Zhao Ritian’s body was no longer flowing with golden blood but a rainbow-colored fluid. It condensed below his Dantian. There was a root image there that formed a strange cycle.

“This is the merger of Spirit Blood and Spirit Root?”

“The Spirit Root is the root of life. It determines a person’s talent and divine abilities. How can it be merged with the Spirit Blood?”

The Spirit Root was a ball of Root Qi located below the Dantian. It was the innate foundation of a cultivator, something that was formed and activated while they were still in the womb. It was the talent that awakened the earliest.

It was like a seed that would start germinating immediately. It decided what kind of plant would grow from it.

A towering tree had to have an appropriate seed. A bean sprout couldn’t be trained into a tree that could reach the heavens. When large sects were recruiting, the main thing that they...