"Did you obtain all of your spirit roots by the time you left?" Alex asked after Xue Yu'er completed her story.
"Yes," she answered.
"And you didn't improve any of the new ones you received? Surely there had to be opportunities for you to improve them, right?"
"No, I haven't," she said. "The only opportunity I did receive was to improve my Fire root once, but I couldn't do that for fear of weakening my overall talent."
"Does this have something to do with this information that was in the talisman?" Alex asked.
"It's the interaction between spirit roots," she answered. "A stronger Fire root would've conflicted with my Water root, thus making it worse overall. To keep my Water root strong, I needed to strengthen my Earth and Wood roots. Only then could I move on to the other two."
