Chapter 16: The child’s spiritual roots!

With a thought, Lu Changsheng retrieved the Golden Brick Talisman Treasure from the system space.

Immediately, a talisman depicting a golden brick appeared out of thin air in his hand.

This talisman felt much smoother and thicker than the talismans he usually drew.

The golden brick pattern on it emitted a sparkling golden light, lifelike and vivid.

With the skills and knowledge of a second-order talisman master, Lu Changsheng could tell at a glance that the material of this talisman treasure was made from the fur of high-level demonic beasts.

The ordinary talisman paper he currently used was mostly made from some low-level spiritual materials.

For example, the green spirit bamboo covering the mountains of Green Bamboo Mountain was a low-level spiritual material.

As for high-grade and top-grade talisman paper, they required the use of entry-level spiritual materials or demonic beast fur to manufacture.

The same went for the materials used to draw second-order talismans.

They needed to use first-order and second-order spiritual materials as raw materials to make talisman paper and spiritual ink.

This was one of the reasons why it became increasingly difficult to become a talisman master.

Not only was it difficult to improve, but the cost of materials was also expensive.

If you wanted to improve your skills, you had to constantly pour money into this bottomless pit.

“With this talisman treasure, I also have a trump card. In the future, when facing those below the Foundation Establishment stage, I will have the power to protect myself.”

Lu Changsheng carefully put away the talisman treasure.

Even if he could only unleash a portion of its power during the Qi Refining stage, it was enough for him at the moment.

Just like how one or two-tenths of the power of a Golden Core True Person’s magic weapon was enough to crush a Foundation Establishment stage cultivator.

When he used the talisman treasure during the Qi Refining stage, even if he only unleashed a portion of its power, it would be enough to crush Qi Refining stage cultivators.

“Tomorrow, I will tell Uncle Fu that I can refine first-order, low-grade talismans.”

Lu Changsheng looked at the night sky outside the window, which had already darkened.

It had been a year and a half since he first went to the Hundred Treasures Pavilion to buy talisman-making materials.

In this year and a half, he had bought four or five hundred talisman papers and drawn talismans.

The timing was almost right.

He had been planning to reveal his status as a ranked talisman master around this time.

It just so happened that he had discussed the matter with his wives and concubines today because of his son, Lu Xianzhi, so there was no need to wait any longer.

Thinking of his son, Lu Xianzhi, Lu Changsheng suddenly thought of his own spiritual root.

His spiritual root had only shown a mysterious throbbing sensation at the moment of his son’s birth.

But since then, he hadn’t felt anything.

“I wonder what grade of spiritual root my son has.”

“How much will my spiritual root change under his talent bonus?”

Lu Changsheng thought to himself.

The spiritual root was an abstract reference to a cultivator’s aptitude for cultivation.

It wasn’t like having a visible organ in the body.

According to the descriptions in the books he had read, the Heavenly Gate acupoint and Dantian of cultivators with spiritual roots were different from those of mortals.

Therefore, even though Lu Changsheng was a cultivator, he couldn’t specifically see what changes had occurred in his spiritual root, or how significant the changes were.

He could only use special treasures for testing spiritual roots, or spells and divine abilities like the Spirit Eye Technique to see.

But currently, Lu Changsheng didn’t have these conditions.

Therefore, he chose the simplest and most direct method.

To see how much the speed at which he cultivated and absorbed spiritual energy from heaven and earth differed from before.

After all, the most direct and obvious manifestation of improving one’s spiritual root was in the sensing and absorption of spiritual energy.

The better the spiritual root, the higher the degree of induction and fusion with spiritual energy, the faster the cultivation speed, and the fewer bottlenecks.

Several hours passed.

Lu Changsheng could confirm that his cultivation speed had indeed increased.

But this increase was very small.

It was less than 10%.

With only this little bonus, Lu Changsheng came to a conclusion.

His son’s spiritual root wasn’t very good either.

