Chapter 7: Violet Dragon Fire, Fierce Phoenix Fire.

  Before 15 is genius, after 15 is useless.

  It is better to be a diligent blacksmith than an idle young master who has no one to love him.

  This is a nursery rhyme circulating in the streets and alleys of the Yun Tian Empire, and the object it hints at is precisely Chu Hao.

  Sitting in a chair, Chu Hao thought it was strange too. A genius before the age of 15, how could he end up like this? If it's heaven's joke, then it's really a bit excessive.

  From genius to trash, not everyone can accept the downfall, let alone the proud and arrogant prince.

  Chu Hao also estimated that if he followed the Crown Prince's cultivation speed, he would likely be able to reach the Qi Refining stage in his early twenties, which was the foundation-building realm that people dreamed of!

  The speed of this cultivation would be considered absolutely exceptional even in his previous world!

  To know that at the time of the casting door, one of the ten major sects of the Xiuzhen world, those under 25 years old who reached the foundation stage, from ancient times to now, there are less than ten people. And those people, without exception, their lowest achievement in the future is the golden elixir stage. This kind of person cultivates, enters the yuan infant or even the yin-yang stage, also has a high probability. For example, Chu Hao's master is one of them.

  Walking into the devil can reduce the impact of cultivation on one's mood, Chu Hao believes this, but he doesn't believe that it can make a person's cultivation infinitely regress. However, the fact is that after the young master's cultivation regressed, he also diligently cultivated for a very long time, but no matter what, there was no effect, and he could only stay at the second layer of refining his bones! And this gap is what caused his temperament to change greatly!

  Bizarre!

  This is what Chu Hao thinks about this matter!

  On the table, the heir's personal weapon was a long sword that had reached the pinnacle of ordinariness.

  Chu Hao curled his lip in disdain, as a prince, he actually used such trashy goods.

  Closing his eyes, Chu Hao dispelled distractions and began to introspect this new body of his.

  The realm of the second layer of bone refinement, although still only acquired and not yet entered into the category of true cultivation, was an unprecedented feeling and experience for Chu Hao! He had no spiritual roots before and couldn't cultivate immortal methods at all. As for the coarse martial arts below the True Cultivation Realm, he couldn't even muster up any interest. So until now, he was just an ordinary person with a furnace fire seed.

  Recalling the Gongfa in Shizi's mind, Chu Hao used his internal force to circulate through the meridians in his body, carefully examining it, but found nothing unusual. Neither the Dantian nor the meridians showed any signs of damage.

  While Chu Hao used a unique technique that only high-level cultivators of the Foundry Sect could master to examine Xiao Shidi's spiritual root, he almost exclaimed in surprise: Heavenly Spiritual Root!

  The spiritual root of this body is actually the heavenly spiritual root!

  Linggen, this is the necessary threshold for everyone to enter the cultivation stage!

  The spiritual roots are divided into eight categories, which are the spiritual roots of the five elements: metal, wood, water, fire, and earth! And then there is:

  Rare Spiritual Root, Heavenly Spiritual Root, Supreme Spiritual Root.

  Among these spiritual roots, the Five Elements Spiritual Root is called a lower-grade spiritual root, the Rare Spiritual Root is called a mid-grade spiritual root, the Heavenly Spiritual Root is called an upper-grade spiritual root, and the Supreme Spiritual Root is considered a transcendent spiritual root.

  The foundation-building period is the boundary between heaven and man, and to reach this realm, apart from hard work, there is something more important, that is, one must possess spiritual roots! Without spiritual roots, don't even think about breaking through to the foundation-building period in your entire life!

  But to enter the foundation period, even if one stays at the first level of foundation for their entire life, they are still among the lucky few in ten thousand. However, most people who step into the realm of cultivation have low-grade spiritual roots and heterogeneous spiritual roots. As for middle-grade rare spiritual roots, only one person out of several thousand cultivators possesses them. High-grade spiritual roots are even rarer, and as for top-grade spiritual roots, they can be counted on one's fingers according to Chu Hao's records from his previous world.

