The Immortal Pearl's Fated Quest: A Tale of Cultivation Through Spiritual Sources

[No System + Mortal's Path to Immortality + Cautious + play the pig to eat the tiger + Farming + Slow Burn] Li Yao, a rogue cultivator, is so ridiculously cautious that it beggars belief: he established his foundation at twenty-four, reached the middle stage of Foundation Establishment at thirty-three, and formed his core after turning a hundred... This is a world where everyone cultivates. There are more than thirty kinds of spiritual roots. Single spiritual roots cultivate fastest, but are weakest among cultivators of the same rank. Four-element spiritual roots cultivate slowest, making it extraordinarily difficult to reach higher realms. The five-element spiritual root's mutually generating and overcoming elements give it a cultivation speed comparable to that of a three-element root. To advance from Deity Transformation to Void Refinement, a cultivator must complete all five elements. The usual method is to refine a Nascent Soul with the missing attribute. As a result, low-level cultivators seize bodies with fewer spiritual roots, while cultivators with powerful backers choose bodies with five-element roots, sparking endless conflict throughout the cultivation world. Li Yao has four spiritual roots and no resources, connections, or talent. Relying on a spatial treasure that brought his soul across worlds, he cultivates the Five-Element Heaven-Mending Art and steadily climbs to the summit.