Immortal Island in the Return to Ruins

In the following billions of years, Li Fan aimlessly searched the East Sea for immortal islands.

From the East Sea to the West Sea, the West Sea to the South Sea, the South Sea to the Northern Sea—he searched on and on like this.

Having taken in the scenery of the Primordial Four Seas, he figured that if overseas immortal islands were so easy to find, the Dragon Clan would have discovered them long ago.

The greatest characteristic of overseas immortal islands was that they were not fixed in one place but drifted on the sea, following the currents.

Li Fan decided to go take a look at Guixu.

Once again stepping onto the East Sea, he hurried quickly toward its depths.

At the deepest part of the East Sea, after searching for several days, he didn't even catch a glimpse of Guixu. Li Fan realized that this so-called Guixu existed in another dimensional space.

After spending some time, Li Fan finally detected spatial fluctuations and used the Law of World to tear open the space.

This was the Land of Guixu—the place where all things in the world come to an end.

Li Fan noticed that the deeper he went, the faster his divine power drained. No wonder Candle Dragon said this place was extremely dangerous, and he hadn't even entered the true Guixu yet.

If he entered the Deep Guixu, even a Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal would find it hard to escape.

Li Fan could only try his luck at the outer edges of Guixu, hoping that perhaps an immortal island was nearby.

Arriving at a spatial node on the outskirts of Guixu, he suddenly discovered an Innate Concealment Formation. If he hadn't been extremely close, he wouldn't have noticed it at all.

This got Li Fan incredibly excited—the dawn of hope was right before his eyes.

Li Fan quickly used his Primordial Spirit to comprehend this concealment formation, afraid that forcefully breaking it might trigger uncontrollable risks.

A full hundred thousand years passed before he finally found a flaw in this concealment formation.

The formation was ever-changing; Li Fan stepped on specific positions each time, following the Heaven-Earth Veins toward the depths of the island.

Before long, Li Fan vanished from his spot, entering the Innate Grand Formation. The scenery before him shifted, and he arrived at the immortal island.

This was during the God-Demon Era at the dawn of creation; the immortal island hadn't fully evolved yet. There was still residual Chaos Qi on the island, without the legendary sights of Later Generations—everywhere exotic flowers, rare herbs, and strange beasts.

The Chaos Qi was too Hegemonic; even Li Fan's physical body couldn't withstand it, so he had to go around it.

Slowly walking toward the center of the island, Li Fan discovered a pool entirely formed from Three Lights Divine Water.

Looking at the center of the pool, a white twelve-grade lotus was rooted there, but the twelfth grade was still somewhat illusory. This was the legendary Penglai Immortal Island.

Li Fan's eyes lit up—this was the legendary Twelve-Grade Pure World White Lotus, not yet fully conceived.

When Pangu split the heavens, the Chaos Green Lotus shattered, evolving into many Innate Spiritual Treasures. Among them, six lotus seeds scattered across the Primordial, and one green-colored origin could mature into an Innate Supreme Treasure.

Li Fan sent a wisp of divine thought toward the Pure World White Lotus, intending to refine it. The white lotus was highly spirited; still in its gestation period, it hoped Li Fan would help it.

Li Fan agreed without hesitation, feeding all the divine materials he had on him to the white lotus.

Then, using his own divine power to drive his Perfect Minor World, he continuously poured the power of that world into the Pure World White Lotus.

Sacrificing the world to perfect the white lotus—after all, this Innate Spiritual Treasure was far too tempting.

The spirit of the Pure World White Lotus was delighted, and the final Innate Restrictions successfully evolved. Its twelfth-grade lotus was about to fully manifest.

As the Pure World White Lotus reached perfection, Li Fan's divine thought had been constantly comprehending the World Purification Law belonging to the white lotus.

A hundred thousand years later, the white lotus was complete, and heavenly phenomena descended. Fortunately, they were within the Innate Grand Formation of the immortal island, undiscovered, with Guixu providing cover as well.

Li Fan's World Purification Law reached the Venerable God Realm. This harvest was enormous.

Most importantly, the twelve-grade white lotus in his hand was a Top-tier Innate Spiritual Treasure with forty-eight Innate Restrictions—he had struck it rich.

Li Fan brought the white lotus into his Primordial Spirit and began refining it. Because of his help, the white lotus was very cooperative.

A hundred thousand years later, Li Fan had refined forty Innate Restrictions. The white lotus could now conceive nine-grade lotuses, but Li Fan didn't need that for now, as it would consume the white lotus's origin.

The World Purification Law had reached perfection at the Venerable God Realm, and his Minor World had nearly dropped from the Perfect level. The world's origin was depleted, but nurturing it would allow it to slowly recover.

Li Fan collected the entire pool of Three Lights Divine Water into his Minor World, then began refining the formations on this island, taking control of Penglai Immortal Island.

After successful refinement, Li Fan sensed the locations of the other four islands.

Familiar with the process, Li Fan arrived at another island and quickly rushed to its center.

He saw an Innate Spiritual Root, formed from Innate Wutu Essence, ranked first among the Top Ten Innate Spiritual Roots of the Primordial—the Huangzhong Plum, a supreme Dao treasure that even Saints coveted.

It bloomed every thirty thousand years and bore fruit every thirty thousand years. Nine yellow-skinned, black-veined plums hung on the tree. This was Yingzhou Island.

