Spirit roots aren't things that can be changed or controlled, huh… An Jing shook his head in resignation. Even though his parents were both quite established martialists, filled with affinity for the five phases and had a complete set of five aspects, they didn't have spirit roots that qi cultivation required. Not to mention, having five aspects that were too powerful but conflicted with one another would reduce one's prowess to that of a normal person. It was just as much a matter of luck.0

Put simply, a normal person with a set of dormant five aspects would have aspect values of twenty points each. Ignoring the conflicting or nourishing relationships between the five phases, that kind of prowess wasn't high enough for even one among them to turn active.0

Someone who had a full set of five aspects, on the other hand, and seventy points of affinity in each of those aspects, was...2