Chapter 83: Blood Red Luo Has Grown Five Leaves

"Could a great shaman of the Wood Clan really go knock on their door?" Su Jin asked in disbelief.

"Who knows? All I know is that the great shamans of the Shaman Clan will seek justice for their blood descendants.

Let me tell you a story: about thirty-some years ago, a fire shaman descendant, when he was around ten years old, hatched a Blazing Heavenly Fire.

He, like you, was a mixed-blood descendant of a sect. He joined the sect when he was around ten.

For fire shaman descendants, the Blazing Heavenly Fire that grows up alongside them is also a companion shaman spirit. Later, someone discovered that this Blazing Heavenly Fire could actually refine the impurities out of pills. Not only could it improve the pills' quality, it could also raise the pill-formation rate.

So some shameless descendant of a sect's Nascent Soul cultivator snatched that Blazing Heavenly Fire away.

Within five days, the fire shamans produced a great shaman, who went straight and knocked on that family's Nascent Soul ancestor's door.

Knocked the Nascent Soul ancestor right out of his cave abode.

After that, that Nascent Soul cultivator lowered his head and apologized, and personally returned the Blazing Heavenly Fire.

The Xiancheng where this happened wasn't ours here, but another Xiancheng under a different sect.

The fire shaman tribe over there announced long ago that over a hundred years ago, the last great shaman of their tribe had already died."

Su Jin said speechlessly: "Then who was the great shaman who went out to knock on the door?"

"They say it was the old ancestor's spirit, who came back for a visit from the realm of the netherworld." Su Jian said slowly.

"Isn't that just a lie?" Su Jin questioned.

"Also lies to ghosts." Su Jian chimed in. "So when you meet people from shaman tribes outside, never believe what they say about their tribe's great shamans being extinct, or their tribe's companion shaman spirits being lost. It's all fake.

Just like how all the Nascent Soul bigwigs in our sect are Five Spiritual Roots. Don't believe it.

Anyone who believes it is a fool!!"

"But Xiaohua believed it." Su Jin said. "She said since the Nascent Soul bigwigs in the sect are all Five Spiritual Roots, she can also become a Nascent Soul bigwig."

"Right, Dad. Aren't the sect bigwigs all Five Spiritual Roots something you often used to encourage me with? How can you tell Auntie not to believe it?" Su Hua looked at her father in confusion.

He thought, the sect bigwigs being Five Spiritual Roots that comes out of Dad's mouth—can it actually be interpreted in two ways?

At this moment, both Su Jin and Su Hua were looking at him expectantly.

Their eyes were full of an urging feeling of "well, go on, say it."

Su Jian stiffened up.

Damn, he let it slip.

"Ahem, actually it's like this. Some sect bigwigs clearly aren't Five Spiritual Roots, but they publicly claim to be. They're purely messing with people.

That's why I reminded Su Jin not to believe it.

And there are some sect bigwigs who really are Five Spiritual Roots, and they're also happy to publicly claim to be. The main idea is to set an example for all the Five Spiritual Roots disciples in the sect. Look at me, a Five Spiritual Root still became a Nascent Soul bigwig.

That's why I encouraged Xiaohua." Su Jian said with difficulty.

Su Jin and Su Hua both showed blank expressions.

"Then should we believe it or not when sect bigwigs say they're all Five Spiritual Roots?" Su Jin asked again.

"Anyway, the Five Spiritual Roots meme has been ruined by them. Believe it or not, you two can decide." Su Jian had no move left, and just gave up trying.

Su Jin and Su Hua sighed in unison.

Whether the sect bigwigs were Five Spiritual Roots or not had no effect on them anyway.

They'd better just cultivate on their own.

Bang!

A huge sound came from the back yard.

Right after, sputtering sounds of water spraying came one after another.

Su Jin, Su Jian, and the others rushed toward the back yard.

But they found that near the east wall of the back yard, a spring had actually burst straight out of the ground.

The spring's mouth was about the width of three fingers.

The water flow was quite abundant, sputtering and hissing, with spring water constantly shooting out of the spring mouth and flowing into the surrounding ground.

Moreover, this spring water overflowed with spiritual energy.

This was a spiritual spring.

A spiritual spring had suddenly appeared in their own back yard.

Wasn't this a blessing from the heavens?

Su Jian was overjoyed.

"I'll find someone right now to build us a spiritual well."

"Big Brother, the spiritual energy coming out of this spring is also very rich. How about you build another cultivation room here? You use it during the day, and give it to Xiaohua at night." Su Jin suggested.

"Oh right, why didn't I think of building a cultivation room here too?"

"But if we build a cultivation room, it'll take up spiritual land." Liu Yunniang immediately said.

"The neighboring yard is ours anyway. What's a little less land? Besides, isn't a spiritual spring cultivation room more useful than spiritual land?" Su Jin said.

"Then we might as well just build two cultivation rooms. Split into inner and outer rooms. During the day I can cultivate in the outer room. At night, you can all use the gathering array to cultivate at home.

I'll turn the spiritual spring into a spiritual well, then open up a small spiritual pool. The pool will span both rooms. You two can both enjoy the spiritual energy." Su Jian envisioned.

"That works too." Su Jin agreed.

Building one cultivation room versus two didn't make much difference anyway.

"But why would a spiritual spring suddenly appear in our back yard?" Su Jin was puzzled.

"Yeah, that's a bit strange." Su Jian also felt something was off.

Just then, Xuechiluo drilled straight out of the soil, then sent a thought to Su Jin: "Ancestress, I channeled the spiritual spring here."

"You channeled it? How did you channel it?" Su Jin suddenly realized—the appearance of this spiritual spring was Xuechiluo's doing!

"Underground, there was an originally dried-up spiritual spring. I found a deeper spring eye, so I dug through the blocked passage again. The spring started flowing again. Took me several days of digging."

"Xuechiluo, you're so capable!" Su Jin praised Xuechiluo directly. "I notice the spiritual field in the back courtyard seems to contain denser spiritual energy than before. Is that your doing?"

"Mm-hm, I dug through several of the thin spiritual-energy channels underground. Now the spiritual energy in the field is nearly twice as rich as before. Ancestor, this first-grade mid-quality spiritual field is about to advance into a first-grade high-quality spiritual field."

"Xuechiluo, you're amazing." Su Jin gave Xuechiluo a proper compliment.

Xuechiluo swayed its leaves, overjoyed.

Su Jin noticed that Xuechiluo had already grown three small leaves, and two more leaf buds had sprouted.

"Xuechiluo, you're about to grow five leaves?"

"Hey-hey, been eating well lately."

Su Jin understood instantly — looks like Xuechiluo needs meat to grow.

"Su Jin, weren't you communicating with Xuechiluo? The spirit spring it mentioned — did it create that?" Su Jian asked.

"Yes, Xuechiluo says it cleared the spring eye beneath our spiritual field and let the spring water burst out again. Also, our spiritual field is about to advance to a first-grade high-quality spiritual field. It's all thanks to Xuechiluo clearing the spiritual-energy channels beneath the field." Su Jin said.