Approaching quickly, Li Fan picked one plum and put it into his mouth.

The flesh was crisp and tender, the crooked plum sweet with juice dripping down.

"Delicious."

Li Fan understood the effect of this Innate Fruit. Besides increasing divine power and aiding in comprehending laws, it could elevate a mortal to the Venerable God Realm—equivalent to the Later Generations' Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal—at the cost of their True Spirit being eternally imprisoned within the plum pit.

After eating the fruit, Li Fan spent ten thousand years comprehending the Law of Earth, reaching the Venerable God Realm.

Then, he stored the remaining eight plums from the Huangzhong Plum tree in jade boxes. These were the first batch of Spirit Fruits, with extraordinary effects.

Afterward, he moved the Huangzhong Plum into his Minor World—this Minor World was Li Fan's portable storage box.

Li Fan discovered that the soil beneath his feet was actually Nine Heavens Breathing Soil, the sacred material used by Empress Nuwa—one of the Six Saints of the Heavenly Dao in Later Generations—to create humanity.

He collected it all. This Nine Heavens Breathing Soil had a special property: as long as one possessed a part of its origin, it would split, continuously generating more Nine Heavens Breathing Soil.

The downside was that the Nine Heavens Breathing Soil split extremely slowly, but the chunk of soil Li Fan had was quite large.

Continuing onward, Li Fan spent some effort to enter the Third Immortal Island.

Once he reached the center of the island, there was nothing at all. Li Fan's face showed disbelief.

Li Fan carefully searched the entire island, but still found nothing. This was impossible!

If it wasn't above ground, then it had to be below. Time to implement the "Heaven Raised Three Feet" plan—dig up the earth.

Found it. A smile spread across Li Fan's face. "A single pearl."

Li Fan used his Primordial Spirit Power to continuously refine this pearl, drawing it into his spirit. This was actually a Sea-Calming Divine Pearl, and this place was Fangzhang Immortal Island.

No time to be stunned; he hurried to keep searching.

One pearl after another, digging and digging in the tiny island.

Thirty-Six Sea-Calming Divine Pearls swirled around Li Fan's hand like stars. They were beautiful—this was the Innate Spiritual Treasure most suited to him.

Li Fan quickly sat down to refine the treasure. It turned out to be a Top-tier Innate Spiritual Treasure with Forty-Eight Restrictions, and even more surprising, it was a fragment of the Chaos Supreme Treasure, the Chaos Pearl.

When Pangu split the heavens and chaos shattered, one of the four Chaos Supreme Treasures, the Chaos Pearl, had also suffered the backlash of the Great Dao. This was part of the evolution under the Dao.

He pushed his Primordial Spirit Power to refine up to thirty-six Innate Restrictions, then could refine no further—his cultivation realm wasn't enough. However, he comprehended the Space Law.

In Later Generations, in the hands of the Wealth God Zhao Gongming, there were only twenty-four Sea-Calming Divine Pearls, and their quality was merely Supreme Grade Innate Spiritual Treasure.

It seemed that over the long years, many unforeseen events had occurred.

The Sea-Calming Divine Pearls possessed the characteristics of Space Law and the Chaos Pearl. No wonder they could open up worlds.

Continuing onward, as Li Fan traveled, he sensed something was off. He was drawing closer and closer to the interior of the Return to Ruins.

Found it. Daiyu and Yuanqiao were extremely close to each other, and the island-protecting grand formation was unstable. What had gone wrong?

Li Fan entered the island and saw that part of the grand formation was broken. The Return to Ruins was siphoning the island's origin essence.

Though it was slow, Li Fan noticed that "Yuanqiao" was smaller in area than the three previous immortal islands.

At the center of Yuanqiao stood a tea tree. Li Fan probed it with his divine sense and recognized it as the legendary Chaos Spirit Root, the Enlightenment Tea Tree.

Unfortunately, it had been damaged during the opening of the heavens and degraded to a Top-tier Innate Spirit Root. Li Fan collected the Enlightenment Tea Tree into his Minor World and planted it on the Nine Heavens Breathing Soil.

Arriving at Daiyu, it was about the same size as Yuanqiao. No wonder its fame in Later Generations wasn't as great as the first three islands. Li Fan discovered a Sky-Supporting Divine Tree at the island's center.

His divine sense entered the tree and learned that this was the Tongtian Jianmu, degraded from the Chaos Spirit Root World Tree. It too had been damaged when Pangu split the heavens, degrading to a Top-tier Innate Spirit Root.

This was the Innate Spirit Root most suited to Li Fan. He first stored it in his Minor World.

The grand formations of the two immortal islands were damaged, so they had drawn close to each other for mutual support. No wonder the two islands were so near.

Li Fan spent a hundred thousand years slowly repairing the grand formations, but the origin essence absorbed by the Return to Ruins was already irretrievably lost.

The Innate Grand Formation activated, and the two islands slowly drifted toward the outer edges of the Return to Ruins.

Li Fan had his eye on these five immortal islands, which had evolved from Chaos fragments.

In the later Witch-Demon Era, the immortal islands would only fully evolve. Li Fan wanted to use Penglai as the center, interlink the origin essences of the five islands, and have them emerge ahead of time, breaking out of the Return to Ruins.