99: Heavenly-grade spiritual root, Azure Profound Ascension Technique

The island where the Azure Cloud Sect is located is called Clear Heart Island, a small island with a radius of only over 20 million li, and the entire Clear Heart Island is completely ruled by the Azure Cloud Sect.

Besides the behemoth that is the Azure Cloud Sect, there are dozens of cultivation families of various sizes scattered across Clear Heart Island.

These families are mainly divided into two categories: Purple Mansion families established by Cultivators in the Purple Mansion Realm, and Dao Foundation families established by Cultivators in the Dao Foundation Realm.

Most of the founders of these families chose to leave the Sect to branch out after cultivating in the Azure Cloud Sect for many years and feeling that there was no hope for a Breakthrough.

The descendants of these cultivation families will also join the Azure Cloud Sect, though most will Cultivate to the Middle Stage of Qi Refining before joining the Azure Cloud Sect's inner Sect directly.

The establishment of a cultivation Family is not a spur-of-the-moment decision, but a carefully considered choice.

Those who establish families know clearly that although they themselves may stop at their current Realm, if they can Cultivate outstanding descendants, they can not only continue the Family line but also potentially gain unexpected Opportunities.

Who knows, one day by sheer Luck, a Golden Core might appear among the descendants, or someone might have particularly good Luck and obtain a treasure; at that point, hope for a Breakthrough in Realm wouldn't be non-existent.

In the Profound Heaven Realm, the appearance of a Spiritual Root is indeed random, but the probability of descendants born from the union of Cultivators having a Spiritual Root is more than 30% higher than that of Mortals.

This is because in the process of Cultivating, the Cultivator's body is tempered by Spiritual Qi, their Bloodline contains a certain degree of spirituality, and the difference in life level between Cultivators below the Golden Core Realm is not large; with the help of Dual Cultivation Cultivation Techniques and some Heaven And Earth Treasures, it is not difficult to conceive offspring.

The higher-ups of the Human Race strongly encourage this kind of branching out behavior and have even established a generous reward system.

If a High Grade Spiritual Root is born among the descendants of these people, they will receive rewards from the Human Race's higher-ups; these rewards might just help them break through a Realm Bottleneck.

This policy is one of the reasons for the strength of the Human Race; in the Profound Heaven Realm, no race with a higher average Aptitude than the Human Race can reproduce as well as they do, and no race that can reproduce better than the Human Race has a higher average Aptitude.

Relying on a massive population base, the Human Race has given birth to many peerless Prodigies whose talent rivals that of powerful races like the true Dragon or even the true Phoenix, which can master Laws from birth.

Moreover, after reaching the Golden Core Realm, the life level undergoes a transformation; although the difficulty of conceiving offspring increases sharply, the offspring of the Golden Core Realm will inherit the Spiritual Root of one of their parents. Although the quality is uncertain, the worst it can be is a Low Grade Spiritual Root, and it is even possible for the Spiritual Root quality to exceed that of the parents.

It is just a pity that for members of the Human Race to embark on the path of cultivation, they must possess a Spiritual Root. This seems to be a limitation placed on the Human Race by the world; those without a Spiritual Root can at most reach the Early Stage of Qi Refining.

But to be honest, if they didn't have Spiritual Roots, the Human Race wouldn't be able to compare to those creatures favored by heaven and earth.

In the eyes of the ten thousand races of the Profound Heaven Realm, including the Human Race itself, the Spiritual Root is equivalent to the racial talent of the Human Race. Other races do not have the concept of a Spiritual Root; the Spiritual Root is actually the embodiment of every human's Aptitude.

According to research by the Human Race's higher-ups, when an individual human life is born, if their Innate Aptitude reaches a certain level, they will develop a Spiritual Root at the corresponding age; whether or not one has a Spiritual Root is determined at birth.

After countless years of development, the Human Race still has no way to make a person without a Spiritual Root grow one.

However, the Human Race has researched methods to improve the grade of a person's existing Spiritual Root.

And the Azure Cloud Sect, backed by the Qingxuan Sacred Land, naturally possesses a Cultivation Technique capable of improving Spiritual Root grade.

This technique is called "Qingxuan Spirit Ascension Technique," and it can raise the quality of a Spiritual Root to the top level of the Top-Grade Spiritual Root.

A top-tier Top-Grade Spiritual Root is the limit of what can be achieved by conventional methods.

Because the gap between a Top-Grade Spiritual Root and a heaven grade spiritual root is much larger than the gap between a High Grade and a Top-Grade.

Not to mention other things, the gap between Top-Grade Spiritual Roots alone is already very large; some Top-Grade Spiritual Roots might stop at the Purple Mansion, while others might have a chance to reach the Nascent Soul.

And a heaven grade spiritual root is said to guarantee that if one does not fall midway, one will surely achieve Soul Transformation, and a top-tier heaven grade spiritual root can even have a smooth journey all the way to Dao Integration.

Because a heaven grade spiritual root carries destiny, it not only comes with affinity for Laws but can also resonate with the Great Dao of heaven and earth; those who possess a heaven grade spiritual root can often obtain the protection of heaven and earth, making the path of cultivation twice as effective with half the effort.

Those born with a heaven grade spiritual root are known as "Chosen Ones."

And besides being born with a heaven grade spiritual root, to raise a Spiritual Root to Heaven Grade, one must possess Heavenly Destiny.

So-called Heavenly Destiny is actually the embodiment of the Luck of heaven and earth under certain conditions.

There are three ways to obtain Heavenly Destiny: one is to make a great contribution to heaven and earth, at which point Heavenly Destiny will naturally be bestowed upon you.

One is to make a great contribution to the Human Race, after which you will be favored by the Human Race's Luck and possess Human Race Heavenly Destiny.

The last method is simple and brutal: seize the Luck of other races to condense Heavenly Destiny. Some of the Human Race's Void Refining Dao Lords and Dao Integration Dao Venerables came about this way.

However, this last method cannot be done often, or rather, it cannot be done openly, because in history, the Human Race was once besieged by others for plundering the Luck of other races too much.

Although the Human Race's strength was solid and the siege by numerous races could not do anything to them, perhaps because the Human Race had gone too far, these races were unwilling to stop the war even at the cost of heavy losses. They might have known that if they did not fight for it this time, the Human Race would only become more unscrupulous.

The battle between the two sides lasted for over a million years, with the flames of war sweeping across the entire Profound Heaven Realm, countless stars shattering, and finally, under the persuasion of several Peak races, the two sides stopped fighting and reached an agreement.

The content of the agreement was that the Human Race must not use the method of seizing Luck at will.

The Human Race at that time also knew they had gone a bit too far, and because they did not want to try resisting all races with the power of one race, they banned the practice of the method of seizing Luck on the surface.

Of course, no one cares if you practice it in secret, as long as you don't get caught by other races.

However, practicing the method of seizing Luck cannot be done against the Human Race's own Luck; otherwise, if caught, you will be directly executed by having your Soul used as a lamp wick.

After returning to your residence, you began to comprehend the "Qingxuan Spirit Ascension Technique."

After advancing to the Dao Foundation, your Comprehension Ability, under the blessing of the cheat ability, is incomparable to that of the Qi Refinement Stage; it only took you half a day to fully comprehend the "Qingxuan Spirit Ascension Technique."