  Linggen is related to the practice of Gongfa and is related to the growth rate of each practitioner!

  Unexpectedly, this mortal's physical quality is actually the top-grade spiritual root with the most auspicious fate!

  No wonder the cultivation speed can reach such a state!

  Chu Haoqiang suppressed the excitement in his heart, calmed his mind, and operated according to the method of cultivation that the young master had practiced. After several cycles of operation, Chu Hao finally discovered an abnormality!

  No matter how he absorbed and strengthened the acquired Qi in his body, it would always mysteriously disperse when it finally gathered at the Dan Tian from the meridians. Chu Hao didn't give up and tried again several times according to some methods of the Foundry Sect, but the result was still the same!

  At this time, Chu Hao couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat, and a terrible conclusion had already risen up in his heart.

  Prohibition - The body of the young master has been restricted by someone!

  Chu Hao wasn't a rookie, after so many years in the Foundry Gate, the lowest level of cultivators he had contact with after becoming famous were Qi Refining and Foundation Building cultivators, so naturally he wouldn't be unfamiliar with these special forbidden techniques!

  This is absolutely not an ordinary technique, at least a strong practitioner above the third level of foundation building can set up such a seal!

  Shatter cultivation, disrupt the seals of internal energy and spiritual energy gathering!

  No wonder the young master's cultivation has been regressing and unable to progress, it turns out that someone had placed such a restriction on his body!

  After Chu Hao figured this out, he became confused again. Logically speaking, before the age of fifteen, the young master was considered a new star in the empire, a genius of the new generation. Who would set such a sinister and poisonous seal on his body? Was it a strong foundation period cultivator from an enemy country?

  Chu Hao knew that in this world, the cultivators of the foundation period were already standing at the pinnacle of the continent. Was there still such a senior figure who would disregard his identity and take action against an underage prince?

  To know that before the age of fifteen, the young master's behavior was still decent and law-abiding, without any deceit or bullying, and both his reputation and strength were evident to all in the empire. Compared with the current spoiled rich kids, it's like two different people!

  Thinking of this, Chu Hao felt a slight headache, after all, being remembered by such a powerful strongman when his wings were not yet fully grown was definitely not a good thing!

  Damn it, I'm not so unlucky, am I?!

  Chu Hao was indignant and felt a strong sense of injustice in his heart. Although he had figured out the mystery of this body's physique at this moment, he simply had no way to break it! The entire cultivation world knew that there were four ways to lift the seal -

  Either the cultivation is one level higher than the person who set the restriction, or the person who set the restriction personally lifts it. If not, at least know what kind of restriction it is, and let a cultivator with equivalent cultivation to the one who set the restriction use the breaking technique to lift it!

  Based on these three points, Chu Hao is a lone wolf with no family or relatives, none at all!

  As for the last possibility, it would require a top-grade elixir. The spiritual energy of the elixir and the essence of heaven and earth could break through the seal. This is even more impossible for Chu Hao now!

  In his heart, he cursed the person who had been suppressed for 180,000 times. Chu Hao was still not relieved and asked about all the females in his family a few more times before slowly calming down.

  Actually, Chu Hao's heart still thought of a terrible possibility, but simply didn't want to think about it.

  That's it: this body was taken a liking by some powerful cultivator, so he put down a restrictive seal to reserve it as a furnace for seizing a new shell!

  However, this may be somewhat elusive, because in the Xiu Zhen realm, cultivators who can perform soul-snatching must at least reach the Yuanying stage and obtain the Tian Di Wei Neng produced by the destruction of the Jindan. Otherwise, they can only rely on special secret methods to raise a substitute body with a Ling beast or a fierce beast to prepare for unexpected events.

  So this idea was just a flash and was thrown to the back of Chu Hao's mind.

  "After finally getting a Tianlinggen body, I was actually sealed, am I supposed to go back to my old profession?"

  Chu Hao reluctantly began to enter a meditative state again, using a special hand technique to examine the congenital fire attribute of Shizhong's body.

