Chapter 4886 — Merging Spirit Roots
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To the vast majority of people, the lightning tribulation was indeed a destructive force capable of reducing a person to ashes in an instant, yet it was also an exceedingly rare creative force. Under the supreme tempering of such power, it was no wonder that anything at all might be born anew—including spirit roots.
Yet however earth-shaking the lightning tribulation might be, the lightning power each person could summon was ultimately limited. After all, if it truly exceeded the limit, it would be a lightning burial rather than a tribulation—and no ordinary person, no matter how many Thunder Mystic Pills he clutched, could ever hope to survive the fury of a lightning burial.
By the ghostly thing's estimate, a normal person's tribulation power was generally only sufficient to fuse two spirit root attributes. Only in extremely rare cases was there a chance to fuse three—and that was already the limit!
It was precisely for this reason that throughout the five great Cloud-Tier Islands, triple-spirit Xuan Sheng cultivators were rarely seen. A so-called triple-spirit Xuan Sheng expert was one who had fused three spirit root attributes into one; ordinary Xuan Sheng experts were merely dual-spirit.
Geniuses bearing three spirit root attributes were uncommon, to be sure, but not so rare as all that—the lightning tribulation's limit was the true crux.
Counting all the Xuan Sheng experts who had successfully advanced, those with three spirit root attributes numbered at most ten percent, and among that tenth, those able to fuse three attributes in a single attempt were fewer than one in ten.
Thus, wherever one went, triple-spirit Xuan Sheng experts were rare treasures, for like the perfect golden core and the perfect nascent soul, they were all but absolutely dominant against experts of the same tier. And as for an eight-spirit Xuan Sheng expert? What in the world was that!
Never mind an eight-spirit Xuan Sheng expert—simply possessing eight spirit root attributes, Wei Zhao was likely the only one under heaven. Ordinary people had never even heard of such a thing.
So Wei Zhao's most vexing problem now was choosing three from among his eight spirit root attributes—and even then he had to be prepared for the threefold fusion to fail, in which case he might well end up with only a twofold fusion.
In truth, Wei Zhao had also considered another method. At first glance it seemed rather feasible, but the ghostly thing snuffed it out with a single simple sentence.
Wei Zhao's notion was simple: put plainly, he would fuse in multiple rounds, two attributes at a time, and after repeating seven times, would that not amount to an eightfold fusion?
No ordinary person would ever conceive such a bizarre idea, for to them the assault on the Xuan Sheng stage was a one-time affair—succeed or fail, that was that. Only a freak like Wei Zhao, bearing eight spirit root attributes, would be so ingeniously unconventional as to think of repeating it again and again.
In that case, each repetition would amount to a fresh assault on the Xuan Sheng stage. The thunderclouds here were dense enough, and his spirit root attributes numerous enough; in theory, it was indeed not impossible.
But when the ghostly thing caught wind of it, it nearly laughed itself to death: "Do you think fusing spirit roots is stir-frying? Add oil when you want oil, add vinegar when you want vinegar—and if it's not cooked through the first time, you can just toss it back in the wok and heat it up again?"
"Uh... so it won't work?" Wei Zhao scratched his head again and again.
"Of course it won't work, you fool! Fusing spirit roots is a one-time opportunity—after that, there's no fusing again. In all my long life I've never heard of anyone's spirit roots being fused over and over. Otherwise, triple-spirit Xuan Sheng experts would have been everywhere long ago—they wouldn't have become the rare animals they are today." The ghostly thing roared with laughter.