Mortal: My divine sense has mutated.

Chapter 1 Jiayuan City

In a secluded courtyard of the Mo family mansion in Jiayuan City, Lanzhou, Yue Kingdom.

A young man of about eighteen years old slowly awoke from his cultivation. His eyes were bright, and he said with a hint of joy, "I've finally broken through to the twelfth level of Qi Refining..."

However, when he recalled the hardships he had endured along the way, he couldn't help but sigh slightly.

Back then, when Chen Liang woke up, he found that he had not only transmigrated to an ancient city, but also that his body had become that of a six-year-old.

If his soul hadn't become stronger due to his transmigration, allowing him to project a divine sense three zhang away from his mortal body, problems like lack of food, language barriers, and unfamiliarity with the place would have killed him back then.

Even so, he still experienced a rather embarrassing ordeal and was almost kidnapped by human traffickers in ancient times.

Fortunately, Chen Liang's divine sense was sufficient to deal with ordinary people who didn't even have internal energy. He only needed to transform his divine sense into a sharp cone to shatter their souls.

Afterwards, Chen Liang's unique existence attracted the attention and cultivation of the local dominant forces.

With their help, Chen Liang was able to gain a foothold in this world.

But Chen Liang was also surprised to find himself in Jiayuan City, Lanzhou, Yue Kingdom, and the dominant force helping him was the Mo family.

Only then did Chen Liang realize that he had entered a world of mortal cultivation.

In addition, Chen Liang also found out the ages of the three daughters of the Mo family. He discovered that Mo Yuzhu was about a year older than him. Mo Fengwu was the same age as Chen Liang, while Mo Caihuan was a little younger than him.

Based on this, Chen Liang and Han Li should be the same age.

Meanwhile, Mo Juren, the founder of the Jingjiao Society and the powerful Mo family lord who dominated the martial arts world of Lanzhou, had not shown his face for more than half a year. This indicated that Mo Juren had left Jiayuan City to find a way to break the Blood Arrow Yin Soul Curse and embark on the path of cultivation.

Afterwards, Mo Juren will take Han Li as his disciple at the Seven Mysteries Sect in Jingzhou and plot to seize the body of this future Heavenly Venerable Han, but this has nothing to do with Chen Liang.

About two years passed in this way. During this time, Chen Liang got to know the three young ladies of the Mo family one after another, and they got along quite well.

Of the three adorable little girls, Mo Yuzhu was the most active, while Mo Caihuan was a mischievous and clever one. After meeting Chen Liang, the two of them often pestered him. Because in their eyes, Chen Liang was just too interesting.

Although Mo Fengwu, the second young lady of the Mo family, was shy, she was also impressed by Chen Liang's precocious intelligence and followed him around all day.

One day, Mo Caihuan suddenly taught Chen Liang a set of incantations, saying that it was a strange cultivation method that her mother, Madam Yan, the fourth wife of the Mo family, had asked her to try, but no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't achieve anything.

But Chen Liang knew that it should be the wood-attribute basic cultivation technique left by Mo Juren to the Mo family - "Eternal Spring Technique".

Although Mo Juren was ruthless in his actions, he still had deep feelings for his family. He couldn't possibly leave behind a cultivation technique that could potentially lead his family onto the path of immortality.

However, Mo Caihuan and the others ultimately lacked spiritual roots, so they could not become cultivators through this method.

After practicing the Everlasting Spring Technique, Chen Liang confirmed that he had spiritual roots because wood-attribute spiritual power was generated in his meridians.

However, at the same time, the four-colored spiritual energy of metal, water, fire and earth intertwined with the wood-attribute spiritual power within his meridians told Chen Liang that his spiritual root should be a five-elemental root.

After realizing this, Chen Liang remained silent for a long time.

In the cultivation world, a single spiritual root is called a heavenly spiritual root because cultivators with a single spiritual root can cultivate to the Core Formation stage without any bottlenecks and live to be five hundred years old. This can be described as a smooth path straight to heaven.

Cultivators with dual or triple spiritual roots may encounter bottlenecks during their cultivation journey to the Core Formation stage, but with effort, they still have a chance to form their core. Therefore, both types of spiritual roots are called true spiritual roots.

Furthermore, there are the four spiritual roots, which are called pseudo-spiritual roots. Cultivators with four spiritual roots have a chance of breaking through to the Core Formation stage, but it is extremely slim, hence the name pseudo-spiritual roots.

As for the five spiritual roots that Chen Liang possesses, they are the kind of talent that leads to bottlenecks on the path of cultivation. Even those who break through from the early stage of Qi Refining to the middle stage of Qi Refining will inevitably encounter bottlenecks. They are generally considered to be hopeless talents for forming a core, so they are called false spiritual roots.

