual root attributes, it is rather mediocre.

For example, cultivators with Heavenly Spiritual Roots only need to cultivate a single attribute of spiritual energy. This not only makes their efforts more efficient and their spiritual energy purer, but also reduces the number of bottlenecks they face when breaking through to higher realms.

Generally, each cultivator is born with 100 points of spiritual root attributes.

Within the territory of the immortal sects, every cultivator must undergo a precise spiritual root test at a top-tier hospital before entering the Qi Cultivation stage. They must obtain a spiritual root evaluation report from the hospital to be admitted to the school.

For example, Chen Mobai: Metal 23, Wood 27, Water 23, Fire 17, Earth 10.

According to the rules of the immortal sect, as long as one attribute of the spiritual root exceeds 20, it indicates that the cultivator possesses that attribute. Chen Mobai has three spiritual roots: Metal, Wood, and Water, and is barely classified as a True Spiritual Root.

This is what makes his desk partner, Lu Hongsheng, indignant, as his spiritual roots are: Metal 8, Wood 25, Water 23, Fire 22, Earth 22.

In reality, he is not much different from Chen Mobai, but because his spiritual root attributes are more evenly distributed, the hospital classified him as a Pseudo Spiritual Root with four attributes.

As for the so-called Heavenly Spiritual Root, it means that one attribute of the spiritual root exceeds 80 points out of the five elements!

This means that even cultivators with Heavenly Spiritual Roots still have the other four attributes, albeit in very small amounts.

A perfect Heavenly Spiritual Root with 100 points in one attribute has never been recorded in the immortal sect's history.

The spiritual energy cultivated through the Five Elements Technique will adapt to each cultivator's spiritual root attributes. Even for cultivators with Heavenly Spiritual Roots, the spiritual energy cultivated will contain some impurities from the other four elements.

The same principle applies to cultivators with unusual spiritual roots.

However, this is completely unimportant to Chen Mobai.

He activated the Five Elements Technique taught by the school, infusing his five-element spiritual energy into the glass bead, causing it to emit a rainbow glow, like a halo floating from his palm.

This glass bead is a small toy used to practice controlling spiritual energy. A cultivator at the first level of Qi Cultivation can control one bead. With Chen Mobai's current fifth-level Qi Cultivation, he should be able to control five beads simultaneously, at will.

However, he has just entered the fifth level of Qi Cultivation, and his realm is not yet stable, so he does not want to overexert himself.

Following the information provided by Old Ding, he controlled four glass beads to fly to the right side hall.

With a splash, a ripple of water appeared, repelling the first glass bead that arrived. Then, a second ripple and a third ripple repelled the subsequent beads one by one.

Chen Mobai held his phone, frowning as he read the three spell descriptions given by Old Ding.

He discovered that the water ripple prohibition in this side hall had characteristics of the Water Shield, Surge Spell, and Scale Wave Technique. To break this composite prohibition at his current realm, he would need to use a powerful talisman, or wait until he breaks through to the later stages of Qi Cultivation to try again.

"Whatever, I'll just cultivate for now. There will be plenty of time to explore this water palace in the future."

In the end, Chen Mobai checked the time and decided not to waste this second-grade medium-quality spiritual land. He sat down in the center of the main hall and began to meditate and cultivate.

Today, he had sent a text message to his parents in advance, telling them that he would be in seclusion in his room and not to disturb him.

Pure water-element spiritual energy transformed into blue light particles, which were refined by the Five Elements Technique. After the five elements circulated and generated each other, they transformed into the most suitable spiritual energy for Chen Mobai's spiritual roots and physical constitution, slowly flowing through his body, nurturing the meridians and acupoints that had been forcibly opened by the elixir.

Although resources are scarce in the immortal sect, due to thousands of years of cultivation and the resources plundered through wars, the variety of spiritual herbs is still quite complete. They are cultivated according to the local conditions of the immortal lands, and the quality is excellent.

Alchemical refinement, one of the four major disciplines of the immortal sect, combined with medicine, ensures that the properties of the herbs are perfectly utilized, which is the foundation for the immortal sect to support three hundred million cultivators with a single-star earth element.

The immortal sect has various types of elixirs for different attributes.

However, one type of elixir is rarely refined, and that is the Foundation Establishment Pill.

Although the ancient formula for the Foundation Establishment Pill is still in the immortal sect's collection, it was banned from refinement five thousand years ago. The problem is not with the elixir itself, but with the waste it causes.

The Foundation Establishment Pill is a third-grade lower-quality spiritual herb, while the main ingredient, Jade Marrow Golden Mushroom, is a third-grade upper-quality herb. Using it to refine the Foundation Establishment Pill is a waste.

Moreover, the Jade Marrow Golden Mushroom can be used to refine the Golden Liquid Jade Return Pill, which assists Foundation Establishment cultivators in forming their core.

If the immortal sect had abundant resources, they could continuously cultivate the Jade Marrow Golden Mushroom in the herb gardens and use a small portion to refine the Foundation Establishment Pill while refining the Golden Liquid Jade Return Pill.

However, the immortal sect's resources are limited. Although the variety of spiritual herbs is complete, the Jade Marrow Golden Mushroom can only be cultivated in two immortal lands, and even that is not enough to refine the Golden Liquid Jade Return Pill, let alone the Foundation Establishment Pill.

Although lower-level cultivators disagree with this regulation, the biggest difference between the immortal civilization and the mechanical civilization is that the upper echelons make all the decisions.

The value of a Golden Core True Person exceeds that of ten Foundation Establishment cultivators. Given the same Jade Marrow Golden Mushroom, should it be used to refine the Golden Liquid Jade Return Pill or the Foundation Establishment Pill?

The answer is obvious.

This is why, for immortal sect cultivators, the Foundation Establishment stage is as difficult as ascending to heaven.

In ancient times, at least there was the Foundation Establishment Pill to look forward to, but now, nine out of ten cultivators can only rely on their own efforts to break through.

This is why cultivators in the immortal sect all want to enter the Great Dao Academy.

Although the Great Dao Academy does not refine the Foundation Establishment Pill, it can refine the next level of auxiliary elixirs for Foundation Establishment and has many secret techniques to increase the success rate of Foundation Establishment. The experience in Foundation Establishment is also extensive, with tens of thousands of cases, so there is always one that matches the individual.

The Purple Fire Pill Chen Mobai used to break through to the fifth level of Qi Cultivation was refined by the Crimson Dawn Academy in Danxia City, with only one hundred pills released each month.

Chen Mobai was able to secure the purchase qualification because he had a connection with a senior from the Crimson Dawn Academy through selling talismans. The senior was working as a customer service representative in the Crimson Dawn Academy's online flagship store and gave him some internal assistance.

Each elixir requires a corresponding usage guide and a credit endorsement.

In ancient times, many cultivators suffered miserably from taking elixirs recklessly.

Now, no cultivator would dare to take an elixir without a usage guide, the signature of a refining master, and a certificate of qualification, unless it comes from a reputable pharmacy.