If his fortune was so strong, then why was there no plot involving Ao Tian or the Ao family of Azure Origin City in the "Longevity Love" novel? Not even a single mention of those two names appeared.

Or perhaps Ao Tian simply never encountered the lower-grade Creation Pill that he had and thus perished like that.

But if his fortune was strong enough to enhance someone with no fortune at all, would he really die so easily?

Xiao Shou felt somewhat puzzled and could not come up with an answer.

In the end, he simply stopped thinking about it.

He organized the fused pills according to their ranks and stored them properly. Then he took out cultivation techniques for five types of spiritual roots.

Thinking of the idea that had arisen when he accepted Fu Young as his disciple, he directly copied each of the five cultivation techniques into several blank jade slips and began fusing them, starting with Tier 4 single spiritual root yellow-grade techniques of each element.

Then he fused various Tier 4 dual spiritual root yellow-grade techniques, followed by triple spiritual root, quadruple spiritual root... and finally the five spiritual root technique.

As expected, Fu Young’s fortune was truly beyond doubt.

All other cultivation technique fusions followed normal rank-based results.

But when it came to fusing the five spiritual root technique, it actually drained his ability completely, triggering a multiple-level explosion of luck, and directly produced a Tier 9 technique.

It’s the extremely rare Tier 9 cultivation technique of the cultivation world, the "Ninety Nine Calamities Cycles Art."

Such an advanced cultivation method, together with such an arrogant name, made Xiao Shou unable to care about anything else.

He immediately began to study the contents of this technique.

After reading it, he took a sharp breath.

This technique can only be cultivated by those with five spiritual roots.

In some aspects it is similar to his own technique, lacking inner demons and bottlenecks.

However, each major cultivation realm requires nine revolutions of refinement.

In addition, the meridians and dantian of each realm will expand nine times.

The difference is that every time one completes nine revolutions and breaks through to a higher realm, a heavenly tribulation must be faced.

Across the nine major cultivation realms, one must endure tribulations ranging from the first-nine tribulation up to the ninth-nine tribulation, a total of nine major heavenly tribulations.

Furthermore, these tribulations cannot be resisted using magical treasures or external force.

If external force is used, the power of the tribulation will instead double.

One can only rely on one’s own physical body to withstand it, using lightning tribulation to temper the body and absorb massive amounts of spiritual energy.

Every major breakthrough is accompanied by this abnormal tribulation tempering.

Despite such a difficult cultivation method, it is still ranked as a Tier 9 technique.

Its advantages are naturally irresistible.

Each time one advances a major realm, one gains nine times the vitality of ordinary cultivators of the same level.

In addition, with each major breakthrough, one will give birth to a new variant spiritual root, in sequence: ice, magnetism, wind, thunder, darkness, light, space, time, and void.

Ice governs temperature, magnetism governs gravity, wind governs airflow, thunder governs electricity, darkness governs yin, light governs yang, space governs spatial power... As each breakthrough occurs, new variant spiritual roots are born.

The technique also contains corresponding spells for each spiritual root.

In the end, everything returns to nothingness, giving birth to a void spiritual root capable of turning everything into nothing.

"So infuriatingly enviable. If I only had five spiritual roots, how great would that be? Five spiritual roots are practically the destiny of a natural-born protagonist."

After taking several deep breaths, Xiao Shou did not dare to continue reading, fearing he might become so envious that he would lose control.

He quickly stored all the fused cultivation techniques into his storage pouch. He then took out the bookshelf he had previously purchased in the Heavenly Void Sect marketplace.

Inside the stone chamber, he arranged everything neatly.

On one bookshelf he hung a jade plaque engraved with the character [ Cultivation ] and placed all cultivation technique jade slips in order from first tier upward.

On another bookshelf engraved with the character [ Techniques ], he arranged the jade slips of pill refinement, talisman crafting, artifact forging, and formation techniques according to rank.

Fortunately, when he fused them earlier, he had intentionally preserved copies of each tier of cultivation techniques, worried that higher-tier techniques might be too difficult to understand.

Then he took out all miscellaneous notes and random writings from his storage pouch and placed them on a third bookshelf, hanging a jade plaque engraved with the character [ Miscellaneous ] on it.

In this way, the three shelves were arranged in a somewhat sparse but orderly manner, making the stone chamber look somewhat like a transmission hall for teachings.

After finishing all these fusion-related tasks, Xiao Shou finally took out all the artifacts he had purchased today.

The Three Yang Furnace and the talisman brush were not yet tested for compatibility with her own talent, so recognizing them as master would be a waste for now, so he set them aside first.

Among the remaining artifacts, the Flying Roc Ink Feather Armor, Flying Cloud Boots, and Flying Cloud Sword, this set of three equipment, were specially bought for Fu Young.

Xiao Shou took them out and placed them inside the newly fused Tier 2 mid-grade storage sachet artifact.

After thinking about Fu Young’s fortune and his unfathomable potential, he also added an offensive artifact, the Mountain River Seal, and a defensive artifact, the Black Tortoise Shield. Then he placed in half of all types of Tier 4 talismans, as well as the remaining Tier 3 and Tier 2 talismans.

Healing pills, Qi Gathering pills of lower, middle, and high grades, spirit stones of lower, middle, and high grades, and a Ten Thousand Wisdom Hall silver token were also included in part.

He even placed the "Ninety Nine Calamities Cycles Art" from the bookshelf inside.

Then he walked out of the cultivation room, removed the restriction on the residence door, and entered to place the storage sachet artifact beside Fu Young’s pillow.

He silently hoped that this child, once he grew up, would not fail his intentions, and that they could support each other in this cruel world, grow stronger together, and live on forever.

After coming out, Xiao Shou calmed his state of mind.

Only then did he take out five artifacts, the Ten Thousand Bee Needles, Storm Fan, White Feather Immortal Dress, Earth Spirit Shield, and Crane Feather Boots, and bind them as his personal treasures.

He then also bond the pseudo-immortal artifact Tier 2 top-grade storage belt to him.

He transferred all important items into the storage belt, leaving only some commonly used spirit stones, pills, and talismans in the original pouch as a cover.

After finishing all this arrangement, he finally settled down and carefully refined the five artifacts, entering deep cultivation.

He did not know how many hours had passed in meditation when suddenly a sweet cheerful voice sounded inside the residence.

A few seconds later, accompanied by a series of light pattering sounds, an eight or nine year old girl with a cute appearance ran over excitedly while holding up the storage sachet and saying, "Master, Master, is this storage sachet for me? The storage space inside is so large!"