Ch.13 Trash Talent

"Now then.."

Yuchen turned his attention toward the ten books lying on the ground, three of them were books related to formation, talisman, and general cultivators tips book.

From the information he got from his master the first two books should have some lesser formation and talisman's written in them.

If he is talented enough he can learn from them, as for the last book, it contains the knowledge of all the general skills cultivators should have.

Skills like soul search, fate calculation, healing technique, blood burst, etc can help a cultivator in various situations.

"Though master did say I should learn those after reaching Foundation Building- Dantina Filling stage."

Yucheng muttered as he put those books in the space bag, after all, they were useless for now. After which a glow of excitement flashed by his eyes as he looked at the seven books.

They were cultivation manuals, each having the rank of High-Earth Grade which is just below the heaven grade.

According to his master, there isn't much difference between earth and heaven grade when laying down a foundation so he will get a higher grade cultivation manual after officially becoming his disciple.

As for why there are seven books instead of one, well they each represent the seven elements of heaven and earth.

Every cultivator has a spiritual root and each spiritual root can be of any of the seven attributes. The most likely situation is to have mixed attribute-spiritual roots.

Yucheng picked up the book from the flame attribute, as his hands touched the books it flashed a red light as a small scale lesser formation was activated.

The formation started to glow a red light as his flame attribute spiritual root was confirmed.

"A flame attribute one, not bad."

Yucheng commented as he put down the book, and then he picked up the water attribute book, after a while the formation glowed a deep blue color.

"Two Element Spiritual Roots could be worse."

Yucheng muttered not affected by having a two-attribute spiritual root, after all this will only slow down his cultivation speed not hamper his future potential.

Having said that Yucheng was also a little worried as he picked up the third book, it also glowed a golden color.

"Hiss... It can't be worse right..."

Yucheng asked himself, after all three elements were manageable but if another is added then he would fall into the category of poor talent.

And to his distress, the book also glowed showing that he was a four-element spiritual root having trash talent.

"It can't be the worst talent right..."

Praying to his master and the gods in his last life he picked up the fifth book, and to his absolute horror it also glowed.

"haa, Five Attribute Elemental Spiritual Root."

Now even with his strong will, he felt like crying, after all, according to his master for a person of this talent it is better to give up cultivation.

Yucheng also understood why his master said that after all, spiritual energy flows through the body through spiritual roots.

A flame attribute spiritual root will collect the same attribute of spiritual energy from the world, this is also applied to other spiritual roots.

But if you have more than one attribute of spiritual root, more than one attribute of spiritual energy will be collected.

So in practice, they will collect twice the amount of spiritual energy, just looking at it people may think this is a good thing.

After all, collecting more spiritual energy means faster cultivation.

But one must understand that two different attributes will conflict with one another. So a cultivator must suppress one of the attributes to safely practice.

This is the process that greatly slows down the cultivation speed of a person and the more the attribute the slower the cultivation.

For the five-element spirit root, their cultivation speed is so slow that they will run out of lifespan before they can reach a higher realm.

"I guess, I will be somewhat mediocre in this life."

Yucheng muttered as he calmed his mind, with his talent there was no way he could be his master's official disciple.

Although his talent doesn't support him, the resources given by his master should help him cultivate to Nascent realm.

"haa, I guess this is retribution for all I have done in my last life."

Yucheng released another big sigh, turning his attention to the remaining two books he casually picked them up to put them in the space bag.

Suddenly they also started to glow, Yucheng's jaw dropped to the ground as he saw this scene. He became somewhat stupid for a while.

Even his ever-calm face broke down as he couldn't process what had happened here for a while.

"Seve.. Seven.. Element Spiritual Root."

Yucheng muttered with a shutter as he thought of the information passed by his master. According to him, the worst a person's talent can be is five element roots.

But here right in front of him, that ceiling was broken by him. Now his talent has become the trashiest of them all.

"Should I call myself the trashiest one or something.."

After calming down a little Yucheng muttered in a joking tone, after all, he needed as much humor as he could get.

"What did I do to deserve this..."

Yucheng muttered in a dejected tone before his words stopped, thinking back a lot of things that deserved this came to his mind.

"I guess I really deserved this."

With that, the two books fell from his grasp as he lay down and closed his eyes. Although he hadn't given up yet from his action it looked like he had.

After a while, he opened his eyes, even after a long time of brainstorming he couldn't find a solution to his problem.

In a casual and lazy manner he turned his head to the side, looking at the books below his body he picked up one and opened the page.

He started to read the book, and at first, he wasn't that serious but his eyes reached a trance state as he read more of the pages.

Each flip of the page made it so that his understanding of this manual reached a deeper level. Even without his conscious control, his body started to perform the technique.

The spiritual energy started to gather on the surface of his body, then it started to concentrate above a single root point of his body.

BOOOO!!

With the sound of a dam gate opening the spiritual energy started to enter his spiritual root. The flow was steady and vigorous.

Just looking at the situation it felt like he would reach the Qi Period- Root Awakening stage. 

But as the spiritual energy started to gather a violent reaction was generated.

Flame, Water, Thunder, Wind, Nature, Light, and Darkness attributes of spiritual energy started to clash against one another.

BOOOMMM!!

Then with a small boom sound, they exploded, and the root where the spiritual energy was collected burst appeared as it started to bleed.

Yucheng woke up from the trance his face became pale, although from the outside it looked like a small wound.

His internal organs were greatly damaged, if he didn't do something quickly he would most likely die.

"Haa, Ha, Haa..."

Taking deep breaths Yucheng stretched out his hands and picked up the space bag. Even such a simple action was difficult.

His vitality was being drained at an alarming rate, if he didn't have his strong body he would have been dead by now.

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