Chapter 48

The history of the Zong sect spanning tens of thousands of years made Qin Fengming feel dizzy just thinking about it. ...www..com... A mortal's life span is merely seventy to eighty years, and ten thousand years would be a hundred generations far away.

For these matters, Qin Fengming glossed over them. With his current cultivation, he could only think about the immediate issues at hand.

As he delved deeper into his reading, he learned more about the Luoxia Sect.

The successive leaders of the Luoxia Sect were not necessarily the most cultivated within the sect, but rather those who felt their cultivation could no longer advance, and thus voluntarily gave up cultivation to focus on sect affairs. The current leader is a late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator surnamed Wang. The various managers within the sect are also Foundation Establishment cultivators who have voluntarily given up cultivation. For example, the middle-aged man surnamed Feng who brought Qin Fengming to the sect is responsible for the management of spirit stones throughout the sect. And all the people in the Yunque Peak hall, such as the old man surnamed Wei and the middle-aged man surnamed Ma.

If a Foundation Establishment cultivator successfully enters the Core Formation stage, they automatically become an elder of the Luoxia Sect, enjoying the sect's support and a highly respected status, like the old man surnamed Ximen with the sharp nose and monkey-like face.

The sect has a position of Grand Elder, responsible for the entire sect, who usually does not manage specific affairs but focuses solely on cultivation, hoping to successfully form an infant. At present, the Grand Elder of the Luoxia Sect is a late-stage Core Formation cultivator surnamed Chen, who is just a step away from the infant formation realm.

There are also some cultivators who, although they have not given up cultivation, are very enthusiastic about a particular area, such as Uncle Fei, who is obsessed with alchemy; and Uncle Lu, who is passionate about pill refinement. These people enjoy a high status within the sect, and even Core Formation seniors treat them with great respect.

There are also some Qi Gathering disciples who, after reaching the peak of the Qi Gathering stage but with no hope of Foundation Establishment, take on important positions, such as Brother Su in the Transmission Hall.

The Luoxia Sect has the most Qi Gathering disciples. These disciples must perform a few days of miscellaneous tasks each month, and the rest of the time they can manage on their own. When they reach the ninth level, they no longer perform any miscellaneous tasks and focus solely on cultivation to prepare for Foundation Establishment.

Those who successfully establish their Foundation have the right to find a place with abundant spiritual energy within the Bright Moon Mountain Range and set up their own cave abode. They are generally undisturbed, but when the sect is in danger, they must return to the sect to serve.

The interpersonal relationships in the cultivation world are different from those in the secular world. Cultivators of the same realm are considered peers, those of a higher realm are called seniors, and those within the same sect are called Uncles or Aunts.

High-level cultivators generally focus solely on cultivation and rarely take on disciples unless there are special circumstances. Cultivators are very indifferent to family ties, usually centering everything around themselves. Qin Fengming found this extremely perplexing.

The "Luoxia Sect Annals" also introduced the current state of the cultivation world in the Great Liang Kingdom.

Currently, the Great Liang Kingdom has three top-tier sects: Zhaofeng Valley, Wangting Mountain, and Xiaoyao Sect. Each sect has an infant formation senior in residence.

The strongest among them is Zhaofeng Valley, which has a pair of infant formation spouses and one infant formation cultivator in residence. Wangting Mountain and Xiaoyao Sect each have two infant formation seniors. These three top-tier sects each have over ten thousand disciples.

Zhaofeng Valley is located in the southern part of the Wankong Mountain Range, the largest spiritual vein in the Great Liang Kingdom, situated in the central region; Wangting Mountain is in the Taiyue Mountain Range, located in the eastern part of the Great Liang Kingdom; and Xiaoyao Sect is in the Yanling Mountain Range, located in the northwestern part of the Great Liang Kingdom. The three sects form a triangular position.

Apart from these three major sects, the Great Liang Kingdom also has five smaller sects, which, although they do not have infant formation cultivators, are still formidable. They are: Wohu Mountain, Luoxia Sect, Quliu Sect, Xuelian Sect, and Taixu Sect.

The rest are even smaller sects and cultivation families, all dependent on these sects. Apart from these sects and families, the cultivation world is predominantly composed of a vast number of independent cultivators. All of these form the entire cultivation world of the Great Liang Kingdom.

When the Luoxia Sect was founded, it had an infant formation cultivator, controlling the five prefectures around Yingzhou Prefecture. However, it has now become a second-tier sect, having lost its former strength, and can only control a few southern prefectures together with Wohu Mountain.

After finishing the "Luoxia Sect Annals," Qin Fengming did not delay at all and spent two days carefully studying the "Introduction to Cultivation."

The "Introduction to Cultivation" systematically introduced the differences between cultivators and mortals, detailing who can cultivate and who cannot, and why.

The world's population is vast, with millions in Yingzhou Prefecture alone, but those who can cultivate are few, and even fewer enter the cultivation world.

Speaking of cultivation, one must mention "spirit roots." The book states: All things possess the five elements of heaven and earth: metal, wood, water, fire, and earth. Whether it is humans or other things, they cannot be separated from these five attributes.

Humans are considered the most intelligent of all things, and from birth, they possess the five elements: metal, wood, water, fire, and earth. Cultivators refer to the five elements in the human body as "spirit roots," so humans have five types of spirit roots: metal, wood, water, fire, and earth.

The five elements complement and restrain each other. For example: metal generates water, water generates wood, wood generates fire, fire generates earth, and earth generates metal, which is called complementing; metal restrains wood, wood restrains earth, earth restrains water, water restrains fire, and fire restrains metal, which is called restraining.

The "spirit energy" that cultivators speak of is the five-element energy contained in heaven and earth. Cultivation involves absorbing the five-element energy from heaven and earth.

If a person has all five spirit roots, due to the mutual restraint of the five elements, they will have a very poor sensitivity to the five-element energy in heaven and earth, and absorption will be extremely slow. This is what cultivators refer to as a person without spirit roots.

Conversely, if a person is missing one "spirit root," such as "earth spirit root," the human body needs the five elements, so it must absorb "earth spirit energy" from heaven and earth to supplement it.

They will be very sensitive to "earth spirit energy" and absorb it relatively quickly. However, due to the mutual restraint of the five elements, the other elements will also restrain their absorption of external "earth spirit energy," so although they absorb faster than those with all five spirit roots, it is not very fast.

If a person is missing two or three spirit roots, they will be very sensitive to two or three types of energy in heaven and earth, and absorb the energy from heaven and earth two to three times faster than those missing one spirit root. If they are missing four spirit roots, it will be even faster.

In the cultivation world, those missing "spirit roots" are called people who can cultivate cultivation techniques. The type of spirit root they are missing is called having that "spirit root attribute" to distinguish them from ordinary people.

When Qin Fengming first entered the Luoxia Sect, Sect Leader Wang and the various uncles tested his spirit root attributes by channeling the five-element energy into his body to see which type of energy he was sensitive to, thereby determining which spirit root he possessed. Unfortunately, they did not detect any.

However, there are very few people with spirit roots, and even fewer who can cultivate. Therefore, although there are millions or even billions of mortals, the number of cultivators is very scarce.