Penglai Immortal Island

Ye Fan: "Of course!"

Ye Fan: "Look through the Primordial Heaven Divine Array within the Heavenly Emperor Fist and set up the Flying Immortal Formation..."

It had been many years since Ye Fan had last arranged a Primordial Heaven Divine Array. Now that he was instructing someone, he even felt a little of the thrill he had once known as a minor cultivator tricking people.

Fang Xun: "No, this Flying Immortal Formation doesn't seem to be meant for crossing space, does it?"

Ye Fan: "Who said we were crossing space? I'm going to smash it."

The Flying Immortal Formation did not refer literally to flying immortals. Rather, it was like the "Flying Immortal Art" of that Ruthless Great Emperor, borrowing the power of soaring through the rosy clouds into immortality to unleash an unparalleled strike.

Fang Xun: ...

As expected of someone from Shrouding the Heavens. I lose.

Fang Xun did not hesitate. He immediately began inscribing Primordial Heaven Divine Runes, drawing upon the Earth Veins of this stretch of sea and using them to empower the divine array.

Ye Fan: "All right. Put that Innate Spiritual Treasure in as well, then activate the Flying Immortal Array."

Using an Innate Spiritual Treasure to suppress the array, then drawing upon the Earth Veins to gather Flying Immortal Power... Honestly, Fang Xun was a little afraid. Even a glancing blow from this power would injure him; a direct hit would kill him.

Still, with this Flying Immortal Array, no one could do anything to him unless a Taiyi Golden Immortal came. And right now, all the Taiyi Golden Immortals were listening to the Dao together at Purple Heaven Palace.

"Array rise—Flying Immortal!"

Fang Xun formed seals with both hands, then stepped forward and planted his foot on a crucial node. His mana poured in madly, igniting every Primordial Heaven Divine Rune.

Clang!

A sound like clashing metal rang out. The entire sea overturned with a boom, its waves raging in fury!

Fang Xun held up his right hand with two fingers together like a sword and slashed downward.

A strange power gathered from within the Flying Immortal Array. It was both sharp and transcendent, like the wrath of an immortal, its pressure bearing down upon the Four Seas.

"Slash!"

Flying Immortal Power transformed into Sword Light and struck viciously against the spatial barrier. At the same time, the Yin Yang Creation Mirror suppressing the array erupted with blazing black-and-white mirror light, blasting toward the faintly visible mist.

"An Innate Restriction?" Mysterious runes reflected in Fang Xun's eyes.

Those runes condensed into a curtain of light, sealing the entire Penglai Immortal Island outside the Primordial Wilderness so that the two did not intersect.

But now that the Heavenly Dao had changed and the rules of the Primordial Wilderness had shifted, the Innate Restriction had gradually worn down. It could no longer keep Penglai Immortal Island in a state of "beyond the Three Realms."

Boom!

The Innate Restriction, Flying Immortal Power, and Yin-Yang mirror light collided. The entire sea churned as though it had exploded, and endless seawater evaporated.

"It worked!" Fang Xun's eyes lit up. His figure flashed, and he slipped through a crack in the Innate Restriction into the legendary Penglai Immortal Island.

"Whew, what a wonderful place!" Fang Xun took a deep breath. Dense immortal qi entered his body, and his cultivation inexplicably rose by several degrees.

Strictly speaking, the legendary Penglai Immortal Island was not part of the Primordial Wilderness. It was a remnant left behind by a Chaos Demon God before the creation of heaven and earth, which was why it did not belong within the Five Elements.

And what did Chaos Demon God mean? They were beings capable of fighting Great God Pangu. Their remnants were enough to let one ascend to the heavens in a single step!

According to the normal course of the Primordial Wilderness, Penglai Immortal Island would fall into the hands of East King Duke. He had used this immortal island to contend with the Demon Heavenly Court at the height of its power.

Unfortunately, his end had been rather miserable.

Fang Xun composed himself and looked over Penglai Immortal Island. Reflected within his Primordial Heaven Divine Eye were astonishing Earth Veins and breathtaking scenery.

The Earth Veins coiled like dragons, auspicious qi soaring into the sky. Countless great dragons seemed to encircle the central mountain peak.

