Only at this moment did Mu Xi learn that her mother’s surname was actually Ji.
That was the ancestral surname from which countless Chinese surnames originated, and it had also been the royal surname of the Zhou Dynasty.
In other words, her mother was a descendant of the royal family.
Although that royal dynasty had long since fallen, and countless generations had passed through earth-shaking changes since then.
But…
Precisely because the lineage had existed for so long, its foundations ran incredibly deep!
For example, there was an entire shelf filled with cultivation techniques.
After all, throughout Chinese history, there had always been legends of Qi Refiners.
Not to mention the immortals and gods of ancient times.
Before reading the letter, Mu Xi had simply regarded those things as myths and legends. But now, she understood with absolute clarity that they hadn’t been fabricated!
Putting that aside for the moment.
Just the things left behind by the Ji clan were enough to completely broaden Mu Xi’s horizons.
Cultivation techniques of every rank.
Spiritual fruit trees in the mountain forest.
There was also a pile of spiritual treasures and magical artifacts, storage equipment, and even a spirit stone mine beneath the mountain forest.
Mu Xi’s heart raced with excitement, and her hands trembled so badly that she nearly fainted.
“Good grief. With the female lead, this was still a period novel, but now that it’s come to me, hasn’t it practically turned into a fantasy cultivation novel?!”
Seriously, with such an enormous golden finger sitting right in front of her, if she didn’t accomplish something with it, she would feel as though she had let down eighteen generations of her ancestors.
“Calm down! Calm down! I haven’t even started cultivating yet, so I’m still nothing. I definitely can’t get carried away. At the very least, I should cultivate to the Golden Core stage before I can… Hehehe~”
She couldn’t keep it together at all!
Who the hell could possess such an enormous golden finger and not get excited?
They’d have to be dead!
With a thought, Mu Xi appeared in front of the fruit trees in the mountain forest.
There was nothing else she could do. She might as well eat some fruit to distract herself.
Looking at the branches laden with fruit, Mu Xi happily picked several cherries.
“Whoa, these are so sweet~”
These were definitely the most delicious cherries she had ever eaten!
They were even sweeter than the ones she had accelerated the growth of with her ability.
During the apocalypse, she had never lacked fruit or vegetables. As long as she had seeds, she could accelerate their growth herself and eat them, or trade them for other things.
Mm. Other people had suffered terribly during the apocalypse, but she had actually lived quite well.
After eating several cherries and an apple, Mu Xi finally calmed down.
She returned to the wooden cabin and found a lustrous white stone.
According to the letter, this was a Spirit Testing Stone.
It could determine whether someone possessed spiritual roots.
Mu Xi placed her hand on it. Before long, a beam of green light shot into the sky.
She nodded in satisfaction. “Just as I thought!”
A wood spiritual root!
She had already suspected as much. After all, she was a wood-type ability user, so there was a high probability that she possessed a wood spiritual root.
Her only concern had been that she might have mixed spiritual roots. Fortunately, she didn’t.
That meant she possessed a single Heavenly Spiritual Root, a talent so rare that even in ancient times, not one person in ten thousand would possess it.
Hahaha! As expected of her!
Now that she had tested her spiritual root, the next step was choosing a cultivation technique.
Although the shelves held techniques of every rank, since she was choosing one for herself, she naturally had to pick the most powerful wood-element technique.
A divine-grade cultivation technique—The Art of Immortality.
The Art of Immortality was divided into nine levels, corresponding to the cultivation realms, and each level also contained a unique ultimate technique.
Upon cultivating the ninth level to perfection, one would ascend.
If that were all, the technique could only be considered high-grade and wouldn’t qualify as divine-grade at all.
What placed it among the divine-grade cultivation techniques was its name—The Art of Immortality.
Nine levels perfected, nine nines returning to one—that was immortality!
That was how the cultivation technique described it. However, records left behind by later members of the clan showed that not a single person had ever reached the realm of nine nines returning to one.
In other words, merely cultivating all nine levels to perfection wasn’t enough to achieve immortality.
One also had to attain nine nines returning to one.
As for how to accomplish that, no one knew.
Mu Xi didn’t dwell on it. After all, she hadn’t even started cultivating yet. What was the point of thinking so far ahead?