Seeing Yang Gen and Lin Yue holding hands.
"Uh..."
"I feel like I havenāt fully absorbed it yet. Iām going back down to settle it a bit more."
"You guys continue..."
Yang Gen and Lin Yue: "...."
"Alright, donāt hold back, come up and chat with us. Lin Yue, like you, has also stepped into the door of Immortal Cultivation."
"Okay~"
Tian Zhe jumped back with a grin.
After consuming the [Essence of Earth], he too transformed from mortal to immortal, activating his Spirit Root and achieving the first layer of Fetal Breathing.
Officially stepping into the ranks of cultivators.
At this moment, everything in the world appeared novel to him.
"Brother Shuo, the spiritual energy in the air... I really see it! So beautiful! So this is the world of cultivators! I feel Iāve never been so moved in my life, I want to cry!"
Tian Zhe described to Yang Gen how shocked he was by the world he saw.
Yang Gen listened with a smile.
As a martial artist, stepping into the Immortal Cultivation World for the first time, the shock was indeed tremendous.
Lin Yue listened to their conversation, although she didnāt understand, she smiled broadly while listening. She felt... she had become as strong as Yang Gen, and Tian Zhe also exuded a similar aura to them.
Yet Yang Gen could feel their subtle differences...
After Tian Zhe rambled on for a while, Yang Gen said:
"Give me your hand."
"Mm!"
Yang Genās spiritual power explored Tian Zheās body and then delightedly exclaimed.
"Interesting... You also have Five Spirit Roots, but your Earth element talent stands out more than the others."
"So this is the difference between [Essence of Earth] and [Life Divine Seed]..."
"Interesting, interesting."
Lin Yue, like Yang Gen, had Five Spirit Roots with uniform attributes, but Tian Zhe was different.
After consuming [Essence of Earth], he reshaped his Spirit Roots: Gold, Wood, Water, Fire were all 19 points, while Earth was 24!
Compared to Yang Gen and Lin Yueās 20-point Spirit Roots, the 24 Earth Spirit Root was quite outstanding!
If calculated as a percentage, itās equivalent to 20% more talent than Yang Gen!
In terms of cultivation speed, it would certainly increase by more than 20%, not less.
This is quite noteworthy!
"But considering this... Itās almost locked your future direction as Earth Cultivation, shifting to other paths would be too wasteful."
If without talent enhancement, each cultivatorās initial Spirit Root total attributes would be 100 points.
Given the prominence of the Earth Spirit Root, other attributes would become weaker.
Switching to cultivating other attributes would be counterproductive, yielding less with much more effort.
"Speaking of Earth Element Cultivation Technique... The Yang Family has two quite excellent Immortal Level Earth Element Cultivation Techniques."
Yang Minke and the Sky Dragon Army engineers cultivate: [Mountain Shifting Technique].
Yang Min cultivates: [Nine Abyss Mountain Suppressing Technique]
Both techniques are quite effective in real combat and validated through years of cultivation, with ample experience to draw from.
The former focuses more on field battles, with some auxiliary effects.
The latter is an ultimate personal Earth Element Magic, taking a fierce and sturdy approach.
Yang Gen explained the pros and cons of these two techniques to Tian Zhe.
"Tian Zhe, now that youāve stepped on the path of Immortal Cultivation, you need a technique to rely on. Between these two Earth Element Cultivation Techniques... which do you choose?"
Tian Zhe hesitated for a moment before asking, "Brother Shuo, can a cultivator only choose one Cultivation Technique in their lifetime?"
"Of course not, if you have the energy and time, you can cultivate two or more techniques, but we rarely do this. Specializing in one technique is easier for advancing realms."
Cultivating a technique from entry to mastery requires a lot of time.
For instance, Yang Qiangjing, although her talent isnāt bad, her cultivation speed is slow, lagging behind many contemporaries within the Yang Family, significantly outpaced by Yang Min.
This is due to the variety she dabbles in learning.
Besides cultivating [Mechanical Techniques], she also practices numerous Cultivation Hundred Skills and other techniques, sharply hindering her progress.
If not for her talent [Hard Practitioner (Heavenly Level)], she would have been only able to catch up later, her highest achievement this life barely reaching Golden Core Stage.
After listening, Tian Zhe found his answer.
"Then Iāll choose [Mountain Shifting Technique], transforming Jiuhua Mountain is crucial now, Brother Shuo, your time is tight. If I cultivate [Mountain Shifting Technique], I can actively transform the terrain, take over your work, and make timely adjustments when needed... Itās the most suitable technique for now."
