In the ancient times, only the immortal world and the true immortal world could practice immortal arts.
Creatures in the mortal world only have a short lifespan of a few decades before they have to enter the cycle of reincarnation. The prosperity and wealth of this life will no longer be theirs, and as for whether they will be reborn as a human or an animal in the next life, that is all up to fate.
But no matter which realm or which race, since ancient times, immortality and power have been the dreams that every living being has longed for.
There are many powerful humans and monsters among the various races in the mortal world. These strong men certainly hope that they can live forever and possess supreme power. Therefore, these strong men continue to explore and search hard for this slim hope, pursuing the path to immortality, generation after generation.
In this continuous effort and exploration, they slowly began to discover some power of heaven and earth, and then began to try to use this power of heaven and earth to strengthen themselves.
At that time, due to the difficulty in survival and reproduction in the fairy world, many ancient prehistoric families, sects or other races began to decline or even disappear.
Although they are extremely powerful, they are unable to change the shackles of heaven and earth. In order to continue their heritage, they cannot easily go up to the True Immortal Realm, so they turn their attention to the lower realm - the mortal world.
The immortal cultivators in the fairy world used their great divine power to break the passage between the two worlds and came to the mortal world, only to find that the spiritual energy of the mortal world was far inferior to that of the fairy world. To them, it was extremely thin.
I really came here with high hopes but left with disappointment. However, I was unwilling to give up and had to give it a try. If it really doesn't work, I can only find another way to solve the issue of inheritance.
But what they didn't expect was that during their exploration they discovered that many powerful creatures had also been born in the mortal world.
Through observation, it was found that these powerful humans or monsters all possessed the basic physique for cultivating immortals - immortal roots or monster blood talents. They could already make initial use of the laws of heaven and earth, giving themselves powers that surpass their ordinary peers.
In addition to humans and monsters, powerful creatures of other races also possess the corresponding physiques for cultivating immortals.
As far as humans are concerned, cultivating immortals requires immortal spiritual roots, which they call spiritual roots. Only those who possess this physique can sense the laws of heaven and earth and the spiritual energy between heaven and earth.
Only with spiritual roots can one embark on the path to immortality and pursue the great way of heaven and earth and eternal life.
Spiritual roots, like the realm of cultivation, are also divided into levels, from low to high, they are: miscellaneous spiritual roots, mysterious spiritual roots, earth spiritual roots, heavenly spiritual roots, and holy spirit roots.
This division comes from the body's sensitivity to the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. The spiritual energy of heaven and earth is composed of the basic five elements of gold, wood, water, fire and earth, while other things such as wind, fog, thunder and lightning are generated by the reproduction and changes of these five elements.
If someone is particularly sensitive to only one of the five elements, they are called holy spirit roots. Since this type of person is sensitive to only one element in the universe, their sensitivity is single, their constitution is pure, and they can make rapid progress in cultivation.
People who possess the Holy Spirit Root are generally very likely to cultivate to the realm of transcending tribulation, and the chance of cultivating to the Mahayana stage is also not small. However, there may not be many people with such a physique born in ten thousand years.
If one is only sensitive to two of the five elements, it is called a natural spiritual root.
Since this type of people can sense an additional kind of spiritual energy from heaven and earth, the energy in their bodies begins to become somewhat mixed, and their cultivation speed is much slower than that of those with holy spirit roots. However, this is also an extremely rare choice of spiritual root.
It is considered a great fortune for a sect of immortal cultivators to have one or two people with natural spiritual roots. The probability of such people cultivating to the fusion stage is very high, and there is also a certain chance that they can achieve tribulation and Mahayana.
And so on and so forth. The worst ones are those who are sensitive to the five elements of heaven and earth. In the world of immortal cultivation, they are called mixed spiritual roots. It is very difficult for cultivators with this physique to practice.
Their senses are too complex, and it is considered a miracle that they can cultivate to the Foundation Establishment Stage. Basically, they will stay in the Qi Condensation Stage for their entire lives, let alone the path to immortality.
The biggest difference between different spiritual roots is the speed of cultivation, and this is the biggest difference between cultivators.
A person with Holy Spirit roots may only need four or five years to go from the Qi Condensation Stage to the Foundation Establishment Stage, while a person with mixed Spirit roots may need more than a hundred years. Before they can improve their cultivation and increase their lifespan, a person with mixed Spirit roots would have long since become a pile of dry bones.
People with wind, fog, thunder and lightning physiques are called spiritual roots, which are the mutation of the five elements.
People with this kind of physical attributes are quite rare, and the speed of cultivation depends on whether he also possesses the other five elements, but their fighting skills are often much stronger than those of cultivators of the same level with the five elements spiritual roots.
Except for the Holy Spirit Root, cultivators with other spiritual root attributes will choose one of the Five Elements that they are most sensitive to when practicing. On the one hand, their practice speed will be greatly enhanced, and on the other hand, they can also exert their strongest magic power.
There are very few people with spiritual roots. In the mortal world, basically one person with spiritual roots can be found in one hundred thousand people. However, the number of various races in the mortal world is huge. Compared with the immortal world, there are still many more people who can cultivate immortality.
