Chapter 111: Fire System Breakthrough to Foundation Establishment, Reverse Fire Curse Appears

When the fire-red patterns entered the dantian, the wood spirit root trembled slightly, and those fire-red patterns were actually drawn in; then the red patterns on Wang Ping's body swiftly receded, all entering the wood spirit root's interior.

Wang Ping calmly observed all this; for now, he felt nothing unusual.

After all the red patterns had completely disappeared into the wood spirit root, the fire-wood dual spirit roots all trembled, and the fire-wood attribute spiritual power in his body surged simultaneously.

This phenomenon exceeded Wang Ping's expectations; he originally intended to suppress it with his divine sense, but discovered the wood spirit root began to glow, followed immediately by a large amount of azure patterns spreading from within it.

That pattern was exactly like the earlier red patterns, the only difference being the color changed.

Seeing this, Wang Ping's expression eased slightly; he vaguely guessed something.

After the newly appeared azure patterns quickly covered the dantian, they surged out from within the dantian.

In almost a breath's time, azure patterns again covered his body.

Once his body was covered in patterns, all movement and sound ceased entirely.

The spiritual power in the dantian ceased its turmoil, and the fire-wood spirit root also returned to calm.

Wang Ping calmly sensed for a while; indeed, no major change occurred inside his body.

Skeptical, he repeatedly swept his divine sense through his body, over the body again, and continued searching within the dantian.

He doubted that the earlier commotion would have produced any change in his own body.

His dantian, twice the size of a cultivator of the same stage, held blue and red spiritual power in roughly equal halves!

The spiritual power conflict Wang Ping worried about did not occur; after a brief thought, he understood why.

The source of all his spiritual power actually lies in the spirit roots; since the spirit roots experienced no conflict, the spiritual power transformed from heaven and earth's qi naturally would not conflict either.

After so long cultivating, he had never yet explored his dantian.

The entire dantian was like a large pond, with the blue and red liquids flowing separately, clearly distinct.

Wang Ping's divine sense swept over, yet still found no change.

Just as he was about to withdraw his divine sense, he suddenly noticed a difference beneath the fire-wood spiritual liquid in the northern direction of the dantian.

The unusual discovery startled him, and his divine sense immediately swept over.

Below the dividing line of the blue-red spiritual liquid, a tiny, almost imperceptible azure light flickered faintly.

So faint was this light, its aura so minuscule, that Wang Ping felt it would vanish in the next moment.

Between the blue and red lights, a speck of azure light flickered faintly; each time the wood-system spiritual liquid or fire-system spiritual liquid surged, it would cover it.

This also explains why Wang Ping had not detected any abnormality for so long.

Gazing at that faint azure light, even with a hint of speculation, Wang Ping's heart was still shocked to the extreme—water spirit root had actually appeared inside his body!

What exactly is the Reverse Fire Curse?

Although his body clearly lacked a water spirit root, he could actually condense a water spirit root relying on that mysterious pattern, and his wood spirit root was the same!

Wang Ping's divine sense surged out, separating the water spirit root from the nearby fire-wood spiritual liquid, and also isolating that pressure; otherwise, he feared the water spirit root would completely disappear after a while.

Just as Wang Ping's divine sense had completely isolated those spiritual liquids and that pressure, the water spirit root, already on the verge of extinguishing, suddenly emitted a brilliant azure light and then began to grow at a visible speed!

At that moment, Wang Ping saw extremely fine azure patterns appear at the base of the water spirit root.

Those patterns connected to the wood spiritual liquid; under his divine sense's observation, one could already see the wood-system spiritual liquid in the dantian being continuously absorbed by the azure patterns and then conveyed to the water spirit root.

The water spirit root also grew rapidly thereby; watching this, Wang Ping was intensely curious—although water producing wood is the principle of the Five Elements' mutual generation, the strange phenomenon now occurring is the reverse: wood producing water.

When the wood spirit root first appeared, he had never seen it; now, the condensation of the water spirit root made him unable to restrain his curiosity, so he sent his divine sense into the azure patterns, wanting to see how this reverse wood-producing-water works.

As his divine sense slowly entered the azure patterns, a mighty surge of vitality transmitted; at this point it was still azure spiritual liquid.

His divine sense followed the azure patterns forward; he originally thought these azure spiritual liquids would directly enter the water spirit root's interior, but unexpectedly, his divine sense, tracking the azure patterns, arrived at a black void.

This place was like a deep, dark universe—silent and frigid—yet at the center of this void stood two colossal light pillars, one red and one azure.

Beside the pillars stood a slender blue light pillar.

Besides that, there were also a yellow and a gold cluster of light that had not formed into pillars.

Apart from the one gold and one yellow beams, the remaining three light pillars were all enveloped by a deep azure sigil.

After the azure spiritual liquid from his dantian entered this place, it traveled along the azure patterns into the interior of the sigil.

At this moment, Wang Ping had no capacity for anything else; his divine sense strained to stare at that deep azure talisman.

With his current divine sense strength, he could not penetrate this talisman's interior, but he could clearly see the external changes.

The azure patterns linking the brilliant azure light pillar, after the wood spiritual liquid flowed into the talisman's interior, soon emitted a faint azure glow from its exterior.

Immediately afterward, that blue light pillar faintly glowed, and Wang Ping could observe it had risen slightly.

Wang Ping raised his divine sense and silently observed everything before him.

Five Elements spirit root—the gold and yellow lights should be the earth and gold attributes!

They had not yet formed spirit roots at this point, which also explains some of Wang Ping's questions.

As it turns out, the Reverse Fire Curse's reverse-induced spirit root generation is not creation from nothing; if Wang Ping guessed correctly, it uses the Five Elements qi inherent in humans as a basis to induce reverse maturation.

Every human possesses Five Elements qi; a spirit root should be the external manifestation of one or more attributes highly condensed.

Those gold and yellow light clusters are precisely the earth and gold Five Elements qi contained within Wang Ping's body!

If Wang Ping cultivated a water-system method to Foundation Establishment, the next would logically be the Reverse Water Curse, reverse-producing gold.

Wang Ping's divine sense slowly withdrew from that strange space; he felt a bit lost for a moment—though the cultivation world has never seen cultivating all Five Elements together, and although he doesn't know why, just looking at the resources consumed by his renewed practice of fire-system methods shows it's generally the case.

Now it's merely fire-wood dual cultivation, consuming only twice the cultivation resources.

If it were Five Elements dual cultivation, thinking of this gave Wang Ping a headache.

He truly cannot see the necessity of his own Five Elements dual cultivation.

Consuming resources, consuming time, he also only has a 260-year lifespan; it's utterly impossible to elevate all his attribute methods to Foundation Establishment Great Perfection.

Leaving other matters aside, a single-spirit-root cultivator who reaches Foundation Establishment Great Perfection must condense at least 129,000 strands of spiritual power.

If it were five-system dual cultivation, wouldn't it require 645,000 strands of spiritual power!

That terrifying amount of spiritual power gives Wang Ping a headache just thinking about it; he wants to give up, yet his heart still harbors some reluctance.

After pondering for a while, he decided to venture into the Spirit Realm next time to investigate.

After breaking through Foundation Establishment, he entered the Spirit Realm, no longer restricted by region, but there was a time limit.

However, nowadays entering the Spirit Realm requires once every six years; perhaps this is the price for being able to freely walk the Spirit Realm!