Chapter 10: Everyone Possesses Heavenly Talent? The Time Has Come for Vengeance!

“Wood and Fire Spirit Root, Heavenly Grade, next.”
“Thunder and Fire Spirit Root, Heavenly Grade, next.”

After a while, she became numb and mechanical, like a spirit root testing robot:
“Heavenly, Wind and Fire, next.”

Later, after dozens of consecutive tests all showed Heavenly-grade spirit roots, Su Qingyue said, “Gold, pass.”
“Wood, pass!”
“Five Spirit Roots, pass!”
“Wind, Thunder, and Light Triple Spirit Roots, pass!”

When all the players finished testing their spirit roots, the place instantly fell silent.
Everyone was busy trying on equipment, fiddling with storage rings, and checking skill descriptions.
They were too occupied to chat.

Su Qingyue felt a bit disillusioned. In her entire life, she had never seen a gathering of a hundred Heavenly-grade spirit roots!

There were exactly one hundred players, and all of them possessed Heavenly-grade spirit roots.

In the cultivation world, spirit roots were ranked from first to ninth grade, then Exceptional, and finally Heavenly grade. The higher the grade, the faster the absorption and recovery of spiritual energy during cultivation and battle.

Currently, there were fewer than five people with Heavenly-grade spirit roots on the entire continent, including herself and the female protagonist, Lin Aohuang.

Heavenly-grade spirit roots appeared only a few times every few thousand years, and now suddenly there were a hundred!

Although cultivators with a single spirit root cultivated fastest and those with five spirit roots slowest, players didn’t have to worry about that. Even with five spirit roots, their cultivation speed was still incredibly fast.

After all, all they needed was to fill their experience points.

Su Qingyue understood that the game was designed for all types of players.

Combat players could grind experience points by killing monsters to level up;
Casual players could gain experience through cooking, running shops, or fishing, earning as much experience in the same time as combat players;
Some players who enjoyed sightseeing, traveling, or farming could also level up by participating in certain activities over time, as the system would automatically recognize these actions for progression.

All players had Heavenly-grade spirit roots and cultivated at terrifying speeds without restrictions. It was too overwhelming!

Not to mention Heavenly-grade spirit roots, even Exceptional spirit roots were enough to have an entire sect’s resources devoted to their cultivation.

Heavenly-grade spirit roots were even coveted by sect leaders and elders of top powerful factions, who would fight tooth and nail for them!

She herself was proof of this; if Lin Aohuang wasn’t the female protagonist and those around her weren’t dulled by the protagonist’s aura, who would waste a Heavenly-grade spirit root because of a broken artifact trinket?

Xiao Mo tugged on her close friend Lan Ling’s sleeve. “Hey, what’s your spirit root?”

Lan Ling raised an eyebrow. “Gold, Wood, Ice, Fire, Earth — five spirit roots!”

“Wow, no wonder you’re a boss! Basically all five elements plus a water system variant!” Xiao Mo exclaimed and then chuckled, “But I’m not bad either — I have the special triple spirit roots: Wind, Thunder, and Light!”

The system’s mechanical voice had just explained to players that the basic spirit roots were the five elements: Gold, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth, with Ice as a variant of Water.

Additionally, there were four rare special spirit roots: Wind, Thunder, Light, and Dark.

These special spirit roots were extremely rare among players, no wonder Xiao Mo was so delighted.

Lan Ling smiled, “Hey, not bad luck at all!”

“Of course, don’t forget who I am — your bestie!”

“Not at all, you’re just awesome yourself!” They exchanged daily compliments.

Su Qingyue thought to herself: since the number of spirit roots didn’t affect leveling speed, the more spirit roots, the better.

That way, one could learn more skills and combine different attributes.

Of course, awakening spirit roots was a matter of chance — basically, it was all about luck.

Among so many players, only fifteen had three or more spirit roots, two had five spirit roots, and only Xiao Mo possessed all three special spirit roots.

Lan Ling and Su Qingyue were truly lucky — real lucky stars!

Su Qingyue was genuinely puzzled: “So, why do they all have Heavenly-grade spirit roots?”

System: “Ah, I forgot to tell the host. Their bodies are composed of energy exchanged with my points.

The grade of spirit roots actually reflects the affinity and absorption speed of various types of energy.

Since their bodies are made of energy rather than actual flesh, their affinity for other energies is naturally very high!”

Absorbing energy with energy — wouldn’t that be convenient? Because it was energy itself.

When players died and disappeared, the process of revival was simply the dispersal of energy returning to the revival point to reconstruct their bodies.

On the players’ side, their storage rings bonded through blood recognition. Xiao Mo bit her finger, but no blood appeared.

“I knew that TV shows where a little bite causes bleeding is fake! Ouch, that hurts!” she grimaced.

Suddenly, a scream startled the two girls, who turned to look.

“Wow, why so hardcore!”

“That’s just too brutal!” The two were dumbfounded. You’re this harsh on yourself? What a terrifying man!

It was the goofy Tiantian Kaixin, who, after seeing Xiao Mo fail to bleed from biting her finger, decided to pull out the weapon he had just received as a reward — a big broadsword — and slashed himself.

Fearing the blow was too light to draw blood, he struck even harder.

Blood splattered everywhere, flying quite high, even splattering on Flying Dragon in the Sky beside him.

Flying Dragon in the Sky silently wiped the blood off his face and looked at his companion with utter disdain: “Are you an idiot?”

“Hahaha, I was just impatient!” Tiantian Kaixin groaned in pain but stubbornly put on the ring.

“How do you use this thing? No instructions? Let me think… usually in novels, you just think about it.” He concentrated.

Sure enough, a space appeared, visible only to himself, about ten square meters in size.

“Not bad at all. Feels like it can hold a lot of stuff, very magical!”

Almost every game had a backpack system, but in this holo-game, the cultivator’s storage ring was extremely interesting!

Just think of it with your mind, and a space appears.

Pick up an item and think about putting it inside, and it really goes in. Think about taking it out, and it appears — so convenient!

Just thinking with your mind was much faster than clicking a mouse!

Players cherished their storage rings dearly. Su Qingyue often saw items appearing and disappearing nearby.

Players thought: after reading novels for so many years, finally having their own space — wouldn’t they want to play a little longer?

Otherwise, how could they justify earning one of the hundred spots out of tens of thousands of applicants?

After they had played enough with their storage rings, equipped their gear, and learned skills for a while,

[System: Today’s task completed. Players may freely explore and arrange their time!]

Free exploration? Freedom indeed! Players glanced at the forest, eager to try out the newly added skills in their skill bars.

Flying Dragon in the Sky showed a “wicked” smile: “Beasts, huh? They killed me four or five times just now. How about now?”

The time for revenge had come. They weren’t going to be bullied anymore. Bring it on, little pests! Now let’s see who’s boss!

Players rubbed their hands and surged into the forest in a frenzy, startling a flock of birds into flight.

Su Qingyue looked over and saw the blue sky stained with a multitude of colors.

The players had just completed their spirit root awakening tasks; some had reached level ten, equivalent to the Qi Refining stage of cultivators.

Qi Refining cultivators might not be very powerful using spirit energy to activate skills, but they had numbers on their side!

For a moment, dazzling lights flew everywhere, clangs and crashes filled the air with chaotic roars.

Su Qingyue: “…” She felt her head buzzing, her ears about to explode — it was far too noisy!

System, mute this noise for me!