Even so, Chen Liang did not give up.

After all, no matter how difficult the path of cultivation may be, one must eventually walk it personally to have no regrets.

After Chen Liang successfully cultivated to the first level of Qi Refining and officially embarked on the path of cultivation, he confessed his cultivation progress to Madam Yan and asked her to bestow upon him the subsequent cultivation techniques.

When Madam Yan learned of this, her expression was complex, but this woman, who managed the Mo family mansion and the Jingjiao Society so well, possessed considerable charisma. She simply told Chen Liang not to forget this kindness in the future, and then gave Chen Liang all eight levels of the "Eternal Spring Skill" left by Mo Juren, essentially going all in.

Chen Liang was not the kind of person who would forget kindness, so he agreed.

Afterwards, he raised his cultivation to the third level of Qi Refining perfection. After being blocked by the bottleneck of the middle stage of Qi Refining, Chen Liang turned to learning and mastering some basic spells recorded in the "Eternal Spring Technique", such as Fireball Technique, Heavenly Eye Technique, and Qi Concealment Technique.

Moreover, Chen Liang also learned two martial arts from the fifth madam of the Mo family—the aloof and beautiful Madam Wang: the Shadow Step and the Soul-Severing Sword.

Among them, "Shadow Step" is ghostly and unpredictable, making it most suitable for stealth or surprise attacks, while "Soul-Severing Sword" is an incomparably fierce killing sword technique.

On the other hand, Chen Liang was also studying alchemy.

Under the guidance of an experienced pharmacist, Chen Liang quickly mastered the basics. Moreover, Chen Liang belatedly realized that his divine sense was probably different from that of ordinary people, with extremely terrifying insight. This allowed Chen Liang's alchemy skills to improve rapidly, and his success rate in producing pills was also frighteningly high.

Not long after, Chen Liang used the pill formulas and medicinal materials collected by the Mo family to refine some martial arts holy medicines, such as the Yellow Dragon Pill, the Golden Marrow Pill, and the Essence Nourishing Pill.

These pills also have an effect on Qi Refining cultivators and are commonly used by them.

Therefore, Chen Liang left some of the pills with the Mo family to strengthen their power, while keeping the rest to exchange for spirit stones.

After everything was prepared, Chen Liang temporarily bid farewell to the Mo family and prepared to head to Tai Nan Valley, a famous place in Yue Kingdom known for its immortal traces.

As they parted, the young and blossoming Mo Caihuan looked at Chen Liang with teary eyes, while the increasingly tall and elegant Mo Yuzhu and Mo Fengwu also showed reluctance.

Chen Liang said, "Don't worry, I'll be back."

Afterwards, Chen Liang traveled through mountains and rivers before finally arriving at Tainan Valley Market.

In that cultivator market, Chen Liang exchanged the pills he refined for the complete "Eternal Spring Technique" and some spirit stones, and then continued to study the art of alchemy and the art of talisman making.

After mastering alchemy and talisman-making techniques, Chen Liang earned more spirit stones and refined the Marrow Cleansing Pill, which could help cultivators break through the bottleneck of the Qi Refining stage.

With the help of the Marrow Cleansing Pill, he broke through the bottleneck of the mid-stage Qi Refining and stepped into the fourth level of Qi Refining.

On the other hand, Chen Liang also collected all the basic Five Elements cultivation techniques in an attempt to resolve the problems caused by his spiritual root aptitude.

In this respect, Chen Liang's mutated divine sense also provided him with tremendous help.

Ultimately, based on the Five Elements Basic Techniques, Chen Liang created a new technique that made full use of the twelve regular meridians and the Ren and Du meridians, among other fourteen meridians. He named it "Xiao Hunyuan Gong".

The "Minor Primordial Chaos Technique" utilizes the mutual generation of the five elements, allowing Chen Liang's cultivation speed to rival that of cultivators with true spiritual roots. Furthermore, it allows all the spiritual energy of the five elements within his meridians to be refined, eliminating any bottlenecks for him before reaching the Foundation Establishment stage.

After switching to this cultivation method, Chen Liang's cultivation level broke through to the fifth level of Qi Refining.

Most importantly, Chen Liang was pleasantly surprised to discover that the "Minor Hunyuan Gong" could also improve his spiritual root aptitude. Through further research, he even glimpsed the secret of the birth of spiritual roots.

To verify his hypothesis, Chen Liang purchased a high-grade flying sword magic weapon and then left Tainan Valley Market to return to Jiayuan City.