The immortal cultivators in the fairy world also discovered that although the spiritual energy in the mortal world is a little thinner, it is not always like that. There are also good spiritual veins in many places.
It can basically support a sect or family to cultivate to the Nascent Soul stage. If someone can cultivate to this level, he or she will also be able to move mountains, make rain, fly into the sky and hide underground.
If one advances to the Nascent Soul stage, he will possess the magical power of the interface space across the two worlds, and his magic power can resist the turbulent storms in the space.
Therefore, many immortal cultivators in the immortal world began to look for places with rich spiritual energy in the mortal world, and gradually established their own inheritance sects, and then looked for people with spiritual roots as disciples to teach immortal methods. When these disciples in the mortal world cultivated to the late Nascent Soul stage, they could use these cross-boundary channels to break through the void and then find their own family or sect to practice higher-level immortal methods.
In this way, the inheritance of the fairy world can be continued from generation to generation, endlessly.
In this way, from that time on, in addition to the human cultivators who began to establish many cultivation families and sects one after another, creatures of other races in the fairy world also came to the mortal world one after another and began to establish their own heritage in the same way.
After countless years of inheritance and reproduction, these families, sects, and populations are now spread across all areas of the mortal world, but these families, sects, and populations are not visible to ordinary mortals.
The places they usually choose to establish their sects are places with spiritual veins, where there is abundant spiritual energy. Where there is abundant spiritual energy, monsters will roam everywhere and ghosts will wreak havoc. It is difficult for ordinary humans or other races of creatures to survive there.
If some ordinary creatures occasionally appear there, they will basically be killed directly by powerful monsters and ghosts.
Even if they managed to survive by chance, it would still be difficult for them to find the immortal gates and sects. Outside of the immortal gates and sects, there were large illusion arrays that mortals could not see through. Ordinary humans or creatures of other races would get lost if they entered them, and would not be able to get out even after their lifetime.
If you are lucky, if you meet a righteous cultivator, he will cast a spell to let you out. If you meet some evil cultivator, your end will be extremely miserable.
Li Yan was shocked by what he saw for a moment, and he didn't understand why there was so much incredible information in his mind all of a sudden.
After the gray-shirted old man pointed that finger, his face became even more listless, and his body strangely began to become blurry.
Li Yan also discovered something wrong with the old man, but he was so shocked by the information in his mind that he had no time to think about anything else.
He could only keep repeating one sentence to himself in his mind.
"Fake, fake, all fake!"
Not to mention that these things sounded like fairy tales to him, even if an old man with rich experience was standing here and hearing these words, he would just think it was just a dream.
Apart from reading about ghosts, monsters and foxes in a few bizarre unofficial histories, Li Yan would never have such thoughts as those that appeared in his mind, even in his dreams.
The old man in gray was not surprised to see Li Yan's expression and said to him with a smile.
"I know you can't believe it, but it's true. Otherwise, you wouldn't suddenly have so many incomprehensible things in your mind. Well, with that information, you should be able to understand what I'm going to say next."
Although the gray-shirted old man's voice was not loud, it was like a wake-up call, and Li Yan, who was in a daze, suddenly woke up.
“I come from an ancient sect in the Immortal Spirit World, the Guishui Immortal Sect, but unlike other sects, our sect has five branches.
These are also the five most mysterious gates among the oldest gates in the fairy world. They are Guishui Gate, Yimu Gate, Dinghuo Gate, Jitu Gate, and Xinjin Gate.
The old man in gray began to speak to the young man at a very fast pace.
In the fairy world, since ancient times, there have been countless sects of cultivating immortals, but they were all established by powerful creatures such as humans, demons, beasts, ghosts, and immortal plants, and there are countless of them, big and small.
But among them there is a sect of the Five Immortals that is extremely powerful and mysterious. There are very few people from the sect walking in public, and only occasionally someone will appear in the world once in hundreds or even thousands of years.
However, every time the Five Immortal Sect appeared, it would stir up the world of immortal cultivation at that time, and people would be in panic, fearing that they would accidentally offend this person.
They can often single-handedly slaughter all the immortals of a sect that provokes them. Even if there are terrifyingly powerful immortal cultivators like those who have reached the stage of transcending tribulation or becoming a great master in the sect, few of them can escape alive.
Fortunately, they seldom appear in front of the world, and as long as you don't deliberately provoke them, they will not make enemies with any sect. But if they do make enemies, they will be extremely cruel and vicious.
It is precisely because of this that many sects both respect and fear the Five Immortals Sect.
The most frightening thing about the Five Immortal Sect is that they possess magical powers that are so powerful that they are beyond belief. The power of the magic they unleash is so terrifying that it is almost unheard of in the entire fairy world.
Almost every cultivator from the Five Immortal Sect can cross levels and kill cultivators who are more powerful than themselves.
Therefore, many people tried every possible means to join these five ancient and mysterious immortal sects, but in the end they could not even find the locations of these five immortal sects, let alone join them.
Times have changed, but there are still many people looking for the Five Immortals Gate. They are desperately seeking that glimmer of possibility that can make themselves stronger, or they want to eradicate the Five Immortals Gate out of hatred.