The Five Immortals Sect, however, is still like a dragon that can only be seen from the head but not the tail, and is rarely seen in the world.
"A powerful immortal technique must have its own fundamental reasons for being powerful. I have also told you about the types of spiritual roots above. Mixed spiritual roots, mysterious spiritual roots, earth spiritual roots, heavenly spiritual roots, holy spirit roots, and strange spiritual roots.
We are called the Five Immortal Gates, which are divided into Guishui Immortal Gate, Yimu Immortal Gate, Dinghuo Immortal Gate, Jitu Immortal Gate, and Xinjin Immortal Gate, respectively corresponding to the most sensitive attributes among the Five Elements.
For example, the Yimu Immortal Sect's immortal methods are created for the wood attribute, so they are best practiced by people who are sensitive to wood aura; the Dinghuo Immortal Sect's corresponding immortal methods are mainly fire attributes.
But the Five Immortal Sect does not require a Holy Spirit Root, but requires a person to possess all the attributes of the five elements at the same time in order to practice. "
At this point, the old man in gray paused.
"Miscellaneous spiritual roots?"
Although Li Yan was still confused about many things, he understood some of them and couldn't help feeling strange.
"This person's words are really strange. He said before that the holy spirit root is the strongest among immortal cultivators, but now he seems to be saying that mixed spirit roots are the best."
“It’s mixed spiritual roots. This is the greatest secret of the ancient Five Immortal Sects. Although we need people with mixed spiritual roots, these are not ordinary mixed spiritual roots.
Miscellaneous spiritual roots are of course sensitive to the five elements of gold, wood, water, fire and earth. Not only do we need the person to possess these five elements, but these five elements must be arranged in order of strength according to the law of mutual generation.
The law of the five elements' mutual generation is 'water generates wood, wood generates fire, fire generates earth, earth generates metal, metal generates water, and so on in an endless cycle.'
Then the five elements in the body of a practitioner must also be arranged according to the strengths and weaknesses of the five elements.
For example, the Xinjin Immortal Sect must be based on gold, so the arrangement of the five elements in the body of the practitioner must be gold, water, wood, fire and earth.
The strongest element in sensing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth should be 'gold', followed by 'water, wood, fire and earth'. If the latter element is stronger than the former, one cannot practice the immortal method of 'Xinjin Xianmen'.
Similarly, the order in which we, the Guishui Xianmen, sense the spiritual energy of heaven and earth is 'water, wood, fire, earth, and gold', and the strength also decreases in sequence. Only in this way can we practice our own immortal magic.
This is the biggest secret of our Five Immortal Sect, and also the biggest difficulty in our search for inheritance!"
The old man in gray revealed the secrets of the Five Immortal Sect to Li Yan.
In this mortal world alone, an ordinary cultivator may be found only one among one hundred thousand people, and this is taking into account the existence of any kind of spiritual roots.
And among this group of people with extremely low probability, even if we screen out those with mixed spiritual roots, it is still unknown whether we can find one person out of a million people.
And in the end, in this great process of sifting through the sand, the probability of finding the spiritual root that is generated by the five elements in sequence is... self-evident.
The old man in gray looked at Li Yan's knowing expression and felt slightly relieved. He didn't have much time and just hoped that Li Yan could understand as much as possible.
“So, although the Five Immortal Sect’s skills are the most powerful in the world of immortal cultivation, the number of disciples in each generation is almost non-existent and pitifully small.
Every time the inheritance is passed down, it takes a lot of effort to find the next generation of inheritors, and each generation is basically passed down to only one person or a few people.
On the one hand, one has to practice the great way of cultivation. It may take less time at the beginning, but each retreat and meditation later may be for dozens or even hundreds of years, which is just a blink of an eye for us.
Therefore, apart from the time for cultivation, the time for going out to look for suitable disciples to inherit the throne can only be concentrated in a certain period of time. As a result, in the eyes of the world, we rarely go out.
As for why they don't open up the immortal sects to recruit disciples, this method has been used in ancient times with little effect, and it will also expose the secrets of the Five Immortal Sects.
It is more covert and reliable for us to use spiritual sense to scan the low-level immortal cultivators. Spiritual sense is a kind of magical power of immortal cultivators. It can see everything through walls and houses without using eyes.
Your so-called teacher is just a low-level cultivator. His cultivation is not worth mentioning. Although he also has spiritual awareness, he cannot see whether others have spiritual roots.
Therefore, he must use other low-level methods to detect whether others have spiritual roots. "
"Teacher is a cultivator?"
Li Yan was shocked when he heard that the legendary immortal was so close to him. What he was thinking showed on his face.
The old man in gray shirt saw what Li Yan was thinking.
“I will tell you about the little monk later when I have time.
The Five Immortal Sect rarely shows up in front of the world, because our disciples are scarce. In the world of immortal cultivation, the law of the jungle prevails. If you don't have strong strength when you go out, it is very easy to perish.
