"I didn't expect to succeed on the very first try."
Feeling the low-grade gold spirit root that had suddenly appeared within his body, Ye Hao felt a slight daze come over him.
He had originally thought he would need at least three or four Golden Spike Millet Fruits to potentially sprout a low-grade gold spirit root of his own.
He hadn't expected that using just one would be enough to successfully achieve his goal.
But thinking about it carefully, a thirty percent chance was actually quite high.
Midnight!
The system notification rang out right on time.
[Today's harvest: six First-Tier supreme-grade Golden Spike Millet Fruits, 300 low-grade spirit stones.]
[Sixtyfold yield settlement.]
[Congratulations! You have obtained 360 First-Tier supreme-grade Golden Spike Millet Fruits and 18,000 low-grade spirit stones.]
"I have a feeling something bad is about to happen."
Hearing the system settlement, Ye Hao couldn't help but feel he had overlooked something.
Inside Ye Hao's body, the low-grade gold spirit root sprouted by the Golden Spike Millet Fruit...
...was dim and weak, quietly lying dormant in the depths of his dantian.
Right at the instant the system notification ended...
...a majestic, vast surge of golden spiritual energy suddenly erupted.
Like a bursting river, it gushed out from the depths of Ye Hao's limbs and bones.
It furiously washed over the extremely frail low-grade gold spirit root within his dantian.
The originally dim, slender golden tendrils...
...under the infusion of sixtyfold effects, frantically stretched, condensed, and transformed.
The root tendrils grew from thin, weak threads into thick, lustrous strands, while the dim gold light cast off its cloudiness and turned into a pure, brilliant bright gold.
The impurities brought by acquired sprouting and the sluggish innate flaws were dissolved and cleansed bit by bit under the scouring medicinal power.
In an instant, the low-grade gold spirit root transformed into a mid-grade gold spirit root.
Following that, this newly transformed mid-grade gold spirit root evolved into a high-grade gold spirit root at a pace visible to the naked eye.
Within a few breaths, that low-grade spirit root forcibly sprouted by the spirit fruit did not merely stop its transformation.
It had now completed a transformation that ordinary people could seek for a thousand years without achieving.
It had turned into a plump, lustrous, and purely radiant high-grade gold spirit root!
"How could I have forgotten about this?"
Ye Hao looked at the high-grade gold spirit root inside his body, caught between tears and laughter.
The gold spirit root originally sprouted was merely low-grade.
Even among his four existing low-grade spirit roots, it would have been the weakest.
Yet surprisingly, under the system's sixtyfold feedback, this gold spirit root had not only stabilized its foundation, but had even upgraded to become the sole high-grade gold spirit root in his body, standing supreme above the rest.
He realized he should have anticipated this earlier; back when he consumed the Wood Spirit Fruit and Dew Condensation Fruit, he had been able to receive multiplied feedback from the system.
Naturally, this Golden Spike Millet Fruit capable of enhancing his spirit root possessed the exact same effect.
It was just that its effect was far more pronounced.
Ordinary spirit fruits could only boost his cultivation, whereas the Golden Spike Millet Fruit before him could directly improve his foundation.
It had transformed what would have been a low-grade spirit root straight into a high-grade spirit root.
Right now, Ye Hao was faced with a piece of good news and a piece of bad news.
The bad news was that this upgrade had been a bit too successful.
It granted him a high-grade gold spirit root—the only high-grade spirit root he possessed so far—creating a massive disparity between it and his other low-grade spirit roots.
If he wanted to continue cultivating the Five Elements Origin Method, he had to upgrade all five of his elemental spirit roots to high-grade quality.
The good news was that he possessed the system's feedback; as long as he could find natural treasures like the Golden Spike Millet Fruit that could enhance and sprout spirit roots...
...he could easily upgrade all of his spirit roots to high-grade quality.
In fact, precisely due to the system's feedback...
...even the lowest-tier natural treasures would easily satisfy his requirements.
Furthermore, in the face of the good news, this bad news was hardly a problem at all.
"I'll cultivate through the night tonight. No sleep."
Ye Hao decided to test out the cultivation speed granted by the gold spirit root.
Soon, he sat cross-legged and began cultivating.
In the blink of an eye, strands of pure metal-attribute spiritual energy surged into his dantian.
"With a high-grade gold spirit root, the cultivation speed is at least more than ten times that of a low-grade one."
"No wonder people say spirit roots are so important."
After taking a moment to sense it, Ye Hao calculated the difference in cultivation speed between a low-grade spirit root and a high-grade spirit root, sighing with emotion.
This was even without a cultivation technique suited for his high-grade gold spirit root; otherwise, the speed would be much faster still.
No wonder the inner sect only recruited disciples with high-grade spirit roots or above; paired with such terrifying cultivation speeds and resources, reaching Foundation Establishment in the future was practically a certainty.
...
Over the following period, Ye Hao busied himself traveling between Baiyun City and the market, spending tens of thousands of low-grade spirit stones before finally gathering all the natural treasures capable of enhancing spirit roots.
After collecting them all, Ye Hao went into secluded cultivation.
Ye Hao gathered all the corresponding materials for the metal, wood, water, and fire spirit roots, elevating all of his spirit roots to high-grade quality.
During this time, Ye Hao actually found a Second-Tier natural treasure that could raise the quality of his fire spirit root to an even higher level.
However, Ye Hao didn't dare to use it, as Second-Tier natural treasures were exceedingly difficult to come by.
He had spent tens of thousands of high-grade spirit stones.
The bulk of which had been spent on this Second-Tier natural treasure.
If he used this Second-Tier natural treasure along with the system's feedback, it would be enough to elevate his fire spirit root to supreme-grade quality.
But correspondingly, if he wanted to continue cultivating the Five Elements Origin Method, he would have to find four other corresponding natural treasures...
...to raise the remaining four attributes all to supreme-grade quality.
Yet searching for just this one Second-Tier natural treasure had already cost Ye Hao immense effort.
Trying to find the other four would be exponentially harder.
This would also delay the time it took for him to comprehend and achieve entry-level mastery of the Five Elements Origin Method.
After careful consideration, Ye Hao ceased pursuing it for now.
He placed this fire-attribute Second-Tier natural treasure into his space backpack, planning to use it together once he collected the other four natural treasures in the future.
Currently, his primary objective was to achieve entry-level mastery of the Five Elements Origin Method.
Thus, Ye Hao went into secluded cultivation once more.
However, the difficulty of the Five Elements Origin Method far exceeded Ye Hao's imagination.
Even with the system's sixtyfold feedback, it still took him over a month...
...to finally achieve entry-level mastery of this technique.
Metal, wood, water, fire, and earth formed a heavenly cycle of five-element reincarnation within his body.
Metal generates water, water generates wood, wood generates fire, fire generates earth, and earth generates metal.
Endlessly generating, self-evolving with spiritual vitality.
The spiritual energy stored within his body was five times that of others at the same tier.
"Whew, Seventh-Layer Qi Refinement."
The moment he achieved entry-level mastery of the technique, a shattering sound emanated from Ye Hao's body, and the minor bottleneck that had trapped him for so long vanished without a trace in an instant.
Immediately afterward, the aura around his body swelled dramatically.
From his original Sixth-Layer Qi Refinement, he broke directly through to Seventh-Layer Qi Refinement.
"Now, as long as I don't run into someone at Qi Refinement great perfection, I should be able to go toe-to-toe even with a Ninth-Layer Qi Refinement cultivator."
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