Take Root

"Falling Roots" Shen Jin stayed in the Luoyun Sect for seven years, reaching the Yuan Condensation stage, but never rose above one level. It's not that he has poor aptitude - it's just that every time he practices, he can hear some sounds in his spiritual power that shouldn't exist. It was like someone was shouting something inaudible at the bottom of the deep water. He couldn't do it. He didn't know that the spiritual energy of heaven and earth was originally transformed by the souls of the dead. Every time you practice, you are devouring the memory of the deceased. Later, he traveled down the mountain and met a girl doing medicine in a place called Qingxing Town in the south. She sets the chopsticks for him, cleans the house, and says "come back early" when he goes out. She asked him if he could tell her before he left. He said yes. On the morning of her departure, he stood at her door, raising his hand without knocking. She saw his shoes in the crack of the door and waited for him for a long time without shouting. He returned to the sect. The master died of illness, the senior brother died in battle, and the girl died of illness. He opened the old files and found that the girl's family was a bloodline sacrificed by the sect. The name of the officiating person is his master. And the spiritual power he absorbs every time he practices includes her ancestor's share. At the end of the book, he walked into the Northern Wasteland and sat in a stone circle for forty years. Forty years later, his spiritual power revived, he stood up and left. The back disappeared into the depths of the desert without looking back. This is a story about "too late". It's not that the protagonist doesn't have a chance - he has many chances. But he did nothing. It's not that I don't want to. By the time you think about it, it's already too late.