On the quiet night of the full moon, the whole capital was asleep.
Except one being.
Li Chen was sitting in the bed, looking at the system panel.
As the number in the panel reached 100%,
"Ding,
System awakening complete."
The sound came from the system and fell silent again.
But this time the system panel was glowing with blue light.
As the blue light faded away, the words on the panel became visible.
[Heavenly origin System]
Host: Li Chen
Cultivation: None
Spirit Root: 12 Elemental spirit root(Mid Grade)
Earth(Mid), fire(Mid), wood(Mid), water(Mid), wind(Mid), metal(Mid), light (Mid), darkness(Mid), poison(Mid), thunder(Mid), ice(Mid), space(Mid).
Spirit Soul: Vibrant star bamboo(High Grade)
Cultivation Technique: None
Origin Shard: 1(24hrs)
As Li Chen was looking at his system panel, his eyes laid on the origin shard.
confused , he clicked the origin shard. As his finger touched it a new system interface came forward.
Origin Shard:
The shard of mysterious origin that contains pure energy. Can be used to raise the potential and the cultivation of living beings as well as weapons and techniques by one major rank.
When used on an uncontracted spirit beast, it causes the spirit beast to be 100% loyal to the host and will obey all of the host's commands.
Can be used only once on living beings but can be used to upgrade non living more than but the price increases by 100th times with each use.
Currently in possession: 1
Time until next regeneration: 23:11:25
Li Chen stared at the explanation for a long time.
A Major Rank.
Isn't it a bit too op.
System i just love you so much.
"Wait a sec, if it can raise the potential of all beings by one major rank, does it mean that it can raise the quality of my spirit root and amplitude as well."
As he thought of, he slowly said, "System, use the origin shard on my spirit root"
With his command, the system glowed, and a small green crystal appeared in front of him.
The moment the crystal appeared in front of him, it started to dissolve and turn into a small flow of green light and entered his dantain.
As the green light entered his dantain, it started to cover every inch of the space inside the dantain.
"Aaaa" The moment the light started to enter his body Li Chen felt a sharp pain from his lower region spreading throughout his body.
The power of the origin shard started to burn the previous empty dantain, his spirit root as well as his meridians.
But it was regrowing an even better dantain, meridian and spirit root at the same speed at which it was destroying them.
As the process continued, Li Chen fainted several times and woke up immediately after from the sharp pain.
This cycle continued for several cycles.
At last, after an hour or so, the green light started to weaken and disappeared and the pain gradually started to weaken.
He could finally feel his arms without pain.
"F***, what was that?"
Li Chen could not see his newly formed foundation, as he had not started cultivation yet.
But he noticed that the surrounding aurora had already changed, from the previous neutral it had turned slightly warm.
He felt even easier breathing and his sense of hearing had also improved.
Looking forward to his new foundation, he excitedly called for his system.
[Heavenly origin System]
Host: Li Chen
Cultivation: None
Spirit Root: 12 Elemental spirit root(Earth Grade)
Earth(Earth), fire(Earth), wood(Earth), water(Earth), wind(Earth), metal(Earth), light (Earth), darkness(Earth), poison(Earth), thunder(Earth), ice(Earth), space(Earth).
Spirit Soul: Vibrant star bamboo(High Grade)
Cultivation Technique: None
Origin Shard: 0( 22:31:45)
"I seem to have spent around 1 hour on this.
Fortunately I live in a remote area. So no one heard my screams."
Li Chen said, patting his chest, breathing a huge sigh.
The various events today had made him very tired, especially his foundation upgrade. So he just went to sleep.
The sun was gentle. With white mist in the air. The birds were singing as if welcoming the arrival of a new day.
Li Chen was standing before the gate of the white mist pavilion early in the morning.
Early in the morning, a maid had come to wake him up and told him that his uncle had said to come in front of the white mist pavilion early tomorrow.
After some time his two other cousins also arrived with their father.
But his older cousin was nowhere to be seen.
"You all have awakened your spirit root and soul, so u can begin cultivation now.
Ahead of us is the blue mist pavilion. It contains the cultivation books and techniques of our Li family."
"Each of us can take one cultivation book and 2 cultivation techniques. So you all should choose cultivation techniques according to your sprit root and soul.
You all understood me."
"Yes father"
"Yes 2nd uncle"
"Emm, you may enter now."
As soon as they were given permission to enter, all three of them entered inside the pavilion.
As they entered, the twin started searching together and as always Li Chen was all alone.
Not caring about them he started to look at the cultivation books himself.
As he laid his eyes around the cultivation books, his eyes fell on the huge mountain of books.
All stored on a shelf high touching the roof.
It seemed as if the pavilion consisted of hundreds of cultivation books. Suggesting the deep foundation of the Grand Marshal's family.
After thinking for a long time he started to search from the left corner of the library.
Being the Grand Marshals manors library where they store cultivation techniques, many varieties of cultivation techniques came before his eyes.
But none of these cultivation techniques were what he wanted.
Most of these were low levelled that could only be cultivated to qi refining peak. Not even perfection. So these were that low.
Finally after searching for a long time, a cultivation technique came to his eyes.
"Classic of wood"
As he opened the technique book, the system panel appeared.
[Beginning to comprehend "Classic of wood" Technique...]
[ Comprehension finished, Classic of wood is a wood attribute cultivation technique. It is an auxiliary technique that can make spirit herbs grow smoothly. It can be cultivated up to foundation building.
Would you like to comprehend it.]
Seeing these texts in the system panel, Li Chen started smiling vigorously. Just the thought that he can learn any technique just by seeing it made his heart bloom with joy.
"Hehehe..
With my system helping me learn these techniques who can stop me becoming immortal.
Ahem, Now that I have learned about this new feature of my dear system, I should hurry up and find the suitable technique."
Soon he started to search for his destined cultivation technique but this time more vigorously.
"Hundred Blaze art"
"Blue mist technique"
"Three pearl sword technique"...
8 Hours later,
Finally after 8 hours Li Chen was finally able to gather some cultivation techniques.
In front of him stood 10 cultivation techniques.
3 breathing technique and rest combat and auxiliary technique.
He had also found three books each for alchemy and talisman art.
Pity it was that he could only find techniques leading to the golden core perfection only. There was not a single technique that could lead to the Nascent soul or higher.
The alchemy and the talisman art were even worse, containing only up to 3rd level initial stage.
Before to avoid wasting his time he searched only those cultivation techniques that could be cultivated up to golden core and had not given much importance to the attribute of the skills.
So now was the time to separate them based on their attributes and choose the best for him.
"Ok now lets see these little treasures."
"Thousand sun art"
As he opened the first page of the 'Thousand sun art' the same system panel appeared in front of him.
[Thousand Sun Art]
[A third grade upper rank cultivation technique. It was made when a certain nascent soul cultivator saw a sea of fire eagles up in the sky dancing and singing.
It is a fire attributed cultivation technique best for those with fire spirit root. With spirit root no more than 3]
Seeing that the system had written that it can only be cultivated by people having at maximum three spirit roots he closed the book and placed it aside and picked the next book.
[Three jade leaf art]
[A pure wood attribute art that can be cultivated up to golden core perfection. Those who cultivate it will have a longer life than other cultivators in the same stage.
Cannot be cultivated by cultivators having fire or thunder spirit root.]
Again another breathing art that he cannot use.
When he learned that he could not cultivate the first art he did not feel such anxiety as he had felt now as he still console himself saying that here was still another two breathing technique but now he couldn't help worry as only one art was left and if even this could not be used then he would have to make do with some rank 2 breathing techniques.