Five-Element Root: The Cultivation Orthodoxy Misunderstood for Ten Thousand Years

The world laughs at my five-element spiritual root, calling it worthless. Little do they know that possessing all five elements is the orthodox path of ancient cultivation! Shen Yan was born with a five-element spiritual root. Everyone in the Qingxuan Sect deemed it useless and tossed him into the servant quarters, where he endured nothing but disdain. For ten thousand years, people have claimed that cultivating with a five-element root is sluggish and that it is the worst kind of spiritual root. But they don’t know that possessing all five elements is the Dao tradition from the very dawn of the world. When cultivators with other spiritual roots enter the Time Ruins Secret Realm, they are gravely injured by the power of the five-element origin. Only those with a five-element root can enter safely and use the realm’s origin power to break through their cultivation bottlenecks with ease. His mother tried to pave the way for him by forcing herself to take a counterfeit Foundation Establishment pill. Its poison ravaged her body, and she was only one step away from mastering a lost technique. Bearing his mother’s final wish, Shen Yan deliberately concealed his true cultivation level. He refined pills, laid arrays, and fought his way into the Ten Thousand Demons Ridge trial, revealing his talent before the geniuses of every sect. While other prodigies struggled in agony against their cultivation bottlenecks, he used the Dao tradition of the five elements to break through one realm after another and turn the tables. When the truth is finally revealed, this enormous misunderstanding that has lasted ten thousand years will shake the entire Eastern Wilderness!