Eh? Am I Not the Protagonist?

Can't you cultivate immortality without spiritual roots? Chu Li never believed in this evil. On the day of the spiritual root test, the water in the copper basin didn't even bubble. The Taoist in gray looked at him no differently than he looked at the stones on the roadside. The entire Bushan Town knew that the boy from the Chu family had no chance of becoming an immortal in this life, so it was only right to take the exams for fame. But he just wasn't willing to do it. Everyone said he was fanciful. Until one day, his eyebrows jumped slightly. "Consecration? I have never heard of this realm." "Can people without spiritual roots practice cultivation?" "This man... Took an unprecedented path." Chu Li was very calm. So what if there is no spiritual root? The path of genius is often lonely. It wasn't until he walked out of Bushan Town that he discovered This road seems different from what I imagined. Why do the geniuses in this world keep popping up one after another?