As soon as he entered the stone castle, Li Tianqi couldn't help but shudder. It was cold. It was too cold. The temperature inside the stone castle was simply too low. It made Li Tianqi tremble with the cold.

At this time, a group of half-human and half-demon things appeared in the stone castle, some with human heads and horse bodies, some with wolf heads and human bodies... These demons were all in the foundation-building stage, and had not yet completely transformed into benevolent forms.

Seeing Qin Nu approaching, these half-humans and half-demon immediately stopped and greeted respectfully: "See you, young master!"

Qin Nu nodded slightly: "Has my mother been released from confinement?"

A monster with the body of a centaur hurriedly replied: "Report to the young master, the castle master has not left seclusion yet."

"Not released yet?" Qin Nu frowned and said to herself: "I have been in seclusion for a year. It stands to reason that my mother should have been released from seclusion long ago... Could it be that something unexpected happened?" Thinking of this

, Qin Nu's face suddenly showed a trace of anxiety, and she walked towards the inside of the stone castle. This time, Qin Nu did not take Li Tianqi with her, but handed Li Tianqi to the care of Remy Centaur.

Remy Centauri locked Li Tianqi directly in the dungeon without saying a word.

"Alas... Senior, please stay." Seeing Remy Centauri about to leave, Li Tianqi hurriedly shouted. Remy Centaur is a cultivation level in the foundation-building stage, so Li Tianqi naturally has to call him senior. This is the case in the world of cultivation, as long as the cultivation level is high, he is a senior.

Remy Centaur stopped and asked impatiently: "What's the matter?"

"Um, senior, can you move me to another place? This dungeon is really too cold..." Li Tianqi kept rubbing his hands as he spoke.

"Sorry, I can't make the decision on this. You should just stay here honestly." After saying that, Centaur left the dungeon directly.

Li Tianqi shouted several times without stopping.

There were waves of cold air floating in the dungeon, and the surrounding stone walls were covered with a thick layer of ice. The dungeon was simply an ice cellar.

"Why is this place so cold?" Li Tianqi found a relatively dry place, sat down cross-legged, put his hands flat on his knees, closed his eyes, and began to meditate. At first, Li Tianqi's face turned blue from the cold and he felt numb all over.

He stopped shaking, but as he meditated longer, his face gradually became rosy and his body no longer trembled. The method Li Tianqi was practicing at this time was called "Qingyun Gong", which was the lowest form of Qingyun Sect.

Magic skills, but this Qingyun Kung is a masculine magic skill, which can restrain the cold.

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In a spacious stone hall.

Qinnu sat cross-legged on the ground, staring quietly at the stone door opposite. Behind that stone door was a secret room, and Qinnu's mother was in retreat in the secret room.

The piano girl sat there for seven whole days. During these seven days, the piano girl did not move, just looking at the stone door opposite.

As time passed, Qin Nu's face was filled with worry and anxiety.

"Kaka..."

A strange noise suddenly sounded.

Qinnu's eyes suddenly lit up and she stared at the stone door opposite nervously. She was still mumbling something, but her voice was too low and she couldn't hear what she was saying.

"Kakaka..."

The stone door opposite slowly opened.

Qin Nu's face lit up and she quickly stood up from the ground.

"Is Qin Nu outside?" A woman's voice came from the stone door.

"It's my daughter." Qin Nu said hurriedly: "Mother, why did it take you so long to get out of seclusion?"

"Alas..." A heavy sigh came from the stone door: "Some accidents happened this time..."

Qin Nu was startled: "Accident? What accident? Mother, are you okay?"

"I'm fine. I just made some mistakes while practicing." A middle-aged woman wearing a white dress slowly walked out of the stone door. This woman's hair was tied up high, her skin was fair, and she showed a certain air of excitement in her movements.

With a noble temperament, this woman is the mother of Qinnu and the owner of this stone castle. Her name is Quartz. She is a dignified demon cultivator in the late Yuan Ying period and has a certain reputation in Shiwan Mountain.

Seeing that her mother was safe and sound, Qin Nu's tense nerves immediately relaxed.

"Nv Qin, has nothing happened to the stone castle during the past year that I have been in seclusion?" Quartz asked.

Qin Nu shook her head: "No, everything is fine in Shibao. I went to visit my grandpa last month. He said he missed you and asked you to visit him when you have time."

"Calculating the time, I haven't visited my father for more than a year. It's really unfilial." A trace of shame appeared on Quartz's face.

"Mother, you...you just said that something went wrong during the retreat? Is it okay?" Qin Nu asked with concern.

Quartz shook his head slightly: "It's nothing. It's just that when I reached the most critical moment in my cultivation, I suddenly became unstable and all my previous efforts were wasted. This time, I wanted to advance to the peak of the late Nascent Soul, so that I could try to break through to the Divine Transformation.

It's due, but unfortunately... the work fell short at the last minute." At this point, Quartz's face showed a trace of disappointment. She had gone into retreat several times, but without success. For hundreds of years, she had been stuck in the late Yuan Ying stage.

, which made Quartz very angry.

Qin Nu reached out and held Quartz's arm, comforting her: "Mom, don't be angry. If it doesn't work this time, just next time, you will succeed sooner or later."

Quartz nodded silently and said nothing.