Therefore, before becoming powerful, the disciples of the Five Immortal Sect either hibernate or practice hard in seclusion.
If you want to find a disciple who will inherit your sect, you must at least reach the fusion stage when you are away for a long time. If your cultivation is too weak and you are away for a long time, the chance of death is very high, especially since there are many enemies who covet the Five Immortal Sect. Our five sects cannot afford such an unexpected death because our population is too sparse.
It was so difficult to find disciples from the Five Sects. As the world changed, the Five Immortal Sects began to slowly decline. By my time, our Five Sects, after cultivating to the late stage of Spirit Transformation, went out one after another to look for disciples to inherit the throne.
Although our cultivation is not high, fortunately the immortal magic we practice is powerful, and there are few rivals at the same level. Killing them is as easy as killing chickens and dogs. Even if we face three or five cultivators at the same level at the same time, we can still win.
Even if the enemy is one level higher than us, it is not impossible to kill him."
At this point, the gray-shirted old man showed pride on his face, and there was a hint of dominance on his listless face, which showed how proud he was of the immortal arts he practiced.
"The reason why I considered going out to look for someone to inherit my teachings during the Spiritualization Stage was, first, out of helplessness, as it was hard to find disciples. Second, cultivators above the Fusion Stage rarely show up in the Immortal Realm, even in the Immortal Spirit Realm, as they have been in seclusion for many years.
But even so, the Five Immortals Sect is still declining. The special "mixed spiritual roots" of the Five Immortals Sect are extremely difficult to find. Sometimes we have to cross vast regional continents and even cross different interfaces to find disciples.
Because of this, encountering stronger enemies and unpredictable space turbulence is what will happen.
Just like this, some masters from our five sects who went out to look for disciples to inherit the throne never came back. They may have died outside. The number of disciples from the five sects is decreasing.”
Speaking of this, the gray-shirted old man's voice was a little low, with a lonely look on his face, as if there was a hint of reminiscence.
Li Yan didn't dare to interrupt, and the old man in gray shirt continued quickly.
"I was the only one left in my Guishui lineage a million years ago. At that time, there was no news about the other four factions. I guess they died before me."
The old man showed a trace of sadness and nostalgia, and his mind was already filled with thoughts and memories.
Although there were occasional disputes among the five sects at that time, they had been dependent on each other since ancient times, sharing the same spirit, practicing together, and traveling the world together.
The years have passed by like this, and now that I have woken up, everything is over, just like a dream.
When Li Yan heard the words "a million years ago", an expression of disbelief appeared on his face again. Can people in this world live for a million years
This was such a fantastic story, but someone said it in front of him, and he somehow felt like believing it. The thought arose in his mind, and he couldn't help but be surprised.
The old man in gray shirt paused for a moment, and when he looked up and saw Li Yan, he felt a little relieved.
"More than a million years ago, I secluded myself for a hundred years. When I came out, the other four sects were already deserted and overgrown with weeds.
Only Fairy Ningke of Yimu Immortal Sect left behind a jade slip!
It was said that she had reached the realm of refining emptiness after she came out of retreat. After waiting for seventy years, there was no news from the other three sects. Seeing that I had not come out of retreat, she also went out to look for inheritance. But after that, we never had any contact again. "
The grey-shirted old man's expression darkened, and his figure was even more blurred than before. However, Li Yan's heart was still filled with fear, so he did not notice it for a moment.
After hearing this, Li Yan opened his mouth, but seemed to think it was inappropriate to interrupt the gray-shirted old man's narration at this moment. However, the old man was not very good at it and immediately looked at Li Yan.
"What do you not understand about what I am saying?"
Li Yan stammered.
"What is a jade slip?"
The old man was stunned when he heard this, and then laughed at himself.
"Hehehe... I forgot that you know nothing about the world of immortal cultivation."
Everyone he had met before knew the basic concepts of cultivating immortals, but Li Yan knew absolutely nothing about it.
"Jade slips are like the books you mortals read. They are made of a special jade material that is difficult to damage. Unlike paper or bamboo books, the text, images, and sounds recorded in them can only be recorded by immortal cultivators using their spiritual consciousness.
As long as the jade slip is not damaged, it can be kept forever. I told you before that spiritual consciousness can not only replace eyes, but also replace ears for hearing.
You have cultivated and gained spiritual consciousness now, but it is too weak to form substance, let alone be released outside the body.
Generally, only the third level of spiritual consciousness in the Qi Condensation Stage can be released, and the maximum coverage range is about five meters. The specific range depends on the strength of the cultivation method. The stronger the spiritual consciousness, the wider the range of what can be seen and heard.
That Third Army Division Master was at the third level of Qi Condensation Stage, and he could already project his consciousness outside his body.
That is to say, he can use his spiritual sense to scan what you are doing and saying within a certain range without using his eyes or ears, and it can even be clearer than seeing with his eyes or hearing with his ears. "
Having said that, the old man in gray looked at Li Yan with a smile.