"Alright."
Yang Gen wasnāt pretentious. He was also inclined towards Tian Zhe cultivating [Mountain Shifting Technique] at the moment. He indeed didnāt have the energy to host the subsequent Jiuhua Mountain transformation project.
The Immortal Cultivation World is too busy, hardly allowing him to catch a breath.
A flash from Yang Genās storage ring, and a Spirit Scroll appeared in his hand.
"This is the first volume of [Mountain Shifting Technique], study it well. If you donāt understand, ask me. Also, cultivate in my practice room, the spiritual energy concentration there is high."
"Okay~ Iām off to cultivate."
Tian Zhe had been looking forward to this day.
Now that the chance had come, he cherished it dearly, wanting to devote all his energy to training.
Tian Zhe jumped off the roof.
Bang!
After landing, he dusted off his clothes and made his way straight to the practice room.
This was the place with the highest spiritual energy concentration on Jiuhua Mountain.
"Now weāre three cultivators... Weāll need to set up 2 more practice rooms."
"The micro spirit veins below still have quite a bit of spiritual power, but... once Jiuhua Mountain is fully developed, more places will consume spiritual power, it certainly wonāt be enough. Next year, Iāll have Xiao Jing and the others find a low-grade spirit vein for me, which will be enough to support this place as an Immortal Cultivation sanctuary."
Blue Star has no spiritual energy, all their cultivation power, including the great array and maintaining the spiritual buildings, spirit plants, and various experiments, must come from spirit stones.
Hence their consumption rate of spirit stones is several times higher than cultivators in the Immortal Cultivation World.
Exhaustion hit again, Yang Gen rubbed his head and looked at Lin Yue.
"Now that Tian Zheās Cultivation Technique is decided, what... should you cultivate?"
Yang Gen pondered for a bit; for someone like them with uniform Spirit Root attributes, the choice of Cultivation Techniques was quite limited.
Those requiring high talent canāt be learned.
For example, the one water and one earth technique Yang Min cultivates requires high talent, obviously unsuitable for them.
The [Mechanical Techniques] Yang Gen cultivates are fine, doesnāt require high talent but imagination.
Yang Gen thinks heās okay, but... for Lin Yue, it might be a bit challenging.
Itās not that he looks down on Lin Yue; he just feels that in terms of creativity, women donāt have as much advantage as men.
Especially for someone like Lin Yue, whoās never been exposed to cultivation, nor even reads cultivation novels, itās exceptionally challenging.
Perhaps even slower than ordinary technique cultivation.
"Hmm, there is one... technique that doesnāt rely on cultivation talent and is very elegant."
"Just wondering if Lin Yue would want to learn it."
Lin Yue couldnāt speak yet; to learn sheād need time, so they continued communicating via phone.
"Lin Yue, do you want to learn music?"
"I do, I love hearing sounds, any sounds!"
Perhaps a bit excited, Lin Yue rarely used an exclamation mark in her reply.
"Alright, then Iāll teach you [Shangguan Melody Mastery], once mastered, youāll be able to oppose thousands of soldiers alone!"
Back then, Yang Family took out a large group of Shangguan Family members, turning their nine Golden Core experts into puppets, collecting Shangguanās music mastery and piano techniques.
"The Shangguan Family music mastery encompasses various kinds, among them the mainstream ones are piano sound, zither sound, and flute sound. You can choose one as your main focus."
"Eh?"
Lin Yue tilted her head, seemingly not quite grasping the differences among the three.
Yang Gen then realized that in Lin Yueās world there were no sounds before, she was completely clueless about instruments.
"Never mind, Iāll choose for you... the piano and zither are too big, youāre so petite and cute, just play the flute, itāll appear more attractive."
"The boss tells me to play, Iāll play."
Lin Yue naturally accepted it, Yang Gen coughed lightly and after rummaging through his storage ring, he found a low-grade magic artifact [Cloud Flute].
A musical instrument that brings joy when played.
"Your technique is a bit difficult, donāt rush, just practice slowly..."
"Iāll do my best!"
Yang Gen too fatigued, handled matters and directly flew to his bedroom, entering dreamland.
Meanwhile, on Spirit Miao Continent, a storm was brewing.
From Myriad Beasts Sect came a news: A new Legendary Land has appeared!