"By the way, mother, I captured a human cultivator a few days ago." Qin Nu suddenly said.

Quartz was stunned for a moment, and then her face darkened: "Qinnu, I have told you many times not to leave Shiwandashan without permission. We, the demon clan, have an agreement with the human race. We are not allowed to leave Shiwandashan without authorization, and neither do humans."

If you are allowed to enter Shiwanda Mountain, whoever breaks the contract will be killed!"

"Mother, don't be angry. My daughter, I haven't left Shiwandashan at all." Qin Nu said hurriedly.

"You didn't leave the Hundred Thousand Mountains, so how did you catch the human cultivator?" Quartz suddenly thought of something and raised her eyebrows: "It was the human cultivator who broke into the Hundred Thousand Mountains?"

Qin Nu nodded: "Yes..." Qin Nu immediately recounted the process of arresting Li Tianqi.

After listening to Qin Nu's narration, Quartz's expression suddenly softened: "I never thought that the human race today is so courageous, and they dare to break into Shiwan Mountain without permission!" As for the friction between Qin Nu and Jiuniang in the Sky Hollow, Quartz simply didn't think so.

He didn't care at all. Volley Hole was only a small force in Shiwandashan and could not threaten Quartz at all.

"I heard from the human cultivator that he was chased by his enemies and had no choice but to hide in Shiwanda Mountain." Qin Nu explained.

Quartz waved his hand: "I don't care what his reasons are, as long as he breaks into Shiwanda Mountain without permission, I will never let him go lightly! Qinnu, kill that human cultivator immediately, and then hang his head on the

At the entrance to the Hundred Thousand Mountains, I want to warn those humans who dare to break into the Hundred Thousand Mountains privately, there will definitely be no good end!"

"No!" Qin Nu shook her head repeatedly: "We must not kill that human cultivator!"

Quartz frowned: "Why can't you kill?"

Qin Nu smiled mysteriously: "Because that human cultivator has five elements mixed spiritual roots."

"What!" Quartz's expression suddenly became excited, and she said with a trembling tone: "Qin Nu...you...what you said is true? You didn't...lie to me...right..."

Qin Nu smiled: "How dare a daughter lie to her mother? If I hadn't seen that human cultivator has five elements of mixed spiritual roots, I wouldn't have saved him." If a mortal wants to cultivate immortality, there is an inevitable condition, that is, he must have

Spiritual roots, because only mortals with spiritual roots can sense the spiritual energy hidden in the air and absorb the spiritual energy for practice. Therefore, only with spiritual roots can humans practice, and spiritual roots are also differentiated. Rough statistics

Now, there are three types of spiritual roots. The first type is called "Heavenly Spiritual Root". The so-called Heavenly Spiritual Root refers to a single spiritual root, such as the Golden Spiritual Root, the Wood Spiritual Root, the Wind Spiritual Root, and the Thunder Spiritual Root.

Roots all belong to Heavenly Spiritual Roots. The second type is called "Dual Spiritual Roots". As the name suggests, a person has spiritual roots with two attributes at the same time. People with dual-attribute spiritual roots can cultivate faster than Heavenly Spiritual Roots.

It's a little worse, but overall, the cultivation qualifications are pretty good. The third type is called "mixed spiritual roots". Mixed spiritual roots refer to the spiritual roots of a person who possesses more than three attributes at the same time.

When it comes to spiritual roots, it doesn’t mean that the more attributes and spiritual roots you have, the better. On the contrary, the more single attributes of the spiritual roots you have, the stronger your cultivation qualifications will be. For example, if you only have fire spiritual roots.

, then you can practice fire attribute spells, and the speed of practice is several times that of others. If you have thunder spirit roots, then you can practice thunder attribute spells, and the speed of practice is also super fast, usually without any accidents.

If so, people with a single spiritual root can basically cultivate to the Nascent Soul stage.

The more spiritual roots you have, the slower your cultivation speed will be. Under normal circumstances, the final cultivation level of people with mixed spiritual roots will not be too high. Of course, there are exceptions to everything. In the past, a person appeared in the human world.

The monks with mixed spiritual roots have far higher magical powers than other monks in the divine transformation stage. At that time, they were known as the "first person in the divine transformation stage". However, in tens of thousands of years, there has only been such a person with mixed spiritual roots in the human world.

It can be said that for monks in the transformation stage, the chance of success is really low.

In fact, miscellaneous spiritual roots are also divided into levels. People with spiritual roots of three attributes have average qualifications. People with spiritual roots of four attributes have poor qualifications. If you have spiritual roots with five attributes at the same time,

Root, then your qualifications are simply terrible (but it is still rare to see people with spiritual roots of five attributes. After all, it is difficult to have spiritual roots of five attributes at the same time. It is estimated that there are millions of people.

Among them, there may be a person with the spiritual roots of the five attributes.)

Let me talk about it here. In fact, spiritual roots are divided into five types: metal, wood, water, fire and earth. Usually everyone calls them "five elements spiritual roots". As for wind spiritual roots, thunder spiritual roots, etc., they are all mutations.

Spiritual roots, in fact, strictly speaking, mutated spiritual roots such as wind spirit roots and thunder spirit roots still fall within the scope of the five elements spiritual roots.
Chapter completed!