Is This My Fortuitous Opportunity?
Before leaving, Xiang Dong pulled one of his clones from his true body's diamond-shaped spherical space and detonated it, scattering a shower of sunflower seeds.
Nourished by both the rich innate Spiritual Qi and innate Supreme Yang Qi, the sunflower seeds soon began to take root and sprout.
"I absorbed a little of your origin, and I'm giving you a whole field of Innate Spirit Roots in return."
"When you emerge, whether you use these Innate Spirit Roots as medicinal ingredients for pill refinement or as materials for artifact refinement, let that settle the Yinguo between us."
"From here on, may the green hills remain and the clear waters flow forever, and may we never meet again in the jianghu. Farewell!"
Xiang Dong left without hesitation, not showing the slightest reluctance.
After leaving Dongwanggong's place of gestation, Xiang Dong followed the arrow from Pangu's Will straight toward the heart of Penglai Immortal Island.
As he passed a patch of spirit fields, several unusual Spirit Plants caught his attention.
They were unusual because, in the present Primordial World, these Spirit Plants were rare, and they would remain so in the future.
For they would change from innate to acquired, enter countless households, and become the foundation of the Human Race.
"So this is innate Five-Colored Rice. Innate Millet and the Spirit Plants of the five grains are all here."
Xiang Dong's eyes shone when he saw the Spirit Plants. Without another word, he gathered them all and thrust them into Nuwa's hands.
Nuwa actually looked down on these Spirit Plants. After all, Spirit Plants were more than a single grade below Spirit Roots.
Even a top-grade innate Spirit Plant couldn't compare to a mid-grade Innate Spirit Root.
After all, Innate Spirit Roots had greater medicinal efficacy when refined into pills and could also serve as materials for artifact refinement. At most, only some Spirit Plants could be used as medicine for pill refinement.
With so many Spirit Roots on the island, why collect Spirit Plants that were of so little use?
But when the Spirit Plants landed in her hands, Nuwa sensed a subtle yet intimate connection between them and herself.
"Is this... my fortuitous opportunity?"
Nuwa was a little uncertain. She could sense something, but the sensation wasn't strong; it seemed the time had yet to come.
Xiang Dong had originally wanted to say that these things were connected to the Human Race she would create in the future.
But when the words reached his lips, his chest felt blocked, and he couldn't utter a single word.
The Human Race had enormous Yinguo with Nuwa and was also connected to him. The Primordial World placed great weight on Yinguo, and with the fortuitous opportunity's time yet to come, he couldn't reveal too much either.
So in the end, the thousands of words he had to say became just one sentence.
"When the time comes, fellow Daoist, you will know. I only hope that when it does..."
Although Xiang Dong's body was made of light, with no distinct facial features or expression, Nuwa could still sense that his expression was solemn and his tone grave as he spoke.
"What will happen then?"
"Never mind. There's no use saying more."
Roar!!!
Dragon roars rang out. Xiang Dong saw several true dragons circling the entrance to the immortal island's Spiritual Qi vortex. The Dragon Clan had arrived.
"The Dragon Clan is fast. We need to hurry up and get the thing."
An innate grand formation naturally guarded the heart of the immortal island as well. But what it protected had been specifically chosen by Pangu's Will and held the highest priority, so the innate grand formation naturally couldn't stop them.
After the arrow passed straight into the innate grand formation, Xiang Dong and Nuwa reached out and touched it. The formation gave no response at all, as though it didn't exist.
Without the slightest obstruction, the two entered the space within the innate grand formation.
As soon as he entered the space within the innate grand formation, a purifying presence washed over Xiang Dong, giving him the illusion that he had come home.
This purifying presence was even stronger than the innate purifying ability he possessed as the first ray of innate light.
That was only natural, though. After all, his purifying ability was an extra, an amateur hobby, while the other party was the professional.
How did that saying go? Don't use your hobby to challenge someone else's profession.
The space within the innate grand formation wasn't large, and almost all of it could be taken in at a glance. A lake lay quietly in its center.
The lake was about thirty feet across, its waters clear enough to see the bottom. Wisps of immortal mist curled upward, lively and ethereal.
A great lotus platform lay at the center of the lake.
The lotus platform gave off a sacred white light. On closer inspection, it was a twelve-rank lotus platform.
A white, twelve-rank lotus platform—what else could it be but the Pure World White Lotus?
As a top-grade Innate Spirit Treasure, the Twelve-Rank World-Cleansing White Lotus possessed the unparalleled defense common to all twelve-rank lotus platforms. It could also purify evil influences and Sha Qi, and protect and suppress the Primordial Spirit.
Purifying evil influences and Sha Qi was the Pure World White Lotus's greatest ability in particular. It could purify all filth, Sha Qi, Karmic Force, seals, and curses between heaven and earth, making it the bane of all negative forces.
Naturally, it could also be used to purify the heaven-opening Sha Qi. With it, Xiang Dong's great undertaking of purification would be accomplished.
"To think it's the Twelve-Rank World-Cleansing White Lotus. I never expected it to be here. Fellow Daoist, this is the fortuitous opportunity you spoke of."
The moment Nuwa saw the Twelve-Rank World-Cleansing White Lotus, the words slipped out before she could think.
"Yes. I need it to accomplish something important. Once I've finished using it and no longer need it, I'll give it to you. After all, you've gone to the trouble of accompanying me on this trip; I can't very well let you go back empty-handed."
"That's not right, fellow Daoist. Aren't the innate Spirit Plants you gave me my fortuitous opportunity? Though the time hasn't come and the opportunity hasn't revealed itself, you can't say I've gained nothing."
"This item is of great use to you, fellow Daoist, so take it. Besides, there's more than one lotus platform here."
When Nuwa saw the Twelve-Rank Pure World White Lotus, she was indeed tempted for a moment, but she didn't sense that Dao Path and fortuitous opportunity from the Pure World White Lotus.
So she chose not to compete with Xiang Dong for it, nor did she need to.
For around the twelve-rank lotus platform, eighteen Nine-Grade Lotus Thrones radiating sacred light formed a ring.
Farther out were more than a hundred six-rank lotus platforms. On the outermost edge were three-rank lotus platforms, so numerous they could be sold wholesale.
Of course, the three-rank lotus platforms were only low-grade innate treasures, far inferior in function and practical use, but they were better than nothing.
"And the water in this lake is Three Lights Divine Water, another rare treasure."
The lake that nurtured the lotus platforms was no ordinary lake either. Its water gave off an extremely dangerous presence.
"So this is Three Lights Divine Water. No wonder."
Three Lights Divine Water was a famous sacred healing medicine in the Primordial World. It was formed by combining golden Sunlight Divine Water, silver Moonlight Divine Water, and violet Starlight Divine Water.
Separately, however, the three were poisons that targeted the flesh, the Primordial Spirit and soul, and the true spirit and divine sense. When combined into Three Lights Divine Water, a single drop could neutralize ten thousand poisons, heal injuries and illnesses, and even resurrect the dead.
Yet obtaining a single drop of Three Lights Divine Water was no easy task, and here there was an entire lake of it.
Only a whole lake of it could have allowed the Pure World White Lotus to produce so many offspring.
The Karmic-Fire Red Lotus, World-Destroying Black Lotus, and Merit Golden Lotus, for example, had all appeared as companion Spirit Treasures and been refined into Law Treasures as soon as they emerged.
They had neither the ability nor the conditions to continue producing more offspring lotus platforms.