  Refining instruments, since "refine" contains a "fire" character, it is destined that instrument refiners will always be continuously emitting flames to nourish their works during the refining process!

  In the Xiu Zhen world, cultivators with the talent of casting artifacts have a congenital innate fire seed in their body, which is called the artifact fire! The artifact fire, like the spiritual root, is divided into nine types according to the color of the flame: red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, purple, indigo, and white.

  The color of the instrument fire determines the speed and duration of its spread in the body of the instrument master! The instrument fire is equivalent to the life of the instrument master!

  And these nine types of fire, from low to high, with different colors, were also given nine good and elegant names.

  Red Furnace Fire, Orange Moon Fire, Yellow Pure Fire are low-grade equipment fires; Mysterious Ming Cui Fire, Blue Hong Fire, Heavenly Yang Blue Crystal Fire are mid-grade equipment fires; Purple Dragon Fire, Fierce Phoenix Fire are high-grade equipment fires. The various heavenly spirit mysterious fire is the ultimate flame!

  Of course, there is also the San Yan period's divine great samadhi true fire in the Xiu Zhen realm, but that doesn't belong to the category of furnace fires. Although the three flavors of true fire have astonishing attack power and damage, if used for refining equipment, not to mention the issue of flame duration, even the grade is not comparable to real furnace fires. It can barely approach mid-grade flames, let alone compare to Lie Huang fire, and cannot be considered top-grade!

  So, although Samadhi True Fire is omnipotent and vast, when it comes to refining vessels and elixirs, it's still not enough, unable to achieve great accomplishments.

  In the past, Chu Hao was able to make a name for himself in the cultivation world at the age of 26. His natural talent was enviable and maddening, being ranked third among the Purple Dragon Flames! To put it into perspective, his master, who was also the leader of the Zhuli Gate, only managed to forge an eighth-grade treasure when he was nearly forty years old!

  And he Chu Hao, did it at the age of twenty-three!

  One is the sixth-ranked medium-grade Yu Ming Cui Huo, and one is the third-ranked high-grade Zi Long Huo. That's the difference!

  With the stimulation of Tianling Gen just now, Chu Hao's expectation for the prince's body's Qihuo attribute is also full at this moment, and he silently recites the mantra to check the attribute of Qihuo.

  But with the stimulation of Tianling Root, Chu Hao didn't have much hope for the good fortune of the Crown Prince's body, and relying on his past life experience and refining techniques, even if it was the lowest grade of fortune, he could still stir up a different kind.

  But next, Chu Hao's face showed a hint of madness.

  The foundation of this mortal body is incredibly good! This physique has not only a Heavenly Spirit Root but also an Earthly Fire!

  The attribute of the equipment fire is also far from inferior, but ranks second in the equipment fire, Phoenix Fire!

  Looking down at the lower dantian, that small cluster of flames flickering with a faintly blood-like light, Chu Hao felt like bursting into loud laughter to celebrate his good fortune. Three Pure Ones, you are too kind to me! Little Wang will definitely burn high-quality incense for you tomorrow, and it will be a fragrant one!

  Chu Hao couldn't wait and began to recite the incantation that drove the flames.

  Huh?

  To his surprise, the fierce flame pattern didn't move at all, and the flame tip didn't even flutter once. Chu Hao was skeptical, so he tried to manipulate it again, but the fierce flame still didn't budge!

  Cold sweat...

  Chu Hao tried more than a dozen times, and the fierce fire seemed to be like a blind man holding a golden ingot, standing in the middle of the road, facing the rushing horses and carriages, with a calm face, unmoving.

  Chu Hao's fervent heart was suddenly doused with a basin of cold water, instantly turning icy.

  What's wrong with this place?

  He couldn't figure it out, the incantation was correct, and the properties of this flame were also correct, it was indeed the fierce phoenix fire in the instrument fire... what went wrong...

  Suddenly, Chu Hao noticed that there was a slightly different color under the Liehuo fire and couldn't help but focus his attention to take a glance.

  ...with just one glance, he was stunned!

  Purple Dragon Fire, his former Purple Dragon Fire!