There were also crimson cliffs and strange rocks, qilin beasts resting alone, luan birds dancing in flight, purple qi swirling through the air, Spiritual Roots growing upon sheer cliffs, and immortal mushrooms growing beside ancient trees.

Every blade of grass here had been born innately. The better ones had medicinal ages of dozens of Yuan Hui, comparable to Innate Spiritual Roots.

Of course, what truly made Fang Xun's eyes shine was the sheer number of Innate Spiritual Roots here!

There were fewer than ten Low-grade Innate Spiritual Roots. Mid-grade Innate Spiritual Roots were the main attraction, and there were even more than ten high-grade Innate Spiritual Roots.

"Unfortunately, there are no Top Grade Innate Spiritual Roots." Fang Xun shook his head regretfully.

Top Grade Innate Spiritual Roots were already among the rare treasures of the Primordial Wilderness. Things like the Immortal Apricot, Flat Peach, and Yellow Middle Plum—even his Teacher Nuwa would take notice when such Spiritual Roots emerged. It would not be strange for Innate Divine Saints to fight bitterly over them.

"I can't aim too high. Those things aren't something I can touch right now." Fang Xun took a deep breath. Looking at these Spiritual Roots, he could not bring himself to ruthlessly take them all away.

On one hand, as the "Myriad Heavens Dao Tree," Fang Xun was naturally very fond of Spiritual Roots. On the other, he had set his sights on Penglai Immortal Island itself.

He definitely did not dare compete with East King Duke, but he had a Teacher!

Meng Qi: "There seems to be something over there."

Meng Qi, who had been comprehending the Primordial Wilderness Heavenly Dao through the projection in the group chat, suddenly spoke up to remind him.

"What?" Fang Xun looked in a certain direction. All of a sudden, a strange sensation made his entire body tremble.

It was as though he had sensed the aura of something akin to himself, except this counterpart was more complete and far more powerful!

Fang Xun stepped forward, walking upon time itself as though he were a Heavenly Emperor Treading Through Time.

This was not the "Heavenly Emperor Treading Through Time" from Meng Qi's world, but the "Travel Character Secret" from Ye Fan's world, elevated to its utmost extreme.

The "Heavenly Emperor Fist" contained the essence of Ye Fan's cultivation methods, including the wondrous secret arts he had cultivated along the way. The Primordial Heaven Book was one, and so were the Nine Secrets.

Now that Fang Xun was in the "Ye Tiandi" state, he naturally used the Travel Character Secret.

With the aid of the Travel Character Secret, Fang Xun reached the other side of Penglai Immortal Island at his fastest speed.

"Ah?" Fang Xun was completely dumbfounded.

Meng Qi: "Haha, it really is that. I just wonder whether the Jianmu Tree on your side bears fruit."

Ji Ning: "Sky-Connecting Jianmu Tree? A Top Grade Innate Spiritual Root? Fang Xun is really lucky."

Strictly speaking, it was not the Jianmu Tree, but there seemed to be no real difference...

What Fang Xun saw was the spatial barrier between Penglai Immortal Island and the outside world. Yet now, a hole beyond any measure of size had been torn open in that barrier.

Within that hole stood a tree—or, more precisely, a section of a branch.

This single visible branch was countless times larger than Fang Xun's true body, the "Myriad Heavens Dao Tree." It truly held up the skies of the Primordial Wilderness!

"Dragon patterns covering its entire body, holding up heaven and earth; one leaf, one continent; one branch, one heavenly pillar... It really is the Sky-Connecting Jianmu Tree!"

The Sky-Connecting Jianmu Tree of the Primordial Wilderness was also a Top Grade Innate Spiritual Root. Legend said it could connect the two poles of heaven and earth. In later generations, it was called the heavenly ladder and was said to possess the ability to link Heavenly Beings.

It was not that Fang Xun had never considered the Sky-Connecting Jianmu Tree, but he simply could not find this Top Grade Innate Spiritual Root.

Legend said it grew in the Duguang Wilderness, but where exactly was the Duguang Wilderness?

But the current situation was that, like Fang Xun, the Sky-Connecting Jianmu Tree had rooted itself in the void of the Primordial Wilderness, continuously extending its branches into various treasure lands to draw in Dao Rhyme.

Penglai Immortal Island had been rooted by the Sky-Connecting Jianmu Tree.