Even if the spiritual root hadn’t fully formed yet at birth and could grow until the age of five or six, it probably wouldn’t be much higher.

As expected, it was a low-grade spiritual root of the eighth or ninth rank.

“It’s already lucky that the seventh child has a spiritual root. How could the spiritual root be too good?”

Lu Changsheng sighed slightly, knowing that this was very normal.

His wives and concubines were all ordinary people, and his own spiritual root was only of the ninth rank. The probability of his children having spiritual roots was probably around one or two percent.

It was already very lucky that the seventh child had a spiritual root.

As for how good the spiritual root would be, a middle-grade or high-grade spiritual root was really too much to ask for.

Except for very few cases, most children’s spiritual roots were similar to their parents’, and wouldn’t be much higher.

Moreover, 99% of people with spiritual roots had low-grade spiritual roots.

All of the seedling cultivators who came to the Lu family were low-grade spiritual roots, and there wasn’t a single middle-grade spiritual root.

“If I want to have more children with spiritual roots, I still have to have them with women who have spiritual roots.”

“If both parents have spiritual roots and are cultivators, the probability of their children having spiritual roots is as high as 10% or 20%.”

Lu Changsheng thought to himself.

Thinking that if he continued to have children like this, having children with ordinary women, 99% of his children would be ordinary people.

He did mix a lot of utilitarianism into marriage and childbirth.

But he didn’t want to keep having children so crazily.

At that time, the children without spiritual roots could only watch them grow old and die.

As for letting them grow up happily and spend their lives happily.

Now that there are few children, there is naturally no problem. He can keep the water level and treat them all well.

But what if there are so many children?

Lu Changsheng knew that he would never be able to keep the water level at that time, and he would not be able to treat everyone equally.

Looking at the history of the previous life, you know that the emperor killed his own son.

If he gives birth to too many, he will definitely be like this, and he will be too lazy to ask about children without spiritual roots.

Moreover, marrying a wife and taking concubines to have children requires a certain amount of time and energy for him.

“Phew, thinking about this is still a bit far away.”

“Birth is necessary. If conditions permit, try to have eugenics and good education as much as possible.”

Lu Changsheng took a deep breath, shook his head, and didn’t continue to think about this.

He also felt that he was thinking too much, a little indecisive, and emotional.

Cultivation is against the sky. If you are too entangled in emotions, it will be difficult to go far, and you may end up causing your own inner demons.

“I don’t know if I can marry a woman with spiritual roots from the Lu family after I become a talisman master.”

Seeing that the sky was already bright, Lu Changsheng got up and went out, ready to tell Uncle Fu that he could draw first-order, low-grade talismans.

Suddenly thought, if he becomes a first-order talisman master, can he marry a woman with spiritual roots in the Lu family.

In the past, this was absolutely impossible.

Belonging to wishful thinking.

A mere son-in-law dares to eat swan meat! ?

But now.

With his talent in talisman-making, it is not impossible to become a ranked talisman master.

As long as it is not said that marrying Miss Lu Miaoge, this kind of core woman of the Lu family, should be hopeful.

“If I can marry a few women with spiritual roots, it would be the best. The children born in the future will most likely have spiritual roots.”

“It’s a good thing for me and the children.”

“However, don’t worry for now, and don’t rush.”

Lu Changsheng thought to himself.

It would be good to marry a woman with spiritual roots.

But he is only at the second level of Qi refining now, and the only thing he relies on is the skill of first-order low-grade talisman making.

Even if you marry a spiritual root wife, I am afraid that the husband’s principles will be easily lost, and the harem will be difficult to achieve the current harmony and tranquility.

Moreover, if you make such a request to the Lu family, it will definitely not be as simple as taking a concubine from the Lu family’s secular women, and you need to pay some price.

So Lu Changsheng felt that this should not be considered for the time being, and considered it when the conditions come up in the future.

Not to mention anything else, with his second-order talisman-making skills, it is not difficult to marry a few ‘fairies’ with spiritual roots in the future.