After agreeing to Lin Ye's request, Xia Li was just about to accept the treasure. But right then, Lin Ye suddenly reached out and pressed down on the wooden box, a trace of reluctance showing in his eyes."Brother Xia, take the Primordial Source Fruit, but I still need the box!""So use it now. This thing's very hard to preserve."Lin Ye wanted Xia Li to refine the Primordial Source Fruit imdiately, which made Xia Li reluctant. He had originally ant to save sothing this good until the mont he truly needed it. What if one day his talent proved sufficient after all? Then he could use the Primordial Source Fruit to help the person closest to him, or take it back to Earth and sell it for a terrifying price. After all, this was a treasure that could one hundred percent guarantee the birth of natural cultivation talent, and the spirit root it created would definitely not be low grade. It was nothing like the crippled pseudo-spirit roots awakened by Origin-Opening Serum. But Lin Ye told him he had to use it now."Other than this rotten wooden box, is there really no other way to preserve it?""Primordial Source Fruit is hard to find, and what makes it hard to find is exactly how hard it is to preserve. This wooden box is made from a section of heartwood from Primordial Source Wood. You could say the box is more precious than the fruit itself, and that's why it can preserve it. Brother Xia, this box can preserve many marvelous spiritual objects. It is extrely useful to . Please forgive , but I really can't part with it."Lin Ye was willing to give away the fruit, but not the box. And without the box, Xia Li had no way to preserve the Primordial Source Fruit and could only consu it imdiately once it was taken out."Then why don't I just leave the fruit with you for now?""About that... Since I've already said I'd give it to you, how could I... how could I..."For a mont, Lin Ye beca strangely tongue-tied. Xia Li's brows imdiately drew together. He sensed that sothing about this was not simple. Of course, he did not think Lin Ye would harm him. Lin Ye was still a pretty straightforward person. His actions did not need to be endlessly analyzed. One only had to seek the answer on the surface."You little brat, do you know there's sothing even better sowhere? This Primordial Source Fruit is taking up space in your box, so you're in a hurry to get rid of it, and you're taking the chance to sell a favor along the way?""What! Brother Xia, you..."Lin Ye was startled, feeling as if Xia Li had seen straight through him. Under Xia Li's scrutinizing gaze, he lowered his head in sha. That reaction was basically an admission. Passing off sothing he urgently wanted to get rid of as an extrely valuable treasure and trying to sell it dearly to his brother would naturally make Xia Li question his character. But in truth, the Primordial Source Fruit really was valuable. Sure, he was eager to get rid of it, but that did not change the fact that the fruit itself was incredibly rare. Since it was going to go cheap to sobody anyway, why shouldn't it go cheap to his brother? That had been Lin Ye's thinking. Yet after truly handing it over, he still felt like he was losing out, which left him awkward and conflicted."You brat..."Xia Li lifted a finger and pointed at Lin Ye accusingly. Lin Ye was so ashad he did not dare say a word. This really was his fault."How about this... Thumb-sized heavenly stones. Those should be easy enough to find. Get several more of those. Will that do?"Lin Ye lowered his asking price. Xia Li laughed when he heard it."Don't worry. They're only teorites. As if I'd shortchange you. Just speak plainly in the future instead of trying to play clever little tricks.""My bad, my bad. My problem. So, Brother Xia, you'd better use it right away. Another treasure is still waiting for . If I'm late, things might change."Lin Ye felt increasingly uneasy the longer he delayed collecting that other treasure."Fine, then. Let's see just how wondrous this ancient spirit fruit really is!"Xia Li took the Primordial Source Fruit out of the wooden box and lifted it to his mouth. But just as he was about to bite down, the fruit suddenly dissolved into mist and entered his body through his nose along with his breath. In that instant, Xia Li felt his spirit jolt. An indescribably marvelous sensation rapidly spread through his whole body, as though he were being wrapped in the softest thing in the world. His body felt incomparably comfortable. And his dantian in particular experienced a sensation like a withered tree eting spring and winter snow lting away. What was a spirit root? On modern Earth, spirit roots were treated as a kind of "spiritual-energy organ." Humans had once possessed them, but they had degenerated. That was why the Spirit Core had to replace them.
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The formation of spirit roots depended on many factors: bloodline, environnt, the mother's body, biological inheritance, and more. Most spirit roots ford during infancy and could not be altered by the person's own will. They were an invisible "neural network." Humans had dantians and could rebuild dantians through spiritual energy, but without the nerves that controlled the dantian, those without spirit roots could not cultivate. The Spirit Core was therefore an artificially implanted dantian neural network. Xia Li could feel his control over his cultivation rising rapidly. He no longer needed to route everything through the sequence of Spirit Core -> Heaven Chip -> brain. He could control the movent of spiritual energy faster and more directly. The dantian was the organ that stored spirit. The spirit root was the organ that controlled spirit. The two complented one another.Through his inner divine-sense vision, Xia Li saw tiny points of light begin to glow within what had once been a dark and lightless dantian. Information passed between those points like stars glittering in the void. With a single thought... the Spirit Core opened, and the radiance of the stellar golden core illuminated his dantian. That power imdiately spread through the points of light in his dantian and out across his whole body. Along the ridians and acupoints of every part of him, routes directly linked to those points of light began to form as well. Spiritual energy no longer needed to flow through the body. It could leap through those points of light and arrive directly where it was needed. The entire way spiritual energy circulated had changed. It was as if transport by land and air had been replaced by teleportation. This was a spirit root.A true spirit root did not exist only in the dantian. It began from the dantian and spread through the entire body as a second "neural network."[Spiriton nerves detected.][Recalculating neural spacing. Optimizing spiritual-energy circulation...][Redirecting spiritual energy. Synchronizing Spirit Core...][Synchronization complete. New algorithm now in effect. Capacity increased by 35%, output efficiency increased by 122%, conversion efficiency increased by 25%, control precision increased by 58%.][Overall strength increase estimated at 33%. Peak strength at the current realm has increased. Sustained strength at the current realm has increased.]The Heaven Chip reported the changes brought about by Xia Li's complete spirit roots. Spirit roots might not be indispensable in all things, but that did not an they could be absent entirely. Nor was there any rejection effect between spirit roots and the Spirit Core. They could reinforce one another. As the saying went, it was like stepping on your own foot and ascending to heaven in place. The spirit roots strengthened the Spirit Core, and the Spirit Core in turn strengthened the spirit roots. They worked in perfect complent. At a re movent of his thoughts... the stellar golden core turned. Its powerful flas no longer spilled from the acupoints of his limbs and body. Instead, they were stored in spiriton neurons, ready to erupt from anywhere in his body at any mont. Xia Li could also sense the spiritual energy drifting between heaven and earth with much greater clarity now.Absorbing it through spiriton nerves was faster, more efficient, and far less wasteful.Spirit roots.So this was what spirit roots were.Only after truly possessing them did Xia Li understand just how vast the difference between having them and not having them really was."Done? Then let's test what kind of spirit root you have now, Brother Xia."Seeing Xia Li's aura surge upward by a huge margin, Lin Ye knew the Primordial Source Fruit had taken effect. It seed to suit Xia Li perfectly. No wonder it was an ancient spirit fruit. But then again, that was also because Xia Li himself was absurdly strong. He had reached this point without spirit roots at all. Now that he had them, that was simply defying heaven.
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