Let's talk about the Five Spirit Roots and Celestial Spirit Root, which one is stronger.
Many readers of "The Mortal Cultivation Chronicles" say that the Five Spirit Roots are the strongest, saying that at the moment of Refining Void, the Five Spirit Roots are needed.
I was speechless.
A certain cultivator with a Celestial Spirit Root cultivates to the peak of Divinity Transformation, and then completes the spirit root, transforming into Five Spirit Roots; is this easier than a cultivator relying on the Five Spirit Roots to cultivate to Refining Void?
Naturally, it's the former.
In the Mortal Realm, the Celestial Spirit Root is the strongest.
Even in the Spirit Realm, the Celestial Spirit Root remains the strongest.
Among mortals, Han Paopao, to achieve Foundation Establishment, first engaged in dual cultivation with a Golden Core female cultivator, and also consumed eight Foundation Establishment Pills. Who else can enjoy such a luxurious Foundation Establishment method?
The Heaven-Controlling Bottle has another hidden function, which is to improve the main character's aptitude.
Because he carries the Heaven-Controlling Bottle with him, Han Li's aptitude becomes extremely top-notch, achieving success in forming the Golden Core, Nascent Soul, Divinity Transformation, Harmonization, Mahayana Stage, almost in one go, with only one failure at the Refining Void stage.
This aptitude that ignores bottlenecks is extremely terrifying.
Many cultivators often fail several times or face major bottlenecks, getting stuck and progressing no further.
Like Han Li, ignoring bottlenecks and having this terrifying aptitude without bottlenecks is extremely formidable.
Without the little green bottle, Han Li would have reached his limit at Foundation Establishment.
In mortal cultivation, the essence is spending resources for cultivation.
If you really think Han Li is a mere mortal, that's rather absurd.
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Here, let's discuss the setting of this book.
The Celestial Spirit Root is the strongest, while the Five Spirit Roots are the weakest; that's the setting of this book.
The Celestial Spirit Root's cultivation speed is ten times, even twenty times faster than the Five Spirit Roots; the Celestial Spirit Root encounters no bottlenecks before the Nascent Soul, and consumes fewer resources as well.
But the Five Spirit Roots have a particularly slow cultivation speed. Without consuming elixirs, one can only reach the fifth layer of Qi Cultivation before perishing in meditation. One must constantly take pills to reach the peak of Qi Cultivation, which again requires a vast amount of resources.
An ordinary cultivator can achieve Foundation Establishment with one Foundation Establishment Pill; but the Five Spirit Roots require ten pills (referencing Han Paopao).
Even at the Purple Mansion stage, an ordinary cultivator needs one or two Purple Sun Jades and other spirit medicines to enter the Purple Mansion; the Five Spirit Roots require ten Purple Sun Jades.
Similarly, for the Golden Core, an ordinary cultivator only requires one or two Golden Core Pills, but the Five Spirit Roots need ten or more.
The same resources given to other cultivators would have long cultivated five or six Golden Core cultivators.
Can a cultivator of the Five Spirit Roots, upon attaining the Golden Core, defeat five others in combat?
Impossible.
If you must argue a downside to the Celestial Spirit Root, it's that it can only use one attribute.
The Fire Element Celestial Spirit Root can only cultivate Fire Magic, while other magic types like Earth Magic or Wood Magic cannot be cultivated; but the Five Spirit Roots can cultivate all five elements.
But in battle, it's never about who has cultivated more magics and hence wins, but about who has mastered divine techniques more proficiently and is more powerful.
A thousand skills mean nothing; mastery of one is better.
Some also say the Five Spirit Roots can cultivate Five Elements Techniques, and with Five Elements Mutual Generation, the cultivation speed would be faster.
The idea is nice but unrealistic.
More likely, the true qi of the five attributes conflicts and hinders each other, affecting cultivation speed or even causing the body to burst.
Refer to Feng Ge's "Vast Sea," the Circulation of the Six Void Technique cultivates eight types of true qi, becoming invincible after mastering it. But only three people truly mastered it: Liang Sixian, Wan Guicang, and Gu Town.
This was due to mere true qi conflicts, true qi eruptions, and many cultivators couldn't overcome this issue.
Only top-level aptitude and comprehension can achieve it.
Regarding the Five Elements Mutual Generation, where wood true qi converts to fire true qi, fire to earth, earth to metal, and metal to wood, making the five types of true qi transform into each other and progress together.
Theoretically reasonable, but to do this, one needs strong spiritual power and terrifying comprehension.
Comprehension, at least at the level of the Great Emperor is needed.
Most Five Spirit Root cultivators cannot achieve this.
Spirit roots are crucial, but their role greatly diminishes after reaching Nascent Soul.
A Five Spirit Root Nascent Soul cultivates Five Elements Magic, taking the path of Unity of All Laws, favoring breadth; while a Single Spirit Root Nascent Soul takes the path of One Technique Suppresses Ten Thousand Techniques, favoring depth.
Which of the two is stronger or weaker? They need to fight to find out.
Who is strong or weak depends on the cultivator itself, not the spirit root. By that time, spirit roots are not crucial.